A Couple of interesting requisitions. Also my first retro purchases of 2017.

Bought another 680i SLI mainboard to replace the one that failed.

Also acquired this: A Gateway OEM CT5823 TNT2 Ultra with passive cooling. It looks like a passivly cooled version of the 3DBlaster Ultra.

Picked and Audigy from goldscraper but something wrong here:

Ah i see,its shorter,have no firewire and do have midi output.Here's size comparison with usual Audigy.

Model number SB0160

Working,sounds more or less fine,test system detected it as emu10k,internets says its an Audigy OEM version that has no hardware EAX.

Reveal Sound FX Wave 32 (NIB) arrived today. This is a rebranded Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000. However, I read that this card may have an extra IC for tone control.

Have the same one. But..stupid question: This is an EGA Monitor, it will not work with 640x480 VGA?

creepingnet wrote:

Had another "Find of the Century" moment...... […]
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Had another "Find of the Century" moment......

Went to this little hole in the wall computer surplus shop near where I work downtown. I decided to go there and see if they had any parts I needed, they did have quite a few things for some future stuff, but nothing I have an immediate want/need for. Then I found this......

1988 NEC MultiSync II JC-1402HMA 14" CRT

After finding a 486 in it's original configuration which the owner was sentimental about and had it sitting amongst for-sale stuff for god only knows what reason, I asked him "how much" for the monitor - he gave me the best price in the world - FREE!

It does work but it's going to need some repairs to the input board because the DB-9 connector is flaky. I can't get it to get rid of the colored hues depending on cable position, tried 2 cables, so the problem is definatley the DB-9, but reflowing/resoldering it 2-3 times now and little improvement other than a stable image has me thinking I will probalby need to desolder it, clean the traces, and put a new one on (time to go to Vetco). I'm going to replace that connector with something cleaner and newer.. Flexing either cable around thusly moving the connector causes the image to become clear and sometimes full color for a second or two, also, the cables feel loose into the back. Could also be a grounding issue too because I see some brown corrosion around where the screws attach the input board to it's sub-chassis.

Got the service manual from here, if's for UK Spec, but it works for mine to help with testing and disassembly, also works as the owners manual as well. - http://www.epanorama.net/sff/Computer/Monitor … ies_Monitor.pdf

I'm still shocked, it even has the original cable, and the 9-pin to 15-pin converter so it pretty much works with every PC in my house up to 640X480 res (actually 800X560 according to the service manual). Plus now my Tandy has a monitor.

Here's some pics

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

A Couple of interesting requisitions. Also my first retro purchases of 2017. […]
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A Couple of interesting requisitions. Also my first retro purchases of 2017.

Bought another 680i SLI mainboard to replace the one that failed.

Also acquired this: A Gateway OEM CT5823 TNT2 Ultra with passive cooling. It looks like a passivly cooled version of the 3DBlaster Ultra.

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Still posting images that won't fit on a 1080p screen with the forums? 🤣

(I'm just poking fun with you.. don't take offence please)

Good point. Just upload to Imgur, it will give you resized links to paste.

kithylin wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

A Couple of interesting requisitions. Also my first retro purchases of 2017. […]
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A Couple of interesting requisitions. Also my first retro purchases of 2017.

Bought another 680i SLI mainboard to replace the one that failed.

Also acquired this: A Gateway OEM CT5823 TNT2 Ultra with passive cooling. It looks like a passivly cooled version of the 3DBlaster Ultra.

<snip>

Still posting images that won't fit on a 1080p screen with the forums? 🤣

(I'm just poking fun with you.. don't take offence please)

With ebay images it's easy. Just replace the number 1600 with smaller one (1200) and embedded picture will be smaller.

1http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mQgAAOSwopRYcqlr/s-l1600.jpg
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3http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mQgAAOSwopRYcqlr/s-l1200.jpg

Found a Asus Radeon 9250 128MB low profile. Spec on the asus site says it support agp 8x an it has the two key agp connector but can anyone confirm me that this is actually a Universal AGP 3.0 card I can install on a AGP 1x/2x 3,3v only Socket 7 mainboard?

creepingnet wrote:

Had another "Find of the Century" moment......

1988 NEC MultiSync II JC-1402HMA 14" CRT

Great find! And nice collection of guitars too.
Hope you succeed in repairing it and please post pics of it in action if you do!

Got this once-broken Xbox along with a fat PS2.

Gee,this thing was dirty as the 4th layer of hell. Not to mention,the EEPROM that holds the HDD key (a 24C02) was dead. I transplanted everything into another case I had,soldered a replacement EEPROM from another dead Xbox (both this and the donor board were the 1.4 version) and put everything back together for the time being. It does boot now,I even get the flubber,but then it will just give E16 or E05 (which means unlocked HDD). Apart from that,it still has that tobacco smell,but I learnt to live with it. (apart from the fact that I will have to clean the fan though)

Here's a picture showing it in its new casing. By the way,it came with one of the better optical drives - the Samsung SDG-605B.

Finally bit the bullet and got a PowerLeap slot 1 to socket 370 Tualatin compatible adapter .

Just got delivered a NOS MSI Geforce4 Ti4200 to go into my Dell Dimension 4100. It's already OCing smoothly at Ti4400 clock speeds.

blurks wrote:

Newbie here. Managed to get hold of this beauty: […]
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Newbie here. Managed to get hold of this beauty:

😀

Nice bud 😁 Welcome 😀

Got some more stuff yesterday. Went on a big RE-PC haul in search of an AT Desktop case and/or an XT Power supply or something that at least could fit a 486 system into it.

IN WIN IW-D500G.240FU2A Micro ATX Desktop Case with 240 Watt PSU, we hoped it's fit a 486, looks like no.
Generic 200 Watt Full Size AT PSU - finally, a spare for my currently 486 soon to be 286
USB 2.0 PCI Card - for Gateway 2000
PCI Soundcard - for my Wife's computer which has a head Rocketfish 7.1 in it
ISA Soundcard/Modem Combo, unknown chipset....yet
PCI SoundBlaster Live LS w/ LiveDrive Module
Cooler Master CPU Cooler, Socket 3 or Socket 7, not sure which
2X ISA Crystal Audio 16-bit Sound Cards
1X Aztec Sound Card
2X SMC ISA Ethernet Cards
Handheld Racing Game Controller
A Linksys EtherFast NIC (ISA) in original box SEALED
Some IDE Cables including one still sealed in it's original box
Generic PS/2 Rubber Dome Keyboard that looks old enough to fit in with my clicky's

What a nice little matx inwin case!

Skalabala wrote:

Nice bud 😁 Welcome 😀

Thanks. I would much rather have the 3D Blaster FX5900 Ultra but... oh well beggers can't be choosers I guess...
I assume Creative's 3D Blaster Geforce FX series was a Europe exclusive as I have never seen North American box artwork for them.

creepingnet wrote:

Got some more stuff yesterday. Went on a big RE-PC haul in search of an AT Desktop case and/or an XT Power supply or something […]
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Got some more stuff yesterday. Went on a big RE-PC haul in search of an AT Desktop case and/or an XT Power supply or something that at least could fit a 486 system into it.

IN WIN IW-D500G.240FU2A Micro ATX Desktop Case with 240 Watt PSU, we hoped it's fit a 486, looks like no.
Generic 200 Watt Full Size AT PSU - finally, a spare for my currently 486 soon to be 286
USB 2.0 PCI Card - for Gateway 2000
PCI Soundcard - for my Wife's computer which has a head Rocketfish 7.1 in it
ISA Soundcard/Modem Combo, unknown chipset....yet
PCI SoundBlaster Live LS w/ LiveDrive Module
Cooler Master CPU Cooler, Socket 3 or Socket 7, not sure which
2X ISA Crystal Audio 16-bit Sound Cards
1X Aztec Sound Card
2X SMC ISA Ethernet Cards
Handheld Racing Game Controller
A Linksys EtherFast NIC (ISA) in original box SEALED
Some IDE Cables including one still sealed in it's original box
Generic PS/2 Rubber Dome Keyboard that looks old enough to fit in with my clicky's

Nice Live-Drive.... That's normal sized Midi-DIN?
If it is, then I know what I need to look for in the future.

This Packard Bell NEC LPX system:

Based on the ports on the rear, it's either an Intel OEM Pentium Pro or a Pentium II system with integrated S3 Virge VGA (and non-shared memory), integrated Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound with a wavetable header, two IDE connectors, and USB. No hard disk.

Got another one of these little guys. Since you can never have too many.. 😀

Bought 2 separate quadro fx1000 cards. These are fx 5800 agp cards with lower clocks (and much easier to find and pretty cheap!). ''vanilla'' fx5800 is clocked at 400/400 these are clocked at 300/300mhz. Will be fun to see how much they can go higher. One of them looks a lot like a fx3000, the cooler is a lot different from the normal fx1000 so we'll see. fx3000 will be okay too because that one is based on an fx 5900 and also clocked like one.

I have the normal fx5800 and fx5900 and fx5950ultra so i'll test them all and see how they compare.

The quadro's have to arrive first...

Also bought 2 sticks of Geil 1 gb pc3200 DDR for another project.