Brickpad wrote:

Won this auction for $20.50 + free shipping. NEC Powermate 5100 with a 300MHz Celery. I'm hoping a Slot 1 board so I can upgrade it to a PIII 450.

Very nice, love that one! Celeron 300 only came in slot1 so that shouldn't be a problem. I think most comuters with a celeron in that time came with the low cost LX chipset (so no 100mhz fsb but only 66mhz fsb). A quick search about the nec reveals an Intel 440 EX chipset and that is about the same as a LX: no 100mhz fsb.

The page i found about the specs of the NEC says it IS a 100mhz fsb board but as far as i know the LX/EX can only do 66mhz. Hopefully it is a board with agp slot as that could also be an integrated chip and you get stuck with that or forced to use pci.

So get prepared to get max. a PII 333mhz in there or a faster Celeron with a slotket adapter. It is still a very good looking pc imho.

Let us know how it went!

brostenen wrote:

Got this little baby today. I got it for free, so technically it is not "bought today". […]
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Got this little baby today. I got it for free, so technically it is not "bought today".

Anyway....
It has some damage on the lid, around the hinges. Typically for plastic of that age.
The lid is basically cracked around at the hinges.

I got it with the original charger, and it boots into Win95.
Some googling, turned up with 133mhz. It is a Pentium one, that's for shure.
It has 1gb harddrive, and 24mb ram. The PCMCIA network card has no cord. 🙁

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Thinkpad 365X machines are nice, I have a few working ones and a dead one next to my desk collecting dust for years (TFT model,have to get around to fixing it is possible).

Thinkpads are so easy to work on that I pretty much collect just that brand x86 laptop.

keropi wrote:

incoming 286/16 in a pizza-box case - sized as an actual pizza-box more or less 🤣 🤣 🤣
*snip*

Lovely!

I have been busy in other parts of life, my second kid was born three weeks ago so not much time for play 😀 I did get a Superdisk Drive for 10 euro. I must find some time to test it. It's 'For Macintosh', I have no idea what that means exactly. It's USB, so should be plug and play I guess.

badmojo wrote:

brostenen wrote:

People are asking insane prices these day's.

This shit again? Bitching about prices is pointless and off topic.

Yes. That shit again.
I was only agreeing on what deksor, thatabandonwareguy and others are saying. If it is a problem that I told my thoughts and feelings and a mistanke to be honest and transparent on these matters. Well then I will gladly take that on my back.

Personally, I am only buying if the price is low. And the way the market has become pricewise, I am more or less only trading these day's.

Got this cool case. What do you think?

Ordered a Celeron 766 from ebay, paid only 1.99 € for it

I got quite a haul in the post yesterday. Two Socket 7 motherboards, two Slot 1 montherboards (with a P2-450 CPU included), and a 3dfx Voodoo1, and a sound card.

Paid about €65 for the two S7 boards together, which was a bit more than I had hoped for, but I got the two Slot 1 boards for only shipping cost, so It was pretty good anyway. Paid €20 for the 3dfx and sound card together incl shipping which was great. I'm absolutely shuffed at finally owning a Diamond Monster Voodoo1 again - It's exactly the card I had back then (paired with a Matrox Mystique, I think).

Anyone know anything about these motherboards, are they any good? The Asus looks a bit special, with those proprietary connectors.

I have never heard anything about this sound card, but it looks like some kind of SB16 clone.

It so ugly, I love it! 😉 I remember these kind of cases becoming popular in 2002 here. Usually really cheap quality. Check the PSU before turning it on!

PcBytes wrote:

Got this cool case. What do you think?

PcBytes wrote:

Got this cool case. What do you think?

That case has ADHD. 😀

PcBytes wrote:

Got this cool case. What do you think?

Reminds me somehow of a BeBox.
Actually not bad as such.
How thick are the plates?

Edit...
Approved by my daughter who is 8 years old.
She just loves the white and metallic blue together.
Not bad colours at all is her words

Couple a months ago I missed a great retro opportunity in Amibay: Toshiba Libretto mini laptop with Roland SCP-55. I was late only a day or two. Somebody had already made a contact with the seller and they came to an agreement. Good for them (sucked for me).

I just couldn't let the idea go... So now I've bought them both separately from different sources! Few weeks ago I received the SCP-55 from a Japanese auction and today I got Toshiba Libretto 50CT (Pentium 75Mhz, 32Mb RAM, 770Mb HDD) from a fellow Finnish retro hobbyist. Trouble is I still lack a proper dock for 50CT: only I/O devices it has right now are a single PCMCIA slot and IrDA. 🤣

c0keb0ttle wrote:

I have never heard anything about this sound card, but it looks like some kind of SB16 clone.

That card looks just like one on this page that is profiling OPL3 "copies." It looks like your card is using one that is marked differently from the one on the webpage, but the differences are cosmetic, I think.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/opl3-copies/

Ariakos wrote:

Couple a months ago I missed a great retro opportunity in Amibay: Toshiba Libretto mini laptop with Roland SCP-55. I was late only a day or two. Somebody had already made a contact with the seller and they came to an agreement. Good for them (sucked for me.

I did the same things a few months ago as well. Found a Libretto 50C on Ebay for $40 in excellent working condition, and I think it came with a few extras. I thought, "what would I do with that tiny thing?" and passed by. Of course now that I really want one, the prices are absolutely insane, so I'm constantly kicking myself for that one.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

It so ugly, I love it! 😉 I remember these kind of cases becoming popular in 2002 here. Usually really cheap quality. Check the PSU before turning it on!

It came with a pretty well used Premier LC-B400ATX. I put it in my closet and used a much better built version of it made by Modecom,which now powers a Pentium 4 2.8GHz system.

stamasd wrote:

That case has ADHD. 😀

Should I mention that the big bars along the power buttons and the power and hdd lights hide two multicolor (including RGB) leds? 🤣

brostenen wrote:

Reminds me somehow of a BeBox. Actually not bad as such. How thick are the plates? […]
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Reminds me somehow of a BeBox.
Actually not bad as such.
How thick are the plates?

Edit...
Approved by my daughter who is 8 years old.
She just loves the white and metallic blue together.
Not bad colours at all is her words

Meh,the metal isn't that thick but not that thin either. About 1mm or so I guess?

c0keb0ttle wrote:

I got quite a haul in the post yesterday. Two Socket 7 motherboards, two Slot 1 montherboards (with a P2-450 CPU included), and a 3dfx Voodoo1, and a sound card.

Paid about €65 for the two S7 boards together, which was a bit more than I had hoped for, but I got the two Slot 1 boards for only shipping cost, so It was pretty good anyway. Paid €20 for the 3dfx and sound card together incl shipping which was great. I'm absolutely shuffed at finally owning a Diamond Monster Voodoo1 again - It's exactly the card I had back then (paired with a Matrox Mystique, I think).
Anyone know anything about these motherboards, are they any good? The Asus looks a bit special, with those proprietary connectors.

The Asus is a very nice board for low AT project, it has everything you need and a good lay out at that. the picture is to unclear to see the details for the chips.
if the 3DFX works is a nice bargain.
is that a deschuttes 450 Mhz on the Soyo board? 😵 😜 wanna wanna:D

Unisys Cwd5001, seller photos.

for 50$, will be using it to test my game server with some older games that lack TCP/IP support.

Suppose to have a pent and 8 or 16mb of ram and a >500mb hdd and a pci/isa riser card. I'll put in a isa sound card or pci tnt card depending on the on board video. the hdd will do as I can run everything off a network share.

brostenen wrote:

Personally, I am only buying if the price is low. And the way the market has become pricewise, I am more or less only trading these day's.

Nothing wrong with trying to find a good deal. Keep lookin'! 😀

Bought this Dell Latitude D820 (sold for spares) and some old laptop spares for 15 €, the laptop is actually working except for the HDD which came dead

Specs of the Latitude (as now) are:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 ghz (upgradeable to T7xxx FSB 667)
2 GB RAM (originally 512 MB, up to 4 GB)
Intel GMA 950
15.4 inch screen 1280x800
80 GB Samsung HDD (originally a dead Seagate 160 GB)
Windows 7 Pro x64

carlostex wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Personally, I am only buying if the price is low. And the way the market has become pricewise, I am more or less only trading these day's.

Nothing wrong with trying to find a good deal. Keep lookin'! 😀

Doing it every day.... 😁 It's like my night time reading.