wiretap wrote:

Sony Vaio Picturebook PCG-C1VPK. Offered $40 and the seller accepted. Looks like it needs a hard drive, which I already have to […]
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Sony Vaio Picturebook PCG-C1VPK. Offered $40 and the seller accepted. Looks like it needs a hard drive, which I already have to fit it. Hmm, Windows ME or 2000? Originally it came with ME, but later offered Win2k. Or maybe if I can find a restore disc with all the original software.. because dat Jog Dial.

Seller photos:

Hey didn't this computer have the "Transmeta" CPU ?
What happened to that company ? They use to be all the rage and had lots of promise of becoming a big microprocessor company.
I remember seeing these notebooks on sale at the local electronics store for about $699.
I was considering buying one but I felt the specs where too limited in capacity and the CPU was too weak.

Transmeta was bout out by Novafora, but ironically (rather unfortunately), Novafora collapsed and went defunct in 2009, taking Transmeta with it.

EDIT: Fixed typo

Bought an Atari 1040 STE today in extremely good condition and fully working order. First game to load was International Karate. It's such an amazing game on the Atari! It feels like when I got my C64. It was the same game I first loaded. Ah, memories 😀 ... It's also pretty awesome to finally own the real 16bit Commodore 😀

Vynix wrote:

Transmeta was bout out by Novafora, but ironically (rather unfortunately), Novafora collapsed and went defunct in 2009, taking Transmeta with it.

EDIT: Fixed typo

I bet Win-tel had something to do with this? As Tranmeta CPU's weren't suppose to be reliant on any Operating System.
I wonder if these CPU's can run native version of DOS ? or you need a patch ?

I'm sort of thinking about getting a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard. As I'm rather attached to numerical entry via keypad that made me start looking for decent mechanical numerical keypads. Last week these two turned up:

On the left a Cherry G80-3700HQAUS/05 programmable keypad with MX Black switches and doubleshot caps, on the right a Toshiba NKP1815 with Alps White switches.

The Cherry is beautiful and even though I prefer tactile MX switches, these things feel fantastic. I also love indicator LEDs in the keys. The Toshiba is a bit of a let-down. I have a keyboard with Alps White and consider it pretty much on par with MX Blue and had always wondered why they were considered inferior. This keypad shows how bad it can get, with actuation only happening if you hit the key perfectly straight and otherwise 'sticking' against the adjacent keys, plus as soon as you're over the bump, resistance drops so fast you're almost guaranteed to bottom out. Yuck.

Finally!

NVIDIA NV1 - Diamond Edge 3D 2120XL Ver. 1.00 (STG2000X) 1MB PCI (Boxed) (1995)

To go with this..

and then there's this little guy:

3DFX Voodoo5 Lunch box #2 (2000)

^ daaaaaaammmnnnnn !
😁

Bought a 3Com Megahertz 10Base-T PCMCIA card, box of blank 1.2MB HD Floppies, and a 15" LCD monitor.

The hard disk of the Beast - this is what 666MB looked like in 1991 😜

Great haul with both items Artex. That Sega pc setup.is sweet.

wiretap wrote:

Aaaaand another purchase. Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P with dock.. lol. Too many of my search triggers are hitting with good prices. Ok […]
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Aaaaand another purchase. Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P with dock.. 🤣. Too many of my search triggers are hitting with good prices. Ok I'll stop now.

Holy desktop icon spam, Batman! I'd wipe & reinstall immediately if I saw that on a new PC I got, because who knows what else they slathered on there with no discretion. Huge pet peeve of mine. 😜 Neat little device though!

Looks like it's a Core Solo from the specs I found online... What video chip does it have? Can you game on it?

It has an Intel Core Solo U1400 w/ 1GB RAM and 40GB HDD. Intel GMA 950 graphics. It isn't really meant to be a gaming handheld, but I'm sure it can do a few light games or older games. Once I find a recovery disk for it (if there's no recovery partition) I will wipe it and start fresh.

Desktop icons for hearts, solitaire, and freecell... I think we're dealing with an expert

dionb wrote:

The hard disk of the Beast - this is what 666MB looked like in 1991 :P […]
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The hard disk of the Beast - this is what 666MB looked like in 1991 😜

Had that exact model drive installed in a custom external SCSI enclosure back in the early 00s. Thing was slow, but very reliable. Never died on me. I think I sold it finally.

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It has an Intel Core Solo U1400 w/ 1GB RAM and 40GB HDD. Intel GMA 950 graphics. It isn't really meant to be a gaming handheld, but I'm sure it can do a few light games or older games. Once I find a recovery disk for it (if there's no recovery partition) I will wipe it and start fresh.

Funny thing is.. I have one of those as well. Not sure if I have the original recovery disks or not though. I did replace the original HDD with an SSD though... not super easy as it has a ZIF cable and is IDE. The SSD I got for it has the ZIF plug the opposite direction so I had to mount it in there caty-wompus but it works.

I'll look for the recovery stuff for it when I look for the discs for the other one.

treeman wrote:

bought a gmb 486 unp 2.2 vlb board on eBay, for only 40usd shipped however its described as untested and been in storage so fingers crossed

my vlb board finally came, as suspected barrel battery started leaking but not that bad. Removed it straight away, cleaned up damaged tracks then tinned them with solder. Wasn't happy with 3 of them so ran jumper wires just in case.

Board boots up! quiet happy with 40usd for now a working vlb board

@treeman That's a pretty sweet board, I have one too. Unfortunately there's no LBA support in the BIOS, at least in mine, just for FYI, if you'd use that feature.

thanx for the feedback, I was actually wondering if this board is decent because I didn't really do much research,. for 40usd was a deal either way.

It's got nicely marked jumpers for upto 50fsb from my recollection right on the board, so nice feature there. I went into the bios which is the newer looking award one, no loss about lba I don't mind.

Unfortunately for now I got no room to put it in a system, packed and safely stored

Saw a beige box last week. The guy wanted 5€ for it and after some thought I passed it up, thinking it was just another Socket 462 office machine. Had a change of heart this weekend after seeing it again and so I went for it. Quite glad I did - Slot A Athlon 600 and Voodoo3 1000! Some bulging caps, but for this price I cant complain 😀

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V3 1000 AGP with fast 183MHz specified, 5.5ns SGRAM from Siemens, not bad. I would install a heatsink on the avenger core, because this chip get very, very hot.