It actually made it home OK, it just fell off a shelf when I was doing a bit of cleaning 🙁

I'll bring the cards home the week after next (I'm off work for a bit) and get some photos!

kithylin wrote:

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. 😢

Chance link to e-bay in Germany. Guy had 2. I tried to get both but somebody got the other one same time as me.
It was total right place at the right time. I've been looking for one for almost a decade.

oerk wrote:

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.....pre […]
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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.

That would be great. 😀
I'll post up a pic of them.

ASUS TX97-E:

with AMD K6 200ALR:

this Pentium II - unknown clock:

Audio card S3 Sonic Vibes (S3 audio also???):

Indrid Cold wrote:

this Pentium II - unknown clock:

266MHz. 😉

AMD Athlon FX-51 (NOS) (2003)

Aureal SQ2500 (Aureal Vortex 2) PCI (Boxed) (1999)

Gravis UltraSound Plug & Play ISA (NOS) (1995)

Gravis UltraSound Plug & Play Pro ISA (NOS) (1995)

IBM-Covox Speech Thing (Boxed) (1992)

Metabyte Wicked3D WickedVision H3D Eyewear System (Boxed) + Wicked3D Voodoo2 12MB PCI (1998)

Yamaha SW60XG ISA (Boxed) (1995)

Always awesome to see your grabs Artex 😀

Damn you Artex beautiful stuff!!

I love the name of that "IBM Speech Thing". Has to be one of the laziest names for a product 😀

Amazing finds Artex! Wow.

Nice to see you're back on it, Artex. Getting a bit more sleep now? 😉

I have only ever heard of the Speech Thing so it was nice to see one.

BTW Artex you need to get that Covox Speech Thing disk imaged and available at VogonsDrivers 😎

great stuff there Artex!!!! The Speech Thing is the winner for me 😁

The Speech Thing name reminds me of "The God Thing" (working title for Star Trek: The motion picture).

Those photos are pretty amusing. First because of the dates 1992/1993. I can't imagine who would still have been buying these things by that point. Also by the extra piece of paper that omits features listed in the manual. I like that they at least take responsibility by offering to fix any potential problems. Now that's the kind of service you don't see much of anymore.

A lot of goodies (mostly Voodoo cards, creative sound cards and Matrox cards) is leaving for me today and should arrive on Monday. They're being sent by my friend at the recycling center. Here are some pics - most of the stuff is identified and labeled. Click for bigger pictures!

Can barely wait 😀

That is a pretty substantial haul. Why is everything sitting on a dirt road though?

They're on a table as far as I can tell. To answer your question, the pictures were taken by said friend - I didn't recieve the cards yet - should get them via courier on monday.

The pictures were taken at his recycling center - on a table by a wall as far as I can tell - not a dirt road 😀

It is a large haul. 6 voodoo 1 cards and 7 voodoo 2 cards, a few matrox cards, a few creative cards (two Vibra 16 ISA and two CT4500 AWE64 are most noticeable). Not pictured are some motherboards - a dual socket 370 motherboard and some socket 7 / slot 1 / socket 3 stuff.

From the pictures below I'm only getting the Dual 370 board, the slot 1 boards, the ATX socket 7 board, two AT socket 7 boards, the MVP3 board (only one with AGP) and some socket 3 boards - I picked only AT and ATX format boards - the proprietary format stuff that requires a special case went in the grinder.

kanecvr wrote:

A lot of goodies (mostly Voodoo cards, creative sound cards and Matrox cards) is leaving for me today and should arrive on Monda […]
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A lot of goodies (mostly Voodoo cards, creative sound cards and Matrox cards) is leaving for me today and should arrive on Monday. They're being sent by my friend at the recycling center. Here are some pics - most of the stuff is identified and labeled. Click for bigger pictures!

Can barely wait 😀

I spotted a Tseng Labs ET4000 in there. If you don't have use for it i'll throw some money in your face 🤣

There seems to be also an interesting I/O cache controller in there. Amazing haul

Thanks all! Definitely one of the better hauls for me recently. I have something special that I'll post later today too! 😎

brassicGamer wrote:

Nice to see you're back on it, Artex. Getting a bit more sleep now? 😉

I have only ever heard of the Speech Thing so it was nice to see one.

Hahah - I was never 'off' it. 😀 On the sleep - absolutely not. My wife and I are basically taking shifts during the night but our little one's schedule is completely opposite of ours. I think she may be nocturnal. 😜 On the Covox front, I've actually never seen one either so I was very interested in this. It's got all the original documentation and some really weird inserts too. Cool stuff!

carlostex wrote:

BTW Artex you need to get that Covox Speech Thing disk imaged and available at VogonsDrivers 😎

Oh yeah - good call. I'll get that done this weekend. I know Hard1K requested a CD image of the disc included with the GUS PnP as well.

Not the GUS PnP, but the SQ2500 ones 😀