Got this all for (almost) free (except shipping):

Cool case badges!

Socket 370 Pentium III 1000/133/256

Bunch of EDO memorty

2x 256Mb PC100

SoundBlaster AWE64 CT4520

Matrox G400 (further specs unknown)

SoundBlaster Vibra 16 CT2950

Matrox G200

SoundBlaster CT4810

SATA card

3dfx Voodoo 3 2000?

(sorry for the crappy pics, phone camera is very bad since it fell of a table 🙁)

Finally:

The HUGE Dock I 3546 for my 'new' ThinkPad 370C, ISA internal slot, SCSI ext & int, IDE int, speakers and TONS of added weight 😉

€ 29 + Shipping, not bad isn't that?

Indrid Cold wrote:

€ 29 + Shipping, not bad isn't that?

That's a result - I am mostly jealous 😀

brassicGamer wrote:

Indrid Cold wrote:

€ 29 + Shipping, not bad isn't that?

That's a result - I am mostly jealous 😀

I must say I'm really happy this time (I had luck) - I've made some research and this model "II" 3546 comes with 2 internal ISA and 1 IDE, unlike model "I" 3545 (with only SCSI).

Scored a Thinkpad 701c and one other laptop as a lot on a $8 bid, turns out that I am going to need to fix the LCD cable on the 701C but it does boot into 3.1 on the original hard drive.
Buying Powerbooks lately 😉

Bought a Voodoo 5 and received a box of AGP and pci video cards for free. Hercules Terminator Virge DX, Geforce TI4200 and FX5950 ultra being the highlights of those 😀

ODwilly wrote:

Bought a Voodoo 5 and received a box of AGP and pci video cards for free. Hercules Terminator Virge DX, Geforce TI4200 and FX5950 ultra being the highlights of those 😀

😮
Good stock!
How much do you pay for them ? 😀

I promised to report back to tell if the "untested, found in attic" Tyan S1662 dual Pentium Pro board I won last week worked or not.

The bundle with random gear the seller "found in his/hers attic" arrived today 😀. I have no idea if the gear belonged to the sellers ex boyfriend, a former apartment dweller or the former house owner and I dont really care. He/she did not seem to know anything about the stuff but diddnt seem like the type doing break ins at night only to steal a few random PCI cards, a Radeon 6870, a Geforce 8600GT, the dual Pentium Pro board and the nice Tekram VLB IDE cache controller which was also included in the bundle.

The motherboard seems to work perfectly and the battery in the socked Dallas RTC seems fine! The CPUs which I was pretty sure would be 200MHz 256KB ones turned out to be 180MHz 256KB CPUs but I have two spare 200MHz CPUs so it dosnt matter. The memory is 224MB EDO, probably 2x64MB + 2x32MB + 2x16MB, I have 6x64MB spare EDO so I can upgrade the memory to 512MB 😀.

Tyan S1662

Tyan S1662 Close up.

Tyan S1662 Post screen

Tyan S1662 Award BIOS

Skyscraper wrote:

I promised to report back to tell if the "untested, found in attic" Tyan S1662 dual Pentium Pro board I won last week worked or not.

Cool! I love those things 😀 I remember throwing one in a dumpster in 2006, I feel really bad about that now :'(

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Matrox G400 (further specs unknown)

As far as I can see. It's a Matrox G400 32mb DualHead. Only G400-Max and G550 is better.
If it is a G400. Expect some GREAT image quality and good performance

Skyscraper wrote:

The CPUs which I was pretty sure would be 200MHz 256KB ones turned out to be 180MHz 256KB CPUs but I have two spare 200MHz CPUs so it dosnt matter.

I have never heard of a 180Mhz CPU before. I thought it jumped from 166 to 200. So would that be a 60Mhz FSB?

Stermy57 wrote:

O.o Good stock! How much do you pay for them ? :) […]
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ODwilly wrote:

Bought a Voodoo 5 and received a box of AGP and pci video cards for free. Hercules Terminator Virge DX, Geforce TI4200 and FX5950 ultra being the highlights of those 😀

😮
Good stock!
How much do you pay for them ? 😀

Paid $90 for the Voodoo and everything else was free

brassicGamer wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

The CPUs which I was pretty sure would be 200MHz 256KB ones turned out to be 180MHz 256KB CPUs but I have two spare 200MHz CPUs so it dosnt matter.

I have never heard of a 180Mhz CPU before. I thought it jumped from 166 to 200. So would that be a 60Mhz FSB?

Yea the 180 MHz Pentium Pro runs at 3x60 MHz, its probably CPUs that diddnt pass Intels binning tests for 200 MHz CPUs. The Pentium Pro 180 will probably run just fine at 200MHz but I want 233 MHz 😜.

Bought this puppy today for 10 euro.

It's a 386dx-40 on a pcchips m321, with 128kb cache, 4 mb ram, 100mb hdd, trident vga9000 512kb vga card, goldstar i/o interface and sb ct2260.

Interesting graphics card. I've never seen an ARK based card upgradable to 4 MB 😲

BastlerMike wrote:

Interesting graphics card. I've never an ARK based card upgradable to 4 MB 😲

I had about 40 of those, no its not a typo... I threw away most of them ~2008 long before the retro bug bit me 😵.

The cards comes from a company I worked for 2001 -2004, they used them in all their "office computers", I looted them from the electronics dumpster. I still have at least 4 identical cards left, Im glad I wasnt stupid enough to throw them all away. I also had the same amount of ISA Token ring cards, I diddnt save a single one.

Edit

I checked my box with PCI video cards and I was right, I have 3 more identical cards left and also two other 1MB Ark 2000 cards (which isnt from the same place) but those cards are only upgradable to 2MB.

/Edit

It's been a long while since I've found anything remotely old hardware-wise at my usual flea market, other than ISA modems & NICs... but then I came across this!

Anything pre-Pentium has become quite scarce, let alone a turbo XT board, with a V20 to boot! Haven't tested it yet, chip date codes put it around 1990.
I spot a trimmer cap in series with the 14.318 crystal so maybe this one might display NTSC color with a CGA card? I've got one somewhere that I've never gotten any color from its composite output, I ought to try it with this board. 😀

133MHz, Great find!

I wonder what Arizona outline is doing on the ESS card.

RacoonRider wrote:

I wonder what Arizona outline is doing on the ESS card.

It's a Compaq card, and Compaq, in the mid 90s, loved to put little pictures as easter eggs on their cards and motherboards. Kinda like the Macintosh team's signatures molded to the inside of every Macintosh from the original 128 to at least the Plus.

Sutekh94 wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

I wonder what Arizona outline is doing on the ESS card.

It's a Compaq card, and Compaq, in the mid 90s, loved to put little pictures as easter eggs on their cards and motherboards. Kinda like the Macintosh team's signatures molded to the inside of every Macintosh from the original 128 to at least the Plus.

After reading your post, I took a closer look at the card and couldn't find any evidence of it being a Compaq card until I saw the torx+flat screws only Compaq used. I thought "That guy's a genius! So much attention!" and only then I saw the "Compaq" letters in the middle 😀 Hehe