Re: Found the vintage PC motherlode...

Posted on 2019-02-03, 07:14

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by Merovign

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About a year to take inventory and another 50 to test it all. LOL It's amazing people are still finding stashes like this. Hopefully it can all be saved. Look forward to hearing more about this. Dibs. I call dibs. Dibs. edit: I just noticed no one had invoked the 1982 International Dibs Protocol so …

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Re: Help Replacing AT Case LED's

Posted on 2019-01-31, 06:08

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by Merovign

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Do you know who the manufacturer / vendor is? Well, was, in all likelihood?

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Re: ATX to AT adaptor with 18 pins ?

Posted on 2019-01-31, 04:56

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by Merovign

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I don't know if it helps but I have a Compaq P1 system with 3 6-pin AT connectors on board. It's a Presario 5204. Unfortunately there's an off-standard 18-pin ATX connector used by a few OEMS so finding anything about an 18-pin AT is almost impossible. But it is a socket 5.

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-28, 05:36

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by Merovign

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I wondering about this. How is telling what kind of cpu you had 10 years ago and what kind of cpu you have now a challenge? Ohhhhh trust me, it is for me :) For all the PC's I had, I can't tell exactly what was in it. But I like this challenge more than sudoku. So who is winning? :P The one who …

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Re: Mac Performa 6200 not recognizing CD-Rom drives

Posted on 2019-01-27, 22:01

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by Merovign

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In theory you might be able to replace the control board, probably cheaper and enormously less effort to replace the drive. Sorry. 🙁

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Re: Mac Performa 6200 not recognizing CD-Rom drives

Posted on 2019-01-27, 07:35

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by Merovign

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Is it the original stock drive, do you have another machine to test it on, and does the drive have jumpers to set for ID?

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

Posted on 2019-01-27, 07:25

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by Merovign

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I had access to a decent haul the other day, but almost every cable had been cut. Copper prices must have just gone up. There were cable ends everywhere. Seriously, how much copper do you get out of a mouse cable, anyway? A quarter penny?

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-25, 07:28

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by Merovign

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1979 - nothing for myself but my Dad had a 16-bit IBM OPD-Mini in an OS/6 for his home office 1989 - 386DX-20 1999 - K6-2-400 (I think I had an Athlon the next year) 2009 - Phenom II 945 2019 - i5-4570 (might finally upgrade this year been running an 860k forever and just got the i5, like Tuesday) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-22, 06:54

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by Merovign

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Nice. DTK is one of the brands I'd love to have a desktop from.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2019-01-13, 07:31

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by Merovign

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I've kind of been ignoring this thread since I won one of Liqmat's goodies - but dang, he's the giveaway king!

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

Posted on 2019-01-06, 23:51

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by Merovign

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Imma let you finish but the Magnavox Odyssey 2 is not well-engineered. I just tried to get a quick look at the mobo and caps but I can't get to the last retaining screw because it's under the motherboard casing. I'm going to need some long angle thing, and/or desolder connections to get to it. I …

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

Posted on 2018-12-31, 03:28

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by Merovign

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LOL I grabbed, out of a pile of discarded PSUs, a Codegen unit because the name ran a bell, even though it's a lightweight. Finally tested it, it has the elusive -5V line. So as long as it doesn't blow up, it has a use indeed! Codegen PSUs are infamous PC killers. I also have some bad memories with …

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

Posted on 2018-12-30, 06:54

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by Merovign

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LOL I grabbed, out of a pile of discarded PSUs, a Codegen unit because the name ran a bell, even though it's a lightweight. Finally tested it, it has the elusive -5V line. So as long as it doesn't blow up, it has a use indeed! Also got a gargantuan Kingspao AT PSU someone had already got into and …

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

Posted on 2018-12-27, 05:12

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by Merovign

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https://youtu.be/cw7_dWogBIU?t=452 LinusTechTips just announced he is going to do a DOS gaming PC..... I don't even want to know what this is going to do to the prices of retro PC parts (I'm sure whatever he uses specifically will become unobtanium) Everyone who's got 300 motherboards on their …

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

Posted on 2018-12-26, 09:24

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by Merovign

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Tested a bunch of older components and about 25Gb of DDR2 memory, put a Q9300 in my T3400 (stupid dell changing every little detail for mounting the heatsink my a mm or two). Tested a "garbage" 4850 and X1900X that work fine.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-26, 09:21

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by Merovign

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The IBM-equipped Mobo aand the VLB video cards (and another Cirrus GD5401 I hadn't tested) work, the Micron motherboard (PCCHIPS chips) doesn't yet, red LED on the mobo lights up but I don't get any video. Need to dig out a speaker with the right connector, out of time.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-26, 06:11

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by Merovign

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Does that 486 board have COAST cache? Yeah but I still have it in my queue to test. Workbench full. Yeah... S3-805's are decent cards. I always recommend them over any CL-54xx-VLB. They are faster and have a better VGA signal. That's good to hear. I still need to look everything up on all these …

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

Posted on 2018-12-25, 07:16

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by Merovign

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Got a fair haul today, the majority free. Posted a message about the motherboards and cards in the "bought these today" thread. The Sankyo DM600 floppy is the real surprise there. Did not expect that. Hoping to test some of all of that tomorrow, but I also got a Dell Precision T3400 that I hope …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-25, 07:03

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by Merovign

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Well I got some "junk" in a box cheap, mainly on the strength of visible slot-type floppy cables, which I'm short on. The cables were nice to have, but under a desk phone, a couple of cheap routers, and stuff like that, was: DX4-100.jpg DX4-100 VLB motherboard - everything's untensted as of yet but …

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

Posted on 2018-12-23, 08:33

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by Merovign

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The 286 is one of those generic early 90s Taiwan products. Unfortunately when booted it lasted about a minute, didn't recognize all of it's RAM, gave a blue-tinged display and a lot of beep codes, and then went silent. Don't know when I'll have a chance to diagnose that problem. It's too bad because …

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