Reply 28520 of 53280, by arncht
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A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.
and the useful, after cleaning 😀 asus riva128 pci
One of the best hdd in 1997. Quantum fireball st 4.3g.
A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.
and the useful, after cleaning 😀 asus riva128 pci
One of the best hdd in 1997. Quantum fireball st 4.3g.
Stumbled onto this motherboard, CPU and RAM combo so I made an offer, will likely get it. God knows I don't need another VX motherboard but onboard PS/2 on an AT Socket 7 board kind of compelled me. Also, apparently an Overdrive CPU with a juryrigged fan on top..
Anyone know what the motherboard is and whether it would be a simple mod to remove the dallas chip and solder on a coin cell holder?
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
From the bios id would be easier.
wrote:Stumbled onto this motherboard, CPU and RAM combo so I made an offer, will likely get it. God knows I don't need another VX mot […]
Stumbled onto this motherboard, CPU and RAM combo so I made an offer, will likely get it. God knows I don't need another VX motherboard but onboard PS/2 on an AT Socket 7 board kind of compelled me. Also, apparently an Overdrive CPU with a juryrigged fan on top..
Anyone know what the motherboard is and whether it would be a simple mod to remove the dallas chip and solder on a coin cell holder?
You sure the Dallas isn't socketed ?
The strap would suggest it.
And a VX without an SDRAM slot ? whats the point then ^^
Then again betwween HX and TX what was the point of VX altogether 🤣.
Still, integrated PS/2 is as you say very handy, also it has plenty of room for long PCI cards..
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The vx was the pair and the budget version of the hx. The sd support just came at the later boards, parallel with the tx.
Picked up two classic and popular PCI sound cards... Aureal Vortex2(new) and Diamond Monster MX300(used).
Pentium3 1400s/ Asus Tusl2-c / Kingston 512mb pc133 cl2 / WD 20gb 7200rpm / GeForce3 Ti-500 64mb / Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100 / 16x dvdrom / 3.5 Floppy / Enermax 420w / Win98se
wrote:I'm not sure whether/how much you could get for one of those. I did buy one of ebay a while back so it is possible to sell them.
I wouldn't be looking to sell them. Probably just give them away to someone who could use one. We'll see. Probably will skip it.
wrote:A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.
Nice looking card. I keep a 1993 Matrox Ultima Plus video card around just because it is such an early PCI model. Not very good performance, so not very useful as well.
wrote:I wouldn't be looking to sell them. Probably just give them away to someone who could use one. We'll see. Probably will skip it. […]
wrote:I'm not sure whether/how much you could get for one of those. I did buy one of ebay a while back so it is possible to sell them.
I wouldn't be looking to sell them. Probably just give them away to someone who could use one. We'll see. Probably will skip it.
wrote:A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.
Nice looking card. I keep a 1993 Matrox Ultima Plus video card around just because it is such an early PCI model. Not very good performance, so not very useful as well.
want to exchange it for something?
Soyo 019R1 AM386DX 40MHz, 8Mb ram, 512Kb Trident 9000 Graphics
S26361-D756-X Intel i486DX 33MHz, 4Mb ram, 512Kb - 1Mb graphics on board
Some loot from flea-market today:
PCI card - pine SIS 6326 8mb - working fine.
AGP card - GF tnt1 non-brand 8mb - PC detects the card but image on screen
ISA soundcard - Avance Logic ASL100+ - need testing.
cpu- Pentium III 700 MHz fsb100 - needs testing.
S370 heatsink
DIN keyboard Turbo Cat "brand "
All stuff was +-6 dollars
Retro rig 1: Asus CUV4X, VIA c3 800, Voodoo Banshee (Diamond fusion) and SB32 ct3670.
Retro rig 2: Intel DX2 66, SB16 Ct1740 and Cirrus Logic VLB.
wrote:A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.
and the useful, after cleaning 😀 asus riva128 pci
One of the best hdd in 1997. Quantum fireball st 4.3g.
Nice finds. Both graphics cards are rare.
wrote:BIOSTAR MICROTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
MB-8500TVXThe vx was the pair and the budget version of the hx. The sd support just came at the later boards, parallel with the tx.
Many thanks friend!
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
Yesterday I was at someone's house cleaning their barn with my dad when I found this cool vintage keyboard in the storage section of the shed.
It's a Dell QuietKey keyboard, I think it could be from the late 90's or so. After I came across this thing, I mentioned it to the residence, and they let me keep it.
Bought these two ZIP100 parallel port drives from Savers today. Both were $2.99 each complete WITH the original power bricks and ZIP parallel cables!
Well this is interesting.
That's something you don't see every day.
Hmmm...
Depending on the drivers for the Quadro this might be a great XP gaming laptop. Maybe. I admit I have a thing for 17" laptops.
Great another toy to spend too much time on. 😀
*Too* *many* *things*!
needs moar 1920x1200
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
So I bought this PC which arrived today… I bought it mostly for CT1350B and the case which I plan to restore and sell. Spent around 100 USD with shipping. Perhaps not the best price… Also this carnage inside 🙁
Some idiot had to destroy the motherboard intentionally with the screwdriver - slots I would fix (I've seen this dammage on the auction pics), but there are also deep screwdriver scratches acros several traces, so it's beyond repair. But I found this nice ST 6x86 166MHz+ under the radiator and it's intact.
Also somebody removed the BIOS and other chips from the cards...
Fortunatelly CT1350B looks fine other than removed OPL2 which has several bent pins and one broken pin 🙁
S3 Trio has the BIOS removed and one of the vram sockets is dammaged.
Teac Floppy Drives hopefully will be allright. (There is also 1,44MB drive, Caviar 2250 and some CD-ROM)
Case is intact other than missing stands but that's not really a problem for buyers from what I've seen so far...
If CT1350B, CPU, floppy drives and PSU works then I will still make some profit out of it.
New items (October/November 2022) -> My Items for Sale
wrote:Then again betwween HX and TX what was the point of VX altogether 🤣.
The VX and the HX were launched together as part of the Triton II family. The TX (Triton III) came out a bit later, and did not have a high-end counterpart. It's considered the successor to the VX, not the HX.
The VX was actually quite a popular. For most users, at the time the HX was overkill. HX was workstation/server grade for people who wanted SMP and stupid amounts of RAM, both of which was almost completely useless as nothing needed more than 32MB of RAM, and practically no consumer software used two CPUs. I seem to recall that the HX didn't support SDRAM (only EDO DIMMs), and the VX did, but only one slot and probably not more than 32MB on a DIMM. Almost 100% of VX users used SIMMs. DIMMs are wasted on anything pre Super Socket7 in my opinion. If you're building a classic Pentium system, a VX based motherboard is a solid choice.
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V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium
Some NOS AT PSU’s.
HanJammer,
somebody used 5.25 in p166 machine? strange...
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somebody used 5.25 in p166 machine? strange...
This computer was upgraded from 486DX2 (original specs from are on the printed sticker in the case) - motherboard, cpu and graphics card was replaced. Also I still had 5,25" floppy in my computer in 2004...
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