Oh dear 2 posts in a row, what a narcissist.
I've been on a bit of a collecting drive lately and Gumtree, Freecycle, and Overclockers.net have produced the following for a grand total of 50 bucks:
A 486DX33 VLB, Opti chipset with some battery damage but nothing a good clean won't fix. The bloke selling it owned an old dress manufacturing factory which had been shut up for years, it was a like a dusty old museum. I love these old flip top cases and this one’s in great shape:
And I was happily surprised to find these lying around the factory too, along with some old CRT’s and Pentium 3 era stuff. I couldn’t fit the P3’s in the car, but I grabbed this lot – another 486 VLB machine, a socket 7, and a HP vectra:
A lovely bloke I met through freecycle has dropped the following off at my house with a promise of more to come – this beast of a P5-133:
And this relatively uninteresting looking 486. This thing contained a PCI socket 3 which I’ve never come across before, but sadly the battery had leaked all over the place and killed it:
A nice bank of cache which I'll be able to use on something, so it's not a complete loss:
And finally this nice little 486DLC machine I traded for an old Apple 2G. It’s an interesting motherboard, 2 VLB slots and can take a 386 or 486DLC. It has a math co-pro installed, I can’t image what I’d do with this apart from drop a 386 chip in there for the novelty of having a VLB 386 machine. I also received with this a cool little 386 laptop, but I haven’t gotten around to looking at that yet.
All told I have way too much of this era stuff now! I think it’s time for a ‘free to a good home’ ‘post on overclockers.
