Loaded up for #vcfwest #vcfw this weekend - a bunch for the consignment room, and a handful for the freebie table

And a bag of goodies for pre established trades 😁

If you are at vcfw, say hello

What is VCFW you say?
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

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#Freecycle find - #Edirol (#Roland) PCR-M30 #midi #keyboard

Cleaned the gooey rubber off the knobs & such, now to get the drivers working

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props to the person on #freecycle offering up some #CD media - the #BIOS update for these #ThinkPads will _only_ run/boot from CD or floppy - no joy making a boot-able #USB so I go old school. 🤷

That #DVD-RW / #CD-RW combo drive (FRU 39T2829) worked like a charm - and the random eject issue is not happening with this one.

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Scored an #ebay_find for a replacement CD/DVD drive - ended up upgrading to the #DVD-RW / #CD-RW combo drive (FRU 39T2829).

The current CD-RW has the "phantom" eject issue, where the tray ejects without any prompting. My research online indicates the eject button on the drive is messed up some way, and the easiest approach is to swap out the drive. The seller accepted my counter offer, and with shipping it was a no brainier.

Now, we wait...

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Welp, confirmed the #t43 #ibm #thinkpad that I have will not go above 2.5GB of memory 😞

Swapped out the dead #BIOS battery though

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Success! found an "Sonnet Tempo SATA Express Card 34 with 2 eSATA Ports" over on #eBitch aka #eBay

A good seller experience - timely shipping, arrived promptly - packing could be better though, wrapped in a #walmart #wallyworld bag inside a cardboard box? 🤦‍♂️

The #Expresscard was auto-detected in #windows10 on the #lenovo #R400 as a "Silicon Image SiI 3132 #SATALink Controller", drivers were pulled from online and installed, and I was wiping an old hard drive in my #eSATA drive dock in minutes.

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anyone have any #PCCARD #expresscard sitting around, hopefully for #eSATA or #usb3 ? I'm looking for some with a #vintagecomputing project currently on my #workbench - #IBM and #lenovo #thinkpads

Shopping for them online has been problematic... and there are none on #craigslist in my area.

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