The socket8 motherboard is here. Tested with CPU and RAM, boots fine. I decided to skip the IDE stuff and go directly for SCSI. Ordered a few drives (some nice 18GB 10K ones) but they'll take a few days to get here.

NT4 or W2K?

nt4 for 200mhz. 2000 if you use overdrives.

Yeah I was leaning towards NT4 also. And dual boot with 98 for LOLs.

Too bad it's a single CPU board only. I have a nice pair of SL22Z waiting for a dual board.

Any advantage to using an AHA29160N over a 2940UW? Probably not in this machine, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

theoretically a controller with higher max speed will give you benefits from the moment you can saturate the slower one - cant a ppro200 machine pull more than 40mb/s from scsi?

torindkflt wrote:

My brother also gave me a 1GHz eMac with OS X 10.4 on it. Works mostly ok, but has a couple weird problems with the screen that are beyond my ability to repair if it can even be repaired (faint diagonal lines going across the screen every inch or so, and the screen just goes to a flickering gray box when it tries to go to sleep).

It could be something as simple as a badly connected cable inside the Mac (although eMacs also have problems with bad caps - sleep issues may be related to that, but should affect more than only the screen).

Hi. I Don't know if to call it a retro but its a HDD from Jan 2009.

torindkflt wrote:

Was given a couple NOS WYSE keyboards by a friend.

These look great. The first one has actually 16 F-keys as opposed to the standard 12 - I've never seen this layout before.

stamasd wrote:

Yeah I was leaning towards NT4 also. And dual boot with 98 for LOLs.

Too bad it's a single CPU board only. I have a nice pair of SL22Z waiting for a dual board.

Any advantage to using an AHA29160N over a 2940UW? Probably not in this machine, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Well, LVD is a lot less temperamental than single-ended SCSI. Regardless how much the PPro can pull across the bus, you should see some benefit from the 29160, assuming an LVD cable and at least Ultra-2 drives.

Got this Radeon 9250 PCI for an AGPless dual P3-S system

Nice... but 128bit DDR would be even better.

Just recieved some memory modules.

- 4 pieces of 64Kx8-15ns (UM61512AK-15)
- 2 pieces of 512kb ram, 1mb in total for PCI vga cards (Trio64/Virge325 and so on)

They were really cheap, so I have waited a long time for them to arive.

So I got this bad boy...........Brand new IN BOX, MINT condition, NEVER USED. 😎

Even comes with extra RAM already installed for 1MB of RAM.

😮 what a find! Where did you get it?

oeuvre wrote:

😮 what a find! Where did you get it?

I'm not at liberty to say at this time, as I'm still in contact with the individual. Maybe a few years down the road I'll be able to tell the tale. For now, lets just say that this WILL go down in GUS history as one of the most important finds of the century and I'll have photos to prove it.

This thing is so freak'n rare, especially with it being in box MINT and VIRGIN.

What... what is that?

I won't be able to top that gravis compatible card. Ever.... Awesomme find.
I can only think of one reason that it is rare.

The last one from the production line, or the very first one.

brostenen wrote:

I won't be able to top that gravis compatible card. Ever.... Awesomme find.
I can only think of one reason that it is rare.

The last one from the production line, or the very first one.

Could be a sales or review sample for a product that never reached mass-released retail (standard ViperMax has only 512 Kb RAM according to Wikipedia, so for it to come with 1 MB right in a sealed box - updated version that was not actually sold?). In which case you'd be looking at a total production of only a few...

Christmas came a tad earlier to my home... 😁

Found a Gateway 2000 Anykey keyboard for less than $30 shipped on eBay. Pounced on it. Has a sticky ESC key and the seller says he can't seem to program keys correctly. Claims everything else works fine. Thinking it just needs the macros to be reset.

Got all of this for 10 €

An old Fujitsu SCAELO with a BIOSTAR M6VCG, Pentium III 866, 256 MB RAM, nVidia TNT2 M64 32 MB, VIA Firewire card, AMR Modem, Ovislink network card with a Tiger 320 chip (?), HDD is missing
Two IBM Thinkpad A21ms, both Pentium III (can be 700, 750 or 800 MHz), one has 64 MB RAM and no HDD, the other has 128 MB RAM and 10 GB HDD

Need to test them