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LOOKING FOR ALTEC LANSING ACS 500 SPEAKERS

 
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PostLink    Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:06 pm    Post subject: LOOKING FOR ALTEC LANSING ACS 500 SPEAKERS Reply with quote


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Looking for Altec Lansing ACS 500 speakers , all functions (Prologic Surround Sound , input 1, 2 , subwoofer output , the noise button, all volume buttons, all speakers including surround sound speakers , etc ) must be operational, prefer with cables and subwoofer but not a must.
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PostLink    Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good luck. Took me years to find mine and I had to repair them when I got them.
Goes real nice with my Pentium 200MMX with the Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold.
My wanted thread from 2011/2016
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26169&highlight=altec+lansingh

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PostLink    Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
Good luck. Took me years to find mine and I had to repair them when I got them.
Goes real nice with my Pentium 200MMX with the Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold.
My wanted thread from 2011/2016
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26169&highlight=altec+lansingh


I got mine working again but still want another pair as rear speakers. I am using Altec Lansing ACS 400 with the subwoofer as the rear speakers now. I got these ACSes back in the 90's when they first came out. I looked at the 500 board and amazed at how bad the PCB was. I found one of the tracks that was cut intentionally which would otherwise cause a short circuit , the PCB layout guy probably made a mistake and they had the PCB corrected at production. One of the solder pads actually came off (one of the Toshiba made audio power amplifier ICs) but luckily , that pin on the IC is not supposed to be connected to anything (at least in this circuit) . I have been using the SoundBlaster brand and the same set of speakers in all of my past PCs including a Pentium Pro machine.


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PostLink    Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I take it you are a classic PC guy then? I have a back log of PC's to build. Dual Pentium Pro included.
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PostLink    Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
So I take it you are a classic PC guy then? I have a back log of PC's to build. Dual Pentium Pro included.


I have a Penmtium Pro Dual system. Don't know why I got it , I wasn't using all the processing power.
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PostLink    Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought 4 of them, off lease in 2000. 1 is still running the old accounting software at my office on Win95. Not used much anymore bur was run for 15 years until we switched software. The one I have is the back up box for that one. An IBM 365. The other two were a Compaq Pro server and an other IBM 365. I lent them out and never got them back. Expensive lesson.

I liked running BEOS on the Pentium Pro and PIII Dual proc 500.

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PostLink    Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
I bought 4 of them, off lease in 2000. 1 is still running the old accounting software at my office on Win95. Not used much anymore bur was run for 15 years until we switched software. The one I have is the back up box for that one. An IBM 365. The other two were a Compaq Pro server and an other IBM 365. I lent them out and never got them back. Expensive lesson.

I liked running BEOS on the Pentium Pro and PIII Dual proc 500.


Win95 ? Those were the good days when things were simpler. I have been using Windows (except 10) since 1, I used OS/2 and UNIX too , but OS/2 is long gone. I remember the "trackpoint" on IBM 365 that is still used by Lenovo today. My expensive lesson was frying the Pentium 4 board.

What kind of repair you did on the ACS 500 ?
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PostLink    Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ACS 500 had the tweeters broken off inside the case just swinging around. Broken wire and I think there was an issue with the SUB but I can't rmeember for sure. Haven't run those in a a while. I've spent some years collecting PC speakers.

My latest is a pair of Cambridege soundworks just after creative bought them. I got the plastic 2.1 sub, with a volume controls and I previously had a pair of satelites. Now jusut looking for the original 12 volt power supply. It'll pop up at thrift one day.

The IBM 365 I was talking about is a desktop workstation with a dual Pentium Pro board, horizontal case.



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PostLink    Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ha found my thread in Classic Electronics from 2016
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39071&highlight=ibm

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AnalogRocks wrote:
Ha found my thread in Classic Electronics from 2016
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39071&highlight=ibm


I haven't seen this dual Pentium Pro system from IBM. Those were the days when PCs were "horizontal".
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PostLink    Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, good old desktops.

I think I paid $400 for the 4 PC's. The Compaq was a ProLiant dual Pentium Pro with a tape drive. Miss that one!
No pictures that I can find. Maybe shot on film back then.

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PostLink    Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
Yeah, good old desktops.

I think I paid $400 for the 4 PC's. The Compaq was a ProLiant dual Pentium Pro with a tape drive. Miss that one!
No pictures that I can find. Maybe shot on film back then.


I wish I had taken photos of those older computers I had. The first PC I had was the Apple II but the first one I used was a Sinclair. You must have a museum of computers at home.
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PostLink    Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the massive 16k RAM expansion cartridge
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
I have a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the massive 16k RAM expansion cartridge


Which one is your first PC?
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Timex was my first PC. With the Coleco ADAM a close second - just a few months later.

The ADAM was the first computer I BBS'ed on at 300BAUD.
most of my friends had Comodore 64''s and Vic 20's
Then my buddy got a 386 16 with 2 megs of ram and a 1200 baud modem. Ooohh jealousy!

I did the Timex and Coleco thing from 1984-1992 then got into dumb terminals - WYSE with 300 baud modem then 1200 baud modem
BBS'ed my azz off. Then in 1997 I started building PC's and grabbing up surplus 386 and 486 PC's. First real PC I borrowed from the office it was a 486 DX4 100 ( which is actually a DX 3/99 if you look into it. ) Did a lot of share-ware tittles on that one. That was the tail end of the sharware craze. 1995-96.

When that went away I built a Cyrix 6x86 - 166 PC with Windows 95 A. That was where the IBM PC obsession started

EDIT: spelling now that I can see.

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PostLink    Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The ADAM was the first computer I BBS'ed on at 300BAUD. ...."

Didn't get a chance to use one of those, just saw it once. This video brings back some nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2-3fMOOexU

I don't always like Windows but 95 is one of those exceptions.
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PostLink    Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice mine has DUAL cassette drives and a floppy drive too.
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