New in box Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe. Was cheap so I had to 😀

kanecvr wrote:

The first card looks like a matrox graphics card - the second looks like an "image grabber" - a card that collects data from the medical imaging device it's connected to - be it xray, CT, MRI or even an ultrasound machine - the latter being most likely since it has silicon image chips on it. Did you by any chance pull it out of an ultrasound? Digital x-ray is pretty new, and I don't see how PCI cards would be used for it - as far as I know all image grabber cards for x-ray machines are PCI-E, 2006 onward (since it's about that time that they introduced fully digital x-ray machines) - BUT there are older CT, MRI and ultrasound machines used PCI cards.

At my last employer (university), we had a 30 year old electron microscope that used a special serial connection card (likely ISA) that meant the computer the thing was connected to had to be isolated from the network, as Windows XP was the last OS on which the software would work.
The microscope camera I mentioned in my other post was a replacement for an older camera that was basically a modified security camera (also Firewire IIRC, that was back in 2003 and it had been in use for almost a decade), but elsewhere in the building we has another camera system that was much older (1990 or earlier). It used BNC-like connections and according to the local IT department its video couldn't be fed into modern computers (strange, because it was a S-VHS camera - I bet they simply didn't want to think up a solution).
What I want to get to is that in many places these machines are not replaced very often. They can serve decades before becoming truly obsolete.

kixs wrote:

My recent CPU/FPU purchases amounted to this (and joins the other 200++ cpus in my collection): […]
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My recent CPU/FPU purchases amounted to this (and joins the other 200++ cpus in my collection):

None tested so far. But I expect them to work fine 😀

That's nice. So much beautifull cheramic. 😜
I totally understand that you want to test them asap.

Thraka wrote:

Picked these up at a local recycling place for free. Also nabbed an ISA IDE controller card there too. […]
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Picked these up at a local recycling place for free. Also nabbed an ISA IDE controller card there too.

Nice find. V2-SLI setup are allways nice to have in the collection.
12mb each?

Brickpad wrote:

Won this auction for $20.50 + free shipping. NEC Powermate 5100 with a 300MHz Celery. I'm hoping a Slot 1 board so I can upgrade it to a PIII 450.

Almost two weeks after I paid for this item the seller decided to cancel the order and refunded payment. I'm pretty sure I know why, and it is legitimate reason; "free shipping" probably cost more than what I paid for it. Regardless though I would have paid for the cost of shipping had they simply contacted me first. I think this deserves negative feedback for not bothering to communicate or give an explanation.

Bought something a little different; a 260MB PCMCIA hard drive!

A second Santa Cruz arrived today.

Just got these 2 boxes for 140€ including shipment

Nothing special to see but I hope there will be some surprises. And..in the 2nd box there are...

2 Spea V7 media mx (Ensoniq Soundscape) including Disks and Docu which should be almost worth some money 😀

Today I was lucky enough to recieve 3 long due packages 😊
My voodoo 1 arrived (diamond voodoo 1 4mb)
Ide 40 pins coupler
2x 32 mb sd ram pc66

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 sitting around. For kicks, I installed MS-DOS 6.22 on it. Works fine. Then I got the idea of making a P4 MS-DOS rig...

Acquired an 8MB ATI Rage XL AGP card, 3COM 3C905-TX, cd-rom audio cable, IDE to USB adapter (mine broke) and an Ensoniq ES1370 PCI card. This is gonna be a fun one.

I got an old VIA based PC with an EPIA-M (VIA C3 1 Ghz Nehemiah)

brostenen wrote:

Thraka wrote:

Picked these up at a local recycling place for free. Also nabbed an ISA IDE controller card there too.

Nice find. V2-SLI setup are allways nice to have in the collection.
12mb each?

I think so, chips on both sides of the boards.

Both 12 and 8 MB have chips on each sides usually, but the 8MB model has some missing on the back. If there is no empty bank, then yes it should be a 12MB model

Deksor wrote:

Both 12 and 8 MB have chips on each sides usually, but the 8MB model has some missing on the back. If there is no empty bank, then yes it should be a 12MB model

Some 12MB cards (STB Black Magic?) have RAM chips only on the front. Gives you an impression of 6MB? WTF? at the first glance.

Sorted some PC ram and now have a baggy of ECC server ram, varying from pc66-133.

Nothing too fancy, just a VLB controller card with two IDE interfaces (+ floppy, COM & LPT). Finally my VLB-486 project can have more than 2 IDE devices attached at the same time... 🤣

IDT Winchip 240 (not the winchip2) just to add one to my collection. Missed a winchip2 by a few minutes. 🙁

Ariakos wrote:

Nothing too fancy, just a VLB controller card with two IDE interfaces (+ floppy, COM & LPT). Finally my VLB-486 project can have more than 2 IDE devices attached at the same time... 🤣

http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee443/Ari … zpsl1uyrihp.jpg

If that's a CMD640, beware the data corruption bug, though it's possible it only affects Linux.

An Aureal Vortex 2.

Nice. Vortex 2 is awesome.

Got a few Pentium II and Duron CPUs today.