Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2019-12-08, 06:03

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And also, Windows 98 is not supported by anyone at this point... Steam itself can't be run on 98 too, so moaning about non-existing Win 98 compatible HL on Steam is kinda weird... It's not like HL for 98 isn't available by other means... It does exist. I am aware of a Windows 98 binary for Steam …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-08, 04:16

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Two Extron VSC 900 scan converters for $50 each. https://www.extron.com/product/vsc900ret From what I can tell you can feed it almost any analog video signal and it will convert and scale it to almost any other format with optional genlocking, which makes it excellent for running passthrough on a …

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

Posted on 2019-10-15, 00:18

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If IBM had sold a SATA/SAS upgrade for FRU 00N8951 I would of long ago upgraded to modern disks and something like an Adaptec AAR-2610SA. Those 220 Xseries servers are far too well built.

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Re: New Very Powerful computers coming soon.

Posted on 2019-10-13, 19:35

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Autistic-level factory cable management. So basically it's "powerful" for those people who like to brag about their PC case, while most people who care for performance shove it under the desk and don't care how fancy the case looks as long as a new video card doesn't require a new case. Or those …

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

Posted on 2019-10-13, 16:56

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My entire RAID collapsed, again. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGkOoIoU8AA42cp?format=png&name=900x900 Previously the backplane failed and hosed the volume. This time the controller failed (or better put, the SCSI chip on the controller and not the RAID controller itself) and a bunch of services …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2019-10-01, 00:29

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1982 AMC Eagle wagon This is nice, the SX/4 would be awesome. Do all of these have the select drive? How do you find it? SX4's are nice, given it's just a Spirit with AWD but I like having cargo space. :) SelectDrive AWD was an option until 1982 when my car came out. It's handy if not for economy …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2019-09-29, 02:23

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1982 AMC Eagle wagon Stock Engine. Stock body. Stock interior. Factory delete air conditioning and air injection and no, this car is not mint. https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/IMG_3958.jpg This is the car for the man who grew up wanting a Delorean but had to settle …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-25, 00:52

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8-port serial card. Pretty hard to nuke serial when guessing a pinout as its voltage spec is between +12 and -12v.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-09-14, 01:51

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Two ISA slots and one shared PCI slot. I will hand it to IBM. Everything is modular to the brownish plastic skin of the CPU and when everything is removed you get a pretty nondescript box.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-09-14, 00:11

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Pretty standard PC stuff in there with a PSU that runs the length of the case.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-09-13, 21:16

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I looked into that and it doesn't seem like that's easy to do without a driver. The keyboard isn't PS/2 but something serial like RS-485 with its own funky protocol. There IS however an optional PS/2 keyboard with TrackPoint nub that was available. http://www.interstatecashregister.com/wp-content/ …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-09-13, 19:30

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It's a cash register. https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_9175.jpg https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_9177.jpg https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_9184.jpg It came with most of the …

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

Posted on 2019-09-01, 23:58

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My goal today was to crimp an SLI cable for a friend who I gave a second Voodoo2 and pointed him at the mismatched driver kit. Didn't want to use one of my own floppy cables so I went to out local hackspace and dug through their bin of ribbon cables for the parts. Found an SLI cable at the bottom of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-01, 21:30

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oeuvre wrote: I'm not sure exactly if it is a voice modem but the FM synth is pretty good. It is. I have multiple Packard Bells and these are the stock combo cards for models that supported data/fax/voice options in Windows and Navigator. The headers for TV and FM tuner options are dead giveaways.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-23, 04:52

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It will be even better once it's filled with MD-Data cartridges 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-23, 02:41

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Clean-out party at a friends house. https://oi11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_8393.jpg Nothing too special. Mismatched Voodoo II pair, two S3 805-based VLB video cards, two 3C509B network cards, a VLB I/O card with IDE controller, Awe32/SB32 and an AWE64 Gold sound …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-14, 20:39

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liqmat wrote: Amazing looking microscope. Great piece. Does it have a manufacture date on it by any chance? Olympus SZ-TR with the optional VS-V stand. There's no date stamped on this unit but the serial I think decodes to 1968. It looks like they built them in this style between '61 and '89.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-14, 19:07

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That base is a lump of cast iron. It has to way over 70lbs.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-14, 18:58

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https://imgur.com/blEWHea.jpg Okay, it's not retro hardware but that's all it's being used for. You know when you get something in the mail and it has bent pins on a chip? Yeah, this is for straightening those or replacing really small SMD parts and it was only $200. You see that stem on top? …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers welcome. Rest in pieces.

Posted on 2019-03-12, 01:03

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I needed to boot from a floppy disk on a NeXT computer in order to begin the installation from a CD. I didn't have the right floppy drive available so I tried the Teac SCSI floptical drive I had in my SGI Indigo. It's a rare option. Even though I observed polarity, the SCSI cable must of been …

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