Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-13, 19:14
Siemens are very nice, they designed these boards. So it might have different designs that stand apart from others. Cheers,
Re: Locating belt for Citizen W1D floppy drive belt.
Posted on 2020-10-13, 16:26
W1D is unique is thickness. Thinnest ever, the later ones were thicker due to direct drive spindle motor.
Re: Can anyone confirm i'm buying the correct PC-133?
Posted on 2020-10-13, 16:23
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256MB-133-MHz-SDRAM/ … sEAAOSwv~1aJLif This is 16 chip 256MB and pay little more. This is quality. Do not buy no-name or third-party memory. Cheers,
Re: Hi! For my next build, i hesitate between a 386 sx or dx. Intel cpu only.
Posted on 2020-10-13, 15:34
This is Compuadd board, has cache. That red connector 4 pin is for keyboard, Find ground, and 5v then pick which is which are for clock and data pin then make adapter. Disable all the i/o and use multi-i/o serial and parallel card instead. Cheers,
previous turbotax files transfer to windows 10 computer, how?
Posted on 2020-10-12, 19:01
Working with our friend's computer that we knew friend for years, and I need questions: I just got vintage computer (yes it is!) of G41 chipset with E6500 Pentium dual core 2.93GHz, still 4GB memory running not genuine windows 7 for years! I'm replacing that with Haswell HP G1 800 with activated …
Re: performance benefit of dual-channel memory (or not)
Posted on 2020-10-12, 04:02
Additionally, multiple-channel helps with bandwidth that is useful also not just that, integrated GPU needs this for 1080p playback for example, where bandwidth is useful rather than iGPU performance. Cheers,
Re: Video card for slot1 440bx recommendations please! I have been reading for days. My lord...
Posted on 2020-10-11, 20:10
Geforce FX 5600, be sure it is real one, not LE or V and is full 128bit (8 ram chips) allows you to hit good price but can use older drivers and on par with Geforce4 ti4200 in performance. 5700 requires less compatible game newer driver, FX5500 is no faster than a 128 bit FX5200 and both are low end …
Re: Micro ATX 486 - what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2020-10-10, 19:52
http://datasheets.chipdb.org/AMD/Elan/SC5x0/S … 20/520tech1.pdf Cheers,
Re: Intel VS440FX doesn't recognize CD-ROM on POST
Posted on 2020-10-10, 18:15
Thank you. Interesting. Have the set of two adapter with this marvell chipset, hope that works out for ssd 100 and 120GB drives and I'm using newer board. Can be TX, BX and later, SiS socket 754, P4 boards. I was trying to avoid using these chinese junk adapters. Cheers,
Re: Intel VS440FX doesn't recognize CD-ROM on POST
Posted on 2020-10-10, 18:07
Hi your initial post is not clear: Were the adapters used on the optical drives only or just using the adapters for these hard drives only? Cheers,
Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units
Posted on 2020-10-10, 03:40
https://www.cactus-tech.com/wp-content/upload … d-Interface.pdf
Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units
Posted on 2020-10-10, 02:42
That means nobody yet to develop a ATA to SD properly. SD commands very proprietary are different from ATA which is raw ISA bus that depends on the CPU and BIOS, DOS to do the job then again a chip to translate between two. This means a little chip had to emulate most of that again and then …
100x75 pixel image projected inside a 800x600 at 60 Hz. (not letterboxed) in TTL and ROM on breadboard at 10MHz clock.
Posted on 2020-10-10, 01:33
Note: Not mine, author made this and is very educational, even image is static. PS: I was so happy to watch these two videos which is two parts, very good details, most importantly: Fully filled out, I repeat; Not black borders at all! Despite this, the ROM has access time that delayed caused black …
Re: What is the current carrying capacity of a wire in 40-pin IDE (ATA) and 44-pin IDE (ATA) cables ?
Posted on 2020-10-08, 23:19
44 pin ATA connector used 4 pins for power, are two ground return, two for 5V supply, rest is signal ground. Hard drives of these 2.5" usually 1A surge during start up. Cheers,
Re: S3 Vision 968 VLB replica
Posted on 2020-10-08, 20:56
If you have to, make zig-zag traces for the key timing tracks and clocks to make lengths same or adjust the timing by this method. Commonly done on memory circuits. Use a 5V AMD 486DX 40 and overclock from there with heatsink & fan. This what I had back in the day, overclocked to 50, wonderful on …
Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units
Posted on 2020-10-08, 20:42
Looks like you have make do with CF or SSD with ATA to SATA bridge chip (I like the Startech version which uses Marvell chipset which is very well made). Why does watts matters? Just put in a small power supply to supply 5V direct from DC in jack instead of SV-880 motherboard's power circuits. Best …
Re: Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price 2020, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter count
Posted on 2020-10-07, 21:21
Jumped on one of seller's who was selling Elsa video card (high quality S3 video card PCB) and had a look in their stock and found unnamed video card in poor condition but complete compaq 1280/p and a 68 pin HH 3.5" hard drive. So bought these 3 items. This means searches is missing lot of items …
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-10-07, 21:02
It is how they designed the PCB and programming produces best results. I'm trying to find some video cards to play with to find out why getting lines in the LCD monitors as I do have scope. What video cards that does produces lines? Cheers,
Re: S3 Vision 968 VLB replica
Posted on 2020-10-07, 19:30
Ok go for 50MHz. Might want to check every trace for noise and clean them up properly that original designers of the VLB video card skimped on to bring under budget? Cheers,
Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units
Posted on 2020-10-07, 02:50
I bought from non-chinese sellers on ebay for those (CF). Cheers,
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