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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 17:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:00: Are there regular users here who hail from a different profession: like a medical officer, a non-technical engineer, a mechanic of sorts, athlete, cook, entrepreneur, social influencer, etc? Yes. Computers are just a hobby 😀

Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a

Posted on 2024-04-21, 12:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those CL cards are working.... sort of :-) Anytime when one of these are in isa slot then signal from integrated vga is disappearing. When pull it out then integrated vga gives signal again. Seems like that cards are overriding signal or disabling integrated vga card. Would be great having cable …

Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a

Posted on 2024-04-21, 12:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The M233a is there; it's just slightly easier to find on the archived website from the period - https://web.archive.org/web/20011223085649/http://support.euro.dell.com:80/docs/systems/dhanplus/Specs.htm Neat find0- thank you. Seems there may have been a few BIOS versions ( A00 , A01 and possibly …

Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a

Posted on 2024-04-20, 16:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here's what mine looks like (ebay photo)

Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a

Posted on 2024-04-20, 16:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like a system with previous industrial use... ...top two pics are likely data acquisition cards (488.2 on the bottom one refers to IEEE 488.2) Would guess multi-chip CL cards are for some form of associated multi-monitor display, probably on breakout cables from the 37 pin d-sub connector. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-15, 16:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Everex Systems, Inc. Maxi Magic EMS EV-165A Thought I had got lucky, but the top right IC is very corroded 🙁 Not sure it's going to work

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all I have a load of stuff to giveaway - see the attached photos. Some of it is a little random. You can collect from Bristol or I can post - but you pay the postage. UK only please. Boxed software may not have license numbers Dell SFF PC has a power issue Floppy diks not tested. Keyboards …

Re: Supermicro P6DNE - Eaten by Varta´s barrel bomb -> back from the dead

Posted on 2024-04-14, 15:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

majestyk wrote on 2024-04-08, 07:38: I found a nice way to replace the original VARTA pest-barrel with a - more benign - 3.6V lithium cell. Anyone who owns an old Macintosh will tell you these are not so benign.... 🙁

Re: Floppy drive problem on win95B

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there a jumper on the ISA card to select drive types?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-14, 13:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bjwil1991 wrote on 2024-04-14, 12:53: Bought a Zenith Data Systems Z-Note 325Lc bundle Love tht aesthetic that Zenith had at that time...

Re: Bios locked on pentium 3 Sony vaio laptop

Posted on 2024-04-13, 20:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trozzul wrote on 2024-04-04, 01:17: Yes! after 3 attempts: "system disabled 00108" Hmm, not modern enough to use the Sony recovery system codes... See other suggestions

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-13, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dual headed ET4000 card from STB Systems...

Re: Bios locked on pentium 3 Sony vaio laptop

Posted on 2024-04-03, 20:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it generate a code when you enter the incorrect password three times or just lock/shutdown?

Re: Picked up a Gateway 2000 P4D-66 - but it isn't...

Posted on 2024-04-02, 16:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Update: I've now obtained all the parts I need and I'm about to restore this to it's former glory. A knock on effect is that I need an AT case to put the P5A-B into. Not a lot of choice on ebay.co.uk and not what I'd call reasonably priced. Anyone have a dsktop or small tower case for my lonely P5A …

Re: Supermicro P6DNE - Eaten by Varta´s barrel bomb

Posted on 2024-04-01, 16:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

majestyk wrote on 2024-04-01, 10:12: After threading another wire through it the mainboard came alive again - after three years. This was quite a journey... Amazing work - congrats...

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-29, 18:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just received 3x QDI Socket 370 motherboards - appear to be unused 😀 Caps look good - really hoping they work!

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