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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

RyzenMaster.sys said:
My daily driver laptop is a HP Elitebook 8470P (i7 3720qm, 8gb ram, 240g SSD) I absolutely love how repairable it is.
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Yeppers, I have a pal that has that same laptop and have had to replace his hard drive and I couldn't believe how easy that puppy came apart. :p
 
My Thinkpad E540 is also very easy to clean/repair as it has the door for easy acceptable RAM/SSD/CPU.
 
Possibly compact for the time, but it is harder to repair than any other laptop I've ever owned. My HP is both thinner and far far easier to repair.
 
I hate when you have to disassemble the whole laptop to do some maintenance/upgrades. And it's 100% sure that there will be at least one screw left over. :laugh:
 
How many of you have or had one of these classic Pc,s .
i understand they weren,t so populer in the US.It is only recently i have heared about it.As i have only had a PC since 2005.It looks a good Pc.What with the new Mini 500
it looks cool. :)I wish it had the full funtions like the origanal ,not just the games.Will any of you be getting one of thses?
Since joining this site i have been getting more and more into Retro stuff. :)
 
Greenslade said:
How many of you have or had one of these classic Pc,s
i understand they weren,t so populer in the US.It is only recently i have heared about it.As i have only had a PC since 2005.It looks a good Pc.What with the new Mini 500
it looks cool. :)I wish it had the full funtions like the origanal ,not just the games.Will any of you be getting one of thses?
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To be honest, I haven't even seen an Amiga live ever. I had a C64 though but I sold it to my friend.
 
Greenslade said:
How many of you have or had one of these classic Pc,s .
i understand they weren,t so populer in the US.It is only recently i have heared about it.As i have only had a PC since 2005.It looks a good Pc.What with the new Mini 500
it looks cool. :)I wish it had the full funtions like the origanal ,not just the games.Will any of you be getting one of thses?
Since joining this site i have been getting more and more into Retro stuff. :)
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My friend had Amiga, we used to blast North & South, MK 2 and Worms on it. All I remember about was that mouse was terrible and fatality in MK 2 had you swapping floppies.
 
MaenadFIN said:
To be honest, I haven't even seen an Amiga live ever. I had a C64 though but I sold it to my friend.
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That is another intrsting one the C64. The maxi one looks good
Hope they rlease a full size Amiga 500 with all the funtions like the PIMega with the full funtion of the Amiga ,from another of my fav you tubers ET Prime
the Pi rules such a amazing Pc. :)
 
Greenslade said:
That is another intrsting one the C64. The maxi one looks good
Hope they rlease a full size Amiga 500 with all the funtions like the PIMega with the full funtion of the Amiga ,from another of my fav you tubers ET Prime
the Pi rules such a amazing Pc. :)
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Yeah I've seen that C64 mini video before. 8-Bit Guy is a great youtuber what it comes to old (usually not x86 PC) hardware.

edit: This is a great playlist from him if Commodore interests more:

 
Greenslade said:
How many of you have or had one of these classic Pc,s .
i understand they weren,t so populer in the US.It is only recently i have heared about it.As i have only had a PC since 2005.It looks a good Pc.What with the new Mini 500
it looks cool. :)I wish it had the full funtions like the origanal ,not just the games.Will any of you be getting one of thses?
Since joining this site i have been getting more and more into Retro stuff. :)
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The Amiga was an amazing computer for its time. It was far ahead of the competition when it came out, especially in the graphics and sound department. So much in fact, that we wouldn't see anything with similar performance for another two-three years. Only when the fourth generation consoles hit the market and VGA and Adlib became standard on PC compatibles, did they come close to the Amiga. Because of its superior multimedia capabilities, this computer is also widely credited with popularizing the demo scene.


I played many games on my buddies' Amigas and I remember being mightily impressed with them. Never had one myself, though. I almost persuaded my mom to get me the Amiga 1200 as my first computer, but on her friend's advice I ended up with a 386 PC instead.
 
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I made a separate thread for X58, check it out everyone if interested. On this subforum.
 
QuietBob said:
The Amiga was an amazing computer for its time. It was far ahead of the competition when it came out, especially in the graphics and sound department. So much in fact, that we wouldn't see anything with similar performance for another two-three years. Only when the fourth generation consoles hit the market and VGA and Adlib became standard on PC compatibles, did they come close to the Amiga. Because of its superior multimedia capabilities, this computer is also widely credited with popularizing the demo scene.

I played many games on my buddies' Amigas and I remember being mightily impressed with them. Never had one myself, though. I almost persuaded my mom to get me the Amiga 1200 as my first computer, but on her friend's advice I ended up with a 386 PC instead.
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It Certainly seems it from the you tube videos i have seen. :) I look forward to a new full sized version of it.With all the stuff they had on them not just the games.After all there are lots of places you can play games on.Could the c64 do more than just play games?o_O
 

I'm getting in a bunch of Crucial Ballistix DDR2 (mostly the newer yellow model 8/16FE5, couple Crucial 10y Anniversary, couple low-capacity Tracers). This video was taken during my testing of 2x2GB Ballistix D2 sticks, at default timings just to make sure they work as expected. To the naked ear, you can clearly and frequently hear an electrical ~pszh~. It's most obvious in the very beginning of the recording, I hope it's easy to make out! It seems to happen every time it switches test patterns - and during normal use, I can tell when the CPU is idle by the noise :pimp:

Volterra VRMs can be noisy apparently, a lot of folks on Newegg were complaining about this board being loud. I actually like it a lot ;)

Results to come, once I've sifted through the ~10 sticks I'll end up with. Most of them should be similar dies, though, mainly being the newer 1Gbit Micron dies (specific IC uncertain to me).
 
Greenslade said:
It Certainly seems it from the you tube videos i have seen. :) I look forward to a new full sized version of it.With all the stuff they had on them not just the games.After all there are lots of places you can play games on.Could the c64 do more than just play games?o_O
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Oh yes. The C64 was a very capable machine. Though originally envisioned as a game console, and primarily remembered for its extensive games library, the C64 was a personal computer after all. It was used for office productivity, desktop publishing, graphics design, music composition, and even for accessing online services (among them some of the earliest MMORPGs). And did I mention demoscene? :)

 
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QuietBob said:
Oh yes. The C64 was a very capable machine. Though originally envisioned as a game console, and primarily remembered for its extensive games library, the C64 was a personal computer after all. It was used for office productivity, desktop publishing, graphics design, music composition, and even for accessing online services (among them some of the earliest MMORPGs). And did I mention demoscene? :)

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To me, the Amiga line was when Commodore really hit success as a personal computer maker.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Never saw one. While I used and knew DOS well, I was never impressed by it like I was with GUI based OSes.
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Well, before youtube, I didn't even know that such machines existed :laugh: I just watch so many retro hardware videos..

Interesting lineup of Commodore nevertheless.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Never saw one. While I used and knew DOS well, I was never impressed by it like I was with GUI based OSes.
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You know they made GUI programs for DOS. I still have one.
 
I am really cheesed off i ordered a PC part from china ,and the delivery service said they had delivered it showing a picture of a door not mine :(
The first one is where they delivered it .o_OAnd my door with no letterbox.The item was only a PCIe unit it does not look very well packed to say the least.o_OI don,t know Whether the seller put the wrong address on it, or the delivery person can,t read or what.o_OUsually our postal service are good.They do sometimes deliver to the wrong address on occasions. The item would have been delivered very quickly if i had received it:(.Have you had stuff been delivered to the wrong address?o_OI am sorry about my rant, hope you are all having a good day.:)433 another picture of the wrong door delivery, showing the poor packing. o_O
 

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