Cute, they're family!

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today: […]
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Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:

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tizzdizz wrote:

Finally is the one I'm most excited about. It's a mini tower with turbo button and key! It's an AMD 5x86 x5 133mhz machine, with I believe 16 megs of ram and a sound master 16.

Sound master 16? Is that a typo or just a name that sounds a lot like a Sound Blaster 16?
I do have two Sound Boostar 16/32 sound cards.

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That 3rd case is the same one from my PIII era machine. I actually came across an identical one recently but for some reason scrapped it which is weird because most people hunt for decades to get such things back. Meh, I always hated that case, as it as cheap. Power button broke. That last case is EPIC however.

Speaking of which, I'm extremely happy at picking up this case in a recent office clear out:

Now this IS a case I've been coveting for some time. Should clean up nicely. Aside from the internal Zip drive, the contents are even better:

Mobo is an Epox BX7+100. Haven't looked it up but I'm assuming it's S370 and I don't know what the CPU is because it won't post. Biggest surprise was the TNT2 Pro 32MB and you can never have too many ISA Sound Blasters even if it is a CT4520.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Cute, they're family!

tizzdizz wrote:

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today: […]
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Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:

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That's rad! Have you done anything with yours yet? What are the specs?

Disassembled and cleaned it, I am currently deciding what to put in it: What retro activity did you get up to today? It had a Pentium 90 on an Intel board, more pictures in this post: Bought these (retro) hardware today

tizzdizz wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Cute, they're family!

tizzdizz wrote:

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today: […]
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Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:

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That's rad! Have you done anything with yours yet? What are the specs?

Calvero wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

Finally is the one I'm most excited about. It's a mini tower with turbo button and key! It's an AMD 5x86 x5 133mhz machine, with I believe 16 megs of ram and a sound master 16.

Sound master 16? Is that a typo or just a name that sounds a lot like a Sound Blaster 16?
I do have two Sound Boostar 16/32 sound cards.

Indeed, you are correct. My thumbs are too fat on my iphone, and autocorrect means well, but...

Autocorrect doesn't mean well. Autocorrect is evil.

Somebody gave me a nice little 386SX 25 computer in an AT form factor

The battery was about to leak ...

But hopefully I removed it just in time ^^

The computer came with 6MB of ram, an UMC io card, a trident video card, two fdds (the 5"1/4 is an 1.2MB model so that's sweet ^^). The hdd was removed but that's fine, I have plenty of them

The PSU's fan did make a rattling noise, but after adding some oil, it's now perfectly fine. The caps looked good, but I'll replace them as they are now 25 years old. Otherwize, the computer works like a charm and the case looks nice even though it's yellowed.

Now I can get rid of my black 386SX 25 PS/1 which I never liked a lot ^^

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

I'm still looking for my first. I'd love to have one for my 486. It's currently in an ATX case. Still beige, but a little too modern. At least the games play the same. 😉

I've had *one* AT tower. It's by far the coolest tower I had and ever will have.

Now you need a SCSI hot swap frame for it.

Indeed, this has to be one of the coolest AT case I've seen ^^

clueless1 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

I'm still looking for my first. I'd love to have one for my 486. It's currently in an ATX case. Still beige, but a little too modern. At least the games play the same. 😉

Well for me AT cases are not that rare. I currently have 9 of them and 5 of them are empty (though I also have plenty unused AT motherboards, especially socket 7 ones and dead 486 ones). I'll get rid of 1 or 2 of them someday as they take up too munch room ^^

This has to be the first computer I've seen with a varta battery that didn't die ... I hate those things !

brassicGamer wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

That 3rd case is the same one from my PIII era machine. I actually came across an identical one recently but for some reason scr […]
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That 3rd case is the same one from my PIII era machine. I actually came across an identical one recently but for some reason scrapped it which is weird because most people hunt for decades to get such things back. Meh, I always hated that case, as it as cheap. Power button broke. That last case is EPIC however.

Speaking of which, I'm extremely happy at picking up this case in a recent office clear out:

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Now this IS a case I've been coveting for some time. Should clean up nicely. Aside from the internal Zip drive, the contents are even better:

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Mobo is an Epox BX7+100. Haven't looked it up but I'm assuming it's S370 and I don't know what the CPU is because it won't post. Biggest surprise was the TNT2 Pro 32MB and you can never have too many ISA Sound Blasters even if it is a CT4520.

I'd give a try and see if the board still works or not, socket 370 BX boards are uncommon, especially when are for Pentium III

CT4520 is mainly an AWE64 Value or Standard AWE64

clueless1 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

I'm still looking for my first. I'd love to have one for my 486. It's currently in an ATX case. Still beige, but a little too modern. At least the games play the same. 😉

You at least have an AT backplate for that ATX case?
And I suppose you already had a look on amibay, there were a couple people selling AT cases last time I had a look there.

oeuvre wrote:

I've had *one* AT tower. It's by far the coolest tower I had and ever will have.

That AT case looks totally awesome!! 😲

Deksor wrote:

Indeed, this has to be one of the coolest AT case I've seen ^^ […]
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Indeed, this has to be one of the coolest AT case I've seen ^^

clueless1 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

I'm still looking for my first. I'd love to have one for my 486. It's currently in an ATX case. Still beige, but a little too modern. At least the games play the same. 😉

Well for me AT cases are not that rare. I currently have 9 of them and 5 of them are empty (though I also have plenty unused AT motherboards, especially socket 7 ones and dead 486 ones). I'll get rid of 1 or 2 of them someday as they take up too munch room ^^

This has to be the first computer I've seen with a varta battery that didn't die ... I hate those things !

I'm at over 20 AT towers now (got most of them back when I started collecting and these were much easier and cheaper to find), but a couple of them are missing their harddrive cages (no idea why I decided to bring those home, probably gotten them or their content was soo good that I reckoned it was easier simply bringing in the entire system).
I got one of those very tall ones, but most are basically standard AT minitower clones as those are the most flexible.

Well one of my AT case misses it's cover so I'm not going to keep it. However I know somebody that may still be interested by it so fortunately, nothing's lost. This case previously had one ... but next I did find the exact same case in a munch better shape (no or little yellowing, no rust, has it's giant foot) but lacked the cover so I just exchanged the cover so now it's complete. It came with a 486 board but unfortunately the board was buggy. I tried to repair it by removing and resoldering the chipset but it died in the operation. It wasn't really usable before (some cards worked, some didn't, the VLB didn't want to work at all) so that's not a big loss.

Tetrium wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, so many people atm getting AT towers! Good thing these ended up with collectors 😀

I'm still looking for my first. I'd love to have one for my 486. It's currently in an ATX case. Still beige, but a little too modern. At least the games play the same. 😉

You at least have an AT backplate for that ATX case?
And I suppose you already had a look on amibay, there were a couple people selling AT cases last time I had a look there.

No backplane. No one looks there. Right now, it's function over form.

Shipping costs push any cases over my budget right now. 🙁 I do have a friend who says he has some in his storage, and when the time comes for him to clean it out, he'll call me to come take whatever I want. But I've been waiting a year already, I might as well keep waiting, knowing it will be free.

Your dumpster finds are better than what people put up on ebay 😁

Carlos S. M. wrote:

I'd give a try and see if the board still works or not, socket 370 BX boards are uncommon, especially when are for Pentium III

CT4520 is mainly an AWE64 Value or Standard AWE64

Reckon I might have found the culprits:

Looks like the previous owner mashed a bunch of caps by pushing something from the 5.25" bays too hard. Also there's a bulger so I'll probably recap the whole thing - this board is from prime bad cap era.

More junk!

(Found this behind a garbage lugger!)

All computers work the old ones need new clock batts but the mac is flawless. Seems to be a decommissioned school pc.