Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?
Posted on 2019-10-01, 18:46
Badscrew wrote: why why not 😁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-01, 11:40
you could try with a fine pencil, I even got pins that were curled up around themselves somewhat straight again with that method ^^
Re: Identify the card in this picture?
Posted on 2019-09-30, 14:03
that's the first thing I spotted too, good thing it's a desktop case, so damage to the cards is probably minimal if any.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-27, 20:04
oww my back... and my knees... and my everything... :dead: ...from carrying these down the stairs from a third floor office to the car... and then from the car to the basement hardware31_01.jpg hardware31_02.jpg two Nokia 445Xi plus, one Nokia 445Xi and one Diamond P766DU. note to self... 21" CRTs …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-21, 19:49
Predator99 wrote: Imi...where do you have been? :-p 35€ lot arrived today. Sold without slot brackets, but the very friendly seller included them anyway. I'm on holiday (literally) :p taking a break. also I need to organize what I have before getting much more
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-18, 01:08
a replica adlib still feels way more like an adlib than not having either though... this isn't a contest imho, some things are just prohibitively expensive, replicas have their place to make it more accessible.
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-17, 15:07
If they hadn't done that someone else might have sourced the same chips cheaper and begun knocking off clones. You can't be too careful. Well I guess competitors just had to get Creative, am I right? I'll see myself out. :lol: also it's not like there weren't a million adlib clones anyways, so they …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-16, 15:04
I am not sure what I will do with them yet (Certainly wont be selling them!). They are not a good fit for the pentium 100 that they came with and my only other machines are a 1ghz P3 and 1ghz Athlon. Both have much superior GPU options already. well the good thing with voodoo 2 is that you can use …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-16, 11:10
that is an amazing find for that price 😀, have fun with those, Voodoo2 SLI is imho the best "3Dfx experience" at least for me 😀 I only had a single 8MB card back in the day and that was the only 3Dfx I had, so I'm glad to have a SLI setup now to experience what I couldn't afford back then ^^
Re: Any others given up on the hobby?
Posted on 2019-09-14, 11:04
quite on the contrary, I'm getting sick of new operating systems, software and what people consider good web design nowadays, everything is becoming so cumbersome and unintuitive for power users, not to forget the downfall of most of the gaming industry with microtransactions... I am looking forward …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-12, 17:06
well my mood is up again :) I fished this out and cleaned it up, it was scratched to hell, there's a long scratch along multiple traces on the backside but they all seem intact, and one of the ICs is bent out of place + a few bent pins that are going to be easy to fix though... I just quickly threw …
Re: Restoring an AMD 386 system, need some advice
Posted on 2019-09-12, 15:55
try putting them at a bit of an angle at first guiding the notches on the plug into the grooves of the connector you should also consider removing the battery from the board while you have the chance 😀
Re: Good 386 motherboard with FPU socket
Posted on 2019-09-12, 15:09
Anonymous Coward wrote: Which is entirely pointless. Well, this entire hobby is entirely pointless, so there's that. the entire universe is pointless if you tell me what to bench I can test my HOT-327, I finally have it up and running now, I haven't put a FPU in (yet) though.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-12, 13:27
There's this old saying 'if it looks / sounds too good to be true, then it probably is'. The folks who sell scrap are often professionals; they know what they do. If they would identify really valuable stuff, then I'm sure that they would offer it separately. Yes, you can be a couple times lucky, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-12, 11:24
I think I've got enough from scrap boxes for a while now... got burnt two times in a row now... things just loosely thrown into a way too big box, if it wasn't visibly broken on the original picture, it sure was after shipping... what's left is a pile of broken off caps, ram clips, scratched and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-11, 14:42
Mumak wrote: To prove that I haven't joined here just for fun (and to test HWiNFO), I just bough this new toy 😁 I think I'm seeing double 😁
Re: Soundblaster 2.0 CT1350B Question
Posted on 2019-09-11, 11:45
there are so many versions of this card ^^ I have a late model with the SOP packaged OPL2
Re: Soundblaster 2.0 CT1350B Question
Posted on 2019-09-11, 10:27
I've seen another picture of a "rev 3" on google like that, I guess some just were made like that, the contacts are probably not connected to anything anyways.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-10, 20:56
derSammler wrote: Seeing the ebay pictures, that unit is really done. For that price, I could have sold you an SC-155 in better condition. hmm? I don't really see anything wrong with it apart from some yellowing, which is normal I guess if it was exposed to the sun.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-10, 19:20
Thermalwrong wrote: Nice, I saw those, they were gone before I spotted them though - that's a seller in the UK right? I bought an SC-7 from him 😁 yep, that one, the SC-7 were gone pretty fast as well, I almost added one of those too, but I didn't really see the point in addition to the SC-55ST …
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