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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 20680 of 52337, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Not as big as my previous acquisition, but sound nice nonetheless. At first, I was underwhelmed by its soundstage depth, which despite being quite good pe se, is not as spectacular as described on various reviews. Hence, my review. I eventually experienced one of those "wow" moments though, so I guess these little guys were keepers? What would you think?

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The Bowers & Wilkins DM302 pair I just aqcuired....

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...and the JBL L20Ts which the B&Ws are compared to.

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The B&Ws are noticeably smaller than the JBLs.

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The waffle-like 'honeycomb' structure, which is claimed to reduce cabinet resonance.

Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.

Reply 20681 of 52337, by rikukos

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Ok, so admittedly I TOTALLY Artex'd this one.. But, a near-mint Boxed Ensoniq SoundScape Elite. I traded my second boxed version away a while back for a my boxed Ad Lib Music System so now I'm back up to two of these boxed beauties! This one just needs a little minor dusting but everything else is pristine. The original owner really took care of this thing and took extra care when packaging this for the long journey from Japan. 😎 😎 😎 😎

Awesome 😎 !! Wish I could find one of these too - Congratulations!!

Reply 20682 of 52337, by martin939

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My latest haul 😁
GPU's:
- XFX GeForce 6200 LE AGP Boxed
- Powercolor Radeon 9200SE AGP
- Powercolor Radeon 9550SE AGP
- Visiontek Radeon X1300 256MB DDR2 PCI
- XFX Radeon HD4650 1GB DDR2 AGP
- Skywell/Trust 3D MagicII Voodoo 12MB
- SB AWE64 CT4500
-SB Audigy SB0570
- S3 ViRGE DX 2themax
Motherboards: MSI KT3 Ultra2-R w. ATA133 RAID and ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe-Wifi/AP. Second one is not so retro but couldn't resist it. It has those fancy RAM heatsinks, the fastest AM2 CPU (x2 6400BE) and the WiFi antenna on it.

Reply 20684 of 52337, by hard1k

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Could you please show us the contents?

Fortex, the A3D & XG/OPL3 accelerator (Vortex 2 + YMF744 combo sound card)
AWE64 Legacy
Please have a look at my wishlist (hosted on Amibay)

Reply 20685 of 52337, by Anonymous Coward

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With a name like that, it should really have been an ATi product.

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Reply 20686 of 52337, by Srandista

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martin939 wrote:

ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe-Wifi/AP. Second one is not so retro but couldn't resist it. It has those fancy RAM heatsinks, the fastest AM2 CPU (x2 6400BE) and the WiFi antenna on it.

This is, what I called proper heat sinks, not that X299 "RGB-lid-block-of-aluminium" joke...

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Reply 20688 of 52337, by Predator99

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furan wrote:
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Good advice! Best to not tempt Murphy's law. I generally try to make my repairs look...well, invisible. But my German OCD is the reason for this. A functional repair is certainly more valuable than a failed attempt at a pretty one.

Care must also be taken not to lift that pad. Lots of flux and swift use of a fine curved tip of a QUALITY soldering iron are paramount.

Personally, if you're serious about fixing it I suggest having someone experienced with this type of work take a crack at it.

Note for the faint of heart for sure.

Thanks both for your advice. Seems I lost that game 😵

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So I already used some parts of this card to replace the missing parts on the backside of the other card. This one works now, but only 8 (of 12?) MB RAM detected. I think the reason are some deep scratches. The ones on the backside seem only to affect the SLI connector however. Dont think I will try to fix it...

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Wil never understand people who spend lots of money for such hardware and then throw it away. Havent watched the prices all the time, but I assume should get 50€ minimum for a V2 even 10 years ago...

Reply 20689 of 52337, by sf78

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Around 6 boxes of 80's software/hardware from a hoarders estate. Probably a lot more to come...

Oh, and those are 8" floppies. 😀

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Reply 20690 of 52337, by mil

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Roland CM-32L with PSU and owners manual for ~$67 locally here in Denmark.

Now I have three 😀

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Reply 20691 of 52337, by brostenen

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mil wrote:

Roland CM-32L with PSU and owners manual for ~$67 locally here in Denmark.

Sweet. Congrats. The question is. Was it on DBA or GulOgGratis?
Been on them nearly each day for the last 2 years, and that never popped up on there.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 20692 of 52337, by mil

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brostenen wrote:
mil wrote:

Roland CM-32L with PSU and owners manual for ~$67 locally here in Denmark.

Sweet. Congrats. The question is. Was it on DBA or GulOgGratis?
Been on them nearly each day for the last 2 years, and that never popped up on there.

It was on DBA tuesday this week for DKK 425. I was very lucky.

Reply 20693 of 52337, by brostenen

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mil wrote:
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Roland CM-32L with PSU and owners manual for ~$67 locally here in Denmark.

Sweet. Congrats. The question is. Was it on DBA or GulOgGratis?
Been on them nearly each day for the last 2 years, and that never popped up on there.

It was on DBA tuesday this week for DKK 425. I was very lucky.

You were... 425 is a really low price. I guess it went fast, like within the hour or something.
A shame there is not that much vintage hardware on DBA at all.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 20694 of 52337, by mil

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brostenen wrote:

You were... 425 is a really low price. I guess it went fast, like within the hour or something.
A shame there is not that much vintage hardware on DBA at all.

Yes. I got it 39 minutes after it was posted. It is only the second one I have seen on there (the last one was in June). The is not a lot of retro stuff available locally, most of the stuff available is from you actually 😀

But I did manage to get a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold for ~$6.32 (DKK 40) a few weeks ago. I have not had time to test it yet, but it looks just fine.

Reply 20695 of 52337, by andrewreader

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dieymir wrote:
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Please, Could you take images of that installation disks?? There are lot of PC Tools 8.0 (11/92) copies floating around but, so far, I've never seen a copy of the MS-DOS 6.0 compatible upgrade: PC Tools 8.0a

TIA

http://www.andrewreader.com/Vogons/PCToolsVersion8Upgrade.7z

Try the above. I used WinImage. There was an error on Disk 2, but it seems to have worked.

Reply 20696 of 52337, by brostenen

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mil wrote:

Yes. I got it 39 minutes after it was posted. It is only the second one I have seen on there (the last one was in June). The is not a lot of retro stuff available locally, most of the stuff available is from you actually 😀

True... When I have something to spare, I put it up for sale. Saving the money for something else. 😀
39 minutes you say? Hmmm... That was fast. Though I would love to have those sounds, I do not feel
that I have the space for multiple Roland devices. And finally, I am more into what I personally
was using back from the mid-80's to somewere around 2001/02 when I retired all my old hardware.
I began collecting old parts again in 2013, and I must admit, that it is really hard these days.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 20697 of 52337, by meljor

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martin939 wrote:

Is it a GeForce 2 Ti? This review shows it with different RAM chips: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/asusti/index.html

On top of the card it says ''Asus V7700Ti''

V7700 is the Geforce2 GTS, V7700Ultra is the Geforce2 ultra so yes, this is the Ti version. Looking for the Ultra myself, it is pretty hard to find.

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Reply 20698 of 52337, by mil

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brostenen wrote:
True... When I have something to spare, I put it up for sale. Saving the money for something else. :-) 39 minutes you say? Hmmm. […]
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True... When I have something to spare, I put it up for sale. Saving the money for something else. 😀
39 minutes you say? Hmmm... That was fast. Though I would love to have those sounds, I do not feel
that I have the space for multiple Roland devices. And finally, I am more into what I personally
was using back from the mid-80's to somewere around 2001/02 when I retired all my old hardware.
I began collecting old parts again in 2013, and I must admit, that it is really hard these days.

Yes. Space is a huge issue, which is why I am trying to reorganize in a big way right now.

GF let me have an entire room (about 20 square meter) in our 3 room 67 square meter apartment, but it is very cluttered right now and I am sorting and organizing stuff, trying to increase efficiency. I plan on having about 9 meters of desk space with shelves above along the walls. It also has grounded power outlets that are separated from the rest of the apartment, as well as a few shared ones (no ground).

The room is going to be dedicated almost entirely to three main topics, mostly based on what I have right now. There is going to be a lot of overlap between the three topics.

Retro computing and gaming
5-10 retro PC's (only 4 are ready right now)
All my MIDI stuff (about 10 modules)
Amiga 1200
Commodore 64 (still missing this, trying to find a decent one, used to have one as a kid)
Atari ST (also currently a missing piece)
Consoles, XBox, PS2, N64, Gamecube: I have never been a console guy, but I want to play with these. They are mostly for the GF. I also want to play with NES, Sega stuff, etc. Maybe even Jamma arcade stuff.
A few Mac Mini G4's
Silicon Graphics O2
I also have 8 or 9 Sun SPARC machines, mostly Ultra 10's
15-20 laptops from 1992 to "modern"

Electronics
Components
Hot air rework station, and other tools
Power supplies
Oscilloscopes, etc.
SDR (Software Defined Radio) stuff, antennas.

Modern Computing Lab
5 "modern" Xeon workstations
3-4 servers (build servers, web, mail, Storage/SAN)
A stack of embedded systems: 2 x Soekris NET4501 and 7 x Soekris NET4801. Used for DNS, DHCP, NTP (Rubidium frequency standard with GPS), etc.
A rack with network and storage (Fibre Channel) switches, etc.

I also have two small rooms in the basement of the building. One of them is done, with shelves on three walls for lidded plastic containers/boxes. The other one need to be cleaned out, and have shelves put in.

Reply 20699 of 52337, by liqmat

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sf78 wrote:
Around 6 boxes of 80's software/hardware from a hoarders estate. Probably a lot more to come... […]
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Around 6 boxes of 80's software/hardware from a hoarders estate. Probably a lot more to come...

Oh, and those are 8" floppies. 😀

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Wow! Love the boxed hard card! Nice score.