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Re: "My" Joystick

Posted on 2014-06-07, 22:41

in Milliways

in Milliways

My parents bought an Atari 2600 in the early '80s so the first joystick I ever used was the standard 2600 controller. As far are computers are concerned, here is a pic I posted in a similar thread a few weeks ago. My first one was probably this Jeco in the late '80s, and shortly thereafter the Konix …

Re: Post photos and discuss your pc joystick and game controller collection...

Posted on 2014-05-18, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Re: CF Card Issues on a 386

Posted on 2014-05-12, 06:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you done fdisk /mbr on the card?

Re: BusMaster2000: Ever seen such a device?

Posted on 2014-04-30, 11:19

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Neat little device. I installed a similar thing on my socket 7 system, but in a 5.25" bay: Pentium 200 "Multi-Speed" Game & Midi System

Re: Best Yamaha midi module to act as replacement for syxg50 in linux?

Posted on 2014-04-26, 15:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

be careful about this sort of adapter, if you make a mistake and invert the plug you run the risk of frying the unit. Maybe it's not such a bad idea to shell out a few more bucks and get a proper replacement power supply - I have this one for my MU80, does the job well and is of good quality. …

Re: Dallas RTC Battery Longevity

Posted on 2014-04-24, 17:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can find some on ebay, but be careful about the date code on them - I've read stories of people buying twenty year old "NOS" chips and they were of course DOA. You can also get them new from the manufacturer: http://www.maximintegrated.com/

Re: Dallas RTC Battery Longevity

Posted on 2014-04-24, 16:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had an Intel Plato Socket 5 motherboard from new - these had a soldered Dallas RTC DS12887. In the motherboard user manual they wrote that the Dallas module is expected to last 10 years, however the one on this particular board had a 1994 date code, and it only died some time last year. So they …

Re: Best Yamaha midi module to act as replacement for syxg50 in linux?

Posted on 2014-04-24, 11:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I suppose any Yamaha module from the MU series would be ok. I have a MU80 and think it sounds fine for GM stuff.

Re: PII-333, Abit BX6, Matrox G200, Voodoo 2 system

Posted on 2014-04-23, 19:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Exactly - I used to run this setup at 416mhz back in the day, from what I remember it was reasonably stable at this speed but wouldn't go any faster.

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-04-19, 09:22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

@obobskivich Nice CRTs. Are there Altec Lansing ATP3 speakers? Used to have the same ages ago. @Auzner I sold most of my big box pc games a few years ago but nobody seemed interested by the Heroes games so this is pretty much all that's left from my collection. HOMM2 & HOMM3 are among my all time …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-04-18, 17:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

nice haul! is that rubber on the seagate HDD? used to have a similar one. don't know if they did that for vibration reduction or what...

Re: PIV 3.2ghz, P4C800-ED & Geforce 6800 Ultra system

Posted on 2014-04-18, 11:23

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It didn't come with a hood at the time, I'm not even sure it used to be an optional extra because I don't remember ever seeing a Sony CRT with a hood actually... I really love this CRT, display quality is really sharp and colors are great. I don't use it often because of the size, I keep it in the …

Re: Highscreen Vobis "SkyTower" Pentium 90 - CT1750 & SCC-1

Posted on 2014-04-17, 20:35

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks. I enjoy reading about stories behind computers too so I try to give a bit of background behind each machine. It's my way of paying tribute to these workhorses that we spent so much time working and playing with! IIRC I got the SCC-1 around 1993 and it was probably between 3200 and 3500 …

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-04-17, 20:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks. I guess by the time they were making the F520 the whole computer industry was definitely moving out of "beige" territory! IIRC the 400PS was made around the time the 19" screen size became more available for the consumer market. Before that it was quite unusual to see anything bigger than …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-04-17, 20:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I found a few pictures of old rigs on my hard drive so I thought I would post them here... I had this one briefly probably around 2001, no idea about the brand of the case but I remember it was really, really heavy. It might probably have been home to a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR with an Athlon 1300. The …

Re: Highscreen Vobis "SkyTower" Pentium 90 - CT1750 & SCC-1

Posted on 2014-04-17, 17:43

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I wish I could but unfortunately I no longer have the case, as explained above 🙁

Re: PIV 3.2ghz, P4C800-ED & Geforce 6800 Ultra system

Posted on 2014-04-17, 17:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

@d1stortion Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the link. I guess the PSU is ok because it is a late P4? Haven't noticed any problem but as I said the PC doesn't get much use. @obobskivich thanks. The case is not really period correct as I only got it recently, but I guess it doesn't look too …

Highscreen Vobis "SkyTower" Pentium 90 - CT1750 & SCC-1

Posted on 2014-04-17, 17:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I thought it would be fun to dedicate a thread to my old Pentium 90 machine (model name was apparently "SkyTower") We got this PC new in 1994 - this was a beast back in the day. It was a replacement for our 486DX50 and the speed improvement was massive. (It was also a lot more stable as the DX50 …

Re: Can anyone identify this video card (Geforce)?

Posted on 2014-04-17, 14:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks guys, really helpful. I guess it's a bit more recent than I thought at first.

Can anyone identify this video card (Geforce)?

Posted on 2014-04-17, 13:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While trying to retrace the history of past PC parts I found this picture on my hard drive: http://i.imgur.com/rNuphkp.jpg I have very little memory of this video card but I suppose I bought it to replace a Geforce 3, maybe around 2001 or 2002? I probably used this in an Athlon XP1500+ system and …

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