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

Posted on 2019-07-17, 00:37

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by Mister Xiado

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found a good use for my fine pencil today... pins05.jpg I am not quite sure yet if I should even bother with this one :dead: I hate what some people are doing to these poor cpus :depressed: If nothing else, you can rescue it from oblivion for bragging rights. I did that with a Pentium 4, and my …

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 05:22

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by Mister Xiado

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PATA to SATA adapter (and then SATA to USB3?) if you want to move a lot at once. Network if you want to move stuff afterward. I normally push files to my 486 from within Win10, but Windows for Workgroups can't touch any of my Win10 system's drives. Mildly annoying, but whatever. Changing the drive …

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

Posted on 2019-07-15, 05:02

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by Mister Xiado

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More to the point, what OS was running on 256mb in 2007? I'd have been running Win2K or a stripped down XP install with that much. Heck, according to my records, I was. Fancy that. Considering making a small number of Windows 95 icons. I don't currently have a system with Win95 installed on it ( …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2019-07-08, 13:14

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by Mister Xiado

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Legend 300 CD Specs: http://pbclub.pwcsite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Legend_300CD It's got a dead DALLAS chip, but it still boots and operates alright. Just can't access BIOS, and can't change any of the expansion cards. I think I left all of the original installed software on it, as I didn't feel …

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

Posted on 2019-07-06, 02:25

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by Mister Xiado

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For quick reference: [general] Manufacturer=Company Name Model=Custom [Support Information] Line1=" For technical support and service," Line2=" buy a new computer." Your logo image, at least in Win9X, 2K, and XP, should be 180x114, and 8 bit color if you want transparency. Palette index 0 will be …

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Re: Mouse problem in DOS games

Posted on 2019-07-03, 12:54

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by Mister Xiado

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The first step is to test with alternate mice to determine if there's a driver issue or a hardware issue. I use Microsoft Optical wheel mice with the USB to PS/2 adapter that came with them on my 486 without any oddities, though I forget if the mouse driver is generic or MS. Definitely not …

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

Posted on 2019-07-03, 12:43

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by Mister Xiado

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Icon pack 25. That makes and even 200 icons for Windows 3, of varying utility. Yay. I would make icons for Win9X, but I'd already done that 20 years ago, and new ones would be pushing the boundaries of the site's theme of the early/mid-nineties. Also, there are fifteen point eight trillion Win9X …

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Re: What's the nastiest thing you caught from a retro PC/Part?

Posted on 2019-07-01, 01:00

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by Mister Xiado

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Massive box full of old HDDs and floppy drives, with some random useless ISA cards (MPEG cards, serial cards, modems), peppered with a metric ████ton of rat ████, from being in a garage for decades.

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Re: Beautiful retro "itx" Case... but incomplete :(

Posted on 2019-07-01, 00:55

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by Mister Xiado

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Looks neat, and yeah, just sticking a piece of cut-to-fit plastic in the upper section would look alright. I recommend black, since matching white almost never works, due to yellowing, titanium dioxide level differences, and all that.

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Re: Any electronics technician on the forum?: corroded pcb

Posted on 2019-07-01, 00:50

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by Mister Xiado

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If you don't have the resources to restore the traces, you can jump them by using appropriately gauged wire from point to point. Looks ugly as sin, but electrically, the components don't care. All they need is a path.

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

Posted on 2019-07-01, 00:46

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by Mister Xiado

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Investigated making OS/2 icons, but at that rate, I may as well go back to making skins for Nintendo DS flash cards for all the good it would do. That, or paint the underside of public trash cans. Pulled the clock capacitor from a 1.0 Xbox, drastically underlining my need for a desoldering gun to do …

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

Posted on 2019-06-29, 22:24

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by Mister Xiado

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Bit of old fashion trolling. Man it feels goood. Arguing that glass is an amorphous solid with viscosity higher than that of pitch, using photos of antique glass as evidence? That was always a good troll, before the term was redefined to mean "someone disagreed with me in some way". I'm just …

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

Posted on 2019-06-23, 04:01

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by Mister Xiado

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I keep getting GPFs when I try to change the icon for Netscape Navigator in Windows 3. Fun. Not a major issue, as I can barely browse the web with it thanks to Cloudflare blocking it everywhere anyway. Still, it feels like a personal sin to make dozens and dozens of icons, and not use them on my own …

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Re: Unknown floppy drive

Posted on 2019-06-22, 21:13

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by Mister Xiado

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I see some crud on some of the traces that may or may not be corrosion in the second photo. A bit of alcohol may clean that enough to know if the traces need to be jumped.

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

Posted on 2019-06-22, 21:06

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by Mister Xiado

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Geeze, negative much. I disagree, it isn't so hard to do retro computing relatively cheaply, but it does take time, it takes networking with other people, and in the end, it takes compromise. If you expect every rare item to be listed on ebay cheaply all in a line for you to buy and have delivered …

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

Posted on 2019-06-22, 05:18

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by Mister Xiado

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Is everyone here rich? This guy has an $2,500 Titan RTX....... that's like 2 months pay for a lot of people where I live. I feel like It's an uphill battle trying to compete with people with that kind of disposable income. I'm guessing it's people like this driving the price for items like GeForce …

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Re: Time period PC's vs the affordable norm

Posted on 2019-06-21, 21:57

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by Mister Xiado

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My uncle, who was the chief electrician at the local steel plant, and my aunt, who was a registered nurse, had a 486 with Windows 3 in the early nineties, but I barely got to use it, and don't know its specs or how much it cost at the time. I didn't get my first computer (as in, didn't even have a …

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

Posted on 2019-06-20, 20:13

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by Mister Xiado

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How do you not make use of a degree like that in this day and age? Any I.T. degree should really be future proof. At any rate, this is why I'm going the experience and certifications route with my I.T. carear, and staying the freak away from college and it's associated debt. I live in an old steel …

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

Posted on 2019-06-19, 23:45

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by Mister Xiado

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Looking spiffy. I recommend watching Voultar's videos on his soldering projects. The man is a wizard with an iron. Also, the reason why smoke gets in your face is because the air in front of you is basically a negative pressure area, as everything else around you is flowing. Basically, the air …

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Re: how to open a ibm aptiva 2165 desktop case

Posted on 2019-06-19, 02:24

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by Mister Xiado

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Photos of all sides might help. All search sites are corrupted with scammers trying to sell people fake manuals.

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