Nice collection^^^

Received an Acer Magic S23A ISA sound card in the mail today.

I've been looking for a Reveal SC500 to complete my Dream 486 retro rebuild, and until I can find one (IF I can find one) this will work as a functionally-identical alternative since it has the exact same chipsets. 😊

I have an AOpen AW32 Pro, which is identical to the Acer Magic S23A except that it has IDE and the additional ICs to run it. I like its wavetable synth.

King_Corduroy wrote:

(since it uses some weird cable to adapt to DB15).

That kicked some memories. Just pawed through my remaining box of mac adapters but it appears I butchered that one for a later project.

Be aware that not all PC CRT will work, despite the adapter. Ran into this with my 7600 after the final Apple-brand 17" died. It would only work properly with an NEC I had, not my IBM, LG, or ViewSonics. This has to do with Apple's 'sense code' system, and you'll want to google to get a proper explanation. But the heads-up to take away is that when you do get the adaptor, don't figure video is necessarily borked if things don't work on the first few few CRT you try. You may have to fiddle an extra stage with a diode or two.

Got a pair of spares-or-repair ThinkPad 600Es for a tenner and they arrived on Monday. Sadly, I don't think either is salvageable; one has a supervisor password, the other won't run from a charger, only from a battery (something is shorting in the charging circuit I think - it will attempt to run off a charger, but will immediately shut off unless a battery is installed, and it won't charge a battery. There's only one working screen between the two (which has a dead pixel), and one of the CPUs seemed to conk out as well, which wasn't helpful. However, both keyboards seem to be good, and that was the main reason I bought them; they were a cheap way of getting my hands on a replacement keyboard for my ThinkPad 600. I actually took the whole palmrest over as the 600's was cracked in two places, and I also scavenged a good DVD drive (those go for more than a tenner on their own on eBay) and a stronger battery from the 600Es. Couldn't take the good CPU across as IBM decided to swap the connector for the newer CPUs, but ah well.

Anyway, it now looks like this, with a particularly epic sticker:

The 600Es came with a ThinkPad 600 restoration DVD-R, so I used it. I've also done an ISO dump of it - if anyone knows of somewhere to upload that image, please tell me and I'll do so.

just got this to replace the 10mhz 8088 in my XT 😁

Bought 2 dfi boards:
- K6BV3+ /66 via mvp3 , it came with a K6-2 500mhz.
- CA61 via apollo 133, came with a pentium 3-733mhz, it works but needs a couple of caps replaced.

A us robotics external modem...
And I got an agp 8x ati 512mb x1600. I wonder if I can get it to work with win98?? Anyone have any luck with that?

My wife bought the 2016 Hooters Calendar for me. Jay! 😀

V20 is awesome! Let us know how it performs!

Nothing exciting but could not miss out on this brand new boxed socket 7/370 cooler...

Will go nicely on my Cyrix PR166 system.

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PII board with 4 ISA slots, for $9.50! It's an MSI OEM board, Premio 212B. Can't find much info about it but it looks like a 440LX and I've got a 333MHz PII ready to drop in.

Sorry I'm a few days behind on this thread and replying to something a little while ago. But I wanted to help you because I know where this info is and how to find it.

So here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20060213202240/ht … aqs/212bfaq.htm

double post no idea how, a mod could delete this please.

Got one of these today. GFD for slot A.
Now....maybe somebody has some directions as to what the switch combinations are.....preferably in English. The original directions are almost illegible and my German ain't so good. Manufacturer is Madex.

All I know is, if you ship it to me, I will test it out for you. ^.^

luckybob wrote:

All I know is, if you ship it to me, I will test it out for you. ^.^

😁
I bet.

Mr.Scott wrote:

Got one of these today. GFD for slot A.
Now....maybe somebody has some directions as to what the switch combinations are.....preferably in English. The original directions are almost illegible and my German ain't so good. Manufacturer is Madex.

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Where do you manage to find these? I've been seeking one myself for years. 😢

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Got one of these today. GFD for slot A.
Now....maybe somebody has some directions as to what the switch combinations are.....preferably in English. The original directions are almost illegible and my German ain't so good. Manufacturer is Madex.

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I could translate the instructions for you.

BSA Starfire wrote:

Bought these bits today:

IBM 386 SX 25 motherboard with built-in everything,VGA(cirrus logic), IDE, Floppy, Serial, LPT & PS2 keyboard & mouse. Really convienient way into the world of 386, early DOS stuff, even has the ISA riser for a soundcard & better yet no barrel battery to leak all over the place, personally I reckon this will be a total diamond. No idea what I will do for a case, will have to wait for it to arrive and see what I can figure out.(these are sellers pictures). Anyhow pretty neat & cost the same as 3 cups of coffee 😉

Nice find... I like IBM 386 motherboards. Of the oringinals, this is one of the nicer ones. Not many 386 bords can boast an onboard disk controller... only AMI's Babyscreamer comes to mind.

You may find an empty case around the continent... I've seen some IBM empties quite recently, on ebay Spain I saw one, also germany is a good bet; - ebay.de.

Got this free from work a few months ago - I don't drive at the moment so I had to take the PC home on a 30 minute walk, which I knew would prove difficult! So I took it home bit by bit 😀 Unfortunately I dropped the hard drive and killed it but found a suitable replacement in my stash of PC junk.

A Pentium 75mhz with 8megs of ram and an S3 trio. Board seems to be an Intel 82430FX TRITON

It was used by the media services department and had two REALLY long ISA cards in it. Not sure what they are but I can get photos if anyone cares. I think one must be a capture card of some variety. It had some funky multimedia broadcast software on it but unfortunately I can't remember what exactly and the drive is dead now.. 🙁

The case itself is fairly crap.. though I've never owned a non Gateway 2000/Dell OEM machine so maybe this is run of the mill 😀 The Hard drive screws into the case from underneath the outside of the case, and it's below the PSU, so you have to remove the PSU to swap the hard drive out, which is awkward. Half the SIMM slots are under the PSU too. The switch is one of the awesome AT power switches but is mounted behind a really crap cheap plastic switch - pressing ON works fine but going off doesn't because there isn't enough clearance sometimes for the switch to fully disengage.

I had some old SIMMs in the cupboard (also free from work) and discovered I had 2 x 32meg and 2 x 16meg chips - Happy days, the machine now has 64 megs of ram - overkill? 😀

I also had some pentium CPUs knocking about - one was absolutely COATED in thermal gunk, had a few bent pins and has been in a drawer with all sorts of random junk and has no doubt been knocked about fairly badly. I decided to try it, being 99% sure it wouldn't work.

Cleared off all the paste (took special thermal paste removal stuff and a few q-tips and kitchen paper) - discovered it's a 133mhz chip. re-bent the pins straight using a mechanical pencil - the barrel of the pencil slips over the pins and makes straightening them very easy.

Removed the existing CPU and was surprised to find no thermal paste - just bare heatsink on top of bare CPU - was this normal back then?

Put the 133mhz cpu... turned on and....it's working! 😀 though at 75mhz. Have managed to get it to 100mhz but need to change the processor multiplier to get it up to proper speed. I've a thread opened for that..

No idea what I'll do with the machine to be honest!

I'd be interested to see the ISA cards, although I'd have no idea what they are. Nice save, shame about the HDD - maybe you should've used a backpack or something like that? 😀 I wish I had the space to store a few vintage desktops, all I can do is stack up laptops.