eccerr0r
Solder Sloth
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Joined: 11-08-2012
Location: CO
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Yeah there was a pci 2.2 and 2.1 that I recall that was an issue where the pci2.2 required 3v3 on the bus, the older 2.1 all had LDOs on 5v to power 3v3 devices or something like that. But I think these were all 2.1 or older, I don't recall ever getting many 2.2 cards. -
hmm. nope, he's dead, Jim.
Or at least they don't like the BX board either.Leave a comment:
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PCI compatibility of old PCI chipsets and "newer" GPUs?
I could have sworn my PCI ATI Radeon 9250 was working, but when I stuck it in an old 82430TX P5 board, it didn't work... is this expected?
I suppose I'll need to test it in a AGP board to see if it works or not, but this struck me as weird.... -
TBH postscript is just another language. It's more likely the people who used macs were more into developing the better layout software. I think today it's parity and only reason to get apple is to be locked into their ecosphere (yes, after the Apple II which didn't have postscript, I have no love for macintosh.)Leave a comment:
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BTW are these advertisements trying to sell me 5¼" DD's?
(How do I get rid of these ads?)
...Last edited by eccerr0r; 07-20-2025, 11:05 AM.Leave a comment:
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I thought that write protect hole/high density media detect were for the ring binder...Leave a comment:
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Glued the broken piece back together. Still weak but the drive works once more. Don't recall when it broke or if I acquired it broken, alas glad the drive is otherwise working.
Odd that I ran into a bunch of HD 5¼" disks that have bad sectors or won't format. And 3½" disks that had bad sectors... should just toss all the bad disks I suppose.
hmm...need a better way to test disks if they're really still good or not...Leave a comment:
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The drive I'm currently trying to fix is a half height chinon 5.25" floppy drive. It's mechanically broken 😢 probably will have to design a fix. Then also having to deal with the apple disk ii... find which disks that need to be disposed of...
Damn where can I get cheap 5.25" DD's...Leave a comment:
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Ugh ... back to square one. just lost a working disk, think something's pooping in the soup, or rather, one of the bad disks is contaminating the head.Leave a comment:
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Yes I'm getting ads while I'm posting. I don't think I can post this without being logged in... Some of these ads are obtrusive and distracting and TBH if it's trying to get me to leave this platform, it's working...
BTW back on topic, I just got some known good formatted disks. Was able to verify one of my Apple Disk II's as working as well as my dual combo drive. My single 5¼" HD drive however is sick... just a mechanical issue however: the hub clamp is not working. A bit of extra force on the clamp and the drive reads once more!Last edited by eccerr0r; 07-11-2025, 06:38 PM.Leave a comment:
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Uh wow. not related to your post but this new version of forum software put an irrelevant inline ad in your reply as if you wrote the ad and trying to peddle the product... I'm not sure I'm liking this version......
Last edited by eccerr0r; 07-11-2025, 06:37 AM.Leave a comment:
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Yeah seems so, though probably the largest contributor was the PC and partially mac. Amigas and other systems were minor consumers. But there were so,so,so many 5¼" computers out there that one would think there were a lot too.
Granted every single 5¼" HD (15spt) disk was PC I think, though not all 80 track 5¼" disks were PC. DD 35/40 track disk were all over the place...Leave a comment:
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sometimes I wonder, were the number of 5¼" disks ever made more or less than the number of 3½" disks?
But yeah, already having readability losses in 3½" disks, leading to believe 5¼" disks are older and worse...Leave a comment:
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No there really is something to tube sound, mainly because of how tubes handles saturation. Yes mosfets *should* sound similar when running in active forward mode but it's not linear (though you can add circuitry to linearize it).
TBH I think mosfets should be run only in class C/D...
But we digress...Leave a comment:
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TBH I don't even care about the so-called "tube sound" ... IMHO since semiconductors are more linear, they have less THD and thus better...
But making a floppy drive emulator really isn't the same thing, might well just emulate the whole machine...Leave a comment:
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well real vacuum tubes are real vacuum tubes, vacuum tube emulators (i.e. using transistors to fake a vacuum tube so you lose vacuum tube properties) "aren't hot"...Leave a comment:
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It's 2025: do you know where your 5¼" floppy drives are?
Oh wow.
As in the other thread I was trying to revive/re-bootstrap an old Apple IIe and wasn't successful reading or writing any disk. Both drives behave similarly.
Then I was wondering, what about my PC floppy drives? I have a HH 5¼" HD drive and a combo 5¼+3½ drive. I tried formatting the disk that wouldn't work in the Apple and it didn't work in the PC either!
Then I tried a HD 5.25 disk ... it won't even touch the disk either! Just like the Apple DD disk, "Not Ready!"
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The number of floppy disks in the world is going down. I wonder if they'll ever become rare enough to have to make them like they do vacuum tubes... then again floppy emulators are a thing, though vacuum tube emulators are not hot....in more ways than one.Leave a comment:
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yeah i don't know why they decided to jack the price. Perhaps losses on the bad packs? If they didn't write that they were all good then maybe it wouldn't be an issue...
But maybe demand went up?
hmm...still tempted to get more batteries. I wonder if I should try to re-cell my eeePC's battery pack (2S3P 18650) though without a tab welder...Last edited by eccerr0r; 07-06-2025, 07:29 PM.Leave a comment:
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Also wtf. People say you can clean mold off floppy disks? And be readable once more? Seems a bit unbelievable IMHO.Leave a comment:
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