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Reply 3640 of 27363, by Blurredman

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Not computer related other than the fact that it was a circuit board. Repaired the board that controls the electric rear window de-mister on my '80 Buick LeSabre. There must have been dry joints or perhaps the relay was a bit stuck because other than desoldering a few items to check their continuity (diodes), and general testing and some track repair it now fully works.. Stays on for 10 minutes pretty much exactly then turns itself off. Also can be pre-maturely turned off.

Pretty pleased.

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Reply 3641 of 27363, by brostenen

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Continuing to install my tripple boot Pentium-166.
It's got Os2-Warp-3.0 running with drivers, and I have MS-Dos-6.22 running on it.
Next and last step, is to get some Win9X action going on it.

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Reply 3643 of 27363, by brostenen

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keenmaster486 wrote:

I want pictures of that piece of awesomeness 😀

That Buick he's got?

Finally rounded up my day of retroness, and watched "Deathbed Vigil".

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Reply 3644 of 27363, by dogchainx

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I restored four computer systems this weekend, here are two "vintage" systems

386DX-20Mhz overclocked to 25MHz with onboad osc.
-8MB RAM, all board-mounted in sockets
-XTIDE LAN with 8GB CF card
-DOS 6.22, Win3.1 install
-5.25, 3.5 Floppy
-CD-ROM IDE
-SB16 w/IDE connector

Packard Bell
-486DX2-66
-8MB
-ESS Sound card (it actually sounds AWESOME compared to A LOT of SB16 cards...might keep it!)
-CD-ROM
-3.5
-1033MB IDE hard drive
-DOS 6.22, Win3.1

386DX-40MHz-8MB-540MB+428MB+Speedstar64@2MB+SoundBlaster Pro+MT-32/MKII
486DX2-66Mhz-16MB-4.3GB+SpeedStar64 VLB DRAM 2MB+AWE32/SB16+SCB-55
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Reply 3645 of 27363, by keenmaster486

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brostenen wrote:
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I want pictures of that piece of awesomeness 😀

That Buick he's got?

Dope slap time... *ow*.
Sorry, didn't make myself clear there, I meant your P166 machine 😊 Although pics of the car would be cool too, even though I personally would be a lot more interested if it was a '50 Studebaker 🤣

I really like Pentium machines from that era, they appeal to me about as much as any other retro machine. And 166MHz is just the right speed imho since I'm mostly into mid to late era dos games. But I am interested in seeing OS/2 running there, what do you mostly do with it? Games? Productivity apps? Screensavers? I have so little experience with OS/2 (read: none) that I find it cool to see it run on one of my favorite types of machine.

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Reply 3646 of 27363, by brostenen

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Ahhh.... Then you asked "for it" (don't blame me for picture overload) 🤣 🤣 🤣

Hardware wise, it still need some work. I really need to sort out that cable management.
As of now, because the original MOBO died. It is running on a FIC PA-2013 with a massive 1mb L2-Cache.
P-166 and a small cooler. 32mb Ram, and a modded HDD, as it is only Warp 4 that I can get to work on +8gb drives.
AWE32-CT:3900 (2mb simm's), S3-Virge(325) and Voodoo1.
The case is an A-Open HX45 from 1999/01. Yeah... Need to finish it up and mount a MPEG1 decoder card.
(just for the fun of it, having two full size cards)

When running in Os/2. I am going to use it as a text editor. Nothing else.
The primaery goal of my collection, is first of all, to have my own private museum of working machines.
Shure I will use them from time to time. It is only for keeping them Caps fit for fight.
When all machines are finished, I will be using a P-III 933 for my primaery retro-gaming box.

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Reply 3648 of 27363, by Blurredman

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keenmaster486 wrote:
brostenen wrote:
keenmaster486 wrote:

I want pictures of that piece of awesomeness 😀

That Buick he's got?

Dope slap time... *ow*.
Sorry, didn't make myself clear there, I meant your P166 machine 😊 Although pics of the car would be cool too, even though I personally would be a lot more interested if it was a '50 Studebaker 🤣

Considering I live in the UK, it is a pretty special car here. Even more interesting is that it was imported in '80 brand new to the first owner. Cost him $10,500 back then with a lot of extras. If you consider inflation then you need to times that by 3. I'm pretty pleased with American build quality of the car. A lot of things are cheap and a bit slap-dash like the original paintwork and plastics and trim, but an awful lot was done to prevent rust. The metal is so thick too. But it is comfortable (200+ miles and i could drive another 200 with no problem, Cruise control too!. Absolutely no bodily aches.. I also drive a Peugeot 205 (which I've actually driven to Serbia and Ukraine in seperate trips) which is pretty harsh to my lower back.

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Reply 3649 of 27363, by brostenen

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Got my self an Asus A7V-266 motherboard, and started on the test process to see if everything is ok.
I have only unmounted the active chipset cooler, and replaced it with an passive and massive one.
Tomorrow, I am going to walk over the jumpers in order to figure out what's missing on the board.
When everything is ok, I will start powering this baby up.

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

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Reply 3650 of 27363, by ODwilly

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Traded a 250gb WD server drive for a dual 1.4 Tualatin Compaq Prolient Blade server and a Dell Latitude P3 desktop. Charged up my camera batteries so expect some pics of my latest goodies in the Bought thread in the next day or two 😀

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 3651 of 27363, by brostenen

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Recieved that I/O shield today, so I put the machine together.

Intel D815eea2 Motherboard.
Pentium-III-933 Socket 370.
Noisy Socket-A cooler with an RPM limiter cable.
512mb PC-133 Kingston Ram.
Geforce4-ti4200 128mb AGP.
Yamaha-YMF724 Soundcard.
DVD-Writer with an SATA-to-PATA converter.
80gb WD HDD (with the same type of adaptor).
Floppy.
Antech PSU.
I have installed an 120mm low noise fan (like allmost silent) in the case too.

This one is going to run Win98se (no surprises there) and I might even slam Win2000 on it too.
Who knows... 🤣
The picture have become somewhat distorted, and I really don't know how that happened.
The machine looks great and ok in real life. Everything is straight in the case.

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Reply 3652 of 27363, by Splinter

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Played Project IGI on the full tower Athlon 700, V2 sli, then had a quick session of vanilla Half Life and all runs like a dream.
Then I installed Project IGI on my main shop gaming rig a Phenom 965, Radeon 7950 with Windows 10 x64 with no compatibility and it runs perfectly.

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Reply 3653 of 27363, by adalbert

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Just received almost for free Toshiba Libretto 100CT, physically damaged (screen and mainboard looks OK, but the case is totally devastated). It doesn't seem to work at current state, but maybe replugging some cables could make it work again. I will try to glue the case together and 3d print missing parts. I wanted that thing only for keyboard to be used with another libretto, but maybe i will be able to fix that machine.

I noticed that its CMOS backup battery has leaked - it is a 2.4V set of 2 nimh cells. I noticed some green and blue remains on the motherboard, but after cleaning with alcohol it looks fine! - and that's because entire PCB has gold-plated traces, even under the soldermask. That's interesting. So it looks that the electrolyte cannot damage the gold coating.

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Reply 3654 of 27363, by HighTreason

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Today I did some general MS-DOS tinkering, as in, I moved some files around and organized a few directories a little better.

Otherwise, I know people who live on the same street as the house I will soon go to view, so I went to look at their house to get a general idea. It appears my supplied dimensions were incorrect or else I did my math incorrectly (which is entirely likely). It barely exceeds half the size of what I have now and that includes the half-assed extension they made to the kitchen - those things need to be outlawed. The problem is, where do I draw the line on this? I mean, it's not like I'm going to get another house like the one I have now, that's a given, but I don't know where to draw the line on what to give up. From either angle, I have to lose out because I lose space, lose my lovely solid walls and lose money because wherever I end up the rent will be substantially higher. By this point i'm sick of it, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Part of me thinks I should have just kept the place on Bilton Grange and given up then and there - of course, that would have been a bad idea because it was a terrible neighborhood and I was repeatedly robbed anyway so rejecting it really was the right decision, but house-wise I honestly don't think there is anything better in the area, I think that kind of crap is literally the best this city has left at this point and my street is probably the last row of half-decent houses left. If I refuse this property I only have one left before they choose one for me and I have no choice in the matter.

At least it's a better neighborhood I guess and the houses aren't identical, so I'm not totally decided against it yet. Maybe I'll get there whenever they call me up to go see it and it will be great. Only time will tell I suppose, I'm just sick to death of this whole ordeal though.

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Reply 3655 of 27363, by brostenen

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#HighTreason...

I really hope that you will find the house that you will call home. And that as soon as possible. It must be hell to move around.
Wish you luck on you'r quest. 😀

On my behalf, I tested some GFX and Mobo combi's, just to freshen up my memory on them.
Then I did the garden, moved the lawn and removed some weed's, to make room for small roses.
Then I planted a couple of bamboo plants and finished the day off with some BBQ on hot coal.

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Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 3656 of 27363, by nforce4max

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Upgraded my HP TC1100 to having an SSD by using an adapter and a msata SSD, cloning XP tablet edition gave me some problems and ended up having to image then clone via the image. Boots a lot faster than the stock 4200 rpm battery hog and things run cooler which is a bonus.

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 3657 of 27363, by BloodyCactus

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got my MT32 trimmer pcb's back...

our illustrious, untrimmed DAC, the famouse PCM54

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and this is our little PCB, roughly where it sits.

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waiting for the trimpots to show up from mouser...

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Reply 3658 of 27363, by Ozzuneoj

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I got my eBay lot of 1986 vintage xr558cp dip ICs to add joystick support to my AST SixPak Plus. I also found some awesome old Logitech branded DB25 to PS/2 adapters do I could hook up my old Logitech Mouseman PS/2 to my IBM 5150. So, the 5150 now has a Tiny Turbo 286 7.16Mhz upgrade card (with a rear toggle switch to go back to the 4.7Mhz 8088), 640K, one serial (for mouse), one joystick (Quickshot QS210), an EGA card (works great on the 5153 monitor), an original Tandon 360k floppy, a 3.5" 720k floppy, a WD1002 MFM card and a 3.5" Miniscribe 20MB MFM hard drive.

Not bad really, since these systems have a total of 5 expansion slots and require cards for everything but the keyboard! If only I could find some way to get two of these cards combined into one, I'd have room to add either my Midiman card or my Sound blaster 1350b. That isn't necessary though. As it is, this will be my system to play text adventures and games that work well with the PC speaker and EGA or CGA graphics.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 3659 of 27363, by PeterLI

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Got a HP Brio Pentium 200 MMX in today. Paid $41 including shipping from GA. Works great except for the PSU fan. CPU fan (indirect) works. Came with 3.5" HD FDD, SCSI CD-ROM, Adaptec AHA-2940 and 3COM 3C509. Was sold for parts / repair. Need to work on a bit more. For s*** and giggles I hooked up my ST-296N on the AHA-2940. It does not allow me to boot from it. Probably needs a low level. Works fine with FDD boot though. 🤣 Playing Thexder II music. Groovy!

Got a CM-32L in today as well. Paid $65 including shipping from TX. Works great. Some stains. 😀 I love it! Was sold for parts / repair.