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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 21880 of 52354, by PTherapist

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A little retro - I bought a modern USB EPROM programmer and a couple of old CMOS EPROM chips. Should be good to play around with hopefully.

Decided to get one of these after discovering a broken leg on a BIOS chip on an old 8088 Motherboard - no wonder it wasn't POSTing! I already have the ROM image so if I can replace the chip hopefully I can get this old board working again.

Reply 21881 of 52354, by The Serpent Rider

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And here I was thinking that old hardware is too niche of a thing to try and con people.

3dfx cards are very popular and widely known, obvious choice for a con.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 21882 of 52354, by stoof

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xjas wrote:

Incidentally after complaining that my supply of cool stuff had dried up, I managed to score this:
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That battery powered floppy is just ridiculous and awesome. Not ridiculously awesome, ridiculous and awesome. 😀
HPs of this vintage always tickle my fancy.

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jheronimus

And here I was thinking that old hardware is too niche of a thing to try and con people.

3dfx cards are very popular and widely known, obvious choice for a con.

Old computer hardware - of which 3dfx-cards are a part - is very much a niche. An obvious choice for a con would be a recent macbook or iphone. 😉

Reply 21883 of 52354, by oeuvre

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Got this Dell Dimension XPS T500 for 30 euro.

It has a Pentium III 500mhz, 448 MB RAM, integrated Yamaha audio (says "Yamaha DS1"), a 3dfx Voodoo3, two network cards, an USB-PCI card, two hard drives.

It runs Windows XP

You can max out the RAM at 768MB. Update the BIOS, get a slocket adapter, put in a Coppermine Celeron of 1GHz, add a socket 370 heatsink and you'll have a screamer 98SE build. Love those machines. So versatile and reliable.

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Reply 21884 of 52354, by debs3759

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dionb wrote:

- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.

Reply 21885 of 52354, by amadeus777999

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Got a nice Sun GDM-5510 for next to nothing. In "person" this thing is simply gorgeous + dandy build quality.

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Reply 21886 of 52354, by dionb

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debs3759 wrote:
dionb wrote:

- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

Not 100% certain of the P100 rating, it's not printed on the CPU, but AFAIK all the big silver heat spreader versions were at least P100, and the nearest serial number I could find here was also a P100.

Mine is:
Nx586-XXXX-4.0-CPC-202
AAH7004 P09003XR P23016XR

Reply 21888 of 52354, by keropi

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oeuvre wrote:

All running computers posted here must be shown with Skeletor from now on.

YES

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Reply 21889 of 52354, by debs3759

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dionb wrote:
Not 100% certain of the P100 rating, it's not printed on the CPU, but AFAIK all the big silver heat spreader versions were at le […]
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dionb wrote:

- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

Not 100% certain of the P100 rating, it's not printed on the CPU, but AFAIK all the big silver heat spreader versions were at least P100, and the nearest serial number I could find here was also a P100.

Mine is:
Nx586-XXXX-4.0-CPC-202
AAH7004 P09003XR P23016XR

If it is not marked, it is usually a P90. P90 can be smaller or larger heat spreader. Still a nice find, they have been going up in value for at least a couple of years 😀 They typically go for around $75 on CPU-World forums.

See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.

Reply 21890 of 52354, by Stiletto

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oeuvre wrote:

All running computers posted here must be shown with Skeletor from now on.

Maybe it should be a Vogon instead? 😁 https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&q=vogon

But I can go with Skeletor 😉

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Reply 21891 of 52354, by dionb

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debs3759 wrote:

If it is not marked, it is usually a P90. P90 can be smaller or larger heat spreader. Still a nice find, they have been going up in value for at least a couple of years 😀 They typically go for around $75 on CPU-World forums.

Would be even nicer if I knew it worked - but motherboards are of course unobtainium (or in any event priced out of my league 😢 )

Reply 21894 of 52354, by havli

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Moar junk 🤣

Intel i440FX socket 8 board including CPU, heatsink (S8 heatsink is not very common) and some SIMM RAM.
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Beneath the heatsink is hiding... surprise, surprise - Pentium Pro 200 MHz / 256 KB 🤣
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4x 32 MB EDO also isn't that common these days 😀
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2x Asus P4P800 SE - cut down variant, but for overclocking P4 it should be good. Notice the extra mosfets at VRM section - there are 9 total, while many P4P800 and P4C800 (even Deluxe versions) have only 6.
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Reply 21895 of 52354, by Eleanor1967

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These things arrived at my place over the last couple of days:

Soundblaster CT1350B with the needed CT1336 chip and some CMS compatible upgrade chips. Already tested these out and the work like a charm. Monkey Island on CMS is really nice in my opinion, I listend back to back with the MT-32 and it is actually not that easy to still call the MT-32 my favorite version. CMS has charm for sure.

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Also a MediaVision Pro Audio Studio, so an PAS16 with SCSI (I think, not an expert on those cards). Not tested yet but looks good.

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Reply 21896 of 52354, by Radical Vision

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okenido wrote:
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Got this Dell Dimension XPS T500 for 30 euro.

It has a Pentium III 500mhz, 448 MB RAM, integrated Yamaha audio (says "Yamaha DS1"), a 3dfx Voodoo3, two network cards, an USB-PCI card, two hard drives.

It runs Windows XP

Great condition of the case, seems the previous owners was not a morons that smoke all over the place and spill coffee, water and other crap, too bad not many people keep their computers in that factory state...

oeuvre wrote:

You can max out the RAM at 768MB. Update the BIOS, get a slocket adapter, put in a Coppermine Celeron of 1GHz, add a socket 370 heatsink and you'll have a screamer 98SE build. Love those machines. So versatile and reliable.

You can compare Compaq every time to old DELL, Compaq win every single time in build quality and durability.......
I have even DELL Latitude with Pentium III is not working. Also i have Compaq Armada 1700 working great, well guess what the quality of the plastic, and the overall feeling of the Compaq is way better, while the DELL feels like wooden, all parts on it are feeling more bad like the plastic, the screen, the keyboard feels way worse, feels just too cheap....
I have also DELL Optiplex 150 working is ok small PC, but compared to Compaq DeskPRO case and overall parts inside is just funny....

Mah systems retro, old, newer (Radical stuff)
W3680 4.5/ GA-x58 UD7/ R9 280x
K7 2.6/ NF7-S/ HD3850
IBM x2 P3 933/ GA-6VXD7/ Voodoo V 5.5K
Cmq P2 450/ GA-BX2000/ V2 SLI
IBM PC365
Cmq DeskPRO 486/33
IBM PS/2 Model 56
SPS IntelleXT 8088

Reply 21897 of 52354, by OldCat

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Just snagged Toshiba Libretto 50CDT. So happy - have been searching for one in decent state AND in decent price. It's making its way through snowy Poland right now, so seller's photo atm, will update with real one when it arrives.

Any recommendations as to how restore battery (and if it's worth it) or on how to swap HDD for CF card?

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Reply 21898 of 52354, by jaZz_KCS

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OldCat wrote:

Just snagged Toshiba Libretto 50CDT. So happy - have been searching for one in decent state AND in decent price. It's making its way through snowy Poland right now, so seller's photo atm, will update with real one when it arrives.

Any recommendations as to how restore battery (and if it's worth it) or on how to swap HDD for CF card?

Awesome snag. They are getting ridiculously expensive nowadays.
This device uses a proprietary PCMCIA floppy card, iirc, that is connected to a rather standard Toshiba floppy caddy of that time (comparable to Satellite series), but connects to the computer via PCMCIA. This way they could forego the floppy connector.
I do not know what is needed for a battery reconstruction, but it should be a pretty standard NiMH that is to be substituted.
Also regarding the SD-/CF2IDE adapter, pretty staight forward. Choose a CF/SD card size --> Use overlay software to get access to full capacity --> profit. You'll need a 2.5" SD/CF-IDE adapter.

Reply 21899 of 52354, by oeuvre

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I also got a Libretto 50CDT, got OS X running on it too!

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