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Reply 22540 of 52357, by Skyscraper

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Not just from today, but the latest finds 😀

Evergreen AMD 5x86 133Mhz 😀

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Good to see that a Vogons member got that one. It was a good deal at the price you got it. 😀

I was the other bidder, I already have a couple though so I'm not the least sad. I find them much better value for money than the Intel DX4 Overdrives selling for at least as much.

I think that's a late one so it will probably work just fine without a fan but I would add a small one anyhow.

The second "green" motherboard with OPTi 493 chipset seems to lack a BIOS chiip.

Here is the MR BIOS for OPTi 493

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It seems to be a nice board with double the normal amount of cache sockets for cache interleaving, well worth saving.

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Reply 22541 of 52357, by Deksor

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Really nice ! A ThinkPad 380XD ! I've bought the same very recently 😁

Just be aware that the drivers given by lenovo for the cardbus slots are WRONG. Use these instead

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Also, the audio drivers for the crystal chip aren't the latest on lenovo's website and they work terribly. The latest ones aren't really good, but they are already much better. (if you find a better driver, please tell me which you found ^^)

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Reply 22542 of 52357, by dionb

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So, took pics of my haul today:

Sound & CPUs
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2x Dell 059GDD 24x slimline CDRom drive
2x Compaq 217336-001 CPU VRM
2x Intel SL52R Pentium III 1000EB
Compaq X071 ESS1868F-based 16b ISA sound card
Formosa Industrial SC220 AD1816JS-based 16b ISA sound card
Advance Digital Industrial FSSC-CS2X Crystal 4235-based 16b ISA sound card
OPTi OMSND925 OPTi 82C925-based 16b ISA cound card
Labway A301G50 Yamaha YMF724F-V based PCI sound card

AGP cards
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Matrox Millennium P750 64MB AGP
Asus V9520-X/TD/128M/AR GeForce 5200 128MB AGP
2x WinFast GeForce2 MX64 / Fujitsu Siemens GM 3000-32 32MB AGP (with 2x bulging GSC cap)
MSI MS-8816 GeForce2MX 32MB (w MS-5994 TV-out module)
2x Dell/nVidia 180-P0019-0100-A Riva TNT2 16MB AGP
ATi Rage 128Pro/Ultra 16MB low-profile
ATi 3D Rage Pro 4MB AGP
Sparkle SP365D S3 Trio3D 4MB AGP
Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro Permedia2 8MB AGP

PCI(e) cards & modems / TV
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HIS S3 Trio64V2 1MB PCI
SST-0375 S3 Virge/DX 4MB PCI
Genoa Phantom 64 S3 Vision 868 2MB PCI
Club3D CGA-9258PR Radeon 9250 128MB PCI
Medion X740XL Radeon x740XL 128MB PCIe 16x
Matrox Parhelia APV 128MB PCIe 16x
US Robotics USR3409 ISDN PCI Card
Zoltrix FM-8818 "High Speed" 14k4 8b ISA modem
Dynalink 1428VQH-T 28k8 8b ISA modem
Hauppauge WinTV PVR500 dual-tuner PCI TV card
Medion CTX918_V.2 TV PCI TV tuner + V.92 56k modem

Network stuff
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2x LSI Logic LSI7202XL-4M 2Gb dual port PCI-X Fiber Channel HBA
4x Picolight PL-XPL-VE-S24-31 2Gbps 850nm SFP tranceiver
2x Finisar FTLF8519P2BNL-(N1) 2Gbps 850nm SFP tranceiver
4x Netapp/Avago AFBR-57R6APZ-NA1 4Gbps 850nm SFP tranceiver (NOS, sealed)
Intel Pro/1000 MT PCI GbE NIC
4x Intel Pro/100 S PCI 100MbE NIC (1x w low-profile bracket that would fit on the Pro/1000MT too)
Goodwell SW-10/100-PCI-WOL\7A (RTL8139D-based) PCI 100MbE NIC
Eminent EM1028 (RTL8139D-based) PCI 100MbE NIC
3Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI 100MbE NIC
3Com 3C905CX-TXM PCI 100MbE NIC
3Com 3C905B-TX PCI 100MbE NIC
3Com 3C905-TX PCI 100MbE NIC
2x Accton EN1208BTC (RTL8029AS-based) PCI 10MbE NIC (UTP+BNC)
2x 3Com 3C900-COMBO PCI 10MbE NIC (UTP+BNC+AUI)
BICC Data Networks IsoLink PC-AT controller 16b ISA 10MbE NIC (BNC+AUI)
3x 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 8b ISA 10MbE NIC (BNC+AUI)

Oh, and a 17" Fujitsu-Siemens TFT (1280x1024 TN-panel, VGA only 😢 ) and a box with 10Base2 Ethernet coax cables, T-pieces & terminators.

Next question: what the hell am I going to do with all this?? I can put the low-profile stuff to good use, with the OPTi and AD-based sound cards I have most of the common ISA chipsets in my little collection, and a few of the video cards might be interesting to keep. Apart from that I suppose it's just a matter of recapping (those GF2MXs) testing and seeing if anyone is interested in buying or swapping the stuff.

Reply 22545 of 52357, by .legaCy

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Bought this board with the ram, but without the cpu, i'm thinking about a 750MHz(100Mhz fsb) Coppermine.

It has a 440bx

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Reply 22546 of 52357, by xjas

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^^ That board almost certainly uses a Dell proprietary PSU, just making sure you know. A standard ATX one will plug in but will insta-kill the board.

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Reply 22547 of 52357, by .legaCy

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xjas wrote:

^^ That board almost certainly uses a Dell proprietary PSU, just making sure you know. A standard ATX one will plug in but will insta-kill the board.

im pretty sure that i can mod one atx psu to use this board, and to be honest it was really really cheap, i will use one 20 to 24pin atx adaptor and cut and resolder the wires to the right way.
edit: or maybe not, i don't know, dell seems to have tons of power supply cables.

Reply 22549 of 52357, by henryVK

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OldCat wrote:

Looking at your hauls, I get envious and and every now and then ask myself where do people find money / time / storage space for all that.

And how do you get all this past your wives? 😉

Reply 22550 of 52357, by OldCat

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henryVK wrote:

And how do you get all this past your wives? 😉

Oh yes, the wife factor. That too is limiting my purchases. Even more, every now she forces a bit of, ahem, reevaluation of already acquired collection.

Reply 22551 of 52357, by Deksor

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Dionb's haul must fit in 1m³ max, as for the money, there are still some good deals out there, just find them ^^

90% of my stuff comes from garage sales, the most I paid for a computer was 60€ and almost everything fit into my 9m² bedroom (though there's not much room left now ...)

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Reply 22552 of 52357, by bjwil1991

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Won a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI card with the drivers & utilities CD last night (for over $68).

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Reply 22553 of 52357, by OldCat

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Deksor wrote:

Dionb's haul must fit in 1m³ max, as for the money, there are still some good deals out there, just find them ^^

90% of my stuff comes from garage sales, the most I paid for a computer was 60€ and almost everything fit into my 9m² bedroom (though there's not much room left now ...)

Unfortunately, garage sales are not very popular in Poland. I do scan various sites for good deals, both in PL and abroad, but they are rare.

Reply 22554 of 52357, by kixs

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Just for fun I once searched the Allegro site and found quite a few interesting items with acceptable price... but no one would ship outside of Poland 🙁

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 22555 of 52357, by Tetrium

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I've decided to start posting after lurking on here for a few months 😀

Just collected this and had to drag it home in the snow - It's an early Dell XPS system which I like the case design of - it might be nice get a CRT to stick on top of it since my other cases are mini towers.

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The computer itself is not so interesting, I think the condition is pretty good for its age and it's a regular mid 97 440LX chipset Pentium II 233 system.
The interesting (for me) part is the integrated OPL4 audio, hopefully it still works.

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The fastest Socket 370 CPU I now own. It was shipped wrapped in an A4 paper, then taped up in a plastic bag. No wonder it came […]
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The fastest Socket 370 CPU I now own. It was shipped wrapped in an A4 paper, then taped up in a plastic bag. No wonder it came to me with two dozen bent pins, and I had to spend a good amount of time getting things straightened to the point it can fit in a CPU Socket. It's certainly not ZIF anymore, but fits. 😎

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I was under the impression that all Tualatin PIII's were 512K Cache -S models, but apparently I was wrong, this one is a 256K cache regular PIII.

The 256k ones are the "Celeron" version of the Tualatin.

Nope the Celerons are marked accordingly and run on 100MHz FSB this is marked a Pentium III and runs on a 133MHz FSB.

Some years ago I was actually wondering if there were any Pentium 3 Tualatin 1400s that were not the S variant. There are definitely 1200MHz P3 Tualatins available. These seemed even more common then the S variants of Tualatin. Tualeron was most common.

But all in all, Tualatin was always much harder to find in the wild then Coppermine was.

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Reply 22556 of 52357, by dionb

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Deksor wrote:

Dionb's haul must fit in 1m³ max,

Less, everything on the photographs came in one 6-bottle wine box. I could - just - fit it on the child seat on the back of my bicycle. That said, reason I stopped retro-computing ~10 years ago was moving from a house with cellar and shed to a small city apartment, and reason I can start again is that we got children and moved into a large suburban apartment recently- we have a spare room I've sort of colonized 😉

as for the money, there are still some good deals out there, just find them ^^

They're pretty common, they just get snapped up FAST. I was lucky this week to spot one at a good price (EUR 25 in this case) almost as soon as it was posted. Ten minutes later (confirmed by seller, great guy) I would have been too late.

90% of my stuff comes from garage sales, the most I paid for a computer was 60€ and almost everything fit into my 9m² bedroom (though there's not much room left now ...)

Similar here. Most I paid was EUR 38 for a single retro item - and that was the only one recently bought that was completely dead. The cheap/free stuff invariably works, at least after replacing bad caps.

Reply 22557 of 52357, by Deksor

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"They get snapped fast"
Well that depends ^^ in my area, garage sales are ~20/30km from my home and I'm sometimes a bit lazy so I often end up there at 9 or 10 am. Last summer, when I found a neat haul (10x voodoo 3 + NVIDIA nv1) the time was 10 am iirc so that wasn't too bad ^^

But that only seem to count for PC stuff. People here don't seem to be interested in them (good for me ^^) but for game consoles, I can't agree more with you. I've never seen a SNES being sold for cheap in years now (or even games).

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Hmm, hope you are not right. But they seem to fit. The 2 small connectors are open at the ends so you can put a card in (through […]
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I am somewhat skeptical that memory expansion card goes with that motherboard. Although they are both Micronics, the motherboard has an extra small connector at the end which will likely prevent the RAM card from being able to seat properly. I suspect the correct expansion card for your board should use SIMM slots according to the components on the board.

Hmm, hope you are not right. But they seem to fit. The 2 small connectors are open at the ends so you can put a card in (through) it. Its not a socket.

And according to
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/micronics/900010.htm

"The 80386 I-Cache board is a full-sized (13.8" x 12.025") motherboard which took all of its memory as DRAM plugged into a proprietary 32-bit memory card. There are two versions of the I-Cache board, identified by part numbers 09-00010, and 09-00021, which are silk-screened on the component (top) side of the motherboard. The most common memory card used with the I-Cache board is the M500. This is part number 09-00011. The upper left corner has "385 Memory Board" silk-screened on many M500 cards.

Memory card already arrived and seem to work. First was confused as the board didnt POST and the codes seems to be Micronics-specific. But then tried another VGA, now it works 😎 😎 😎

As said, I paid 75€ only for the memory board. It was not sold as Micronics Expansion board but as "72x 511000 RAMs". I paid almost nothing for the mainboard as it was from a scrap lot. I think in total I made a good deal and have another very cool 386 board 😎

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Reply 22559 of 52357, by dionb

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Deksor wrote:

"They get snapped fast"
Well that depends ^^ in my area, garage sales are ~20/30km from my home and I'm sometimes a bit lazy so I often end up there at 9 or 10 am. Last summer, when I found a neat haul (10x voodoo 3 + NVIDIA nv1) the time was 10 am iirc so that wasn't too bad ^^

But that only seem to count for PC stuff. People here don't seem to be interested in them (good for me ^^) but for game consoles, I can't agree more with you. I've never seen a SNES being sold for cheap in years now (or even games).

I'm jealous. Garage sales basically aren't a thing here. This lot was advertised at 65km away, although turned out the seller needed to be just round the corner from where I live the next day. My next pickup is 120kms away (though fortunately just round the corner from a friends' son's birthday party I was heading to anyway). It's been a long time since I saw anything interesting and affordable advertised within 30kms... (and that was a BE6-II system I missed)