I can still remember when games had minimum requirements for CD-ROM speed. I think this was necessary to support real-time playback of cinematics from disk, and faster speeds became necessary as the movies got larger and needed faster read speed.

wirerogue wrote on 2024-01-12, 04:17:

i won this on ebay and the seller delivered. and i mean he really delivered. all 50 pounds of it. leading edge winpro 486e, dx2- […]
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i won this on ebay and the seller delivered. and i mean he really delivered. all 50 pounds of it.
leading edge winpro 486e, dx2-66, trident, soundblaster 16 and all the manuals and software.
my first 486. hooray!!!

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I love that the seller included the newspaper ad as well as their receipts for the system. That system was definitely well taken care of enjoy it!!

Today I got this TEAC CD-W540E 40x12x48x CD writer. I think it is rare, any opinions?

pan069 wrote on 2024-01-11, 21:43:

Edit: PS, the 25Mhz oscillator has a small dent in it, not sure if that is something to worry about...

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Makes me wonder though how much impact it experienced. Not great especially for something electromechanical like an oscillator.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-01-12, 11:54:

I can still remember when games had minimum requirements for CD-ROM speed. I think this was necessary to support real-time playback of cinematics from disk, and faster speeds became necessary as the movies got larger and needed faster read speed.

In Duke's voice: Real men copy the cinematics to a fast 'n' wide SCSI hard drive, baby. Can't give those alien bastards time to shoot up my ride again while the CD revs up. Damn that was a lot of words.

RetroPC_King wrote on 2024-01-12, 14:57:

I think it is rare, any opinions?

Not really, I also tried fixing two of them with no luck.

follow up to my earlier leading edge winpro 486e post since i didn't have time yesterday.
30 year old hard drive stil good. quite clicky though.
booted right into windows 3.1 although, i do need to get this converted to cf asap.

Another Compaq AP550 with dual 1Ghz PIII processors and an HP Kayak XAs.

I now have two AP550's :-]

HomeLate wrote on 2024-01-13, 09:41:

Another Compaq AP550 with dual 1Ghz PIII processors and an HP Kayak XAs. […]
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Another Compaq AP550 with dual 1Ghz PIII processors and an HP Kayak XAs.

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I now have two AP550's :-]

dual piii 1ghz and rdram. nice.
i'm looking at some other photos online and holy crap, is that subwoofer for a system speaker? 😉

wirerogue wrote on 2024-01-13, 21:33:

dual piii 1ghz and rdram. nice.
i'm looking at some other photos online and holy crap, is that subwoofer for a system speaker? 😉

Yes, the speaker is big in these and the quality is actually pretty good 😀

Found this socket 7 mobo at the thrift for 5 dollars today. I have been looking for one to complete a build.
I also saw a PC which was a celeron that i should have grabbed, but my kid was tired and having a fuss so i left it and took him home. Maybe i can go back tomorrow and grab it.

Law212 wrote on 2024-01-14, 06:26:

Found this socket 7 mobo at the thrift for 5 dollars today. I have been looking for one to complete a build.
I also saw a PC which was a celeron that i should have grabbed, but my kid was tired and having a fuss so i left it and took him home. Maybe i can go back tomorrow and grab it.

Socket 7, ISA, PCI, AGP, and standard ATX power? Those look like some fantastic little boards. You will also need some add-on cards for PS/2 or serial, as well as a baby AT case, but this is a good start.

I noticed that the box says "micro ATX". Is that correct, given the classic AT-style keyboard connector?

That's because his board is not from the same MFR as the box 🤣

Board is a Shuttle HOT-591P, as far as I can recognize from the layout. And boy, that's a lot of serial brackets there.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-01-14, 06:34:

Law212 wrote on 2024-01-14, 06:26:

Found this socket 7 mobo at the thrift for 5 dollars today. I have been looking for one to complete a build.
I also saw a PC which was a celeron that i should have grabbed, but my kid was tired and having a fuss so i left it and took him home. Maybe i can go back tomorrow and grab it.

Socket 7, ISA, PCI, AGP, and standard ATX power? Those look like some fantastic little boards. You will also need some add-on cards for PS/2 or serial, as well as a baby AT case, but this is a good start.

I noticed that the box says "micro ATX". Is that correct, given the classic AT-style keyboard connector?

Its a micro AT. I have a case for it, I have most of what I need but will need to hunt down some parts which shouldnt be too hard.

Today's special picks from the car boot sale loot. ECS K7S5A, Radeon 9600Pro, as well as a strange Ethernet card. There were also some Maxtor Atlas drives but I need to repair their boards and then find a SCSI controller.

Huge luck on eBay recently. Always wanted one and finally found an affordable Fury Maxx.

Now I need to build a system for it. 😁

Long time reader, first time poster here 😀
I've bought this interesting ISA video card recently. It has a weird COLOR/MONOCHROME switch on it and an odd video connector. Honestly, I don't know what this is, any has ever seen one before?

snoopy23 wrote on 2024-01-14, 12:41:

Huge luck on eBay recently. Always wanted one and finally found an affordable Fury Maxx.

Now I need to build a system for it. 😁

Nice find !
Do you have a motherboard that can handle it ? Quite a lot of chipsets don't work with Fury MAXX. I use an ECS K7S5A Pro with a SIS chipset with mine

When i was looking for one (2021 iirc), my "affordable" limit for it was 250/300€. Do they still sell in that price range ?

kaposzta wrote on 2024-01-14, 12:50:

Long time reader, first time poster here 😀
I've bought this interesting ISA video card recently. It has a weird COLOR/MONOCHROME switch on it and an odd video connector. Honestly, I don't know what this is, any has ever seen one before?

Reminds me of the monitor connector on an Ollivetti m24 or AT&T PC 6300, that also delivered power via the connector to the monitor.

acl wrote on 2024-01-14, 12:54:

Nice find ! Do you have a motherboard that can handle it ? Quite a lot of chipsets don't work with Fury MAXX. I use an ECS K7S5A […]
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snoopy23 wrote on 2024-01-14, 12:41:

Huge luck on eBay recently. Always wanted one and finally found an affordable Fury Maxx.

Now I need to build a system for it. 😁

Nice find !
Do you have a motherboard that can handle it ? Quite a lot of chipsets don't work with Fury MAXX. I use an ECS K7S5A Pro with a SIS chipset with mine

When i was looking for one (2021 iirc), my "affordable" limit for it was 250/300€. Do they still sell in that price range ?

Yes they still sell around 300€. But I paid way less. I wanted one, but not that much, that I would spend that money. Especially because of all its flaws. But historically it’s such an important card that I’m very happy to have it and looking forward to get it running. Regarding mainboard… I have to do a bit research and see what boards are in my archive. I’m thinking about an early Athlon.