Hi everyone, hope that this new year may bring you all more enjoyment of computer nostalgia.

Today, I received a nice Intel SE440BX2 motherboard. It is a beautiful slot 1 440Bx with a Yamaha YMF740c sound chip onboard:

Time to test and push it into a build 😉

As well as having an SB-Link header, DOS drivers claim the audio chip supports SB-Link too. I would have used this with my C3 Ezra, but the board doesn't support any FSB reclocking or disabling ACPI.

I found a (new?) AMI Enterprise IV motherboard, with all the manuals & accessories. Apparently made in 1995 😀 It has EISA slots and VLB slots, with an integrated IDE/Floppy/serial/parallel adapter, cache and apparently PS/2 mouse support? If this one works, I think it's the right system to use with the Intel DX4 Overdrive 100 I got hold of:

It looks like the RTC battery will probably need replacing. I have no EISA cards and probably won't since I don't especially need them. I'm wondering if I should scan & upload the manual? That doesn't seem to be online anywhere, just the II and III versions. EDIT: Yay, found the Manual online after all, shame I couldn't find that before I purchased it. Having the physical copy is very nice though.

Additionally, I got hold of a CD-ROM drive - bought primarily because I love the box art, but it's in superb and un-yellowed condition so I guess I should put it to use somewhere:

Dude. The CD-ROM drive and the motherboard are amazing. My grandpa's old IBM Aptiva 2168-M55 has a Mitsumi FX-400 installed and still works (eject is a bit slow). The motherboard is really neat, especially with integrated I/O.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-01-04, 01:17:

Dude. The CD-ROM drive and the motherboard are amazing. My grandpa's old IBM Aptiva 2168-M55 has a Mitsumi FX-400 installed and still works (eject is a bit slow). The motherboard is really neat, especially with integrated I/O.

Awesome mainboard, must have been very expensive when it came out.

One of the rare (only?) mainboards with SIS471 chipset and extra dirty tag ram.

nos inwin a500 case. a nice start to my next build.

Did you pick that Inwin case up from the guy in Texas selling them via Reddit?

liqmat wrote on 2020-01-04, 03:15:

Did you pick that Inwin case up from the guy in Texas selling them via Reddit?

i missed out on that but, i was inspired by the reddit post to search for one.
i found it on ebay. listed as generic beige case but, i knew what it was right away.
didn't come in the original box but, it did include the original package of screws, rubber feet and hard drive mounting bracket.

Trust me, I still have two of my five NOS Inwin cases from the 2018 PPro haul and the original box is nothing to write home about. Make sure to download the diagram that comes with the case from my sleeper build post. That came in the box with each case. Kinda cool.

liqmat wrote on 2020-01-04, 03:58:

Trust me, I still have two of my five NOS Inwin cases from the 2018 PPro haul and the original box is nothing to write home about. Make sure to download the diagram that comes with the case from my sleeper build post. That came in the box with each case. Kinda cool.

thanks, will do.

This Carry-1 just arrived. 😀

Grzyb wrote on 2019-12-30, 15:44:

Miphee wrote on 2019-12-30, 15:34:

Got myself a nice "little" AT&T 3B2/310 terminal in excellent condition.

Terminal?
Looks more like a workstation...

So this is a workstation that needs a terminal with a keyboard, right?
My workstation has these connectors on the back, how was it connected to the terminal?
Is is possible to modify a cable to use the 3b2 with a standard monochrome monitor to see if it's working at all?

derSammler wrote on 2020-01-04, 09:43:

This Carry-1 just arrived. 😀

More pictures.

^ love those small factor systems, they can make some targeted and tight builds 😀

Picked up the motherboard today. £12 win on ebay. Much better condition than expected but absolutely caked in grot, sticks and even bird poop..
Everything looks like it will clean up nicely tho!
I did rip off the heatsink to see what I got and it appears to be a 750mhz pentium 3 (thats what the jumpers are set for)
The only immidiate concern is a scratch underneath has taken the protective coating from a few traces but the traces themselves do not appear to be broken.

Any advice on cleaning it up?

derSammler wrote on 2020-01-04, 09:43:

This Carry-1 just arrived. 😀

I was watching that one for months and months... now I really regret not having gotten it ^^, I kept buying other things all the time that there just wasn't enough budget.

I was watching it for quite a while too before finally buying it. Having it now, I can say it was absolutely worth it!

keropi wrote on 2020-01-04, 12:50:

^ love those small factor systems, they can make some targeted and tight builds 😀

Me, too. This will become my ultimate DOS/Win98se machine. Socket 370 with a Celeron 500 MHz installed, 256 MB RAM, S3 Trio3D on-board, one PCI slot for a Voodoo, one ISA slot for a sound card (and probably the system to use my Dreamblaster X2 in, finally). Can't install a CD-ROM, of course, but it has Ethernet on-board too, so not much of a problem when wanting to get bigger files on it.

Suppose this could have landed equally in 'Dumpster Find' as that's where it was headed before I stepped in for the save.

A friend who works for a TV media company offered me the chance on this little scrap lot and, as dual setups are something I'd like to try my hand at a bit more in 2020, I jumped at the chance.

So, we have an Iwill DP533-S board with 2 Xeon processors (3200DP/2M/533 SL7AE Gallatin core) and 2GB of PC2100 ECC. Sadly, only one heatsink and backplate (can probably make the other backplate).

Apparently it was the baseboard in a piece of old broadcast video kit, a Harris / Leitch Nexio Series NX4000TXS Transmission Server. Intrestingly, looking around eBay, these boards (minus SCSI) also seem to have been common in Philips ultrasound equipment as well.

Board specs can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20041207193025/ht … t_2.asp?p_id=33

OMG, I have a special space in my heart for Iwill dualies. They tried so hard, and yet failed. If you decide you want to let this beauty go, let me know.

BTW, that is a "stock" socket 603 xeon heatsink setup. The 603 & 604 sockets were designed to screw directly into the chassis. So that is a option in case you were unaware.

Seems Harris / Leitch used this particular board in quite a few different pieces of kit - a pic from a current listing

Thanks, I'm kinda new to this class of board and have been reading up on the different mounting & case options you mention.