Re: Here's something you don't see every day

Posted on 2012-12-31, 13:12

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luckybob wrote: wow... That laptop is ROUGH, but considering PPC laptops are practically unobtanium... Yeah, considering they started at around $12,000 new and went up as you added options, it was a very targeted market so it's not something that was produced by the millions.

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Re: WHAT! ARRG! I want to punch this guy.

Posted on 2012-12-31, 13:09

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luckybob wrote: i'd be all over that like a fat guy on a cupcake.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-12-30, 20:42

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If you have a M919 without the cache stick this could be your only chance, outrageously priced or not. The last one I saw on ebay USA went for $99.99. I had to buy a whole motherboard to get mine, but fortunately I didn't pay anywhere near those prices. :pppt: :happyhappy: That is ridiculously …

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Re: Celeron 500 Socket 370 OC can give benefit?

Posted on 2012-12-30, 19:38

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You'd be better off moving up to a Coppermine anyway. You get SSE support and from 800mhz up, official 100mhz bus support. Also, if you care about those things, you get better performance per watt with the faster Coppermines.

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Here's something you don't see every day

Posted on 2012-12-30, 18:10

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/290834960768 IBM Thinkpad 850. Top of the line PowerPC Thinkpad runs AIX or NT 4.0 for PPC. Info here: http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-12-30, 18:03

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Dant wrote: Beyond logic: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-770Z-LAPTOP-/3904 … =item5ae95e360c I'm wondering what's so special about that??? I can see someone trying to get a boatload of money for a PowerPC Thinkpad, but not a PII class machine.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-12-30, 17:56

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http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/animekenji/elpina.jpg If you have a M919 without the cache stick this could be your only chance, outrageously priced or not. The last one I saw on ebay USA went for $99.99. I had to buy a whole motherboard to get mine, but fortunately I didn't pay anywhere …

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Re: £6999 Offer for Edge Issue 0 Rejected

Posted on 2012-12-29, 23:25

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dirkmirk wrote: What is so special about this magazine? That's my thought. i'd never heard of it before today.

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Re: Want to build powerful PII machine

Posted on 2012-12-29, 20:49

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If you're going to limit yourself to 450mhz, I'd find a Celeron 300A and overclock it. They usually do 450 easily and the cache runs at the same speed as the CPU. It only runs at half speed in the Pentium II, so you get a faster system with the slower Celeron.

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Re: WHAT! ARRG! I want to punch this guy.

Posted on 2012-12-29, 20:45

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Punch him for what? Selling all that as a lot instead of individual pieces? I can't read the language so I don't really know what the problem is. If I lived in Europe and had large enough vehicle to pick all that up, I'd put in a bid for it.

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Re: Can you guess the Celeron?

Posted on 2012-12-28, 11:15

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It's probably not a big deal if you don't plan on going over 512mb of RAM The 440ZX only supports up to 256MB RAM, actually. But even so, it's not that big of a limitation for a Win9x machine, which is what most people would use such a system for anyhow. The ZX chipset supports 512mb and it's been …

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Re: My 486 system with SCSI & VGA VLB

Posted on 2012-12-28, 01:34

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These are probably what you see most often as far as 486 fansinks go. http://cdn103.iofferphoto.com/img/item/121/719/561/1h8w.jpg I wouldn't try overclocking with them, though. The heatsink is shallow, so not a lot of surface area for conducting heat and the fans are weak so not a lot of airflow. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-28, 01:29

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I want to do that so bad with my monitors... but every time I find a wall mount whoever owns in wants a freaking arm or a leg for it. I want to know why people think these things are worth their weight in gold pressed latinum... Because CRT's are more or less out of production at this point except …

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Re: Can you guess the Celeron?

Posted on 2012-12-28, 01:24

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The ZX was designed to be a low cost version of the BX for cheap PC's. It's probably not a big deal if you don't plan on going over 512mb of RAM and you don't mind losing PCI slots or the micro ATX form factor that many ZX based boards used, but if you can get a BX based, full ATX board for the same …

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Re: Floppy label removal

Posted on 2012-12-27, 22:01

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I wouldn't try using chemicals on them. Any chemical that is strong enough to melt the glue is probably also going to be strong enough to melt the plastic.

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Re: ISA or PCI sound card?

Posted on 2012-12-27, 18:56

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Does anyone have a TB Montego II Quadzilla? i read about them, but never saw one for sale.

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Re: Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 3 in same PC

Posted on 2012-12-26, 00:37

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Voodoo3 is DirectX 6. DirectX 7 is for hardware T&L which the Voodoo3 does not have. Also, DirectX 9 is not available for any Win9.x OS. You need WinXP for that at the very least. DirectX 9.0c runtime http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429 Check the system requirements. " …

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Re: Merry Christmas

Posted on 2012-12-25, 13:57

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Anonymous Coward wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0gksWFn2Uc I truly hope that wasn't you singing in that video. 🤣

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-12-24, 22:27

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Is there a difference between a 6x86MX PR300 and an MII PR300? Off the top of my head, it seems like there were a few minor changes somewhere along the MX-to-MII line. Did you read through all the Cyrix literature found here, http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Cyrix/ No, and I'm not about to. If there …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-12-24, 19:40

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bump for above post.

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