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Reply 35100 of 54979, by bjwil1991

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Received the ET4000AX ISA card today and the RAM.

I cannot get the ET4000AX ISA card to work and I'm not sure if the EPROMs went corrupt or what and I cannot find my EEPROM removal tool anywhere. I'd use a screwdriver, but I'm too lazy to use one and the chips can break if not careful.

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Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
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Reply 35102 of 54979, by bjwil1991

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Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA. It has the H-BIOS, L-BIOS, and X-ROM chips, all of them are the same, except for the speed (150ns for the H-BIOS and L-BIOS, 200ns for the X-ROM).

Getting the ROM information at the moment from the chips and will reinsert them into the card. Might've been a loose connection or a bad connection. Also have plenty of 28-pin PDIP sockets, so.

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Reply 35103 of 54979, by MKT_Gundam

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Finally i got the fastest p3 coppermine 100fsb , 1.1 GHz.
I will use it on my p3bf.

Retro rig 1: Asus CUV4X, VIA c3 800, Voodoo Banshee (Diamond fusion) and SB32 ct3670.
Retro rig 2: Intel DX2 66, SB16 Ct1740 and Cirrus Logic VLB.

Reply 35104 of 54979, by imi

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imi wrote on 2020-07-01, 16:45:

haha, time to slide into the bottomless pit of spending on amiga stuff now... I'm still missing a mouse before I can do anything though ^^
I seem to have a hundred different mice, but not a single Amiga mouse apparently ^^

heeeeeeeeeeeelp!

they got me D:

so.... I needed a mouse, right... so I got five! (or four?)
two commodore tank mice, because... I needed those right? every Amiga owner needs to have at least one of those right? and somehow I am an Amiga owner now. so I got two.
one Commodore 327124-15A mouse originally for A600/A1200 and A4000 if I am not mistaken? fitting, should I ever get one, 🤣 as if (lol?).
one Logitech M-PG14, this one seems nice, with short adapter cable... idk if that is needed for use on Amiga as this mouse is apparently compatible with Atari and Amiga and they got slightly different pinouts right? need to measure that.
and one Genius GM-M-337... not sure about this one, was sold as Amiga mouse and untested, can't find much info about it... need to check if this is actually Amiga compatible, idk, might not actually be one.

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two external disk drives, because you need those right?
one of them is supposedly broken, need to check, going to use one for a gotek anyways :3

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external power supplies, one "light" and one "heavy" version... wait... why do I need those? the A2000 one is internal.

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oh no

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what did I do...
whoops... now I got an Amiga 500 after all, my poor wallet.
Rev.6a board and it has one of these: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/megichip 1MB chipram expansion, a normal 512K ram expansion and a KickROM selector thingy.
I wonder if I can stick the MegiChip in my A2000 with 1MB and get 2MB there? :3c

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and just because why not I also got some spares...
only a Rev.5 board but has all chips apart from CPU and a case on top of that. might actually switch the bottom of this with the complete A500 as that one has two holes drilled on the side for the switches, while this one seems to only have one in the top.

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Reply 35105 of 54979, by cyclone3d

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You have fallen into the pit..... HAHAHAHAHA. One reason I have resisted getting anything Amiga. My downfall is sound and video cards.... and CPUs though not quite as much.

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Reply 35106 of 54979, by waterbeesje

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There was this auction where nobody made a bid and for fun I made a nonsense bid: €30 (minimum opening bid)
The item: a laptop, Compaq SLT286.
Expectation was the seller would cancel the auction because of low bids (which is allowed so no hard feelings)
But the seller contacted me if I liked it shipped or I'd drive over to collect it.

What would you do?
I've got it 😁

Cons: Dallas clock is dead, battery is missing and the keyboard cable is crunchy.

Pros: Besides the cons, it is in mint condition.
Included were there adapter, a serial mouse, mouse pad and the original Compaq bag.

The laptop turns on, takes half an age to test the memory (4,64MB!) and then begs for a diagnostics disk, not booting from hard disk.

Nice one eh?

Stuck at 10MHz...

Reply 35107 of 54979, by darry

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waterbeesje wrote on 2020-07-14, 21:10:
There was this auction where nobody made a bid and for fun I made a nonsense bid: €30 (minimum opening bid) The item: a laptop, […]
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There was this auction where nobody made a bid and for fun I made a nonsense bid: €30 (minimum opening bid)
The item: a laptop, Compaq SLT286.
Expectation was the seller would cancel the auction because of low bids (which is allowed so no hard feelings)
But the seller contacted me if I liked it shipped or I'd drive over to collect it.

What would you do?
I've got it 😁

Cons: Dallas clock is dead, battery is missing and the keyboard cable is crunchy.

Pros: Besides the cons, it is in mint condition.
Included were there adapter, a serial mouse, mouse pad and the original Compaq bag.

The laptop turns on, takes half an age to test the memory (4,64MB!) and then begs for a diagnostics disk, not booting from hard disk.

Nice one eh?

Looks like you've got yourself a fixer upper . Enjoy .

Reply 35108 of 54979, by imi

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🤣, I literally just bought one for the same price, only mine is very very far from mint condition x3 ...and no bag 🙁

Reply 35109 of 54979, by CMB75

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waterbeesje wrote on 2020-07-14, 21:10:
There was this auction where nobody made a bid and for fun I made a nonsense bid: €30 (minimum opening bid) The item: a laptop, […]
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There was this auction where nobody made a bid and for fun I made a nonsense bid: €30 (minimum opening bid)
The item: a laptop, Compaq SLT286.
Expectation was the seller would cancel the auction because of low bids (which is allowed so no hard feelings)
But the seller contacted me if I liked it shipped or I'd drive over to collect it.

What would you do?
I've got it 😁

Cons: Dallas clock is dead, battery is missing and the keyboard cable is crunchy.

Pros: Besides the cons, it is in mint condition.
Included were there adapter, a serial mouse, mouse pad and the original Compaq bag.

The laptop turns on, takes half an age to test the memory (4,64MB!) and then begs for a diagnostics disk, not booting from hard disk.

Nice one eh?

That's a real beautiful 286 laptop with more than 4MB of RAM ... looks gorgeous!

Reply 35110 of 54979, by chrismeyer6

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Wow that laptop is in great shape. Once you fix the dead Dallas that will be a fun toy to have

Reply 35111 of 54979, by wiretap

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Athlon 700MHz and brand new Aavid cooler. For a whopping total of $17 shipped off eBay. Now I just need a motherboard. 🤣

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Reply 35112 of 54979, by chrismeyer6

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That is a great deal on that slot A Athlon. It looks super clean too.

Reply 35113 of 54979, by Marentis

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Today my ASUS CUV4X-CM Medion 2001 with a Pentium 3 1000EB arrived and what can I say? Very nice for an OEM board. The bios even allows cache control and the board is so tiny
which makes it viable for small cases. So far I'm playing around a bit with it, installing Windows 98SE and seeing what it can do.

Reply 35114 of 54979, by hejluxom

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Number nine S3 trio 64v+
Maybe for a socket 7 build?

Reply 35115 of 54979, by hejluxom

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Quite hard find nowadays...

Reply 35116 of 54979, by gex85

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Since I was running out of functional optical drives, I went shopping on the local classifieds site and got a total of four drives, two of them being NOS and another two in hopefully good condition.

Another purchase was the MS Sidewinder Precision Pro, the very same model I had back in the day and that somehow got lost over the years. NOS as well, bundled with Flight Simulator 2000!

Will post pics once everything arrives.

My retro computers

Reply 35117 of 54979, by buckeye

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MKT_Gundam wrote on 2020-07-14, 16:43:

Finally i got the fastest p3 coppermine 100fsb , 1.1 GHz.
I will use it on my p3bf.

Nice! Been craving those for some time. Maybe when the all the planets align.....

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 35118 of 54979, by Bancho

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I bought this laptop on a whim. Its a Compaq Armada 7792DMT. Looks to be in nice coniditon. I believe this model has the Pentium 266MMX Tillamook chip inside. Until the unit arrives i won't know the full spec. I will have to try and track down the CD-ROM for it as just the floppy aint gonna fly.

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Reply 35119 of 54979, by chrismeyer6

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That laptop looks to be in very good condition. Nice find