Update: unknown 430TX mobo from the M577 bundle turned out to be a Tekram P5T30-B4E

zuldan wrote on Yesterday, 21:06:

PD2JK wrote on Yesterday, 17:57:

Yet another mystery box, a local listing with a very concise title: old pc. Two pictures as well. […]
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Yet another mystery box, a local listing with a very concise title: old pc. Two pictures as well.

When you see this, a retro enthousiast knows enough:

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I just had to have it, so I did. Lost a kidney again but still happy.

Crappy pic:

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(PT-2006 board in the background)

Now to get some Sega controllers.

Might be a good time to go buy a lottery ticket 😉

The NV1 was an interesting Quad rendering card, the fact it used squares over triangles made it difficult to program for though. Very cool card but has very limited potential use aside from collecting, the NV2 was also rumored to use quads and due to how poorly the NV1 was received got dropped. A lot of the research and development got moved to the NV3 better known as the Riva 128 and well the rest is history as they say.

I place this card right alongside the Fury MAXX, both damn cool cards to have in the collection but neither are terrible useful as retro gaming cards. (I still don't own a NV1, they are priced out of reach of your average collector unless you get lucky)

Nvidia made the right choice to drop quads, it was a cool experiment and showed that other forms of rendering besides triangles could work, the industry however spoke and went with the easier to program for triangles. IIRC they are also easier for the GPU computationally requiring less time to process in the rendering pipeline.

I made a silly ebay purchase today. An Asus TUA266, I've always wanted a 370 board with either RD or DDR ram so here we are. I paid WAY too much, attached is the sellers pic.

pete8475 wrote on Yesterday, 23:14:

I made a silly ebay purchase today. An Asus TUA266, I've always wanted a 370 board with either RD or DDR ram so here we are. I paid WAY too much, attached is the sellers pic.

Looks good though, some high end P3 based possibilities there.

Laptop purchases from the bay. @3lectr1c might like them 😀

- Maxdata MP-989 (Chicony rebrand, my fave since it uses the full blown desktop Award Bios 4.51!)
- Compaq Armada 1598DT

I don't buy much anymore, but when one of my regular junkyard guys rang me up with two miserable looking 386 boards and CPUs I said OK and paid up.

They took a bit of work to get working, both had battery damage and one had pretty terrible corrosion all over. They both work now, though.

appiah4 wrote on Today, 13:12:

I don't buy much anymore, but when one of my regular junkyard guys rang me up with two miserable looking 386 boards and CPUs I said OK and paid up.

They took a bit of work to get working, both had battery damage and one had pretty terrible corrosion all over. They both work now, though.

Good buy.
Hard to find good 386 motherboards today.