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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:13

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Shreddoc wrote on 2022-02-04, 22:32: It's ok, he has cotton buds. 😁 But seriously, that's a heck of a clean up to do. I'd seriously consider one of those not so ultra...sonic cleaning rigs where you strap an orbital sander to the side of a tote filled with cleaning solution and let it simmer in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:08

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Yes, the plague even cut off my substitute computer fair fix, ham radio flea markets which often have a table or three of PC parts, and odd bits and pieces scattered around. A few clubs are promising to hold outdoor ones "in Spring" but I'm only slightly hopeful.

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:52

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Guys, guys, I got it sorted, just need to tie one resource rich asteroid to one on the other side of the asteroid belt of about the same mass with a long piece of string that intersects the earths orbit, then when the earth gets into position, hook it to the top of the space elevator and give it a …

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 21:26

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Wow, how did you find this thing? Magnet fishing in the canal? Dive on a 90s shipwreck? Dug out of a decades old mud slide?

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Re: Pentium MMX 233 aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2022-02-04, 18:32

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Quadros sometimes might have been higher binned chips, but they may have been binned for heat/voltage, such that you get a 512 core Geforce and it needs a 6 pin connector and sucks 120W whereas the Quadro is clocked slightly less, no power connector and draws 74W off the PCIe and is single slot …

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 15:41

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All you need now is to find a Volkswagen guy who is also into vintage computers. 😁

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 15:37

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Craigslist car ad that would be "No rust".... "ummm did you put up a picture of a different car, because that my friend is very rusty".... "Oh it's just surface rust, doesn't count."

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Re: Help with a PC Chips M519 board not recognizing the cd-rom.

Posted on 2022-02-04, 15:04

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See the sticky for other drivers to try, sbide.sys is normally pretty reliable.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-04, 14:52

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Use in 486 PCI board with 486 SX clocked to 50mhz and an FPU emulator implemented in lookup tables.... get 30 FPS in Quake. No chance. At best you'll get close but probably not quite to 10 FPS with DX2-80. Also, from my experience anyway, 486SX chips will not even boot at 50MHz. The UMC U5S-SUPER40 …

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 03:55

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Last computer I remember them selling though was those Little Linux Laptop netbooks with 400Mhz MIPS CPU and a windowsish gui, about 12-13 years ago. It's rumored the MasterCraft Pro line of hand tools is made with the old Sears Craftsman patterns/dies/machines but dunno how true that is.

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 03:33

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It's a tire/auto shop and hardware/dry goods store.... I think they gave up on groceries and large appliances but they've tried those out over the years too.... you can buy chips, sheets, new tie rod ends, a 3/16 fine thread nut, a bike, lego, pet food, a canoe... I dunno how the hell to describe …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-03, 19:24

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During the period where PII stuff wasn't worth enough to sell, I despaired of finding coolers, so a couple of CPU got decased, and I drilled and tapped M3 or M4 (forgot) holes into socket 370 sinks and screwed them on with longish bolts through the holes in the PCB. Suddenly my crappy 266 could do …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 16:22

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Wild things to do with 12 drive array... Pull your RAM down to minimum to boot because swap is faster. Use in 486 PCI board with 486 SX clocked to 50mhz and an FPU emulator implemented in lookup tables.... get 30 FPS in Quake. Have redundantly redundant redundancy that matches your level of data …

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Re: Tearing my hair out over DOS Joystick problems on my 486

Posted on 2022-02-03, 14:27

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I think it's one of those things that would be easier to find if they were worth more. Might see them in bunches/lots of nothing cards, modem, modem, modem, NIC, modem, game card, modem, modem. Come to think of, most of the time "back in the day" my joystick went to the multi-io card gameport, I …

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

Posted on 2022-02-03, 13:50

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Today I saved a Floppy Drive. From outside it was looking very good. No "glue" marks, no scratches, almost looking like it's been never used. But inside.... 2022-02-03 09.48.04.jpg 2022-02-03 09.48.25.jpg After cleanup, and even some greases on the stepper motor spindle 2022-02-03 10.35.55.jpg 2022 …

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

Posted on 2022-02-03, 04:36

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I have a mid 90s Sony 4 head - wonderful piece of tech. My wife won't let me set it up with the home entertainment system in the living room, but in all honesty I only have 5-6 tapes for it anyhow. I mainly use it to capture footage off of. Yah that'd probably be one of the higher end ones that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 03:45

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Yeah, hope so, I was just yanking your chain.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-03, 03:44

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Well unless they're 350s or something, then you gotta "waste" a BX on them 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 03:43

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X86 wrote on 2022-02-03, 03:31: Lottery purchase hoping a particular piece of hardware is functional in it 🤣 That MPEG decoder card with the passthrough, odd buy but okay.. 🎃

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-03, 02:44

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Pentium IIs are fun to hide in your N64 games so kids ask what system they play on.

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