Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.
Posted on 2016-03-17, 21:16
Are solder tin containing lead illegal in the US? If so. Why illegal for hobby soldering?
Re: Text editors for Windows 3.1?
Posted on 2016-03-17, 21:12
Search for a set of floppy disks, for eighter Office 4.X or Wordperfect for Windows 3.11. Unfortunately, I do not know were to buy old productivity software.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-15, 22:00
Nice 486 machine. Good catch. 😜
Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.
Posted on 2016-03-15, 10:54
Thanks all, good advice! I'll do my best to learn from you all, as long as you don't mind a raft of potentially silly questions on my part! Well.... As the saying goes: There are no silly questions, only stupid answers. Unless of course. The person wich are sitting in the booth, collecting the road …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-15, 01:15
Given the stability issues I had with three brand new ASRock Z170 boards... safe to say I've sworn off them. They must have "lost it" somehow, it happens.... Socket-A from Asrock are good for what I have tried. Get a K7s41 NOT the GX model, and you will have a good Win98 machine, if you want a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-15, 00:01
True... I actually recall that almost all Socket-A boards from Asrock, have Win98 drivers. Some of them, even has Os/2 drivers, and settings in the BIOS. When moving into Asrock 478 boards, it is a different story. As some of them do not have Win98 drivers. (Of course some have)
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-14, 23:57
I also won this ASRock K7S8X with a minimum bid of 1 SEK = ~0.1 euro. I only wanted the cooler as its perfect for many Socket-7 boards but Im sure I will find some use for the rest of the stuff. Allways liked Asrock from the day I was hired to build computers for a living. I remember the K7S41 as a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-14, 23:51
Now people are beginning to take in XP-Era stuff as retro, just as I wrote about for aproximately 1 year ago. :-D Personally I really have no interrest in this, after I tried to build a Socket 754 rig a couple of month's ago. It really does not speak to me, yet I still drool on all these nice pieces …
Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.
Posted on 2016-03-14, 22:08
So some of you may notice I'm relatively new and many of my posts are probably embarrassingly elementary to you all. I love this hobby, I love computers, but I am pretty ignorant of electronics, which is kind of a big part of this. As bad as being baffled by power ratings on the back of PCs and too …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-14, 21:54
These little babies arrived in the mail today: DSC_0043.JPG One to replace the incredibly noisy reference heatsink on the GF4 Ti4600 in my Athlon XP rig, and a spare one that might go on a GF FX 5900 I got in store, haven't really decided yet. Not really a steal at ~$12 each, but those are getting …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-14, 21:50
kanecvr wrote: It's been a productive week for me - retro-hardware wise. Incoming wall of text and pictures: That's some cool stuff you got there. Congrats.
Re: Whats the best Video card for a Pentium 3 500 System
Posted on 2016-03-13, 22:21
One of these cards are good enough: TNT2-Pro/Ultra, Geforce2-GTS/Pro, Matrox-G400/G400-Max, Voodoo3-3000/3500. TNT2's are really good for 1998 to 2000 games, same goes for Matrox and Voodoo. The top dog's on the list are GF2. Just don't go higher than that.... A mix of GF2 and V2-SLI would also be …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-13, 22:10
GoblinUpTheRoad wrote: I recently picked up a 5.25 floppy drive, as I only had one 😲 and a Roland SC-7 for some General MIDI gaming. sc7.jpg The drive looks like it could use a clean, and the SC-7 need some de-yellowing done though. Nice catch. 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-13, 20:45
As to why I never buy such items on eBay at all. Not even on the european part of eBay. 😉
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-13, 19:48
Just paid for these two babies. When I recieve them, then I will test them both. And if they are tested ok, I will ship one away for a specific user here on Vogons. As they were really cheap, I can afford to give one away. (6.70 euro a piece) (Yes... Now you know what it looks like) https://dl. …
Re: Help Identifying Commodore keyboard.
Posted on 2016-03-12, 00:48
This sort of thing should have resulted in Commodore's entire engineering department being set on fire. Just saying. Nope... Not them that were to blame. People like Haynie actually had a lot of frustration. You can't blame "The animals" (or other commodore people alike) for bad marketing and …
Re: Adlib Gold 1000 ISA card on eBay
Posted on 2016-03-12, 00:06
The AdLib Gold is a card worth having. But not for that price. I would totally spend $100 on a loose one and it is supported by 200+ games. The Sound Blaster 16's which was the AdLib Gold main competitor are cheap junk compared to the Gold. Both yes and no. It all depends on, if you are looking at …
Re: Adlib Gold 1000 ISA card on eBay
Posted on 2016-03-11, 22:01
Found something from 1991.... Right on the left, there are an sales ad for sound boards. (soundcards) https://books.google.dk/books?id=Xb5VnujctzAC … %20gold&f=false
Re: Any use for Power Mac G4's?
Posted on 2016-03-11, 21:30
Hmmm... G4's :-) Well. I had one last year, wich I sold to a collector of old systems. In those month's that I had it running, and I had a lot of differtent software software running on it. My first installation was OsX Tiger (really bad on a 400mhz or was it 350?) The second installation was Os9, …
Re: Adlib Gold 1000 ISA card on eBay
Posted on 2016-03-11, 21:00
Sweet Jebus... this card is going for $1200.00 USD as of this posting. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ad-Lib-Gold-1000-ISA-Sound-Card-/272163544820?hash=item3f5e361ef4:g:P4MAAOSwpRRWnZyF Do you guys feel this card is worth having? One word..... NO Well. At least not that specific card on sale. Having an …
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