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What retro activity did you get up to today?

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Reply 400 of 28625, by leileilol

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More shader tweaking
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Reply 401 of 28625, by Caluser2000

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Unboxed my newly aquired Amiga A600 with external fdd and tested to see if it was functioning correctly. Yip party like it's 1992 baby!! I know it's not x86 but...............

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Reply 402 of 28625, by brostenen

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Caluser2000 wrote:

Unboxed my newly aquired Amiga A600 with external fdd and tested to see if it was functioning correctly. Yip party like it's 1992 baby!! I know it's not x86 but...............

Yet quite retro in terms of computers...... 😉

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 403 of 28625, by brostenen

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Had a blast doing some retro setup and testing of my newly aquired TNT2 Ultra 32mb AGP from creative.
Passive cooled.... Tried it in both K6-2 and Slot1 Celeron systems, and tested out how far up in driver versions I could get.
Untill the system just gave too many errors, before I reverted to 5X.XX drivers for this baby.

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Reply 404 of 28625, by JidaiGeki

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Just testing some old gear, starting with Socket A stuff. Got an NF7-S given to me as a dead board up and running. Next thing to do is update the SATA firmware so it supports 2TB drives.

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Went on to test out a GF3 board - seems to be nVidia reference, with part number P50, thought it was a Ti200. Sadly it gave an error code on POST. I took the HSF off - turns out to be a Ti500. Might try the oven trick on it and see if it can be brought to life at all ...

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Reply 405 of 28625, by Robin4

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Iam being busy with dismantle my Laser XT/3 8086 machine and starting cleaning.. Also the insides of the power supply gets a nice dust free clean, so everthing would like usable again.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 406 of 28625, by CelGen

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After several weeks talking to someone on #VC about dialing my terminal controller into their AS/400 system we decided to give it a go today after he assisted in finding me an image of the microcode boot disk and partially configuring everything.

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It started to work but there's still a few issues with configuration. The controller overrides the modem and makes it immediately try and originate a call even though no number is programmed.
He also forgot to plug his modem in before he left work. 😒

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Reply 407 of 28625, by PeterLI

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Yesterday I installed a NL educational program about saving energy from 1990. That was a lot of fun. 😀

Reply 408 of 28625, by Bullmecha

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Just got my Interplay 15th Anniversary Anthology Disks.... Time for some gaming fun.

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Reply 409 of 28625, by SquallStrife

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CelGen wrote:
After several weeks talking to someone on #VC about dialing my terminal controller into their AS/400 system we decided to give i […]
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After several weeks talking to someone on #VC about dialing my terminal controller into their AS/400 system we decided to give it a go today after he assisted in finding me an image of the microcode boot disk and partially configuring everything.

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It started to work but there's still a few issues with configuration. The controller overrides the modem and makes it immediately try and originate a call even though no number is programmed.

He also forgot to plug his modem in before he left work. 😒

Hardcore. I love it!

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Reply 410 of 28625, by JaNoZ

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@duncan.
Your 4DPS might be crying out for a fresh button battery. 😀
Seems the symptom anyway, or bad cache or tag or its timings.

Reply 411 of 28625, by oerk

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SquallStrife wrote:
CelGen wrote:
After several weeks talking to someone on #VC about dialing my terminal controller into their AS/400 system we decided to give i […]
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After several weeks talking to someone on #VC about dialing my terminal controller into their AS/400 system we decided to give it a go today after he assisted in finding me an image of the microcode boot disk and partially configuring everything.

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It started to work but there's still a few issues with configuration. The controller overrides the modem and makes it immediately try and originate a call even though no number is programmed.

He also forgot to plug his modem in before he left work. 😒

Hardcore. I love it!

Yeah, why not have an AS/400 in your living room? 😎

Part of my education was programming COBOL on an AS/400... not fun for a teenager, but I have respect for these systems now.

Reply 412 of 28625, by PeterLI

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AS/400, System i, i Series were/are exceptional machines; highly dependable and secure. They are like A10 Warthogs. Almost nothing will manage to bring them down.

Reply 413 of 28625, by retrofanatic

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PeterLI wrote:

AS/400, System i, i Series were/are exceptional machines; highly dependable and secure. They are like A10 Warthogs. Almost nothing will manage to bring them down.

Agreed. The company I work for still uses an AS/400 system for accounting I believe. It's been rock solid for over 25 years.

Reply 414 of 28625, by ODwilly

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Well I got drunk today for thanksgiving. And bought 2gb of pc133 of ECC ram for my p3 (which wasnt needed) and threw a bid at a slot A motherboard. oops. Guys alcohol and ebay dont mix

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Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 415 of 28625, by smeezekitty

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ODwilly wrote:

Well I got drunk today for thanksgiving. And bought 2gb of pc133 of ECC ram for my p3 (which wasnt needed) and threw a bid at a slot A motherboard. oops. Guys alcohol and ebay dont mix

Eh why not?
You can never have enough RAM sticks IMO

Reply 416 of 28625, by ODwilly

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haha thanks. I feel slightly better about my poor decision making xD I have so many 256mb sticks that I could probs make the money back selling pc133 haha

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Reply 417 of 28625, by tokroger

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Replaced yesterday bios-battery to Thinkpad 380 ED wich I trashpicked last weekend. Now it boots without any faultcodes 😀

Reply 418 of 28625, by 133MHz

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Since the Macintosh Plus repair became a bit more involved than I expected, requiring me to take out the oscilloscope and isolation transformer I decided to check out the UK Apple IIc I got along with it. Made a compatible power supply out of a 12V 1.5A brick I had lying around and a female DIN5 plug to which I drilled two holes for the extra unused pins, built a null-modem cable for data transfer and dug out & cleaned a QuickShot Apple/IBM compatible joystick I had buried in a box of techno-junk. Fired it up and got a pleasant surprise:

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The computer is outputting NTSC video in full color! 😁 So I sat down and played a few rounds of Retro Fever. 😀

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Reply 419 of 28625, by Caluser2000

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Nice. I remember having one of those joysticks on my first x86 box-a clone 286/16. Never did find out where it disappeared to. .

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉