Re: Anyone here that has worked on old or weird hardware for a job?

Posted on 2020-06-16, 13:17

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by NautilusComputer

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^Which country are you based? Purchasing disk's must be a challenge in itself and shop floors are not IT friendly best of times let alone disk that can go bad if you even look at them in the wrong way. I'm on the East coast of USA. They're a small-time gunsmith that offers custom engraving on …

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Re: Anyone here that has worked on old or weird hardware for a job?

Posted on 2020-06-16, 12:00

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by NautilusComputer

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I've got a client/customer that I'm working for/on now. They've got an old Arrow/Acromatic 1500 CNC mill with a customized controller in it. 486/66 running Win 95 to a CRT touchscreen. Somehow NTFS is involved, too. It's bizarre. They make their engravings on a separate PC and transfer them via 3.5" …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-17, 09:57

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by NautilusComputer

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Ok as I mentioned above. I went, looked and grabbed. Here are a few pics. The HP monitor has 5 BNC and a special cable to DB15, will have to look into that. If it's anything like the old ViewSonic I used to have, it's RGBHV to DB-15, with individual channels for the 3 colors and the other two lines …

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Re: 486 Motherboard ID

Posted on 2020-03-16, 23:59

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by NautilusComputer

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That does seem like the one, thanks! It's a lot with an ISA-486 board, a bunch of *other* RAM, Celeron 1100A, Duron 850, and possibly more stuff. I did see it had a doomsday battery that'd need replaced and cleaned, but that's nothing I'm afraid of.

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2020-03-16, 20:09

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Yep, I've been in loads of labs that still had dinosaur PCs running specialized equipment via some convoluted multi-ISA card setup well into the 2010s. Data logged to tape or printed & a realtime display on an amber CRT with 30 years of screen burn... Weren't NASA still buying up 8086es for the …

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486 Motherboard ID

Posted on 2020-03-16, 20:07

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by NautilusComputer

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So this is possibly available sort of near me and it's the only photo I have. Could you folks lend me some wisdom on ID'ing it, and whether or not it's worth picking up?

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2020-03-16, 10:30

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by NautilusComputer

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As it's designed primarily for industrial applications, I doubt we'll ever see a public release, or good drivers, or a review, or anything. I hate it when stuff is "call for pricing and availability."

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Re: Year 2000 gaming build - 3D benchmarking software

Posted on 2020-03-05, 21:23

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by NautilusComputer

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I don't know if 3dMark2001 had one or not, but you might be able to find one there. FurMark does 3D loading, but I don't know if there's a version that'll run on a system that old.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-04, 13:20

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by NautilusComputer

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-03-04, 12:26: Rampat card looks good, also some other nice ISA cards I didnt see on the photo: Ooooh, a card labeled for Winchester drives!

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Re: Transmeta Crusoe board - help restoring its former glory

Posted on 2020-03-03, 19:48

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by NautilusComputer

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48.3B201.011 turns up results for Acer thin clients as well.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-03, 12:14

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by NautilusComputer

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This arrived today for tinkering with old systems. Came across it looking for SD to IDE adapters and thought it'd be more useful. It only reads ONE card at a time (can't put CF + SD in together), but having both in a single 3.5" drive bay seemed like a good deal! Not sure on read/write speeds yet; …

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Re: KT7A giveaway

Posted on 2020-03-03, 01:26

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by NautilusComputer

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I'm interested if you're in the USA.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-02, 12:42

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The slim is a good choice. It's easier to mod & play PS1 backups (no fiddling around with a paperclip or eject tool) The fat Ps2 is more easy to mod. More space inside to do hardware mod. Less anti-mod prevention from Sony (older model). You can add a HDD, using a network adaptor, wich is something …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-01, 20:22

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by NautilusComputer

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Just won this auction. At the moment I see only 1 interesting card here. Its the Acculogic RAMpAT! It support 4x4 MB Simms so you have 16 MB EMS/XMS in your 286 with a single card..! :-) Drivers are also still available... I'd love to see a full list of cards once it arrives! Also, what are you …

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Re: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL softmod options.

Posted on 2020-03-01, 14:10

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I looked into this for some old Quadro cards I found laying around at work, and came across this: https://hardforum.com/threads/quadro-4-980-xgl-can-you-flash-bios-to-a-make-it-geforce-base-card.723315/ For the 980, you'll be just as well off leaving everything as-is and running the Quadro driver as …

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Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2020-02-29, 21:43

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by NautilusComputer

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Anybody wants to play with Willamette and RDRAM, I've got a Dell system here with dual Willamette Xeon sockets...

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Re: Cloning old 486 HDD to CompactFlash or SSD

Posted on 2020-02-29, 21:20

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by NautilusComputer

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On second thought, can you make a bootable floppy with something like WD lifeguard on it, and then use a $4 PCMCIA to CompactFlash adapter card to do it all from your laptop? I can get that adapter, but the programs I have been looking at to transfer the OS from the HDD to the CF card all require a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-29, 21:18

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by NautilusComputer

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derSammler wrote on 2020-02-29, 15:01: $54.95 for a socket 462 board from PC Chips? Not sure if that's a good deal... Neither am I, but a customer is paying for it and said get that one, so...*shrug*?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-29, 14:29

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by NautilusComputer

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$54.95 plus tax new in box at my local computer store with a LOT of leftovers from 1997-2005.

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Re: xbox4 = 8 x sbox3

Posted on 2020-02-26, 17:34

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"Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." 😁 Marketing can and will say anything to make a sale. That being said, some context is needed. They're referring specifically and ONLY to total theoretical maximum GPU compute power.

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