Re: Help me Identify this graphic card slot

Posted on 2023-02-01, 05:56

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This is for the Abit PG5 motherboard, there's another slot just below the RAM slots where this card goes into. If I recall correctly, Abit reused a COAST slot for this dedicated VGA card.

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Re: USB2ISA 5.25 Floppy maybe?

Posted on 2023-01-16, 12:25

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I don't know about that kind of adapter, but would maybe something like this work ? I use adapters like these to connect 3.5" floppy drives to modern PCs. Also works with GOTEK drives. At first glance only problem seems to be that it has connector on board and it plugs into floppy drive directly, …

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Re: iomega zip drive slow blinking amber LED

Posted on 2023-01-03, 16:10

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Zip drives are kind of living their own bizarre life.... I suspect they act more or less the same as a Jazz drive, but I never had a chance to test out Jazz drives. But I have tested one Zip drive, once, to see if it was working. But that is more than 5 years ago. Just saying that they work way …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-01, 23:52

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One of these cheap USB-HDMI capture dongles, I'm not expecting anything stellar, but for the purpose I bought it in the first place (capturing the output of a RPi1B+), I don't really need anything fancy like one of these StarTech capture boxes. Considering the price I paid for it, I was expecting it …

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

Posted on 2023-01-01, 17:05

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It was such a nice board. It just hurts to see it like that.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-25, 03:45

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At risk of going too far in the direction of modern, a Prescott/Smithfield with a GTX 480 Ti would let you do your taxes and make s'mores on the same desk. Pair it up with that NZXT fire hazard case, an SSD because hard drives are the one thing I really am glad are gone, and any PSU labelled "90 …

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Re: Rotating the D-SUB VGA input for vertical monitor?

Posted on 2022-11-18, 01:08

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I don't know of if this is of any help, but I remember hearing about some external video processors that could rotate and/or mirror a picture, you'd just plug it between the source and the monitor. There's a few companies that made them, but the ones I heard about the most were the Silicon Optix …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-29, 21:42

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[snip] For opening plastic welded power bricks, try rubbing a few drops of petrol where the weld is. It softens the plastic just enough that with a little massaging the brick will pop open with no damage bar, depending on the type of plastic it uses, a slight discoloration where the petrol was. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-29, 07:53

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It didn't come with a power supply though, and from what I read the original PSU was a 12V 1.25A power brick outputting AC (which gets internally rectified to DC using a bridge rectifier on the EN/SC's board), the closest compatible power brick I have outputs 12V DC at 1.2A, so I went with that and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-28, 14:04

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Didn't buy this today but roughly last week (23rd of October to be exact), received it today. An Asanté EN/SC SCSI Ethernet converter, going to use it with my LC II (after I replace the caps, of course), I plan to use the PDS slot for an Apple IIe card, if I can find one (probably not going to …

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Re: Is it possible to get CGA NTSC Artifact Colors when running an IBM PC in Europe?

Posted on 2022-09-29, 01:39

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If you have a PAL TV that can decode NTSC composite (or a Multistandard monitor that can take composite), that'll do the trick nicely, no need to fuss with step-down converters and all that stuff.

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Re: Sony FD Trinitron KV-21FX30B TV not memorizing all of Service Menu settings

Posted on 2022-08-29, 22:59

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Yes by cutting pin 8 you'll lose the AV autoswitching function in the process, unless you modify the cable to send 12V at all times on pin 8.. The "mute to save" thing if I recall was on older Trinitrons (and possibly north American Trinitrons)... I don't know what settings get overwritten by the …

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Re: Sony FD Trinitron KV-21FX30B TV not memorizing all of Service Menu settings

Posted on 2022-08-29, 00:57

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If I remember correctly you have to press mute to write the settings to the TV's memory. For the aspect ratio issue, it could be that your console is sending 5V to pin 8 on SCART which will force the TV in AV mode, but will set the TV to 16:9, normally it should be 12V to force the TV in 4:3 mode.. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-31, 02:49

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Saw a iBook G3 Clamshell (graphite) for sale and after debating for a few days, I finally pulled the trigger (long story short, ever since I was a kid I always dreamt of owning one of these)... Looks like I'm on a roll when it comes to Macs lately. I paid more than I would like to, but honestly, I …

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Re: Help recovering a Bull Micral 30 and a Macintosh LC

Posted on 2022-07-27, 04:20

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The LC will definitely need a through wash and recap, no exception, Macintoshes from this era are NOTORIOUS for leaky SMD caps (and that reminds me, I've got a LC II I've got to recap... But for now I'm being kept busy by a Power Macintosh 7500), both the logic board and the PSU will need to be …

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Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-22, 20:45

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I have a few that I greatly dislike, in no particular order (warning: long wall of text inbound, it's 11PM where I live as I'm writing this 😂 so please excuse any typos) When you buy a system and find out it needs parts that are hard to find and/or expensive (hello 128MB FPM/EDO 5V DIMMs) …

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Re: Computers in disguise, do you know any?

Posted on 2022-06-19, 01:25

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I recall some Astaro (laher Sophos) security gateways were built around Pentium 4 motherboards, and with a little fiddling you could get them to boot a different OS. There's another one that I don't remember pretty well (I think it was the Cisco PIX 506E?) at the moment that used a Celeron 300A PPGA …

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Re: Dell 2001FP or Dell Ultrascan p990 Monitor with 486/Pentium 1/4 VGA Gaming Boxes?

Posted on 2022-06-13, 00:26

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I might be wrong but given your Dell P990 is a rebadged Sony Trinitron monitor.. There's something about them that causes them to become overtly bright and washed out after some time.. Bear with me for a second (and I apologize in advance for any inaccuracies). That is because they have a (for a …

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Re: Dell 1130 21" Trinitron CRT monitor - need help with an issue

Posted on 2022-05-04, 11:51

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I have a Apple M1212 monitor that did the same thing, every time I powered it up, it would do just as you described: a tick with the raster expanding then shrinking back to size. After using it for a while, it started doing it less and less until it fully stopped, probably was some dust that somehow …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-01, 19:46

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Just nabbed a Yamaha SCSI CD burner for 10€ and a box of sealed EMTEC floppy disks for 1€. The floppies I'm not holding my breath out for all of them to be working, probably a dud or two, or more if worse comes to worst.

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