Re: Proud new owner of a Dell XPS t450, and I want to max it out

Posted on 2022-08-28, 22:50

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The PSU adaptors used to be available on eBay. DSC_0002.JPG The max memory for these systems is 768 MB (3x256 MB) The maximum CPU is a 1.4 GHz Celeron Tualatin, however you will need a socket adaptor. I used the PowerLeap PL-iP3/T, but beware that in addition to being stupid expensive, these now …

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Re: can anyone recommend a cologne?

Posted on 2022-08-28, 22:25

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Sort of related, how do I tell someone they have bad breath without offending them? This is an older lady who used to live with her sister, but now lives alone, and has no one to tell her these things.

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 22:49

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Its like anything else. If you get rid of some things you just go back and buy even more than before. All you really need is this for running old software and playing old DOS games: 1) 486dx2-66 or better with 16mb ram. ( DOS/Win3x ) 2) Pentium 75 computer with 64mb ram ( DOS/WIn95 ) 3) Pentium 2 …

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 16:32

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Madman Muz isn't a bot, but I do think he's a kid.

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Re: Huge photo archive of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-17, 16:31

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I have a similar archive, but it mostly consists of eBay images. What is the legality of sharing these?

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Re: Are these worth anything?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 15:55

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-13, 13:18: Trashpanda is a slang term for Raccoons who love Trash and well got the nickname because they veg out in trash like Pandas do with bamboo ! I love the little rascals even though we dont have them in Australia. I love those 'bin chickens' you guys have. They're …

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Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-08-14, 07:39

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I once experienced a nasty data corruption problem due to bad memory. During file copy operations involving large files (c. 1 GB), there would always be a few single-bit errors in the copy. I always create SFV checksums for important data files, else I would never have caught the problem. I traced …

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Re: Should I change anything with this build?

Posted on 2022-08-12, 17:53

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Waste of a Voodoo to put one in such a machine. Voodoos are best for mid-1990s machines, where they give a big boost to performance.

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Re: Is there any PC game that benefits from running from a floppy disc?

Posted on 2022-08-10, 08:37

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Grime (1984) also saves high scores to floppy. I obtained the game from a magazine cover disk and it would hang if the floppy was not inserted. I fixed it by overwriting the INT13 calls with NOPs.

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-07, 01:51

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The initial tray-loading Apple iMacs G3 used the ATI Rage IIc (Rev. A) and Rage Pro (Rev. B/C/D) video adapters.

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Re: Batman the movie

Posted on 2022-08-05, 04:42

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Welcome to DOS gaming circa 1989. This was my world.

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Re: Windows overwrites custom autoexec.bat everytime DOS mode is loaded.

Posted on 2022-08-05, 04:18

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You need to edit the relevant boxes in 'Exit to DOS.pif'. When you 'restart in DOS' from Windows 98, it copies these fields into CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. When you type 'exit' to return to Windows, these files (including any changes you have made) get deleted and replaced by the Windows versions. …

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 10:54

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Yes, that's true. There's a big difference between capturing working oil fields (like the Japanese did in Indonesia) and capturing virgin fields where you still need to build an infrastructure from scratch. If would have taken several years to get the oil flowing. (Also the problem that German-ruled …

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 10:20

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5 million what? Are you joking or just played too much computer games? Did you hear anything about lines of communication and how much ammunition and simply water need 5 million of troops every 24 hours? The point is that if Hitler had known about the riches of Arabia he would have handled the war …

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 07:57

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robertmo wrote on 2022-08-03, 07:39: Actually china has 20 mln extra men in their country This is due to sex-selective abortion. There's a similar gender imbalance in India for the same reason. Girl children just aren't as valued as boys. It's sad. Hopefully this will change as these countries get …

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 07:44

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The postwar prosperity of the world is based on cheap oil. The big Arab oilfields were mostly discovered during WW2 and came online in the 1950s. It was a huge economic boost for the whole world, victors and vanquished alike. That's not true. Arab oilfields were discovered many years before WW2. …

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:46

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The postwar prosperity of the world is based on cheap oil. The big Arab oilfields were mostly discovered during WW2 and came online in the 1950s. It was a huge economic boost for the whole world, victors and vanquished alike.

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:02

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Hitler was able to sneak an army into Norway under the nose of the British navy. (It was one of the most ballsy things he ever did.) It's much harder to do something like that nowadays with 24-hour satellite surveillance of every corner of the world.

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-02, 21:44

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I don't understand why the U.S. administration is antagonizing China at a time of conflict with Russia. This is LBJ level statesmanship.

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Re: Dell OptiPlex GXpro - a little 1996 workstation project

Posted on 2022-08-01, 14:27

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Here's the user's guide and service manual https://ia803404.us.archive.org/9/items/manuallib-id-2494992/2494992.pdf https://www.manualslib.com/manual/36727/Dell-Optiplex-100-Mbps.html?page=21#manual It makes no mention of buffered/registered memory, so you can assume it uses unbuffered/unregistered. …

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