An IBM Aptiva 2176-C73, Pentium 200MMX, 16MB RAM (upgrading that), 3.2GB HD, 2MB ATI Mach64 GT onboard, IBM MWAVE (shudder) modem/sound combo. Also bought a Matrox Mystique 4MB for it.

I have a Yamaha YMF-719 and a Novell NE2000 clone sitting around so I'll toss those in there. Selelr's pic

My brother had a very similar Aptiva [I just asked, had had a p133]. Was a nice looking machine. It came with a "not for resale" version of Cyberia, I still have that laying around somewhere.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pretty BF6 with nice cooler

That's an odd one actually: it's BE6-II (Highpoint RAID) with BF6 marking for some reason. Also it's revision 2.0 board with UDMA100 RAID.

And that in a BX133 box...

oeuvre wrote:

An IBM Aptiva 2176-C73, Pentium 200MMX, 16MB RAM (upgrading that), 3.2GB HD, 2MB ATI Mach64 GT onboard, IBM MWAVE (shudder) modem/sound combo. Also bought a Matrox Mystique 4MB for it.

I have a Yamaha YMF-719 and a Novell NE2000 clone sitting around so I'll toss those in there. Selelr's pic

My grandpa has the 2168-M55 that has 16MB RAM, 2GB HDD, Pentium 100, 2MB Trident video onboard, the IBM MWAVE sound card, 56K modem, and running Windows 95 (OEM). Still works to this day.

CarlHopkinsUK wrote:

OldCat wrote:

Okay, I usually try not to boast, but... BEHOLD:

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Does anyone recognize this beauty in blue?

Isnt this a Force Feedback mouse? Cant remember the name tho...

Yes! The prize goes to the gentleman from UK! It's Logitech iFeel MouseMan, a very rare specimen indeed. Like regular iFeel, a vibrating mouse, but in MouseMan form factor. Really wanted one in 2001, but couldn't afford it.

A couple of links for your reading pleasure:
https://www.cnet.com/news/logitech-gets-touch … with-new-mouse/
http://www.dansdata.com/ifeel.htm
and a lot of drivers and modern-day info:
https://msrepurpose.wordpress.com/featured-one/home/about/

And that in a BX133 box...

That's actually original box. I've checked serial numbers. BX133 stands for overclocking guide in the manual.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pretty BF6 with nice cooler

That's an odd one actually: it's BE6-II (Highpoint RAID) with BF6 marking for some reason. Also it's revision 2.0 board with UDMA100 RAID.

You right, never seen this. Interesting about marking.

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I have three p5a-b boards and four p5a, all revisions. Tried two k6-3+ cpu's and two k6-2+. Getting any of these combinations with working cache above 630mhz i had zero luck. I also have the Gigabyte late revision (5.2), it is not better in any way as far as i know. Didn't even clock any higher as the Asus. It even was a fraction slower in benchmarks. The Gigabyte Ga5aa (baby at version) did a bit better but also slower as the p5a boards.

The absolute highest 3dmark scores i got from a 1.04 P5A-B

So good luck reaching 720mhz! Let me know if you got it.

Good news: got the board. It is a P5A Rev 1.04 with E-revision Aladdin V, so pretty much the best it could have been for K6plus.

Didn't get near 720MHz though. The board is rock solid at 120MHz FSB, but my CPU is limiting. The best I could get out of it was 633MHz, i.e. 5.5x115MHz - but to get that stable needed 2.5V, and I'm not about to run my K6-3+ at that sort of voltage for any period of time. So now it's chugging along at a respectable 5x120MHz at 2.1V.

The obligatory pic:

I'm impressed by the monitor (Compaq v55 612T); its specs are absolutely nothing special (1024x768@75Hz...), but the build quality is excellent, the picture sharper than .28 dot pitch would lead me to expect and the electronics very fast (syncs almost instantly). Even though it doesn't come close to my Iiyama 17" Diamondtron in terms of image quality, for DOS the Compaq might just be the better monitor.

The board is rock solid at 120MHz FSB

Board itself maybe, but peripherals might start to go bonkers at 40mhz PCI.

Yesterday I got a working black & white 12" (29cm) monitor. Check it out:

bjwil1991 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

An IBM Aptiva 2176-C73, Pentium 200MMX, 16MB RAM (upgrading that), 3.2GB HD, 2MB ATI Mach64 GT onboard, IBM MWAVE (shudder) modem/sound combo. Also bought a Matrox Mystique 4MB for it.

I have a Yamaha YMF-719 and a Novell NE2000 clone sitting around so I'll toss those in there. Selelr's pic

My grandpa has the 2168-M55 that has 16MB RAM, 2GB HDD, Pentium 100, 2MB Trident video onboard, the IBM MWAVE sound card, 56K modem, and running Windows 95 (OEM). Still works to this day.

eww MWAVE

First thing I'm doing to mine when it comes is swapping out the MWAVE with my trusty Yamaha YMF-719

Turbo -> wrote:

Yesterday I got a working black & white 12" (29cm) monitor.

Is that Hercules/MDA, CGA/EGA or VGA compatible?

Some new beauties!

Roland SSC-1

Roland RAP-10 (with MCB-10)

MediaTriX Audiotrix 3D-XG 😎 (bundle with speakers)

Just won this auction...who else was bidding on it? 😉

...because I spotted this interesting part 😎 Unfortunately the brackets are not available any more...

Predator99 wrote:

...because I spotted this interesting part 😎 Unfortunately the brackets are not available any more...

Why people throw out the brackets is honestly the biggest mystery to me in this whole hobby. Is it to save space when storing this cards? Do people use them to cover empty slots in PCs? Why do you need to remove the brackets?

jheronimus wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

...because I spotted this interesting part 😎 Unfortunately the brackets are not available any more...

Why people throw out the brackets is honestly the biggest mystery to me in this whole hobby. Is it to save space when storing this cards? Do people use them to cover empty slots in PCs? Why do you need to remove the brackets?

The lamo scrappers remove them so they "can fit more in a shipping box".

jheronimus wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

...because I spotted this interesting part 😎 Unfortunately the brackets are not available any more...

Why people throw out the brackets is honestly the biggest mystery to me in this whole hobby. Is it to save space when storing this cards? Do people use them to cover empty slots in PCs? Why do you need to remove the brackets?

Indeed good question. I assume people think they increase the value or they can give a more accurate weight when already removing the "non-gold" parts from such scrap piles?

Or they sell the metal separately? But this gives only few cents and make lots of work...

Should tell the seller that this sound card would have been worth around 150€ when sold separately with bracket...

jheronimus wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

...because I spotted this interesting part 😎 Unfortunately the brackets are not available any more...

Why people throw out the brackets is honestly the biggest mystery to me in this whole hobby. Is it to save space when storing this cards? Do people use them to cover empty slots in PCs? Why do you need to remove the brackets?

I've used some of the brackets that were on certain cards to cover the empty slots in my PCs since the cards I had were way beyond repair and had divots on the boards themselves. I have a Riva TNT2 card that still needs repair, but, I still have the bracket for it. Other times, I use them to house RS-232 or serial ports on a bracket that was used on a VGA card (fits perfectly) in case one of my PC cases doesn't have a spot for one (AT cases) or too lazy to remove the metal shield of where the serial and parallel ports go onto.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

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FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
WE RECOMMAND THE AM 486 MICROPROCESSOR

Hee. Luckily it's not a PC Chips board.