Found a good monitor: Eizo Flexscan S2100-M: 21.3" UXGA (1600x1200) that I can use for retrogames undistorted. Local used computer hardware seller had it for sale for just 39 euros, looks brand new, manufacturing date is may 2010 and image quality is fantastic.
Put it onto my retro computer desk in my workshop 😀
Ah yes those Eizo monitors, they're built like tanks, heck I've got a L557 that has nearly clocked in 10k hours of runtime (IIRC) not a single dead pixel.
Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]
Those Yamaha speakers look neat. Are they shielded?
MMaximus wrote:
They look really nice. I'm betting they are shielded as were most speakers from this era because they were designed to be used next to a CRT monitor.
Thanks, and yes they're shielded.
oeuvre wrote:
So nice to see Skeletor alive and well on vogons.
What's this time of year without the old traditions 🤣 The picture is good and DSUB / USB video connection combo is nice (seems to have fairly broad OS driver support for the USB) but the touch-sensitive OSD buttons are a royal PITA due to bad case / circuit design.
No pics to post yet as the card hasn't been received yet but I had to share my joy at finding a Radeon X800XT PE AGP for 5 bucks! Now I can downgrade my Socket 754 from an X1950PRO to this, add a cheapo YMF-724 or Solo-1 sound card and it can double serve as my ULTIMATE Windows 98 PC!
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
I finally found a Radeon DDR close by. I almost missed it, since it was listed as "ATi Rage Theater" instead of Radeon DDR/Radeon 64 DDR / Radeon 256 DDR.
And it's one from before the 7200 rebrand.
andrewreader wrote:Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a retro board was posting
Nor had I a working 9-pin mouse […] Show full quote
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a retro board was posting
Nor had I a working 9-pin mouse
The old plasma luggable,
with brownish clam-shell.
It dared me to boot it,
t'was posting quite well.
An eerie orange glow,
emitted from within.
This sharp orange display,
'tis really quite slim.
Well I got some "junk" in a box cheap, mainly on the strength of visible slot-type floppy cables, which I'm short on. The cables were nice to have, but under a desk phone, a couple of cheap routers, and stuff like that, was:
DX4-100 VLB motherboard - everything's untensted as of yet but most of it has a pretty minty smell to it.
Okay this one has an *IBM* DX4-100 on it. That's nice, I had an IBM SLC 166 back in the day.
A VLB drive controller, nice,
*Two* VLB video cards, neither spectacular but still cool. I need to do a little research on the configs of these. I have a VLB S3 already.
And, the piece de resistance:
The shock of my day, found shoved to the side in this box, a very clean Sankyo DM-600 floppy drive.
So after the PPro Haul, this is probably my favorite deal of the year, for a few bucks of "junk I'm throwing out anyway."
I didn't get a pic of the Radeon 4850, because I've already got a 4890 and it's kind of barely retro.
Separately I got a few other things for free, including a Dell Precision I may actually use, with a monitor. Big haul day.
*Two* VLB video cards, neither spectacular but still cool. I need to do a little research on the configs of these. I have a VLB S3 already.
S3 805-P and what seems to be an ATI Mach32 (XLR) are pretty decent cards and far ahead of 80% of VLB crap out there. The empty socket on the ATI card can be used to install an ATI 68875 RAMDAC.
Okay this one has an *IBM* DX4-100 on it. That's nice, I had an IBM SLC 166 back in the day.
The MB looks like a PC Chips, albeit the cache might actually be real (it's at least socketed and doesn't have "WRITE BACK" printed on it). The CPU is either a Cyrix manufactured and branded by IBM or an Intel DX4 manufactured and branded by IBM; I'm still fuzzy on which it is with the 486 chips...