Re: Anyone tried to do an Amiga remake? (not FPGA and alike)

Posted on 2015-11-26, 12:38

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by brostenen

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Paula, Gaile, Denise and some other chips, can be found on eBay. I checked really quickly last night, on my phone-app, and they are in the pricerange of aprox. 15 US Dollar's a piece. I bet some of the ram-chips can be found too. They are just second hand, most of them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-26, 11:15

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by brostenen

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Got this in the mail today.... Are you trying to build the ultimate pre-PCI 486 or something? You'll need a DX-50 for that! ;) (had to "report" the state of the legs, as I forgot it at first in my post).... Nope.... Not the ultimate. Just a 486 system, somewhat like the one I had back then. :-D I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-26, 10:53

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by brostenen

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Got this in the mail today.... No broken or bend legs.

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Anyone tried to do an Amiga remake? (not FPGA and alike)

Posted on 2015-11-25, 23:12

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by brostenen

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I mean, have anyone tried to recreate an "low end" Amiga, on a breadboard, using original chips and the original schematic's I know there are ton's of Amiga schematics floating around on the web. All from 500 to 4000 models. http://amiga.serveftp.net/ for example.... There are a really great number …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-25, 21:45

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by brostenen

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I bought another lot a week ago and it arrived today but I have not opened the package yet. I tried to snipe this lot at the last second to get it cheap but my max bid turned out to be just enough. As long as most of the stuff works it was still decent value for money. Here is the sellers pictures. …

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Re: Dell Dimension recommendation???

Posted on 2015-11-24, 21:42

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by brostenen

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Is it not possible to build and Dell ATX converter on you'r own? I did my own ATX to AT converter some time ago. Are there other ratings than the usual voltage ratings on Dell psu's?

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Re: Unisys PW2 series 300 (PICTURE HEAVY)

Posted on 2015-11-24, 13:50

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by brostenen

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It has been sitting in their basement, since 1996 when they bought a Pentium 133. They gave me that machine too, last year. I am only missing their Compaq 5000/7000 (something like that) Socket 370, then I have all their old machines. They know that I collect old hardware, and they know I have been …

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Re: Unisys PW2 series 300 (PICTURE HEAVY)

Posted on 2015-11-24, 13:31

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by brostenen

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Oh, just remembered... We did eventually install one of those dual floppy drives that had both 3.5" and 5.25" drives in a single drive. BTW, what version of DOS does your have? I recall ours came with OEM MS-DOS 4.01. This came with MS-Dos-3.3, yeah.... It did bring back memories here too. Just …

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Re: Unisys PW2 series 300 (PICTURE HEAVY)

Posted on 2015-11-24, 13:28

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by brostenen

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It's a pretty damn sweet looking system alright. You might even still be able to get those Tadiran batteries new- MODEL TL-5242/W, yip still available. Quite a common replacement back in the day when barrel batteries went dead. Velcro is standard fair. Folk usually mounted them against the psu or …

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Re: Unisys PW2 series 300 (PICTURE HEAVY)

Posted on 2015-11-24, 02:14

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by brostenen

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Too many photos is better than no photos... Actually, can you have too many photos? I don't think so. Very nice looking system, I have never owned an EGA board (Owned everything but) so I'm jelly. Nice to see the battery is one of those types, I have no idea what they call them but they don't seem …

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Re: Unisys PW2 series 300

Posted on 2015-11-24, 00:33

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by brostenen

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All right QBiN.... Ready for a heavy load of photo's???? :-D :lol: Got that Unisys from my parents. It is working, even though it has been un-powered for like 20 years. The HDD works and without any error's.... Yeah... It's a Miniscribe (MFM or RLL, don't know) Colours on the photo's look better in …

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

Posted on 2015-11-23, 23:47

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by brostenen

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Have been taken pictures of my Unisys PW/2 Series 300 machine. And it looks like it is in astonishing good condition. The pictures are not that great, because of my phone (Lumia 630), and there are no flash in it. Then I tested the monitor first, and then I dared to fire the machine up, after a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-22, 18:18

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by brostenen

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Thanks all.... Looking forward to fire this baby up. It was my parents first machine ever, and I learned to compute on this exact machine. Much old and happy memories are linked to this machine.

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Re: What to do with old broken HDDs?

Posted on 2015-11-21, 20:04

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by brostenen

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Remove the magnet's and mount them in the back of a long piece of wood. Mount that on the wall in the kitchen and hang you'r kitchen knifes on it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-21, 17:34

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by brostenen

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Gotten a Unisys PW/2 series 300 (286 machine) for free. Pictures will be added next week. EDIT: Could not help my self. Took some pictures. They are of bad quality, due to my shitty phonecamera and bad lightning. Going to take some more on monday. The computer came with the original manual, the …

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Re: Programs for 486 and early Pentium

Posted on 2015-11-21, 01:04

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by brostenen

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Tiger433 wrote: What programs and which versions of them you use at your 486 and Pentium 60-133 rig? Norton Commander. Norton utilities. Various packers/unpackers. Fast tracker 2 I can not remember the versions. They are all dos editions.

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

Posted on 2015-11-20, 10:09

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by brostenen

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I've repaired many computers before from smoker's homes and they usually end up literally every surface inside of it on every component covered in thick brown sludgey goop. I usually have to charge people extra as hazard charge for working on those machines. It's more that kind of stuff that kills …

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Re: Would this be a good BeOS system?

Posted on 2015-11-20, 00:39

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by brostenen

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I have a lot of project's at the moment. First I have to make the time for arranging my daughters birthday on saturday. Yeah.... 7 years old.... And where did those years fly away to? :-O Then I have to complete that 486 that I have planned for, and finally I have to find time to sell off some of my …

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

Posted on 2015-11-19, 21:45

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by brostenen

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I hope you don't really smoke sitting in front of your computers... that really, legitimately does kill components over time, ya know. I smoke too, yet outside these day's. Until 2003 and again between 2010 and 2013 i smoked inside. I took up retro computing in 2014, so yeah... Anyway. I have never …

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

Posted on 2015-11-18, 23:04

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Meanwhile, I have signed tenancy for another house. I don't really like it and it is going to cost thousands (which I don't have) to make it live-able. I have spent around five hours there today and my chest is killing me already. As predicted, idiots have filled the cavity with formaldehyde or …

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