Big day today.
First off the little stuff:
A pretty generic 1993 486 board with So1 LIF, VLB, 8x 30b SIMM, 64k cache and a 486DX2-66 on it. The reason i bought it: seller pic gave a closeup of the first SIMM: 9 4Mb chips. And indeed 4x 4MB parity, with 4x 1MB behind it. Highly remarkable: not only is there no corrosion on the battery, the 26-year old barrel (date code december 1993) still holds a charge and saves BIOS settings 😮
To the left: an MCE2VGA adapter, the next best thing to a good EGA monitor (which I declare to be a unicorn, at least locally and at a price I'm prepared to pay, after 6 months futile searching). Of course, I didn't order an EGA monitor cable as I assumed at least one of my many serial cables would be fully wired straight through... Murphy says: no EGA today. Have to wait until my cable arrives before I can show Skeletor in full EGA glory.
Fortunately I can show Skeletor at significantly higher resolution on today's big catch:
That's 1280x960 Skeletor not even coming close to filling the screen. SGI 1600SW, connected to the Number Nine Revolution IV-1600SW I picked up a while ago.The best 1998-vintage (or indeed anywhere in the 1990s) TFT bar none. 110ppi, beating a contemporary 24" full HD monitor by about 20% - not bad after two decades 😉
Oh, and that thing in the shadows behind it? A second one 😜
- now to find a second card supporting OpenLDI, or even better a Pixlink/Multilink adapter...