gdjacobs wrote:

Money should only be brought up in a few contexts. This is one.

Awesome clip - bookmarked! 😁

So, my King's Day 2018 haul:

3Com Ethernet III ISA card from early 1990s, the model without 10BaseT port (but it has a boot ROM socket, so suitable for XT BIOS eprom to bypass hard disk limits).

Unknown manufacturer ISA 2x serial/1x parallel expansion card, with sockets for upgrading the card to high-speed serial ports.

Unknown manufacturer ISA 2x serial/1x parallel/1x PS/2 mouse connector card, again with sockets for upgrading the card to high-speed serial ports.

Unknown manufacturer ISA multi-I/O card with 2x serial/1x parallel/1x game port/1x IDE/1x FDD connectors and a Goldstar Prime 2 chipset. Might use this one to give one of my systems that is lacking it a game port (if I can figure out the jumper settings)...

IBM FastWide internal SCSI cable, new in package.

continued in my next post...

Nice HW on last pages ... ATrend with V3 onboard very nice

I got some too

few Virges or Trios

classic NF7-S with TT Tower

QDI VIA133T with Coopermine Cel 1GHz

Casio portable color LCD TV, looking like new, including pouch. Of course, with the analog signal gone it's pretty useless, but since it also has a connector for an external antenna I might be able to hook it up to something outputting an analog signal.

Sitecom networking kit box...

...which contains slightly different stuff than what's shown on the box:
- Sitecom 5-port 10BaseT hub (powers on).
- Sweex PCI network card + driver floppies.
- 3x Realtek PCI network cards, two with wake-on-LAN cable included.
- driver floppies for Sitecom network card (card not included)
- 2x 10/100 Mb 10baseT network cable

All from the same stand. Total amount paid: 20 Euro.

Skipped some stuff:
- AWE 64 PCI OEM box with manuals, driver CDs, but unfortunately not the sound card.
- Casio CTK-100 keyboard (presets only, bad quality).
- Casio SA-2 mini keyboard (presets only extremely dumbed down version of a somewhat interesting toy synth).

Conclusion: Not as good as last year, but not bad. I still need to test the cards though...

yawetaG wrote:

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Casio portable color LCD TV, looking like new, including pouch. Of course, with the analog signal gone it's pretty useless, but since it also has a connector for an external antenna I might be able to hook it up to something outputting an analog signal.

I've been able to find a few consumer grade transmitters for cheap, which are fun for playing with old sets. You can even stack a few old VHF boosters together from a VCR output or RF demodulator, then connecting some rabbit ears, though I'm not sure I'd recommend it 😀

Bought the following during my thrifting adventures:

Yamaha PSR-90 Keyboard w/ accessories (foot pedals, PSU, and AWM Expansion unit)
PCMCIA & CardBus network/modem adapters (3Com EtherLink III, 3Com FastEthernet, Motorola 56K modem) with the appropriate cables (for the modem and NIC cards)
Cool Master Vortex Plus Universal CPU cooler (Socket 754-LGA1155, Athlon 64-Core i7 Extreme)

Today was a good day.

Bought five Voodoo5 5500s while I was in China. Unfortunately I couldn't bring them back in luggage due to a lack of space, but relatives over there have just mailed it onwards to me.

Three AGP, one PCI and one PCI Mac. Had no way of testing them over there, but for the price I paid I don't care if they don't work, they can go on display. Less than $150 for all of them! 😲

Kind of wish I had bought more...

Will show pics once they arrive.

EDIT: For anyone interested, got them at a small store at the Huaqiang North Road markets all from one small stand that had a lot of older PC hardware. 11/10 would recommend to any hardware enthusiast who finds themselves in China, or even Hong Kong (it's only a short trip).

A box of goodies for $5. Contents:

Pentium MMX 233MHz.
Pentium 4 1.5GHz.
ECS K7S5A motherboard (black one). Came with Athlon XP 1500+ Palomino. SiS 735 chipset with a universal AGP slot, support for DDR and SDR memory and hopefully AMD Geode CPUs.
MSI MS-6350. Cames with a Duron 1200Mhz. VIA KM133 chipset. Didnt really need it, but it came with the box so w/e.
And lastly, a Socket 423 motherboard with a 1.3GHz P4 under the heatsink. i850 chipset. Any part number searches lead to an ASUS P4T which seems incorrect. I really with I hadn't skipped of a cheap rdram offer I had a couple years back... 😵

Bought the above CGA Graphics Card for my XT build. I wanted a card capable of CGA Composite.

I had some cash to spare so I braved the eBay prices. Now to just wait until it arrives. 😎

x0zm_ wrote:

EDIT: For anyone interested, got them at a small store at the Huaqiang North Road markets all from one small stand that had a lot of older PC hardware. 11/10 would recommend to any hardware enthusiast who finds themselves in China, or even Hong Kong (it's only a short trip).

Sending a truck over there to collect them all 😁

This below, because I need a cheap board to test AGP Video cards on.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ESC-P4VXAD-REV-3-1-S … pIAAOSwLnBX2ra1

Bought an HP Pavilion A706N desktop (almost got a SFF HP/Compaq combo, but I passed on it), and my plan for the machine is to swap the boards around again (Socket 754 in the HP machine and the Socket A(462) into the Windows 98SE machine). The board is an ASUS A7V8X-LA with a VIA KM400A chipset and has AGP 8x(?)

Munx wrote:

A box of goodies for $5. Contents:
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And lastly, a Socket 423 motherboard with a 1.3GHz P4 under the heatsink. i850 chipset. Any part number searches lead to an ASUS P4T which seems incorrect. I really with I hadn't skipped of a cheap rdram offer I had a couple years back... 😵

Seems incorrect? Why?

This is the P4T-M:

The only difference is that your board doesn't have "Asus P4T-M" silkscreened between the i850 northbridge and AGP slot - so it's some or other OEM board (HP?)

bjwil1991 wrote:

and has AGP 8x(?)

Seen cards with AGPx8 mentioned on the web before. Phil even talked briefly about that in one of his video's. I think it came down to the fact that it really do not give such a great boost in performance in the end. On the other hand, it is nice to have, just for the sake of having compatibility on hand.

brostenen wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

and has AGP 8x(?)

Seen cards with AGPx8 mentioned on the web before. Phil even talked briefly about that in one of his video's. I think it came down to the fact that it really do not give such a great boost in performance in the end. On the other hand, it is nice to have, just for the sake of having compatibility on hand.

True. There aren't a whole lot of cards that support AGP 8x, but, are backwards compatible with AGP 4x systems, such as a Socket 370 motherboard with a VIA Apollo Pro 133A (Shuttle AV18 V3), or early Pentium 4 boards, such as the ASUS P4B-LA (Pavilion 7955). The Intel chipsets were always far behind on features, such as AGP (i430 Triton boards), or faster speed with AGP.

Also, unlike PCI expansion, AGP has its own bus speed, which can make games run faster and better than PCI video cards (with all of the PCI slots populated as the PCI slots share the same bus speed, and if you populate the PCI slots, it drops the video card's performance), and correct me if I'm wrong here.

ECS K7S5A !!!!

http://redhill.net.au/b/b-02.html

Munx wrote:

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A box of goodies for $5. Contents:

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Pentium MMX 233MHz.
Pentium 4 1.5GHz.
ECS K7S5A motherboard (black one). Came with Athlon XP 1500+ Palomino. SiS 735 chipset with a universal AGP slot, support for DDR and SDR memory and hopefully AMD Geode CPUs.
MSI MS-6350. Cames with a Duron 1200Mhz. VIA KM133 chipset. Didnt really need it, but it came with the box so w/e.
And lastly, a Socket 423 motherboard with a 1.3GHz P4 under the heatsink. i850 chipset. Any part number searches lead to an ASUS P4T which seems incorrect. I really with I hadn't skipped of a cheap rdram offer I had a couple years back... 😵

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Munx wrote:

A box of goodies for $5. Contents:
[...]

And lastly, a Socket 423 motherboard with a 1.3GHz P4 under the heatsink. i850 chipset. Any part number searches lead to an ASUS P4T which seems incorrect. I really with I hadn't skipped of a cheap rdram offer I had a couple years back... 😵

Seems incorrect? Why?

This is the P4T-M:

The only difference is that your board doesn't have "Asus P4T-M" silkscreened between the i850 northbridge and AGP slot - so it's some or other OEM board (HP?)

The number on my board is P4T-I for some reason, which was giving me different results. A sticker says this is from an IBM PC. This does look like the same board so finding the manual and drivers shouldnt be an issue.

verysaving wrote:

ECS K7S5A !!!!

http://redhill.net.au/b/b-02.htm

Damn 😵

Munx wrote:

verysaving wrote:

ECS K7S5A !!!!

http://redhill.net.au/b/b-02.htm

Damn 😵

Hmmmm my memory of K7S5A was quite pleasant. Back in its days it was in my main PC and running at FSB 266 with DDR RAM.

lazibayer wrote:

verysaving wrote:

ECS K7S5A !!!!

http://redhill.net.au/b/b-02.htm

Damn 😵

Hmmmm my memory of K7S5A was quite pleasant. Back in its days it was in my main PC and running at FSB 266 with DDR RAM.

Same. At the time it was lauded as a good buy, with decent enough performance. I built a couple of systems for family and friends based on that board, they didn't complain. Have one in my collection, but every single cap has bulged, so it definitely wasn't a quality item!

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Bought the above CGA Graphics Card for my XT build. I wanted a card capable of CGA Composite.

I had some cash to spare so I braved the eBay prices. Now to just wait until it arrives. 😎

Isn't this an EGA card ? They often have two RCA like this, but it's not composite.