went to my local once a month vintage computer swap meet today. I could tell right away it was an off month cause there wernt many venders out and the best booth (the boy scouts booth who host this thing) was pretty devoid of anything interesting. some boxed business stuff and a few picked over P4 machines. I spotted the local reseller right off who generally buys everything even remotely interesting and hangs out there the entire event. anyways I was about to write it off as a loss and go home when a car pulled up (see people actually drive up and donate stuff to the scout booth as the day goes on so its not just what they bring in the morning, I like this cause it means you can still get good stuff later in the event). anyways the guy shouts "anyone interested in joysticks?" I really wasn't but I went to check it out anyways. that's when they also pulled out a fair sized box of random PC cards. let me tell you. I immediately felt like a pirhana caught in the middle of a pirhana feeding frenzy. I think my age gave me a slight edge since I was the only 30 something in a crowd of 40 and 50 somethings. I managed to actually reach the box first and pick through it. I didn't look it over as thoroughly as I would of liked to as my tech bloodlust slowly ebbed and I started to feel bad for the guys shuffling for a look behind me. I think all I left in my wake were modems, Ethernet cards and low end pci sound cards but i still wish I was a little more ruthless. Anyways, this was my score.
mini usb keyboard (not in image), PCI Matrox G200, PCI trident 3d blade, PCI trio 3d/x2, generic CL ISA VGA card, unidentifiable 486 motherboard, a et4000 vga card that may or may not be EISA or some proprietary local bus. 20mhz 386 cpu, AWE64 value, sb16 CT2230, SB audigy card (decent for a win98 or xp rig i guess)
nothing spectacular and as of yet I cant get the motherboard to post but total spent $6. doesn't top the boxed voodoo 5500 I found here for $3 once. oh well, cant hit home runs all the time.
