Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-29, 19:49

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Don't get rid of the case badge, I've been wanting one of those myself also. I think the seller also is a retro computer fan! I'm not a huge Terminator-head myself, but I'll be sure to carefully remove it if I ever want to swap it out for something else, and see if I can pass it on to someone else. …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-04-29, 19:38

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Sat down and went through some Google searches, and I finally figured out how to disable it with Stylish. As I expected, there's a single(!) line of code that makes the website hard to access to those with visual impairments using browsers that do not disable custom cursor by themselves. You're …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-28, 17:13

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Forgot to post about this little system I got last week. Truth be told, I bought it mainly for the case, and most of this system will likely be re-built into different systems (with this case likely housing a 486 if repairs on my LS-486E go well), but it's a nice set of hardware regardless. Using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-26, 13:23

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Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-21, 12:09

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Got two Goldstar Prime ISA I/O cards, paid €5 for each. One's a Prime 2C, the other just a P2. The P2C has the jumper settings silkscreened on the back, but the P2 does not. All the pictures I can find of this P2 (AIO-200G) have them unpopulated, and I can't find any resources about them. I figure I …

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

Posted on 2020-04-20, 18:29

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Recapped my BBC Micro's power supply today. Using a desoldering station definitely makes it an easier job. Seems like someone had been in the PSU before, filter cap C1 was gone, and both the pads for filter cap C1 and C2 had rather ugly solder rework done to them. I did all of the caps, as I like …

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 09:34

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-04-19, 08:22: I would seriously install GeoWorks on a computer. Wasn't GEOS also an OS for Commodore and Apple II systems on diskettes back in the day as well? The 16-bit PC/GEOS came after the 8-bit GEOS for several of Commodore's 8 bits, and the Apple II line, both from …

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Re: Please advise on this late 286 board

Posted on 2020-04-17, 21:11

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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It appears to have quite a bit of battery leak damage. The solder joint for the battery's negative side is very greenish-blue, and the SIMM sockets and ISA slots also look like they've got some gunk on them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-17, 18:41

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Next scrap pile :-D Made the seller an offer which he declined. At the end I got it cheaper than that.... Really difficult to spot the usable parts in it....most important task will be to get rid of all the remaining junk again when I get it ;-) [pics] Some interesting stuff in there! There appears …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-17, 10:50

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Some 72-pin RAM SIMMs arrived today, bought and shipped two days ago. Postal service tends to be a day late because of the increased demand, but that's alright. https://i.imgur.com/B7hEnJN.jpg?1 €15 for the lot, which is more than fair, I think. Untested, and the seller couldn't ID all of it, so my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-15, 09:41

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Happy to see that board went to a fellow Vogon-er. I also considered a bid but decided I have enough projects for now :) I hope you can fix the memory slot(s). Maybe a transplant from bank 1? The seller told me the ISA slot accepts cards (they still fit in the slot), but it does look bent a lot. …

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

Posted on 2020-04-11, 13:01

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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While doing the Dallas RTC mod for my new 386 board, I was thinking how I'd tackle the battery holder. Putting it on top of the RTC would block the top 8 bit ISA slot, so I had to place it elsewhere. However, then I remembered I still had a baggie of vertical 2032 holders, originally bought to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-11, 12:45

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Bought and received this board a few days ago, forgot to post about it. It's an Austin Computer Systems 33VL 386DX board, that I got for €25. Very good price, but it does have some work cut out for me. It's clearly been stored in a box full of other things or something like that, given it's fairly …

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Re: LS-486E 4S-1A Rev 1.0 Capacitor question

Posted on 2020-03-25, 15:20

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Thanks! I need some 1000uF 10V capacitors for another board, as I'm doing a big cap order for a bunch of machines I need to recap, so that is rather handy. Got a lot of time on my hands at the moment to do this sort of thing now!

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LS-486E 4S-1A Rev 1.0 Capacitor question

Posted on 2020-03-25, 14:54

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Currently, I'm working on restoring an LS-486E board. I'm missing two caps, it seems, and I can't find a detailed enough picture to read the values off. Does anyone with this particular revision of the board know the values of TC1 and TC6? I have included a borrowed picture with the capacitors in …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-22, 09:44

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Again, please calm down. It's a cursor. Only a cursor. No need to get your blood pressure up on this or try to get in a nasty fight over a CURSOR. You're the one arguing in bad faith, not me. As someone outside looking in, it doesn't really seem that way.. Again, I'd love to hear why people think …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-22, 09:27

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Dominus wrote on 2020-01-22, 09:26: Again, please calm down. It's a cursor. Only a cursor. No need to get your blood pressure up on this or try to get in a nasty fight over a CURSOR. You're the one arguing in bad faith, not me.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-22, 09:13

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But you are blowing this completely out of proportion and using people with disabilities as scapegoats for your own agenda. That's what you're making out of it. You don't know my intentions, I do, and I know that part of your post is utter rubbish. And I did not "insult", I very meticulously made …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-22, 08:59

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I can't possibly be the only person here who thinks this crosses the line into ludicrous, am I? No, you're not. It's utterly bizarre that the response to a serious roadblock for accessibility by a self-admitted "silly feature" is "fix it yourself, I can't be bothered to just turn it off for the …

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Re: Is this Mac Se (likely) repairable?

Posted on 2020-01-22, 08:42

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by Daniël Oosterhuis

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Don't buy it, unless you need parts like the pretty rare high density disk drive. The capacitors on the motherboard have probably leaked over it. It's a lot of work to clean the system board thoroughly and replace the tiny capacitors. It's not worth your time unless you like doing that. Unless it …

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