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Today my 386 is getting some love Promise EIDEmax controller - has it's own bios so you can use drives bigger than the bios supports (504mb). Tseng ET4000ax 1mb - replaced the Trident card 3com ethernet controller so I can FTP stuff across  I should.probably retrobright this but 
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Does anyone do refurbishing of vintage laptop batteries? I'd think that especially for NICAD and NIMH batteries, you could just swap new cells into the pack and be good to go. Weirdly, I dont believe I've ever seen anyone doing this
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Feb 16, 2023 21:26
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I think modern batteries are more standardized but in older ones (where it might actually be worth refurbishing over buying a new pack) there's not really any guarantee you'll be able to find cells of the right size/shape/voltage, especially if the pack is old enough that you can't just buy a new one.
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Feb 16, 2023 21:32
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Does anyone do refurbishing of vintage laptop batteries? I'd think that especially for NICAD and NIMH batteries, you could just swap new cells into the pack and be good to go. I've re-celled some old Apple Duo batteries, it's a PITA and you need get one of those portable spot welders they sell on Amazon(specifically for this purpose) in order get the whole assembly back in its plastic case(I first tried soldering, no go). The packs work fine though.
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Feb 16, 2023 21:39
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Does anyone do refurbishing of vintage laptop batteries? I'd think that especially for NICAD and NIMH batteries, you could just swap new cells into the pack and be good to go. The 8-bit guy has a video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDnTXqoqjM
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Feb 16, 2023 21:56
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JnnyThndrs posted:I've re-celled some old Apple Duo batteries, it's a PITA and you need get one of those portable spot welders they sell on Amazon(specifically for this purpose) in order get the whole assembly back in its plastic case(I first tried soldering, no go). The packs work fine though. How about adhesive conductive tape?
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Feb 16, 2023 21:56
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c0burn posted:How about adhesive conductive tape? i don't know, I just know that the clearances are miniscule between "new pack fits" and ""won't fit", the only way I was able to get the new cells close enough together was to buy a spot welder and some nickel-plated metal film sold specifically for making battery packs. Doing that allowed me to get the cells close together so they juuuust fit. I first bought cells that already had lengths of the film pre-spot welded and then soldered the film together; that functioned fine but made everything a bit too thick to go back together. I figured since I'm always screwing around with old hardware, I'll get enough use out of the spot welder to be worth purchasing. It was like $80, they had cheaper ones down to about $45 - expensive if you make 1 pack, not bad if you make a bunch of them.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:07
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c0burn posted:The 8-bit guy has a video on this I'm not listening to anything the ate poo poo guy has to say about anything involving power supplies or batteries.
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Feb 16, 2023 23:40
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Cojawfee posted:I'm not listening to anything the ate poo poo guy has to say about anything involving power supplies or batteries. Fair point. No paper clips in this one!
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Feb 16, 2023 23:44
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If the batteries start on fire you can shoot the fire with the gun you use to order sandwiches at subway
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Feb 16, 2023 23:46
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I want to say I remember that being the first video where I was worried he had no idea what he was doing and was going to kill himself, but instead I think he just destroyed a battery pack?
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Feb 17, 2023 01:57
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c0burn posted:I should.probably retrobright this but IMO it's fine for old things to look old but maintained. Like the toning on a old coin, or something.
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Feb 17, 2023 03:06
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I remember my old hand-me-down computers being yellowed out already back then, probably more from cigarette smoke than UV rays. Having a clean greige 386 would just feel wrong.
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Feb 17, 2023 13:36
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Did my first real soldering project and it worked on the first try - just a little alarm clock but i'm pretty proud of myself.   Now I have more confidence to start tackling some recaps/repairs on my vintage collection -i'll make a bigger post soon, but I acquired a bunch of stuff for next to nothing by just searching for "old computer" etc on craigslist. The best score was a mint kaypro iv with a box full of software and documentation for $100.
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Feb 17, 2023 16:30
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 Got the 17" model today. Did a system check on it, it's supposed to have 512MB RAM from the factory but only has 256MB in it. Time to track down some DDR1 for it
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Feb 18, 2023 11:46
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You Am I posted:
Envy. God drat, what a great era that was.
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Feb 18, 2023 13:27
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I see that photo and all I can think of is
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9kwsAgLRo
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It’s wild, before smartphones I always went for the smallest phone, which for me culminated with the Startac Micro. Now every year I hope they make the iPhone just a little bigger.
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Feb 18, 2023 18:21
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Kazinsal posted:The coolest external SCSI drive I ever got my hands on had a rotating wheel for setting the ID. Absolutely loving rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImkZvLOCfA
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Feb 18, 2023 19:02
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I do not miss SCSI one bit, no siree.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:It’s wild, before smartphones I always went for the smallest phone, which for me culminated with the Startac Micro. Now every year I hope they make the iPhone just a little bigger. If all you were doing was calling/texting and occasionally needed something like a simple game/calendar/calculator, tiny phones make the most sense. If you're consuming media or using it to take photos/any of the other 20 things our phones do, a larger screen makes more sense.
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snorch posted:I do not miss SCSI one bit, no siree. SCSI rules when it works. When it doesn’t it’s a huge pain in the rear end
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I miss SCSI, it’s great having fuckoff-expensive cables the diameter of your thumb that could possibly have four or five different connectors on them(not even counting Apple’s laptop connector). And setting poorly marked/unmarked jumpers is a blast, especially when you gently caress up and lose the whole device chain. Not to mention The Joy Of Termination, or lack thereof, especially for devices both external and internal that don’t offer termination so you’d better have an extra plug on your cable and a terminator to match. Truthfully, I kind of enjoy loving around with it on a hobbyist level, but it was a PITA back when you needed to make something work in order to be productive.
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Feb 18, 2023 19:18
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“SCSI voodoo” is what we called it. Always remember to use a terminator. Unless it’s not working then take terminator off and maybe that will work.
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Super Ultra Fast Wide Long Deep Ultra3 SCSI
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Data Graham posted:Super Ultra Fast Wide Long Deep Ultra3 SCSI <heavy breathing commences>
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Seriously, what could you possibly need 80 pins for?
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snorch posted:Seriously, what could you possibly need 80 pins for?
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While I’ve used computers with it, naturally. I’ve never had to deal with configuring any SCSI, and yet I owe it a debt of gratitude: I’m working on a Karate Champ arcade PCB and it connects the CPU and Video boards together using a 50-pin (happens to be SCSI) IDC ribbon cable. This allowed me to go to MicroCenter and grab a new, much much longer one for $7.99 American. It works great and has helped so much to have a cable longer than the original 3inch one. Thx SCSI!
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I’m shocked micro center carrys scsi cables
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I’m shocked that you can even still buy components at brick and mortar stores, we don’t have poo poo in the UK anymore.
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also it's super easy to make idc cables. clamp em in a vise, or even just use pliers if you're careful giant chunky centronics connectors should be used for more things tho, imo
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Data Graham posted:I see that photo and all I can think of is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbuwfawqcc Too bad they didn't do a sequel ad with the 15" model.
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Raluek posted:giant chunky centronics connectors should be used for more things tho, imo Beating people to death with them would work well, I think.
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I feel like I got away easy - the only SCSI devices I've used were 80 pin SCA, with zero configuration needed. (And SAS, I guess.)
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Raluek posted:also it's super easy to make idc cables. clamp em in a vise, or even just use pliers if you're careful the new ipad pro now with 80 pin serial connector
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Only 80 pins? Pfft. Try building something out of PC/104 "stackable" boards sometime.
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Powered Descent posted:Only 80 pins? Pfft. Try building something out of PC/104 "stackable" boards sometime. i forgot about these. i worked at a computer store for 7 years, we had a display with a selection of these and i dont think i ever remember a single one being sold
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JnnyThndrs posted:I miss SCSI, it’s great having fuckoff-expensive cables the diameter of your thumb that could possibly have four or five different connectors on them(not even counting Apple’s laptop connector). And setting poorly marked/unmarked jumpers is a blast, especially when you gently caress up and lose the whole device chain. Some time in the early 2000s I had an Akai sampler that used SCSI to transfer data from the computer to the sampler. I had to use two adapters back to back because I couldn't find a single adapter between the SCSI connector types. Good times, indeed.
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