DaveJustDave wrote:

Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone k […]
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Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone know a good source for these?) but otherwise ok.

Has another interesting hard card design inside. it's an 8086, so i wonder if the drive is ATA or XTA? hmmm

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Wow. That system is in great shape. And for $20? That's a great price. On eBay, those systems are going for an arm and a leg, especially the broken ones.

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DaveJustDave wrote:

Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone k […]
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Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone know a good source for these?) but otherwise ok.

Has another interesting hard card design inside. it's an 8086, so i wonder if the drive is ATA or XTA? hmmm

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Wow. That system is in great shape. And for $20? That's a great price. On eBay, those systems are going for an arm and a leg, especially the broken ones.

Why would a broken system be worth more? That makes zero sense at all.

Not the best wording I'm guessing. I think he means even broken systems go for alot.

Picked up a free Pentium II 300mhz Dell Latitude 7000 laptop. 64mb Ram onboard with TWO empty ram slots. Have both an pair of 256mb,128mb,and a 512mb compatible ram stick for it 😁 even came with a 8gb ide drive with a windows 7 install from another machine! It is mostly tooless deconstruction and even has an easily removable vga card!

Munx wrote:

My haul from this Sunday, everything 2 euro-doubloons each!: […]
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My haul from this Sunday, everything 2 euro-doubloons each!:

Yamaha YM724 sound card. Already have one, however the other one didn't have an SB link soldered and for this price it was hard to pas it up

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Cirrus Logic GD5446. Will make a nice replacement for my S3 Virge cards as the ones I have suffer from poor blackness levels

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Aopen MX34 motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset) with 1999's fastest CPU - P3 800.

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OAK OTI-067 ISA VGA card with 512KB memory. Should come in handy if I ever manage to get a 386 build going. The tilted capacitor on the bottom needs to be replaced.

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CL-5446 and YMF-724... Sweet... 😜 Those models are some of my favorite hardware. Awesomme.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Heh, a litte bit off-topic here, but I was checking my 486 boards and found this 'cache' on one of them. Looks legit!

Classic! When you think about how dishonest that is it's incredible - some jerks sat around a boardroom table and agreed to blatantly rip off their customers with IC shaped chunks of plastic. It really was the wild west.

Have a couple PCI Quadro FX 600 cards on the way.

And a few very important (can't build systems without them) parts.

I found out that almost all of my old ATX power supplies are dead/need recapping so I ordered 4 Seasonic units. 1 400w which turns out was really a 500w (SS-500ET) so I got a free upgrade and 3x 350w (SS-350ET)
as well as 3x 24-pin to 20-pin with -5v added.

Going to have some fun when the PSUs get here.

Got a VooDoo3 3000 PCI Card in the mail with its original box, manuals, and driver/software CD. Can't wait to install it in my K6-2 system.

Grabbed this Dell Optiplex GX110 system (upgraded with some ATI PCI card, hopefully a Radeon 9100 or 9200, but more likely a Radeon 7000 or Rage 128..) and its Philips 105S monitor for $10.

It also came with an unassuming terribly yellowed keyboard that turned out to be an AT102W mechanical with Alps switches.

Now, I need to retrobright those caps somehow.. Never did this before 😒

holy smoking coffee drinking grandma's teeth those are yellow! 8bit guy on youtube just did a comparison amongst several different retrobrite methods..

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And the TL;DR from his video and my own personal experience;

Just use that cream with the 40 on it, put it in the sun and wait.

although the ozone generator idea is interesting! his results might have been much better if he was feeding ozone continuously into the bag.

imagine being able to do an entire monitor without taking it apart!

luckybob wrote:

And the TL;DR from his video and my own personal experience;

Just use that cream with the 40 on it, put it in the sun and wait.

I have recently come in contact with a guy who works as a scrapper in Colorado. The particular junkyard he works at does not separate computer parts, and consequently he has pallets and boxes of old parts and towers. He recently sent me these two AT towers, and I've had a lot of fun with them. Both need a cleaning and have minor issues (the right one does not find the CD drive in BIOS) but they both work fine so far 😀

Left: "Magtron" branded mini tower. Interestingly, has a keyboard port in the side panel.
CPU: Intel 486DX2-66
RAM: 32 MB 30-pin SIMMs (8 x 4 MB)
Motherboard: Shuttle HOT 409
Video Card: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426-80QC-A 1 MB VLB
Sound Card: ExpertColor MED3931 (OPTi 931 chipset)
HDD: Seagate 260 MB
Optical: Matsushita 8X
Floppy(s): Teac 5.25" & 3.5"
OS: Windows 95

Right: Generic AT case with a sliding door. Neat design
CPU: Cyrix 6x86-P166+GP (133 MHz)
RAM: 16 MB 72-pin SIMM (2 x 8 MB)
Motherboard: Amptron PM-8800A (PC Chips re-brand)
Video Card: Matrox Millennium 4 MB PCI
Sound Card: Sound Blaster 16 ISA
HDD: WD Caviar 2.1 GB
Optical: Acer 10X
Floppy(s): Teac 3.5"
OS: Windows 95

The generic case's OS is pretty broken; missing system files and really slow. I plan to wipe it and reinstall. The 486's install is actually quite clean and snappy, so I will keep it like that. I had to remove a barrel battery that had not yet corroded the board but an external battery is also connected and it seems to hold settings for a few hours.

Both are fun to play with, and I've recently got word the guy got ahold of a 486SX desktop, so I may break the bank and buy that one too 🤣

Got an AWE32 I can finally use. Rev 1 CT2760. These things are huge, holy cow.

DaveJustDave wrote:

although the ozone generator idea is interesting! his results might have been much better if he was feeding ozone continuously into the bag.

imagine being able to do an entire monitor without taking it apart!

luckybob wrote:

And the TL;DR from his video and my own personal experience;

Just use that cream with the 40 on it, put it in the sun and wait.

yes i watched this episode of 8 bit guy and the ozone generator seemed to be promising, aswell as the heating method.

honestly he is over thinking the ozone thing. some wood and a few panels of glass/plexiglass and a tube of silicone. you can then build a hotbox for the process.

hell you can probably just use an old aquarium with a tight lid to do the same thing.

that's not a half bad idea.

someone needs to market a dedicated mess-free retrobrite chamber. put your stuff inside, plug it in, and leave it out in the sun until it's 1985 again.

luckybob wrote:

honestly he is over thinking the ozone thing. some wood and a few panels of glass/plexiglass and a tube of silicone. you can then build a hotbox for the process.

hell you can probably just use an old aquarium with a tight lid to do the same thing.

Won't ozone hurt the components ?

HO HO HO
This year Santa has visited me rather early, and I must have been a really good boy as he brought me a complete-in-box Creative 3D Blaster VLB - with all original accessories, tested and fully working 😀
Please have a look at the pictures taken by the previous owner (actually I haven't found any pics of the complete package on the net, so I could easily be the first one to upload them here):

Of course, in order to preserve the mystery the conditions of the deal will be kept confidential.
I guess I'll have to take on the quest for the unobtainable RAM upgrade module - has anyone actually seen one of those out in the wild? Any picture / part number / anything else?

Ah, man. Lucky!