Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-05, 14:20

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by Pabloz

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I bought 2 soundblaster isa cards today CT1750 http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/h/a/hardware_museum/creative_labs_ct1750_sb16_mcd_asp_small.jpg and CT2230 http://pcbonto.hu/portal/static/upload_apro/2012-11-26/627394_orig0.jpg any of these 2 is good? or bad i noticed the 2230 is missing a chip in the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-01, 02:26

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so this is the hunt for today i paid today $10 dollars for the combo, for these 2 cards that i haven´t seen in YEARS! both working, just the fan giving a lot of noise. 1 3DBLASTER BANSHEE , CT6810 wow soundblaster used to kick ass in the 90s 1 3DBLASTER TNT2 ULTRA , CT6750 The tnt2 ultra is so rare, …

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Media Vision Soundcards (are they bad?)

Posted on 2017-07-31, 20:37

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Back in the 90s , i traveled to miami and i was able to grab one of those kits that were very common during that era. The kits came with a soundcard, a dvd drive, and i think they came with pc speakers too. Plus some games like battle chess. The soundcard was mediavision, the cd i belive it was a …

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Re: Recommend a slow PCI graphics card?

Posted on 2017-07-31, 20:08

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by Pabloz

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why not some S3 card or trident? i used trident back then in the win3.11 era

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-30, 00:40

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Dang, that's a nice buy. Where are you located that has FB groups for computer selling? I got this yesterday, just tested it today. Creative Labs GeForce 2 Ultra. Works flawlessly. My can or air ran out... but most of the dust is gone. Im in argentina We got a site like ebay there is no craiglist …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-07-30, 00:24

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i love this thread so many great old 80s and 90s pc cases, good to see that some survived from being destroyed, its hard to find those cases Compaq, IBM, etc

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

Posted on 2017-07-29, 23:13

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Thoroughly cleaned a nice case I got yesterday. It was so very dirty, but all clean now. Now that I have this one I really have too much AT cases, time to get rid of some haha. http://i.imgur.com/Ifi3ooUl.jpg Blah! If only we had transport technology and I had the cash to spare. I'd gladly buy an …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-29, 23:11

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no craiglist around here But there are many facebook groups that sell used pc hardware. mostly new hard (that i dont care) But a guy appeared, selling an "old pc" for $15 dollars , with case, 2 cdrom drives,40gb drive, motherboard+ cpu duron, lan card, and a voodoo and when i saw the voodoo.....my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-29, 22:51

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no craiglist around here But there are many facebook groups that sell used pc hardware. mostly new hard (that i dont care) But a guy appeared, selling an "old pc" for $15 dollars , with case, 2 cdrom drives,40gb drive, motherboard+ cpu duron, lan card, and a voodoo and when i saw the voodoo.....my …

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How to you setup CF Compact flash cards on 286 - 386 - 486 Computers

Posted on 2017-07-28, 13:24

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old motherboards come with the combination CHS that is cylinder , sector , head. In some of those motherboards you have to manually put the numbers on the bios. and after that you can book and fdisk the drive. i was unable to find information online on how to obtain the Cylinder/Head/Sector of an …

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Re: Any good Windows 3.1 games?

Posted on 2017-07-27, 20:36

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civilization 1 for windows 3.11 also called winCiv + the patch is waaaay better than the DOS civilization, better graphics and one of the best windows 3.11 games ever made.

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Re: motherboards.mbarron.net... dead?!

Posted on 2017-07-25, 15:44

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this is bad news, i was using that site for my old pcchips 486 boards thanks for making the backup site, dont let it die

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Retro PC case color - was it White ? or Almond ?

Posted on 2017-07-24, 20:48

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When it comes to old 386 and 486 PC cases i was able to find a lot of those china made cases. Lots of models with the turbo button and the display. What i found strange is that some of you got a white case, colgate white, and i found the same models with a yellowish color that is not made by the …

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Re: Yamaha soundcard - Good or bad?

Posted on 2017-07-23, 01:39

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THANKS ALL! i got the Yamaha Audician 32 from vogons drivers the yamaha website gave me a not found error i guess it was a good buy for 3 dollars 😀 for wavetable module i will order in the future, 30 euros but it will be worth it.

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Yamaha soundcard - Good or bad?

Posted on 2017-07-22, 02:19

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i bought this for 3 dollars Yamaha ISA soundcard ATC-6631 comes with chip YMF719E-S high quality image link: http://computer-retro.de/Bilder/Soundkarten/Atrend-ATC-6631-Yamaha-YMF719E-S-Chip-ISA-1998-Soundkarte.jpg http://computer-retro.de/Bilder/Soundkarten/Atrend-ATC-6631-Yamaha-YMF719E-S-Chip-ISA …

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Re: Where to get a 486 motherboard with PCI slots?

Posted on 2017-07-21, 02:21

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where ? sites like ebay man you have to be lucky and constantly check -i got 486 motherboards for less than 10 dollars -i got a 386 motherboard for 5 dollars with case and pci cards. -and this weekend i got a 286 motherboard with a harris chip for $20 dollars, i paid $20 because 286 is becoming more …

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

Posted on 2017-07-17, 23:07

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Because I finished high school, college is starting in autumn and they didn't want me for the parttime job in recycling centre, I am sitting home and kicking my butt from boredom. So I thought I could finish my SS7 project. I started with case. I got it from friend, it had some super weird socket …

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

Posted on 2017-07-17, 22:57

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oeuvre wrote: IBM NetVista MASTER RACE! http://imgur.com/a/KRyCR All it needs is more RAM. netvista the white model and the later black model, are the most ugly pc cases that IBM ever made. i just loved their designs from the 486 era, and then the netvista is just ugly

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

Posted on 2017-07-17, 22:54

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Comparing my collection from 2012 to now. Note: In 2012, the only machine I had was the PS/2 Model 70, and the Compaq Deskpro. i would die to get of of those ibm PS/1 PS/2 style pc cases but where i live its just impossible i have seen all sorts of clone china pc cases designs from the 486 era but …

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

Posted on 2017-07-17, 22:50

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Farcry was running poorly so I decided to run 3Dmark. From what i've seen this is a typical score for my rig. P4 EE 3.4 478/6800GT OC AGP A bit low isn't it? My FX5950 rig scores 3500ish and I know for a fact the 6800GT has roughly twice the performance under DX9 so I would expect it to score high …

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