Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-21, 14:57

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Edit: This one came a little late to the party. It was loosely packed in an envelope... welcome test candidate 1 for 50MHz FSB. CPU-486DX50.jpg Don't expect much stability or being able to run 3 VLB cards at once... I don’t. I’ve got two VLB cards certified and tested working at 50Mhz and I don’t …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-20, 11:10

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Todays mail service brought me a Terratec AudioSystem EWS64 with the front panel and some MIDI cables. Usually I don’t buy German technology, except for ICP vortex products, but I was willing to give this one a try. It’s pretty filthy but the overall condition seems to be good (caps are good, traces …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-19, 10:25

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Got myself one of the holy grail items of MIDI equipment. Complete in box with disks, manuals and everything else :) OMG, congratulations. Just out of curiosity - was it pure luck or did you have to sell a liver? 😉 Feeling even more insignificant now about adding some items to my collection. Some …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:27

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Nothing too special today. I got a XT-IDE kit (rev 4A) as a replacement for my 5160 and an Ultimate Atari Video mod kit (rev D) for my Darth Vader 2600.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-11, 11:11

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Bought two interesting (not the usual Cirrus Logic) VL-Bus cards. They've never been used apparently. Need to get memory upgrade for the Tseng so that it can benefit from bank interleaving. https://dependency-injection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC_9117-scaled.jpeg That Orchid card is …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-02-10, 20:26

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AWE Gold is not about this project. We use Value versions as donors. I know, it was supposed to be a joke about getting rid of your past days heroes in the wake of a new champion... In fact, I bought a CT4520 last year an posted in this thread, just in case ... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-02-10, 17:46

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Ha, someone must have gotten a scent of something... dozens of AWE64 Golds are popping up on ExpensiveBay 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-10, 11:32

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Acquired an AT midi tower case for my late 486 DX4 build. It does need some cleanup, fixing and retrobrighting but I like it’s calm and clean appearance. This will be my first AT system which will make use of those fabulous ATX2AT adapters I got from xsecret. Filename DX4-Case-Before.jpg File size …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-02-09, 20:50

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ibmapc wrote on 2021-02-09, 20:14: hard1k wrote on 2021-02-09, 13:00: ... €300 - assembled PCB, PayPal as a gift... Why as a gift? fees, because...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-09, 16:01

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mtgmackid wrote on 2021-02-09, 15:11: Had a great few days at ewaste, Damn, sometimes it sucks to live in a metropolitan area. The recycling centers here are contracted to professionals. 😒

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-02-09, 15:02

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Hello guys! You've been waiting for so long, and, finally, we're here - reseasing our AWE64 Legacy card. It will be like this: AWE64 Legacy (final render, front).pngAWE64 Legacy (final render, rear).png It's already ordered: AWE64 Legacy (final PCBs order).png Estimated start of sales - April-May …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-09, 09:23

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Bough couple Socket7 CPUs: Amd K6 166 ALR Amd K6 233 ANR Intel Pentium 233 MMX Paid $24 incl ship. https://i.ibb.co/8zhkZJt/20210209-095121.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Cz2CR4K/20210209-095129.jpg https://i.ibb.co/m8cCS7G/20210209-095149.jpg https://i.ibb.co/9wcmRL1/20210209-095158.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-07, 10:15

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Would you mind capturing/sharing high-res picture of the chip sticker? This is as good as it gets using my current equipment. Examined more closely it seems the original quality of the screen printing wasn’t that high to begin with. I’d suggest using this as a template for building an Illustrator …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-06, 21:21

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mpe wrote on 2021-02-06, 20:23: Would you mind capturing/sharing high-res picture of the chip sticker? Will do. But it’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Because I sold all my photography equipment I do need daylight to take decent pictures with my phone.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-06, 11:21

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I’ve got a TAG RAM chip (16k x 8 ) for my ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 Winbond-TAG-RAM-12ns.jpg and took a picture of the board (to whom it may concern - maybe for vogonswiki, I don’t have write access there) ASUS-P-I-XP55T2P4-Rev-3.00.jpg and added another S3 Vision to my 486 parts collection SPEA-V7-Mirage- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 14:36

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Got my cheap Voodoo 5 5500 yesterday. It came with no fans, so I think I'll do a cooler mod to this one. I popped the heatsinks off this morning to clean the thermal glue off. Man, that was painful. The glue is more like cement. I first soaked it in WD-40, scraped off a good amount of glue, then …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-03, 18:23

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... was sort of "skipped", maybe because it didn't give much over an 8086/8088? Not really, the iAPX 186 had a different operation area as it’s a microprocessor and microcontroller concurrently. Intel built an embedded version up to 2007... 3rd parties build it even today in FPGA versions with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-03, 16:43

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Unfortunately it’s going to need quite some effort to bring it back to it’s original glory. That's a real beauty. I personally just tear down systems like that and clean every last corner, get everything working, put it all back together and leave it be. I like that aged (yellowing/discolored) look …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-03, 12:04

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Apart from various other items like an A2600 Darth Vader, some PC magazines from 93/94 and TAG-RAM chips I found this, rather dirty and quite beaten up, beauty. I couldn’t resist the “wannabe from 70s” design of this 80186. i80186-TA1700.jpeg Unfortunately it’s going to need quite some effort to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 17:03

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It's more work than a hobby. My boss gave me an ASUS M6000 notebook to install XP on it so it could be used to interface with some of our older systems. ... Otherwise it seems to be a decent notebook with fine specs for W98 (Pentium M 1.5GHz; 512MB RAM; Mobility Radeon 9100; 40GB HDD), but this way …

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