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D.8080

Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1474 Location: Italy
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:24 am Post subject: |
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The "Australian syndrome" is hitting the US.
Interesting, I'm expecting this pandemic soon in Europe, looking forward to it.
Some of are getting extremely lucky these days. The only time I found a pc "in the nature", had been stripped of any intersting parts.
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Never had an A-1000 in my hands, max was a 900 of a friend, but he sold the pc, so no "I'll take care of it for you". |
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el_gecko

Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 1553 Location: Nice, France
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:31 am Post subject: |
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I think PGA 286 motherboards are more and more difficult to find, on deuttai.com we looked after one since many months to test some strange chips. Keep it intact  _________________ My microprocessor collection: The Gecko's CPU Library |
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debs3759

Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 9477 Location: Northampton, Divided Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| Neon wrote: | Orion is the core nickname.
I don't think that any of the slot A are rare;
if I recall, the fastest slot A processors were not favorites at launch, because the socket A platform was available with equally fast processors. So the 600-800 seem to show up a lot more frequently.
I just won an eBay auction of slot A processors, which should arrive next week. If they are all 1000's, then I will change these words. |
If they are all 1000's, I'll take one off your hands  _________________ My graphics card database can be found at http://www.gpuzoo.com.
I can resist anything except temptation.
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donutty

Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 1122
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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@ donutty...I hope you are going to keep the PC AT (IBM) complete!
I would love to pull the CPU from this PC....but it's in such nice condition and the hard-drive purrs, so I guess I'm stuck keeping it intact if I can find a way to access the os on the hard-drive, since the IBM Basic screen appears at startup and I don't know how to switch to DOS or whatever is running on the hard-drive!
Any help would be appreciated.
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Just pull that 286 and put a different (more common) 286 in there! That's what I do in this situation. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| el_gecko wrote: | I think PGA 286 motherboards are more and more difficult to find, on deuttai.com we looked after one since many months to test some strange chips. Keep it intact  |
I would be happy to test any strange 286 chips on this board for any member. Just PM me.  |
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johnorun

Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 3364 Location: Chicago, IL- US
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Me above ^  |
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johnorun

Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 3364 Location: Chicago, IL- US
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| donutty wrote: |
Just pull that 286 and put a different (more common) 286 in there! That's what I do in this situation. |
I would, but I don't have another 286 PGA in my collection...
Any for sale or trade...? |
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CPUShack

Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 34259 Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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