Re: Duplicate Hardware in Your Collection

Posted on 2015-09-24, 21:40

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Jesus Christ, Tetrium - you actually bothered to make that list?? And I bet you forgot something. My meagre selection of duplicates extends to 3x Pentium MMX 200s and 2x 3Com PCI cards (the same model that has already been mentioned. I used to have a butt-load of S3 Trio 64s but I got rid of them. …

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Re: Scariest Level Ever?

Posted on 2015-09-24, 18:22

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A couple of the levels as marine while playing AVP2 surely scared the shit outa me 🙁 Constantly turning around, waiting for the motion tracker to ping...it was awesome! 😁

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Re: Duplicate Hardware in Your Collection

Posted on 2015-09-24, 17:22

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by Tetrium

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The only duplicate I have in my collection is a couple Toshiba T3100SX portable computers. They're identical copies of each other in every way, including the unfortunate fact that neither of them work because they both have the exact same problem and are beyond my knowledge and skills for repair. : …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2015-09-24, 17:03

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Man how can you live like that? lol I can't stand the clutter personally so when I'm not using something it goes up on the storage shelves in another room. needs to be cleaned for sure. Need to sort some stuff first. Since house in the netherlands aren't that big, and with 2 little kids i only have …

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Re: Duplicate Hardware in Your Collection

Posted on 2015-09-24, 16:39

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I have tons of spare parts. I think around 10-ish Pentium-MMX 233's or so and a couple other CPU's I have a lifetime supply of spare parts. And around 9 of the same Chaintech 440BX boards with 4 SDRAM slots (I'm not sure all of them are in working condition though, but most of them should be. They …

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Re: Useful Programs, Patches, and Drivers For Windows 95, 98, 2000, Etc.

Posted on 2015-09-15, 09:12

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One of my favorites is this forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/91-windows-9x … ember-projects/ It's not directly related to programs, but it does come with a lot of links and information

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Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2015-09-11, 19:51

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If I was to bring my 3 most retro looking cases to the party it would be the 286 (16MHz display), the 386 desktop (40MHz display), and the tower case I am waiting to arrive. This tower may replace the desktop as my main 386 rig. The top one looks absolutely fantastic! :D Always liked the looks of …

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Re: Picked up Socket 7 hardware.

Posted on 2015-09-11, 19:45

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Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal. Asus P5A Rev 1.04 Socket 7 ATX Motherboard - ALi M1541 A1 100 MHz I/O Shield for Motherboard AMD K6III 400MHz w/CPU Heatsink & Fan 384MB RAM (3X 128MB SDRAM PC133) 6 GB IDE Hard Drive ATi Rage IIC AGP Video …

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Re: Just found a late 90's Compaq Presario 7360!

Posted on 2015-09-10, 22:49

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I remember having disassembled such a system. Iirc the PSU was also smaller then the usual ATX PSU's. Mine came with another mobo I think, there used to be a page that had lots of info on mobo's from that age.

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Re: Picked up Socket 7 hardware.

Posted on 2015-09-10, 22:02

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Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal. Asus P5A Rev 1.04 Socket 7 ATX Motherboard - ALi M1541 A1 100 MHz I/O Shield for Motherboard AMD K6III 400MHz w/CPU Heatsink & Fan 384MB RAM (3X 128MB SDRAM PC133) 6 GB IDE Hard Drive ATi Rage IIC AGP Video …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 15:15

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A friend of mine had 24MB of SIMM memory for his Pentium MMX 166MHz iirc (2x4MB FPM and 2x8MB EDO, the 4MB modules were from when they upgraded from a Pentium 90) My first PC was a Pentium II 350MHz and it had a massive 128MB (though at the time I remember them being sold with 32MB and 64MB).

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Re: Could any French speakers here please come in help interpret the following words for me?

Posted on 2015-09-04, 10:13

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cote = side cote_oppose = opposite side quadnoeud_suivant = next quad node EST = EAST? OUEST = WEST? Who the hell uses native language keywords??? :D When working with code, I often use Dutch words (also exactly like mentioned in the first post, words like "leftside" or killerthingy, but then in …

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-03, 22:00

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AidanExamineer wrote: I work in IT, so if it's been done to a computer, I've seen it done. 😀 Buuuut one time when I was a kid I put some SDRAM in backwards (don't ask. DON'T) and fried it. And the board. It's hammer time? 😁

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-03, 15:51

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Sorry for double post, but I just reread the title of the thread, it includes things you see others do. Well, this does open up a can of worms :D I was once working with 2 colleges and one of them was at the final stages of building a "new" rig (build using gifted old parts from schools for us to …

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-03, 15:37

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But what was that smell? It became a chemical stench seconds later when I knew it was the CPU that was getting fried :o Switched it off and of course I wanted to know what the problem was. Well, after a short inspection apparently the problem was that I had forgotten to use any TIM (I had installed …

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Re: Have you ever tried to return old data?

Posted on 2015-09-03, 15:19

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I've had tons of opportunities, but never attempted to contact any of the previous owners. Why not? Because it's of no use, the computers I disassembled on the sidecurbs were trashed so I had several reasons to not return the stuff I found. First of all, the owner tossed their own computer, so it …

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Re: What Piece of PC Hardware Have You Owned Longest

Posted on 2015-09-02, 12:43

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I still have my very first computer (a Pentium II 350MHz) and never tossed out the parts I later upgraded, so I think I've owned that computer for 18 years now? Last time I tried it still worked, though that was several years ago (I still used it to download photo's from my old mobile, it's program …

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-02, 12:38

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Didn't we already have a thread like this one on VOGONS before? Anyway, once at work I was building an Athlon XP rig (Palomino core IIRC) and I installed all the major components like memory modules, CPU, graphics card etc. I switched the bugger on...and the monitor stayed black? But what was that …

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Re: Matrox Millennium 2 weird add-on card - what is it and what does it do?

Posted on 2015-09-01, 12:15

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keropi wrote: the board says "Matrox tv tuner" so that's probably it. 🤣! Now that you mention it, don't know how I could've missed it! 😁 I must be getting old 😜

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Re: Matrox Millennium 2 weird add-on card - what is it and what does it do?

Posted on 2015-09-01, 12:01

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Can't read whats on the chips. Never seen this expansion board, only knew about the extra memory board (have one of those myself though I don't know if it works). Does the expansion board only fit the 2 leftside cards and not the right one?

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