Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 02:12

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by kithylin

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Ooo... 20 years old and lots of tantalum caps. Cover your eyes when you power it up for the first time. :) It'll be just fine, the seller claims they tested it 7 days ago before listing it on ebay and it worked then. To be frankly honest I'm more worried about the RTC chip dying before I worry …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 02:05

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by kithylin

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Ooo... 20 years old and lots of tantalum caps. Cover your eyes when you power it up for the first time. :) It'll be just fine, the seller claims they tested it 7 days ago before listing it on ebay and it worked then. To be frankly honest I'm more worried about the RTC chip dying before I worry …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 01:52

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by kithylin

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Won auction on a Tyan Dual-Pentium-Pro motherboard, ended up being $25.50 total off ebay. Seller's photo from the listing. Someone else was bidding on it.. anyone from vogons? Just idly curious. 😀

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Re: Promise EIDE 4030 Plus VLB

Posted on 2016-11-10, 09:27

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by kithylin

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I has sorta bad news. On two fronts. I can't find my driver diskettes and can't get ahold of my friend with the bios reader so.. guess the manual is all ya get from me on this thing. Sorry.

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Re: Promise EIDE 4030 Plus VLB

Posted on 2016-11-07, 08:16

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by kithylin

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Any chance you could dump the BIOS on the card? I have the "basic" 4030 model which does not support LBA, and it should work with a BIOS update: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=46720 I don't own a bios reader myself.. and honestly sort of scared to take the chips out of mine as I might …

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Re: Promise EIDE 4030 Plus VLB

Posted on 2016-11-07, 06:10

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by kithylin

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This is brilliant. I just got this card and am waiting for it to arrive; it's used and without any of the materials. Thanks for doing this! No problem. :) Most of the images are double-paged, that is both left and right pages so it's actually half the images it otherwise would be. Except for.. I …

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Promise EIDE 4030 Plus VLB

Posted on 2016-11-07, 04:42

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by kithylin

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Okay. So I own a boxed version of the above listed card, the Promise EIDE 4030 Plus VLB controller for 486's. I already have had one user PM me and ask me for the manual after I mentioned I had it. And so I just finished some high res scans of every page in the manual for them. I don't know if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-02, 08:38

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by kithylin

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@candle_86 use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835114056 The processors are a bit close together for large single heatsinks, the ones I linked are VERY effective. The boards PWM will keep them quiet, but if the temp goes up the can scream. I use them for my similar …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-01, 04:03

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by kithylin

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sndwv wrote: No follow-up? Shall I post one last screenshot then? Bad time of the year. Most folks are probably busy with Halloween festivities at the moment.

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

Posted on 2016-10-31, 05:52

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by kithylin

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Unfortunately this is actually the market price for Audioquest cables... some on amazon are $13k for a hdmi cable. Hey, you probably get really good looking 1s and 0s with those AudioQuest cables as opposed to the ugly 1s and 0s that a generic HDMI cable can transfer! :-D I find it hard to believe …

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

Posted on 2016-10-30, 16:37

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by kithylin

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gdjacobs wrote: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sac … ioquest&_sop=16 Some nice value cables. Unfortunately this is actually the market price for Audioquest cables... 🙁 some on amazon are $13k for a hdmi cable. I think some company is trying to "one up" Monster Cables with this stuff.

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

Posted on 2016-10-30, 08:29

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/302122774152 Anyone for a 6-ft usb printer cable?

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-10-27, 19:17

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by kithylin

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Simply from a benchmarking standpoint it might be interesting/useful. I never expected the current 7-zip database to grow as much as it has. Also, it's entirely possible to run the old benchmark on newer systems, so there still can be a way to compare the very old with the new. It will be up to the …

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:43

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by kithylin

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I did some tests with 4.58 and 9.20 on a Socket 478 Celeron D (1GB RAM; single core, 1 thread) in XP (9.20) and DOS 6.22 (4.58). With a 32MB dictionary, their results were very similar, comparable, I'd say. But as the dictionary size was reduced, the differences in results between the two versions …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:33

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by kithylin

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If you have any nForce 4/5/600 boards try those. Nope, i don't have any of those, but i believe it should at least work without any problem on the i3 2120. I also have a Celeron G1840 Haswell based system, i should try on that tomorrow. . The 7950 Gx2 is an older SLI video card. The one I had a few …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:30

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by kithylin

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Sorry about not participating further.. I've been feeling a good bit under the weather physically and sleeping too much the past couple days. So you don't need testing any further from my CT1330A?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 18:54

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by kithylin

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Finally, a ebay seller that knows what a antistatic bag is for, and also finally i have one of these :D .................... Now i just hoje it works flawlessly like advertised! Supposedly they only work in certain systems if you're using older ones. Modern systems they should work in all of em but …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 07:06

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by kithylin

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I'll try again tomorrow or in a few days. Thankfully my CT1330A has a volume knob.. my ear buds do not. Too tired to mess with it tonight.

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-10-25, 05:04

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by kithylin

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I know it might be a bit of work for you but if you could create a bootable dos 6.22 floppy with the required parmaters and make it run the test in autoexec.bat .. maybe ask it how much ram your system has via batch files with a asking the user type thing and then let us pick and then run it based …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 04:01

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by kithylin

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So Here's my testing: DOOM - Sounds correct, not sure, setup doesn't have anything to test left/right DESCENT: -INCORRECT-, stereo is reversed by default Tie Fighter: Correct, sounds pan left to right correctly. DUKE3D: Correct, sound is correct in setup with reverse stereo off / unticked. (NOT …

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