Have decided to "downsize" a bit. I will be putting some hardware, software, and classic videogames on E-bay within the next month or so, whenever I get out of my walking-boot (broken ankle) and am walking 100% again. Lots of PC, Atari 2600, and NES stuff. I've got cards, drives, motherboards, cartridges that I hardly play, and so on.
Part of this is E-bay fundage is to get a new LCD for the Compaq Portable 486c - Part#128902-001, so I can finally get the ball rolling on that beast (and maybe put some pictures of it up here). Currently it's in the closet waiting for it's new part. I plan to make a mobile DOS gaming box out of it complete with a WiFi bridge to act as a WiFi card hidden in the case (an idea I got off another guy who did this with his original Compaq Portable 8088). The other part of downsizing is that I plan to move out of this crap-hole apartment I live in before too long and focus on saving up to rent/buy a house.
Found 2 monitors for my 286 to try out in the junk pile near the dumpster, an HP LCD, and a recent vintage IBM 14" CRT. I'm leaning towards using the IBM. Need to test those out and see if I need to junk them, might try that this weekend on Sunday with the 486 just to see how it turns out.
Threw out my MediaVision ProGraphics 1280, a bunch of tiny pins on the high-power GPU (the one for 1280X1024 res) were broken/bent, wish I saw that when I got it all those years ago, I would not have got it. Not like I want that high res now being as my 486 has a CRT instead of that crappy HP LCD it had (Which I'm wondering is the HP LCD I picked up).
Also tinkering with trying the "guitar string in pin A8" trick with the 486 DX4-100 chip in my 486 as the pin for A8 was broken off by a malfunctioning Socket 3 socket. The chip is the 3.3v non-write-back version, and it's a bit special as it was the first decent 486 chip that ran my first decent 486 box. Would be a pain to solder being as it sticks between 2 other logic gate pins.