I was hopping I could get it working with my Apple High Resolution monitor.

Got a ThinkPad A31p in excellent condition with all recovery disks for almost 200€.
The price is...crazy. I slightly regret buying it, but I've been looking for one of these for years.

If everything works 100% like described in the listing, I will be a very happy person.

(Should never have sold mine back in the day. Pentium 4M Mobile 2.6GHz are nowhere to be found anymore.)

Ordered some "retro" PCB's, 5 each for dirt cheap. (from JLCPCB) One of them is my turbo display PCB that I designed, the other 3 are an XT-IDE (rev 5.3), Nano 8088 (rev 1.1), and ISA Super VGA (rev 1.1). I already have an Adlib replica to build, so I should have some pretty cool stuff soon.

Bought a Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 that's almost complete, minus the manual for $14.99. The camera might have the battery installed and it'll be looked at before I throw it on the charger in case there's any corrosion, a new one will be purchased and the terminals on the camera will be cleaned off before powering it on.

Don't worry about the battery. I own an FD91, which is even older than the FD88 and it still has its original battery. It's Li-ion already and despite its age, it still charges and works for >1 hour.

lolo799 wrote:

Received a bunch of pcmcia cards and a scsi scanner with a bulb problem...

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AFAIR this Cisco wifi card has even drivers for DOS. Is this correct?
I also have the Orinoco card that works in Win98. But unfortunately it does not support modern security standards, and I could not get connected to my wifi router.

Got some CD/DVD Roms. Nothing tested and needs to be cleaned. Only one of them comes near the year of my collection interest (below 2000), but I took all of them anyway, since it was a cheap deal.

Turbo -> wrote:

but I took all of them anyway,.

Good -- a pile of optical drives can be a butt-saver when you need a spare belt for console-locked DVD units.

Hi to all,

Today I got some spare time and I went to the local flea market, just to look around, and I found some interesting stuff:

A PNY Geforce2 MX400 PCI 64 Mb SDR PCI. I need to replace a capacitor nearby the GPU, otherwise it looks ok.

A second PCI video card, a PowerColor Radeon 9200SE R92P-C3S with 128 Mb. This one has two broken capacitors nearby the GPU, also one is missing from the upper left corner. From the back of the card it's also missing a small SMD cap, the one with C120 marking from the upper side.
I hope I can repair at least one of them, I really need a PCI video card like these, I have a Compaq DeskPro EN and a Dell Optiplex GX200 without AGP... Anyway, I paid a little more than 4 Euros for both of the cards.

Hercules 3D Prophet II MX 64 Mb. I only bought this card, because it came bundled with the one below...

Roland SCB-7. This was a really nice surprise! For this two cards I paid a little more than 2 Euros! Now I need to find a good sound card to pair it with this board. For now, I have just a Creative CT2900, a few ESS and Yamaha sound cards... Any suggestions?

So, I've had a really fruitful day! I spent like 9 Euros for all of these cards(+ 2 more coolers for skt370/sktA), now I hope to have some spare time these days to test the Roland board and repair the two PCI graphics cards...

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Roland SCB-7. This was a really nice surprise! For this two cards I paid a little more than 2 Euros! Now I need to find a good sound card to pair it with this board. For now, I have just a Creative CT2900, a few ESS and Yamaha sound cards... Any suggestions?

So, I've had a really fruitful day! I spent like 9 Euros for all of these cards(+ 2 more coolers for skt370/sktA), now I hope to have some spare time these days to test the Roland board and repair the two PCI graphics cards...

Wow!!! Good catch.

As for the sound card pairing, that depends on what you want to do with it and exactly which ESS and Yamaha cards you have. The CT2900 has every MIDI bug out there. so not a good idea regardless.

If you have an old ESS 688 with real (or clone) OPL3, that would be lovely for an old non-PnP DOS box, whereas if you have a Yamaha Audician it would be a good pairing for late DOS or Win9x.

Turbo -> wrote:

but I took all of them anyway,.

Nice, I most like the Sony. You should also keep the DAT drives!

Profex "PC 33" (sellers pictures). Not loooking nice, but for the price I couldnt resist although I am out of space and didnt want to buy any more complete systems...
It has a Suntac 286 board in it. With battery damage, but working. An EGA card and a MFM controller with cables.
Case will go into the dishwasher and I will see...

This is how it should look like..:
http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/Atari% … 0.02-DURiAN.pdf

dionb wrote:

As for the sound card pairing, that depends on what you want to do with it and exactly which ESS and Yamaha cards you have. The CT2900 has every MIDI bug out there. so not a good idea regardless.

If you have an old ESS 688 with real (or clone) OPL3, that would be lovely for an old non-PnP DOS box, whereas if you have a Yamaha Audician it would be a good pairing for late DOS or Win9x.

So, I have two Yamaha ISA cards, both with YMF719E-S soundchip. One has no manufacturer marking, just SM718 Rev 2.00; the other one is a Genius/Labway A151-A00. These are not full height cards and I can't connect the Roland card directly to the wavetable header.

As for the ESS cards, I have a BTC 1853L with ES1868F, but with the same situation as the Yamaha cards.
Luckily I have one more ESS card, I think it's an Edison Gold-16 Rev 3.2B with ES688FC chip. So I will use the Roland SCB-7 an this soundcard on a nice Am386DX-40 based system...

Thanks for the tip!

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ragefury32 wrote:

wirerogue wrote:

should my adaptec card have a battery? i can't seem to locate any headers for it on the card and no mention in manual.

The Dallas Real Time Clock chip on the card - that's the battery. It's supposed to hold your RAID cache in case you have a catastrophic loss of power, but in the PERC5s and 6s having the battery go ga-ga on you typically triggers alerts or (worse) errors - in modern SSD equipped machines those pesky batteries are replaced by supercaps. It's one of the first things you check for when you get a secondhand RAID card...is the battery good? Is the onboard RAM modules good? That practice wa beaten into my head when I was a data center youngun', and what I beat into the heads of the guys that I manage - saw way too many issues from the past to let the issue breeze by.

Dude, I think you are confused. First, you are attaching my name with a quote from Vogons user wirerogue who actually asked that question. Also, if you go back and look at the post, the RAID card we are talking about (AAA-133U2) does not have a Dallas on it. Most of us here know what a Dallas is and its function.

OH. Ah. I got an error message when replying to the thread - there was a limit of 5 nested quotes on the reply.

Yeah, I just looked at the card again - the Dallas chip on board is an EEPROM (probably for storing config data), so yeah, not an RTC/battery. That being said, there is a 4 pin power connector towards the top (near the 2 internal SCSI ports) that is supposed to be connected to a battery.

😵 Bought a SiS 6326 8MB PCI with S-Video out because I needed a decent 1996/97 PCI card with TV-Out for capturing DOS. It cost me $8 so it wasn't cheap considering how useless it is for anything else.

I'm not sure how good a card for DOS it is, but considering my second option is an ATI Rage Pro All-In-Wonder this is probably a lot less hassle. And I don't have the S-Video breakout cable for it (but I am in the process of building one..)

We'll see how it does, I guess..

Have fun with the project.

appiah4 wrote:

😵 Bought a SiS 6326 8MB PCI with S-Video out because I needed a decent 1996/97 PCI card with TV-Out for capturing DOS. It cost me $8 so it wasn't cheap considering how useless it is for anything else.

I'm not sure how good a card for DOS it is, but considering my second option is an ATI Rage Pro All-In-Wonder this is probably a lot less hassle. And I don't have the S-Video breakout cable for it (but I am in the process of building one..)

We'll see how it does, I guess..

There were also some GeForce 2MX PCI cards with S-Video out, but I guess they are not period correct.

Predator99 wrote:

Profex "PC 33" (sellers pictures). Not loooking nice, but for the price I couldnt resist although I am out of space and didnt want to buy any more complete systems...
It has a Suntac 286 board in it. With battery damage, but working. An EGA card and a MFM controller with cables.
Case will go into the dishwasher and I will see...

I was watching that one as well, really like the monolithic case, the corroded board put me off though I already have too many of these to repair 🤣, glad to see there was some other nice stuff in it too 😀

appiah4 wrote:

😵 Bought a SiS 6326 8MB PCI with S-Video out because I needed a decent 1996/97 PCI card with TV-Out for capturing DOS. It cost me $8 so it wasn't cheap considering how useless it is for anything else.

I'm not sure how good a card for DOS it is, but considering my second option is an ATI Rage Pro All-In-Wonder this is probably a lot less hassle. And I don't have the S-Video breakout cable for it (but I am in the process of building one..)

We'll see how it does, I guess..

If that fails one slightly unexpected tip: Trident 9685.

Obviously no great performer, but it had the most trouble-free TV-out I've come across - set the jumper and regardless of resolution set in software, it output it cleanly to S-Video and composite. I used it to feed a 3" B/W CRT from a 1970s vintage Philips video camera I mounted in three 5.25" bays to show some stats but mainly show off a parody of the LCD-screens everyone was using at the time (early 00's) 😉

Bought a Linksys SE2800 (yes is not vintage BUT does work with 10Mbit ethernet), a 2006 Mitsumi ext USB floppy and bag of mixed adapters: 3: PS/2 KB to AT, 2: ps2 mouse to DB9, one AT KB to PS/2 adapter and one that is male PS/2 to male DB9 . Not a very vintage purchase but best I could find at GoodWill, cost was $10 total.

Also bought a motherboard off Ebay from a seller (who had near 100 positives and been a member for over 3 years, no negatives) early yesterday. Then today got notification package was shipped and got tracking #. After I got off work 9 hours later went to send seller a message and it says his Ebay ID is "no longer a registered eBay user". WTF ? Well hopefully he sent the item since he got my money....