People selling cpus for gold scrap may not know about the retro trends

Demand is usually not so high to bother with, at least nowhere near the levels of actual CPU stockpiles.

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The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today. [...] […]
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The large lot of ISA sound cards I ordered came in today.
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3x, Sound Blaster 2.0 cards, one of which is CMS upgrade-able. The one labeled Sound Machine should also be upgrade-able if the sockets are added.
2x PAS16 cards
Opti card with Opti wavetable card and an unknown non-PnP sound/modem

That "unknown" thing could be rather interesting. It's a Prometheus Combo 121, whatever that is. No info I can find anywhere - but Prometheus Products pops up all over the place regarding the "ultra rare" Aria 16. If some of those chips under the stickers are by Sierra, you might have quite a find. Of course Prometheus was also very close with IBM in the mid 1990s, so it might just be an MWave...

Well, took the sticker off of the sound chip. It turns out is is an ESS 688F, so nothing really special.

Cannot find the retro games thread on here, but oh, well. Bought SimCity 2000 (diskettes) for my 486 machine at a thrift store earlier today.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Cannot find the retro games thread on here, but oh, well. Bought SimCity 2000 (diskettes) for my 486 machine at a thrift store earlier today.

This one?

Bought these games today

The Serpent Rider wrote:

People selling cpus for gold scrap may not know about the retro trends

Demand is usually not so high to bother with, at least nowhere near the levels of actual CPU stockpiles.

Yea there is no scarcity when it comes to non gold top socket 5/7 Pentium or Pentium MMX CPUs. Only the top models or in some cases really early manufacturing dates sell for more than $5 US.

A vanilla Pentium 200 or a Pentium MMX 233 can sell for $10 US or more so if a gold scrap lot includes a few of those thats a nice bonus. I'm too lazy to sell stuff for little money though so I hoard all my CPUs hoping they will be worth a little bit more in the future... or that I somehow become less lazy.

Lets see what CPUs this lot included.

Normally Pentium 133 is the most common Socket-7 CPU in these lots. In this lot the Pentium 120 SY062 took the price, there were 24 of them.

Here is a picture showing all P54C CPUs. 1x P75, 2x P90, 2x P100, 1+24x P120, 2x P133, 2x P150, 2x P166 and finally a single Pentium 200.

The P55C and AMD K6 CPUs. 1x K6-200, 1x K6-300, 1X K62-300, 4x K62-400, 1x P166MMX, 3x P200MMX, 2X P233MMX. (+ Cel333, Cel1000, P3-1000)

What in this lot did I find somewhat interesting?

The SY016 P166 made in week 27 1996 would be kind of nice for a summer 1996 build. The SY045 P200 made in week 34 1996 seems kind of early eventhough it has the last P200 S-Spec number. Most interesting is the Vanilla K6/300AFR, it's not that rare but not very common either.

Interesting CPUs.

There were 53 CPUs in total, out of them 53 CPUs seems easy to save with an avarage of somewhere between 5 and 10 bent pins each. Not bad at all.

Now I will look into what memory sticks the lot included.

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Skyscraper wrote:

The SY016 P166 made in week 27 2006 would be kind of nice for a summer 2006 build. The SY045 P200 made in week 34 2006 seems kind of early eventhough it has the last P200 S-Spec number. ...

That seems pretty late for socket 7 CPUs to be made... (That was the year of the original Core 2 Duo, after all.)

EDIT: 1996, that's more like it 🤣

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Skyscraper wrote:

The SY016 P166 made in week 27 2006 would be kind of nice for a summer 2006 build. The SY045 P200 made in week 34 2006 seems kind of early eventhough it has the last P200 S-Spec number. ...

That seems pretty late for socket 7 CPUs to be made... (That was the year of the original Core 2 Duo, after all.)

Its late Saturday night here.

The time bends easily.

I just found this: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/a … 978126-225-2715

And now it is mine!

B.Gumble wrote:

I just found this: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/a … 978126-225-2715

And now it is mine!

Nice! As far as i remember i have seen also standalone tube sound cards in the past but don't know which brand they are from.

Very nice, looks little different than mine which came to me few days ago.

and I have some new sound stuff

I can not begin to describe my envy for that EWS64..

I can not begin to describe my envy for that EWS64..

Normally Pentium 133 is the most common Socket-7 CPU in these lots. In this lot the Pentium 120 SY062 took the price, there were 24 of them.

Quite interesting how many shades those ceramic CPUs actually had.

With my decent Tandy garage sale haul yesterday I also picked up a mint condition late 1980s Zenith VRE200 VCR. I would never buy a VCR, but it was in perfect shape, has that "Hello, I'm from the 80s" look to it and was (drum roll please) $1. The VCR is mint, but the remote needed cleaning and I can't seem to open it up to clean the inside. It has one screw in the middle of the remote, but it still wont budge which probably means its snapped in. I don't want to break it, but the button contacts are not registering 100% of the time so they probably need a good cleaning.

Some of the Tandy gear (I promise I didn't throw dirt on it, it came this way 🤣)

The mouse looks mummified

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Very nice, looks little different than mine which came to me few days ago.

I seriously hope you recap that. It would be a crime to let it rot like that.

Yep now I'am searching audio "lamp" ... that isn't so big problem, next step change all caps.

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I can not begin to describe my envy for that EWS64..

It even has the front panel unit. Rich lucky bastard...

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I can not begin to describe my envy for that EWS64..

It even has the front panel unit. Rich lucky bastard...

Heh, I picked up one of those a few months ago for less than $90. 😈

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.

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.

god I usually hate dell machines. But the desktop ones like what you have, are actually quite nice. Welcome to the site.