Too much.......prepping to move sometime in the not too distant future....
- Preparing the Dell Pentium 4 again, now it's a complete working system with 1.44M Floppy, DVD-RW, NVIDIA 5200 or 6200 (can't remember) video card (AGP), 3GB of RAM, 160GB SATA HDD. Pretty much up and running now with it's Windows XP Home x86 install that came with it new and ready for a new home.
- Had a friend who wanted a reliable DOS gaming rig for LSL/Kings Quest/Space Quest/Police Quest/The Need for Speed, thought my Gateway 2000 P5-100 would be a good candidate, well, I guess not, the motherboard on that thing is flaky as heck, wanting to POST, but I think it may have also been murdered by a set of ATA hard disks that somehow died while I was not using them in my 486.
- So I had to toss a 20GB, 40GB, and 80GB drive, now I'm sourcing a pile of 80GB drives from somewhere......oh joy. Want them for my 486.
- I'm also tempted to bid on a lot of motherboards that includes a Socket 3 and 3 Socket 7s untested for $30.00......so I can outfit the Gateway with one of those instead for my friend's custom gaming box.
- I've been cataloging ALL of the hardware I have.....jeebuz, I've got a ton of stuff.......this is everything I have that I've got to figure out if it stays or goes....straight from my textfile list...this is not everything.....
POWER SUPPLIES
250 Watt Baby AT Power Supply with Digital Readout Plug
HARD DISKS
Western Digital HardCard EZ 127
Western Digital HardCard EZ 127
MOTHERBOARDS
1983/84 IBM Personal Computer Portable 5155 System Board 256K AMD 8088 4.77MHz
EXPANSION CARDS
Crystal CX4235 ISA Sound Card ISA
Crystal CX4735 ISA Sound Card ISA
OEM (HP) Aztech AZT2320 Soundcard HP SP/N: 5064-2620 ISA
SMC 83C7950F Ethernet Adapter MAC: 0000C0 591CE6
SMC 83C7950F Ethernet Adapter MAC: 0000C0 5773DB
Cirrus Logic MD4450C Soundcard/Modem NC3.29 4EF4 NC3361FXXC
Intel 8/16 Adapter Ethernet 16-bit ISA
Generic UMC IDE/Floppy Board 16-bit ISA
Western Digital Paradise 512KB SVGA WD90C00 PVGA Card 16-bit ISA
Pinnacle Systems Firewire Card PCI
Winbond Generic Serial/Parallel/Game Card, 8-bit ISA
Acer PRO-400KF IDE/FDD/Serial/Parallel/Game Multi I/O Card 16-bit ISA
Future Domain PowerIDE Dual IDE Controller w/ BIOS Extention ROM 16-bit ISA + DRIVER on unoriginal Floppy
3Com EtherLink II TP 8/16 ISA Ethernet Card
Western Digital Generic IDE/FDD Controller Card 16-bit ISA
OAK Technology 077 SVGA Card ISA 16-bit
SIIG PCI Sound Card
WD Paradise PVGA1A 256K VGA Card 16-bit ISA w/ DIP SW Config
Oak Technology OTI 037C VGA/CGA/EGA/MDA/HERC Display Card 16-bit ISA 9 & 15 Pin Monitors
Panda SIMM 16-bit ISA Memory Expansion Card w/ 12MB of RAM
Rocketfish X-fi Xtreme Fidelity PCI Sound Card (CA1060 SOundBlaster Live Style Card)
ATI VGA Wonder 1MB SVGA Video Card CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA/MDA/HERC 9 & 15 Pin Monitors!!
And that's about 90% of what I have to deal with there - what for spares for 486, what to let go of.
Then there's the 286. Trying to decide weather to keep that one or let it go since I don't use it very much anymore, and it does stuff my 486 already does (though it does a very good XT emulation via the turbo switch but my Tandy 1000A has that covered).
so just lots of sorting and decisions going on, my man cave looks like a wreck ATM.