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10 minutes ago, da na said:

Fascinating! Thank you.

4 hours ago, WhitetailAni said:

Ooh does it have the silly 59 or 60-pin connector for running 2 monitors?

 

I wonder if some manufacturer created a dual screen display type setup thing that just had a DMS-59 or whatever the 60 pin one is called connector on it, instead of requiring an adapter.

 

 

On an unrelated note, my Pentium 3 PC has received some upgrades!

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The old optical drive wasn't working properly in Windows, and my backup never spun up discs. So I have this monster of a drive now. CD and DVD burner.

It's not period accurate, but neither is the 5.25" floppy drive right below it.

 

I also got an LS-120 SuperDrive. I wanted to get an LS-240 but there aren't any available... sad. I wanted to try out their ultramegahigh density formatting of a regular 3.5" floppy - apparently it uses some form of SMR to squeeze 36MB out of the things? There was only ever one model sold in the US, which makes them really difficult to find... This one was only $55 at an antique mall.

I also have a Zip-100 right below it. Wanted 250 but 100 was free. It does the job.

 

The empty bay will be accepting a V2000Si Jaz drive. I have a 2GB Jaz disk with mystery contents, and I always wanted a Jaz drive.

 

I also removed a random 8.3GB hard drive that was in there with... nothing but the files to install a DirectX runtime on it. It just has an 80GB drive now - I needed to make space for the Zip drive.

 

I can't remember if I mentioned this but I also upgraded it to an 800 MHz Coppermine P3, from a 500 MHz Katmai. It also has a WinTV PVR-150 though I don't have drivers yet (optical drive was broken last time I turned it on).

 

 

I did finally figure out some of what was wrong with the NEC drive... but in the process I accidentally broke it.

The mechanism to load/unload a disc caddy is triggered by a button. Button pressed: mechanism go. Button released: mechanism stop. At some point the button had been pushed just a bit too far up and so it was being held for just a bit too long... which triggered the mechanism to release the disc caddy and so it just loops continuously.

I pulled the button out and attempted to manually operate it, which did work - I was able to get a disc caddy down onto the reader. However, something with its detection is broken as it never spins up the disk or attempts to read it.

 

I then went to put it back together, but the button that triggers the disc caddy mechanism broke (it's handled by a spring, and the spring snapped...) and so it's not really useful anymore...

 

On opening it up a capacitor fell out, so I'm guessing there's damage somewhere on its logic board - but I can't figure out how to take it apart. I put its pieces into a cardboard box for the future, but it's probably dead

That Zip drive is sexy.  You're in the states aren't you?  I have a couple of period correct CD ROM/burners if you'd want to pay the postage on them.  Frog isn't quite period correct either don't worry about it.  I got a 5.25" drive on a PIII running strictly DOS 6.22 at the moment.  So much so that the momentary power button on my case doesn't turn the thing off cause dos doesn't know what to do with it.  It just resets  

3 hours ago, Alvin853 said:

That generation of dual cores didn't have a 5000+, the 4800+

I'll have to dig it out to check it

Event viewer.  It's built in to windows

Not really a purchase this one.  Going to use it as a battle bag for when I'm bashing my RC cars  

Even came with the tool...insert...thingy..

My cousin gave it to me cause I think he got a new one

1 hour ago, Alvin853 said:

Don't think it runs Fortnite

Then welcome to the thread

1 hour ago, Alvin853 said:

That's a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4400+

I have a dual core Athlon somewhere  I think it's a 5000+ but not 100% sure.  I don't have a motherboard or anything for it though

51 minutes ago, Alvin853 said:

Does this classify as retro yet? 

 

does it run fortnite? that seems to be the 'test' for if it's retro or not.  Also is that an AM2? AM2+?  What CPU is it rocking? What GPU?

1 hour ago, Average Nerd said:

Banned 'cause you're not wrong.

Banned for even thinking about banning my Girlfriend

2 minutes ago, Average Nerd said:

Banned because despite 2,5 years of "higher" education I have still no idea what the standard deviation is for, and I managed to get around ever needing it.

banned for sending things way over my head

On 3/23/2024 at 12:06 PM, Average Nerd said:

Banned because Fusion 360 doesn't really allow much more than that with my level of skill.

Banned cause it's not really a slice

29 minutes ago, Kisai said:

For example, Final Fantasy XIV, you can only secure your property (house) in the game if you remain subscribed. If Square Enix one day decides to shut the whole thing down, and you've been subscribed to it for 10 years, you should be given a refund of $1800 for the destruction of your property.

 

Games like Fortnite, if it's ever shutdown, should have every single Vbucks refunded.

You're living in a fantasy world.  There's no way any governing body would force a corp to do this

6 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

ust make your own server

I don't roleplay on it.  I play the normal GTA Online

2 hours ago, Mumintroll said:

So?

So..I wasn't being confrontational I was just making a silly joke that The Crew, along with a lot of other Ubisoft games, sucks a$$.  I wasn't saying it to say "Well, the games suck so who cares."  I was just saying that the game(s) sucks.

I bought The Crew when it came out.  I wasn't sad when they shut the servers off 

I will miss GTA Online though....

Are they shortcuts to network locations?

That's the shortcut icon.  maybe the drive they are pointing to is taking it's sweet time to spin up.

Also if they're shortcuts to web apps that could be a reason for the hitching at the start.  It took me a few months to figure out why my PC would some days start really fast and others start really slow.  turns out on the slow days it was because the network drive i had mapped was in a computer that was switched off. When it was fast that ment the computer was on

After having it nearly a month.  building the electronics in it.  tuning the radio to it.  a ton of teething problems regarding the motor mount moving (first big crash on it which broke the shell) Finally getting it running right and having a stupid crash (which broke the lower arm) waiting for some bits to come all the way from China.  I think it's finally ready for a thrashing...

My ZD Racing Pirates 3 BX-8E walk around.

Still super happy with it.  Even more so now  

New camera/mic setup.  Finally putting the Canon 100D to rest on my telescope try and get some real pictures of the moon.  It's been a good run on it with the cheap, aftermarket power adapter I bought for it.  However since the move it's just not been happy.  It'll just shut off/freeze.  Some nights it would be really hot in the battery compartment.  Some night's it just wouldn't turn on at all.  The Logitech StreamCam seems to be a really good alternative to at least those 20-30 buck webcams you see in Supermarkets and stuff and I got this one for 60 quid, never used, on eBay.

Also i don't think i put it in the latest purchases but I've replaced my Presonus USB96 with a Steinberg UR 22 which I got from Cashies.  It was missing a knob when I got it but a replacement was only a couple of quid.  Seams good so far but my HD599s sound a little warm on it still

15 hours ago, 8tg said:

it looks like shit but

if it works it works

My last two wanted case badges for Frog   

Got the last one of those Roland ones.  5 other people had it in their basket too  

I got a cable like that that's been with me since my first custom built PC nearly 25 years ago.  I only keep it around for sentiment and only use it for testing these days where it's out in the open and visible

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Love this track

Well I'm currently sat at just ~2900 hours (2100+ on steam and ~700 RSGL) in GTA V, Just under 900 hours in Dark Souls PTDE, 313 hours in Project Cars and 192 in Tekken 7.  That's my top four most played in steam. 

This is our set up at work..

This whole rack with one thing in it...

and everything else stuffed in this corner..