jheronimus wrote:Yet another haul — this December has been particularly kind to me. I now have a bit of an issue, because I've nearly doubled my […] Show full quote
Yet another haul — this December has been particularly kind to me. I now have a bit of an issue, because I've nearly doubled my collection, and now I have to let go of some items, but nearly every thing in the last three hauls was new to me. So, here's what I got today for a total of 55 USD:
Two combo floppy drives by Epson, a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM and a regular 5.25 inch drive
Those combo drives... Worth it!
Yeah, those combo drives are nice but if one part goes bad it’s not to east to find a replacement.
Nice find! That SX753 is a pretty rare very early Socket 4 Pentium too. So not only a nice board, but a rare CPU too.
Thanks. The CPU actually did not come with the board. It is from my collection. I thought it would complement nicely the board.
SpectriaForce wrote:
Isn't this a Dell OEM board (because of the AUX power connector)?
Intel sold these board to OEMs, but this one is not OEM. The power connector was actually a kind of standard on early PCI boards from Intel. It was meant to be providing 3.3V for PCI slots. The idea was that even 5V PCI slots should carry 3.3V and it was required by the early PCI spec, but not sure if it was actually used by any device.
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There are some 3.3V PCI cards and slots but they are kinda rare.
Most PCI cards you can encounter are either 5V or universal (keyed for both 3.3V and 5V)
Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]
An ATX backplacte 3D Print for my PCChips MB560TG motherboard and a video out breakout cable for my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro PCI (which will be used for MS-DOS capture via S-Video)
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
Scrap lot for less than 20€ (sellers pictures):
- 5,25" floppy
- 3.5" MFM MD
- 1x Seagate MFM HD: Critical point is usually the fragile flat cable at the front, unfortunately not visible on the photo
- 386 MB, for parts only...
All not looking good, but I hope some parts are working/repairable
wish i could find a 486 board again but their prices are absolutely ridiculous
Are you looking for particular 486 boards? The last (3) 486 VLB boards I got off Ebay were under $50, the cheapest being $19 shipped. I wouldn't consider that too bad.
YES !....I finally got an SGI computer.
It's an SGI Indigo-2 and it's loaded.
The machine has the GR2-Elan graphics with 4 geometry engines and a reality engine.
A Quantum hard drive with a capacity of 3.2 gigabytes is installed in the workstation.
8 x 16 MB RAM are installed.
Made in Switzerland.
1IRIX (indigo-44 2IRIX Release 6.5 IP22 indigo-44 3 4Copyright 1987-1998 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5 6Last login: Sa, 07. Dez 2019 15:58:28 on :0 7 8Type xterm-256color unknown 9 10indigo-44 1# hinv -vv 11 12CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0 13 14FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0 15 161 200 MHZ IP22 Processor 17 18Main memory size: 128 Mbytes 19 20Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes on Processor 0 21 22Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes 23 24Data cache size: 16 Kbytes 25 26Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D 27 28 Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 29 30Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D 31 32On-board serial ports: 2 33 34On-board bi-directional parallel port 35 36Graphics board: GR3-Elan 37 38Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1 39 40Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0 41 42EISA bus: adapter 0 43 44indigo-44 2# 45 46 47 48sc0d1l0: Disk QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200S300N Serial: 39563131 49 50 51 52 53 54indigo-44 3# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo 55 56Graphics board 0 is "GR2" graphics. 57 58 Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024 59 60 4 GEs, 1 RE, 24 bitplanes, 4 auxplanes, 4 cidplanes, Z-buffer
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61 62 GR2 revision 4, VB2.0 63 64 HQ2.1 rev A, GE7 rev B, RE3.1 rev A, VC1 rev B, MC rev C
Needed a modern beige mouse and keyboard to complete my Ryzen sleeper build. Keyboard is the AJAZZ AK510. Quality brown switch mech USB keyboard. Fully configurable LED backlighting.