overdrive333 wrote:

a-trend atc-2475, 6mb voodoo rush. 8$ 🤣

Nice! Cool card! Good price too!

So.... Today I recieved the 1541-II disk drive for my Commodore64, complete and including 50 disks.
Going through the disks, I came across an old thing from the past.
There on one of the disks, a Lucky Luke sticker. Back then, they were sold with chewing gum.
I had forgot all about them gums from back in the days, and looking at it, I can clearly recall the
chemical taste of those cheap things. Really a pleasent surprise to see it again.

Regarding the drive... It is working 100% as if it were new. Slightly yellow, though not serious.
Every disk that I have tested so far, seems to be working. Need to hunt down disk surface test-tools.

EDIT:
This is sooooo sweet... On one of the disks, I found a software suite with a lot of different programs
such as an database. It is created by three Danish programmers, and I think that it is one of those
hobbyists software, that has never been sold in shops. Some 10 to 20 of the disks has a write-protection
sticker on them, with the name and adress of one of the programmers. Hmmmm.... I might start
investigating this a bit further and see how deep the rabbits hole get.

overdrive333 wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

I do. I have a PSP that is set up to emulate just about every console up to PS1.

psp hardware can run ps1 games without emulation 😀

The emulator is built into the OS.

Not too much of an emulator as the hardware is very close.

gdjacobs wrote:

Are those Fuhjyyu caps?

Jenpo ?

I have a feeling they should be named Junk-o 🤣

keropi wrote:

I have a feeling they should be named Junk-o 🤣

Your feeling is correct (they are "bad"/"cheap").

A T42 I bought on eBay the other day came. Pleasantly surprised that it actually did power on and came with charger. Pretty clean and it came with teh SXGA+ display + 2GB RAM! Just needs a hard drive so I ordered a 60GB 7200RPM one. More pictures http://imgur.com/a/Dw8Wr

Finally i was able to get one Compaq LTE 5000 series laptop in almost perfect condition(it didn't came with the battery pack as you might see in the photos)
Mine is a LTE 5300(Pentium 133, 32MB RAM,1GB HDD), it came with windows 98 installed and one second hdd multibay adapter.

The laptop powered off

Just the shell of the battery pack(i hope i will be able to rebuild this one)

The second hdd multibay adapter(without the hdd enclosure)

Here it is powered on

AS you can see the screen has minor dead pixels but that didn't bothered me at all.

brostenen wrote:

So.... Today I recieved the 1541-II disk drive for my Commodore64, complete and including 50 disks.

That's a cracking setup you have there, lucky you!

The XPS Gen 1 arrived. I still need a charger but it had enough charge in it to verify it works and the specs:

3.4GHz Non-EE P4 HT
Mobility Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
2GB RAM

I forgot to check what size the hard disk in and it has the correct battery with the built in sub-woofer. Not as fast as my Gateway M685E but good enough. I still plan to get another M685E if I can ever find one.

Wondering if maybe I should perform the GPU mod to unlock it to full X800 specs.

Nice grab today. While I was hunting for a 5.25" floppy drive and cable I spotted a machine in the recycle pile of the hardware shop I frequent. Had a mint Audigy 2 ZS with cables and media drive. Also found a mint TEAC 5.25" floppy drive. Two new ultra IDE cables and a sata to ide adapter. All for $20. Very pleased. Will be using the Audigy 2 setup in my Athlon x2 6000+ AM2 machine. They also have one more mint Audigy 2 ZS card without the media drive if any of you would like me to pick it up for you. I think it's only $5 and of course I'll stick it in a flat rate priority box. Just PM me if u want me to grab it. First come, first serve.

liqmat wrote:

Nice grab today. While I was hunting for a 5.25" floppy drive and cable I spotted a machine in the recycle pile of the hardware shop I frequent. Had a mint Audigy 2 ZS with cables and media drive. Also found a mint TEAC 5.25" floppy drive. Two new ultra IDE cables and a sata to ide adapter. All for $20. Very pleased. Will be using the Audigy 2 setup in my Athlon x2 6000+ AM2 machine. They also have one more mint Audigy 2 ZS card without the media drive if any of you would like me to pick it up for you. I think it's only $5 and of course I'll stick it in a flat rate priority box. Just PM me if u want me to grab it. First come, first serve.

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I'd throw that 2ZS in your main if I were you. Audigy2 ZS still sounds better than most onboard audio solutions. Not to mention you have the media drive which is normally more expensive than the drive itself on eBay for some strange reason.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

liqmat wrote:

Nice grab today. While I was hunting for a 5.25" floppy drive and cable I spotted a machine in the recycle pile of the hardware shop I frequent. Had a mint Audigy 2 ZS with cables and media drive. Also found a mint TEAC 5.25" floppy drive. Two new ultra IDE cables and a sata to ide adapter. All for $20. Very pleased. Will be using the Audigy 2 setup in my Athlon x2 6000+ AM2 machine. They also have one more mint Audigy 2 ZS card without the media drive if any of you would like me to pick it up for you. I think it's only $5 and of course I'll stick it in a flat rate priority box. Just PM me if u want me to grab it. First come, first serve.

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I'd throw that 2ZS in your main if I were you. Audigy2 ZS still sounds better than most onboard audio solutions. Not to mention you have the media drive which is normally more expensive than the drive itself on eBay for some strange reason.

My main squeeze is a gaming laptop as I travel and do all my music production using MOTU break-out and external audio I/O boxes. I also do all my video production on it as well. The only desktops I have are my retro systems. So putting that Audigy 2 ZS in my newest of retro systems. It amazes me what people throw out.

I picked up a Dell Dimention L800R today from a local ad. Not a bad little PC but lacks a AGP slot.
The insides were spotless and all the components looks brand new. Even smelled new! Lol

Pentium 3 @800Mhz
128MB SDRAM
Intel 810 motherboard.
10GB IDE hard drive

Will go perfect with my Voodoo 3.

So I went ahead and picked up my childhood XT system. It was too good of a price for an almost mint condition ITT Xtra PC. I contacted the seller and was heartbroken to find out the rare matching ITT keyboard was tossed. It had missing keys, but I told them to never throw out those type of items as they are very valuable for parts at minimum and also linked them to Vogons so they understand there are many of us out here trying to preserve and restore these historical systems. Always like to educate anyone who will listen that these type of computer systems need to be saved. Still, a really nice specimen of an XT in really good shape for a really good price. Looking forward to cleaning it up and will probably upgrade it to an 8-bit VGA card even though I know those go for some money. I just don't want to deal with a CGA or EGA tube.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ITT-Xtra-Computer-Mod … 872.m2749.l2649

Note: Just figured out this is NOT my old ITT XT model. This is the later XP AT model which I believe is a 286, but still uses the exact same case. I'll find out soon when I get it. Either way, I'll be happy with it in my collection.

agent_x007 wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

Are those Fuhjyyu caps?

Jenpo ?

keropi wrote:

I have a feeling they should be named Junk-o 🤣

Yech!

Fusion wrote:

I picked up a Dell Dimention L800R today from a local ad. Not a bad little PC but lacks a AGP slot. The insides were spotless an […]
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I picked up a Dell Dimention L800R today from a local ad. Not a bad little PC but lacks a AGP slot.
The insides were spotless and all the components looks brand new. Even smelled new! Lol

Pentium 3 @800Mhz
128MB SDRAM
Intel 810 motherboard.
10GB IDE hard drive

Will go perfect with my Voodoo 3.

I have an L1000R, basically identical to that one - I've got a PCI Radeon 9250 in it. Good little 9x box, mine had a Win ME product key on it.

badmojo wrote:

brostenen wrote:

So.... Today I recieved the 1541-II disk drive for my Commodore64, complete and including 50 disks.

That's a cracking setup you have there, lucky you!

Thanks. 😀
I am happy and feel lucky to have such a setup. I have purchased it in "parts" during this year.
First the C64 then a SD2IEC drive, and now a few months later the diskdrive.
All about timing, to find the right part in the right condition.
Normally I look for the cheapest option, though on C64 stuff, I tend to look for condition instead.
I was just lucky that the drive came complete and with that many disks.
Nothing came in original box, yet it does not matter and I am not complaining. 😁

Got this to use with my newly aquired Roland MT-32. Surprisingly hard to find locally, found just one online seller here in The Netherlands.