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The industrial computer I posted a pic of a while ago showed up today. It is a super custom jobbie made specifically for the mot […]
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The industrial computer I posted a pic of a while ago showed up today. It is a super custom jobbie made specifically for the motherboard in it.. an ASUS P2B-LS.

Video card is a Diamond branded Riva 128. Also has a 3Com network card and a couple other cards. Kinda looks like it was used for some sort of video capture or processing of some sort. The one PCI slot looks like something was removed from the system at some point.
CPU in it is a PII-450 and a single 128MB stick of RAM. The SCSI HDD is ~4.5GB.
The power supply is custom made and nowhere near a standard size.
I did not take another pic of the front of it since the one I posted a while ago from the seller shows it just fine.. basically just power, leds, 3.5" floppy and a SCSI port. I might be modding the case so I can use an optical and 3.5" drive. Not really any room for anything else.

I'll probably just use this as a dedicated PII or PIII Slot-1 system with the motherboard that came with it. The motherboard has a PC/PCI header so that is another plus.

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Wow, that thing looks like a crazy hybrid IBM 5150 ATX SFF system...

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Wow, that thing looks like a crazy hybrid IBM 5150 ATX SFF system...

Heh.. I wonder if this thing was ever converted to 120v since the tag on the back indicates 230v.
Hmmm. I am going to have to do some testing before I power it up.

I may have to transplant the innards of a standard ATX PSU into the case.

cyclone3d wrote:

The industrial computer I posted a pic of a while ago showed up today. It is a super custom jobbie made specifically for the motherboard in it.. an ASUS P2B-LS.

Hah! Thought wasn't going to be older than that 😉

Beautiful board, which revision?

Video card is a Diamond branded Riva 128.

Viper 330?

Also has a 3Com network card and a couple other cards. Kinda looks like it was used for some sort of video capture or processing […]
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Also has a 3Com network card and a couple other cards. Kinda looks like it was used for some sort of video capture or processing of some sort. The one PCI slot looks like something was removed from the system at some point.
CPU in it is a PII-450 and a single 128MB stick of RAM. The SCSI HDD is ~4.5GB.
The power supply is custom made and nowhere near a standard size.
I did not take another pic of the front of it since the one I posted a while ago from the seller shows it just fine.. basically just power, leds, 3.5" floppy and a SCSI port. I might be modding the case so I can use an optical and 3.5" drive. Not really any room for anything else.

I'll probably just use this as a dedicated PII or PIII Slot-1 system with the motherboard that came with it. The motherboard has a PC/PCI header so that is another plus.

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Indeed. Very interesting thing.

OldCat wrote:

love Mario 2 to death

EDIT: sorry for the hijack, but I allowed myself to add photo of my backlit and biverted Game Boy Classic with Mario 2 on.

Agreed. 6 Golden Coins is my favorite for the GB too.

^ It's one of my favorites too - someone made recently a colorization hack that is pretty impressive!

I absolutely love Super Mario Land -- owned it originally and bought it for VC on my 3DS. I didn't know of SM2 until the other year, so bought it right away. I'm still trying to get into it, because I'm just so used to the controls and tiny sprites of the original.

Japanese game cart boxes look really late 70s or early 80s in terms of styling.

Got this handy package from Ebay. Just what I wanted:

...okay, fine, the contents were thankfully not as labelled. In it were a stack of FlexATX power supplies for my Shuttle XPC. I've been trying to source one locally for like two years but didn't have any luck. These cost me less than $12 each including shipping, and they look nearly new. I'm sure I'll find a use for the other two.

Incidentally that box was way overkill for these, they were wrapped up like a Mars lander inside with large-cell bubble wrap. Can't complain.

It doesn't come across in the pictures but these are tiny, here's a better size comparison:

They're also (relatively-) up-rated over the base 200W one that originally came in this model XPC. The 13A 5V rating might seem a little weak for an Athlon XP but it's higher than what the original one offered, and the board has a 4-pin CPU power connector so I'm assuming it's fine.

Been busy late week, on top off the ones on the pictures also got some Trident Isa VGA cards, one Realtek ISA VGA, Isa Controllers and two Pentium II (333 and 400Mhz).

The cherry top is the Compaq Presario 2254, K6-2 233, 64MB ram, S3 Virge DX onboard, ESS 1887F onboard, 4GB Bigfoot Hdd with Win98 instaled. Need to check if the cpu can be swaped for a Intel 233mmx if I can find the manual online, and find if there is a more recent Bios.

Some more

Managed to get hold of a DELL Optiplex 486 motherboard quite cheaply on eBay, which surprised me actually!

Picture is from the trader on eBay, so is about the best quality I currently have until I actually receive it.

The motherboard in my DELL has a non-working PC Speaker and instead of trying to fix and risk damaging my only 486 machine, I thought I may as well just replace the motherboard since this was so cheap.

The physical dimensions of this board are practically a match for my DELL, but this is not the same motherboard I currently have (that too was available on eBay, but at a higher price) as this appears to have some kind VLSI chipset, whereas the one in mine seems to have chips marked Headland, with Tseng Labs ET 4000 onboard graphics. No idea what graphics are on this until I get it, the pic is much too blurry.

When it arrives the first thing I'm going to do is run some comparison benchmarks between the 2 boards. All being well, I'll install this inside my Optiplex and then set about reinstalling Windows 95 & NT 4.

Just received 😀
Unfortunately there are some problems with card but I think I'll make it run 😀

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Managed to get hold of a DELL Optiplex 486 motherboard quite cheaply on eBay, which surprised me actually! […]
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Managed to get hold of a DELL Optiplex 486 motherboard quite cheaply on eBay, which surprised me actually!

Picture is from the trader on eBay, so is about the best quality I currently have until I actually receive it.

The motherboard in my DELL has a non-working PC Speaker and instead of trying to fix and risk damaging my only 486 machine, I thought I may as well just replace the motherboard since this was so cheap.

The physical dimensions of this board are practically a match for my DELL, but this is not the same motherboard I currently have (that too was available on eBay, but at a higher price) as this appears to have some kind VLSI chipset, whereas the one in mine seems to have chips marked Headland, with Tseng Labs ET 4000 onboard graphics. No idea what graphics are on this until I get it, the pic is much too blurry.

When it arrives the first thing I'm going to do is run some comparison benchmarks between the 2 boards. All being well, I'll install this inside my Optiplex and then set about reinstalling Windows 95 & NT 4.

Looking forward to the benchmarks - I guess the board may have a Cirrus Logic unit on board. At least this was the case with these "OEM" pentium boards which either sported Tseng or Cirrus gfx-chipsets.

As part of a scrap lot I received this card. Anybody has an idea what this is? The obvious is the ESS audiodrive part and the com and parallel stuff, but why does it have a molex connector, a battery and that eprom? Searching the web for PP2000/CI I couldn't find anything about the card.

Eleanor1967 wrote:

As part of a scrap lot I received this card. Anybody has an idea what this is? The obvious is the ESS audiodrive part and the com and parallel stuff, but why does it have a molex connector, a battery and that eprom? Searching the web for PP2000/CI I couldn't find anything about the card.

System-on-a-card to use with a passive backplane, probably one with separate processor boards?

Just paid for a Compaq branded TNT2-Ultra... (sellers picture)

Eleanor1967 wrote:

As part of a scrap lot I received this card. Anybody has an idea what this is? The obvious is the ESS audiodrive part and the com and parallel stuff, but why does it have a molex connector, a battery and that eprom? Searching the web for PP2000/CI I couldn't find anything about the card.

I bet that came out of some kind of arcade cabinet. The brand is funworld which really sounds like a company that would make arcade machines.

Eleanor1967 wrote:

As part of a scrap lot I received this card. Anybody has an idea what this is? The obvious is the ESS audiodrive part and the com and parallel stuff, but why does it have a molex connector, a battery and that eprom? Searching the web for PP2000/CI I couldn't find anything about the card.

That's a custom ISA card for the "arcade" quiz machines named PHOTOPLAY. They used these cards to make normal pc mobos photoplay machines, The COM port is used for one type of touch controller, a pin header for another (depending on the machine). IIRC the other connector is for a security dongle or something like that (or a LPT port to connect the dongle don't quote me on that)
I have no idea what it can be used for on a normal PC build.

Not quite retro by the standards of the site, but I got this which I thought was pretty cool:

Sealed original Xbox 😀

My first good find. Got it for 1/5th of what the last one went for on ebay, from a Taiwanese auction site. A 3DO Blaster. 😀