VOGONS


First post, by QBiN

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I know... I know. It's been forever since I've posted last. New Job... First child on the way, etc... life moves fast.

Which now finds me in a quandary. We need more room. I'm working a lot and I'm not really using my old rigs anymore. I need to part with some, if not most.. Don't want to, but I think I'll have to. I definitely don't want to throw any of them away. I'd rather them find their way into another loving home rather than destroyed and never be appreciated again. Which would you give up? Or, perhaps, which would you think our community here of retro-gamers would want to adopt?

Full systems with cases, PSU's, oodles of RAM + HD:
1) IBM XT 5160 w/ EGA, Adliib, 3c503
2) Packard Bell 286/12, VGA, SB1.5 (w/ CMS chips), 3c509
3) 386/40, Cyrix FasMath, ATi Mach32, SBPro 2.0, 3c509
4) 486/xx (FIC-PIO-3 with any Socket3 chip, I've got them all just about), Trio64 PCI, SB16+SCC-1, 3c509
5) P200MMX (Tyan TomcatIII), ATi RagePro+Voodoo 1, 3c900
6) P2-450 (Asus P2B), TNT2-Ultra(AGP)+2xVoodoo2-SLI, AWE32, 3c905
7) K7-1Ghz (Asus K7V), ATi RageXL, 3c905 (spare box / test bed)
8 ) K6III-450 (FIC PA-2013 Super Socket7), ATi Radeon DDR, SB16, 3c905 (Quake3 box + Socket7 test bed)
9) P3-1.4Ghz(Tualatin) (Asus TUSL/2), Gf4-Ti4600, SB16, 3c905

I also have some some spare dual proc motherboards (Socket7, Socket 8, & Slot1) which I've used in the past for SMP linux boxen and/or WinNT 4.0 servers. I I also have spare/rare parts, from all generations: cpu's, sound cards, modems, NIC's, etc.

The list was painful to type... Opinions? You think anyone would be interested in any of that stuff? Enough to give it a good home?

Reply 1 of 2, by rangga

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Hello.. wow what a list. I will be glad if I could be a new home for the item that you list at number 4:
4) 486/xx (FIC-PIO-3 with any Socket3 chip, I've got them all just about), Trio64 PCI, SB16+SCC-1, 3c509 Please check your p.m

Reply 2 of 2, by kreats

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You can rationalize what you've got substantially if you're just concerned about having a good range of systems for software. Keep the 5160 + SB 1.5, a nice 486 + v1 + SCC-1 and a p3 rig with isa slots + slot-T (for the tually) + v2 SLI. The rest are redundant IMO (AMD systems are interesting and all.. but useless really).