Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 23:26

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by creepingnet

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I really don't think about it that much...I'm almost 40, I would not be surprised if at least one outlives me given how well my old boxes are holding up and how hard I still run them. I'm actually more concerned about what I'm going to do when I get too old to be lifting and carrying these beasts …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-10, 22:38

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by creepingnet

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I don't see Windows 7 as vintage yet. Going by the yardstick of old vehicles - Windows 7 is like that 2008 model that still runs and drives around town just fine, but does not have a backup camera or heated seats. I just put it in the "old" category right now. And just like anything else old, the …

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

Posted on 2021-06-10, 22:22

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by creepingnet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fixed the truck yesterday - recap of the Engine Management Computer - all three Electrolytics leaked, ate up a trace or two, and went out. Put it all back together, about the only codes I get now are 111 and 10 plus a couple from the ECU relearning it's air/fuel settings - so were back to healthy. …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2021-06-09, 20:40

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"Hello. Now Compaq insists that I tell you about their new 386 computer which they say is the most advanced computer ever made. But they're still sticking to this cock-an-bull story about it being made out of three-hundred and eighty six chips and thirty two bits of a bus! Well frankly I this is not …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 18:05

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by creepingnet

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I don't see Windows 7 as vintage yet. Going by the yardstick of old vehicles - Windows 7 is like that 2008 model that still runs and drives around town just fine, but does not have a backup camera or heated seats. I just put it in the "old" category right now. And just like anything else old, the …

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Re: rails

Posted on 2021-06-07, 18:01

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by creepingnet

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Ah, AT-Rails. You could 3-D print them. Or do what I do...if you're handy with metal stuff. I did this on an old Compaq Deskpro 386 and my GEM 386 that had the same style of drive rails....you need the right tools for it though. Tap and Die, Stepped Drill Bit, Dremel, and a Hacksaw, and a C Clamp or …

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

Posted on 2021-06-07, 15:41

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by creepingnet

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Fixed the truck yesterday - recap of the Engine Management Computer - all three Electrolytics leaked, ate up a trace or two, and went out. Put it all back together, about the only codes I get now are 111 and 10 plus a couple from the ECU relearning it's air/fuel settings - so were back to healthy. …

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Re: Unknown brand AT Taiwan Cases - an attempt to gather information

Posted on 2021-06-06, 16:32

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by creepingnet

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Never saw a front panel composition like the third picture, really cool to see Yeah, that was a 1994 486 DX2-66 that I upgraded heavily back around 2009 or so. It was built by Cat Computers out of Kirkland WA, and funny story is I found it at a Pawn Shop where it had been for sale for at least 10 …

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

Posted on 2021-06-06, 07:05

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by creepingnet

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Got the truck back from the shop, they could not figure it out - but I might be close to have myself. Funny part - might be a COMPUTER issue. Apparently EEC-IV ECU can have cap issues - but that's further down the list after I check some stuff out from the OBD-1 codes I pulled. Whoda' thunk my …

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

Posted on 2021-06-06, 06:21

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by creepingnet

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Got the truck back from the shop, they could not figure it out - but I might be close to have myself. Funny part - might be a COMPUTER issue. Apparently EEC-IV ECU can have cap issues - but that's further down the list after I check some stuff out from the OBD-1 codes I pulled. Whoda' thunk my …

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Re: Unknown brand AT Taiwan Cases - an attempt to gather information

Posted on 2021-06-06, 06:16

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by creepingnet

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Thanks a lot guys, I'll hold out for more discoveries from your part. Even if it ends up in a dead end it's worth a try. Shoot, I'm going to follow this thread as I've been trying to find out who made the clone cases for years. Brands I've seen and can confirm are a thing... KINGSPAO - Below is the …

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

Posted on 2021-06-04, 03:04

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by creepingnet

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Yup just need to look for any potential vacuum leak. Is your check engine light on or any codes stored? Did some more looking after work before attempting to limp home, was at first able to hold low idle, jumping around between 300-600. Oil's full, and clean. Coolant full and clean. No smoke at all …

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

Posted on 2021-06-03, 23:27

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by creepingnet

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It's Retro Truck day for me. Got to figure out the low-rough idle on my 1993 Ford Explorer. How does this fit into "retro computing" you ask? Well, I've read a few places mentioning Explorer/Ranger PCM's having leaky caps....so funny my first full recap might be on the engine computer for a Ford. …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2021-06-03, 23:16

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by creepingnet

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There's speculation that the late DX4-100s had some special sauce, they appear in some benchies to show a better IPC than DX2s and seem to hang close to AMD 120s. Some say pentium instructions were added. I could imagine a well sorted late DX4 machine could seem like a tank, a slow tank, but just …

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Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-03, 23:10

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by creepingnet

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PCCHIPS M919 that I have laying around doing nothing. Not sure what's wrong with it. I bought it at RE-PC in 2018 and it's been bricked the whole time I've had it. Starting to wonder if the Flash BIOS is borked because I tried flashing it in my FIC 486 PVT and it said the chip was not a flashable …

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Re: Monitors for MS-DOS gaming and certain size

Posted on 2021-06-03, 23:04

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by creepingnet

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The best luck I've had with LCD's for gaming have been mostly older Dell 4:3 LCD's - actually I just scored two of these in 17" from work (were getting rid of all of them because user's complain too much). Though I mostly got those for managing my Plex Media Server locally (CentOS has a really funky …

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

Posted on 2021-06-03, 23:02

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by creepingnet

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It's Retro Truck day for me. Got to figure out the low-rough idle on my 1993 Ford Explorer. How does this fit into "retro computing" you ask? Well, I've read a few places mentioning Explorer/Ranger PCM's having leaky caps....so funny my first full recap might be on the engine computer for a Ford. …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2021-06-03, 22:59

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by creepingnet

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Well...there's this case....it was on a GEM Computer Products 386 clone I had (that I stupidly hacked up into a Pentium III version of itself). Luckily I took all the measurements and could probably reproduce it on my own if I Wanted to. Have yet to find another computer, GEM or otherwise, that had …

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Re: Unknown brand AT Taiwan Cases - an attempt to gather information

Posted on 2021-06-03, 22:50

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by creepingnet

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Shoot, I'm going to follow this thread as I've been trying to find out who made the clone cases for years. Brands I've seen and can confirm are a thing... KINGSPAO - Below is the Model 35 which seemed to be an extremely popular chassis on 386/early 486 systems from 1990-1994. https://www.vcfed.org/ …

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Re: What better system for me? Win95c or Win98SE?

Posted on 2021-05-28, 15:01

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by creepingnet

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2021-05-28, 09:39: Didn't win 3.11 also have DirectX 2 or 3 available? 😜 It definitely did have WinG. Nope, I think Direct X was strictly a Win9x thing. If there was a version for W31x I'd want to try it out.

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