Number Nine Revolution 3D 4MB PCI! 😀

My haul from the last week.
Gemlight GMB-P57VPS Super 7 board, here running with a Pentium 233MMX.

Cyrix 6X86 166

IDT Winchip 200mhz

ASUS CUSL2 socket 370 board with Pentium PIII 800mhz coppermine and 256meg PC133.

Also found a matched set of four 16 megabyte 72pin simms for free so my old Escom pentium 100mhz is rocking 64meg(first upgrade it has ever had since manufacure in 1995!!

Arctic wrote:

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Number Nine Revolution 3D 4MB PCI! 😀

That's a nice looking card. Love the IBM ic.

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Found at value village for 10$

Video S3 ViRGE/DX, Sound OP931-3DIS, HDD WD 26400, Modem jm6cr33br2 and the mobo is a AB-PX5

Sweet! Reminds me of the first PC I bought/built myself!

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Number Nine Revolution 3D 4MB PCI! 😀

That's a nice looking card. Love the IBM ic.

That is the most beautiful RAMDAC imo.
Also the drawing of the USA on the back along with the Beatles quote "That's why I go" on the front.

I wonder how rare they are

@BSA Starfire
Nice score! The WinChip is painfully slow.
Mine has 240MHz and it's FPU is slower than a rock 😁

I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

Two classic drive models!

This one has a nice red LED in it 😀

ISA Controllers, different shapes, types and sizes:

And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual!

One of my earliest hardware memories was a Genius mouse that came with our first PC. I never thought I'd see the type again, but I have two already! This ones even has the old wide serial connector 😀

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Thank you for your funny comments 🤣

I wonder what that connector behind the slot, that looks like a female IDE, is for.
As far as I know there is a INTeL i960 processor under that heatsink.
I wonder how good it will perform in the Pentium 166.

Found the manual, and actually this connector is not being mentioned or even shown in the card layout pictures.

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I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus! […]
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I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

Is this a Seagate ST-157A? I searched hard for it for years (with reasonable prices) and even purchased 2 of them to recreate my first PC, but unfortunately, both was DOA. I've given up long ago.

Bought two of them for 1$.
One got damaged later from unknown reasons, resistor burned.

might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

I don't know much about prices there but 25Euro seems pretty reasonable for all that stuff.

tayyare wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

Is this a Seagate ST-157A? I searched hard for it for years (with reasonable prices) and even purchased 2 of them to recreate my first PC, but unfortunately, both was DOA. I've given up long ago.

It's a ST-125 MFM drive. 20MB 😀

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might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

I don't know much about prices there but 25Euro seems pretty reasonable for all that stuff.

Yes, it is a reasonable price. It's just that I don't really need any of it except the mainboard. I'll use the controller on it though. The drives are probably broken, and testing them will take a lot of my time so probably will take a while or just never happen.

I should not complain, my girlfriend does that already 😉

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus! […]
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I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus!

Two classic drive models!

This one has a nice red LED in it 😀

ISA Controllers, different shapes, types and sizes:

And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual!

One of my earliest hardware memories was a Genius mouse that came with our first PC. I never thought I'd see the type again, but I have two already! This ones even has the old wide serial connector 😀

Where did you find this stuff? I think that those harddrives could actually be in working state! They really looks really nice on the outside of the casing.. There is a change that they are treated right.
And if they are working, you could easily ask 40 euro for each one when selling them.

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Where did you find this stuff? I think that those harddrives could actually be in working state! They really looks really nice on the outside of the casing.. There is a change that they are treated right.
And if they are working, you could easily ask 40 euro for each one when selling them.

Found it on Marktplaats (for the non-Dutch: that's our local Craigslist).

I think the guy just kept everything he replaced in his computer. He was quite surprised with all the interest in it. I think there were three people interested, I just stepped in and offered to pick it up immediately for 25 euros 😀

I'll try and test them soon. There were quite a few cables in the box, but unfortunately I could not find the small MFM cable, and I don't have one already. I think the other one is in there, but I'll have to double check (it has been 20 years since I last used MFM drives).

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And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual! […]
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And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual!

One of my earliest hardware memories was a Genius mouse that came with our first PC. I n

I did some further research on it. Unfortunately, it only supports 33 and 40MHz and the only 386 I have is a 20MHz one. Also, it's a PC CHips board and the cache chips look...suspicious. Does anybody know if they also had false chips on 386 boards?

Don't forget to remove the battery.

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Don't forget to remove the battery.

First thing I did was removing the battery 😀 It was leaking just a bit (white crystals on the battery itself) but fortunately it did not reach the PCB. And the board had an external battery connection, which is nice.

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual! […]
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And the 386 board. Looks like it has never been used. I hope it works! Even came with a manual!

One of my earliest hardware memories was a Genius mouse that came with our first PC. I n

I did some further research on it. Unfortunately, it only supports 33 and 40MHz and the only 386 I have is a 20MHz one. Also, it's a PC CHips board and the cache chips look...suspicious. Does anybody know if they also had false chips on 386 boards?

I have the exact motherboard but unfortunately it doesn't work. I can't get it to beep or display a thing. Swapped different CPUs, VGA cards, memory... nothing. I just got ISA diagnostic card a few days ago and I'll give it another go if somehow I can figure it out what is wrong.

To add some more I picked up from the same guy I got that big haul from:

Diskette boxes (both 3.5"and 5.25")

Another 14" VGA monitor

Another 15" VGA monitor

And a Compaq 171FS 17" VGA monitor. I used a 151FS (15") for years, so I'm kind of excited I found this one!

Following Squareguy's advice, I ordered three 256 MB PC133 SDRAM CL2 sticks from Crucial / Micron 😀

And a few other little bits for a cool project I got in the works.