This sounds a lot like what happened to Mercado Livre in Brazil/Latin America. Ebay couldn't breach the market, so they bought it instead. The difference is that Mercado Livre was decent to begin with as long as you use them as a middle man for payment (you pay THEM, then they only send the payment to the seller once you inform them the product arrived and everything is OK)

Same here. Exact story regarding gittigidiyor.com. It's owned by ebay now. Sahibinden.com, the other one which is even bigger than gittigidiyor.com is still privately owned, though.

And in The Netherlands Ebay bought Marktplaats.nl (back in 2004 already). The rest of the online marketplaces are not very relevant... 🙁

I really like these Microsoft...wait a minute! (1€ flea market).

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

came across some hardware and couldn't resist, eventough i have no direct use for it (i have a LOT already.....)

complete system: Aopen ax64 pro motherboard with slot1 p3-600 133fsb and viper II z200 graphics 100% 10 euro
complete system: DFI K6XV3+/66 super socket 7 mvp3 with k6-2 500mhz cpu and savage4 graphics 100% 7.50 euro

Diamond v770 tnt2 agp card not tested yet 1 euro
Asus ti4200 128mb card not tested yet 3 euro
Powercolor ti4200 64mb card not tested yet 1 euro

And the ONE thing i could actually use: gigabyte GA-5AX super socket 7 with k6-2 500mhz ; NOT WORKING 😠 5 euro

Board starts and spins the cpu fan but no post/display,. tried battery, other cpu, ram, vga.
Since the highest clocks here are achieved with this board i wanted to play with it but it wasn't meant to be.... 😢

Picked this up today:

Compaq DL580
Quad PIII Xeon @ 700MHz
Memory looks like 4x 128MB
4x 64bit PCI slots

Not sure if it works. It is super solidly built, and very heavy.

Video / SCSI / IO all on one riser card

rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

Great Chip!

Got this in today, ASUS Ti4800SE. Was a cheap win on eBay and pretty happy with the condition. Hope it works!

An optical mouse for COM interface: HI-BON Laser Mouse (NIB)!

NumberNine Reality 334 S3 Virge GX2:

RacoonRider wrote:

An optical mouse for COM interface: HI-BON Laser Mouse (NIB)!

That is terribly cool. Does it work well? Is it noticeably different from a ball mouse and/or a modern laser?

pewpewpew wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

An optical mouse for COM interface: HI-BON Laser Mouse (NIB)!

That is terribly cool. Does it work well? Is it noticeably different from a ball mouse and/or a modern laser?

Noticeably different from both! It is very accurate and smooth. Unlike ball mice, it has zero moving resistance and little to no deadzone. Unlike modern lasers, you have to align it to the mat. That means that if you turn it alongside Z axis, it will report diagonal movements instead of horizontal/vertical ones. Not much of a problem, but it's certainly not something I would play Counter Strike with 😀

philscomputerlab wrote:

rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

Great Chip!

I got inspired by your latest video. The 4-1 Retro PC.

rodimus80 wrote:

philscomputerlab wrote:

rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

Great Chip!

I got inspired by your latest video. The 4-1 Retro PC.

Cool 😊

rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great.
As far as I understand all the benchmarks and stuff, the + just produces less heat and are better at overclocking.
Oerformancewise, they feel like the same chip.

brostenen wrote:

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great. As far as I understand all the benchmarks a […]
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rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great.
As far as I understand all the benchmarks and stuff, the + just produces less heat and are better at overclocking.
Oerformancewise, they feel like the same chip.

Also, I believe the extra cache makes the impact of using more than the cacheable memory of the chipset smaller.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

brostenen wrote:

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great. As far as I understand all the benchmarks a […]
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rodimus80 wrote:

Came in the mail today in a nice anti-static case.

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great.
As far as I understand all the benchmarks and stuff, the + just produces less heat and are better at overclocking.
Oerformancewise, they feel like the same chip.

Also, I believe the extra cache makes the impact of using more than the cacheable memory of the chipset smaller.

There is no difference in cache size, the K6-3 and K6-3+ are more or less identical except for the former beeing made using 0.25 micron manufacturing process and the latter 0.18 micron.

I bought my second Voodoo 5500 for $65 shipped. For months I couldn't find one at a decent price and within the past week It's been like 5500 deal central. I guess I'll upgrade the K6-III+ rig with it.

If only I could find a PC flashed mac version...

Another nostalgia purchase from my teen years that arrived in the mail yesterday.

Specs as received:
-Cyrix MediaGX 180MHz
-24MB RAM
-1.6GB Hard Drive
-16x CD-ROM
-Floppy Drive
-33.6k Modem
-Built-In Speakers
-MS-DOS 6.22 (But nothing else)

It's a machine I like to hate, but still have a soft spot for. I remember my old Presario 2200 being one of the most unreliable computers I had ever used back in the day. Very crashy, and woefully underpowered (I recall once hearing the early MediaGX being likened to a "slightly-overclocked 486"). But, I still feel some nostalgia for this little satan-spawn system because I quite enjoy the small form factor, and the built-in speakers have some of the best sound quality I've ever heard from factory-shipped PC speakers, even to this day (Not counting separately-purchased third-party speaker systems of course).

I plan on restoring it to match the factory-original state of the old Presario 2200 I used to have, which means downgrading the memory to 16MB, replacing the CD-ROM with an 8x model (I predict difficulty in finding one with a black bezel), and installing Win95 OSR2.

Off-hand, does anyone happen to know what model(s) of hard drive the 2200 could have shipped with from the factory? I ask because Wikipedia and a few other pages state that it came with a Quantum Bigfoot, yet I can swear up and down that the old 2200 I used to have did NOT come with a Bigfoot (Although it was still a 1.6GB drive). I'm also fairly confident my newly-acquired 2200 never had a Bigfoot because the 5.25 mounting holes in the hard drive bay are in pristine unscuffed condition. It currently has a WD, and the fact that it is the correct 1.6GB suggests it could be the factory original, but it lacks the Compaq stickers found on all the other internal components. Admittedly, this system was so bargain-basement in its day that it wouldn't surprise me if Compaq just used whatever was cheapest at the time of manufacture.

Skyscraper wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

brostenen wrote:

It is a nice little chip. I have the regulair non+ edition, and it is working great.
As far as I understand all the benchmarks and stuff, the + just produces less heat and are better at overclocking.
Oerformancewise, they feel like the same chip.

Also, I believe the extra cache makes the impact of using more than the cacheable memory of the chipset smaller.

There is no difference in cache size, the K6-3 and K6-3+ are more or less identical except for the former beeing made using 0.25 micron manufacturing process and the latter 0.18 micron.

Oops, you're right. I mixed up K6-2 vs. K6-III and + vs. non +.