Deksor wrote:

That Tseng card HAS memory. However you can still upgrade it with some more (I guess it has 1MB and that you can upgrade it up to 2 MB)

Yes. The Tseng card has four 256kx8bit chips totaling 1MB.

You're right guys. Didn't spot it.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got this HD3850 AGP today. Untested, but I will gamble it for just 5 euro. It looks fine, but I think I'm missing the cable for […]
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Got this HD3850 AGP today. Untested, but I will gamble it for just 5 euro. It looks fine, but I think I'm missing the cable for the power. Or I don't have a suitable power supply...

It's an 8 pin. Use a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter, there's no way its actually using the extra current. The PCIe version actually uses a 6 pin. I have no clue what idiot thought that an 8 pin on an AGP card was a good idea.

Agp port doesn't supply as much power as a pcie slot does.
Frist gen pcie slots can output like 65w and 75w for gen 2 and on words. agp is about 48w.
8pin pcie allows for 150w wile 6pin alows for 75w output.

That all aside I believe the 3850 is like a 70-80w card. Maybe its gets all its power from the pcie power cable?

Gered wrote:

Bought it last week, but it arrived today: […]
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Bought it last week, but it arrived today:

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I haven't seen a mini AT tower in person since the 90's, I was a little bit surprised at how my memory was misleading me before it arrived... smaller then I expected, heh. 😀 Too used to seeing larger modern ATX towers I guess.

This will be used for a 486 build. It came with a 200W PSU, but I will likely be swapping it out for another one I have that is new old stock.

Did you get that off ebay? I've been looking for a small AT tower, but everything I've found has had a ridiculous price (plus even more ridiculous shipping).

Should've asked when I was cleaning things out a couple months ago. I'd have given you one for free.

gdjacobs wrote:

Should've asked when I was cleaning things out a couple months ago. I'd have given you one for free.

That seems to be my way. I talked to an old friend 2 months after he cleared out his old 386/486 collection. Guy on kijiji just got rid of his cases (though he has some AT power supplies I'm probably going to buy).

I would love to find a case like I had an old Pentium Pro system I used to have (pic from 2002ish). Oh well, one day...

probnot wrote:

Did you get that off ebay? I've been looking for a small AT tower, but everything I've found has had a ridiculous price (plus even more ridiculous shipping).

Yep. I would've rather picked something up locally to save on shipping (and probably would've saved a ton on the base cost as well). Oh well. This one is in pretty good shape. Needs a bit of cleaning inside but the yellowing is pretty minor. The overall style is sort of maybe somewhat similar to the AT case that I really want. Actually, funny enough the case I would've really liked is almost identical to the one shown in the picture you posted. I haven't been able to find them anywhere except in eBay auctions for full 386/486 PCs which only ship to the US so I couldn't even buy them if I had wanted to.

Gered wrote:

probnot wrote:

Did you get that off ebay? I've been looking for a small AT tower, but everything I've found has had a ridiculous price (plus even more ridiculous shipping).

Yep. I would've rather picked something up locally to save on shipping (and probably would've saved a ton on the base cost as well). Oh well. This one is in pretty good shape. Needs a bit of cleaning inside but the yellowing is pretty minor. The overall style is sort of maybe somewhat similar to the AT case that I really want. Actually, funny enough the case I would've really liked is almost identical to the one shown in the picture you posted. I haven't been able to find them anywhere except in eBay auctions for full 386/486 PCs which only ship to the US so I couldn't even buy them if I had wanted to.

I found a bunch of old pictures of systems I had in the early 2002's (that I wish I hadn't junked)

hard1k wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

Purchased an Adaptec AMM1570 Soundmachine ... full SCSI on a soundcard. Bought it as it has a wavetable ROM on it, that I'm hoping to test with a very similar Cardinal MPC700A soundcard. Only scanned the box so far, card to come later.

Picture of the card please please please!

Done 😀 Will have to find the Cardinal card later for comparison. Should also image and upload the driver disks, though Adaptec/Microsemi might still have it.

By the way, meant to hit you up for close up pics of the Canopus Witchdoctor cable, need to roll my own 😉

JidaiGeki wrote:

Done 😀 Will have to find the Cardinal card later for comparison. Should also image and upload the driver disks, though Adaptec/Microsemi might still have it.

By the way, meant to hit you up for close up pics of the Canopus Witchdoctor cable, need to roll my own 😉

What's the size of the wavetable?

probnot wrote:

Gered wrote:

probnot wrote:

Did you get that off ebay? I've been looking for a small AT tower, but everything I've found has had a ridiculous price (plus even more ridiculous shipping).

Yep. I would've rather picked something up locally to save on shipping (and probably would've saved a ton on the base cost as well). Oh well. This one is in pretty good shape. Needs a bit of cleaning inside but the yellowing is pretty minor. The overall style is sort of maybe somewhat similar to the AT case that I really want. Actually, funny enough the case I would've really liked is almost identical to the one shown in the picture you posted. I haven't been able to find them anywhere except in eBay auctions for full 386/486 PCs which only ship to the US so I couldn't even buy them if I had wanted to.

I found a bunch of old pictures of systems I had in the early 2002's (that I wish I hadn't junked)

Pretty much the opinion of everybody here. So much unappreciated gear sent to the scrapyard.

Picked up a free Dell Inspiron 6000. 1.83ghz Pentium M 750, 128mb Radeon x300 graphics and a whopping 512mb of DDR2 533mhz. Luckily I have a pair of 512's handy to bump it up to 1gb. Heck may even have some 1gb chips laying around. Came with no HDD but otherwise complete and in great shape, and the battery even still holds a charge! Should make a pretty good XP machine. It was getting tossed out so couldn't say no of course.

JidaiGeki wrote:

Done 😀 Will have to find the Cardinal card later for comparison. Should also image and upload the driver disks, though Adaptec/Microsemi might still have it.

Very cool. I've never even heard of this wavetable card. I can't make out the manufacturer of the ROM set or how large it is, but I'd love to know more when you get it set up.

ODwilly wrote:

Picked up a free Dell Inspiron 6000. 1.83ghz Pentium M 750, 128mb Radeon x300 graphics and a whopping 512mb of DDR2 533mhz. Luckily I have a pair of 512's handy to bump it up to 1gb. Heck may even have some 1gb chips laying around. Came with no HDD but otherwise complete and in great shape, and the battery even still holds a charge! Should make a pretty good XP machine. It was getting tossed out so couldn't say no of course.

Ha, I was playing around with the Inspiron 6000 a couple of weeks ago! The first thing I did was disasembly, cleaning the cooling and changing the thermal paste. I also did the pin mod and my Pentium M jumped to 2.13GHz 😊 It ran Prime95 rock stable and didn't even go above 65*C under maximum load, where is that time gone? Now we have tiny coolers and 90-100*C throttling CPU's. 😕
Shame it didn't have an ATI card, only the built in Intel HD Graphics.

martin939 wrote:

ODwilly wrote:

Picked up a free Dell Inspiron 6000. 1.83ghz Pentium M 750, 128mb Radeon x300 graphics and a whopping 512mb of DDR2 533mhz. Luckily I have a pair of 512's handy to bump it up to 1gb. Heck may even have some 1gb chips laying around. Came with no HDD but otherwise complete and in great shape, and the battery even still holds a charge! Should make a pretty good XP machine. It was getting tossed out so couldn't say no of course.

Ha, I was playing around with the Inspiron 6000 a couple of weeks ago! The first thing I did was disasembly, cleaning the cooling and changing the thermal paste. I also did the pin mod and my Pentium M jumped to 2.13GHz 😊 It ran Prime95 rock stable and didn't even go above 65*C under maximum load, where is that time gone? Now we have tiny coolers and 90-100*C throttling CPU's. 😕
Shame it didn't have an ATI card, only the built in Intel HD Graphics.

Does the intel model have the gpu connector?

Picked me up an old NOS x7 mouse. This one to be exact, payed 8$
http://www.x7.cn/en/product.asp?id=17

tikoellner wrote:

Some stuff I got today: […]
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Some stuff I got today:

- Cool (IMO) AST RAMPAGE 286 EMS card with full 2mb of RAM;
- Creative Sound Blaster PRO 2 CT1600. Already have one, but this card I can't resist buying.
- Cardex VLB card (TSENG ET4000/w32p with no memory. Also have one already, but TSENG VLB stuff is what I must get once I spot it.

Paid 25 USD for the lot. Reasonable?

Very cool..I am also looking for such EMS card for a reasonable price...

The prices for this stuff at Ebay are "interesting" - how much Gold might be in it?! I think most bidders are collectors - gold recovery cannot be worth that prices.

I received a lot of...

i386 - 16
Cyrix 586-100
6 x 486 DX2
6 x Pentium
8 x Pentium MMX 233
4 x K6-2 up to 500
2 x Pentium Pro
Many Athlon / Sempron etc

Pins are bent but recoverable. Unfortunately one PPro Pin is missing. Already tested the DX2s and they are working 😀

Predator99 wrote:

The prices for this stuff at Ebay are "interesting" - how much Gold might be in it?! I think most bidders are collectors - gold […]
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The prices for this stuff at Ebay are "interesting" - how much Gold might be in it?! I think most bidders are collectors - gold recovery cannot be worth that prices.

I received a lot of...

i386 - 16
Cyrix 586-100
6 x 486 DX2
6 x Pentium
8 x Pentium MMX 233
4 x K6-2 up to 500
2 x Pentium Pro
Many Athlon / Sempron etc

Pins are bent but recoverable. Unfortunately one PPro Pin is missing. Already tested the DX2s and they are working 😀

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Not sure about socket 8, but maybe you're lucky and it's a redundant pin