the 486 board looks good. If you're planning on selling these, eBay, Amibay, cpu-world, or VCFed.org are good candidates as Vogons isn't a site for buying, selling, trading, or advertising your items for sale.

...in the mean time, for bookoh karma and kudos points, it's safe to say every one of those coin batteries would be well and truly dead by now, so feel free to remove them and pop them in the local battery recycle deposit box. Otherwise they'll just end up in your kids - kids drinking water.

I mean, it's a start. We all have to do our bit. I collect the dead batteries customers replace, myself. Im gonna save this planet...one dead battery at a time if i have too.

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the 486 board looks good. If you're planning on selling these, eBay, Amibay, cpu-world, or VCFed.org are good candidates as Vogons isn't a site for buying, selling, trading, or advertising your items for sale.

The problem is that the postal service in my country (Finland) is one of the worst and most expensive in entire Europe. Sending a single motherboard to another EU country would cost 30€ so it's not really feasible.

Ouch. Sending something in the states is also expensive when sending electronic wise in the mail (not including insurance), and other delivery guys can make the components go DOA since they put heavier items on top of lighter items, or bad packaging.

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Ouch. Sending something in the states is also expensive when sending electronic wise in the mail (not including insurance), and other delivery guys can make the components go DOA since they put heavier items on top of lighter items, or bad packaging.

I checked the pricing again and yeah, for a tracked parcel it's 30€ but 1kg "letter" can be sent for 12,40€. Maybe I should register to Amibay or some other site and try to find a new home for these mobos (I'll most likely leave myself the 3 ISA slot Gigabyte with the integrated SCSI controller).

BTW, how's the weather over there? In my area, it's horrible (weather and road wise).

Never mind. This post is no longer relevant (and not to mention I didn't even notice it was a year old when I responded to it 😦).

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BTW, how's the weather over there? In my area, it's horrible (weather and road wise).

Quite good, was around -10C outside and sun was shining with no wind. Tomorrow should be similar. Western and Southern parts of Finland have quite mild climate considering how far North we are.

I'm guessing the north of the country is quite frigid with the polar currents.

BTW, best of luck to your boys in the game tomorrow. 😀

My daughter lives in Swedish Norrland and was complaining yesterday about it being -27C when she had to leave for school in the morning, so -10C sounds positively balmy and southern 😉

If you do live in the South in/near Helsinki and you make regular shopping trips to Talinn maybe a tip: shipping from Estonia to elsewhere in the EU is significantly cheaper too, from EUR 13-18 depending on destination.

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Ok, now I'm officially drowning in Slot-1 motherboards.

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/qm4nzIl.jpg

Asus P2B rev 1.10, Asus P2B-F rev 1.00, Asus P3B-F rev 1.03, Asus P3B-F rev 1.04 and Gigabyte GA-6BXS rev 1.5. Also found a MS4132G socket 3 motherboard.

I wish I lived somewhere where I could ship these out at a reasonable cost, now they are likely to go back to the trash because I can't stockpile dozens of motherboards in my apartment.

Yep don`t kill the boards, at least the ASUS ones and the socket 3. And still all of them are good ones, find a way of giving them to someone else, or sell them on ebay...

A couple random things from my usual picking spot yesterday. Firstly what's either world's shortest KVM cable or an actual Voodoo1/2-style VGA passthrough. Works great as one either way. Anyone recognise this part number?

Secondly a WinTV-HVR 950 tuner stick, complete with antenna. Despite being a "Win"TV it works fine with the Elgato/eyeTV software I already had installed for another capture device on my Mac. I suspect everyone who ever made these have merged into a single company these days.

I let it do its autoscan thing and it found three whole OTA digital channels, so now I can watch late-night soaps from the comfort of wherever the hell I want:

...or not. 😜 Of course it also supports analog TV, so I can capture my early-'80s computers & game consoles that still use an RF modulator with it.

Well this is a thing that just dropped into my lap:

Toshiba tecra 720CD and a deskstation V+

Scsi on a docking station? Why not? I distinctly remember someone here having something similar and they put a voodoo card into it. I might try something similar.

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Well this is a thing that just dropped into my lap:

Toshiba tecra 720CD and a deskstation V+

Scsi on a docking station? Why not? I distinctly remember someone here having something similar and they put a voodoo card into it. I might try something similar.

Omg, the dirt and grime. That's going to be one helluva clean up job.

Spotted a beige box on its side at the scrapper. was able to grab it and throw it in the truck. Got home and saw it's in pretty shoddy condition. Both side panels are missing, and they cut ALL of the cords out including data cables. The hardware was still good though so I cleaned it out, parted it out and I got some nice parts which worked perfect when I put them on the bench. Hard drive has 98 FE installed on it.

Pentium II 350mhz
192 MB PC100SDRAM
Edom/Wintech slot 1 440BX mobo
MSi NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video
Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound
Maxtor 7.2g HDD
LG 40x CDROM / Mitsumi 3.5 floppy

They probably wanted to scrap the wiring for money since everything is copper in computer wiring, which is better than aluminum wiring (which is outlawed in the states). Nonetheless, nice hardware, though.

bjwil1991 wrote:

They probably wanted to scrap the wiring for money since everything is copper in computer wiring, which is better than aluminum wiring (which is outlawed in the states). Nonetheless, nice hardware, though.

*Sigh*

Just because Al wiring was used stupidly in residential work for all that time. Too many electricians installing aluminum conductor using the same methods as copper.

Pretty sure aluminum is still allowed in commercial work. It certainly is in Canada.

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bjwil1991 wrote:

They probably wanted to scrap the wiring for money since everything is copper in computer wiring, which is better than aluminum wiring (which is outlawed in the states). Nonetheless, nice hardware, though.

*Sigh*

Just because Al wiring was used stupidly in residential work for all that time. Too many electricians installing aluminum conductor using the same methods as copper.

Pretty sure aluminum is still allowed in commercial work. It certainly is in Canada.

Aluminum melts under heavy load much easier than copper. It also over heats easier.

My trailer was one of the first to be built using copper after al was made illegal in 71.

That's not the problem at all. Al is addressed properly in conductor selection tables of the CEC, presumably elsewhere as well.

The problem is that aluminum can't be joined using low tension crimps, Marrette connectors, or most other methods that are sufficient with copper. Copper forms a much more reliable cold weld with these methods where aluminum can work loose and begin to arc after repeated thermal cycling. Aluminum installed with high pressure crimp lugs, the Tyco CopAlum system, or straight in press down terminations like Phoenix plugs, the alumiconn system, or even Co/Alr hardware eliminates this weakness.

The last things worth mentioning that I got as a result of dumpster diving were two VLB cards: a disk controller and a Cirrus Logic 5428 video card. That was almost two months ago! I find less and less useful stuff lately.