Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 22:50

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You say that like our upgrade treadmill is somehow less violent towards vintage electronics. I have 48 local states + Canada, but I'm not about to drive 800 miles for a video card. When I say local, I mean within the county, which is at most 30 miles.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:32

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Ahh, okay. Can't help you there, sorry. I don't have anything newer than that besides my 1050 Ti.

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Re: Bocaram AT XMS/EMS memory card replica?

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:32

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Don't mean to bump a dead thread, but I personally love my BocaRAM XT card, and my AST Advantage 128, and this is an excellent middleground. This could easily be a great project, and I'd love to see something like this come about. I think coping the AT Plus might be overkill, because there's almost …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:24

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A bit overkill, as I intended to go for a more time appropriate 7000 series card] I've got an XFX GeForce 7950GT 512MB AGP laying around somewhere I wouldn't be opposed to selling if you'd like. It used to be in my Pentium 4 build, but I'm parting out a lot of stuff to make room for more PC/XT/AT …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:22

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All these people getting such great stuff locally! The oldest machine I have ever seen for sale locally was a 486DX2/66. Unbranded case, and the battery had exploded. It is also the only 486 machine I have seen locally. Everything at our thrift stores and recycling yards is really late 90s and early …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:18

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I found it on eBay for about the price that just the boards by themselves normally go for with 0 RAM. I think I saw some AST boards on there as well. Does the AST you have need a special RAM board or is it just a standard ISA one? No, it's a normal ISA card. It's an AST Advantage 128 card, has 2 …

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Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:15

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The best IBM I've had has been my PC 340. The plastic case is on it's way out, and lately it's been having motherboard troubles, but it used to run Windows 98SE great! Pentium 120 or 150, I forget. I had 128MB of RAM. Onboard Cirrus Logic video and a 2GB IBM hard drive. I replaced it with an HP …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 07:22

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OOO Another BocaRAM card! I've got a BocaRAM XT with 512K installed, and I've got more RAM chips on the way in the form of other defective cards which happen to have chips installed. Where did you ever find a BocaRAM AT with the 2MB expansion board??? Where would I find such a device for my AST …

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Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2019-10-05, 05:55

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Hey hey, I used to have a PS/1 just like that! It was a 486SX/33, and I could never get it work worth a damn. Never boot from diskette, never boot from onboard ATA, never boot from an MFM/RLL/SCSI card... It would get into setup but no further. Eventually, it quit putting a picture on the screen and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 05:48

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The VGA port seemed kinda normal, and I know some media players do have RS-232 ports... It's the Centronix port that gave it away. I think it might be neat to build a decent media center out of that case. Stick a more modern board in it with a bigger hard disk, get a wireless USB keyboard / mouse …

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-10-05, 05:43

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I used to have a Bondi Blue iMac G3, the original one. I paid $20 for it, it came out of a barn. It eventually died and I bought a Grape iMac G3 rev C(?) to replace it. It's 333MHz and it runs Mac OS 9.2.2 really well, almost as well as my early PowerMac G4! Oh yeah, my USB to IDE adapter is also …

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Re: Getting files onto a Libretto

Posted on 2019-10-05, 05:37

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Laptop ATA to USB adapter or a Laptop ATA to ATA adapter and plug it into a modern machine. I'd recommend a CF to IDE for these things, with their size comes the possibility of easily dropping or shaking them a bit too much and damaging the mechanical disk. That, and CF to IDE will likely be faster …

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

Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:47

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So a few years back I got given a Toshiba 440CDX laptop to mess about with. I have a 430CDT, the CD-ROM drive had the same problem. If you take the drive out of it's caddy and remove the top cover, you can see the mechanism. Eject the tray and use some lithium grease on the laser's rail and the …

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

Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:41

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Today, I learned the hard way to always read spec sheets on stuff before you buy accessories for it. Bought a NIC for my Libretto 50CT. Found out that 32-bit and 16-bit PCMCIA are wildly different. Thankfully, the card I bought was cheap, and I do have other uses for it, so not a total loss. :) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-03, 03:49

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I plan on upgrading the RAM in mine at some point, along with getting the CF-IDE adapter. I still need to test my battery. I find it funny how many Librettos still have functional batteries - Toshiba must have made them well! Mine is sitting at its stock 16 MB, as indicated by the photo of the BIOS …

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Re: IBM AT clone problems

Posted on 2019-10-02, 23:00

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Scouring around the depths of the internet and old PC Magazine and InfoWorld editions, I've discovered that this machine also went by another name: "Vector Excalibur 286" The case is not the same, but the motherboard uses the same chipset and CPU. It also shipped with a similar configuration. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:58

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Cyrix200+ wrote: I have still added the BIOS image to this post, who knows... There's a good chance it will boot, even though it's the wrong BIOS. Just some functions may not work at all / correctly, in this case probably a turbo mode or diskette drive support.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:57

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Other parts from the XT-box...all thrown together: ST-238R - cover broken during transport Olivetti ope HDC 372 MFM hard card 8-bit: Short test in a 486: Drive spins up and is detected, but no boot. Should be fixable. 21 MB / 611 CYL / 4 HEAD / 17 SpT Very tiny 286 Desktop: "CT Computer". …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:53

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Toshiba Libretto 50CT :) Everyone seems to love these. Now I know why... it's tiny! Floppy disk for scale. Still waiting on my AC adapter to arrive so I can actually use it. These things are great, especially with the RAM upgrade and a working battery. I've got a couple 50CTs that work beautifully, …

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Re: What is this card?

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:50

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Yeah, I figured it was for a backplane. But it would still certainly be interesting to have a dual-8088 machine.

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