Re: What recent hardware has the best chance of becoming "retro" in the future?

Posted on 2018-11-04, 01:47

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by SpectriaForce

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First SSD drives, last hard drives, bluray drives, Seasonic power supplies, LGA2066, Toshiba and Sony notebooks, Eizo flatscreens, Lian Li cases. Just anything that’s rare, first or last, high end, enthusiast oriented, Japanese made and shiny 😊

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-04, 01:28

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by SpectriaForce

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I bought some components for a AM3-build I will be working on later. 4x Samsung PC10600U DDR3-1333MHz 1GB RAM (€1,50 a piece; can you believe that?! I regret not having bought more! :P) 1x ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB DDR SD-RAM PCIe Graphics Card (€3,50; I should probably get a faster graphics card …

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Re: Is it safe to turn on an old computer?

Posted on 2018-11-04, 01:18

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by SpectriaForce

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I have never owned an IBM PS/2 with a bad power supply yet, so yes I would give it a try. In contrary, the earlier IBM PC AT and many Taiwanese clones do develop power supply problems over the years. Still, I have never seen one catch fire, but I have heard loud ‘bangs’ and seen sparks and smoke …

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Re: Crazy prices for some retro hardware stuff.

Posted on 2018-10-31, 17:45

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by SpectriaForce

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What keeps amazing me is the premium that enthusiasts are willing to pay for high end hardware, special editions or well known brands of hardware.

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Re: IBM PC XT 286 (5162)

Posted on 2018-10-29, 09:47

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by SpectriaForce

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Over the years I have owned several units of this specific model. It is not rare in Europe, but it’s quite uncommon like the PC AT.

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Re: What was your first (as in personally owned) PC compatible computer?

Posted on 2018-10-23, 21:39

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by SpectriaForce

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I’m a little younger I guess, my first ‘own’ pc was an IBM PC330 from ‘96 or ‘97 (Pentium 133MHz), I got it for free (I believe, not sure anymore), I guess somewhere in 2003/2004ish. Unfortunately it couldn’t run 3D games with its onboard S3 Trio something. Before that I used the 486 and later in …

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 4/66 nightmare - setup disk?

Posted on 2018-10-23, 21:31

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by SpectriaForce

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Your CF card will need to be formatted (FAT16) and partitioned.

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Re: What make of capacitors to use ?

Posted on 2018-10-21, 00:10

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by SpectriaForce

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It's also important (at least for a motherboard application) that they are low ESR (that means you pretty much automatically end up with polymer capacitors and not electrolytic ones like the original) and have the right dimensions (also the capacitor 'legs' need to have approximately the same amount …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-20, 23:56

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by SpectriaForce

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Filename SL28R.jpg File size 87.47 KiB Views 1389 views SL28R, week 41 of 1997, so this has been an expensive Pentium II. It will be installed on my soon to arrive Asus P2L97, which will form the basis for my new DOS system that replaces my slow Pentium Overdrive system.

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

Posted on 2018-10-20, 23:41

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I have been busy building my PIII-S 1.4GHz system which consists for the majority of parts that are new (and will finish it soon after some sleep and receiving a cable). I opened the new (old stock) power supply and identified some known bad capacitor brands (Teapo, Fuhjyyu and OST). I recently …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-18, 00:13

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by SpectriaForce

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A loose board I wouldn't pay $20 for. Virgins valued quite high, huh? OMG have you seen the prices on ebay? They are all so expensive unless you get them from eastern europe. That's what I have noticed recently as well. I don't know why I see so many vintage motherboards advertised for >€100. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-17, 23:45

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by SpectriaForce

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dionb wrote: pre-XT PC-compatible with some AT-class features So it's a proprietary system? 😉 By the way I don't think that this Olivetti predates the 1983 IBM PC XT, it's probably from '87 or so.

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Re: Possibility of a Mock Dedicated Online Vintage Resale Site

Posted on 2018-10-17, 23:36

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by SpectriaForce

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You can start an 'online vintage electronics resale site', but as you may have already figured out is that most (small) businesses focus on a specific category, for example vintage audio equipment, vintage computers, vintage console games, obsolete test and measure equipment etc. I am active in my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-16, 23:19

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by SpectriaForce

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I've seen this behaviour more than once, as soon as you show interest in something some vendors put the price through the roof, I'll never understant that way of thinking: "Hey, I'm selling something for 100$ and someone offered me 80$, I'm going to rise the price to 150$ and I'm sure he'll offer …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-16, 22:05

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Yesterday I was looking at this nice i440LX board and made a $75 offer for it (which is really fair): greedy ebay seller b.jpg My offer was rejected and the seller wrote that something is wrong with the ad. This is how the ad looks today: greedy ebay seller a.jpg 8-O I tried to make a couple higher …

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Re: First old DOS/3.11/95/98 build - is 440BX best?

Posted on 2018-10-08, 10:04

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by SpectriaForce

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I wanted to run late DOS games such as Duke 3D and Blood in high resolution (1600x1200) as well as Windows 95/98 games that could use Aureal A3D. It turned out that those Blood glitches out too often at that resolution, and I ended up liking 1024x768. So the ISA slot is important for OPL3 and …

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Re: First old DOS/3.11/95/98 build - is 440BX best?

Posted on 2018-10-08, 00:15

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by SpectriaForce

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a lot of stuff in this category is sold with no warranties and 'as-is, no questions'. Exactly what are you paying for then? It's off topic again: some of those sellers offer worldwide shipping. Most of them accept Paypal which does give you a safeguard against loss or non-conformity. Apart from …

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Re: Possible to Use a Slocket with 1-1.1GHz PIIIs on a 100MHz FSB Asus P3B-F?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 22:29

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by SpectriaForce

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No. The 440BX does not support the divider to run 66mhz agp and 133mhz fsb, on any board. It DOES do 33mhz pci at 133mhz fsb but not 66mhz agp, it WILL run at 89mhz. In most cases it will not be a problem as a lot of agp cards can handle that speed but there is no way around the overclocked agp …

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Re: First old DOS/3.11/95/98 build - is 440BX best?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 21:26

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by SpectriaForce

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Er no. All P2B/P3B boards essentially support exactly the same CPUs at a given revision. A late-revision P2B (with 3 ISA and 4 PCI slots) supports exactly the same CPUs as a P3B-F (with 1 ISA and 6 PCI slots). The only difference between P2B, P2B-F and P3B-F is that slot config. Let's suppose …

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Re: First old DOS/3.11/95/98 build - is 440BX best?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 21:18

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by SpectriaForce

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better to go for a nice early So7 board and a decent late Sl1/SoA board. Particularly the latter can be picked up very cheap by comparison. A 'nice' (super) socket 7 board, which I translate to well built with a rich feature set, is probably not cheap either (although that's subjective). I would …

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