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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-29, 13:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium 166. Does it work with DOS? Can run pure DOS while having sound? Of course it does. All Thinkpads from that era have DOS drivers, as DOS was an option for OS to come pre-installed on them. They also have drivers for OS/2, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Win9x, and sometimes Win2k and even XP. :) The sound …

Re: Period Correct 2D Card

Posted on 2016-11-29, 02:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well at the time when PII-233 was around I had in my computer an ATI Rage Pro. This exact card actually. So there, you should use the same. :D https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/ATI_XPERT%40Play_AGP_8MB_ATI_3D_RAGE_PRO_AGP_2X_1997_front.jpg/640px-ATI_XPERT%40Play_AGP_8MB_ATI_ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-29, 01:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: mmm old ThinkPads I should pick one up at some point... just never know where to find them for cheap. Ebay if you're patient and know what to look for. All the ones I posted in this thread I picked for $25-$38 including shipping.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-29, 00:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also to stop derailing this thread, I won another Thinkpad at auction. A 380ED this time, P166MMX, one with 12" TFT screen (the majority of the 380ED had DSTN screen, save for select few with TFT). At least this one I know for sure it powers up. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5zAAAOSw4GVYNhUp/s-l800. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-29, 00:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the AD823's are $6 a pop tho :( You can open an account with AD, and they will let you order samples for free. Not many, but still 2 of them every couple of weeks is better than nothing. TI used to do the same, but lately they've been very stringy. (edit) I've just checked, AD won't give out AD823 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 23:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've used 5 HDDs and a CD in one computer before. Two of the HDDs were SCSI though. 😀

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

Posted on 2016-11-28, 14:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

went through rounds and rounds of testing my old qemm97 cd.. in the end dumped it for jemm386/himemx which is better. qemm97 had some crashes and gave me lots of dpmi problems with old tasm dpmi16 hosts (tasmx/tlink/td/etc) and problems with 3com config complaining about old emm386 versions.. so …

Re: Interesting.. USB to PS/2

Posted on 2016-11-28, 14:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting, but at 68 pounds they're bloody expensive. I bet that with a little bit of programming you could whip out a similar protocol converter with e.g. a $5 RPi Zero.

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

Posted on 2016-11-28, 14:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

went through rounds and rounds of testing my old qemm97 cd.. in the end dumped it for jemm386/himemx which is better. qemm97 had some crashes and gave me lots of dpmi problems with old tasm dpmi16 hosts (tasmx/tlink/td/etc) and problems with 3com config complaining about old emm386 versions.. so …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 14:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why are those specific coolers required? I can't imagine anyone making a board that wouldn't boot without a specific cooler, especially not a company that made industrial stuff like Silicon Graphics. Remember, up to this point in time SGI hardware was 100% proprietary, non-industry-standard. This …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 10:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also, almost bought a dual-socket370 motherboard, originally from a Silicon Graphics 330 workstation. Found its manual here: https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/hdwr/enduser/330_UG/sgi_html/front.html (see chapter 3 "system board") and went through it, then decided it would be too much of a hassle …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 10:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

New Old Stock EPoX 8K3A+ Rev 1.2 Socket 462 board. ............... Two pairs of IDE slots? I don't think any of my motherboards have more than a single pair. The second set is powered by what is basically a PCI IDE controller with it's own bios that's mated on to the motherboard. It's usually run …

Re: DreamBlaster X2 and S1 BLACK Editions Available Soon / Pre-Order / Black Friday Bundle

Posted on 2016-11-26, 22:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

gdjacobs wrote: This sounds exciting! Going to have to start saving my shekels. Do that. I unbundled my doubloons and dug out my buried pieces-of-eight for this one.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 22:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lukeno94 wrote: Hmm, that's probably down to it being a dumb li-ion battery then (which I've never messed with). Yep, it's a dumb Li-ion battery. I like the dumb ones. They're easy to rebuild.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 16:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is actually a Li-ion battery.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 14:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Update: after being plugged overnight, the battery still seems to be charging... but it started at 80%, and is still at 80%. And the laptop doesn't power up if unplugged. Guess another battery that I have to rebuild eventually. I completely agree with the privacy issues above, that's why I said I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 02:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gotta love the untested laptop bargain - so many sellers just don't have the right adapter. To be fair I picked this one from a seller that seems to deal primarily with memorabilia junk that they pick at garage sales. This was the only piece of electronics of any kind in their store - the rest was …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 01:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received the Thinkpad 380XD I had ordered a few days ago.. It was listed as "unknown condition, does not power up" so there was a bit of uneasiness of my part. But once I hooked it to a power supply, it fired right up. :) Gave me the errors 00161, 00163 and 00192 at boot. Entered setup and set the …

Re: PCMCIA cards you use/like?

Posted on 2016-11-25, 14:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use PCMCIA and Cardbus cards with my vintage Thinkpads. Primarily to add ethernet, because it wasn't standard laptop equipment in that era. Most cards I use are 3Com: 3c589 and 3c575. I also have a SCSI/sound card combo that came with an external CDROM unit, Panasonic KXL-D745 and which I use with …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-25, 00:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never had the displeasure. I didn't have the hardware to run RAID volumes back when I was using Slackware 3.x. Circa 2000 I had a 486 DX2/66 on an Octek Hippo DCA2 motherboard, and a stack of dissimilar but small hard drives, ranging from about 80 to 260MB. 4 IDE and 2 SCSI. All salvaged from …

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