Re: Too many old hard drives
Posted on 2021-08-19, 00:12
My softmodded PS2 has my largest IDE drive - it's got a 500 GB WD IDE drive in there. Pretty sure I still have at least one 160GB IDE drive and maybe a 250?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-05, 03:24
By some miracle, the 12" Apple Monochrome monitor that matches the LC is still working fine. It's heavily yellowed and the plastics around the screen are a bit cracked in the screen corners, but the picture still looks pretty decent, actually. Filename IMG_20210804_231843.jpg File size 1.03 MiB …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-05, 02:03
(Slowly) copying the files from the drive on the Quadra 950 to the G3 Desktop over LocalTalk - turns out I did have a compatible cable. 93-odd MB of data, the plan at this point is to StuffIt compress the files after copying so I can put a copy of the data somewhere else over Ethernet from the G3, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-04, 15:51
I'd really like to archive this machine's drive while it's still working, but I'm not entirely sure how just yet..... no RJ45 Ethernet installed, I don't think I have any compatible cards in any of my other Macs (I have an LC630 and G3 Desktop with working Ethernet, at least).... could maybe do it …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-04, 14:21
I'd really like to archive this machine's drive while it's still working, but I'm not entirely sure how just yet..... no RJ45 Ethernet installed, I don't think I have any compatible cards in any of my other Macs (I have an LC630 and G3 Desktop with working Ethernet, at least).... could maybe do it …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-04, 03:57
My thoughts would turn to firing up a linux box with a SCSI card in it, plugging and imaging the drive through that... but SCSI on linux can be all kinds of FFFFffffun. ... if you have a more capable Apple with better removable storage options, can you not network them through appletalk/applebus?? …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-04, 03:18
Realized I hadn't pulled out some of my retro Macs in quite a while (like 3-4 years for some of them) and also hadn't checked the PRAM batteries in that long.... Thankfully, looks like the PRAM batteries are holding up, they were all fresh ones I installed when I bought them all from the recycler, …
Re: Athlon64, Turion users: Why do you choose those processors?
Posted on 2021-05-28, 00:57
I've got a couple machines that are early Athlon64 or same-era Sempron machines. Honestly, I have them mainly because they were free... but if I was buying I'd also consider them because they're quick (often quicker than the P4's of the time), they tend to run fairly cool, and plenty of the boards …
Re: My AGP/PCI-E test system
Posted on 2021-04-27, 22:54
Used to have one of these boards, which was formerly my in-law's business PC, and then I was planning to use as a spare machine, and then as an XP box..... It was always just a bit unstable. It had a Q6600 on it, and I'd be leery of going any higher than that just due to the stability issues.
Re: My first dedicated XP build
Posted on 2021-04-17, 19:52
I still have my VisionTek AGP HD2400 Pro 256MB that I bought open-box in like 2007-2008. I ran it with a 1.8GHz P4 and 1 GB of RAM at the time. I actually ran Windows 7 RTM on that card, although it required a hotfix driver to work. I will say it was significantly better than the PCI FX5500 it …
Re: Troll PC part 3: I want the (Celeron) D
Posted on 2021-04-11, 23:47
I had a 2.4GHz Celeron D based machine for a couple of years in the mid-2000's, running XP. Admittedly it also was hamstrung by not-enough-RAM and a terrible PCI GeforceFX 5500... but the thing could barely manage WMP visualizations. When I killed the motherboard and moved to a very plain socket 478 …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-25, 03:00
Not sure if I would call it retro.... but pulled out the Ideapad S10 off the shelf. 2008 Atom-based netbook, that my father used to use for what I guess I'd call "Field Invoicing" - we used to sell flowers wholesale and he had the netbook and an older HP inkjet printer running off an inverter tied …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-01-31, 04:34
Recently re-obtained a Compaq Armada E500 - I had given it to my nephew for playing games. Unfortunately in a bit worse cosmetic condition than it was when I last saw it...... was mint when I got it but definitely not now. Still fully functional though thankfully, but I'm having a bit of difficulty …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2020-10-26, 15:32
I have a similarly mint looking T1910CS that looks nearly identical to that - the main differences being a ghosty colour screen and a 486.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 00:04
Picking away at what I call the Retro Console/Audio corner of the rec room (what my wife calls "the room full of your s**t"). Again, not 100% retro, but the retro consoles, turntable, component stereo are all here, and most of it has been either thrift/yard sale finds, family/friends, or mine from …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-27, 03:55
Picking away at what I call the Retro Console/Audio corner of the rec room (what my wife calls "the room full of your s**t"). Again, not 100% retro, but the retro consoles, turntable, component stereo are all here, and most of it has been either thrift/yard sale finds, family/friends, or mine from …
Re: Your 'formula' for system specs and operating system matching
Posted on 2020-09-24, 00:25
My formula..... Is kinda no formula. Depends on the situation. Whenever something has USB and doesn't need to do much DOS, I go Windows ME. When something doesn't have USB, but is something like a Pentium/PMMX I tend to go 95 or 3.1. 486's tend to be DOS or DOS/Win3.1. USB + desire for DOS means …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-18, 13:23
That's a pretty solid collection. You won't be running out of DVD drives anytime soon. Most of them are IDE drives too, the SATA stack is the small stack on the shelf above. Edit: I also could add that 90% of this stuff was either dumpster finds, or purchased for essentially scrap pricing from …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-18, 13:21
We've recently moved again, and I finally have space to get the retro stuff out of totes and storage, organized, and hopefully tested and put to use. The storage shelves are getting pretty full, albeit not terribly well organized and not 100% retro: IMG_20200917_214636.jpg I'm planning to move the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-18, 01:58
We've recently moved again, and I finally have space to get the retro stuff out of totes and storage, organized, and hopefully tested and put to use. The storage shelves are getting pretty full, albeit not terribly well organized and not 100% retro: IMG_20200917_214636.jpg I'm planning to move the …
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