Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-24, 01:10

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Post your tree (or anything X-Mas related).... I will start. Oh!!! By the way. Happy New Year. :-) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13450020/WP_20151223_20_13_58_Pro.jpg Your tree looks nice :) Reminds me of happy times :D Thanks... Yeah. Tomorrow it's time for some serious "blotning". Meaning " …

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Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-23, 23:45

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That Angel on top... A Christian Festivus Pole? Old tradition. Looked it up on the net. Around 1800's the first x-mas tree were used in Denmark, and in a long time we used angels too. We just used the old German tradition, of using angels, wich dates back to the 1700's. Later. Stars were used. The …

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Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-23, 21:40

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saturn wrote: 😀 That's funny. An angel on top. A star must seem equally as weird to you. 😁 Nice tree. I like it.

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Re: BYTE magazine archive 1990-1993

Posted on 2015-12-23, 20:44

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I think Byte is available in full on archive.org. Archive.org is banned in Russia. Because it hosts copies of other sites banned in Russia. I'm living in a country full of idiots :'( And this is exactly why (or at least one of many) I hate censorship on the internet. Censoring free speech and …

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Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-23, 19:42

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by brostenen

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Post your tree (or anything X-Mas related).... I will start. Oh!!! By the way. Happy New Year. 😀

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-22, 22:13

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by brostenen

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Been searching for solutions to cool drives. And I think this is the best I can get for the price. It looks awesomme, with that alu heatsink. The price seems fair too. The equivelant of about 21.33 US Dollars including shipping. http://www.coolerkit.dk/shop/titan-ultimate-harddisk-1892p.html?gclid= …

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-22, 20:28

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If I'm not mistaken 16-bit ISA can do up to 8.3 MB/s so the drive only getting 1.7 MB/s though makes it seem like something is wrong. It's been a long time since I did anything significant with ISA so I could be all wrong. - Just doesn't seem right, that's all. . Hmmm.... Do you have a link to a …

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-22, 20:25

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Shure it is that good? It is sleve barring and not ball.

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 22:40

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Have plenty of SCSI cards for PCI. The ISA might go into my 80286 then. Only if I can find a suitable 5400 rpm disk for it. On my newly rebuild Pentium 166 Non-MMX, I am using SCSI. (And a good cooling solution) At the moment, I am not using any SCSI or CF-adaptors on my 5x56. I have a 3.1gb Seagate …

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Re: My first Socket 7 machine + some questions

Posted on 2015-12-21, 22:23

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Next steps — comments welcome 1) upgrade 32 MB. Probably just get a 64 MB DIMM module 2) replace CD-ROM for a CD-RW — what kind of connections/standards should I look out for? Would any IDE model work? 3) get two Voodoo 2 cards. I'm not entirely sure what kind of games would I use SLI for, but I'm …

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Re: Issue with Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

Posted on 2015-12-21, 20:45

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Looks like it is about to take it's last breath of air. Ebay you say? Hmmm.... Money back then!

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

Posted on 2015-12-21, 20:40

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Tetrium + HighTreason Yeah... Know that shit too well. Had a customer that insisted that I had installed Gay-porn on his daughters new computer, delivered with a blank harddrive. Because he had a legal copy of XP. So... Well... We apologized to him, and brought out a factory sealed harddrive. (we …

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Re: "Vintage style" AT keyboard with "windows" key?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 20:18

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As a retro everyday keyboard, I am using one from a Compaq Deskpro EN P-III machine. It is like a "click" keyboard, just without the "click". Sturdy, and precise key's when typing. (picture found on google) http://image.ec21.com/image/ojamii1/OF0000183032_1/Compaq_Deskpro_EN_1Ghz_256Mb.jpg In my …

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 19:41

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kanecvr wrote: Lucky for me the 1GB Toshiba drive I use in my 386 build is double height 3.5" and fairly cool. Need to find one such drive. 5400rpm should do the trick, as 7200 was more like from the late 90's and not the early.

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 19:35

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The 9 GB drive is actually giving me 1.7 Mb in transfer rate according to Norton sysinfo in MS-Dos-6.22. You are only getting 1.7 Mb/s with a 10k RPM drive? Yeah... It is on an Adaptech 1542 ISA controller, using 50 pin SCSI-II cable and on a 5x86-133 machine. So I guess it is adequate as it is, …

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Re: What is IRQ Pull up/down on FIC 486 VIP IO?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 19:30

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Thanks all... So..... I just follow the manual and do what it say's then. 🤣

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Re: "Vintage style" AT keyboard with "windows" key?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 19:21

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I have this "Keytronic" AT style with DIN plug. (from 1995/96)

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Re: What to do with an ASUS P2B-DS

Posted on 2015-12-21, 19:16

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I've got this P2B-DS laying around and no idea what to do with it, its working with a couple 350 Deschutes and 2x256MB SDRAM... any ideas? Create an BeOS Box. If you happen to have Soundblaster Live and Matrox G400 Dual-head, then it would be perfect. I bought one such board, sadly DOA, lucky me …

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Re: Tube amp on a motherboard...

Posted on 2015-12-21, 12:51

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I kind of like this concept of a tube amp. Love it.

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Re: How to cool a SCSI harddrive in an AT Case?

Posted on 2015-12-21, 11:06

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...how will it become a bottleneck by getting too fast? He's not saying that the drives being too fast will make the computer run slower. What he meant was that the computer itself (processor, motherboard and memory) is so slow compared to the SCSI hard drive that the drive will never be put under …

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