Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-10, 13:11

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by chrismeyer6

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Me and my son played Sim Coaster and he had a blast building the park and designing the rollercoasters with me. Either this weekend or sometime next week we're going to start Sim Theme Park. I love playing these older games with him. He has a blast playing them.

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Re: Worst tips from tech support

Posted on 2021-06-10, 13:05

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by chrismeyer6

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Three years ago we had a severe wind storm and the splice case our phone/DSL drop comes out of popped open. So I called Verizon to tell them and after going through first level support which had no idea what I was talking about I got escalated to the next level support and instead of opening a …

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Re: Can't get into CMOS setup on old 486.

Posted on 2021-06-10, 03:26

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you post a picture of what's happening and maybe even a picture with the bios string?

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Re: Happy birthday to my Compaq Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2021-06-10, 03:06

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by chrismeyer6

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Happy birthday to you both. I still wish I had my very first PC but sadly it was sold off years ago.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-09, 18:52

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That poor thing what happened to it. But wow you did make it look like new again.

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-09, 18:26

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by chrismeyer6

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I still rock Windows 7 ultimate 64bit as my daily OS on mine and my wife's PC's. We both can't stand 10

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-09, 16:51

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by chrismeyer6

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Last night I was in my basement and found my copies of Sim Theme Park and Sim coaster. I just finished installing them on my son's computer. I can't wait to play them with him tonight.

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Re: Worst tips from tech support

Posted on 2021-06-09, 14:58

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by chrismeyer6

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eisapc wrote on 2021-06-09, 11:43: Brickpad wrote on 2021-06-07, 19:56: ... This is also a guy who likes to brag that he has a Bachelor's degree (in an unrelated field) and an MCSE certification. Ah, a Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert. That's awesome and I might have to use that

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 15:36

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by chrismeyer6

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Yeah it was a great deal it was 12 bucks for both sets and maybe another 5 for shipping

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 14:59

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by chrismeyer6

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Just bought this brand new/sealed pair of Quickshot speakers (circa '94). They don't sound anything special but the retro look fits my setup :) 20210608_115244.jpg Did you get them from partsexpress.com ? Back in January I bought 2 different sound force speaker sets for me and my wife's computers. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-07, 19:04

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by chrismeyer6

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Salient wrote on 2021-06-07, 18:57: Nice score today on “marktplaats”. Two SC-155’s. One took a fall and the display only worked half (and it’s missing it’s bezel) but I managed to fix the zebra strip and it’s fully functional again! Nice score with the two 155's and excellent work fixing the …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-07, 17:29

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by chrismeyer6

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We live in a fully disposable society. We're the outliers who try to fix our broken stuff instead of just tossing it in the trash can. I'm wondering: will our collection end up in the trash can after we die? I'd like to think it won't. I'd like to think the same as well. Hell my son loves to help …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-07, 14:48

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We live in a fully disposable society. We're the outliers who try to fix our broken stuff instead of just tossing it in the trash can.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-07, 14:11

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those Cisco firewalls we're nice. A busy of mine turned a bunch of them into nice little Linux based file/printer servers.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-07, 13:23

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice find with the Blu Ray drive they still aren't cheap.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-07, 13:05

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by chrismeyer6

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That's awesome. I love those old palmtops. I have a HP jornada 728 somewhere

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Re: Ideas for what kind of system to build with this InWin 500 case.

Posted on 2021-06-06, 18:57

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh nice. I didn't realize those cases came like that. My inwin has a solid side panel. You should be able to get a PPro system in there easy.

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Re: Does this IBM PC 350 support Pentium MMX 233? (re: 200 MHz maximum speed?)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:50

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by chrismeyer6

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It should be possible but sadly that's outside my wheelhouse.

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Re: Compaq Armada 7770DMT digital CD audio ?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:31

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by chrismeyer6

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I used a camera lens cloth and lens cleaner. I do hope your able to salvage your drive

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Re: Does this IBM PC 350 support Pentium MMX 233? (re: 200 MHz maximum speed?)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:29

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by chrismeyer6

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You can also look for one of the Kingston or evergreen socket 7 upgrade cpus or even a socket 7 interposer to use with a mmx cpu

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