*Sorry picture quality - potato smartphone, ruined my digicam last week....

Got this beauty:

Now I have a 40, 80, and 120 Mb version of this drive. All era correct, waiting for a home.

They all sound the same upon startup. No bad sectors.

Next, a sacrificial lamb for my AWE32 rebuild. I need the joystick port and the I/O shield. I will be relentlessly heat-gunning that joystick port off whatever insignificant PCI card that provides it.

Lastly, I got an NEC Multisync A700+

Dear Lord, how I am reminded of the Samsung 3Ne that I sold with the predecessor of this DX2/66 computer. So sharp. Love it. Best $20 spent this week.

All for $20 today thanks to Craig'slist:

https://imgur.com/gallery/Mwvaqbr

Saw the NEC and I fell in love. A pretty unique case. I tested it a bit ago and it works but the seller removed the hard drives to everything and he didn't leave the rails to anything. 😜 I should have a replacement and can get it going. It does post and has already been upgraded to 96mb of ram and a 200mhz socket 7.

The HP is some amd 3200x2 and I scraped it.

The Dell is a 4th gen I3 and has 8gb of ram. I'm keeping it around for a bit. Its kinda new (even has usb 3) so its the newest computer that I've gotten so cheap.

I'm thinking of dropping some nice hardware into the NEC and reselling it.

Nice NEC, mate 😉

luckybob wrote:

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All for $20 today thanks to Craig'slist:

https://imgur.com/gallery/Mwvaqbr

Saw the NEC and I fell in love. A pretty unique case. I tested it a bit ago and it works but the seller removed the hard drives to everything and he didn't leave the rails to anything. 😜 I should have a replacement and can get it going. It does post and has already been upgraded to 96mb of ram and a 200mhz socket 7.

The HP is some amd 3200x2 and I scraped it.

The Dell is a 4th gen I3 and has 8gb of ram. I'm keeping it around for a bit. Its kinda new (even has usb 3) so its the newest computer that I've gotten so cheap.

I'm thinking of dropping some nice hardware into the NEC and reselling it.

Oh, Luckybob, you have guts. You post your images to Imgur. Those comments made me chuckle. It seems you could post a photo of a fireman rescuing kittens from a fire and you will still get hater comments. Anyway, that NEC is a nice piece. What is this, 1999? 🤣

@Luckybob,
could you please post pics of the inside?
I like the NEC optics too, never saw one personally, and curious about the quality inside.

Not as lucky as Luckybob but I also picked up a socket 7 system today. K6 system that needs a bit of cleaning and a hard drive as well.

Got myself a lovely '95 Lexmark Model M

News in my collection Legend P6V694T motherboard socket 370 with a Celeron 766 2x128Mb ram and 1x 64Mb ram.
Some caps are in bad condition, i will change them, now I have 3 motherboards waiting for repair 😵 The graphics are good, the 64Mb one needs a fan the 128Mb fan and cooler, the owner damaged the cooler, idk why.
+ I made a board to the wall with some rams and a motherboard 😀

assasincz wrote:

Got myself a lovely '95 Lexmark Model M

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NICE!

I'm not sure just how "retro" these are, but I was searching for some drive bay mounted speakers online just last week and wasn't abled to find anything at all.

These one's would have been ideal, but appear to be unavailable in Europe at this time

https://www.startech.com/ca/support/SPEAKERINTB

Imagine my surprise when a brief google image search turned up some speakers locally just this morning, and for small change too:

Scored about 120 ATX PSUs ranging from 400 to 500W and one 200W AT PSU.

Mostly Deer, but some are Sun Pro, KeyMouse and a few others I can't remember right now.

PcBytes wrote:

Scored about 120 ATX PSUs ranging from 400 to 500W and one 200W AT PSU.

Mostly Deer, but some are Sun Pro, KeyMouse and a few others I can't remember right now.

That's a lot of PSU's! Like 10 moving boxes or so.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

Scored about 120 ATX PSUs ranging from 400 to 500W and one 200W AT PSU.

Mostly Deer, but some are Sun Pro, KeyMouse and a few others I can't remember right now.

That's a lot of PSU's! Like 10 moving boxes or so.

5 bags, the kind used for throwing trash, since they're big enough to carry.

Stored them in about three travel bags and a big box.

respect2759 wrote:

News in my collection Legend P6V694T motherboard socket 370 with a Celeron 766 2x128Mb ram and 1x 64Mb ram.
Some caps are in bad condition, i will change them, now I have 3 motherboards waiting for repair 😵 The graphics are good, the 64Mb one needs a fan the 128Mb fan and cooler, the owner damaged the cooler, idk why.
+ I made a board to the wall with some rams and a motherboard 😀

Legend P6V694T is the QDI Advance 10T, it uses VIA Apollo Pro 133T chipset and supports tualatins

henryVK wrote:

Imagine my surprise when a brief google image search turned up some speakers locally just this morning, and for small change too:

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Sweet! When you swivel the monitor you're swiveling the speakers, too, or so it would appear.

EDIT: Looked again and now I see it takes a 1/2 height 5.25" drive bay.
Still really really cool!

Dragon Caesar wrote:

Not as lucky as Luckybob but I also picked up a socket 7 system today. K6 system that needs a bit of cleaning and a hard drive as well.

I bought an AT case exactly like that over 15yrs ago, but its a four bay, not a five bay, still sitting brand new in its shipping box... unused to this day.

Today's pickups:
VisionTek GeForce3 64MB graphics card
ECS KN1 Extreme nForce4 939 motherboard

retardware wrote:

@Luckybob,
could you please post pics of the inside?
I like the NEC optics too, never saw one personally, and curious about the quality inside.

some more pics: https://imgur.com/a/UYocXjo

its actually quite odd. So many parts LOOK industry standard, but are slightly off.

Case in point; the motherboard. Its practically identical in size and shape as a "baby at" board. The riser uses a E-ISA connector. It looks like they took known standard parts, put their own spin on them and reused what they could.

Other than that, its basically an upside down case.

luckybob wrote:

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retardware wrote:

@Luckybob,
could you please post pics of the inside?
I like the NEC optics too, never saw one personally, and curious about the quality inside.

some more pics: https://imgur.com/a/UYocXjo

its actually quite odd. So many parts LOOK industry standard, but are slightly off.

Case in point; the motherboard. Its practically identical in size and shape as a "baby at" board. The riser uses a E-ISA connector. It looks like they took known standard parts, put their own spin on them and reused what they could.

Other than that, its basically an upside down case.

Wow, it's purty on the inside too. So clean. Nice!

AlaricD wrote:

henryVK wrote:

Imagine my surprise when a brief google image search turned up some speakers locally just this morning, and for small change too:

(image unquoted)

Sweet! When you swivel the monitor you're swiveling the speakers, too, or so it would appear.

That's a bay-mounted speaker system, based on the shape and the Molex connectors (that usually go inside a computer...)