I have a server case I want to put some floppy and optical drives in, but I don't have long enough cables to reach where I want the drives to go. So I ordered some ribbon cables and connectors from China, so I can make my own 😀

There's two metres of floppy cable and two metres of IDE cable so that should be more than enough 😀

kanecvr wrote:

I'm looking for a 2GHz CPU for my Optiplex GX400 - S423 stuff is really hard to find tho'.

Here ya go: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172116183832

kanecvr wrote:

I also have one of those (somewhere). Pretty expensive even today, but luckily I traded some 3dfx stuff for it. Very rare card that 3GB 580, good buy.

I think the total for mine was $90 and some change after shipping. So still pricey but not that bad. I was looking for one for < $100, this qualifies.. barely.

jheronimus wrote:

Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of m […]
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Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of my other boards and just solder it here, right?

My spidey sense tells me there might be a Dallas clock chip with integrated battery on board.

gdjacobs wrote:

jheronimus wrote:

Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of m […]
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Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of my other boards and just solder it here, right?

My spidey sense tells me there might be a Dallas clock chip with integrated battery on board.

Doesn't seem to be?

😀

^^ love it!

Tetrium wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

jheronimus wrote:

Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of m […]
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Also, it's missing a battery. Looking at this layout I assume I can just ask my friend to desolder a CR2032 holder from one of my other boards and just solder it here, right?

My spidey sense tells me there might be a Dallas clock chip with integrated battery on board.

Doesn't seem to be?

Actually it seems that the battery was clipped off. Most likely a barrel going by the position of the terminals.

I've just bought strange sound card for my GUS collection.
It look's almost the same as Kouwell Virtuoso but it has different PCB colour and plugs...
Is it Kouwell Virtuoso clone? Or different revision? AFAIK olny one photo of Virtuoso is known.

Recently i got my Asus ct-479 adapter with pentium M 740. I only had one Asus p4c800 board for it so i wanted a spare.

Found 3 boards in one ad: 2x p4p800se and 1x p4p800, they came with p4 3ghz 800/1m and 1,5gb ddr. Also 3 agp cards came with them: Ati 9550, 9600pro and a fx5600xt

p4p800 SE both came with box, cables and manual so that's nice.

Tested all 3 boards quickly with a fresh install of Windows XP and they all installed fine. Not bad for 25 euro + 7 euro total (bought local). Got my s478 covered!

Batyra wrote:

I've just bought strange sound card for my GUS collection.
It look's almost the same as Kouwell Virtuoso but it has different PCB colour and plugs...
Is it Kouwell Virtuoso clone? Or different revision? AFAIK olny one photo of Virtuoso is known.

Looks like a Primax card. They make green gravis clones.

kanecvr wrote:

Batyra wrote:

I've just bought strange sound card for my GUS collection.
It look's almost the same as Kouwell Virtuoso but it has different PCB colour and plugs...
Is it Kouwell Virtuoso clone? Or different revision? AFAIK olny one photo of Virtuoso is known.

Looks like a Primax card. They make green gravis clones.

Nope... that's definitely not a Primax...

This is Primax SoundStorm Wave SOUND-M16B:
https://retrosoundcards.files.wordpress.com/2 … imax2bezpam.jpg

And this is oraz Primax SoundStorm Wave SOUND-M16C Rev 0.1
https://retrosoundcards.files.wordpress.com/2 … imax1bezpam.jpg

So both looks different.

AFAIK all gus clones were green. The only known by me exception is Kouwell Virtuoso - which is "brown":
http://i.imgur.com/qmDzQSA.jpg

And my card looks almost exactly the same with two differences I've mentione... Even texts on PCB are situated in the same places... that's why I'm wondering wether this is Virtuoso Clone or Virtuoso itself but in different revision.

I found out a few things with my unisys computer. That I really miss having a dos/9x system, so much so that in willing to sell my new modern for a good 9x system.
and that I want my desk space back. 🤣

So I took my new system apart and listed it for sale in a few places.

Bought this

And 2 64mb sticks of ram along with a agp s3 virge.

Batyra wrote:

It look's almost the same as Kouwell Virtuoso but it has different PCB colour and plugs...

And memory chips. Have you card place for big DIL chip pins?

peklop wrote:

Batyra wrote:

It look's almost the same as Kouwell Virtuoso but it has different PCB colour and plugs...

And memory chips. Have you card plase for big DIL chip pins?

No... those small chips on top-left corner are directly on PCB - so this is third difference...
In a few days card will be at my place - so I'll take a better photos.

I bought an IBM 5150 from Craigslist this weekend. In lieu of images I made a video: https://youtu.be/RWKZfX8xXTQ

Sometimes among plenty sound blaster live and other "modern" stuff, you may found something interesting.

Just received my CT1320-C SoundBlaster 1.5

^^ with CMS chips too! Grats.

Nice find! I made some (hopefully) helpful comments on your YouTube video...

By the way I like your YouTube channel picture of Dennis Nedry...I actually have a Silicon Graphics Crimson decked out with RealityEngine boards exactly like the one sitting next to his desk in the movie.

luckybob wrote:

I bought an IBM 5150 from Craigslist this weekend. In lieu of images I made a video: https://youtu.be/RWKZfX8xXTQ

luckybob wrote:

I bought an IBM 5150 from Craigslist this weekend. In lieu of images I made a video: https://youtu.be/RWKZfX8xXTQ

I get a vídeo not available message

Artex wrote:

^^ with CMS chips too! Grats.

So it's Sound Blaster 1.0 - am I right?
Without CMS chips that would be SB 1.5?