Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-14, 22:58

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by tokroger

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Bought today PCI USB-card for my dual-Athlon. But that isn´t very interesting. Grab this from pile of junk: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/Rocky/WP_20141215_00_42_12_Pro.jpg Rocky 4786EV-RS-R40 industrial motherboard with 2.6 GHz P4. Actually there´s some caps missing and God …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-13, 08:16

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by tokroger

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ReeseRiverson: Where did you found that? How is it possible that it's still boxed, that's cool anyway 😀

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Re: So is this a bit too far?

Posted on 2014-12-13, 08:11

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by tokroger

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That toilet needs little bit of upgrading...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-12, 14:04

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Couple things wich are new to me :) http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141212_15_33_59_Pro.jpg DTK PAM-0054I E-1, S7 + 2 memorysticks included (and Dallas RTC) http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141212_15_34_48_Pro.jpg Jamicom KM-T5-V, S7, P200 MMX http:// …

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

Posted on 2014-12-11, 09:42

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by tokroger

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Finally put it together...I mean that P60 I got some time ago. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=17341&start=5460 And it seems to work, going to put in HD today too and install os. Pics later. Found yesterday nice minitower and used that on this build. There was some leftovers from that …

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Re: Stuff in CRT case

Posted on 2014-12-10, 15:32

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by tokroger

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Back in the 90's cat peed on my crt tv. it doesn't do any good to crt if something go inside wich doesn't belong in there. I would imagine that fire hazard increases if not nothing else. Try to keep it as much dust free as you can and i think it's worth of asking a professional to clean it if You …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-05, 15:39

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by tokroger

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Bought this from a co-worker today for 10 euros http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141205_17_02_09_Pro-1.jpg Nice, clean, almost like new.. http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141205_17_01_48_Pro.jpg And also very good condition... Samsung SyncMaster 3. …

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Drivers for HP Pavilion WLAN

Posted on 2014-11-28, 20:06

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by tokroger

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Ok, i'm not sure if this is anykind retro, but I have this HP media-PC, Pavilion s7610sc to be exact... It has built-in wlan-adapter and I just can´t find drivers for it. It´s based Ralinks RT2571WF chipset and model is WUBR-177G. All links I could find offers to download some driver updater …

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

Posted on 2014-11-28, 04:36

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by tokroger

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Replaced yesterday bios-battery to Thinkpad 380 ED wich I trashpicked last weekend. Now it boots without any faultcodes 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-24, 18:30

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by tokroger

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sliderider wrote: You need to make your pictures smaller. The forum automatically cuts them off along the right side to prevent side scrolling. ups...didn't realize that, I use also 1080 and pics look ok. Going to resize them from now on 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-24, 17:59

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More memory... There is also a COAST MODULE STICK ON THE RIGHT WHYA! http://i.ebayimg.com/t/15-Stueck-verschiedene-RAM-Riegel-DDR-DIMM-SDRAM-EDO-und-SIMM-RAM-u-a-Kingston-/00/s/OTYwWDEyODA=/z/VcAAAOSwD0lUbz4Q/$_57.JPG My eyes where on those hard to find SIPPs (only 1 euro) http://i.ebayimg.com/t/20 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-23, 20:47

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by tokroger

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Thrashpicked today... http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141123_22_24_53_Pro.jpg IBM ThinkPad 380ED, with P166MMX, Windows 98 SE, 80 mb...Functional. If you look carefully, there´s a battery on top of the keyboard, it's dead but after i removed it completely it booted. http:// …

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

Posted on 2014-11-22, 16:42

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by tokroger

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An hour ago started Quake II on my modern rig with glide wrapper. Loaned my Voodoo-rig to my brother so this is the only way just now. Surprcingly well that old gem runs Core i7 and W8.1, no sweat at all 😀

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Re: Regionally common hardware

Posted on 2014-11-17, 15:37

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Here in Finland Commodore 64 was coolest gagdet in mid-80's, then there was battle between Atari ST and Amiga which Amiga won. Spectravideo was most popular in MSX area I think. But my cousin got Commodore 16 for christmas....what the h... were they thinking.... PC's were stricky for business, they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-16, 20:35

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Nice find, tokroger! That mainboard is the Batman's Revenge, which I still think is a really cool name for a board :) I have the same board here somewhere with an FDIV-bugged P60, but IIRC it doesn't work anymore. Batman's Revenge...that sounds so cool :) didn't knew there was board named like that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-16, 16:00

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Seriously, i doubt if it works, but hey, i've got something to do couple of days 😀 and P60 is somekind of start of an era. And it's so beautiful...

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 13:45

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by tokroger

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I'm into Socket 3 to SS 7 eras. My full rigs have those. Slot 1 and Slot A systems are also interesting. But that's it, later computers do not have that kind of mojo, imho... I have one full rig with Socket 478 P4 1,6 GHz but that's only for testing different kind of hardware, P4...I kind of hate …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-16, 09:51

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by tokroger

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Salvaged this poor thing from scrap today for 10 euros... http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141116_11_10_34_Pro.jpg Nice basic case. PSU and all drives missing, cover little bended but it could be saved. http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141116_11_16_21_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-05, 17:44

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by tokroger

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[quote="PeterLI"]Beautiful IBM! 😀 Thank You 😀 Well, I tested it and it hangs during post. Top right corner of the screen there's 5E. I think You could propably tell what that means? Guess that's somekind of phase of post-number...correct if i'm wrong 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-04, 20:01

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Got this Big Blue today... I´m not big fan of ibm but it´s kind of cool anyway :) http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/tomikroger/WP_20141104_21_30_43_Pro.jpg IBM 300 GL Model 6282-730. P166 MMX, 64 mb EDO, somekind of hd and cd, haven´t check those out yet. Don´t know if it runs neither. …

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