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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-08-27, 22:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-27, 04:03: Y'all are reminding me of this classic http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/ probably NSFW lewd image and f-bombs in the vids. First vid in particular when he does the desktop snapshot thing. No idea how I ever missed this - it's brilliant!

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

Posted on 2021-08-27, 21:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a serial mouse to work on my old Toshiba TS2130 I fixed up last week by using hardware profiles in Windows 95 - I've never used them before! I had to set one profile that disabled the PS/2 Accupoint to use the external serial port mouse and another profile that did the opposite when I didn't use …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-27, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure when it says Mouse Port - I think it needs to say 'Serial' and note that it uses 12V according to this thread MS IntelliMouse 1.1A Serial Support?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-27, 20:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up this Microsoft Intellimouse from eBay the other day - it's pretty much immaculate just a bit yellow! I bought it with the PS/2 to Serial adapter (and the free DOS 5 boot floppy with a mouse driver which was nice!). 1024-1365 (2).jpg However, turn the mouse over and anyone see the problem …

Re: PicoPSU vs basic internal PSU reliability?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 11:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know about the safety but I use a PSU similar to a PicoPSU (300W 12v to ATX one of these https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07D71R7D8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) with a nice chunky 10A 12V PSU brick (one of these https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08BJRN5SX/ref= …

Fixed up an old Toshiba T2130CS

Posted on 2021-08-23, 23:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, As mentioned in the 'Bought these (retro) hardware today' thread I got a Toshiba T2130CS laptop off eBay recently where the seller said the screen was faulty. Turns out it wasn't and the machine worked fine for about 20 mins or so then started crashing a lot, so much so that it often failed …

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

Posted on 2021-08-23, 20:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug through my old CD collections boxes looking for motherboard driver cd's and re-found some CDR's made back in 1999, 2002 and 2003 with tons of old games on them. Brought back some good memories specially the 3 cd and 4 cd sets. I love going through my old cd-r's and finding what I put on them. …

Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-08-23, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can try that if I get the HWiNFO report + debug file. If there are some markers that could be used, it would be possible. I had to enable "Skip PnP BIOS Calls" or it froze on the PnP discovery, as well as disable the 'Check Keyboard COntroller and Super IO" Even with a completely clean boot I get …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-23, 16:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a T2150CDT myself. Remove the wake battery (open the hood, remove the main battery, move the plastic anti-static piece, remove the 4-5 screws, and remove the 7.2V NiMH battery and clean the corrosion off before it's too late. If you need the drivers and utilities, I'll send a link to all of …

Re: OPTi Tribute system, Opti Chipset, VGA and sound

Posted on 2021-08-19, 08:54

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Just hard work to get them going. Then again we generally put them in at the more budget end of the spectrum and used PCChips or no-name motherboards - maybe that was why they were so troublesome. Once working yeah no complaints 😀

Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-08-18, 22:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have just run the latest version on a rather unreliable Toshiba T2130CS laptop and it hangs at this point with the hard drive LED on:

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-18, 22:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also picked this up on eBay today for very little money - the screen has stopped working so might be fun to fix. (Seller's photos) Toshiba Satellite T2150CDS 75MHz intel 486DX, CD drive Windows 95 I have a T2150CDT myself. Remove the wake battery (open the hood, remove the main battery, move the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-18, 21:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also picked this up on eBay today for very little money - the screen has stopped working so might be fun to fix. (Seller's photos) Toshiba Satellite T2150CDS 75MHz intel 486DX, CD drive Windows 95 I have a T2150CDT myself. Remove the wake battery (open the hood, remove the main battery, move the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-18, 19:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A couple of nice bargains there!

Re: OPTi Tribute system, Opti Chipset, VGA and sound

Posted on 2021-08-17, 15:13

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I REALLY hated the Opti sound cards 82C924 and 82C929 I think. We used them in our PC builds when I worked in a local computer shop in the 90's.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-17, 10:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also picked this up on eBay today for very little money - the screen has stopped working so might be fun to fix. (Seller's photos) Toshiba Satellite T2150CDS 75MHz intel 486DX, CD drive Windows 95 I have a T2150CDT myself. Remove the wake battery (open the hood, remove the main battery, move the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-16, 20:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Won this on eBay today - the ThinkPad (560Z) potentially doesn't work but I'm more interested in the cool CD ROM drive :) Hey I got hold of one of those along with the PCMCIA card (card first, then got the drive later). It's a really nice CD-ROM drive and works well as a CD player too. IF it's the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-16, 19:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also picked this up on eBay today for very little money - the screen has stopped working so might be fun to fix. (Seller's photos) Toshiba Satellite T2150CDS 75MHz intel 486DX, CD drive Windows 95

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-16, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Won this on eBay today - the ThinkPad (560Z) potentially doesn't work but I'm more interested in the cool CD ROM drive 😀

Re: SCSI on a modern PC

Posted on 2021-08-07, 16:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have another PCI SCSI card with the right connector (Domex thing with an Advansys ASC3030 chipset) which I think came with a scanner once upon a time, but I can't find 64 bit drivers for it 🙁

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