lazibayer wrote:

Bought 4 RAMBUS sticks and they arrived exactly as pictured below:

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Just four bare sticks and two deflated airbags in a box. I will test them tonight.

The test results are in...
The good: they work
The bad: two of them are PC800/40, and two of them are PC800/45
The ugly: they were advertised as PC1066 modules on the ebay listing

cj_reha wrote:

Got one of these Nakamichi 5 CD changer drives. I think it was around $30 shipped.

Demo of it loading and storing 5 CDs and ejecting them with cover off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iodxMJQVmnc

Very impressive, but does it work with DOS?

lazibayer wrote:

The test results are in... The good: they work The bad: two of them are PC800/40, and two of them are PC800/45 The ugly: they we […]
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lazibayer wrote:

Bought 4 RAMBUS sticks and they arrived exactly as pictured below:

WechatIMG61.jpeg

Just four bare sticks and two deflated airbags in a box. I will test them tonight.

The test results are in...
The good: they work
The bad: two of them are PC800/40, and two of them are PC800/45
The ugly: they were advertised as PC1066 modules on the ebay listing

I hope you didn't buy them for a fistful of dollars..

appiah4 wrote:

lazibayer wrote:

The test results are in... The good: they work The bad: two of them are PC800/40, and two of them are PC800/45 The ugly: they we […]
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The test results are in...
The good: they work
The bad: two of them are PC800/40, and two of them are PC800/45
The ugly: they were advertised as PC1066 modules on the ebay listing

I hope you didn't buy them for a fistful of dollars..

A fistful of quarters, maybe... 🤣
Still, I am negotiating a return or refund from the seller.

Batyra wrote:

dexvx wrote:

Got this Gigabyte GA-5AX with unknown CPU in dusty condition.

Nice! I havent seen this revision yet.

Yea, it seems to be quite an early revision (if not earliest). Here's a thread from madshrimps talking about it. Looks like you should be able to flash to BIOS meant for rev 5.2, but it obviously is missing the > 100 FSB feature.

http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f10/gigaby … -victory-44180/

Real bargain today, got 10 computers for 30€ xD

I just opened one of them (the little beige tower), it seems to be a pentium1 or something of this era

There is EDO ram, a trident graphics card and an aztech sound card which seems pretty good with a real OPL chip on it

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Got one of these Nakamichi 5 CD changer drives. I think it was around $30 shipped.

Demo of it loading and storing 5 CDs and ejecting them with cover off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iodxMJQVmnc

Very impressive, but does it work with DOS?

Have not tested yet but according to a friend it will show up as 5 CD drives in DOS and Windows.

Picked up a Microsoft bus mouse at a thrift store.

I initially thought it was a PS/2 mouse and I have no adapter for it.
Is this what it uses?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-InPort-Bus- … f4AAOSwqYhZwvGz

Those bus mice are quite uncommon. The controllers are usually worthless without a mouse.

Always good deals out there.

$45

$18

Formulator wrote:

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Always good deals out there.

$45

Second from the right - is that a SMAC? We had a pile of those at work, way back in 2000... (Most were P2/266 with Cirrus graphics, some were P2/450 with Matrox G200s)

jade_angel wrote:

Second from the right - is that a SMAC? We had a pile of those at work, way back in 2000... (Most were P2/266 with Cirrus graphics, some were P2/450 with Matrox G200s)

Not sure just yet, as you may see these units are pretty dirty so it may be wise to inspect before applying power.

However just peeking in through the open bays, I would guess a socket 7 of some type.

@Formulator

$18 for a nice looking Kaypro? (the middle one) You f-ing stole that thing.

@jade_angel

It is a standard atx case. not a good one, but standard of the era. I own one, had some no-name boring p2 era parts in it.

luckybob wrote:

$18 for a nice looking Kaypro? (the middle one) You f-ing stole that thing.

I was really only hoping for the original diskettes...it came with the full manual set, but the owner tossed any and all media.

okenido wrote:

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There is EDO ram, a trident graphics card and an aztech sound card which seems pretty good with a real OPL chip on it

And the CPU socket has 2x2 of those extensions, but the HSF is mounted using one of those wire clamps shaped a bit like a "Z". Those I find to be very useful as these allow mounting Socket 7 heatsinks onto Socket 3 motherboards that have only 2x1 of those extensions 😀

Both for about $23. Both damaged, but been repaired....

cj_reha wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Got one of these Nakamichi 5 CD changer drives. I think it was around $30 shipped.

Demo of it loading and storing 5 CDs and ejecting them with cover off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iodxMJQVmnc

Very impressive, but does it work with DOS?

Have not tested yet but according to a friend it will show up as 5 CD drives in DOS and Windows.

The highlighted is the awesome part of it.

What if I want to switch to disk2 when I have 5 disks in the drive? dose it eject disk 3, 5 and 5? or can to switch to disk 2 from 5? and so on?

That sounds horrible. I have a 6 cd changer that supposedly requires a special program to change disks, but only comes up as one drive. One of these days I'll check it out with the 7th guest

No, it will show up as one drive and give you access to whatever disc you select by pressing the corresponding button.