Robin4 wrote on 2020-10-29, 23:24:

https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/E/E … 486-4MHL3S.html

Isnt that pentium overdrive for a socket 5 or 7 motherboard? Because i think you bought not the right one.. But these socket 5/7 are kinda rare and worth a lot of money.. Shouldnt share that one with an recycler. Should keep or sell if its the wrong one.

What your are looking for is a Pentium overdrive in white / blue silkscreen on the ventilator.

I'm pretty sure its the right one. It fits in the 486 socket. https://cpumuseum.jimdofree.com/museum/intel/ … overdrive/#swap

Also I figured out how to open the fan. You just have to pinch the two tabs together in the upper/left corner.

Yep, that is the Pentium 83 486 upgrade. Fun little chip to play with.

Robin4 wrote on 2020-10-29, 22:01:

In about 3 weeks iam going to make a start clean up my room.. Iam in waiting for a extra table where i can put some of the older […]
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Horun wrote on 2019-11-22, 03:33:

Nice ! How much did the ST05X cost you ? Somewhere in my storage I have a few real 8bit IDE and SCSI HD cards but never found a working ST05x yet. You should save the BIOS files and upload them here if possible, last ST05x I saw was missing the BIOS chip so was useless since no BIOS files existed at the time....

In about 3 weeks iam going to make a start clean up my room.. Iam in waiting for a extra table where i can put some of the older hardware on.. Now its just a mess.

When i have more room. (I hope i could buying a new camera als0) then iam going start to dump the roms.. And archive the data.
Also have to find some time to copy the manuals also.. But now iam a litte in time need.

Great and thanks. Same here with needing more time and space, my shop area is a total mess 😀
Had to use the top of the clothes washer and dryer to test a motherboard because of my mess 🙁

Aublak wrote on 2020-10-29, 22:17:

I found some random 486 ICs at the recycler. I suppose I can share them too, but I don't know what boards they belong to. There's pics of the markings in the 7z file.
I dunno if anybody can identify them, but here you go anyways.

RANDOM01.BIN: BekTronic BEK-V429S

10/02/94-OPTI-82C895-2C4UKB11-00
DEEP GREEN PC,BIOS VER 1.2

RANDOM02.BIN: DTK PKM-0038S/Gemlight GMB-486SG

10/07/94-SIS-85C471B/E/G-2C4I9G30-00
(2C4I9G30) DTKPKM0038S.P02.03.1

I bought the Turtle Beach Fiji ISA sound card, including the original driver CD and Manual.

Just picked up a new-like Roland SD-50 for a good price.

mpe wrote on 2020-10-29, 15:54:

Nothing too exciting, except that I find interesting how they deviated from the CL reference design which mandates that the main chip should be as close to the VL-Bus connector as possible due to 3" total limit imposed by VL-Bus. This is more on the other side of the PCB than I've seen on ant other VLB card.

See the 4 small chips near the VLB portion of the slot, they are buffer chips and you will see them on many VLB cards.

These buffer the VLB bus, improving the stability and making the chip placement requirement less onerous.

Salient wrote on 2020-10-30, 13:47:

Just picked up a new-like Roland SD-50 for a good price.

It looks really futuristic

evasive wrote on 2020-10-30, 07:47:

RANDOM01.BIN: BekTronic BEK-V429S […]
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Aublak wrote on 2020-10-29, 22:17:

I found some random 486 ICs at the recycler. I suppose I can share them too, but I don't know what boards they belong to. There's pics of the markings in the 7z file.
I dunno if anybody can identify them, but here you go anyways.

RANDOM01.BIN: BekTronic BEK-V429S

10/02/94-OPTI-82C895-2C4UKB11-00
DEEP GREEN PC,BIOS VER 1.2

RANDOM02.BIN: DTK PKM-0038S/Gemlight GMB-486SG

10/07/94-SIS-85C471B/E/G-2C4I9G30-00
(2C4I9G30) DTKPKM0038S.P02.03.1

kewl

canthearu wrote on 2020-10-30, 22:48:

See the 4 small chips near the VLB portion of the slot, they are buffer chips and you will see them on many VLB cards.

These buffer the VLB bus, improving the stability and making the chip placement requirement less onerous.

I believe these are 245 series octal transceivers an their purpose is to adapt 16bit CL-GD data bus to the 32bit VL-Bus. I've seen them on all CL 542x cards, irespectively of the layout. GD543x don't have them.

Many VL control signals cannot be buffered/latched.

Found a NOS sealed box generic CDRW from 2002 today at a thrift store for $10, could not pass it up. Opened it and is a Ultima WRR-4848 (man date 2002), not the best brand but is beige and IDE.
Will have to test it but am sure it works. Also saw a NOS sealed box Pioneer slot load CDROM in same store but passed on it ! Had one before and they have great electronics but shitty load
mechanism that will ruin CDR disks, might go back and get it tomorrow if still there .
Not as fancy as a Roland but not a bad find for the price.

Slot1 wrote on 2020-10-30, 12:37:

I bought the Turtle Beach Fiji ISA sound card, including the original driver CD and Manual.
fiji.jpg

Could you possibly add the driver CD to the vogons library? I can't find drivers online for my card and would really appreciate any help! 😀

Hello Guys,

today i`ve got these nice ATI 9500 64MB
It is fortunately possible to unlock the Card to 9700 with a Biosmod.

RetroAddict wrote on 2020-10-31, 08:22:

Could you possibly add the driver CD to the vogons library? I can't find drivers online for my card and would really appreciate any help! 😀

Sure, I will do that as soon as I can. Which revision of the card do you have? I heard the older revisions have problems on some systems.

Slot1 wrote on 2020-10-31, 14:14:

RetroAddict wrote on 2020-10-31, 08:22:

Could you possibly add the driver CD to the vogons library? I can't find drivers online for my card and would really appreciate any help! 😀

Sure, I will do that as soon as I can. Which revision of the card do you have? I heard the older revisions have problems on some systems.

Thanks so much! I have the Rev C card, with a Yamaha daughterboard attached!

I found a reasonably priced sealed OEM Aureal SQ2500 in the town where I live . I hope the seller will let me pick it up in person . I still have a PCI slot or two left in my retro machine, so why not .

Is 5 sound cards in the same PC too many, 🤣 ?

EDIT : I am nowhere close to beating Multi-Soundcard Industrial Computer Project

Seems like I'm on a roll.... Just scored this nice Roland PMA-5 for 60 euros!
Even came with the original receipt from 1997. 😀

Not that I ever seem to have time to mess with this stuff, but against my better judgement, I bought this stupid thing after staring at it for ages on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pentium-Moth … CI/224000459479

Cannot ID it. Looks like an ECS, but this particular model isn't in TH99 that I can find. Looked at PC chips, not there either, nor Data Expert.

@Moogle!
Interesting, please share infos about it when you get it, so we can add it to UH19 😀

Bought 2 486 motherboards:

1) Packard Bell PB450 bundle (riser card, ISA sound card, and Ethernet) for my Pack-Mate 28 Plus since my current one isn't working
2) Biostar MB-8433UUD-A Rev 3 baby AT board (has a missing resistor, corrosion, and a few traces that are gone, but can be fixed)

Moogle! wrote on 2020-11-01, 19:22:

Not that I ever seem to have time to mess with this stuff, but against my better judgement, I bought this stupid thing after staring at it for ages on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pentium-Moth … CI/224000459479

Cannot ID it. Looks like an ECS, but this particular model isn't in TH99 that I can find. Looked at PC chips, not there either, nor Data Expert.

Hmm looks almost like a Micronics board or Pcchips/Amptron but no tell-tale markings. Good price except for the shipping (ouch).
Will check my archives to see if anything matches..