I picked up several items lately, but I'm not all that familiar with old network cards. Are these useful or in any way special?

short answer, no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72R2uGglnU

Next lot 40€ 😀
ECS UC4915-A AIO
AWE64 Gold
Pixelview PDF - dont know if this a good card but this LCD makes it interesting...

Predator99 wrote:

Pixelview PDF - dont know if this a good card but this LCD makes it interesting...

It seems to be an FX 5700, which is a pretty good Win98 card.

Though for me the main prize of that lot is definitely the AWE64 Gold. 40€ for just one of those is a super deal these days.

I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since I was testing a GUS classic I bought earlier this week, I decided to put this card in the same PC and give it a go.... And what do you know? Works perfectly!

There were two sets of manuals and software on 5,25" floppies (unopened) in the box:

Box:

I do not have a real use for it, but very nice nevertheless.

CHiLL72 wrote:

I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since […]
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I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since I was testing a GUS classic I bought earlier this week, I decided to put this card in the same PC and give it a go.... And what do you know? Works perfectly!

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There were two sets of manuals and software on 5,25" floppies (unopened) in the box:

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Box:

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I do not have a real use for it, but very nice nevertheless.

Cool! No T-Shirt though? 🙁

CHiLL72 wrote:

I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since I was testing a GUS classic I bought earlier this week, I decided to put this card in the same PC and give it a go.... And what do you know? Works perfectly!

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These are great little cards! Any chance you could image the floppies and scan the manual? I have a similar card and would love to get some info about the Dip switches settings.

appiah4 wrote:

Fixing those pins will take some time but it's a reward definitely worth the effort..

Messed up the C3-800 - broke one there when trying to get it to fit, but second attempt was better: the 2002-vintage 5x86 is sitting happily in my SiS496-board running as if it were a 486DX4-100. Now to find the jumper settings for that board again... 😉

Edit:
Found it, now working at stock and at 4x40=160MHz@3.45V
200MHz isn't working, even when overvolting to 4 or 5V.

Edit2:
All three 5x86 run happily at 160MHz, none will boot at 200MHz though. This result alone makes the purchase worthwhile. Tomorrow I do a second try with a C3...

DaveJustDave wrote:

So i picked up this Packard Bell Legend. […]
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So i picked up this Packard Bell Legend.

Pretty much the cleanest example i've ever seen outside of a CompUSA in the mid 90s. No yellowing, scratches, chips, scuffs

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486DX266 with 8mb

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It's never even been opened!

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So of course i open it. (because of a CMOS battery error)

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aaaand its one of these. Packard Bell seem to have loved to install them this way. So time to snip and put a CR2032 in there

You can order a CR1220 battery holder and batteries from Digi-Key (depends on where you're from for S&H). Did that on my Packard Bell and it works without issues.

Some of you may remember my NEC Powermate Portable APC IV acquisition in April 2018.

Well, it's BIOS only supports its internal 720K floppy drive and a near impossible to find NEC external 5¼" 1.2MB floppy drive.

So a while back I picked up this drive thinking the NEC supported a DB37 connection.

I was wrong.

So I ended up with a new in box Backpack 3½" parallel floppy drive and it works like a charm. When it rains it pours. It just so happens someone was also selling their used Backpack 3½" floppy drive on Vcfed for cheap so I picked that up for good measure since they are fairly pricey on Ebay. Some files I need to transfer over to the NEC system are just slightly over 720K and that becomes rather frustrating. This will make it a lot easier to move files back and forth between my daily driver and the Powermate. Also a bonus is the Backpack floppy drive driver will work with DOS as early as version 2.0.

arncht wrote:

Escom, vobis was cheap? You dont have too much experience, what the small shops sold in the eastern european countries as a pc 😁 compared to this, the escom was a superbrand - and it was not cheap.

HanJammer wrote:

…not in Central Europe.

I now feel this is the reason why the only (baby) AT mobos natively being able to run Pentium 3 Tualatin were apparently sold mainly in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
These were manufactured at least until second half of 2002!
At that time the transition to ATX was already about 5 years ago!
So these were definitely marketed as upgrade boards.

Have opened a thread about these boards here, with some photos.

As I today picked up such a board in the customs office, some nerd p0rn for you 😀

Look the many bulging caps.
Probably explainable with the mobo having been operated on an old ripply PSU for years.

On the black Yaego CPU caps even the gold-colored print has blackened.
Actually the upper part of the can looks almost scorched (hard to see in the photo).
Can this happen already at 105 degrees?

I picked this up for $20 at the thrift shop:

-Nice lightweight 15 inch LCD with white bezel
-NIB 104 key DIN 5 keyboard, with plastic cover, PS/2 to DIN adapter, and wrist rest
-Quickshot joystick

I also found those "First Person Shooter" speakers in the hall of my Uni with a label that indicated "Free/Gratis" on them.

Everything works 😉

retardware wrote:

On the black Yaego CPU caps even the gold-colored print has blackened.
Actually the upper part of the can looks almost scorched (hard to see in the photo).
Can this happen already at 105 degrees?

They are all terrible quality capacitors that have bulged and require replacement.

Given the utter crap that have been sold as capacitors over the years, anything can happen. Poor quality labels are no surprise.

Given lack of AGP and needed a full recap, I wouldn't have let this one go.

Got a system from a local auction site only to get the case.
Its one of those Enlight cases that you open forward, really awkward =).
Had that exact case back in the day.
The pics were really bad, i only knew that the CPU was mounted on a slotket adapter.

To my delight it turns out that the mobo was an Abit BX6-2 in exellent condition !
Wich by some weird coincidence was exactly was I had mounted in the same case !

MMaximus wrote:

CHiLL72 wrote:

I already have this card for many years, but kept it stored and never tested it. Until I stumbled upon it again today. And since I was testing a GUS classic I bought earlier this week, I decided to put this card in the same PC and give it a go.... And what do you know? Works perfectly!

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These are great little cards! Any chance you could image the floppies and scan the manual? I have a similar card and would love to get some info about the Dip switches settings.

Scanning the manual is something I can do, but finding a 5.25" floppy drive to image the floppies will be more of a challenge...

retardware wrote:

I now feel this is the reason why the only (baby) AT mobos natively being able to run Pentium 3 Tualatin were apparently sold ma […]
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arncht wrote:

Escom, vobis was cheap? You dont have too much experience, what the small shops sold in the eastern european countries as a pc 😁 compared to this, the escom was a superbrand - and it was not cheap.

HanJammer wrote:

…not in Central Europe.

I now feel this is the reason why the only (baby) AT mobos natively being able to run Pentium 3 Tualatin were apparently sold mainly in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
These were manufactured at least until second half of 2002!
At that time the transition to ATX was already about 5 years ago!
So these were definitely marketed as upgrade boards.

Have opened a thread about these boards here, with some photos.

As I today picked up such a board in the customs office, some nerd p0rn for you 😀

Look the many bulging caps.
Probably explainable with the mobo having been operated on an old ripply PSU for years.

On the black Yaego CPU caps even the gold-colored print has blackened.
Actually the upper part of the can looks almost scorched (hard to see in the photo).
Can this happen already at 105 degrees?

I recall seeing one with AGP made by Acorp some years ago

Acorp 6VIA85T

Jetway made also a Socket A motherboard for AT

Jetway 849BS

Commate made a Socket 478 AT motherboard

Commate P4XB

While not hardware, this is definitely hardware related.

Now to just await the arrival from overseas.

Oh I have a AWE64 gold, will you image these ? 😁

cyclone3d wrote:

While not hardware, this is definitely hardware related.

Now to just await the arrival from overseas.

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ISO images please!

Deksor wrote:

Oh I have a AWE64 gold, will you image these ? 😁

Yep.. They will be imaged and put on vogonsdrivers and archive.org.