dkarguth wrote:

spiroyster wrote:

Awesome finds there.. considering the other stuff in that haul...

... If that Beige SGI keyboard doesn't have a PS2 connector, it means it may have come from an IRIS system! I wonder if thats there?

SGI O2's came with granite keyboards, not beige iirc.

That SGI is a PS/2 keyboard. It's kinda confusing to see among the 2 DEC keyboards with their RJ-11 connectors. I haven't tested the SGI O2 yet. I'm debating on selling it vs keeping it, as they are really cool, but they also go for quite a sum on ebay if it works.

They are good machines to get into Irix as they are far less effort to work on and have pretty modular parts including a VGA, so you don't need to mess around with SoG 13w3 etc. The R10K's would fetch a price but I don't think the R5K's would unless it is a R5K/300. If there are two removable HD caddy in the back (as well as the AV card) then its an R5K, if there isn't, it's an R10K. Quite fond of these little machines, it was the first SGI I worked on for a job, they let me keep it when it was decomissioned, and then it was under my desk as a foot rest for years until I sold it last year. I didn't get much for it though.

Also I will add, those things were in excess of $10K back in 1996! For a base model 😲

(looks at my craigslist "free" section)

Dirt. More dirt. Shelves. Part of a couch. Dishwasher (nice!). Cat (tempting). More dirt. Cooking magazines.

No Vaxen, SGI or PDPs. 🙁

Merovign wrote:

(looks at my craigslist "free" section)

Cat (tempting).

🤣 🤣 🤣

HanJammer wrote:

Merovign wrote:

(looks at my craigslist "free" section)

Cat (tempting).

🤣 🤣 🤣

Hey, cats are cool.

Latest Ebay purchase.. been looking for one of these for AT LEAST 10 years... finally, my search triggers went off this morning, haha. I've had wanted ads posted in the past, and I've only ever seen two others posted for sale before, more than I was willing to pay. Now I just need the IWILL ZMAXd2..

IWILL ZMAXdp (dual AMD Opteron Shuttle-size pc)

and it comes in the original box, with an Opteron 250, 2GB Corsair RAM, and an ATI 3650 AGP as a bonus.. for the steal of $50+20 shipping.

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Latest Ebay purchase.. been looking for one of these for AT LEAST 10 years... finally, my search triggers went off this morning, […]
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Latest Ebay purchase.. been looking for one of these for AT LEAST 10 years... finally, my search triggers went off this morning, haha. I've had wanted ads posted in the past, and I've only ever seen two others posted for sale before, more than I was willing to pay. Now I just need the IWILL ZMAXd2..

IWILL ZMAXdp (dual AMD Opteron Shuttle-size pc)

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Cool! Looks a bit like a Game Cube

You stole that machine at $50. It popped up on my searches too, but I'm broke.

If you ever want to let it go, let me know and we'll come to an agreement.

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Skanque wrote:

Here is some of my pickups. I recently got into this hobby and have acquired some nice cards in boxes. Most of them are complete […]
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Here is some of my pickups.
I recently got into this hobby and have acquired some nice cards in boxes. Most of them are complete, but some are missing stuff. Like the V8200 is missing the manual.

[...]

Next goals would be Geforce 256 in box and Geforce 2 in box from ASUS. I have them loose but I really appreciate looking at the boxes.
Have a nice day

(repost, posted in the wrong tread earlier)

😁

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Uhhi I see that you are a man of culture as well.

I cant make out the name of all your boxes, could you PM me more photos ? 😁

iPonRMA wrote:

HanJammer wrote:

Todays haul…
All but the first Octek Fox M works fine (even HDDs). But this motherboard is not beyond repair - boots but reports CMOS error...

And that EISA like S3 VGA works in that OPTi Local bus motherboard? So it is an OPTi Local Bus card? Can you please upload a bigger photo of this card?

Yes, the S3 card is Opti Local Bus.

I am happy to learn of this as I have the same card.... only, I never tested in EISA slot because I worried of this very thing. Glad I did not test or use.

From here in the days when there was an ebay thread: - EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Found a new in box (USB) trackball tonight at goodwill.

Found a place selling a couple of Quadro 4 900XGL cards (AGP 4x Geforce 4 Ti 4600 equivalent) for cheap so I bought them. Just waiting for them to arrive so I can test.

Grabbed this on ebay.

I'm a sucker for a cheap sound blaster with OPL3.

Non-PnP Vibra with OPL3 = WIN

CT2260 for anyone interested.

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned the model name.

I am pretty sure it isn't jumper configured, more of a non-PnP but software configured SB16

Twins.
Baby ATX , Super Socket 7's
FIC VA-503+’s with AMD K6 CPU’s.

These should work great for over locking an AMD k5-3+-450mhz to 550mhz.

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Twins.
Baby ATX , Super Socket 7's
FIC VA-503+’s with AMD K6 CPU’s.

These should work great for over locking an AMD k5-3+-450mhz to 550mhz.

Maybe even try for 600Mhz or a bit higher. For the 6x multipler, set the jumpers to 2x.

I think those boards should also have a few settings that are above 100Mhz fsb if I remember correctly.

I just started looking at my TRS-80 model II yesterday, and the serial number reads 32000006.
After doing some research, I have reason to believe that the actual serial is the last 6 digits of the full number. If this is true, this means my machine was number 6 off the production line!
All the chips are dated in mid-early 1979, which corresponds with the starting production dates! I can't find a production date on the chassis, but after looking at every chip I can find, they are all dated before October 1979. If anyone knows where I could confirm this, I would be thrilled!

dkarguth wrote:

I can't find a production date on the chassis, but after looking at every chip I can find, they are all dated before October 1979. If anyone knows where I could confirm this, I would be thrilled!

If you have no luck here, try vcfed.org. There are the 8bit maniacs.

Skanque wrote:

Uhhi I see that you are a man of culture as well.
I cant make out the name of all your boxes, could you PM me more photos ? 😁

No more pictures as I am currently not at home but this is it:
- ASUS AGP-V3800 TVR (RivaTNT2)
- ASUS AGP-V7100 (Geforce 2MX)
- ASUS V7100 Deluxe Combo (Geforce 2MX + TV-Tuner)
- ASUS V7700 Ti (Geforce 2 Ti)
- ASUS V7700 Ti VX (Geforce 2 Ti VX)
- ASUS V8200 (Geforce 3)
- ASUS V8200T2 Deluxe (Geforce 3 Ti 200)
- ASUS V8420 (Geforce 4 Ti 4200)
- ASUS V8440 (Geforce 4 Ti 4400)
- ASUS V8460 Ultra Deluxe (Geforce 4 Ti 4600)

So, time for my small pickups list:

Gigabyte GV-9000PRO II (ATi Radeon 9000 Pro)

Looks pretty cool for Radeon 9000 to be honest. 🤣

ATi Radeon 7200 All-In-Wonder

Matrox Mystique (MYST/4L)

Another Mystique in my collection, and sadly, it's not 220. But there's 4mb already on board, so...

Aureal Vortex AU8810 (SoundCOM)

Well, who knew that AU8810 was somewhat harder to find that AU8820 or 30? Or maybe i was just lazy... 🤣

Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum CT4760

Interesting how it's differs from other Live! cards. Except that gold-ish jacks...

And now - for something special. Or weird. Probably both fits.
QDI MP4-P4U885P3

Well, for mobo itself - there's nothing weird. Rare? Yes, since there's Socket 3 + PCI. And they now quite expensive nowadays.
Weird thing is - story how i saved this mobo. From quite shocking condition.
Long story short - my gf called me, and said that somebody placed "sort of 90s computer" near her house. I decided to check it out, and... things started to get wacky.
When i opened computer case (which was in very bad shape), i saw this...

It was infested with.. wasps. That's right, you can actually see parts of hive, and there was 6 dead wasps. That is kind of thing i probably will never forget in my life... 🤣
Anyway, i decided to take out mobo to see is it worth to save or not. Later i cleaned hell out of that mobo, and tested it if it's alive or not...
And it definitely is.

Conclusion of this story - never judge by the look.
Thinking about making powerful 486 PC. Any suggestions about graphics card? Don't wanna install Voodoo though, my Voodoo Graphics doing it's job in my MMX PC, and Voodoo 2 will be too much for it. 🤣