Nice find. It's PC Chips, so probably check the caps before putting in too much run time. Recap as necessary (or just for good measure) and don't stress the board too much.

It's a good combo to have around from a historical perspective as PC Chips was so notorious for shoddy quality and cheesy relabeling of chipsets.

Ok so this is actually over two days, but whatever.

Cleaned up a recently purchased second hand Apple Keyboard A1048. The thing was so dirty, I didn't even try it at first. It sat there for a couple of weeks before I got bored enough to do the clean.

Before:

During:

After:

Sorry about the huge number of images... I just had to share this many-hour-long journey with someone that appreciates this kind of thing!

Nice work!

Looks brand new again. I'm not into Apple hardware, but I have always liked the look of those keyboards!

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Ok so this is actually over two days, but whatever.

Cleaned up a recently purchased second hand Apple Keyboard A1048. The thing was so dirty, I didn't even try it at first. It sat there for a couple of weeks before I got bored enough to do the clean.

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Sorry about the huge number of images... I just had to share this many-hour-long journey with someone that appreciates this kind of thing!

Thanks!

I got it for cheap at a local market and couldn't resist cleaning it up 😀 turned out nicely.

Got an AcerPower/M Ultima PC along with an Acer 6311 K9R/RU keyboard for free. Now for the question - how the heck do I open this case up?
It seems to be somehow screwed inside the front panel, so it's impossible for now without getting thin pliers or just breaking it, which I don't want to do.

http://imgur.com/a/DGJ2D

If I had to guess, you are going to have to pull off the front bezel to get to the screws securing both sides and possibly the top. After that, the top/left/right piece can be pulled off as one from the front.

Not computer related.....
My children are visiting for the holliday week, and I helped them do these two.
The one with 3 "cat" eyes are my daughters work, and the screaming one are my son's design.
He is only 5 years old, so I transferred his design and helped by cutting.
Really fun to do these kind of things. Makes me happy that they are happy.

I thought Jack-o-lanterns were a North American thing! Word to the wise, save the seeds and roast them with a pinch of salt!

gdjacobs wrote:

I thought Jack-o-lanterns were a North American thing! Word to the wise, save the seeds and roast them with a pinch of salt!

The american halloween are a thing here too. The real Danish "halloween" is the day after the American.
We are even more crazy, as we hand out x-mas presents the 24'th of december in the evening.
Yeah....
"Fastelavn" (Carne Val in other countries) are the one that traditionally were the party were children were dressing in costumes.
It is still being held. Basically speaking, the children have two costume parties a year now.
And they still break the barrel, with candy. 200/250 years ago, people stuck a cat inside, because people thought they were evil.
Now they are only eating the candy hidden inside, instead of chasing a cat stuck inside, in order to kill it with big sticks.

Things are better now.... Children get two party's and cats are not killed for fun anymore.... Win-win.

EDIT:
I was just told, that the thing about killing a cat. Was to keep the black death from entering the town.

Christmas evening presents are not unusual. It's still a thing in a lot of Franco-Canadian families along with tourtiere after Christmas mass. And sugar pie (tarte au sucre). And sucre à la crème.

Anyway, I was more surprised with pumpkin (squash in general, really) being common in Europe.

gdjacobs wrote:

Christmas evening presents are not unusual. It's still a thing in a lot of Franco-Canadian families along with tourtiere after Christmas mass. And sugar pie (tarte au sucre). And sucre à la crème.

Anyway, I was more surprised with pumpkin (squash in general, really) being common in Europe.

Well.... Most people attend mass too. Most. Contrary to the rest of the year, were only 2 to 4 % of all Danes attend any mass.
That excluded the basic things like funerals, baptism, wedding and so on.

gdjacobs wrote:

Christmas evening presents are not unusual. It's still a thing in a lot of Franco-Canadian families along with tourtiere after Christmas mass. And sugar pie (tarte au sucre). And sucre à la crème.

Anyway, I was more surprised with pumpkin (squash in general, really) being common in Europe.

Presents on Christmas eave is not unusual here in the US either, but the house hold tend to open the bulk of the gifts on Christmas morning.

As for chasing a cat around with sticks, I rather do that on Halloween. I hate cats.

Jade Falcon wrote:

As for chasing a cat around with sticks, I rather do that on Halloween. I hate cats.

Nice. I dislike dogs but you don't see me chasing them around with sticks.

krivulak wrote:

Few days ago I scored free Socket 7 board, so finally today I got the time to test it.
I haven't heard about ST X86 company before.

Free is always nice! I'm glad it's working fine.

Aaahh ST microelectronics. It's currently an half Italian half French company that produces transistors and IC's. Back in the old days made also microprocessors ,like yours and the "It's ST! 486" widely used in industrial controller boards (at least here in Italy.)

Today i did a little tune up and troubleshooting for this P-2 400.

It turned itself off randomly during operation, and refused to restart until unplugged from AC.
Updated BIOS, disabled acpi,checked bios config, no dice.Changed PSU, no more problems. Seems that the old power supply is failing.
I also added a fan to the Voodoo Banshee, since i touched the small heat sink and it was really hot, too hot for my tastes! I had this cheap and small chinese fan and it fits perfectly!

I had to sacrifice one pci slot space, since it's a bit.. thick. As you can see i'm putting that 100ohm resistor to lower the voltage and lowering the fan RPM. It's way too big for this purpose, but i have heaps of them.
Now it's Cool and Quiet! And also stable!. Tested a good hour with Mechcommander 😀 .

mongaccio wrote:

I had this cheap and small chinese fan and it fits perfectly!

I bought an expensive 60mm Austrian fan for my Radeon 9600XT. 😀

After I recieved my SCSI harddrive. I have begun building the last machine for my collection/personal museum.
This build is aimed at authentic era speed. Plus minus some. More or less a machine, as you would buy back in and around 1987/88.
This build is in other words, a build slightly faster than a standard 286 (not those super fast 286's)

I have used a motherboard with a 386sx33 and a 387 math co-processor.
I have installed 4 megabyte of 60ns Ram (quite shure it's not 70ns).
40 megabyte Conner SCSI harddrive, wich came from an old Macintosh LC.
An Plextor CD-RW SCSI drive.
An Adaptech 1542c SCSI controller with build in Floppy controller.
A-Open 300watt low noise ATX psu (with -5volt) and an ATX to AT converter cable.

At this moment it is running with a Trident 9000c ISA card, because I am waiting for a CL-5424 1mb ISA card.
For sound, I am thinking of installing something that has SB-Pro standard and not SB16 (seem's more appropriate)

It is by far fast. It is actually slow for a 386 system. Though I like it as it is right now.
Slow, and makes the right noises. Responds like PC's used to respond back then.
Everything brings back memories, and I really look forward to game some Dynablaster, Stunts, Stuncar Racer
and other nice titles on this machine. For the record. The SCSI drive runs cold and not that loud.
So... Low capacity, slow, cold. Just what I want from a SCSI harddrive, for this project. 😜

Turns out my dead clicky springy IBM keyboard wasn't so dead after all! After an extensive repainting of most of the membrane tracks, every contact were finally working. I took some time to clean all the keys and mount everything back, and while all keys are working ( I'm typing with it right now), some keys seem to have a faulty spring as they activate at the gentlest touch, not a normal keypress. Ugh, it means I'll have to open it again to change them. Removing keys and reseating them is only fun the first time, after the fourth time you just want to be done with it.

jarreboum wrote:

Turns out my dead clicky springy IBM keyboard wasn't so dead after all! After an extensive repainting of most of the membrane tracks, every contact were finally working. I took some time to clean all the keys and mount everything back, and while all keys are working ( I'm typing with it right now), some keys seem to have a faulty spring as they activate at the gentlest touch, not a normal keypress. Ugh, it means I'll have to open it again to change them. Removing keys and reseating them is only fun the first time, after the fourth time you just want to be done with it.

Please tell me your repaired a Model M2!! I tried to redraw the membrane traces using a liquid silver conductive pen but the resistance looked way too high and putting it all back together just to test it is a pain...

brostenen wrote:

Well.... Most people attend mass too. Most. Contrary to the rest of the year, were only 2 to 4 % of all Danes attend any mass.
That excluded the basic things like funerals, baptism, wedding and so on.

Perhaps, but I think the coma inducing amount of sugar is pretty unique.