Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-22, 19:17

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In one of my latest purchases I found a Expertchips EXP84491 V1.2 motherboard that included a 486DX2. The MB posted fine with the DX2 but failed with a more appropriated CPU ( for a pci chipset), namely an Intel DX4 or an AMD DX4-120. EXP84491_V1.2.jpg No beeps, no bus activity,absolutely dead. Main …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-14, 17:36

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Arrived today my favorite motherboard of all time the EVGA 790i Ultra SLI : Filename 790i_ultra.jpg File size 1.69 MiB Views 1679 views Also from the same seller a second Nvidia 7950GX2: Filename 7950GX2_sec.jpg File size 1.8 MiB Views 1676 views Had some trouble booting the 790i, but finally …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-10, 16:22

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[...] Cool_stuff_003.jpg Lots of PC Chips boards. The left hand one with 'Acer' branded chipset is odd - that' s a PC Chips M560 with ALi (Acer Labs) Aladdin IV(+) chipset. Not too rare, but PC Chips normally always relabels chipsets, in this case to TXPro. Never seen it with non-rebranded chips …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 18:00

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@ Last, today I received in the mail a Geforce 7950GX2: Filename 7950GX2.jpg File size 1.25 MiB Views 1527 views Its a crazy contraption from Nvidia, the inside GPU doesn't have proper cooling, but still it works....

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 17:55

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In another haul form local ads, managed to pickup a nice bundle: Filename 6800GS_01.jpg File size 1.16 MiB Views 1515 views Filename 6800GS_02.jpg File size 1.44 MiB Views 1515 views Filename PSU_01.jpg File size 1.6 MiB Views 1515 views Filename PSU_02.jpg File size 994.51 KiB Views 1515 views …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 17:48

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Found @ local ad site some cool stuff: 3 VLB video cards and a sound card from Aztech. The Diamond Stealth 64 is a bit crusty. Cool_stuff_01.jpg Plus 5 motherboards : Cool_stuff_002.jpg Cool_stuff_003.jpg Cool_stuff_004.jpg The last mobo has a problem, the cpu doesn't match the jumpers setup....

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-20, 19:24

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Not that rare, counted from the top of my head. I have 11 CRTs :p never paid much for any of them. You might just have gotten lucky. However, take a look at eBay. Nice and impressive that you have 11 CRT's. However think about those that are starting on this hobby, and those that can only afford …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-20, 15:28

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Bought an adaptor for Amiga, that sits between the Denise chip and the motherboard of an Amiga500 or Amiga2000. (OCS Amiga) The magic is, that I can attach an RaspberryPI-Zero, load up some software on the SD card and have HDMI-Output on the Amiga. Anyone interrested, I can give a link to the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-20, 12:59

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Hi everyone, It seems that a lot of nice "treasures" are being found and rescued by fellow vogoners. This week I manage to find some treasures of my one. A nice Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold, @ 75€ including shipping (this cards are getting stupidly expensive :-/ ) AWE64Gold.jpg A Roland usb to midi …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-18, 12:51

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.... Today i received a new member for my midi "tower of power", a Korg NX5R (@110€ including shipping), that has seen a lot of action in the "battlefield", but nevertheless fully functional. .... I was fearing that past owner had scavenged the Yamaha module, it turned out to be where it should. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-16, 17:47

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Hi luismcr.... Check your email. Today i received a new member for my midi "tower of power", a Korg NX5R (@110€ including shipping), that has seen a lot of action in the "battlefield", but nevertheless fully functional. It was a bit dirty, some marks and scratches, a bit of rust on the edges, all …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-13, 13:17

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Bought myself a Korg AG-10 @ 40€, it doesn't have a display or controls besides volume and power. Beyond the great work @ wavetable.nl there is no good way to know what to expect from it (game wise), so I checked some game tunes, and made my mind and jumped on it. Korg_AG10_01.jpg Korg_AG10_02.jpg …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-13, 12:03

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Have this for a while , it had a bad psu so i used another one and it worked fine as soon as i replaced the ODIN battery I can not find any info for this machine . It's an ACER AcerPac 430 486DX2/66MHZ with no cache but with an interesting multimedia/soundblaster card .Now i have to find an AT psu …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-12, 14:36

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Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it works. AMD_486_Inter_01.jpg AMD_486_Inter_02.jpg On this passed days also received some big box games that do have some cool factor to them. Bobble.jpg Millenium_racer.jpg …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-11, 13:26

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Just got in the mail an interesting little voltage adapter for 486, it came with a AMD DX2-80 @ near 32€. A good bargain if it works. AMD_486_Inter_01.jpg AMD_486_Inter_02.jpg On this passed days also received some big box games that do have some cool factor to them. Bobble.jpg Millenium_racer.jpg …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-04, 18:11

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Today I managed to grab a ZX Specrum+ for 49€, probably a bit steep price wise, but it looks great and comes with the correct psu, sadly no box. Filename IMG_20201104_164459.jpg File size 1.35 MiB Views 1509 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-03, 22:54

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Not bought yet, but i am about to get another car full of retro parts, when i find time to go . There is a place that looks like a computer graveyard, its probably like 50 computers there ^^ I will have to start selling more of my stuff to be able to get things now tho x) I got some pictures. One …

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2020-10-29, 12:54

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In some motherboards (like Abit BE6-II) even with disabled ACPI, ISA cards can't use IRQ9, because manufacturer reserved this interrupt for SMBus. However, it's possible to reclaim IRQ9 - by modifying value in southbridge (in our case, the 82371AB/EB) internal register SMBHSTCFG. I used this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-28, 19:58

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sf78 wrote on 2020-10-28, 19:18: Local recycling got some goodies. I took the Model 60, Deskpro P450 and Deskpro 2000 233MMX. The IBM seems dead apart from the PSU running, Compaq's are fine. Those IBM towers are absolutely gorgeous !!!!! Congrats.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:50

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Found a "rareish" CGA card from a CNC machine, it has a Paradise PVC4 common in commodore pc and ..... Schneider EuroPC, but never as a standalone card. Filename Paradise_pvc4.jpg File size 1.53 MiB Views 1626 views Also some bigbox games to play and admire to my hart content : Filename Chaos_and_ …

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