Those boards are in need of a bit of TLC nemail - lethal battery bombs-in-waiting and shot caps.

Lukeno94 wrote:

Those boards are in need of a bit of TLC nemail - lethal battery bombs-in-waiting and shot caps.

tlc?
do you think i can still rescue the boards with the battery bombs? don't care about the caps too much right now as i'm not planning to use the boards with the defective caps anytime soon....

Damn... i was so proud of myself to finally have sold some stuff, but now i am on a buying frenzy.

Anyway, just bought an Asus P2B + p3-500 and another voodoo3. Can't have enough voodoo....

nemail, Where's the cache on that Mercury board? I've never seen a cacheless P60 board, it's like a sportcar with 4-speed gearbox.

RacoonRider wrote:

nemail, Where's the cache on that Mercury board? I've never seen a cacheless P60 board, it's like a sportcar with 4-speed gearbox.

Moore like a sports car with only a first gear;)
it looks like thereis a strange slot right next to the CPU
maybe it is for some sort of cache stick?

Brown slot? Could be a COAST slot

RacoonRider wrote:

nemail, Where's the cache on that Mercury board? I've never seen a cacheless P60 board, it's like a sportcar with 4-speed gearbox.

erm.. which one is the mercury board? 😁

nemail wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

Those boards are in need of a bit of TLC nemail - lethal battery bombs-in-waiting and shot caps.

tlc?
do you think i can still rescue the boards with the battery bombs? don't care about the caps too much right now as i'm not planning to use the boards with the defective caps anytime soon....

Tender loving care = TLC. And the batteries are easy enough to replace if you have the skill (which I don't), and if they haven't yet leaked battery acid anywhere, then the boards should be fine (or, at least, not have been killed by battery acid).

ah ok 🤣, the skill should not be the issue, i just wonder if the mainboards are still rescueable as on some of them some acid already has been "deployed"....

Lukeno94 wrote:

Tender loving care = TLC. And the batteries are easy enough to replace if you have the skill (which I don't), and if they haven't yet leaked battery acid anywhere, then the boards should be fine (or, at least, not have been killed by battery acid).

TLC means Toyota Land Cruiser where I come from...

This is the mercury board... download/file.php?id=16658
And I can not spot the brown slot, only 4 memory slots.

edit: Nevermind, the cache is near the CPU socket, 9 weird form-factor chips to the left.

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Lukeno94 wrote:

Tender loving care = TLC. And the batteries are easy enough to replace if you have the skill (which I don't), and if they haven't yet leaked battery acid anywhere, then the boards should be fine (or, at least, not have been killed by battery acid).

TLC means Toyota Land Cruiser where I come from...

This is the mercury board... download/file.php?id=16658
And I can not spot the brown slot, only 4 memory slots.

edit: Nevermind, the cache is near the CPU socket, 9 weird form-factor chips to the left.

yeah the cache is right there. i was wonering what mainboard racoonraider was talking about...

Just got 2 PSUs for real cheap,and both have the -5v rail 🤣

The only problems both had were 2 bulged caps. One was around the +3.3/5/12 V rails for the first (Delux ATX-400W P4, different from my old one) and another one was at the startup area for the second(next to the transformers). Strangely the Delux couldn't power my Pentium 4 system (even though it had the plug for it) but the other one (a Rexpower PX-400) could power it. Going to check the Delux tomorrow.

AWE64 gold, two matched Samsung 1.44mb floppy drives, ACARD SCSI to IDE adapter, Copy II PC Option Board, Wireless serial mouse (infrared), color LCD panel driven by a Cirrus Logic video card with 256k VRAM......and a modem branded by Ferrari? 😕

That pile was something like $20. The big ticket item was four Documation M1000 punched card readers for $1000.

(Three of them are for sale, by the way. [/plug])

I just won a Matrox Mystique 220 with some addon and cables.
I had put in the minimum bid of ~0.1 Euro. It seems nobody else wanted this card...

That's nice finding a Mystique with the memory upgrade board. Some people want ridiculous amounts of money for those separately. Whenever I see one of those early 3D cards with the memory upgrade attached, I usually go for it.

sliderider wrote:

That's nice finding a Mystique with the memory upgrade board. Some people want ridiculous amounts of money for those separately. Whenever I see one of those early 3D cards with the memory upgrade attached, I usually go for it.

It will replace a Matrox Millenium II as the companion of a Voodoo II in one of my systems 😀
I do not care much for Matrox early 3D attempts but the 2D quality makes it useful, especially in Windows.

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AWE64 gold, two matched Samsung 1.44mb floppy drives, ACARD SCSI to IDE adapter, Copy II PC Option Board, Wireless serial mouse (infrared), color LCD panel driven by a Cirrus Logic video card with 256k VRAM......and a modem branded by Ferrari? 😕

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I had a friend of mine (with much better google-fu skill than me) and he found the information. It is indeed a standard ISA 9600-baud fax modem. But the company that created and sold it had nothing what so ever to do with Ferrari Motors Inc, that produces the famous cars, and in fact it was a totally illegitimate use of the logo. It was a german company that sold those modems originally only in Germany. They at one point in time were sued by Ferrari Motors for the logo usage and kept the company name, but they now use a different logo and still exist in some form somewhere today. My reply was mainly about the modem, so to keep messages shorter on the forums I snipped the other stuff and focused on that. Also we couldn't find a actual website for them today though.

EDIT: We found it. http://www.ferrari-electronic.com/

Got this beautiful IBM PS/1 a few days ago for EUR 40,-
Everything works like a charm, upgraded it to 20MB of memory and equipped it with a Sound Blaster 16 as well as an ISA RJ45 Ethernet card 😀
A cd-rom drive will follow (too lazy to get one from the basement).

That PS/1 is so super cool! Nice pickup, looks to be in great nick.

Skyscraper wrote:

I just won a Matrox Mystique 220 with some addon and cables.
I had put in the minimum bid of ~0.1 Euro. It seems nobody else wanted this card...

Good find 😀
This add-on card is certainly the rainbow runner studio and you even have the rainbow runner video connector that was bundled with it.
Quite an useful little thing for it's time 😎
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/media/pdf/supp … als/en_rrst.pdf