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

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Swapped out the CPU on my 'ultimate' Windows XP machine going from an E8400 to an E8600 processor. Not a huge change, but faster is faster. :P Also did some cable management tidying up. I think I'm finally done tinkering with this computer and it's set up the way I want it. Looks good. I had an …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up a couple systems at the VCF swap meet held in NJ this Saturday. There's still plenty of work to be done with these, and finding the hard drive caddy for the Unisys laptop is probably impossible, but I got some great stuff for not a ton of money! https://imgur.com/gallery/h5NNwLe I really …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro rigs, one I cant find much about and the other is a nice Yamaha Xwave 744 sound card. STB Horizon64.png I cant find a lot about this card on the web other than it uses …

Re: 3.5 & 5.25 bay covers/plates

Posted on 2022-10-04, 22:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got a 3d printer? you can find stl's for blanks on many sites.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-04, 05:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The other day, I bought a DataExpert EXP8551 ver 1.2 and a replacement Dallas RTC since the original might be flat. Screenshot_20221003-211454.png The board was sold as-is for parts/repairs and I got the board and replacement Dallas RTC today and I got some components out to give this a good …

Re: [Project] 386/486/SBC 3D Printed Retro Case

Posted on 2022-10-01, 09:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I'm running out of PLA. A 1kg spool of Inland Bone White is not quite enough to print all 3 pieces. I'm going to have to test the Pause/Resume feature of my Guide II until the new spool I ordered comes in tomorrow. how close is the bone white compared to an actual vintage case color wise? I'm …

Re: [Project] 386/486/SBC 3D Printed Retro Case

Posted on 2022-10-01, 08:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oso2k wrote on 2022-10-01, 07:42: Veeb0rg wrote on 2022-10-01, 06:05: Where does the board sit inside this thing? For now there's standoffs. You could drill out the shell to mATX or miniITX or something else. Then you could use regular PC standoffs. I mean where physically.. top bottom side?

Re: [Project] 386/486/SBC 3D Printed Retro Case

Posted on 2022-10-01, 06:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Where does the board sit inside this thing?

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

Posted on 2022-10-01, 04:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I picked up a Lian Li PC-A05N which arrived today which I rehoused my P4 ISA build in. I love the compact form factor of this case. https://i.imgur.com/F84CDmel.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PvsI3dZl.jpg I have one of these cases. Bought it new, might even still have the box for it. I loved how small it …

Re: Turbo/Reset button caps for 486 baby AT case

Posted on 2022-09-28, 19:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have my 486 in the nearly identical case, though mine lacks the speed display. You might be able to 3d print some replacements.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-21, 20:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Drove an hour to pick up a nice little compaq desktop for free, has a dead PSU though. I did find the pinout and was able to power the mobo with another psu to verify it was just the PSU.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-21, 11:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I went from no Zip drives to a stack of 8 of em of all varieties and a box of disks. Its weird how things just find you some times.

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-09-21, 09:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Almost done. Smoke tested and everything seems to work without releasing the smoke. After I get the AT power plugs attached it will get cleaned to remove the flux. First time soldering such tiny SMD stuff, good practice though. https://i.imgur.com/a6dWXuMl.jpg update: So I had it on the psu letting …

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-09-21, 08:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They sometimes send more if there was room on the big pcb that they make all at the same time and cut into smaller pcbs along with what I assume are other orders. I called mouser earlier and canceled my order. Wiretap, can you update the mouser project for the added LEDs and maybe with different …

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

Posted on 2022-09-20, 17:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I thought I had a lot to go through when someone gave me 2 Jeep loads worth of stuff. That's crazy.. I would absolutely have done it too! 😀

Re: ATi Mach32 VLB VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2022-09-20, 17:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll dump the bios when I get a chance and poke around with my clumsy binary ready skills to see if I can spot anything. OK, I feel more stupid than usual. Perhaps I truly have begun to enter my dotage. Here's the deal. The other chip is not a rom at all. I had it in my reader and got out my …

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-09-20, 11:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They arrived yesterday, 3 days early and they sent 6 boards instead of the 5 I ordered.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-19, 20:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

About those slot1 Intel Deschutes, just to clear things up - yes, it is not the stepping but date that governs multiplier locking, that is correct. BUT what was referenced here (S7 vs U7) is part of the sSpec number and is not related to any steppings. And SL2 U7 is a totally different model, with …

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

Posted on 2022-09-19, 20:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

80386SX wrote on 2022-09-19, 16:55: Today, recovering treasure from the dumpster landfill. It was literally outside in the rain.. […] Show full quote Today, recovering treasure from the dumpster landfill. It was literally outside in the rain.. For an upcoming "Trash to treasure" project. I will …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-18, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought this bundle cheap enough to be worth it. IC7 has a pin stuck in the socket, TUSL has broken tabs on Socket and few components knocked off, according to seller. Hope they're quick fixes :D Haven't seen them myself, arrived at a fellow collector in US. How would you fix broken tabs on the …

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