Re: Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2023-11-27, 19:42

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by creepingnet

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never really had issues with this and I"ve been running sometimes up to six or more "Retro-Pcs" all day long 24/7/365 in a networked setting since 2002. Most of these machines have power supplies that will never breech 300 Watts - and most modern systems, especially those made for gaming,; have …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-11-27, 13:29

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Basically spent all of sunday repairing and prepping the returned old 486 for it's second run on e-bay again. Quite a pain in the Ass. Wound up going with a 210MB HDD because that seemed to be the most reliable option. Had to fix the CD-ROM Drive (it was fixable, tray was jammed by a CD that was in …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 18:12

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, last night I setup my first FTP Server on my Dell T610 PowerEdge in CentOS 8.1 for use with my vintage computers now, so now I don't need the ISP's dingaling crap (ie that WAP/FTP Server/EZ Share thing Spectrum had) to host my files. Using the same server I'm using for Plex/modern file shares/ …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-11-17, 18:42

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by creepingnet

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Well, my Fosmon VGA to Composite Converter just died, I figured I'd give a little review of it here and tell what's next. So my current setup is a late 2015 iMac 21.5" with a Amazon.com bought Composite/S-Video capture USB device, and I would feed my VGA machines into the composite device via a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-10, 20:33

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by creepingnet

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I wonder if it's already going to the modem audio pin and is just muted with no modem activity. Just revisited this one today involving my M/75 and the KXL-D20 card. IT looks like pin 62 (pin for audio out to internal speaker) goes to a NEC 62522 Gate Array chip. Not sure what modem audio it would …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 22:40

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wonder if it's already going to the modem audio pin and is just muted with no modem activity. Just revisited this one today involving my M/75 and the KXL-D20 card. IT looks like pin 62 (pin for audio out to internal speaker) goes to a NEC 62522 Gate Array chip. Not sure what modem audio it would …

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Re: Are laptop floppy drives interchangeable?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 20:11

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't say for sure, but I know for a fact that my NEC Versa (40EC/V50/M75/P75/etc...) machines and the NanTan FMAK9200 are interchangeable. The 9200's drive was screwing up when I got it, and looked like it had suffered a spill. So it has a NEC Versa floppy in it right now without any faceplate to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-20, 03:10

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the Compaq Deskpro 386s/20 out over the weekend. Going to do a few mods this year, not many, just adding a CD-ROM drive, and maybe exploring HDD Upgrade options (MAYBE). Mostly just focusing on enjoying the system as/is at this point. Did do a few focus/voltage tweaks to the NEC MultiSync II …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-15, 19:23

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by creepingnet

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Reporting Charter/Spectrum to the BBB because suddenly 3 months later in my new place they are trying to charge me $84.99 for Internet they cut off on July 12th per our request (when it was supposed to be shut off on the 19th). I swear to dear fucking god American business has become a joke today. …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-14, 16:59

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by creepingnet

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Finally got the Line6 HD500 guitar processor working in Linux (kinda' sorta - more like getting VirtualBox to talk to it right through a VM). Basically I use a Windows XP Virtual Machine designed specifically for the purpose of editing patches using the software from Line6. Most of it is like on a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-08, 21:07

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got in the WiFi adapter last night, and spent all evening on the Tandy 1000A surfing Bulletin Boards and messing with IRC, and upgraded mTCP to the latest version. It works great. So I think that's my next incarnation of retro-computing networking setup is this whole wifi bridge setup.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-07, 17:23

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well - this is what I'm going to be playing with tonight - a NETGEAR WNCE2001 Universal WiFi Adapter for my vintage Desktop machines. I've got the new scheme figured out by the 4 seasons using 3 machines: 1985 Tandy 1000A (currently setup), 1991 Compaq DeskPro 386s/20, and my 1995 CreepingNet 486 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 21:52

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Took apart the FMA3500C battery to take a look at the insides. Might be installing a BMC and a Lithium ION Battery (I found out I can get one with the exact same specs as the NiCAD, and it's smalelr in size, so I can probably fit the BMC in there as well). The next thing I want to do is take apart …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 21:37

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by creepingnet

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Postal 2... It was indeed vulgar... It was right up my alley when I was 17. Too bad you never finished the game as you ended up pissing gasoline in new game + (if a remember correctly). Is this game on Steam..? :-) Yep, it's on steam, that's where my current copy is from. It's changed quite a bit …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 18:33

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Been playing a lot of Postal 2 lately, it just seems the stupidity of our modern society is really really getting to me. I figure it's the only acceptable and non-destructive way I can go on a temper-fueled rampage against stupid people.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-23, 03:00

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by creepingnet

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hard Drive Organization and Installing Programs. Copying stuff over from the Versa M/75 to the NanTan FMA3500, and trying some sick experiments on the M/75's Win95 install (Running The Sims.....hehehehe). Also, setup a VM for my newer Windows games that don't quite cut the mustard in Wine.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-22, 18:18

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by creepingnet

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Yesterday I decided to continue to dump all commercial Operating Systems on my at home machines. For the last year I have run OS X, Windows 10, and LInux Mint on a triple boot iMac late 2015 21.5" computer, and found that LInux Mint was the one I was happiest with. Windows still pisses me off with …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-21, 16:28

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by creepingnet

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Broke out the Versas last night, M/75 survived the move just fine, was BBQing on the patio while playing Postal on it. The P/75 however, is cracking to pieces again. I"m almost tempted to just fix up the plastic pieces for the Versas and make molds for the plastic on them. I also may have found a …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-21, 16:25

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by creepingnet

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Yesterday I decided to continue to dump all commercial Operating Systems on my at home machines. For the last year I have run OS X, Windows 10, and LInux Mint on a triple boot iMac late 2015 21.5" computer, and found that LInux Mint was the one I was happiest with. Windows still pisses me off with …

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Re: CRT experience

Posted on 2023-08-21, 16:17

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was not talking about computer monitors at all, my reply was strictly regarding TV sets and the experiences of running classic consoles, and even sometimes, classic computers on them (I'm known to sometimes attach my old DOS machines to TVs via S-Video or Composite via a VGA converter). How well …

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