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Upgrade IBM 1MB Short SVGA Card (FRU: 71G0650) to 2MB

Hey Guys, So I found online that I might be able to upgrade this by piggy backing two addional NEC 424260-70 and tweaking the connections abbot... Has anyone done this on the board, and what additional...

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Asus p4p800 se motherboard with 3.0ghz cpu and 2g memory $15

Got this motherboard as part of a trade for some other stuff. Upgraded cpu and added memory. Board cleaned and new Heatsink Compound applied to both cpu and chipset, Cmos battery replaced. Tested all...

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FS: Asus p4s800 with p4 1.7/400 cpu

Got this some time ago as a trade. Cleaned and re-applied heat sink compund to the chipset. Board tested fine, and the Cpu is a pull from a another working machine that I upgraded. No I/O shield or...

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List of computers/hardware once thought to be rare that aren't today.

Thought this might be a fun topic. One of my enduring interest has been to track original Apple II sales. There are a couple of reasons.. one being to observe the application of different motherboard...

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United Parcel Smashers

I shouldn't have been surprised by this, but for some reason I was. KIMG0879_crop_466x542.jpg KIMG0877_crop_498x480.jpg KIMG0878_crop_496x384.jpg It was only the stout contents of the package that...

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Russian KM1801VM3 J11 clone - has anyone done anything?

The KM1801VM3 chip is available from several vendors on Ebay and there is a Russian document on it. Has anyone tried to do something with it? Hooking it up with some RAM and serial port as can be done...

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Tandy Model II with 8Mhz 68000 Board

Hello Everyone, I have a Tandy Model II working like a champ, and I was lucky enough to get ahold of an 8Mhz 68k board, and two 256k memory boards. This board seems to be the one used in a Tandy 6000,...

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Zenith ZFL-181-93 Expansion Port Pinouts?

Hi everyone. I was wondering if someone has the Z-180 pc laptop owners manual and wouldn't mind checking if it has the pin-outs for the external floppy and expansion port. It would be of great help to...

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Wanted: roland mpu-401 controller card

Wanted: roland mpu-401 controller card to drive my mt-32 on my 486 in DOS.

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WTB: 3.5" Hard drive multi-pack shipping carton and foam

Looking for one of these in decent or better condition, 15-20 slot. Looking to store drives in these, so I need one of the single foam/styrofoam monolithic "block" type ones that dont fall apart the...

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Wanted: Socket 370 Tualatin adapter or Slot 1 adapter

Hi all I'm looking for something to allow me to adapt a pair of Tualatin CPUs to an older dual Slot 1 board with some Coppermines in at the moment. Ideally I am after Powerleap IP3/Ts, however I'm open...

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Cas2wav?

I want to convert my CAS files into WAV to load into a real machine. Is there a CAS2WAV source code anywhere? This is what i've tried so far: I found this python program (attched). It generates a wav...

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'Tis the season for static, be careful!

Over the years of working on computers, I've developed the ocd-like habit of grounding myself regularly on the nearest wall plate screw. Don't even really think about it anymore, except when i get the...

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"Revolutionary" Epson Cartridge-Free Printers

link: https://epson.com/ecotank-super-tank-printers Heard an ad for these while driving and listening to the radio a few days ago. I enjoy that this is marketed as a new, "revolutionary" concept. We...

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9 Kingston KNE120tx (rtl8139 based) PCI Network cards with boot proms...

Clearing out stuff I had from an old project. Most have the WOL wires included. Some of the MAC addresses are sequential, so would make WOL scripting easier. All of them have ST M27c256b eproms (I...

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DEC Transceivers

I found a bunch of random networking and SCSI equipment from (I think) DEC systems. Various transceivers - twisted pair to 10/base T; AUI to 10baseT and a combination of all three of those standards....

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misc IC lot: 2716 eproms, cache ram, unknown, 486/pentium procs

Got a box of random stuff as part of a trade and these were part of it. Some of the ic's pins may be slighty bent, the proc's pins all look good. Don't quite have time to check. 14 2716's, most with...

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Misc pci/agp/isa cards, untested, make offer

Have a couple of cards that i saved as working some years ago, but haven't tested since: Video: Ati Radeon AGP (RV100 32m sdram) Geforce PCI 6200 256mb ddr2 Sound: 2x Creative Labs Pci CT4750...

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Today's eBay frustration: modem mishap..

After a couple weeks of waiting for the TRS-80 modem I bought on eBay to arrive, I was excited to open the box... until i seen it was a different modem they sent me... How do you confuse these two?...

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