Found this watch at a garage sale. Apparently the people who lived there bought up junk from unpaid storage lockers and then resold it, there was boxes and boxes of stuff. In one of the boxes (with a mid 90's Packard Bell floppy diskette, which I didn't get) was a bunch of watches none of them any good really, they were all newer junk. HOWEVER in the pile was this beauty! So I asked what they wanted for it and they said a buck so of course I got it. 🤣

It's a 1985 Seiko D409 500A, it must have been a top of the line watch because it has seven spots for storing memos (called a Memo-Channel) in memory each of these Memo-channels has two banks of 8 characters one above the other. The watch also has a pretty standard light for the time and a built in timer. I'll go into all the details better in a video which I will provide a link to later but for now I just thought I'd show this thing off. Can't beat this for a dollar. 😁

Ahhh... Seiko.. A Danish comedian joked about the name once.
Seiko sound just about the same as Psycho.. When you pronounce it.
Such a great joke. It was a long joke. So I can't remember it 100%

@badmojo

I feel you, a nintendo 8bit machine is almost mandatory. I prefer the Famicom because of size... I too have spend a good sum getting both famicom versions and upgrading the AV one to full rgb capabilities... but it's well worth every single cent!

keropi wrote:

@badmojo

I feel you, a nintendo 8bit machine is almost mandatory. I prefer the Famicom because of size... I too have spend a good sum getting both famicom versions and upgrading the AV one to full rgb capabilities... but it's well worth every single cent!

Right you are keropi, it's a classic. Sega was bigger in Australia, and I was a Sega kid, but the NES played such an important role in the history of video games that it's impossible to ignore 😎

Do you have pics handy of your 2?

^ exactly! and the games are excellent too!
I do have some random pics of the units, famicom AV is boxed - old version unboxed... I have done some internal modding in them (no holes or visible mods though) : famicom AV is fitted with a NESRGB and old famicom has composite output and a rework on the power/rf pcb: there is a composite jack, all RF components are gone and there is a new 7805+heatsink.

Love the consoles guys! Refreshing to see some non-PC hardware once in a while.

keropi wrote:

I do have some random pics of the units...

Ooooh very nice, thanks for sharing. Love the Sony CRT too!

28e shipped from the same hoarder I got a few sound cards in June.

That Terratec setup is BEAUTIMOUS!

Darkman wrote:

Got an Apricot VS660 P166 Machine , but this one I modified into a DOS machine. , by bringing the CPU down to a P75 clock speed […]
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Got an Apricot VS660 P166 Machine , but this one I modified into a DOS machine. , by bringing the CPU down to a P75 clock speed and reducing the RAM to 24MB , I wanted 32MB but for whatever reason , it refuses to boot with the RAM sticks I have. , the motherboard is an Intel ATX "Thor" board , with the 430FX chipset, it had an SIS graphics card (as well as an onboard S3 Trio) which I replaced with a S3 Virge DX, as well as a CT1740 SB16 card (which has now been joined by an Ensoniq Soundscape , and an adaptec SCSI adapter attached to a Nakamichi 5 in 1 disc drive. There was a tape backup drive which I replaced with a CD drive until I find something to put there instead. the original 1.2GB SCSI drive is missing, so instead its using a 10GB IDE hard drive, formatted with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11

did quite a bit of cable tidying too, applied Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU , and generally gave it a good clean (the insides were caked with dust)

it also arrived with a big pile of floppy disks , mainly the DOS 6.22 , Win3.1 , Win3.11 and Win95 installations disks.

hmm... since the pentium 75mhz is equal to an am586 133mhz, and the am586 133mhz is probably exactly twice as fast as a 486DX2 66mhz (Pentiums are twice as fast as an equal speed 486 chip) You could use a turbo switch to turn your pentium 75 into a 486DX2 66! The ultimate dual speed retro system! I'd personally put Windows 95 on your PC if I had it, then I could also play Age of Empires RoR.. 😀

BTW, one question: Why would you underclock the pentium 166 cpu to 75mhz? I understand that DOS games are said to be more stable on a system with around 16MB ram installed, but isn't there dos games out there like Doom that would benefit from your pentium at 166mhz?

BTW, one question: Why would you underclock the pentium 166 cpu to 75mhz? I understand that DOS games are said to be more stable on a system with around 16MB ram installed, but isn't there dos games out there like Doom that would benefit from your pentium at 166mhz?

Doom really wouldn't care one way or another. Quake would benefit from a faster processor though

Bought few mobos last 2-3 weeks, and found that all of them from same brand:

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- Asus TUSL2-C (from my parents old computer)
- Asus P2B (3$ from local "old hw forum" member)
- Asus P2B-D (for free from local amiga-forum member)
- Asus P/I-P55TP4XE (20$ from ebay - mediabus 1.3)
- Asus TX97-E ( 2$ from local flea market - mediabus 2.0)
- Asus VL/I-486SVGOX4 (20$ from local "old hw forum" member)
- Asus P5gv-mx (lga775 mobo with bad caps, starting, but hangs in a minute or two)

And I have another Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 and three Pentium 3s-1400 in flight to me.

Going through all of my old cards last night between baby feedings, i found this interesting card. I think I found it in a generic AT tower a few months ago. I couldn't find any info on this for a while, but then stumbled upon an old Shuttle webpage. Its a HOT-239 sound card, with a genuine Yamaha YMF262 chip, and onboard wavetable. Chinese junk? Maybe...but I'm going to test it out.

https://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/de/239.htm#download

Its also known as the Shuttle Sound System 48 wave. It also has every CD-ROM interface. Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony, and IDE. Interesting jack-of-all-trades sound card.

PHOTO UPDATE:

Can you provide a photo?

easy_john wrote:

Bought few mobos last 2-3 weeks, and found that all of them from same brand: […]
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Bought few mobos last 2-3 weeks, and found that all of them from same brand:

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- Asus TUSL2-C (from my parents old computer)
- Asus P2B (3$ from local "old hw forum" member)
- Asus P2B-D (for free from local amiga-forum member)
- Asus P/I-P55TP4XE (20$ from ebay - mediabus 1.3)
- Asus TX97-E ( 2$ from local flea market - mediabus 2.0)
- Asus VL/I-486SVGOX4 (20$ from local "old hw forum" member)
- Asus P5gv-mx (lga775 mobo with bad caps, starting, but hangs in a minute or two)

And I have another Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 and three Pentium 3s-1400 in flight to me.

Nice! Love Asus board and have a couple of them myself, do they all work? Would love to find an Asus 486 board but they never seem to come along (don't use ebay).

meljor wrote:

Nice! Love Asus board

Looks like - me too. :)

meljor wrote:

do they all work?

Yes, all work ok, except lga775, that have a damaged caps, need to replace.

meljor wrote:

Would love to find an Asus 486 board but they never seem to come along (don't use ebay).

I would like to find a 486 pci asus mobo and a 2-3 slot1-to-s370 adapters, that support tualatin - for maximize all listed above slot1 mobos.
And some of this mobos I'll plan to sell after a tests.

I'm so jealous... I've been searching for a dual-cpu slot 1 or socket 370 / socket A board for years, and I can't find one at a reasonable price... Ebay is out of the question for me since shipping alone is 50-80$....

kanecvr wrote:

I'm so jealous... I've been searching for a dual-cpu slot 1 or socket 370 / socket A board for years, and I can't find one at a reasonable price... Ebay is out of the question for me since shipping alone is 50-80$....

Why? There a lot of seller on Ebay from many countrys, from some shipping price is high, from another - low.

Bought Abit KT7A-RAID for $5 (19 PLN) despite it was marked by seller as "untested/propably broken". And it was. 😵

(photo from seller)

But it's not look that bad because my BX133-RAID is in need to get DIMM latches.

easy_john wrote:

kanecvr wrote:

I'm so jealous... I've been searching for a dual-cpu slot 1 or socket 370 / socket A board for years, and I can't find one at a reasonable price... Ebay is out of the question for me since shipping alone is 50-80$....

Why? There a lot of seller on Ebay from many countrys, from some shipping price is high, from another - low.

It's simple. I never found one on ebay with cheap shipping, nor have I found one locally. Whenever one pops up locally, it's snatched by another collector in a matter of hours... A couple of times I found boards with free shipping, but the seller was asking 150$+ for one. I will not pay that much for a board w/o being able to test it beforehand.