Horun wrote on 2020-03-12, 03:33:

Stopped at the local SA, it was 50% off Wednesday and finally found two vintage parts plus one so-so non-vintage. Total cost after 50% off was $20.50 for everything !!!
Vintage: Media Vision Basic 8bit, in a brown box, in anti-static bag, untested yet. MS Intellimouse serial / ps2, clean looks almost new and works.
Non Vintage: Thermaltake Red AMD Tower with Asus M5A99X mobo, AMD FX-4100, 8GB ram, Asus ENGTX550 Ti DC/DI/1GD5 vid card, Corsair HX750 PSU, WD 1TB black. Cost was $16.50 after discount. Runs just fine ! The mouse and sound card were $2 each....

A PAS-8 at the Salvation Army? And for $2.... That has got to be the find of the decade at least!

I bought one back in January for $100. They almost never show up for sale and usually go for a lot more than that. I though I was super lucky to score one for $100.

mpe wrote on 2020-03-11, 16:45:

AlessandroB wrote on 2020-03-11, 14:38:

This one:

Those glue marks. Could that be a factory heatsink removed?

Naa, most likely someone lazily glued on a heatsink with cyanoacrylate at some point.

150 MHz Pentium Overdrive

Horun wrote on 2020-03-12, 03:33:

Stopped at the local SA, it was 50% off Wednesday and finally found two vintage parts plus one so-so non-vintage. Total cost after 50% off was $20.50 for everything !!!
Vintage: Media Vision Basic 8bit, in a brown box, in anti-static bag, untested yet. MS Intellimouse serial / ps2, clean looks almost new and works.
Non Vintage: Thermaltake Red AMD Tower with Asus M5A99X mobo, AMD FX-4100, 8GB ram, Asus ENGTX550 Ti DC/DI/1GD5 vid card, Corsair HX750 PSU, WD 1TB black. Cost was $16.50 after discount. Runs just fine ! The mouse and sound card were $2 each....

Those are some sexy caps !!!

Found in the thrift store nearby my workplace today:

* a nice and clean beige keyboard with ps/2 connector
* a brand-new old-style looking USB mouse
* a brand-new set of black desktop speakers
* some games (Diablo 2 + Add-on, Doom 3, Breed, etc.)

Paid 15 bucks for the whole lot.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-03-12, 06:25:

Horun wrote on 2020-03-12, 03:33:

Stopped at the local SA, it was 50% off Wednesday and finally found two vintage parts plus one so-so non-vintage. Total cost after 50% off was $20.50 for everything !!!
Vintage: Media Vision Basic 8bit, in a brown box, in anti-static bag, untested yet. MS Intellimouse serial / ps2, clean looks almost new and works.
Non Vintage: Thermaltake Red AMD Tower with Asus M5A99X mobo, AMD FX-4100, 8GB ram, Asus ENGTX550 Ti DC/DI/1GD5 vid card, Corsair HX750 PSU, WD 1TB black. Cost was $16.50 after discount. Runs just fine ! The mouse and sound card were $2 each....

A PAS-8 at the Salvation Army? And for $2.... That has got to be the find of the decade at least!

I bought one back in January for $100. They almost never show up for sale and usually go for a lot more than that. I though I was super lucky to score one for $100.

They rarely have any actual parts at my local SA but do on occasion, found a Ensonic ES1370 based pci and GF 7100GS pcie last month, both $1.99 each. Vid card works, have not tested the sound card. There also was an Apple Color 14" crt monitor for $20 (non multiscan version) last week but did not buy it.

Xicor wrote on 2020-03-12, 10:02:

Those are some sexy caps !!!

I totally agree. It is a beautiful card.

Horun wrote on 2020-03-12, 03:33:

[...]
Vintage: Media Vision Basic 8bit, in a brown box, in anti-static bag, untested yet. MS Intellimouse serial / ps2, clean looks almost new and works.
[...] The mouse and sound card were $2 each....

Sometime I fantasise about this sort of find. Then I pinch myself and realize my 'mystery box' contained a few RTL8139 NICs, a couple of modems, a few crap PCI sound cards, nothing more useful than a few nice cables... can't be bothered to take pics.

One thing I shoudl have photographed is an unexpected UMC Green CPU U5S-25 on a beautiful but stone-dead Biostar board in a nice AT minitower. Shame about the board - although it was really low-end (late date - 1994, but ISA only and no cache).

I actually got this thing a few days ago but forgot to post it until now. It's a Gateway Vivitron 700 17" CRT monitor I got from the Salvation Army for 10 bucks. Based on what little info I could find it seems to be a proper Sony Trinitron, though it was made in Mexico instead of Japan so I guess it's a lower-end one. Still has a great picture though!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESsAa29WsAEhqLh?f … =jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESsAbakWsAIErQD?f … =jpg&name=large

dionb wrote on 2020-03-12, 15:50:

One thing I should have photographed is an unexpected UMC Green CPU U5S-25 on a beautiful but stone-dead Biostar board in a nice AT minitower. Shame about the board - although it was really low-end (late date - 1994, but ISA only and no cache).

Wow nice ! Being in USA where Intel did not allow UMC to sell their 486's, they are very rare here. Biostar made some great boards, if it was cachable would be worth fixing even if no VLB or PCI ....imho.

EvieSigma wrote on 2020-03-12, 16:55:

I actually got this thing a few days ago but forgot to post it until now. It's a Gateway Vivitron 700 17" CRT monitor I got from the Salvation Army for 10 bucks.

Nice find !! That would have been $50+ at GoodWill ripoff stores (or up at their GW auction site) ....

I'll make a dedicated thread for this thing eventually, but I got a package in all the way from Latvia(!) yesterday. Inside it was a:

With a:

and a:

It's a Fujitsu Futro S300 thin client, and is a pretty cool little box, IMHO. I've been wanting to mess with a Transmeta Crusoe-based machine for ages, and this one ticked all the boxes. Neat design, CF slot, actual IDE port, PCI slot, and it's all-metal construction with screws instead of breaky plastic clips so it's easy to open & upgrade. SiS 315 for onboard video, which honestly I've been pretty impressed with under DOS so far. The onboard sound is a VIA 8237/686b AC'97 variant, but it doesn't seem to have the BIOS-level SB Pro support for perfect DOS compatibility. Still sussing that out though.

I think that front panel is supposed to be off-white, but it's yellowed into a very 386-y beige. 😜 That's the only plastic piece on the thing. I'm gonna leave it.

Actually the BIOS itself is "Insyde Software SCU", something I've never seen before. It's pretty decent:

Incidentally this CPU is tiny, check it out next to a typical 486:

I decided to get a nice slow 486 SX33 to go with my ISA-only 486 motherboard that I repaired, I love the packaging 😀 I think it made it here safely.

Also got some fresh & new 5.25" floppy disks to do some more testing of the 5.25" drive I've got. I'm afraid to open them though, I don't think I've ever bought really old sealed things before?

Went back to SA but found nothing good other than Autocad 2002 full retail box with serial # and key (no dongle needed). Also a retail boxed Win7 and retail boxed Office 2010, both with disks, papers and keys. edit: think they were dropped off with that AMD tower or just a coincidence...

Just won this auction on ebay. I wonder if I was bidding vs any of you lot!

Paid quite a bit more than I wanted to but got carried away and that case would suit many potential builds regardless of other included hardware.

If it is a nice machine it could finally end my quest for a nice 486.

I've been contemplating putting together a XP machine for a while now as i have a few older XP games i would like to run. I just got back tonight with what i would say was a bit of a bargain.

This was £50! and is wicked for a Windows XP machine. It actually came installed with Windows 10.

Specs are as follows

Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 Mobo
Intel Q9650 @ 3.6ghz stock volts
Sunbeam Core contact freezer with scythe sflex fan
8gb OCZ reaper DDR3 2gbx4 sticks
new antec 550w power supply
60gb kingston ssd
500gb hdd seagate
Nvidia gtx560ti 1gb. Msi brand
scythe sflex case fans
pioneer dvd drive
Hotswap Sata Drive Bay Caddy

PC was pretty dusty due to the owner not using it for a very long time, but i gave it a good clean and it has some up looking awesome! Played some Outrun 2006 C2C on it to test it out. I'm very happy with this machine

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-03-12, 23:00:

Just won this auction on ebay. I wonder if I was bidding vs any of you lot!

Paid quite a bit more than I wanted to but got carried away and that case would suit many potential builds regardless of other included hardware.

If it is a nice machine it could finally end my quest for a nice 486.

No graphics card in the machine?

Bancho wrote on 2020-03-12, 23:06:

I've been contemplating putting together a XP machine for a while now as i have a few older XP games i would like to run. I just […]
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I've been contemplating putting together a XP machine for a while now as i have a few older XP games i would like to run. I just got back tonight with what i would say was a bit of a bargain.

This was £50! and is wicked for a Windows XP machine. It actually came installed with Windows 10.

Specs are as follows:
Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 Mobo
Intel Q9650 @ 3.6ghz stock volts
Sunbeam Core contact freezer with scythe sflex fan
8gb OCZ reaper DDR3 2gbx4 sticks
new antec 550w power supply
...

Nice ! you got the whole computer for what the CPU typically goes for.

CoffeeOne wrote on 2020-03-12, 23:14:

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-03-12, 23:00:

Just won this auction on ebay. I wonder if I was bidding vs any of you lot!

Paid quite a bit more than I wanted to but got carried away and that case would suit many potential builds regardless of other included hardware.

If it is a nice machine it could finally end my quest for a nice 486.

No graphics card in the machine?

Nope. sold as spares/repairs due to this fact. The listing said it powers on, gives an error beep and then seeks from the floppy drives. So there is a good chance it just needs a VGA card.

Horun wrote on 2020-03-12, 03:39:

The non-vintage AMD tower. BTW have picked up many 2007+ computers for around $20 each lately but no Pentium, P2 or P3 for a year or better.
Yes this is not vintage yet but will be in 5-10 years... maybe...

Very nice case and that Corsair HX750 (I have one in my main machine) is one of the quietest PS Corsair ever made.

Actually bought some video cards. Haven't done that in a minute.

Bought a 32MB Radeon 7500. I don't know WHAT took me so long to buy one of these.
and also a 256MB GeForce 6200LE. I just want to see how bad these were compared to the previous x200 card: The FX5200.