I really dig those cases that have a removable motherboard tray... makes system building so much easier.

I scored a great deal on a Voodoo 3 PCI today 😁. It was still maybe the most I have paid for a retro part, but much less than the going rate for PCI voodoo cards these days.

I have a socket 7 build and a socket 478 machine. My hope is that I can get the voodoo card to work for glide games and use my FX card for openGL and directX. If they refuse to play nice together, then I'll put it in my dos machine instead.

Don't forget to add a fan to that thing. Learnt that the hard way with my first VooDoo3 2000 PCI card. My V3 3000 PCI card has a fan on it (added one myself) and it still works.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Don't forget to add a fan to that thing. Learnt that the hard way with my first VooDoo3 2000 PCI card. My V3 3000 PCI card has a fan on it (added one myself) and it still works.

Yeah that is definitely part of the plan. It would make for one expensive coaster.

Finally found an IBM 365 for a half-way reasonable price.

ebay seller images:

I'll know in 7-17 days if the door survives the trip around the world.

Hope it survives, man.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Don't forget to add a fan to that thing. Learnt that the hard way with my first VooDoo3 2000 PCI card. My V3 3000 PCI card has a fan on it (added one myself) and it still works.

My 3000 does not have a fan, and it still works 😀

Yeah, I don't notice my V3 2000 getting hot to the touch, just a bit warm. I even ran it at 75MHz AGP for a while with no issues. It has a bigger heat sink than the one pictured though.

luckybob wrote:

Finally found an IBM 365 for a half-way reasonable price.

I'll know in 7-17 days if the door survives the trip around the world.

I saw this and made him an offer as the price was too much for me... especially in unknown state. I hope it survives the trip as the case is in nice condition and it actually works when you put in the cpu(s).

kixs wrote:

luckybob wrote:

Finally found an IBM 365 for a half-way reasonable price.

I'll know in 7-17 days if the door survives the trip around the world.

I saw this and made him an offer as the price was too much for me... especially in unknown state. I hope it survives the trip as the case is in nice condition and it actually works when you put in the cpu(s).

@kixs

Yea, I know. total gamble. but for some *censored* reason people want 5-6 hundred dollars for the damn things. I got lucky. I had a small windfall of money, and I just had to take it.

The last really high end s3 chipset, the vision968 on a diamond card with the excellent ti dac (same on the famous matrox millennium).

benchmarks here:
Fastest video card for DOS, Socket 3 VLB / Socket 5 / Socket 7 / Slot 1 FPS comparison

possible config here:
Re: Socket 5 @ 1995.05 - Pentium 120, ARK Logic ARK2000PV, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis Ultrasound

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retro workstation build incoming 😀

also my current way of trying to acquire more retro hardware isn't terribly efficient, I particularly dislike that the scrappers remove all metal parts, most cards missing their slot covers and some of the motherboards that otherwise look fine sometimes have damage on the chipset from ripping the heatsinks off, and then there's of course just a bunch of parts just being outright broken or damaged, but still better than nothing I guess.

At last found and scored 4MB memory expansion for my Matrox Millennium. Now I can enjoy whooping 8MB in total! Hooray 😀

arncht wrote:

The last really high end s3 chipset, the vision968 on a diamond card with the excellent ti dac (same on the famous matrox millen […]
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The last really high end s3 chipset, the vision968 on a diamond card with the excellent ti dac (same on the famous matrox millennium).

benchmarks here:
Fastest video card for DOS, Socket 3 VLB / Socket 5 / Socket 7 / Slot 1 FPS comparison

possible config here:
Re: Socket 5 @ 1995.05 - Pentium 120, ARK Logic ARK2000PV, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis Ultrasound

I got one of those in the AMD 5x86-133 I built. It is quite a good card for that machine.

imi wrote:

retro workstation build incoming 😀

tyan_mpx.jpg

Tyan Tiger MP/MPX?

canthearu wrote:

arncht wrote:

The last really high end s3 chipset, the vision968 on a diamond card with the excellent ti dac (same on the famous matrox millen […]
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The last really high end s3 chipset, the vision968 on a diamond card with the excellent ti dac (same on the famous matrox millennium).

benchmarks here:
Fastest video card for DOS, Socket 3 VLB / Socket 5 / Socket 7 / Slot 1 FPS comparison

possible config here:
Re: Socket 5 @ 1995.05 - Pentium 120, ARK Logic ARK2000PV, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis Ultrasound

I got one of those in the AMD 5x86-133 I built. It is quite a good card for that machine.

The original price was $389, not too many people paired with a cheap cpu 😀 maybe in 96 was a little bit outdated, but the trio64v+ was always muchmuch cheaper.

gdjacobs wrote:

imi wrote:

retro workstation build incoming 😀

tyan_mpx.jpg

Tyan Tiger MP/MPX?

Tyan Tiger MPX S2466 with 2x Athlon MP2400 😀

Bought a new case for my 233MMX project. I'll be using its current case for something else because it has some sentimental value to me, but it just didn't turn out to be the fit I needed for this build.

My purchase was an AOpen H700A. It may not be 100% time period correct, but it was new old stock and will do exactly as I need. Seems to be from around 2002, so not too terrible. Seller pics attached.

The reason from changing from my current case is quite simple - this case has the four additional hard drive bays above the PSU, which is exactly what I needed for the build having a total of six HDDs.

It will still require some minor modifications to make it how I want it and to remove some of the "new" factor from it. Plans include swapping out the clippable 5.25" covers with regular ones from that big box of covers I found awhile back. Replacing the front USB area with some smoked acrylic and a MHz display which I have laying around and chopping up some of my blank ATX IO covers to support AT keyboard and have holes for Serial and Parallel ports.

Having a brand new PSU in there is a bonus too, but I'll find another home for that.

Also having so many 80mm fan locations will keep everything nice and cool - and a cool system is a happy and long lasting system! Looking at an archive of the AOpen site seems to indicate around seven fan slots. Absolutely wonderful.

Looking forward to it. 😀

luckybob wrote:

Finally found an IBM 365 for a half-way reasonable price. […]
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Finally found an IBM 365 for a half-way reasonable price.

ebay seller images:

I'll know in 7-17 days if the door survives the trip around the world.

It wont.

I have one of those (mines the 486 version of that chassis though). Its literally the most brittle plastic I've ever seen. It exploded into about 20 different pieces just trying to get the front plate off. And the damn computer doesn't work anyways.