Re: Atx form cards

Posted on 2020-10-14, 08:03

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I've never got USB working with Windows 95. You'll have to ask someone else about that. (It's not enough to get the card running in Windows, you also have to find drivers for your devices, and I don't think Microsoft ever released USB mouse drivers for Windows 95) Windows 98/Me should be fairly …

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Re: Atx form cards

Posted on 2020-10-14, 03:12

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Without the card you're stuck using a serial mouse with your computer, most of which are 20+ years old and unpleasant to use. ETA: That's for DOS. If you're running Windows you may be able to get a PCI USB card to work.

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Re: Anyone know about this keyboard?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 21:21

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Hoho, who remembers using the Borland Sidekick calculator in the DOS era?

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 09:48

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZpwAm_xEY

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Re: Probably the most boring standard retro PC :)

Posted on 2020-10-11, 20:33

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The TxxxR machines used Coppermine P3's while the original models used Katmai. I think the motherboard was the same for all of these machines. (Some variants had integrated sound though.) They used to sell PSU cable adaptors on eBay. I got a couple back when these machines were popular. This enabled …

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Re: Probably the most boring standard retro PC :)

Posted on 2020-10-10, 21:28

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I believe the Dimension XPS R-series (1998) were the same as the T-series (1999) except that the former had Pentium II CPUs and the latter Pentium III. They both used the Dell SE440BX-3 motherboard, which was a proprietary version of the Intel SE440BX-2 with support for the non-standard PSUs that …

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-10, 19:05

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Before forums there was Usenet. I got a laugh when someone on this forum linked to one of my ancient Usenet posts. Also kind of awkward, since back then I used my real name and email address for posting.

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Re: Computer will not power on ?

Posted on 2020-10-09, 23:45

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This is a LEX 700XL? ETA: It's missing the FireWire port so is probably a ELP 500s ETA2: Or a Performance 1000/1500

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Re: Atx form cards

Posted on 2020-10-09, 03:39

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I've got one of these in a PCChips M573. The board came without it and I had to buy it separately from a guy in the U.S. There's a diagram of the pinouts here: https://www.interloper.com/products/details.p … =101688&cat=141

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Re: PayPal takes your money

Posted on 2020-10-08, 22:47

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Given all the trouble I had over the years from giving my credit card details to random strangers on the internet, this is acceptable. Nowadays nobody but Paypal and other big respectable companies gets to see my number.

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Re: Why do card manufacturers use each other's model numbers?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 10:07

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Not video cards, but the Dell PowerEdge 2100/6100/6200 are completely different machines to the PowerEdge C2100/C6100/C6200 It's mostly a problem with eBay searches like someone said. Dell also produced the Dimension 5150 which I assume is some sort of homage ETA: There is also the Compaq LTE 5150

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-07, 17:54

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But it is okay to necro a thread that you created yourself, isn't it ? :) I mean, if you started a project in, say, 2008 and finally finish it in 2028.. I have a Zenith radio I dismantled in the 1990s which I still haven't got around to reassembling. The parts have been sitting on the same shelf in …

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Re: Silicon Valley Mountains on FIRE.

Posted on 2020-10-06, 11:34

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If you live near a forest you're going to get hit by a forest fire sooner or later. It's inevitable. It's like people who live on a floodplain. The big flood that inundates your house may happen in 50 years or it may happen next year but it WILL happen. All you can do is be prepared.

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Re: Upgrade for a 7600GS AGP

Posted on 2020-10-04, 18:29

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Related discussion: Fastest AGP card ever made.

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Re: is this pc good?

Posted on 2020-10-03, 15:30

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The OP's rig is similar to the setup I had in 2001, but with a 2.0 GHz Willamette, 1 GB RAM and GeForce3. RTCW, Battlefield 1942 and Warcraft III all ran very well on it. However a couple of years later the GF3 was really struggling.

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Re: is this pc good?

Posted on 2020-10-02, 18:50

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The GeForce4 MX440 had about half the performance of the GeForce3. What a swindle that was. In answer to the OP, NO, that rig is no good for high performance gaming.

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-10-02, 07:52

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Of course when an Amiga fanboy trashes an early 90s PC you can never be completely sure it was an accident. 😉

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Re: Old SCSI drives very loud.

Posted on 2020-10-01, 09:43

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Yes, that is dangerous. I also cover them with electrical tape. That is the SCA806850 model which may be too tall for some setups. There are also the SCA8050 and SCA8068 which drop one of the connectors and are shorter. One thing I've noticed with the SCA8050 (and may possibly apply to the others) …

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Re: NVIDIA has removed all tech demos that rendered a woman from their website

Posted on 2020-09-30, 13:28

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They're just covering their donkeys. You can't be too careful about this stuff now.

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-09-29, 09:45

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Oh come on, he's just American

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