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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-29, 09:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What would be the reason of buying a motherboard without any chips in the sockets? CPUs and keyboard chips aren't hard to find, but bios chips.... and (I guess) pay more then $10 for it :confused: The BIOS is no issue at all, I have already 2 very similar boards, see here https://www.vogons.org/ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-29, 06:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just ordered this unused 80286 Mainboard in its original box with manual and drivers - but without CPU, BIOS and memory. Not cheap, but difficult to find today I think... Need to decide if I keep the battery or not after reception... If somebody is interested - the shop has more of them in stock. …

Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?

Posted on 2017-03-29, 05:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice to hear it works! Is your memory consumption comparable? Yes of course, ""xfstool mount"", deleted one word too much... The only issue I have is with Windows-long filenames and 8+3 in DOS. Even when writing a file with windows in the shared folder which meets 8+3 the name is wrong when looking …

Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?

Posted on 2017-03-28, 06:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am using the XFS client to connect to my NAS via NFS. Consumes also some memory, but not as much as MSLM. I can't get this to work. It seems to require a PCNFSD daemon on my box and I can't find that for Debian. Compiling from source gives many errors. In my autoexec.bat I have nwpd 0x60 9 0x300 …

Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?

Posted on 2017-03-27, 15:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am using the XFS client to connect to my NAS via NFS. Consumes also some memory, but not as much as MSLM.

Re: Chips & Technologies 80286 Mainboard repair

Posted on 2017-03-27, 14:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I can hope that only the upper layer is damaged. If there are more, they should be separated by such a brighter "intermediate" layer you can see in the "hole". But the intermediate layer you can see in the hole is intact. I will mount a new CPU socket, then remount the 2 damaged caps. There …

Re: Let's restore my 486 motherboard - AOpen Vi11

Posted on 2017-03-27, 08:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very good work! How did you desolder the slot? Any special strategy? How did you get the holes clean like this?

Chips & Technologies 80286 Mainboard repair

Posted on 2017-03-26, 19:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As already posted here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=17341&start=16346 I received a badly damaged Chips & Technologies 80286 Mainboard... First question: Does anybody have a similar Mainboard? ;-) Other as intended first I will give it a chance and try to fix it ... first time for me …

Re: Some Floppy Format Questions

Posted on 2017-03-26, 16:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never seen a single sided 3,5" disk? For 5 1/4" dd these were available. However, the 2nd side was also usable in many cases. You could turn it around and write it in a single-side floppy (after punching out the write-protect hole on the right position).

Re: SUNTAC 80286 Mainboard help

Posted on 2017-03-25, 12:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also never seen this before. Its not for the removal of the CPU. Maybe for a better cooling, its also 10 MHz CPU running at 12 MHz.

Re: SUNTAC 80286 Mainboard help

Posted on 2017-03-25, 08:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To give an update on this: Yesterday I received another very similar SUNTAC Board. It looks much worse than the other one. Dirty, very corroded and probably stored outside. But: it works! First I did was to remove the battery... To check if the BIOS is the reason the first board does not Power up I …

Re: Ultimate MIDI Emulator Project

Posted on 2017-03-23, 22:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I received my cables. Unfortunately all connectors are male :-( But as only 2 of the 5 Pins are used I connected them with wires while thinking about ordering a female-female adapter :-) It took me some more time to figure out that the out-port from the sound card needs to be connected to the out- …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-23, 21:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- old school Chips 80286 Mainbaord. Unfortunately the battery seems to be exploded and the CPU socket seems to be damaged...never seen such type of socket, maybe some part is missing... I also think some parts are missing, looks like a "LGA" socket for 286: http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware% …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-23, 18:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received this lot today for not too much money. Main reason to buy it was to save some nice parts from the srapers. Slot brackets are included: IMG_2647-600.jpg My highlights are: - old school Chips 80286 Mainbaord. Unfortunately the battery seems to be exploded and the CPU socket seems to be …

Re: Ultimate MIDI Emulator Project

Posted on 2017-03-17, 16:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This looks really cool and I am going to test it (with a standard Laptop)! I looked on Ebay for a game-port-->MIDI adapter. Maybe I searched for the wrong keywords, but the only one I was able to find was this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/281957225946 I hope it is the right one and it should also …

Re: Is Zoltrix Nightinhale Pro 6 a good Win9x card?

Posted on 2017-03-01, 18:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I own this card and only reason I bought it was because it was cheap and has SPDIF-out which my Mainboard has not. I think this is the only reason to buy it, there is nothing special about it.

Re: SUNTAC 80286 Mainboard help

Posted on 2017-03-01, 18:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hehe, yes the card is really cool! I do not know how to live without it before ;-) You will know its working quite simple to display the output of port 80, you just can write a small program.. mov al,EE out 80,al ..and you see the EE on the LED..cool ;-) I also have this cable, but its not mentioned …

Re: Using a VGA -> HDMI adapter.

Posted on 2017-03-01, 16:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you are only working with windows you will not have any trouble. There are also some DOS Games with customized resolutions that will not run at all with such adapter...i.e. Turrican 2. This will also affect a DOS-box.

Re: Using a VGA -> HDMI adapter.

Posted on 2017-03-01, 15:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For sure I also mean a graphics with VGA with DVI-out...and a DVI-HDMI Adapter. As written I have the same issue with the VGA text mode. I am not sure if its 720x400 70 Hz at power-on for all Computers, I assume it depends on the graphics card.

Re: Using a VGA -> HDMI adapter.

Posted on 2017-03-01, 06:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also own a cheap VGA-HDMI converter. But on my Sony-TV it shows no startup-screen (640*480/60?) and there is no Full-HD support on the TV with this converter. Your choice looks better than mine. I am now using a VGA with HDMI-out...much better.

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