Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-11, 09:26

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I just scored a Wind Tunnel.. Erm sorry, a Power Mac G4 MDD, dual-CPU 1GHz. Also had a SCSI and a USB2.0 card present. GPU is still unknown as of yet. Although there is a catch: it has a lot of missing parts, the HDD/ODD carriers are gone, the PSU has went God-knows-where, it's a basket case, but …

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Re: G3 blue green macintosh tower. Upgrade madness!

Posted on 2023-08-19, 15:22

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FWIW if you can also get ahold of a Yikes!/PCI Graphics Power Mac G4 (the AGP graphics/Sawtooth PMG4s used a different CPU socket) CPU module, it can be used in the Blue&White/Yosemite PMG3 motherboard, although you may have to downgrade the firmware as Apple blocked that upgrade path past a certain …

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Re: Register settings for various CPUs

Posted on 2023-08-07, 19:51

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So, as promised I ran the DOS benchmark suite on the Apple 7in PC card, and while most of the stuff ran pretty well, there's a few outliers that crashed or locked the whole PC up. Quake: Out of memory error at startup, attempting to start from a fresh MS-DOS bootdisk yields the same thing. Landmark: …

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Re: Were you ever hurt by a computer?

Posted on 2023-08-07, 03:50

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Add this one to the list: Pinched fingers and jolted by an unplugged power supply. I was just trying (and struggling) to put back together a 27in iMac after a hard drive swap, I'll spare you the details, but at the moment that I had to pull the LCD out again (ain't an easy feat on a 27in!), my …

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Re: CRT experience

Posted on 2023-08-03, 01:04

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CRTs are quintessential for a retro build IMHO, not as in "CRT or bust", but rather on a "I'd rather use a CRT if I can".

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Re: Register settings for various CPUs

Posted on 2023-07-30, 21:51

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[snip] Speedsys has a build-in function to export to what you see on the screen to a pcx image, by pressing the R-key when tests are done. You can then convert that saved pcx image to png (or gif) and attach it to the forum. Oh about that, quite embarrassingly I did export the PCX files, Just that …

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Re: Register settings for various CPUs

Posted on 2023-07-29, 14:53

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I decided to give Peter Moss' utility a try, and so far, I got some... Interesting results. This particular system is a bit unusual as in, it is an Apple DOS card (the 7in PCI with the 5x86-100) running in a Power Macintosh 7500/100 (the CPU has been swamped for a Sonnet Crescendo G3/300) using …

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Re: 386—>486 build

Posted on 2023-07-20, 13:55

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It's a indeed a Ethernet card, no need to worry about it being Token ring. If you're wondering about the Dsub port on it, that's for a 10BASE-5 AUI transceiver dongle (I cannot for the life of me remember what they were called)

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2023-07-19, 01:10

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It's been a long time, but I've got a rather curious PC (if it can even be called like that, it's more like of a SBC that piggybacks off a Power Macintosh), it's, odd, in every sense of the term. It's got a Cyrix 5x86 onboard, so that should be interesting. If you'd like, I can try and get SIV …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-18, 00:19

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Just snagged a Apple PC Compatibility card (7in, PCI w/ 100MHz 5x86) on fleabay for a couple hundred (480€ with shipping... ouch!). I wish it was one of those OrangePC 530 cards (speaking of which, there's one right now on ebay, but with an asking prices of around a few grands figures) or one of the …

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Re: are you rocking an E-ATX mobo?

Posted on 2023-06-17, 22:55

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Yup I got one, an Asus Rampage IV Extreme.. Housed in a Lian-Li PC-V1200Plus. Used to be my main PC up until I got a new laptop for work..

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-05, 16:44

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Just ordered a refurbished ThinkPad P52, not sure about it's specs but the listing mentioned this one as having a i7-8850H and a Quadro P1000-something of some kind, and a 512GB NVMe SSD. The listing didn't really mention anything about the dGPU that this one has (base dGPU on these is a Quadro …

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Re: Sony CRT TVs and Monitors "breathing" and brightness problem - which caps/parts to replace to fix it?

Posted on 2023-04-29, 11:43

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It depends. If by breathing you mean the picture expanding when you show a bright image on the screen (this is generally called blooming) then it isn't fixable in any achievable way, as it stems from the electron guns (or cathodes in Trinitron/Diamondtron tubes) pulling so much power that the high …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-10, 20:32

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At least the Belkin F5U541 supports sync SCSI-2 with 10 MB/s. Not too bad. That's interesting... The one I bought is a Orange Micro 70HTL00010 (aka "Orange Converter"), unlike the Belkin, it has a DB25 connector, I do wonder if it also supports the same thing, unless it's just the connector that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-09, 21:52

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Nabbed a rebadged Belkin FireWire to SCSI adapter and a set of SCSI cables with gold-plated connectors, apparently that was a thing? (edit: Mine is a Orange Micro model, which is apparently a rebadged Belkin F5U541, both of which you can find hardly anything about). In total, it ran me only 45 euros …

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Re: After 40+ years of home printer technology, what have we learned?

Posted on 2023-03-30, 15:59

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The best laser printer I had? Bear with me as this is going to be... Not so retro, so IDK if this fits the topic. So.... t'was a HP 2840, that thing was a beast with a capital "B". It was also, albeit a bit debatable, one of the worst printers I ever used as the one I had unfortunately had a fault …

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Re: Digital Venturis PSU type and Video DRAM chips

Posted on 2023-03-23, 21:26

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For the IDE cable, you need to plug it in so the key tab matches the indent on the silkscreen, if not, there ought to be a indication where pin 1 is (at least that's how it is on my Shuttle board).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-13, 13:39

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Just nabbed a 12x SCSI CD-ROM drive for my "7500 Fauxsammer" project (basically, a Power Mac 7500 with a G3 in it), I would've preferred to find one of the 24x models but none turned up so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh and while I was checking the 7500/G3 up to see if it still worked, I went to format a zip disk …

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Re: Were you ever hurt by a computer?

Posted on 2023-03-05, 01:17

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Yes, and more times than I can count... The most recent one was my main PC where I managed to hit a heatsink right with my elbow... Hitting the proverbial funny bone already hurts, but doing so on a Noctua NH-U12... That's a lot worse with all the tiny fins

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Re: tekram dc-680c vlb ide cache how to use with ide zip drive?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 18:49

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Although, I seem to recall that there was an earlier IDE Zip100 drive that predated ATAPI by a few years, though whether or not they're easy to find, I can't say. Model number for these is Z100iDE, they appear as a fixed disk to the computer they're connected to, which had caveats of its own (for …

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