Ah frudi you just restored a little bit of my faith in humanity by refusing to rip off that guy. Nice to see there are at least some decent people left in the world.

Well I don't feel bad for paying little money for old computer parts, because I only buy them cheap since I know how to find nice deals (I don't use eBay). If I need to sell some, I'd rather exchange them or sell them for cheap as well.

But if you're both happy, that's a great deal indeed ^^

liqmat wrote:

bofh.fromhell wrote:

luckybob wrote:

*finds wonderful AT case*

Doesn't show a pic of the front... 😜

I'll make a proper "check out my precious" later, i promise ! =)
Without the help of some sunlight any pics i take look like crap 🤣 (CET here so middle of the night ATM).

I have a feeling I know what case this is, but look forward to the pics to see if I'm right.

My OP edited with a frontal pic.
Making a proper gallery ASAP !

edit.
Done:
Fantastic AT case and my mid to late 90's system in it.

Picked up this today:

Well well well...

No SCSI harddisk, only he optical drives. Rest was IDE. Still this:

MSI 694D Pro
2x Pentium III 667MHz
Matrox G400 MAX
Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N

System was advertised as not working. Haven't tested it yet, just disassembled the system. I like the case's quality (it's an Antec, anyone know the type?), but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. It's a bit nasty, broken, front door missing (I assume there was one).

Cyrix200+ wrote:

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Picked up this today:

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/WEYo5W3l.jpg[/img]

Well well well...

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/YcS6N3wl.jpg?1[/img]

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/nnAwTJxl.jpg?1[/img]

No SCSI harddisk, only he optical drives. Rest was IDE. Still this:

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/Hp4t4oHl.jpg?1[/img]

MSI 694D Pro
2x Pentium III 667MHz
Matrox G400 MAX
Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N

System was advertised as not working. Haven't tested it yet, just disassembled the system. I like the case's quality (it's an Antec, anyone know the type?), but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. It's a bit nasty, broken, front door missing (I assume there was one).

Antec P180.

frudi wrote:

Around then this small kid, 10-ish years or so, asks me if I'm interested, I say I'm just looking through for anything interesting worth my time. He says if I want anything, it's 2€ per board. 🤣. I can't give him just 2€ for a super socket 7 board with a K6-3, that's bloody daylight robbery 😀. So I take a quick look at the rest of the boards, it's an array of wildly different platforms, all total 10 boards from slot 1 to socket 775. All with CPUs, some with a stick or two of memory and/or a cooler. Also a few old video cards (couple Ati Rage, one Radeon 9000 and one Geforce FX 5200), an ISA sound card and a couple of what look like industrial or embedded motherboards that I can't even remotely recognise. Most stuff looks in decent condition, some components needing a thorough washing and cleaning though. I don't really have any immediate use for most of the motherboards, but I figure at 2€ a pop, why not.

So I tell the kid I'll give him 20€ for the whole lot. The look on his face when he heard me, he was so excited. He looked to feel as happy about the deal as I did 😀. I could have likely gotten away with offering him half that, but I'd honestly feel like crap for basically robbing him.

So the moral of this story is that you ended up paying the kid 2€ for the board anyway. 🤣

20€ for 10 boards = 2€ a board + included parts

Technically true 😀, but he would have had a hell of a time selling most of the rest of that stuff individually. The rest of the boards are really not very interesting, mostly low end generic stuff, even for their day. And most require at least a decent cleaning and some TLC before trying to turn them on to see if they even work. I visit that flea market almost every weekend, most motherboards I see in that shape go unsold for weeks or months. As I said, I could have probably gotten him to sell me the whole lot for 10€ and if I hadn't taken it, I figure eventually someone else would have ended up doing exactly that.

In the end, he seemed thrilled to sell all of it at once and I'm thrilled to have gotten a working SS7 system and a bunch of boards I'll spend days cleaning, restoring and testing. Everyone's happy 😀

Vegge wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Picked up this today: […]
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Picked up this today:

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/WEYo5W3l.jpg[/img]

Well well well...

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/YcS6N3wl.jpg?1[/img]

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/nnAwTJxl.jpg?1[/img]

No SCSI harddisk, only he optical drives. Rest was IDE. Still this:

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/Hp4t4oHl.jpg?1[/img]

MSI 694D Pro
2x Pentium III 667MHz
Matrox G400 MAX
Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N

System was advertised as not working. Haven't tested it yet, just disassembled the system. I like the case's quality (it's an Antec, anyone know the type?), but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it. It's a bit nasty, broken, front door missing (I assume there was one).

Antec P180.

Thanks!

Picked up a CT1920 goldfinch recently. Appears my creative card collection is really growing now!

frudi wrote:

Technically true 😀, but he would have had a hell of a time selling most of the rest of that stuff individually. The rest of the boards are really not very interesting, mostly low end generic stuff, even for their day. And most require at least a decent cleaning and some TLC before trying to turn them on to see if they even work. I visit that flea market almost every weekend, most motherboards I see in that shape go unsold for weeks or months. As I said, I could have probably gotten him to sell me the whole lot for 10€ and if I hadn't taken it, I figure eventually someone else would have ended up doing exactly that.

In the end, he seemed thrilled to sell all of it at once and I'm thrilled to have gotten a working SS7 system and a bunch of boards I'll spend days cleaning, restoring and testing. Everyone's happy 😀

Just busting your chops. Personally I have no qualms picking up hardware for cheap like that because I have to do all the legwork, like you said, with testing, cleaning, etc.

Bancho wrote:

Picked up a CT1920 goldfinch recently. Appears my creative card collection is really growing now!

Those are fun! It took me ages but I managed to set mine up as truly stand-alone, including the MPU-401 emulation in Win9x:

Pentium 166MMX tower of power

red_avatar wrote:

I'm curious but besides nostalgic reasons, is there any reason to get a Pro over a SB16 for old builds?

what does an sb16 offer over an sbpro2

biggest issue with sb16: sb16 can't do stereo in sbpro mode

brostenen wrote:

Recieved these two things. HDD shock absorber and Amiga Boot Selector...
The shock absorber is to lower the resonanse of fast spinning SCSI harddrives, like that of 10.000 to 15.000 rpm.

always hated SCSI for being noisy and huge drives... latest IDE drives perform totally alike while being cheaper and silent

Bought the following on Sunday:

Mint IBM ThinkPad 380D with the recovery media (diskette, CDs, manual, and carrying case (TFT matrix screen, and needs a new CMOS battery, have plenty of those)
Diamond Multimedia Sound FX 59-006781F-1002 (FCC ID: K2Y-PRO16) <-- Reveal K2Y-PRO16 sound card with a genuine OPL3 chipset, Sony, IDE, Panasonic, and Mitsumi CD-ROM interfaces, and a WaveTable header (also has support for Windows Sound System)

PhilsComputerLab's site about the card: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/82c929a.html

bjwil1991 wrote:

Bought the following on Sunday:

Mint IBM ThinkPad 380D (TFT matrix screen, and needs a new CMOS battery, have plenty of those)

I have a couple of these. I really like them. Good laptops. You can still find NEW CDROM drives for these on eBay.
I think they support up to 5gb IBM Hard-drive and up to 48mb. ram.
I use a 3com PCMCIA card for networking. Win95c.
The graphics are not to good. "Magic" I think. and "Crystal" audio.

Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glV0GlRpo2A&t=1s

liqmat wrote:

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Just busting your chops. Personally I have no qualms picking up hardware for cheap like that because I have to do all the legwork, like you said, with testing, cleaning, etc.

Yep. Next time your conscience plays up in a similar situation, keep track of the time you spend on what you buy and figure out what that would be worth. Even at minimum wage, chances are you'd be financially better off flipping burgers than even selling stuff you got completely for free, particularly if you sell at enthousiast-friendly rates.

I aim to keep my hobby budget-neutral by doing exactly that, which just about balances out - so long as I don't factor in time 😜

If you buy stuff from someone who didn't do all the identifying & testing, the value of what you buy is simply very low, so the price should be too.

few latest pieces ... all eras 😀

quite uncommon Intel VGA

ATi Ultra

classic Audigy complete box

and AM2 Sapphire

NeoMagic 128 or something like that.

As for the sound card, the one in mine is ok if I use the correct driver (was tough to find which worked well under Windows and DOS). But sadly I don't remember which ... I'll need to check which I installed

That first card might be a Hercules card and the Intel chip might be the processor for it?

I have that Sapphire board. Let me know if you find a way of getting beyond a 4 GiB RAM limit.

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and AM2 Sapphire

Man that's a pretty board.