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Reply 2001 of 4586, by peido

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Got the chance to pick up some stuff that was going to the dumpster. (...) Laptop […]
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Got the chance to pick up some stuff that was going to the dumpster.
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Laptop

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(...)

Just to warn you to check the bios battery, I have the same laptop and it's in really bad shape due to that. Toshiba laptops usually have problems with leaking batteries.

Reply 2002 of 4586, by Kadath

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

@Kadath, motherboard looks like a CHAINTECH 7NJL1-APOGEE / nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset

Thanks friend, I've just seen the Chaintech logo on the fan holo - I've cleaned everything, but I'm not a socket 462 fan, maybe I'll sell or exchange everything for other stuff I like more - said that, the mobo seems to be nice looking in the right windowed case (after the caps restoration job).

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Reply 2004 of 4586, by peido

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Yesterday I went to a computer store to buy thermal pads.
After paying, I asked them if they had any old computer going to the trash and they gave me this strange laptop:
Leo Cedar (FIC DESIGNote 5200CDT / 5220CDT) - laptop with logo similar to Peugeot

They also gave me a Dell Latitude D510:

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Haven't test them yet.

Reply 2005 of 4586, by stamasd

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peido wrote:
Yesterday I went to a computer store to buy thermal pads. After paying, I asked them if they had any old computer going to the t […]
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Yesterday I went to a computer store to buy thermal pads.
After paying, I asked them if they had any old computer going to the trash and they gave me this strange laptop:
Leo Cedar (FIC DESIGNote 5200CDT / 5220CDT) - laptop with logo similar to Peugeot

They also gave me a Dell Latitude D510:

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Haven't test them yet.

I posted some info I found with a quick search about the strange laptop in your other thread.

I/O, I/O,
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With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

Reply 2006 of 4586, by peido

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stamasd wrote:

I posted some info I found with a quick search about the strange laptop in your other thread.

Thank you very much 😀
Laptop is working.

About the Dell, I can't test it because I don't have the PSU.

Reply 2007 of 4586, by xjas

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I got lucky yesterday and scored a literal box of stuff from one of my usual picking spots. I don't have time to post everything right now, but I'll show off some of the choice pieces.

First up, this EISA+VLB hybrid 3/486 board with a bunch of ECC RAM. The main socket can take a 486 or 387, and there are empty SMD solder pads to add a 486SX/"80386A" and another marked "87DLC." Interesting board. No CPU, unfortunately.

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Looks great, except for this bit:

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Ewww...

Despite this, there was a sticker on it proclaiming it "works." That could have been written 20 years ago for all I know. Or it could have been written 5 minutes before someone put it in the pile. 😜 I'm pretty sure people put stuff out in this spot knowing I or one of the other regulars will be by to collect it. Can't complain.

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Naturally, that battery had to come off ASAP. After some quick manual labor and a bit of cleaning with an isopropyl wipe, it looks like the board made it out unscathed:

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^^ googling this doesn't seem to turn up anything useful, at least at first glance. Anyone know who made this or what model it is?

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Reply 2008 of 4586, by xjas

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Not as spectacular, but cool for me, was this minty IBM mouse with a little pushstick instead of a scroll wheel (and a severely truncated middle button.) Pretty comfortable to use, actually. Naturally it goes perfectly with my same-era Thinkpad X24, as pictured here.

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It's a USB ball mouse, which I found strange - I remember optical mice taking over before USB did, but there was definitely a period of overlap where all four combos could be found. I bet it supports PS/2 with a passive adapter.

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Reply 2009 of 4586, by xjas

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An MSI LGA1155 board (maybe useful - my fastest desktops are still C2Q/775/DDR2, although I don't feel like rebuilding either of them to use this), a pretty nice looking Asus AM2 board with SLI & ECC support (good for my glacially-slow-progress FreeNAS project, maybe), and four unremarkable Core 2 Duo & Athlon 64 CPUs.

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To be honest, the CPUs went back in the bin - they were all fairly scratched & beat up, with a lot of bent pins, and I have better ones for any of those platforms. I was going to toss the motherboards too but the Asus looks significantly better than my current AM2 setup and the ECC support is nice to have. I've actually never messed with SLI either. Might be a fun project there eventually.

I kept the 1155 board for now, but it seems pretty bare-bones. If I'm going to go to the trouble to upgrade one of my Core 2 Quad machines I want a better featured board to start with. Might just pass that one on to someone else who needs it.

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Reply 2010 of 4586, by liqmat

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xjas wrote:

Naturally, that battery had to come off ASAP. After some quick manual labor and a bit of cleaning with an isopropyl wipe, it looks like the board made it out unscathed:

Great news the battery caused no damage. I have found such beautiful boards in the wild only to find out they are ruined by leaking batteries. So frustrating.

Reply 2011 of 4586, by TheMobRules

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xjas wrote:

^^ googling this doesn't seem to turn up anything useful, at least at first glance. Anyone know who made this or what model it is?

EXP 3409 sounds like a Dataexpert board, this HINT-3/486WB seems to be a pretty close match:

http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/m/C-D/31797.htm

Reply 2012 of 4586, by xjas

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^^ Dude! That looks like exactly what it is. It had HINT-branded chipset under those stickers too. Thanks tons for that!

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Reply 2013 of 4586, by bjwil1991

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Good thing the battery didn't cause any damage to the board. I've seen worse damage done by those things, but, luckily, I've seen boards that had repairs done on them from the battery damage being sold on eBay.

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Reply 2014 of 4586, by stamasd

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That's a very neat board, but as it's an EISA board you'll have to find its EISA configuration utility to be able to use it properly.

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

Reply 2015 of 4586, by dionb

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Not every day I come across a pile of 'junk' that contains a type of hardware from the sort of period I'm most familiar with that I'd never even heard of before...

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Pretty obvious what it is - a sort of Zip/Jaz competitor from the turn of the millennium, after CDR became prominent, but before DVDR (and people having networks by default) put all of these people out of business.

Bit of a dilemma: that disk is new and sealed. On the one hand I'm curious, on the other it seems a shame to violate its virginity...

This came out of a box I was told was about to be thrown out. Apart from this, it was mainly cables, a few 10/100 NICs (none technically special, some black though), some TNT2 M64/Gf2MX cards, piles of (dirty, probably loud) fans, a few HDDs and optical drives and quite a few usefull 'brick' type PSUs - two 12V beasts, a 12V+5V with Molex connector and a variable-voltage thing with built-in USB 2A charger. Oh, and a used disposable razor, some batteries leaking cadmium, unspecified smoky-smelling dirt and a tangle of cheap telephone headsets.

Reply 2016 of 4586, by bjwil1991

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Very interesting. That could be using SCSI. I wonder what the rate of speed is for that?

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Reply 2017 of 4586, by dionb

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bjwil1991 wrote:

Very interesting. That could be using SCSI. I wonder what the rate of speed is for that?

Most of these things were SCSI, but this one's ATAPI.

It runs at 5400rpm so I'd sort of expect it to be similar to a low-end 5400rpm HDD from that period. But finding that out is one of the reasons I'm considering violating that sealed disk.

Edit:
Found a review https://www.ixbt.com/storage/orb-test.html

Seek time is about 50% higher than a Quantum CR, transfer rate at the beginning of the disk is ~25% lower (but more consistent: at the end the Orb actually beats the CR) - but real-world-ish WinMark 99 benches show it scoring between 33% and 50% of the CR.

Reply 2018 of 4586, by Dog

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I managed to pick this up, brand new in box for $25 from goodwill

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It is designed to be a rackmount desktop case which I thought was interesting, and it says it supports up to 14 slot motherboards.

I still need to figure out what components I want to put into it. I was kind of wanting to build an XP or 98 machine with it. I'm finding myself a bit stuck because I'm concerned about compatibility from DOS -> XP and I'm starting to feel like I need three machines. One for DOS, One for 98, and One for XP. Part of my concern is I remember Beyond Good and Evil had compatibility problems with dual core processors and did not support 98. This is making me feel like there is a void between early XP and late 98 and I'm finding myself in analysis paralysis.