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Re: I bought a HP Pavilion 7410P Pentium Classic

Posted on 2019-10-07, 14:46

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Nice looking machine. I had one similar (Pavilion 7130p), and it was the world's biggest piece of shit. The stupid PCI/ISA riser would come loose all the time and freeze the computer or make it restart randomly. I eventually got so pissed off at it, that I pulled the useful stuff from it, and took a …

Quantum Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2019-10-04, 15:31

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Compaq Prolinea 4/66 that originally had a 270 MB Quantum Prodrive hard drive, that works perfectly, but is too small for what I want to do with the machine, and had bad bearings. So I put in an 840 MB Quantum Trailblazer, and the BIOS sees it drive perfectly, and detects it's parameters …

Re: LCD Portable PC clone, display replacement

Posted on 2019-10-02, 17:05

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Looks great! Any updates on this project?

Re: What are the weirdest pieces of retro hardware you owned?

Posted on 2019-10-01, 15:39

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Intel486dx33 wrote: I still have this boxed up. Maybe I will do something with it some day. Holy fuck, that's atrocious. Who looked at that, and thought "yep, that's a good idea. Let's make it."?

Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?

Posted on 2019-09-30, 20:26

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It's absolutely hideous, but.... In a weird way, I kinda like it. It's a separation from the typical "beige rectangular box" computers that were oh-so-common in the mid to late 90's.

Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?

Posted on 2019-09-30, 18:20

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Also even better, the only power switch is on the power supply... On the back. There's also no reset button, so if Ctrl Alt Del doesn't solve your problem, you have to reach behind the computer (god forbid if you have it on the floor under a desk) and turn the computer off then back on.

Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?

Posted on 2019-09-30, 15:34

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Also those slots on the top of the case are for holding CD jewel cases

Re: IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 need HDD park?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 15:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, the drive autoparks when powered down, the heads automatically moving to the shipping zone. If you're paranoid, the read/write heads can be parked by issuing a seek command to any cylinder between 614 and 666.

Re: Unidentified laptop

Posted on 2019-09-25, 19:33

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like a Dell latitude XPI. Or a DEC HiNote

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 19:10

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Okay so I looked through that site and found some more information on this computer. It's an Intel Xpress server, don't know what model though. Can't find anything that looks quite like what the one I have unfortunately.

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 18:42

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Just in case anyone recognizes these, here's a picture of the drive rails

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 18:28

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in Marvin \ System Specs

My case does use rails, not only to keep the drives in place, but also it's the only way that 5.25" drives can even be mounted in the case as there's no screw holes. So I need to find more somewhere, or 3D print them. Anyway, we know that the case is made by Intel, but what is the model?

Re: IBM PS/1 investor ?

Posted on 2019-09-25, 17:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

blurks wrote: Intel486dx33 wrote: Does anyone know anything about this computer ? Yes That's not exactly helpful.... 🤣

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 17:08

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in Marvin \ System Specs

That's an Intel case/motherboard with someone else's logo slapped on the front. According to This thread the motherboard is a Premiere/PCI II (Plato) Now can anyone identify the case? ETA: Here is the pizzabox version of the same computer: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/intel-pentium-60- …

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 16:20

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That empty bracket had just come loose, and was flying around in the case. The screw that was holding it in had broken, so it was never (intentionally) removed. I'm assuming that the original video card died, they just slapped whatever they had on hand at the time into the case. There was a bag with …

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-25, 14:20

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Okay, something even more bizzare. I found a DAT tape inside the case with "ICON QNX" written on it. Unfortunately the tape's casing just disintegrated when I picked it up, so I threw it in the trash. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it. Apparently this was used as a server for ICON machines …

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-24, 14:10

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in Marvin \ System Specs

This was possibly used as a server for the Unisys Icon computers that were pretty common in Canadian primary and middle schools in the 80s and early 90s. I think originally the servers were some weird 80186 proprietary based things, but I remember the server in my school was a Unisys 386 with a 1X …

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-24, 11:49

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Anonymous Coward wrote: I didn't know they had Pentium based servers though. http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/src … 725486&lang=fra Apparently they were inactive as of 2012

Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys

Posted on 2019-09-23, 22:46

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The part number on the inside of the front panel is "INTEL P/N 625241

Re: Can someone give me ideas for a pad that I can put my hard drive on that won't catch on fire?

Posted on 2019-09-22, 01:01

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How's the drive set up? Take a picture of it. If it's got metal rails with screw holes on either side, you can just rest it on those.

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