Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-09, 13:19

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by SteveC

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Seller's photo but I got this on eBay for what I think was a decent price (£34)... in my excitement though I didn't realise it has no accessories so I need to find a cheap serial or parallel adapter for it!

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

Posted on 2022-03-08, 23:23

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I got hold of a 6TB (2x3TB) Western Digital 2 bay (MyBook Live Duo) NAS for nothing with no drives and managed to get it working with a couple spare old 1TB drives. Bit of a weird one as the OS and software is installed onto the drives, not in any flash on the mainboard. It was a little fussy and …

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Re: ThinkPad 360CSE Keyboard disassembly

Posted on 2022-03-08, 23:16

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by SteveC

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Sussed it! In between the T and 6 keys there's a little plastic tab that needs lifting up, then you can slide the whole bottom metal plate off. I traced the fault to the membrane that goes up to the connector - a couple of the conductive traces pretty much rubbed off :( Just ordered a silver …

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ThinkPad 360CSE Keyboard disassembly

Posted on 2022-03-08, 12:22

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by SteveC

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Hi everyone! Does anyone know how the keyboard comes apart on the ThinkPad 360CSE (might be same for other 360 models too)? It's the style that lifts up to reveal the battery, floppy and hard drives. It appears to have a black plastic sticker across the whole underside but I don't think that does …

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

Posted on 2022-02-22, 22:53

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by SteveC

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First I had this - it's a GeForce 6200 - the card would work in DOS and at 640x480x16 in Windows but as soon as you did anything higher it froze with a corrupted screen... I didn't actually notice the caps on the eBay photos even though they were clear to see! 1024-1365.jpg Now it's this it works …

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Re: GeForce 6, Pentium 3, 3DMark2003 and Mothernature Test Crash

Posted on 2022-02-22, 22:50

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by SteveC

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I should have said this is on an Asus A7V333 with an AthlonXP1900+ I had the crash on a 6600GT too - but it now works perfectly!

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Re: GeForce 6, Pentium 3, 3DMark2003 and Mothernature Test Crash

Posted on 2022-02-21, 22:42

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by SteveC

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Ancient thread revival! I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get 3DMark 03 to get past the Mother Nature test on a couple of retro builds I've done with GeForce 6x00 cards and this last post detailing GeForce driver version 93.71 has finally fixed it! Thank you! 😀

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Re: Saved a Compaq Contura 3/25

Posted on 2021-10-09, 21:42

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Hiddenevil wrote on 2021-10-09, 20:17: I’ve just bought a 4/25c with dead screen. Wonder if this is why it’s dead. Though I did buy it for its DC power board.. If it is the back light then you should still be able to see the image on the screen just very faintly (see the first pics on my first post …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-09, 20:49

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by SteveC

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Not PC related, but it technically runs Windows (CE)...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-14, 09:43

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I got myself an IBM usb floppy drive so that I can have floppy disks fail on me also in windows 10. If windows sais "invalid media or track 0 bad -disk unreadable"... Should I just throw it out or is there a way to try to repair it? :-s IMG_20210913_192950.jpg Edit: added a pic. I have a few of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-08, 21:11

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by SteveC

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Picked up a new old stock IBM ThinkPad expansion bay for Ultraslimbay devices off eBay - works a treat! Simple and rather inexpensive way of getting a CD ROM drive onto a laptop that doesn't have one. Did a quick video - https://youtu.be/Yaki_m_3N8c

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-08, 09:53

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I finally got this ThinkPad "iSeries" (Type 2621) after *twelve days* spent mostly lost in transit, can't figure out why it won't POST. The only thing I can think of is that it somehow NEEDS a working CMOS battery to boot? I've already cleaned the RAM and the RAM slots, and since the CPU is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-08, 00:12

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by SteveC

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SteveC wrote on 2021-08-16, 19:24: Won this on eBay today - the ThinkPad (560Z) potentially doesn't work but I'm more interested in the cool CD ROM drive 😀 A few weeks later it finally turned up - Another laptop fix - Thinkpad 560 with a pretty cool CD ROM drive

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Another laptop fix - Thinkpad 560 with a pretty cool CD ROM drive

Posted on 2021-09-08, 00:09

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by SteveC

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I got this off eBay and it took weeks to get to me due to a mix up at UPS - the laptop was of unknown status but I just wanted the CD ROM drive really as it looked interesting. Turns out the CD ROM drive has an in-built ESS1688 sound card, and might just be the funkiest Discman around :) Join me in …

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Re: Can you swap the logic board on an ESDI Hard drive?

Posted on 2021-09-01, 18:29

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by SteveC

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Fair enough 😀

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Re: Can you swap the logic board on an ESDI Hard drive?

Posted on 2021-09-01, 17:56

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Ha OK I tried it and I think the answer is no. I put the known good board from the 120MB onto the 60MB drive and powered it up and it sounded like a bag of nails, heads clonking and all sorts. Put them back as they were and the 120mb still works and the 60mb sounds good again but same error. It's …

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Can you swap the logic board on an ESDI Hard drive?

Posted on 2021-09-01, 16:58

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by SteveC

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Hi all, I just picked up a 60mb ESDI drive off eBay that gives an error on boot, but it 'sounds' perfect mechanically (I replaced the front three capacitors as they had obviously leaked to no avail). I have another drive but it's 120MB that's full of bad sectors and getting worse. Can I try swapping …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-31, 12:08

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by SteveC

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Just got an external floppy for my old Toshiba laptop but it sounds like a dentist's drill when you try and access a disk and it doesn't work 🙁

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Re: What laptop brands have the strongest internal antennas ?

Posted on 2021-08-28, 14:10

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by SteveC

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Intel cards for sure, also Thinkpads seem to be pretty decent in my experience

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-08-28, 14:08

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This may have already been posted, but I just watched this and thought of this thread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz93yrWxA8M (Secret Confessions of a Tech Hoarder)

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