kanecvr wrote:

That looks like a cross between a Tekram P5T30 and a Aopen / Jetway J-656C - IDE connectors are in the same place as on the Jetw […]
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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Unknown Socket 7 board with Pentium 166:
http://imgur.com/YbGLi7Z

That looks like a cross between a Tekram P5T30 and a Aopen / Jetway J-656C - IDE connectors are in the same place as on the Jetway and jumper layout is nearly identical to the Tekram. The only difference between it and the Jetway is the presence of the SD-RAM slot - and the Tekram has 4 PCI slots.

By overall layout and PCB color I'd say it's an OEM Tekram board.

Unrelated, I'm getting another lot delivered next week witch contains some socket 7 boards witch are of almost of no use to me - but if I don't take them, they'll be scrapped... 🙁

I'm keeping the I/O cards - all of them - the 16MHz 286 board (with what looks like a co-processor???), the memory modules, the Chips ISA video card and of course the Creative Voodoo 2.

The question is - are any of the socket 7 boards in the pictures below worth saving? I spotted a Biostar board (one of my favorite brands) with the Intel chipset and a PS/2 port under the AT keyboard connector - but I don't like the fact that it has a Dallas RTC with a built in battery - I might keep that... The ATX Socket 7 board also looks interesting since it has those big PCI slots (and I have a SCSI card that fits it) - but it looks pretty damaged (nothing I can't fix tough). What about the rest? would you guys get any of them?

http://imgur.com/r2M0dOK

http://imgur.com/Hk3Uha2

http://imgur.com/2l8F02v

Most of those look like OEM boards, and most likely won't work normally on their own without some specific bits that came with that system. The ones that are stand-alone have soldered on Dallas RTC chips. Which may work but some day the chips will run out and make the boards mostly useless. The one that is interesting is the yellowish 286 motherboard, with the math co-processor installed and 30pin ram slots. Those ram slots are rather unusual for a 286 board. But.. the battery looks to of leaked and may of damaged the motherboard, so need to look at that. It might work though.

There's that one intel server motherboard with the 66 Mhz PCI slots. That's worth saving and trying to get working at least, probably. Shame it doesn't have AGP though. If it was me I would just strip down the oem boards for ram/battery/jumpers then toss em. That's me, though.

I completely agree. Like I said, I already had my eye on the 286 board - most unusual indeed. I'll keep the ATX s7 board, and probably the biostar as well (the one with the PS/2 port). I managed to Identify one of the OEM boards - it came out of an old HP Vectra and I just happen to have the complete case + PSU to put it in.

Thanks for the input!

P.S. All OEM boards come with their corresponding riser slots.

Not really that retro, but these finds were free, so... Salvaged some parts from a semi-modern HP Pavilion computer today from the dump. Was mainly interested in these parts:

An ATI Radeon HD 4550 with 1GB DDR2 VRAM, plus 4GB DDR2 RAM. 😎 I also decided to pluck the mobo (an Asus A8M2N-LA, socket AM2) because it seemed to be a decent board for an OEM machine. It did come with a CPU; I'm not sure exactly what it is because, of course, it's glued to the heatsink. Haven't tried any of this stuff out yet because of residual moisture. Also spotted this indescribable mess which I just had to grab pics of.

easy_john wrote:

MediaVision Pro AudioSpectrum http://kawai.spb.ru/photo/d/125885-2/ISA_MediaVision_Pro_AudioSpectrum_f.JPG. […]
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MediaVision Pro AudioSpectrum
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IBM Music Feature Card (IMFC)
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Holy crap you have some mad skills to find this kind of stuff. Been looking for a PAS forever.

carlostex wrote:

Holy crap you have some mad skills to find this kind of stuff. Been looking for a PAS forever.

A friend from same county, bristlehog, accidently sold them to me.
I'm not ever think, that I can find them so fast and close.

accidentally?! 😳

ratfink wrote:

accidentally?! 8-O

I mean - quite unexpectedly for me ;)

Nice to see rare items stay in the community! I bought a PAS16 SCSI and CT1770 SCSI yesterday. En route. I also got an IBM PS/ValuePoint 425SX/Si in yesterday. Plus I bought a new house (pending inspection et cetera). I just have to figure out where to put my computer equipment. No basements in FL and my new house (when all goes well) is a 1 level structure.

Made an offer for a CT1330 and it was accepted:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tested-CT1330 … =p2047675.l2557

(for some resaon it shows sold for $249), I didn't pay that much for it... more like divided by half. Still... a bit much (a realistic price would have been $30). Whatever... will do some testing when it arrives regarding bipolar capacitors.

raymangold wrote:

Made an offer for a CT1330 and it was accepted:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tested-CT1330 … =p2047675.l2557

(for some resaon it shows sold for $249), I didn't pay that much for it... more like divided by half. Still... a bit much (a realistic price would have been $30). Whatever... will do some testing when it arrives regarding bipolar capacitors.

Actually those have been selling for the $100-$150-$175 range recently when they show up on ebay. One sold just a couple weeks ago for $150, so that's about what "Today's price" is like, $30 for these would almost be a steal.

I'm holding on to mine for quite a few more years yet, at least until it reaches roland hardware prices some day, then I might consider selling it. Maybe.

Sutekh94 wrote:

Also spotted this indescribable mess which I just had to grab pics of.

My eyes! Why does it hurt so bad?

carlostex wrote:

Holy crap you have some mad skills to find this kind of stuff. Been looking for a PAS forever.

+1. Absolutely ridiculous haul! Nice work! Those are the top two on my 'want' list.

Artex wrote:

+1. Absolutely ridiculous haul! Nice work! Those are the top two on my 'want' list.

You stalker!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

kanecvr wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Unknown Socket 7 board with Pentium 166:

That looks like a cross between a Tekram P5T30 and a Aopen / Jetway J-656C - IDE connectors are in the same place as on the Jetway and jumper layout is nearly identical to the Tekram. The only difference between it and the Jetway is the presence of the SD-RAM slot - and the Tekram has 4 PCI slots.

By overall layout and PCB color I'd say it's an OEM Tekram board.

Thanks for the info, I'll see if there are any markings on the board.

PeterLI wrote:

I just have to figure out where to put my computer equipment. No basements in FL and my new house (when all goes well) is a 1 level structure.

Some of us, who lives in a big cities, has something like 40m2 (about 430 sq ft) to fit all hw and family. ;)
Usually it means that it is necessary to make custom racks in the pantry, so you have to pullout equipment when you want to play, and then return back to rack.
As for me - I've created small wood rack for living room, with shelfs on rail, to keep most interesting hw ready at hand:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Whoa, cool. I just got an Asus board with the Mediabus connector (just a few posts up). I like 'weird' combo cards like those :)

Starting googling and found, that there was 2 version of mediabus, and them not compatible(!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Media_Bus
Also there list of 8 daugthtercard for mediabus. But I still can't find list of mobo with mediabus and their versions.

Cool rack! My new house will have 3000 SQFT so I will figure something out.

I old guy give me these ...

With box, paper and disk ...

Just the card ...

I gave me also a box of old HDD and a SCSI Iomega Zip Drive ...

Man! Some good hardware lately. Boxed AdLib! 😎

Very nice indeed!