badmojo wrote:

Ignore them Batyra and keep posting your great pics of great hardware.

ditto , I find the "maybe someone contacts / visit the site" quite a clever thing too 😎

Bought a cheap 1994 Lexmark-era Model M today. 2 key caps missing, which is just an excuse to go buy a whole new custom set 😉

First wait until it arrives. If it's good, new caps are go, if not it's just a source for spares for my other Model M's.
(this is sort of developing into a fetish...)

I'm using my rubber dome QuietTouch at work and regularly get colleagues taking pics of it 😉

keropi wrote:

badmojo wrote:

Ignore them Batyra and keep posting your great pics of great hardware.

ditto , I find the "maybe someone contacts / visit the site" quite a clever thing too 😎

I always release my content (YouTube works related to retro tech included) under Creative Commons that way people can freely reuse them for educational purposes but not to generate profit.

Part two of my most recent haul. We start off with a PC I purchased from a local surplus auction.

Monitor and Tower. AT case with an unknown processor when I saw it. I noticed it in one of the auction photos and figured I had nothing to lose to go check it out. Had to wait two hours to get through the preview and other auctions. This was item 127 which I bid and won for $1. I really missed how CRT's look. The text in DOS brought back memories. It contains a Socket 7 Pentium which I might sell. I will tear it apart and post on another topic.

Here is my eBay special mobo. I bought it before the vintage parts in my previous post went on sale. I am kicking myself for buying it now, but I do enjoy its WinBIOS so I might make it my main board over the one in my last post. I am going to start a build log fairly soon on this project.

Last up is a diamond for me. I was so happy to find this in a thrift store. It included the manual, but was without the power adapter. The owner said if it did not work I could bring it back. The guy has a load of Vinyl records too that I like to peek through. Turns out it works perfectly. I set it up on my Pentium MMX system and was able to play SimCity 2000 in dos and canyon.mid in windows on it. No luck with Doom though, it gave an error which escapes me at the moment.

On a note from my previous post, I will be keeping the #9 card, but I am unsure to use it or a Cirrus Logic 2MB card that is on its way from eBay. the #9 has no DOS drivers that I have found, so that might be the deal breaker on it as a daily driver.

twilliamc wrote:

Part two of my most recent haul. We start off with a PC I purchased from a local surplus auction. […]
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Part two of my most recent haul. We start off with a PC I purchased from a local surplus auction.

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Monitor and Tower. AT case with an unknown processor when I saw it. I noticed it in one of the auction photos and figured I had nothing to lose to go check it out. Had to wait two hours to get through the preview and other auctions. This was item 127 which I bid and won for $1. I really missed how CRT's look. The text in DOS brought back memories. It contains a Socket 7 Pentium which I might sell. I will tear it apart and post on another topic.

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Here is my eBay special mobo. I bought it before the vintage parts in my previous post went on sale. I am kicking myself for buying it now, but I do enjoy its WinBIOS so I might make it my main board over the one in my last post. I am going to start a build log fairly soon on this project.

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Last up is a diamond for me. I was so happy to find this in a thrift store. It included the manual, but was without the power adapter. The owner said if it did not work I could bring it back. The guy has a load of Vinyl records too that I like to peek through. Turns out it works perfectly. I set it up on my Pentium MMX system and was able to play SimCity 2000 in dos and canyon.mid in windows on it. No luck with Doom though, it gave an error which escapes me at the moment.

On a note from my previous post, I will be keeping the #9 card, but I am unsure to use it or a Cirrus Logic 2MB card that is on its way from eBay. the #9 has no DOS drivers that I have found, so that might be the deal breaker on it as a daily driver.

That monitor is excellent provided it's properly tuned/not abused to hell. It's a rebrand of the CrystalScan EV700 I use with my main 90s retro setup.

DaveJustDave wrote:

Picked up a ton of C64 stuff. The C64 itself is a bit rough, but i think i can bring it back.
(or a video if you want to watch me unbox everything)

A nice haul you've got there! It's always an extra effort to put together a video like that so thumbs up from here! Noticed you got some other interesting content on your site as well (like unboxing that NOS IBM AT 5170..I got mine from the same seller LGR got his but unfortunately mine doesn't post 🙁 Have got a diagnostic card since then but yet need to find spare time to start investigating what's wrong. May be some memory chips just need re-seating or similar (I wish..))

twilliamc wrote:

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On a note from my previous post, I will be keeping the #9 card, but I am unsure to use it or a Cirrus Logic 2MB card that is on its way from eBay. the #9 has no DOS drivers that I have found, so that might be the deal breaker on it as a daily driver.

:?

What sort of drivers do you think you need? Unless you're using weird multi-chip accelerators (Diamond Viper VLB...) you don't need drivers under DOS for any VGA card. The only thing that might be handy is VESA stuff, but with an S3 86x you're covered for almost all VESA out-of-the-box, and if you need more, UniVBE is your friend.

Got another random DIN 5 keyboard. Needs cleaning...

more vlb backup (i use a Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 rev 2.1 for my dx4 rig):
Asus VL/I-486SVG0X4 rev 1.2 - early dx4 board, dx4 as p24c recognized, early award bios without lba support
MSI MS:4138 rev 1.3 - asus alternative with ami bios, with 12ns cache
Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 rev 2.0 - earlier version of my 2.1 board, without write back dx4 support

the cpus:
Intel 486DX 50 SX710
Intel DX4 100 SK096 - write back version

One day I will also have a VLB VGA card..

appiah4 wrote:

One day I will also have a VLB VGA card..

for me 486 = vlb 😀 maybe a very early rig with isa.

keropi wrote:

badmojo wrote:

Ignore them Batyra and keep posting your great pics of great hardware.

ditto , I find the "maybe someone contacts / visit the site" quite a clever thing too 😎

Batyra, I am also very happy to see your great photos! Please continue with it!

But sometimes I am asking myself if your acquirements are really recent ones or if you show items already in your collection since a longer time? 😉 I am also watching the usual sites and never spotted such items you get in regular intervals 😀 But maybe you have much better searching skills then I have.

But it doesnt matter, always nice to see what is out there!

I just received a bunch of 80ns DRAM ICs for my 80286 mainboard. It already has 1 MiB in two banks, but I want to upgrade one bank to 2MiB (resulting in 2.5MiB). I got a very nice deal on eBay for 24 ICs (18 needed). Hopefully they are all in working order!

The Tecra 780CDM works so now I've ordered a replacement CMOS battery, CF to IDE adapter, 4GB CF card, and some RAM.

So I just picked up some atari stuff.. haven't unpacked it all yet..

DaveJustDave wrote:

So I just picked up some atari stuff.. haven't unpacked it all yet..

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Ah... a Falcon 030. Those will definitely make your wallet lighter. Can we see more pics?

DaveJustDave wrote:

So I just picked up some atari stuff.. haven't unpacked it all yet..

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Nice one 😲

Got a brand new Roland MPU-401AT today. Almost seemed like a shame to open the sealed bag, but I bought it to use after all.

dionb wrote:

:?

What sort of drivers do you think you need? Unless you're using weird multi-chip accelerators (Diamond Viper VLB...) you don't need drivers under DOS for any VGA card. The only thing that might be handy is VESA stuff, but with an S3 86x you're covered for almost all VESA out-of-the-box, and if you need more, UniVBE is your friend.

I meant UniVBE. Not really a driver though. I bought a Cirrus Logic 2MB on ebay before this haul. I will be putting them toe-to-toe in benchmarks to determine which one I keep in the new rig.

Bit of a lucky (or unlucky ) dip today ..
bought these on fleabay ..
Nice if they are working ...but I figured the disks might have something interesting on them.

£40 paid for the whole listing.
rgds
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