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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 35440 of 52353, by dr.ido

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The only people I know who actually used TV cards back in the day were those using them to watch analog cable TV. When you signed up for cable internet it didn't take long to realise you connect the incoming cable to a supported TV card and decode the encrypted channels in software. I could never get it to work - Installing a PIC in the cable box worked better for me.

Reply 35442 of 52353, by LewisRaz

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LewisRaz wrote on 2020-08-11, 20:49:

I sent a low offer for this on ebay and accepted a counter offer of not much more.

Quite a mystery box... Cannot find much/anything about it and this was the only pic provided..

Arrived today. Poorly packed but its an absolute unit and is not damaged besides the front panel screw mounts needing to be glued back on.. Looked that way already from sellers pic.

I will drop this 1 image 😁

It also is working perfectly after I noticed the rear part of the VLB card was not pushed in at all.

Everything bar the case/psu looks brand new. Not a spec of dust on anything.

£30 well spent 😀

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Reply 35444 of 52353, by blurks

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JidaiGeki wrote on 2020-08-13, 23:28:

As for my purchases, I bought a MiroConnect 34 Wave, in sealed box. Box is huge! Pictured next to a sewing machine for scale.

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Sorry, me not understand. Need banana for scale. 🍌

Reply 35445 of 52353, by chrismeyer6

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blurks wrote on 2020-08-14, 18:23:
JidaiGeki wrote on 2020-08-13, 23:28:

As for my purchases, I bought a MiroConnect 34 Wave, in sealed box. Box is huge! Pictured next to a sewing machine for scale.

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Sorry, me not understand. Need banana for scale. 🍌

Oh banana for scale I see we have a Tim Dodd fan!!!

Reply 35446 of 52353, by andrea

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gex85 wrote on 2020-08-14, 11:25:

The second board is an Intel DH61SA, very low-end Socket 1155 board with a Pentium G640 (Sandy Bridge) CPU and 4GB of RAM. No idea what to do with it though. Probably put it to storage and throw it away in 10 years 😉

Wait, Intel was still messing around with that no-external-graphics-on-cheap*-boards nonsense by the time Sandy Bridge was out? I wouldn't be surprised if, all things considered, having to make and stock the full-featured boards and all of its crippled in various fun ways variants ended up costing them more than just making only the full board.

Also I can't help but wonder if it only has 2 SATA ports in an attempt to recycle those dodgy B2 chipsets.

*especially since Intel's idea of cheap isn't actually that cheap. An AMD APU would have probably made a better all-around system for the same or less cash.

Reply 35447 of 52353, by schmatzler

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I've got a Thinkpad A22m without any damages to its frame and I'm so happy about that!
It's simply amazing. Most of the old A series Thinkpads have shattered frames because IBM used low-quality grease for the display hinges - so they get stiff and when you open up the notebook, the hinges break out of the frame and your shiny new retro notebook is just crumbling apart.

The hinges on my model are very stiff, but it still magically survived. The machine probably wasn't used at all for at least a decade.
I "just" need to disassemble them, get rid of the dried up grease and put new grease in there - I ordered some MoS2 because it's supposedly good for that. Let's see if it really is.

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Reply 35448 of 52353, by mastergamma12

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gex85 wrote on 2020-08-14, 11:25:

The second board is an Intel DH61SA, very low-end Socket 1155 board with a Pentium G640 (Sandy Bridge) CPU and 4GB of RAM. No idea what to do with it though. Probably put it to storage and throw it away in 10 years 😉

FFS Intel.

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Reply 35449 of 52353, by SilverHawk

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My local honey pots for old hardware seem to have run dry. I did happen to find a Sony CDU4821 CDRom drive the other day. I did manage to get lucky last month during a Covid delayed spring cleaning day. Neighbor put out quite a few old HP Pavilions and a nice desktop 386DX with AT Keyboard and a couple monitors to boot. Pun intended. A few pics. Note I filled in some empty slots when I was getting them running.

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Reply 35450 of 52353, by bjwil1991

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Went to Sanilac County today and got this sealed Gravis Blackhawk joystick for $3:

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Reply 35452 of 52353, by vellu

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New old stock Zalman GPU coolers. Those were the days. 20 euros together incl. shipping

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Reply 35453 of 52353, by wirerogue

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i'm a sucker for these. can't help myself.
if i could just stop buying cases, i would probably stop building new machines.
nos antec ks382. kinda weird that this is smaller than my ks282.

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Reply 35455 of 52353, by Repo Man11

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These were included in the lot I bought a week ago Saturday. I have no motherboards to test any of them, so I'll just stash them away until I hopefully do. 266 Celeron, two Slot One P3s (400/512 and 600/512 ) a Pentium Pro, and an 800 Slot A.

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