Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-24, 02:13

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by JidaiGeki

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Starting my collection, here's the stuff that came over the past week. Compaq Presario 9232 / 120MHz Pentium / 40MB EDO RAM / 1.2GB Quantum Fireball / Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 NIC / 4x CD-ROM / 1.44MB Floppy http://i.imgur.com/AtOIyvIl.jpg Nice start to the collection! I really like this Presario, …

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Re: Any Thinkpad lovers here?

Posted on 2018-05-22, 12:42

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by JidaiGeki

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Still have an original 360Cs from 1994 that I used for university work ... and 15 other Thinkpads ;) mainly 760s, two 755Cs (one working, one not), three 360s and a couple of 600Xs. Luckily, also have the Dock I, II and III units to go with them. One day soon I'll have to go over the collection …

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Re: PC cases by year

Posted on 2018-05-21, 11:09

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by JidaiGeki

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How about if I can't place the year>? Can anybody place a year on this case I recently obtained? It came with an MMX233 in it but it was likely upgraded, the turbo display is 2 digits. I used to see this very case from small computer businesses for years, but I really can't say much about it. I've …

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Re: Can you play something on Classic Macintosh ?

Posted on 2018-05-20, 11:18

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by JidaiGeki

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Macintosh IIci? 25 MHz 68030 + 68882 FPU, that should do you well for a lot of earlier 2D games. I know that the Mac got some of the best versions of the first two Prince of Persia games, with redrawn 640x480 graphics. I don't see it performing better enough than the IIcx I used to have for it to …

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Re: Need some help finding some info on this old case?

Posted on 2018-05-19, 00:55

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by JidaiGeki

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Hey guys, years ago before I got into the hobby of retro PC gaming, I foolishly threw away my old AMD K6-based system when I upgraded to something modern in 2010. Recently during a cleanout I found its old side doors, and gave me the urge to at least find out more about it, and perhaps seeing if I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-12, 14:11

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by JidaiGeki

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Got myself another loot box yesterday ;) Encountered one odd one in the pile of cables: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/H0gLqdRBu2ki4rRmLkATDpdh/full.png Anyone know what this one is for? Could it be http://pinoutguide.com/Motherboard/dell_optiplex_front_pinout.shtml ? Keyed on pin 21 and goes with the …

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Re: Dell XPS, Half Life 1, TNT1 confusion

Posted on 2018-05-11, 09:25

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by JidaiGeki

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There is an ad suggesting the R450 also came specced with an ATI Xpert 98D 8MB AGP card ... could this have been your original card? https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DgIAAAAA … cTKCZgQ6AEIJzAA (scroll down a page or two)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-10, 11:55

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G200 MMS Quad which allows you to run quad monitors, using LFH60 to dual VGA or DVI cable (I've got one with a single cable for dual-head display). http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item/212-matrox-g200-mms Good for desktop duties, was used to drive the giant IBM T220 (https://en.m.wikipedia. …

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 11:49

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by JidaiGeki

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Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240) Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy. Do you have any info about it? Does it require drivers or software of some sort? I have made some close-up shots of the IC's on there. Sorry I …

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:08

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by JidaiGeki

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Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240) Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-09, 08:10

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I managed to crack my new Dimension XPS open thanks to ouevre (never thought it would be so hard to open a PC case) and it turned oıt to be more interesting than I thought. It is a PII 333 unsurprisingly, with 3 sticks of 64MB RAM. It came with an 8.4GB IBM HDD and 48x ASUS CDROM which is almost …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-09, 03:29

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Engineering Sample of Gravis Ultrasound Clone PnP by Miro :cool: Simple construction similar to Philips or ExpertColor but it's The Sample and afaik the only blue GUS there ever was :) So a GUS clone is a GUS like a Ferrari kit car is a Ferrari? Scratching my head right now... I'd love to see a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-08, 07:35

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by JidaiGeki

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Audio cards are Nubus, for older Macs. Really! That's very interesting. They're of no use to me then. Are they worth anything? I don't know anything about the ones you have, but usually they have breakout boxes or cables with audio IO. From what I've seen they sell if priced in the $20 start range, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-08, 06:45

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keenmaster486 wrote: So I went down to the recycling center today to see what they had in the giant piles of old computer parts (yes, it is as good as it sounds). They gave me the following for $40 Nice haul, you're right though, those pics could be a tad smaller 😉 Audio cards are Nubus, for older …

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Re: 16 bit Tomato board SCV6 Creative Labs VIBRA16X ISA Sound Audio Card - is what exactly ?

Posted on 2018-05-06, 11:01

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by JidaiGeki

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With a little digging, it seems that the connector is known as "TB-LINK" (Tomato Blaster-Link?) and is available on (at least) the Zida 5DLX board. If what he says is true, then you wouldn't be able to use it in your Toshiba without a special ISA card. The manual for the motherboard with TB-LINK is …

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Re: Steering wheel with drivers for XP through 10

Posted on 2018-05-06, 00:26

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by JidaiGeki

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At a guess, something from the Logitech range? Perhaps the G25, it's ten years old and the software download for it suggests support from XP to 10.

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Re: Can you use normal AGP cards on ADD (AGP Digital Display) slot?

Posted on 2018-05-02, 12:39

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by JidaiGeki

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Hey Kresh, No, this board doesn't work with an AGP card, been there done that. I tried it with an AGP card and it wouldn't boot. You'd need an ADD card to provide digital out from the integrated graphics. I vaguely recall using mine in 2010/11 with V2 SLI, but that's about it. From faint memory, …

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Re: My name is blackmasked and I am an addict.

Posted on 2018-05-01, 04:51

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by JidaiGeki

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I blew a bunch of money this year, but I feel like my collection is almost complete. I was mostly interested with sound stuff and Voodoo, and I definitely got almost everything I could ever use in games. So now comes the hardest part: a) persuade myself I don't need any more hardware (because I …

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Re: Buying flashed BIOS Chips from Ebay

Posted on 2018-04-30, 01:39

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by JidaiGeki

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How much would you trust buying a flashed BIOS chip from Ebay? I recently picked up an Abit IC7 Max3 that looks in excellent condition and works pretty well so far. When I make any changes to the BIOS, it freezes up on the "Y" confirmation for Save and Exit. The weird part is the changes made seem …

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Re: Hewlett Packard HP 9816 9000/216 workstation

Posted on 2018-04-29, 15:06

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by JidaiGeki

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http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=4 My understanding was they were general purpose office machines. The guy pictured in the link above seems to be doing some accounts maybe? The HPIB interface seems to be found in a number of scientific devices, so I guess data logging and modelling as …

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