The oldest CD-ROM drive I own is a Panasonic/Creative Labs/Matsushita CR-563-B that uses a proprietary ISA card or sound card with a Panasonic or Creative Labs port.
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wrote:thanks, I was watching an external philips top loader from 1991 but that ended up more expensive than what I paid for the whole lot of 11 drives including the caddies, there are some from 1995 in there though, I'd love to have the mitsumi single speed top loader drive, but that's also too pricey.
Here are a few from my collection.
wrote:Here are a few from my collection.
that philips was the one I was watching ^^ maybe I should have bought it after all but oh well... some day maybe.
Did the Philips include the interface card? Without it, it's just a good-looking doorstop. Bought mine years ago and got it very cheap.
wrote:Did the Philips include the interface card?
it did indeed.
This thing arrived. Case has integrated stereo speakers and amp. MSI VLB + PCI motherboard, 486DX6-66, Cirrus Logic PCI card and CT1600. I paid around 100 USD so not really good price but not bad either...
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I'd consider that a good price for such a beatiful case with hardware in it ^^
I'm still missing a desktop case unfortunately.
wrote:This thing arrived. Case has integrated stereo speakers and amp. MSI VLB + PCI motherboard, 486DX6-66, Cirrus Logic PCI card and CT1600. I paid around 100 USD so not really good price but not bad either...
Considering the fact that you got also a SB CT1600 in the price, it isn't a bad deal.
^ exactly!
nice system!
Acquired an SB16 ASP (CT1740) with soldered ASP chip and DSP v4.05 recently.
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wrote:Acquired an SB16 ASP (CT1740) with soldered ASP chip and DSP v4.05 recently.
Very nice and still missing in my Creative Labs collection 😀
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wrote:more dual CPU goodies 😀
i always loved the slot 1 stock coolers. they really emphasize the whole slot/cartridge feel. i won't use aftermarket slot 1 coolers for this very reason.
More stuff from when I was kid I managed to get sent over from australia to the usa; My LynxII!
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^^^ You should most definitely get a LCD upgrade for that. So ahead of its time.
First post on the forum 😀
Picked up this excellent condition Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3980 for just 10 euros. Couldn't leave it at that price, even when I already had CT3600 and CT4520 🤣. And just after I had bought this, I found AWE64 Gold CT4390 at 15 euros, so couldn't leave that either. It is still in mail, maybe coming on monday. Ebay prices for these are just insane, so it really makes me happy to find them at such low prices.
That is one long card. Barely fits in the case. I even had to remove the floppy drive to make room for it.
wrote:First post on the forum :happy: […]
First post on the forum 😀
Picked up this excellent condition Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3980 for just 10 euros. Couldn't leave it at that price, even when I already had CT3600 and CT4520 🤣. And just after I had bought this, I found AWE64 Gold CT4390 at 15 euros, so couldn't leave that either. It is still in mail, maybe coming on monday. Ebay prices for these are just insane, so it really makes me happy to find them at such low prices.
That is one long card. Barely fits in the case. I even had to remove the floppy drive to make room for it.
Those are awesome prices. For the AWE32 cards with OPL3, I paid $75 minimum for each card.
wrote:First post on the forum :happy: […]
First post on the forum 😀
Picked up this excellent condition Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3980 for just 10 euros. Couldn't leave it at that price, even when I already had CT3600 and CT4520 🤣. And just after I had bought this, I found AWE64 Gold CT4390 at 15 euros, so couldn't leave that either. It is still in mail, maybe coming on monday. Ebay prices for these are just insane, so it really makes me happy to find them at such low prices.
That is one long card. Barely fits in the case. I even had to remove the floppy drive to make room for it.
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Mmm Aptiva 2144 😀. I have a AWE32 (CT2760)in one of mine. Tight but still have the floppydrive.
wrote:More stuff from when I was kid I managed to get sent over from australia to the usa; My LynxII! […]
More stuff from when I was kid I managed to get sent over from australia to the usa; My LynxII!
Now send it tooooo me. 😜
I regret selling my Lynx when I was younger. I had the first gen Lynx and also the second one you're still lucky enough to own.
Blue lightning is awesome, way better than Afterburner IMO, and I had a blast with Klax. It's an excellent port of the Arcade's gameplay. I figured out an x-pattern in Klax that would eliminate almost every tile at once. I can't recall how to create the exact pattern( was basically an X ), nor the points it rewarded, but it was enough that in just 4 or 5 levels, I always got 1st place on every arcade machine I played; and this was over those that had put in hundreds of levels.
There was a Lynx about 3 hours away from me, which I would have bought if I hadn't found a Sega Master System with 32 games in the same area.
Anyways, I so want one with the screen mod! 😀
wrote:Bought this lot a few days ago for 10 EUR. Nothing tested though. Are there any highlights? I belive that Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 AGP graphics card (missing fan) is probably a keeper (If it works)...
Card with the fancy passive heatpipe cooler looks interesting.
The slim PCI NICs, could they be Intel 82558 based, they run like a dream in things that don't seem to get on well with the Realtek 8139
wrote:Mmm Aptiva 2144 😀. I have a AWE32 (CT2760)in one of mine. Tight but still have the floppydrive.
It would have fit, if the BIOS had played nicely. For some reason, it stopped on boot with error code 1800 (resource conflict) if the ISA network card was installed, no matter what I did. Windows said there are no conficts. Had to get rid of ISA-LAN and replace it with PCI card. With PCI graphics, the top slot is the only place I could fit the sound card.
For those wondering, this machine has two shared ISA/PCI-slots at the bottom, and one ISA-only slot at the top.
