Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-25, 05:52

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by chris2021

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I bought a 10$ pc recently. It's a sff HP with a puny Athlon ii x2 b24. It's fine, but I should have paid the extra 20$ and got the (I think) z230/240, i5 something something. Now it wouldn't have made all that much sense, because xeons were found in hp sff computers as much as core series. So I'd …

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-25, 00:04

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by chris2021

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The ASUS laptop you refer to is throw-away hardware, like all of it's netbook contemporaries from that time. It really isn't useful for anything at this point, except the most light-weight Linux distro. As for "older-new machines", there's plenty of life left in old desktops and notebooks, but the …

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-24, 23:11

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by chris2021

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Anders- wrote on 2022-01-24, 23:09: Intel 2600 here... What does 2600 denote?

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-24, 23:06

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by chris2021

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Anything with ddr4 won't fall into the new/old category as I see it. Chances are it's an lga1151 core series chipset, or an AMD equivalent. Not bleeding edge by any means. But not old. Heck the quad cpu lga2011 mobo I'm waiting on only supports ddr3. No one can call that old by any means.

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new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-24, 22:15

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by chris2021

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Or old new(er). Your core 2 duo/quad. Atom such and such. Your socket 1366/115n xeon appurtenance. How do you feel about them? Most of us have 1 or more (or many more, you little hoarding so-and-so) hanging around. I have a bunch, I guess, but 1 in particular, my Asus x205t atom based sub notebook, …

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can we offer stuff for free on here?

Posted on 2022-01-24, 20:26

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by chris2021

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I may have a few components specific to the Victor VPC-II 8088 compatible. Free + shipping NJ 08005. Case components, bad mobo. Not exactly sure what. I'll have to dig around. ******* many thanks moderator ********

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2022-01-24, 20:19

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by chris2021

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The reason I ask is because electric vehicles are said to be much heavier then gas cars. Hence they're prone to wear tires out faster.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2022-01-24, 03:03

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by chris2021

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-01-24, 01:01: Bolt EV, charge it on the solar that runs my house. How often do you need tires?

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2022-01-24, 00:27

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by chris2021

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Drove it all over today. No issues, quite the contrary it runs like a top. 185k, 6 years and 300$ later (plus 2k$ in parts I would imagine) still going exceptionally strong. Despite the stupidity of the driver. Yeah I know all about mayo/custard. I ruined 1 engine already by being a fool. Different …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2022-01-23, 14:47

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by chris2021

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So like a wizard I drive 25 miles last night with my radiator cap off. The fluid wasn't even that low when I replenished it. Did I degrade my gaskets? Other possible damage? The car seems to run a little hotter before the thermostat opens up. Man what a moron I am. 98 Grand Prix 3800.

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Re: ultra320 scsi termination

Posted on 2022-01-18, 10:24

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by chris2021

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Yeah. I'll more adapters then actual components. Doesn't seem worth it somehow.

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anyone gaming with NT 4.0?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 21:04

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by chris2021

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Come on, somebody 😀 NT is just so small and tight. Who couldn't love that. If I could only get it running on my thin client 🙁

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Re: ultra320 scsi termination

Posted on 2022-01-17, 21:02

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by chris2021

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I can't use it. It's 50 pin. Both serverboards have 68 pin connectors, I think, and the drives I have are 80 pin.

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Re: PC tower cases by year

Posted on 2022-01-17, 11:51

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by chris2021

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I found an Asus Essentio a couple years ago. It was open also, ram sticks strewn about inside. No hard drive. I put it in the trunk, wiped it all down with ammonia. Blew the dust out. It worked marvelously.

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Re: ultra320 scsi termination

Posted on 2022-01-15, 19:22

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by chris2021

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I found a 68 pin scsi terminator in my stash. And it was purchased not that long ago, from bgmicro before their site went down or was retired. It has a diode. Does that have significance? And lo and behold I'm once again propagating false info on the web. This is in reality a 50 pin terminator. Why …

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Re: installing Wimdows NT/2000/XP from a thumb drive

Posted on 2022-01-15, 06:10

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by chris2021

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In actuality I'm more interested in NT/2000. It shouldn't matter, I guess, as with all 3 essentially the issue of uefi and different partition schemes doesn't come into play. Now that I recall I was able to make a bootable cd with Norton years ago. It may just have been dos though. But that's most …

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Re: ultra320 scsi termination

Posted on 2022-01-15, 03:38

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by chris2021

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I didn't know that. I have a paltry 9gb unisys drive somewhere in my stash, which as I understand is sca. But I didn't know 80 pin scsi was synonymous with the sca designation. Regardless I need to pull the Dell unit out and see for sure if it uses 80 pin scsi. Internet is giving conflicting …

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Re: installing Wimdows NT/2000/XP from a thumb drive

Posted on 2022-01-15, 03:02

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by chris2021

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Never worked for me. Tried 1 or 2 other utilities which I think were more or less designed for Linux of that general period. Perhaps I didn't set the parameters correctly. Have you actually created a USB drive that booted one.of the above?

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installing Wimdows NT/2000/XP from a thumb drive

Posted on 2022-01-15, 00:46

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by chris2021

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What is needed to write the iso to the usb drive.

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Re: ultra320 scsi termination

Posted on 2022-01-15, 00:43

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by chris2021

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OK, I'm an idiot. The HP scsi drive I was given (loose) is a 10k rpm 146.8gb wide ultra320. But it's 80 pin (my guess). It has the beveled connector, similar to the connector on the IBM x350 mobo, but more pins. The Dell server isn't accessible at the moment, but I was of the persuasion it used 68 …

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