Not a computer, but the evolution of calculators and adding machines led directly to the advent of microprocessors so I consider them a part of the computer heritage.

Thrift store for $5. Funny bit is, I originally saw it on a Facebook auction page. Someone else wanted it more than I did and bid it beyond what I wanted to pay. 3 weeks later the same unit is at the thrift store for $5. It seems someone thought it was something else.

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-09, 10:26:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-02, 20:14:

Hups...I agreed on an acceptable price for 3 boxes with more than 30 kg in total... 😒 There was at least one interesting card in each, therefore I will take only some few items and sell the remaining parts again asap. 1 sellers pic of each box...

Boxes arrived, 1st one processed. What I am going to keep for the 1st run..dont think it needs to be commented. One of the NICs is a ISA 100 MBit!

Boxes 2 + 3:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:29:

Cool stuff!
In the lot °2 picture there was a PowerMac motherboard, could you take a close picture of it? Thanks.

That P5HX looks gorgeous with all that white.

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:30:

Nice POST and dual game port card, well, the mainboard is nice, too, and ... man, that's a lot of nice stuff...

lolo799 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:38:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:29:

Cool stuff!
In the lot °2 picture there was a PowerMac motherboard, could you take a close picture of it? Thanks.

This will go to Ebay. I have no use for it and need some refund....

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This will go to Ebay. I have no use for it and need some refund....
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A 9500 i see, it's a good board.
Cpu add on is a G3 something, no experience with that cpu, I think you can run some early versions of Mac OS X with those...

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:29:

Boxes 2 + 3:

nice nice nice nice :3

got something interesting...
Matrox G200 PCI
with a... digital port attachment?
the plug is the same as DVI, but seeing as how DVI was intruduced in 1999 and this is a 1998 card I think it is actually this earlier standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_and_Display
anyone know for sure? ^^

edit: yep, pretty sure it's P&D, it came with an IBM T55D LCD monitor, that unfortunately broke during shipping 😒 going to have to repair that first... I got it all for 1€ so I didn't even bother to claim anything.
while the specs in the internet for the T55D suggest "DVI" in most places, this seems to be wrong, cause when you google a bit you stumble upon this:

Product Positioning:
The IBM PCI Digital TFT 2D/3D P&D -D Graphics Accelerator Adapter (10L7128) is designed to complement leading-edge P&D digital
monitors such as the IBM T55D (1024 x 768) Digital Monitor and the IBM T85D (1280 x 1024) Digital Monitor.

"10L7128" is IBM's part number for this G200 card.

PcBytes wrote on 2020-07-10, 10:01:

That P5HX looks gorgeous with all that white.

Thought so too!
Gotta be an interesting story behind that.
No doubt someone felt strongly that they should pay extra for white sockets =)
Still a green PCB tho, one would think that would have been easier to change even back then.

white sockets was kind of elitegroups's thing back then x3
I also got a socket 5 board from them that even has white DIP cache sockets.

Both items are unrelated. The mainboard was bought via local classifieds from a very nice seller and the CPU was bought from an auction house.
They just arrived at the same time.

The Amazon cardboard is also just what I use for testing hardware when it arrives and not related, too 😉.

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lolo799 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:38:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-10, 09:29:

Cool stuff!
In the lot °2 picture there was a PowerMac motherboard, could you take a close picture of it? Thanks.

This will go to Ebay. I have no use for it and need some refund....

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Nice! I have one of those CPU upgrade cards. In PC terms it's an adapter that lets you put a pentium 3 into a pentium 1 board.

These pop up occasionally on ebay. Finally got mine, NOS.

Bondi wrote on 2020-07-10, 18:05:

These pop up occasionally on ebay. Finally got mine, NOS.
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I have one of those loose. Would you mind uploading the driver disks? Thanks!

Picked up an old ATI 5850 for a cheap price ($30 AU)

Excellent card for my windows XP retro build, and nostolgic because it is the same (or similar) to a card I used to have years back but died.

Had to clean it and repaste it .... wasn't careful the first time and used way too much paste. Cleaned it AGAIN and did better this time.

boxpressed wrote on 2020-07-10, 23:57:

Bondi wrote on 2020-07-10, 18:05:

These pop up occasionally on ebay. Finally got mine, NOS.
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I have one of those loose. Would you mind uploading the driver disks? Thanks!

Sure, I'll upload the disks when the box arrives. It's now at my fried's place in US.
In the meanwhile, if you need the driver - it's here Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

This week I received two InWin S500 cases... in the seller's photos they looked nice and white so I was a bit disappointed when they turned out to be slightly yellowed. Also, they came with only one set of drive rails each, which sucks if I ever want to put in more drives. I will contact the seller again and see whether he still has the rails...

The second parcel was an MSI MS-5169 Ver. 2.1 Super Socket 7 ATX board with a K6-2 300 MHz on it. Was sold as untested and so far it seems to be dead. No POST, no beeps. Will investigate further tonight.

There have been better weeks...

Maybe they used stock images for the case. As for the board, get ye a PC POST card and insert it to see if there's an error code on there and to make sure the voltages are correct.

Today I received this little beauty.
The mighty Intel DX4, 100MHz pure power.

Okey, it's not a WB version, but even so it's a nice addition to replace the DX2 on my Intel Ninja motherboard.

Not entirely sure of the heat sink, maybe I'll just fit a better one... This looks like DX-50 material to me.