foey wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Got 18 of these NOS NIB for 40 bucks. PowerColor GameFX Radeon 7000 32MB PCI.

You know the saying... You can never have enough Radeon 7000 PCI cards... 🤣

Yup, I remember grampa telling me that all the time when I was a kid. 🤣.

MMaximus wrote:

I've just removed the battery from the 286-25 board and cleaned the area with vinegar and water, the corrosion is a bit scary bu […]
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Tetrium wrote:

Looks like you got the entire TH99 inventory here :D […]
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Looks like you got the entire TH99 inventory here 😁

Just save everything.

And do remove those barrel batteries.

And heck, never seen RAM slots fitted in between ISA slots before...or anything like it.

And that Peanut ISA VGA card...does it actually have 2 VGA connectors?

edit: The last pic (the little black 8-bit ISA card) looks familiar, I might actually have that exact card. Iirc it wasn't VGA but had a port resembling serial and was some kind of token ring adapter? Still looks pretty neat though.

I've just removed the battery from the 286-25 board and cleaned the area with vinegar and water, the corrosion is a bit scary but maybe it still works - I need to test it but I don't have a spare PSU so I have to remove one from a machine which is always a pain.

I tested the Peanut VGA and it works, the second connector is DB9 so most likely EGA. I've tried to locate the manual online for info about the dip switches with no success 😐

I asked the seller to include that weird dark grey card in the lot because I thought it was an EGA card, but it turned out to be a token ring adapter which I have absolutely no use for. But I agree, it looks nice 😀 I think it's an IBM part.

Iirc it was indeed an IBM card and I at first thought it was some kind of strange video display adapter.

I'd suggest you first remove all of the barrel batteries and clean all of the boards afterwards and only then do any of the other stuff like indexing and testing etc.

I haven't taken a very good look at each individual board, but there's certainly interesting ones in your stash now! 😁

The 5.25in floppy drives are very nice, especially the black one...must've been foresight 😜

I do see many boards are kinda clean...in that there are no cache chips etc.

There's a smallish 286 board in there with SIMM slots and a Harris-25, not bad at all!
I can't make out the CPU in your first board.

Most seem like they will fit a standard AT case and are worth keeping imo.

You've gotten an awfully good lot over there, well done! 😁

TheMobRules wrote:

That's an awesome haul MMaximus! 😲

Tetrium wrote:

And heck, never seen RAM slots fitted in between ISA slots before...or anything like it.

That looks like after finalizing the design of the board the engineers looked at it and realized: "Sh*t, we forgot the RAM slots! Let's just put them wherever they fit" 😁

lmao!

Owkay buys, lets start her up, time is money!

Sir...sir.. (pokes into boss's side with elbow in gentle way) I think we may have forgotten something???
What the hell do you mean, boy? Don't you think....ehm...(elbows employee back)...fix it...you got 5 minutes to come up with a solution or you're fired.

and the rest is history 😀

clueless1 wrote:

foey wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Got 18 of these NOS NIB for 40 bucks. PowerColor GameFX Radeon 7000 32MB PCI.

You know the saying... You can never have enough Radeon 7000 PCI cards... 🤣

Yup, I remember grampa telling me that all the time when I was a kid. 🤣.

🤣! I'm pretty sure there's more Vogoners who enjoy buying in bulk 😊

Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.

As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.

luckybob wrote:

Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.

As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.

Don't they have pretty good DOS compatibility? Also, most games which are in that niche of too old for Windows XP but works great on 9x should run just fine on a card like that. Obviously won't set any speed records but a good cost effective solution.

Rhuwyn wrote:

luckybob wrote:

Actually, if memory serves, most floppy drives started black.

As for the ati 7000's, I honestly dont know a use for ONE card, let alone 18.

Don't they have pretty good DOS compatibility? Also, most games which are in that niche of too old for Windows XP but works great on 9x should run just fine on a card like that. Obviously won't set any speed records but a good cost effective solution.

I would be interested in one
So it's not that bad he bought them 😉

Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀

Looks like the Forcom M396F board, but with 8 30pin SIMM slots instead of four. Being that it's an SX, this board probably can accept 2MB SIMMs.

Mr_ppp wrote:

Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀

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You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! 😁

Could you make another pic of it next to some piece of hardware most of us knows, like a Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 2 or a 3.5in floppy drive or something? 😜

Smallest motherboard I have is probably a Slot 1 BX board, was wanting to take a pic of it next to this Slot 1 Intel Nightshade board I believe it was called?

The size difference between those boards is quite impressive.

ISA slots are already on the picture and most of us should know them 😉

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

ISA slots are already on the picture and most of us should know them 😉

True.

But the more pics the better 😁

Scored an ESS Solo-1 for $1 (plus $3 shipping) was mislabeled "Yamaha sound card" on ebay even though clearly it wasn't that; and a TB Aureal Vortex2 for $3 plus $4 shipping.

Sometimes sellers put the wrong pictures.... happened before...

kixs wrote:

Sometimes sellers put the wrong pictures.... happened before...

Nope, it was the right picture (already got the card in the mail). In fact I would have preferred that it were a Yamaha PCI card, but I'm happy enough with the Solo too, especially at this price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152183558386?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Tetrium wrote:

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Mr_ppp wrote:

Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived 😀

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You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! 😁

Could you make another pic of it next to some piece of hardware most of us knows, like a Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 2 or a 3.5in floppy drive or something? 😜

Smallest motherboard I have is probably a Slot 1 BX board, was wanting to take a pic of it next to this Slot 1 Intel Nightshade board I believe it was called?

The size difference between those boards is quite impressive.

Board under testing at the moment but so far so good.

Got this pic to compare it with a 3.5" disk and 5.25" disk - not the best i'm afraid 😀

stamasd wrote:

Scored an ESS Solo-1 for (pl shipping) was mislabeled "Yamaha sound card" on ebay even though clearly it wasn't that; and a TB Aureal Vortex2 for pl shipping.

Awesome when you get a bargain! 😀

Also just got this motherboard from another old hardware forum:

A late 486 ISA/VLB/PCI, dunno the manufacturer.

stamasd wrote:

Also just got this motherboard from another vintage hardware forum: […]
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Also just got this motherboard from another vintage hardware forum:

That looks like a PC Chips board with real cache, VLB, and PCI. Nice score!

ODwilly wrote:

That looks like a PC Chips board with real cache, VLB, and PCI. Nice score!

One thing I don't see however is a FDD connector, which is surprising for a motherboard from that era. That's OK I have plenty of multi-IO controllers, just surprising.

That's really cool. It would be fun to benchmark the same video card chipset in VLB and PCI on that board.

Looks to be the PCChips M915i also known as the Amptron DX 9200. I've got the same board, but the ISA slots are white and "Fugu Tech" stickers on the chipset (yeah, right), and fake cache. The lack of an onboard FDD is rather annoying too.

http://th2chips.freeservers.com/m915/