I am somewhat skeptical that memory expansion card goes with that motherboard. Although they are both Micronics, the motherboard has an extra small connector at the end which will likely prevent the RAM card from being able to seat properly. I suspect the correct expansion card for your board should use SIMM slots according to the components on the board.
I am somewhat skeptical that memory expansion card goes with that motherboard. Although they are both Micronics, the motherboard has an extra small connector at the end which will likely prevent the RAM card from being able to seat properly. I suspect the correct expansion card for your board should use SIMM slots according to the components on the board.
Hmm, hope you are not right. But they seem to fit. The 2 small connectors are open at the ends so you can put a card in (through) it. Its not a socket.
"The 80386 I-Cache board is a full-sized (13.8" x 12.025") motherboard which took all of its memory as DRAM plugged into a proprietary 32-bit memory card. There are two versions of the I-Cache board, identified by part numbers 09-00010, and 09-00021, which are silk-screened on the component (top) side of the motherboard. The most common memory card used with the I-Cache board is the M500. This is part number 09-00011. The upper left corner has "385 Memory Board" silk-screened on many M500 cards.
Interesting. So those two small connectors just hold the board in place? I guess if you have documents that list the part numbers they must work together. For the record, I have seen memory expansion cards that appear to use those tiny connectors.
Thats what it looks like. When you take a closer look at the gold plate on the RAM board you see 3 scratches on it. So it seems the only sense is to connect all PINs together?
blurks wrote:I just received a beautiful Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4N in working condition with original bag and power brick. Specs as follows: […] Show full quote
I just received a beautiful Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4N in working condition with original bag and power brick. Specs as follows:
True but the design originates from Siemens Nixdorf as far as I know. The PCD-4N also has a very geometrical appearance as it lacks the curved front side.
cyclone3d wrote:A pack of 100 7"x15" anti-static bags came today. I had ordered 7"x10" bags, but the seller ran out and offered a free upgrade t […] Show full quote
A pack of 100 7"x15" anti-static bags came today. I had ordered 7"x10" bags, but the seller ran out and offered a free upgrade to the larger bags. Ohhh yeah!
Now I have bags that are the right size for full-length ISA cards.
Just in time for the big lot of ISA sound cards that are supposed to arrive tomorrow.
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Can you tell me where you bought them ? I struggle to find them for a good price.
cyclone3d wrote:A pack of 100 7"x15" anti-static bags came today. I had ordered 7"x10" bags, but the seller ran out and offered a free upgrade t […] Show full quote
A pack of 100 7"x15" anti-static bags came today. I had ordered 7"x10" bags, but the seller ran out and offered a free upgrade to the larger bags. Ohhh yeah!
Now I have bags that are the right size for full-length ISA cards.
Just in time for the big lot of ISA sound cards that are supposed to arrive tomorrow.
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Can you tell me where you bought them ? I struggle to find them for a good price.
The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
Opti, ESS, Crystal, and Diamond Technologies cards.
Opti cards, a MAD16 card, a yamaha YMF719E-S and a yamaha YMF718-S card
3x, Sound Blaster 2.0 cards, one of which is CMS upgrade-able. The one labeled Sound Machine should also be upgrade-able if the sockets are added.
2x PAS16 cards
Opti card with Opti wavetable card and an unknown non-PnP sound/modem
CMI8328 with Crystal wavetable, Adlib clone (PC Symphony)
2x GUS PnP clones (no RAM and no expansion) - what are these good for anyway without RAM
Mystery 8-bit card. Starting a separate thread for this as I am unable to find anything about this card other than the company that made it was Viacon
Last card is the sound/modem card in the previous picture.
When I was searching through my storage units in search of a certain motherboard I found a box full of "gold scrap" I bought a few years ago. It's CPUs and memory. I know I paid 1 euro each for the CPUs and well less for the memory. There was nothing in the lot I really needed so I diddn't bother to unpack the stuff and just put the it all in storage. I probably have more such boxes I have forgot about.
This evening I will finally sort through this lot.
These are the CPUs, they seem to be in need of cleaning. There is also plenty of bent pins.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
OMG this is jumper hell !... Thankfully we don't have to deal with them in most stuff that came few years after.
I guess you could call it a collection. I am planning on starting up a web page and doing reviews of retro hardware.
This lot was bought without any idea other than 5-6 8-bit cards and the rest 16-bit.
I really should do a count to see how many different models of sound cards I have now. I have a few plastic bins full now and I need to get a couple more bins as I am out of space.
The jumpers are great on that card. There are even jumpers to disable the modem and sound portions of the card. I may have to take the sticker off the sound chip to see exactly what it is.
People selling cpus for gold scrap may not know about the retro trends ! They could take care of them not to bend any pins and sell them individually, they'd work 2 times less and earn 2 times more...
cyclone3d wrote:The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
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The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
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3x, Sound Blaster 2.0 cards, one of which is CMS upgrade-able. The one labeled Sound Machine should also be upgrade-able if the sockets are added.
2x PAS16 cards
Opti card with Opti wavetable card and an unknown non-PnP sound/modem
That "unknown" thing could be rather interesting. It's a Prometheus Combo 121, whatever that is. No info I can find anywhere - but Prometheus Products pops up all over the place regarding the "ultra rare" Aria 16. If some of those chips under the stickers are by Sierra, you might have quite a find. Of course Prometheus was also very close with IBM in the mid 1990s, so it might just be an MWave...
cyclone3d wrote:The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
[...] […] Show full quote
The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
[...]
three.jpg
3x, Sound Blaster 2.0 cards, one of which is CMS upgrade-able. The one labeled Sound Machine should also be upgrade-able if the sockets are added.
2x PAS16 cards
Opti card with Opti wavetable card and an unknown non-PnP sound/modem
That "unknown" thing could be rather interesting. It's a Prometheus Combo 121, whatever that is. No info I can find anywhere - but Prometheus Products pops up all over the place regarding the "ultra rare" Aria 16. If some of those chips under the stickers are by Sierra, you might have quite a find. Of course Prometheus was also very close with IBM in the mid 1990s, so it might just be an MWave...
Well, took the sticker off of the sound chip. It turns out is is an ESS 688F, so nothing really special.