I spent all saturday looking for my 8 bit isa sony cd drive controller.

only to remember I sold it to a friend 6 months ago.

Well, I am sorry about that VIP 486. I do think I threw it away, since it had damaged memory sockets. Only 1 out of 4 worked, and only with 4 Mb modules. I am glad I found the VLB 486 boards in time. One of them was used as my main computer many years ago; I was dirt poor, so a 486 with a tiny 43 Mb HDD was all that I could afford. 30pin SIMMs, all 8 occupied with 1 Mb modules. The other board is a Soyo 25J, 2 72pin and 4 30pin slots; from all the SIMM I tested it with, it seems to like best a 64 Mb pair; 2x32, that is.
I have fond memories of compiling a Linux kernel and KDE on a 486 with a Soyo VIP mobo, same model as the one which saw only 4 Mb. Well... a 486 with 20 or 24 Mb RAM, 2x2 Gb SCSI HDD, a 2 Mb VLB video which I still have and works great, and a Yamaha SW20-PC+Gravis Ultrasound ACE combo.

Oh the irony... I remember all these but I cannot remember what happened to the 754 soundcard or the MVP3 or TX Pro mobos.

Forgetting where I put something was a major issue before I started labeling everything. Now I have everything sorted in labeled boxes and stored everything together. All mobo's in 1 part of the attic (and sorted by socket type) stored in motherboard boxes (usually 2 in 1 box to save some space and because I don't have enough boxes to go around), all graphics cards in labeled kiwi boxes and all together. etc etc.
It took me weeks to sort and label everything, but at least I sorted one problem (I can now find stuff back again because I know where it "should" be). But it didn't solve the other problem, which is...looking for 1 particular piece of hardware and then finding something else which make me go "Oh, I forgot I had -that- in there!" 😜

File cabnets can make thing easier but not for everyone and better than random boxes/bins that are easily forgotten.

Am I crazy? Or just getting old?

Maybe both?... 😁

Don't worry, I have the same problem... 😊

Great... just great and peachy...
I am doomed. DOOMED, I tell you. Right now I can't find a SB Vibra_16XV; which I had in my hands less than a month ago... Just wanted to pack in some boxes my soundcards and videocards, I found another Vibra16, but I cannot find the XV. Cannot mistake them, because the found one has all black audio jacks (and is a 16c), and the missing one has color coded jacks.
What the hell is happening here??!!??

^ gremlins! 😁 or hardware gnomes!

If I stop posting, know that my GUS ACE has disappeared too and I have commited suicide.

fillosaurus wrote:

If I stop posting, know that my GUS ACE has disappeared too and I have commited suicide.

LMAO!

Anyway, does anyone else have access to your collection of hardware?
I am very hesitant to let people at my hardware for fear of theft. Actually, I mention to very few people that I have a large amount of old hardware laying around and if they ask, I just tell them my attic is filled with junk (which can be considered a half-truth I guess 😁 ) like old schoolbooks and such.

Nobody else has access to my junk 😉
My parents visit weekly, but they do not mess with it.
And the friends who visit are not interested, as a matter of fact one of them donated lots of old hardware, and does not know the difference between an ISA soundcard and AGP video.
Anyways, a PCI Yamaha 754 and ISA SB Vibra 16XV are hardly rare items.
It just bothers me I cannot find them anymore.