What retro things have you done today?

Yea, not going to go too high on the bid. Had a few things from Italy in the last few weeks and postage etc has been fine + i'm still virus free*.....

*cough.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Yea, not going to go too high on the bid. Had a few things from Italy in the last few weeks and postage etc has been fine + i'm still virus free*.....

*cough.
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Yep, same, had a few bits from Italy, my Parhelia was from Italy! Just using plenty of Dettol wipes (as well as taking a swig of toilet duck every now and then) on stuff that arrives.
 
Very top end of OK price wise, as a second card may be an OK buy, my worry would be this is early signs of the card packing up.

Also loving the bleach comment :p
 
paradigm said:
That is indeed weird. I’ve seen 72-pin to 4x 36-pin risers before, allowing you to use 4 36pin SIMMs in place of a single 72, bit never a 72 to 2x72. Can’t fathom what that’s for.
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A vague hope here:
http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/hardware/simmsaver/

The SIMMSplitter (2x72-pin(single bank)to 1x72-pin(double bank))=$29.00
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So allows you to use 2 single sided simms in place of a double sided (on boards that support double sided)

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Also seen some mention that similar things are useful e.g. in Amiga and Mac accelerator cards that only take a single simm
 
paradigm said:
That is indeed weird. I’ve seen 72-pin to 4x 36-pin risers before, allowing you to use 4 36pin SIMMs in place of a single 72, bit never a 72 to 2x72. Can’t fathom what that’s for.
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I own one of those with 4x 1mb 36 pin simms fitted

 
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I do love those, they look so janky!

Oh and @LewisRaz, I'm currently installing XP SP3 onto my Athlon XP/A7N8X build from a SATA DVD-ROM to a SATA SSD. F6 driver was the key, the ones on the ASUS website work just fine for the SIL3112R. :)

First time I've used my GoTEK as well, just for the driver floppy :p

Once the install is done, I'll only have SATA in this build no IDE, no floppy, though I might end up using that PCI to CF-RAID card!
 
Ah thats good!

I might get the urge to build mine back up. My "MESH" case is now free after I sent the motherboard to @Firestar_3x :)



Might enjoy the build more in that case instead of the crappy blue aluminium thing
 
paradigm said:
Well, you don't want to make another "Voodoo 2" level mistake ;)
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You are right!
Pulled the motherboard, controller and vga. The SB2.0 has bids so has to stay up. Plus I really dont need that. The dodgy controller can stay up too :)

I guess tonight I am unpacking the parts and rebuilding that 486 hahaha...
 
My Corsair XMS Pro PC3200 arrived!

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