I also got 2 oem GeForce mx2 a vanta, 2 rage pros, a powercool mx2 and 4 ls-120 disks.

brostenen wrote:

Look's like a lot of work is going in that case, if the reddish stuff is rust.
Take apart, sandblow and repaint....

I can tell, that's definitely rust. Besides that.. that old server case there looks like it uses non-standard and unique some sort of plastic rails or metal rails that go on the side of the 5.25" devices.. and likely can't even mount a cd-rom without those. And they're likely lost to time now.

That's a simple thing to fab up or fab a new bay all together.

But the 5 1/4 bays use some sort of odd plates.

Wife insisted we go hunting today. Hit up a bunch of thrifts and pawn shops, but managed to come back with this:
http://imgur.com/a/ob84O

The relevant parts here are the laptop and the G4 tower. The Apple is G4/466 "Digital Audio". Seems to be bone stock, but needs a good cleaning.

The more interesting thing is the laptop. Found it at a pawn shop for $9.00 since they didn't have the AC adapter. Figured if nothing else I could use it as a parts donor for my other Latitude. It uses the same adapter so I plugged it in and BAM, works perfectly.

Dell C610, 1ghz, 16MB VRAM

Still doing some research on it, but it seems to be a recommended machine around here for laptop gaming of the era.

The G4 came out to $30 even.

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Wife insisted we go hunting today. Hit up a bunch of thrifts and pawn shops, but managed to come back with this:
http://imgur.com/a/ob84O

The relevant parts here are the laptop and the G4 tower. The Apple is G4/466 "Digital Audio". Seems to be bone stock, but needs a good cleaning.

The more interesting thing is the laptop. Found it at a pawn shop for $9.00 since they didn't have the AC adapter. Figured if nothing else I could use it as a parts donor for my other Latitude. It uses the same adapter so I plugged it in and BAM, works perfectly.

Dell C610, 1ghz, 16MB VRAM

Still doing some research on it, but it seems to be a recommended machine around here for laptop gaming of the era.

The G4 came out to $30 even.

The C610's can take up to 1.3 ghz mobile 512KB cached P3 Tualatin and usually come with a GeForce2 Go mobile card up to 32MB or 64 MB, which are actually quite confident for early Win9x gaming, and have quite speedy ms-dos acceleration for VESA game modes. Also you can use the same multi-bay devices from the older 500 series lattitudes (direct compatible) and if you fit em with 2 healthy lithium ion cells they alternate between batteries and sometimes run 8-12 hours on full charge. At least mine did when I had it years ago. I bought one recently but it's got a dead screen and I dunno yet if I want to repair it or not. The mobile P3's there even have a very early version of Intel SpeedStep and will shift down to half speed in windows if you're idle.

kithylin wrote:

The C610's can take up to 1.3 ghz mobile 512KB cached P3 Tulatiains and usually come with a GeForce2 Go mobile card up to 32MB or 64 MB, which are actually quite confident for early Win9x gaming, and have quite speedy ms-dos acceleration for VESA game modes. Also you can use the same multi-bay devices from the older 500 series lattitudes (direct compatible) and if you fit em with 2 healthy lithium ion cells they alternate between batteries and sometimes run 8-12 hours on full charge. At least mine did when I had it years ago. I bought one recently but it's got a dead screen and I dunno yet if I want to repair it or not.

The screen hinges on this one are weak. Not much past vertical and it falls back easily. Looks like 1ghz/700mhz for AC/Battery. Mobility Radeon 16MB (Guessing that's VE equivalent? MP6?), and whatever this Crystal 4205 sound is.

My older machine is a CPx 500hgt something or other. It's got the combo DVD reader/CD Burner drive, floppy, but dead battery. However, the rest of the hardware is virtually brand new. May do some frankensteining to combine them into the newer machine if I can. I'll be looking into the upgrade parts now. 😀

The C600 hinges are a notorious weak point, and I can't imagine they changed them on the C610. The right hinge IIRC (the one with the two parts) is very prone to metal fatigue and shearing off, as I've seen on multiple examples - and many of the ones on eBay have this issue. At least the C610 won't suffer from the hideously high heat output that my 1 GHz Coppermine C600 did... that was just ridiculous. Coppermine 1 GHz laptop CPUs are a terrible thing, worse than most P4s.

Parts for the C610 are plentiful, and I'd imagine everything from the C600 (bar CPUs and possibly GPUs) and many things from the C640 will fit perfectly. Parts from the Inspiron 4000 and 4100 should also fit perfectly, as they're direct clones of the C600/C610; maybe parts from the C640 clones (2650 and 4150) will fit as well. The Dell Modular Bay things will fit your CPx fine, but otherwise the only things likely to be compatible are the RAM and HDD - even the Coppermine CPU uses a different connector to the Tulatin ones (not to mention that putting a 1 GHz CPU in a system originally designed for Pentium MMXs may not be the best idea). Replacement Dell Modular Bay batteries are only about £15 on eBay if you get one from Hong Kong.

Bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/361553783245?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT this morning...

Awesome!

Got in the mail today, one I/O-Shield for my P3 motherboard.

A colleague gave me this, might try it in my Socket 7 machine. Can't see it being a longterm replacement for the GF2 PCI though as I hear that it's super slow in 320x200 DOS games.

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A colleague gave me this, might try it in my Socket 7 machine. Can't see it being a longterm replacement for the GF2 PCI though as I hear that it's super slow in 320x200 DOS games.

Yeah, the 2D sucks on it.

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Can't see it being a longterm replacement for the GF2 PCI though as I hear that it's super slow in 320x200 DOS games.

But it has a pretty logo in the chip so that should make up for the slowness 😀

This arrived today. £6.68 + Postage. Gainward 6800 Ultra 256mb. Arrived in a jiffy bag, which the postman tried to push through the letterbox 🤣. Fortunately i was there to stop him. Can't believe how people treat things they sell to people. Card was filthy too. Popped it into my test machine and it works and i will give it a good clean later.

senrew wrote:

Wife insisted we go hunting today. Hit up a bunch of thrifts and pawn shops.

Kudos to your wife! What does she get out of thrifting?

Amazing find! The last time a SCM-10 was seen was years ago in RU and US.

IT is a treasure trove for Roland / MIDI in general. The best source in the EU IMO.

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senrew wrote:

Wife insisted we go hunting today. Hit up a bunch of thrifts and pawn shops.

Kudos to your wife! What does she get out of thrifting?

She's always on the lookout for musical equipment. For example, if I'm looking for a roland module for gaming, she's looking for almost the same roland gear for her home studio. Both sides of the same (expensive!) coin. Euro House/Dance/Club CDs from 80s/90s, Synthpop anything. Occasionally she'll spot some clothes or something she likes. I'm the one who comes home with the bulky unnecessary electronics and other such items.

Hello, long time lurker. I am building a 486 (DX 40 MHz, like my 1st PC). I recently bought the m/b you see. Can anyone identify it? On the back side there is a "486IG-B-2-1" printed, along with "P103". Can't test it yet, no ISA VGA available. Another issue, I tried to pull the CPU (from the heatsink) but I can't remove it. Do I need any special tool?

CPU and heatsink belong together in this case.

I find shopping in thrift stores to a big waste of time here in FL. Most square footage inside the stores is dedicated to clothing. The electronics racks are usually very small and have DVD/CD players plus kitchen equipment. Recently on a (rare) spare afternoon I dropped by 8 thrift / pawn stores and found 2 LaserDisc movies: that was all. 🤣

And I included Goodwill, Salvation Army and small / mid size pawn shops. Pawn shops are the biggest waste of time because they charge crazy amounts for generic junk like CD / DVD players.