Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 09:35

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by SteveC

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Another eBay purchase - a small 19" rack and a Netgear GS724TP v2 PoE Gig 24 port switch. It thought it looked old fashioned but the switch still seems to be on sale as a current model for a few hundred quid so the £44 I've paid seems a bargain assuming it works! Seller's photo Picked this up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-04, 21:34

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by SteveC

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If it were me, the only period I hate the most is anything 486 and older that's strictly ISA only . Add PCI, an onboard HDD controller, and I'd greatly take it. The reason I hate anything lower than PCI based 486 - you need offboard cards for almost everything, not just VGA and sound. I have a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-03, 21:24

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by SteveC

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For the price of a pint of beer I bought these (seller's photo and description) Intel® Pentium® 4 220/512 Intel® Pentium® 3 1000/256/133 AMD Athlon XKDA3000# I have a pin straightening session ahead! :) And I have bought yet another ThinkPad (R50e) - looks like a Celeron/Pentium M but I have no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-03, 20:09

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by SteveC

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For the price of a pint of beer I bought these (seller's photo and description) Intel® Pentium® 4 220/512 Intel® Pentium® 3 1000/256/133 AMD Athlon XKDA3000# I have a pin straightening session ahead! :) And I have bought yet another ThinkPad (R50e) - looks like a Celeron/Pentium M but I have no info …

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Re: Remember The 8-Bit Guy's "Found at Computer Reset" Executive Workstation? I got one on the bench :)

Posted on 2022-04-28, 21:46

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by SteveC

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Enjoyed that video! Subscribed and now working through the PS/1 play list 😀

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-28, 20:25

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Another eBay purchase - a small 19" rack and a Netgear GS724TP v2 PoE Gig 24 port switch. It thought it looked old fashioned but the switch still seems to be on sale as a current model for a few hundred quid so the £44 I've paid seems a bargain assuming it works! Seller's photo

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-28, 19:59

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by SteveC

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Just won this on eBay, sorry if I beat any of you to it :) Not sure of the exact model, and not sure of my plans for it yet, but I'll certainly put in a CD ROM and a sound card at least. The BIOS photo appears to show it has 80MB RAM which is decent, so Windows 95 is probably destined for it... I …

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

Posted on 2022-04-27, 21:28

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It's only just 'modern' (from 2014) but replaced the CPUs on a couple of my home servers (cluster of 3 ThinkServer RS140 running Nutanix CE) so I get HyperThreading so 4 more cores (ish), plus replaced a Samsung Pro 840 SSD which was extremely laggy (latency was often over 100ms) with pretty much …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-23, 13:52

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by SteveC

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Is a 15 year old NAS retro? I guess it is! Picked up a Netgear ReadyNAS from eBay with 4x2TB drives in and it's taken me days to get it working properly (2TB drives are its absolute limit for the 32 bit SPARC architecture used) but it works fine! The seller assumed one drive had failed, but it just …

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-18, 13:21

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by SteveC

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Yeah I tried every setting on each PC I tried!

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-14, 22:29

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by SteveC

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One PC I'm trying is a PS/2 model 70 - you can't change any settings. Another is a ThinkPad 560 where I can change from standard, EPP, ECP etc but no difference (this one works in Win98). Another is an old Compaq Contura 3/25 with no options for the parallel port either - as basic as you can get. …

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-14, 18:01

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by SteveC

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Thanks but no good, I've tried all I can find and they either do not work at all or can only give me a directory listing but unable to copy files.

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-12, 22:34

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by SteveC

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Horun wrote on 2022-03-12, 21:56: Did you try one any of the /m: parameters in DOS as in the Info.txt (device=POWER-CD.SYS /d:[Name] /m:xx /p=yyy) ? Maybe try the other DOS drivers like: cla812d.exe ?? Yeah I've tried every driver I can find online with every option 😀 Just doesn't want to work in …

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-12, 19:13

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by SteveC

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Well now I'm actually trying to use it, it doesn't really work - I can read the contents of a CD but trying to copy files I get not ready reading errors. Sometimes it works but generally doesn't. I've tried other CDROM drives in the enclosure too to no different effect. edit 1: What's weird is that …

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-12, 12:19

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by SteveC

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The very first one I tried worked 😀 cla950d.exe if anyone's interested!

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Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-03-12, 12:05

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by SteveC

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Hi all, I've picked up a parallel port CDROM Drive (Freecom Classic Series 'Berlin' F-PDI) but I can't find any software for it - I'm hoping to use this in DOS on old PCs... Anyone by chance got drivers for this? Cheers, Steve EDIT - Archive.org might be to the rescue here (https://web.archive.org/ …

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Re: ThinkPad 360CSE Keyboard disassembly

Posted on 2022-03-11, 22:21

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by SteveC

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Managed to fix it :) I bought a silver conductive paint pen and tried repairs and it helped one set of buttons but seemed to generally make it worse. I ended up snipping off the end 3/4cm from the ribbon then scraping away the plastic on the conductors, then put a bit of insulating tape on the …

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Re: Ears/speakers test

Posted on 2022-03-09, 13:29

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by SteveC

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Somewhere between 15800-15500Hz. At 15500 I definitely heard it clearly. Edit: There is also this: https://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/biology/hearing/HowOldIsYourHearing/resource.html For the same purpose. I can say my neighbour's dog enjoys it. I am 42 in 2 months.... The maximum frequency you can …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2022-03-09, 13:22

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by SteveC

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I am also on this quest for a perfect DOS laptop... I have about 16 laptops now (at least half are ThinkPads)! Just when I think I've found the one I'll find it has poor audio or more normally, rubbish screen scaling.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-09, 13:19

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by SteveC

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Wow, now that thing looks basic. Integrated and cost reduced I would say :) Interesting little thing though. I wonder how much memory it has and if it is SVGA compatible. 512K and it is SVGA compatible (up to 800x600x256). Apparently it has an 8-bit memory bus and runs on XT class computers as well …

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