^ could you please specify what hardware is included with WfW?

i got 2 gems today. and im kind of having less hunger of retro hardware after these i feel like i will retire. Only a GUS that i will never have because of its price or a voodoo1 which i cant find here. I can now rest knowing that i have bought all the hardware i always wanted, but missing a GUS, a voodoo1 and a tualatin 1.4 pentium3 processor.

It all started trying to build a 486 pc this year first i went with a mint sony 21inch crt monitor, and i have bought so many boxes full of old hardware and videocards and motherboards that i cant belive it. I was able to buy a bunch of voodoo2, voodoo3, 1 voodo4 and at last one voodoo5. I was able to buy an ibm 8086, a clone 286, a 386 and a bunch of 486, and a bunch of CPUs too, includint the last one i always wanted...an intel overdrive 100 socket3.

the diamond stealth24 with S3 chip, maybe im dreaming but i only have 2 VLB cards, and the trident one i belive it was faster than this one.
And a lovely soundblaster64 gold, iconic card.

ho ho ho, awesome cards for a 486!

Was given a Dell 1708FP, two CT5003 Crystal based SB PCIs, and a NOS 52x Memorex CD Reader with a March 2006 manufacture date for free.

The monitor is pretty good. I can see why the xx08 models are popular here. I'm assuming its a xxyy format where the xx is the size of the display and the yy is the model year. Hence my 2008 17 inch flat panel is model 1708. I also think this was one of the last 4:3 LCDs?

The sound cards I haven't really tried yet. TBH they aren't that interesting. I've never heard Crystal based SBs praised around here and I have plenty of Ensoniq/Creative audio PCIs.

The 52x IDE drive is blazing fast, I put it in my main PC to use for archiving CDs. Its handily kicking the asses of my main PCs other two drives (a 48x IDE CDRW and a 24x SATA SuperMultidrive). It hits 20x almost immediately and finished the disk copy at 49.7x. The first drive I've seen that actually delivers its rated spec reasonably well.

hard1k wrote:

^ could you please specify what hardware is included with WfW?

Sure! Back of the box says it's a "top quality" 16-bit ISA network card, T-connector and 25 feet of thin cable (it's a sealed box, still tossing up whether to open it).

JidaiGeki wrote:

hard1k wrote:

^ could you please specify what hardware is included with WfW?

Sure! Back of the box says it's a "top quality" 16-bit ISA network card, T-connector and 25 feet of thin cable (it's a sealed box, still tossing up whether to open it).

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I would just leave it sealed. If you really want to use WfW, it is easy to find.

I wish I would come across a cheap boxed copy of Works 3 some day.. Very nice finds.

JidaiGeki wrote:

hard1k wrote:

^ could you please specify what hardware is included with WfW?

Sure! Back of the box says it's a "top quality" 16-bit ISA network card, T-connector and 25 feet of thin cable (it's a sealed box, still tossing up whether to open it).

Thanks!
A network adapter, interesting. I wonder whom MS partnered with to include that as a part of its VfW package. Any ideas based on the picture?
(And no, don't open it, it's not worth breaking the seal for just knowing the model of the NIC)

My 486 came with a legit copy of Windows for Work Groups, and I think that's the network card that was installed. If no one else has a response on what card it is today, I'll dig mine out of the closet and snap a pic to see if it's the same one. I need to sleep and not disturb others with me shuffling through boxes, or I would do it now. I flipped through the WFW manual, but so far I've only seen instructions on how to install it, not its make.

My today gains:

Boxed WaveBlaster I CT1900

Boxed Socket7 Asus SP98AGP-X

An Asus P3B-F rev 1.04 board

I'm going to get an InWin H500 desktop case in the next couple of days and build my first ATX system.

oooh DIP switches
Nice board there!

Also I got a 2008 MacBook... 2.4GHz C2D, 4GB RAM. Very clean shape and I redid the thermal paste just now so it should run well.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/sp … nryn-specs.html

Two professional, server-grade CPU coolers, nos. They seem to fit on socket 5, 7, and A.

Got this beauty 😁

STB Nitro64 2MB ISA

Will do head to head benchmarks with Diamond Speedstar64 2MB ISA in a few moments. Stay tuned 😉

Update:
Did DOS and Windows95 basic benchmarks. In DOS they are completely the same. In Windows95 Diamond seems a tad faster. 16.6M VS 16.4MB Winbench 3.11 score at 800x600/16-bit colors. Tested on P-133.

Will do a huge benchmark of all of my ISA and VLB cards soon 😎

god damn!
i could not resist!

i entered an old pc shop where they treat old PCs looking for a cheap heatsink.
and i saw this beauty inside a pc case on the floor, and i thought ..nice a REAL GOOD geforce4 card,...gf4 4200
paid 13 bucks and left

when i came back home i was so mistaken..its not a 4200, its a 4600 or a 4800 !!
and there is no way to differenciate them by looking at the card?

kixs wrote:

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Got this beauty 😁

STB Nitro64 2MB ISA

Will do head to head benchmarks with Diamond Speedstar64 2MB ISA in a few moments. Stay tuned 😉

Update:
Did DOS and Windows95 basic benchmarks. In DOS they are completely the same. In Windows95 Diamond seems a tad faster. 16.6M VS 16.4MB Winbench 3.11 score at 800x600/16-bit colors. Tested on P-133.

Will do a huge benchmark of all of my ISA and VLB cards soon 😎

I have this card too... and the driver disks! 😉

Let me know if you need copy.

Just bought this SE-440BX-2 mobo with a 850mhz P3 today to upgrade my Win98 system - see my sig. Other new parts include a Vortex2 sound card and Voodoo2 SLI. Hopefully will get all this working over the holidays.

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god damn!
i could not resist!

i entered an old pc shop where they treat old PCs looking for a cheap heatsink.
and i saw this beauty inside a pc case on the floor, and i thought ..nice a REAL GOOD geforce4 card,...gf4 4200
paid 13 bucks and left

when i came back home i was so mistaken..its not a 4200, its a 4600 or a 4800 !!
and there is no way to differenciate them by looking at the card?

4800SE which is basically 4400 with 8x AGP support IIRC.

Finally found an 8-bit VGA card at the recycle center for my ITT Xtra XP 286/XT hybrid system. It was less than $5 compared to similar cards on Ebay selling north of $50 to $70. I wont pay those prices. It looks to be in good physical condition, but hoping it works. Also found a bunch of other ISA video and multi I/O cards at the center all in a large box about to get shredded. Lucky save.

Batyra wrote:

My today gains:
Boxed Socket7 Asus SP98AGP-X

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Nifty! And boxed too. I have an AOpen AP59S (also SIS 5591.) It's a great chipset even though it can't run at 100Mhz FSB reliably. And I just found your web site. Nice collection!!