Here are some more items I won some time ago.

It took the seller alot of time to figure out the shipping cost because he got the flue or something so I could not pay until today.

It's a Seagate ST-238R and a ST-250R with a suitable 8bit controller card but no cables. Sold as "Worked perfectly when removed from systems a long time ago, stored in a dry safe place" but with no guarantees. One of the drives (if they work) will replace a 20MB drive in my 286 and the other + controller card will be a "period correct" alternative to my XT-IDE + flash cards for one of my XT clones. The price was $49 + $20 shipping so I hope they work.

The sellers picture.

I hoped those hard drives were parked before they were stored then posted to you.

BSA Starfire wrote:

I hoped those hard drives were parked before they were stored then posted to you.

I actually asked the seller that before he shipped them out and he diddnt seem to be sure as they were removed from systems a long time ago but he said he was an expert when it comes to packing hardware safely as he has sold alot of (mostly Amiga) stuff so we will see.

The 20MB disk in my 286 does not auto park either and the whole system was shipped with almost zero protection (in a box but with no packaging material at all) with the disk unparked (there was not even a park program installed!) and somehow the disk managed to survive without getting as much as a single (new) damaged sector so I guess alot of luck is involved.

I know for a fact as a former employee that the packages shipped with PostNord in Sweden (the seller was from Stockholm) has to survive a 6 feet fall into a packet cage if the cage is totally empy. If both drives get here with typical heads has made love to the platters (track 0) damage I will probably cry foul eventhough there were no guarantee the drives would work as I would know that it's shipping damage because the disks have been spending all the time since removal by the seller in ESD bags in a box on a shelf in his own home.

I asked for a safer shipping method, there are better (and cheaper!) alternatives to PostNord in Sweden with 100% manual package handling but he did not like those because his local agent for these companies is in a typical corner store, he felt it was better (safer) to use PostNord.

- Backpack parallel port hard drive (yes, that was $3)
- Parallel to serial converter
- Frog Design Packard Bell mouse
- Labtec Spaceball
- AUI to twisted pair ethernet adapter
- Adaptec SlimSCSI card
- Some nice and long 13W3 cables

Found a sound card in an abounded computer yesterday, looks like the Prodigy 7.1 but with dark brown PCB and TOSLINK instead of coaxial SPDIF.

Here's the Terratec Aureon Space 7.1:

rein_ein wrote:

Bought Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 today,plans? - one special occasion project first. http://i.imgur.com/TtItCljl.jpg http://i.imgur.c […]
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Bought Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 today,plans? - one special occasion project first.

Got these two lovely cards today 😀

Saved these towers from someone who was going to recycle them for gold. 13 Towers I paid 100 bucks for. I haven't had a chance to go over them in detail but it looks like it has a lot of generations covered from an old Packard Bell late 486/early pentium, a Pentium MMX Clone, A couple of Celerons of multiple generations, Pentium3/4, Pentium Dual Core, Apple G4 Tower, All the way to a Intel Core 2 Duo.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Got these two lovely cards today :) […]
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Got these two lovely cards today 😀

I spy something disgusting... a dead roach! 😵

At least it is not covered in cigarette smoke and tar.

Rhuwyn wrote:

Apple G4 Tower

If you don't keep all of them, keep this as it makes an awesome retro Mac gaming machine. It can run OS9 and OSX (probably up to 10.4) plus the built in ZIP drive can be handy.

brassicGamer wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Apple G4 Tower

If you don't keep all of them, keep this as it makes an awesome retro Mac gaming machine. It can run OS9 and OSX (probably up to 10.4) plus the built in ZIP drive can be handy.

Yeah I definately plan on keeping that one around. Along with the Packard Bell and the Pentium MMX Clone. The others I'll have to open them up and see what they got going on the inside but a lot of them have potential for retro activities.

Kamerat wrote:

Found a sound card in an abounded computer yesterday, looks like the Prodigy 7.1 but with dark brown PCB and TOSLINK instead of coaxial SPDIF.

Here's the Terratec Aureon Space 7.1:

Aureon_Space.jpg

Almost same as mine and it also based on Envy24HT,i'm not gonna be surprised if vendors used some kind of via reference design card,nice catch btw 😀

Bought an ET4000 1mb card, found on Amibay, from a fellow Vogon user.
No pictures, as I don't know about all that copyright issue.
(must wait untill I get the card)

brostenen,

I kinda specialise in copyright and I don't really think that posting an ordinary photo of any elecronic device, Tseng ET4000 included, would infringe any copyright 😀 Protection only extends where there is any individuality involved, and e-bay photos are usuall devoid thereof.

tikoellner wrote:

brostenen,

I kinda specialise in copyright and I don't really think that posting an ordinary photo of any elecronic device, Tseng ET4000 included, would infringe any copyright 😀 Protection only extends where there is any individuality involved, and e-bay photos are usuall devoid thereof.

I have not asked permision for using the sellers photo 😁
(kind of like another way of saying it)

Anyway....
So many pictures of ET4000 on the net anyway, so another posted one, seems kind of dull and non interresting.

An old Linux distro and a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, not very clean but it works, with a few broken plastic latches, and the eject drive lever was out all the time and now dead stuck in it's place...
Boasting a Pentium 120MHz, slow enough that using my ZV cards on it will have a noticeable impact on MPEG1 and MPEG2 decoding.

Hdd is empty and I don't have a floppy drive yet...aaah Toshiba!

Bootable CD is your friend 😀

bjt wrote:

Bootable CD is your friend 😀

It can only boot from the Floppy drive (internal or external) or HDD.

Whoo, nice machine! I've got one almost just like it, except with a 166mmx. I want the SelectBay floppy module so bad though... 😐

You have a 740, right?
There are a bunch of exernal floppy drives on ebay, look for the model number PA2611U

Picked up the retro version of my current favourite trackball:

So this makes 5 Logitech Marble Mice/Trackman Marbles I have now 😀