Re: What was your first (as in personally owned) PC compatible computer?

Posted on 2018-10-24, 08:47

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by brostenen

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The first one in the family, was an Unisys PW/2 series 300 machine. That is the model with a 286, ega, 640k Ram and 20mb harddrive. I am the current owner of that system, yup the real physical same machine. It is complete with all original parts, right down to the manuals that are even in mint …

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

Posted on 2018-10-22, 23:28

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by brostenen

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Fixed the hole in the Amiga case, using cut out pieces of plastic and super glue. Finished it off, by painting it with paint, made from original Amiga500 case and acetone. Covers it well, and later I need to smooth it out using sandpaper. Case fixed.... :-P Then I installed a kickstart switcher, …

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

Posted on 2018-10-22, 13:19

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by brostenen

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I bought that exact card, back in the mid 90's (1995) or an 5428, that looks exactly like that. And I still have the manual for the card for some really odd and strange reason. It is a good card, that are stable and just works. Sadly, with all Cirrus Logic VLB cards that I have tried, none of them …

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

Posted on 2018-10-21, 23:31

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by brostenen

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Mounted the vga adaptor, internally on my Amiga500, in order not to have the cable going out of the case. Now it is a true internal scandoubler. I mounted it under the floppy drive, and in the back of the bottom part of the Amiga500 case. And there are space enough on the left of the adaptor, were I …

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Re: Hen's teeth and unicorns

Posted on 2018-10-21, 17:24

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Mint and working Commodore-65 and an Commodore branded Amiga4000-Tower, also in mint condition. Who knows ... I know a forum member that got his A4000T for free at a junkyard, just like my neighbour gifted me an A3000D which he found on the street recently - both In fully working and decent optical …

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Re: Hen's teeth and unicorns

Posted on 2018-10-20, 21:49

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by brostenen

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First thing that comes to my mind is original mint Ibm 5150 PC. Those were produced in huge numbers. Was any other model of computer produced in greater numbers? Commodore 64. Yup... Most sold computermodel in history. According to guiness book of world records. On the topic. What would I never …

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

Posted on 2018-10-20, 21:34

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by brostenen

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Tested out my Expert Data Opti 495SLC board today now that i managed to get a VGA card for it. This is the card that arrived today. Its a VLB Cirrus Logic 4528 with 1mb on board. https://i.imgur.com/zXrqgbUl.jpg I got everything plugged in powered on the system and nothing. I had read about this …

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

Posted on 2018-10-20, 12:42

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by brostenen

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Used my last floppy-mod cable, to give my second Amiga500 a new floppy drive. I had a spare Alps drive, and an eject button that fits in an Amiga500 case. Crafted a longer power cable in the process. Now both my a500's have new and quieter floppy drives, and can run some 10 years more. Need to find …

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

Posted on 2018-10-18, 15:54

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by brostenen

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Well, with regards to the Swedish Mystery Card; MysteryCard1.jpg I've been in contact with Rune Tapper of Rune's PC Museum in Sweden, who was able to answer some of my questions. The card is an Ericsson brand card, the model number uses familiar revision language. No word on what it was for/ I …

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

Posted on 2018-10-18, 07:38

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Recapped my C64-C, board number 250469 Rev.3. It was beginning to flash in brightness intensity, and letters were sometimes unreadable. Furthermore it had a horisontal band of noise, moving slowly from top to bottom. Now all those issues are history. Great result! It makes sense that those 30 year …

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-17, 23:16

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by brostenen

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386SX wrote: Man so many powerful pc. Anyone brave to choose older tech as main one? 😁 Was my Thinkpad R61 not old enough? 😁

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

Posted on 2018-10-17, 22:42

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Recapped my C64-C, board number 250469 Rev.3. It was beginning to flash in brightness intensity, and letters were sometimes unreadable. Furthermore it had a horisontal band of noise, moving slowly from top to bottom. Now all those issues are history.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-15, 19:41

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by brostenen

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Intergraph TD-300 desktop system. Not sure what it is exactly, it has a pretty astonishing variety of integrated ports on the back, and two video cards I don't immediately recognize from the backplane. Looking for technical documentation now. Powers on, but my monitors are all in storage (moving) …

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

Posted on 2018-10-15, 07:08

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by brostenen

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liqmat wrote: As I've said before, that sound of an old noisy hard drive spinning up is music to my ears. I love that sound. Yup. For some, it is music. And for others it is noise pollution. 😀

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-14, 22:33

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by brostenen

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Lenovo Thinkpad R61, running Xubunty.

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

Posted on 2018-10-14, 15:58

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by brostenen

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derSammler wrote: Installed MacOS 7.5.3 on... my Amiga 1200. 😁 Nice. Back then, the fastest Mac was an Amiga. And you had juice left, to run Amiga programs alongside MacOS in true multitasking.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-13, 20:21

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by brostenen

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Is that Acer, not the one they sold as an PowerAcer or AcerPower or something. It is from the first half of the 90's. 386sx/dx to 486dx2-66 era. It is on it's head in the picture. Two 5'25 inch bays, tell me that it most likely is an 486 machine.

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

Posted on 2018-10-12, 11:08

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by brostenen

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Did a rebuild of the clips, that keeps the keyboard in place, on my Amiga500 refurbish project. Cutting up a plastic lid, glueing them in place with super glue, and using "cement" made from ABS plastic dissolved in acetone to strengthen the new keyboard clips/holder's. Then updating my blog about …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-11, 21:00

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by brostenen

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I can only say, that I used other peoples pictures before. Yet they were the sellers photo of the specific item that I personally bought. And I always make sure to note, that the picture is sellers photo. Sometimes you just want to show your purchase, the same day you bought it.

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Re: Video Card from Hell

Posted on 2018-10-11, 12:15

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by brostenen

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Regarding modern technology. Computers, smartphones and tablets.... As far as I can see, and for what I hear from people. Then anything that have been produced after some 2010, are supposed to be functional for some 1.5 to 2 years. Never ever buy anything second hand, that have been produced after …

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