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

Posted on 2022-01-30, 07:09

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At a guess, Need for speed 1 or possibly 2 could be one with the 3DFX patch, the box in the top right corner is a car mirror and the thing in the bottom left corner is some kind of speedo.

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

Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:35

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I think my "best" SCSI drive is about 4GB, but then I lost track after SCSI 2... does this triple decker sandwich looking D thingy take Ultra Wide 360 with HOV lane or is it Fibrechannel over USB redundant multipath with infiniband sidechannel addressing over IPv6 ? Have I got enough room behind …

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

Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:16

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Finally decided to take stock of my SCSi drive collection and well I have 8 x 15k 78.2gb Ultra Wide 320 drives 2 x 15k 18.2gb Ultra 3 drives 6 x 10k 9.1gb Ultra 3 drives 1 x 10k 9.1gb Ultra 2 drive 4 x 7200 9.1gb Ultra 2 drives So a lot more drives than I thought I will likely pitch the 9.1gb drives …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-30, 04:01

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Chuckle if you want but I'm finding the GTX 745 4GB GDDR3 I paid US $40 for awhile back surprisingly capable. I game on a 1366x768 32" TV (I love the low resolution on the big screen with big text as my eyes are terrible) and on a 1st gen Core i7 870, 12GB DDR3, Win10 LTSB 2015 system I am …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-30, 03:53

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Its because retro PC gaming is trying to go mainstream and the hipsters are coming in. The hobby is going to get flooded with people with pockets so deep @Artex will look like a peasant. Same bullshit is happening with CRT TVs and the same bullshit happened with retro gaming quite a while ago now. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-30, 01:33

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Big OOF, looks like Voodoo5 5500 has taken another price jump now over ~1200 AUD or about ~800USD :( Not happy. Pets V4 4500, dont you die little buddy. Its because retro PC gaming is trying to go mainstream and the hipsters are coming in. The hobby is going to get flooded with people with pockets …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-30, 01:01

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Big OOF, looks like Voodoo5 5500 has taken another price jump now over ~1200 AUD or about ~800USD :( Not happy. Pets V4 4500, dont you die little buddy. On a side note . .found a ATX super tower so now I have to figure out how to get longer cables to put a build into it, ...wonder if the Quadzilla …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-30, 00:40

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The other machine I got recently was this "Blue Chip Precision 386" compact tower, but it's not a 386, it's actually a 486SLC2(!!!). Cannot find any kind of branding on the motherboard to identify it but that's how it identifies itself. A very neat computer and future project, with some very decent …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-29, 22:54

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is it wrong that I dont get the whole Model M thing ? They are rugged but I have an Acer keyboard from the same period that is built like a Tank, full metal construction without the annoying rivets and with keys that are as clicky as any model M and with a feel to it that puts the model M to shame, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:40

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-01-29, 20:39: Thumb wiggle all the SIMMs and scrunch all the socketed chips down and give her another whirl, that's one little cutie. ... In general unless you got super unlucky that model of HDD lasts and lasts. Its the Nokia 3310 of HDDs ! That PC is so tiny ..its just …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:37

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I'm close to 60, and men in my family tend to die in their mid-60s. :( Dang, did you have grandpeeps at the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb or something? Me, I was being extra careful of all the known family conditions and ailments and got blindsided by something nobody in the family either side has …

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Re: SCSI problems

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:27

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stamasd wrote on 2022-01-29, 20:24: Calling Luckybob, the resident local SCSI guru! 😁 I have a number of 10k Ultra 2, Ultra Wide 320 and a few Ultra 3 drives ...most are LVD but I have zero clue how to get them setup and running or what card I would even need to run them all together.

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Re: Black Box Mystery Build

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:23

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-01-29, 20:21: Okay, Here is an American Nickel ( 5-cent piece ) for reference. As an Aussie I am still in the dark 😁 but assuming a nickel is like an Aussie 5 cent piece that box is about the right size for a CPU, my 10980xe cam in one about that size.

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:14

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stamasd wrote on 2022-01-29, 20:10: If that's the case, Intel better release them soon because the collectors who'd be interested in them are starting to die off of old age. 😀 ehhh its from 81 ...which is what 40 yea ....you may just be right actually.

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Re: Black Box Mystery Build

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:13

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-01-29, 20:11: Spec: […] Show full quote Spec: CPU: ? Speed: ? Cache: ? Memory: ? Motherboard: ? Video card: ? Sound Card: ? Can you guess what it is ?…. A few obscure hints might help here, a plain black box isn't a lot to work with . .cant even tell how big it is .. …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:08

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That would make a great conversation piece for the cave ! Along with all the other mostly useless but cool junk. Just for the fun of it. But judging from not finding ANY of the hardware anywhere I looked for the past 10-15 years, not even a loose CPU - if there are any left anywhere, they must cost …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:01

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If we're talking pie-in-the-sky unobtainium items, I'd really like to have and play with an iAPX432 system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 :D been looking for one for years - none to be found anywhere. I think Intel had kill squads that went around the whole world destroying every …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:00

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I'm not sure what to paint it with. The enamels I have are very glossy, too glossy. There's a way of dulling such paint. Not the first item on my bucket list. Paint it then go over it with a fine grit sanding disc, if you do it right it should give a nice matte finish, could even buy a spray can of …

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Re: Warcraft 2 won't run at all on Windows 98 PC

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:57

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JustRob wrote on 2022-01-29, 19:46: I haven't encountered any problems with that so far. I did have to apply a patch to some other dos games because my cpu was too fast tho. Well now you have at least one that doesnt like it and other older versions of DOS4gw will likely have the same problem, but …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:46

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Exactly and nVidia wants to push TDP even further for Hopper ..they are likely to push stock power draw well past 600 watts per GPU since they are using MCM, we might have to start using AIO cooled GPUs, I know an AIB is making a 1kw 3090ti for overclocking. Not the first time they are pushing it. …

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