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PeterLI wrote:

AWE32s are not that uncommon. But you may have to extend your search beyond eBay and search other local classifieds sites / foru […]
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AWE32s are not that uncommon. But you may have to extend your search beyond eBay and search other local classifieds sites / forums.

This one has been around for weeks / months:
http://link.marktplaats.nl/m871587447

The scrapper who contacted me a while ago agreed to have me consult: e.g. I will test / clean / prepare items for his eBay et cetera sales. He will reimburse me in kind (e.g. hardware). This should start in March and be an occasional activity. Obviously it depends on his intake of vintage stuff.

I agree, Awe32's arn't that hard to find. The CT3900 though is another story...at least for me anyway. My all time favourite sound blaster. I guess you're right regarding extending my search. I tend to only look on eBay, Amazon and Amibay.

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I just bought this Asus CUV4X for ~2.5 Euro 😀
It should be perfect as a really fast DOS box with a modified Pentium III-S 1400

Didn't buy these today (like 3 months ago or something like that) but since I am new to the forum I thought people would appreciate the find 😀

grabbed this from Salvation Army for $4.99 a brand new sealed SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer PCI edition. Comes bundled with Decent 3, Need for SPeed 4, and Theif

Model #SB4760X

Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine.

However, I have a much rarer laptop to show:

This is a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K, and it was the only example on eBay UK at the time of purchase. It's a 10" laptop, with a 500 MHz Pentium III CPU, 192 MB of RAM (I was lucky; this came with an extra 128MB micro-DIMM, as most shipped with 64MB only) and the obligatory 440BX chipset. It's far from perfect; it needs a good clean, the battery is shot, the screen is a bit iffy, it needs putting together properly and it only boots from the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive when it wants. However, it did come with the CD drive (which works fine), charger, and basically everything needed to make it complete, bar a HDD and the caddy. I'm planning to put a 16GB CF card in it as an experiment. As it won't boot from the CD drive consistently, however, I'm having to jump through a few hoops to actually get a properly configured Windows installation on it! Thank goodness for the Latitude C600 having a 440BX chipset as well.

Lukeno94 wrote:

Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine. […]
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Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine.

However, I have a much rarer laptop to show:

This is a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K, and it was the only example on eBay UK at the time of purchase. It's a 10" laptop, with a 500 MHz Pentium III CPU, 192 MB of RAM (I was lucky; this came with an extra 128MB micro-DIMM, as most shipped with 64MB only) and the obligatory 440BX chipset. It's far from perfect; it needs a good clean, the battery is shot, the screen is a bit iffy, it needs putting together properly and it only boots from the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive when it wants. However, it did come with the CD drive (which works fine), charger, and basically everything needed to make it complete, bar a HDD and the caddy. I'm planning to put a 16GB CF card in it as an experiment. As it won't boot from the CD drive consistently, however, I'm having to jump through a few hoops to actually get a properly configured Windows installation on it! Thank goodness for the Latitude C600 having a 440BX chipset as well.

I love the way Sony designed the Vaios. They were always 5 years ahead of the pack.
Too bad they had to kill the line.

Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix - 3dfx Banshee PCI

picking up a original owner amiga 1000 with boxes, and all accessories in an hour!

PeterLI wrote:

AWE32s are not that uncommon. But you may have to extend your search beyond eBay and search other local classifieds sites / foru […]
Show full quote

AWE32s are not that uncommon. But you may have to extend your search beyond eBay and search other local classifieds sites / forums.

This one has been around for weeks / months:
http://link.marktplaats.nl/m871587447

The scrapper who contacted me a while ago agreed to have me consult: e.g. I will test / clean / prepare items for his eBay et cetera sales. He will reimburse me in kind (e.g. hardware). This should start in March and be an occasional activity. Obviously it depends on his intake of vintage stuff.

It took me what seemed like forever to find a CT3980 and when it arrived it stunk like cigarette smoke. 😠

While I was waiting, someone decided to sell a CT3980 box with manuals, software and all the associated hardware that goes with it plus a bunch of other miscellaneous computer accessories so I snagged that lot figuring I could resell the CT3980 that I eventually got as complete in box one day for a big profit.

Skyscraper wrote:

modified Pentium III-S 1400

What kind of mod this is?

Godlike wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

modified Pentium III-S 1400

What kind of mod this is?

FCPGA2 ---> FCPGA mod.
A Korean guy sells pre modified CPUs on Ebay.

Godlike wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

modified Pentium III-S 1400

What kind of mod this is?

The pin wire mod to make a Tualatin work in a Coppermine motherboard. He sells them pre-modded so you don't have to do it yourself or search in vain and shell out big bucks for a rare socket interposer like a Lin-Lin adapter (which doesn't work with every Coppermine motherboard, so even if you find one you might still be out of luck), but he charges a pretty hefty premium over what an unmodded Pentium III-s sells for so if you were buying one to put in a motherboard that was designed to work with a Tualatin, then you would get an unmodded one and save some money.

sliderider wrote:

Godlike wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

modified Pentium III-S 1400

What kind of mod this is?

The pin wire mod to make a Tualatin work in a Coppermine motherboard. He sells them pre-modded so you don't have to do it yourself or search in vain and shell out big bucks for a rare socket interposer like a Lin-Lin adapter (which doesn't work with every Coppermine motherboard, so even if you find one you might still be out of luck), but he charges a pretty hefty premium over what an unmodded Pentium III-s sells for so if you were buying one to put in a motherboard that was designed to work with a Tualatin, then you would get an unmodded one and save some money.

I will call it adapter only. I thought is some kind of hardware overclocking, I think I saw this on Ebay last times. Can you provide a link to his auction?

Godlike wrote:

I will call it adapter only. I thought is some kind of hardware overclocking, I think I saw this on Ebay last times. Can you provide a link to his auction?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tualatin-P-IIIs-1-4GH … =item417b1c3fc1

lwizardl wrote:

Comes bundled with Decent 3, Need for SPeed 4, and Theif

How I love EAXed Thief The Dark Project with 5.1 speakers!
This comes by post day before yesterday, full boxed version, another model for spare audio gear 😀
(live without sound? nah...)

Time for a REVOLUTION 😁

Kaasschaaf wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine. […]
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Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine.

However, I have a much rarer laptop to show:

This is a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K, and it was the only example on eBay UK at the time of purchase. It's a 10" laptop, with a 500 MHz Pentium III CPU, 192 MB of RAM (I was lucky; this came with an extra 128MB micro-DIMM, as most shipped with 64MB only) and the obligatory 440BX chipset. It's far from perfect; it needs a good clean, the battery is shot, the screen is a bit iffy, it needs putting together properly and it only boots from the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive when it wants. However, it did come with the CD drive (which works fine), charger, and basically everything needed to make it complete, bar a HDD and the caddy. I'm planning to put a 16GB CF card in it as an experiment. As it won't boot from the CD drive consistently, however, I'm having to jump through a few hoops to actually get a properly configured Windows installation on it! Thank goodness for the Latitude C600 having a 440BX chipset as well.

I love the way Sony designed the Vaios. They were always 5 years ahead of the pack.
Too bad they had to kill the line.

The hardware itself was fine, but Sony's inability to offer proper driver support for OSes that were still relevant when the laptops were sold (ie Windows 98 on this laptop, which shipped with Windows 2000; given that they usually shipped new with 64MB of RAM, this change would've been quite popular with some) is pathetic. Dell are very good at this, but Sony? Often, they'd have the drivers available for another product that used the same components on an older OS, but still wouldn't bother to list those drivers on the newer product's page. At least the drivers aren't totally in no-man's land, even after Sony cut the Vaio line loose.

VooDooMan wrote:

Time for a REVOLUTION 😁

wife: where all the cash from our account gone?
husband: it's been hacked by a hacker I think
Vogons night: Time for a REVOLUTION 😁

VooDooMan wrote:

Time for a REVOLUTION :D

PCI board - what it is?