Re: Cheap to run laser printer recommendations? XP to win7/10

Posted on 2023-10-22, 20:11

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Yeah prob go the refill cart route. Had good luck and bad luck. Depends on printer IMHO. Anyone have the Laserjet CP1515N or CP1525N? They seem to go cheap and have cheap remarket toners. But are these ewaste tier stuff? Bought a Samsung CLP-500 once and that was a real cheap built thing.

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Cheap to run laser printer recommendations? XP to win7/10

Posted on 2023-10-22, 17:02

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What are you guys running? I don't do much printing and 99% is probably bw. Though color would be nice. I'm really looking for something that can be easily obtained of ebay or whatever that's not too expensive. Instead of waiting for months to find the best of all time. Also parts and toner …

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Re: Diy VL bus

Posted on 2022-09-17, 19:10

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Is there a isa to pci bridge? What would be the point? You're still limited to ISA speed that's like 2MB/s at 8MHz. Before VLB there were lots of local bus implementations. Some had a connector, most were just onboard and hooked the VGA to to local CPU bus. To do just the latter requires you to …

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2022-09-06, 21:11

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added name. --- With regard to the user submission system. We are going to have to be very careful about how we implement this. First the motherboard editor has some quirks, it may be difficult to use. And we need to have a clear system for whats been changed. I think this will be slow to develop. …

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Re: Debugging a Micronics W6-LI POST failure

Posted on 2022-08-07, 00:02

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please keep posting

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Re: [Advice needed] I'm reaching my collection goal and currently considering stopping. What is your goal ?

Posted on 2022-07-20, 20:52

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I have in the last 10 years tried to build near-ultimate builds. This focuses on early versions of platforms. This is what interests me now as a lot of the later stuff is much easier to find. For example a 486 DX33 on EISA with SCSI hdd, using only parts available in 1990 was pretty much the …

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Re: Yet another 286 build.

Posted on 2022-07-20, 14:37

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Here is the datasheet http://66.113.161.23/~mR_Slug/pub/datasheets/ … d/HT18A-B-C.pdf

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Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-07-19, 21:06

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Part of the problem with fuel, at least here is that 1/4 of the price is tax that they subsidize green stuff with. They have been using subsidies for years and fundamentally they are still expensive tech. Meanwhile phones are so cheap every kid has one. The subsidies offset the market need to bring …

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Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-07-18, 20:52

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I think 600dpi is fine for general use.

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Re: Yet another 286 build.

Posted on 2022-07-15, 12:44

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The bundled scsi and floppy ribbons hurt my soul. For ide it doesnt matter but both shugart and scsi are designed such that there is a ground wire interspersed between each signal line. If you want to round them it really ought to be twisted pair Not herd that doing this may interfere with signal …

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Re: Wearnes Boldline 386-33, searching for additional information

Posted on 2022-07-05, 23:38

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Been keeping an eye on this thread. Have you tried sticking 4 1MB simms in it as well as the dip? I would doubt it can take 4MB simms as it was made in 1990 and, it has that memory expansion connector, but i may be wrong.

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Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-06-29, 21:56

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I eventually got sick of my Epson Stylus R300 inkjet, routinely getting blocked nozzles, wasting ink to clear them, and very expensive cartridges. Paper james from time to time. Cheap 3rd party cartridges from ebay worked for a few years but the printer also reached it's preset EOL (had to reset it …

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Re: Windows 2.x/3.x/GEM driver for a never-has-been 640x400 CGA mode

Posted on 2022-06-29, 21:32

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Nice to see someone writing a driver for these old OSes. I really can't help you much, but if you get no luck here maybe try vcfed.org. As the focus is older stuff.

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Re: Release dates of Adaptec SCSI cards?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 17:04

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Sounds right, I've got a dual Xeon Dell from 98 and that has integrated U2. Do take into consideration that the sources in that file are variable in their quality. But were the best i could find at that time.

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Re: Modern ATX cases for older AT motherboards?

Posted on 2022-06-27, 20:45

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I haven't really kept up with the modern world. Why do they put the PSU at the bottom now?

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Re: Alias for DOS?

Posted on 2022-06-27, 13:12

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You could just copy nano and rename nano to pico. Or create a batch file pico.bat that executes nano. Dos does not generally have aliases.

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Re: AcerPAC 486 computer

Posted on 2022-06-27, 13:08

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A day usually is plenty of time to discharge a CRT.

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Re: Release dates of Adaptec SCSI cards?

Posted on 2022-06-25, 19:34

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These are my notes.I was going to upload to my site but it's still a bit of a mess. References are quite far down. When we get the interface cards up on UR (see first link in my sig) I will add the info in a better form.

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CCP style extremest internet censorship coming to the UK. Please read.

Posted on 2022-06-25, 16:24

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The online 'safety' bill seeks to destroy privacy and security of all UK citizens, but also US and other country's citizens. Politically driven censorship, Basically they just censor things they don't like. Exceptions for the press/media, but the government decides who the press is and who is not. …

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Re: OS/2 help

Posted on 2022-06-19, 16:25

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Even like OS/2 2.0 can install to a logical partition. Having said that OS/2 is finkery. I think I would get DOS installed, then OS/2 then setup other partitions. You may also have a CHS/LBA issue, as well as size issues. I dont recall if OS/2 or what version supported LBA.

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