xjas wrote:

There was some nastiness in the battery compartment, because of course there was, but fortunately it cleaned up OK and doesn't seem to have damaged the plastic. Apparently nicad batteries "leak" into a weird fibrous solid.

Er, no, that means you just were lucky. Normally they leak all over the place and destroy the battery terminals, which often may look somewhat fine but turn out to be so brittle they shatter upon touch. So better open it up and check for other damage.

Very cool machine, BTW. I would leave it as is, nice piece of history. You may want to trawl through Japanese webpages and see whether it can do more than just load stuff from the ROM, because it sure looks like a Western version of a Japanese "Office Assistant" machine (and some of those can do a lot, including sometimes play simple games).

found a scrap box locally for once...

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whyyyy 😢

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Well if you're brave enough you can try to replace the chip, they're easily available on eBay

Deksor wrote:

Well if you're brave enough you can try to replace the chip, they're easily available on eBay

Imi, also bought from the "screwdriver-man"? 😉 my cards look similar.

Deksor you are right: 355-0026-320 and 355-0026-220 are still available. And they seem to be exchangable. That means there is still hope for my screwdrivered 5500 too.

yawetaG wrote:

xjas wrote:

There was some nastiness in the battery compartment, because of course there was, but fortunately it cleaned up OK and doesn't seem to have damaged the plastic. Apparently nicad batteries "leak" into a weird fibrous solid.

Er, no, that means you just were lucky. Normally they leak all over the place and destroy the battery terminals, which often may look somewhat fine but turn out to be so brittle they shatter upon touch. So better open it up and check for other damage.

Very cool machine, BTW. I would leave it as is, nice piece of history. You may want to trawl through Japanese webpages and see whether it can do more than just load stuff from the ROM, because it sure looks like a Western version of a Japanese "Office Assistant" machine (and some of those can do a lot, including sometimes play simple games).

Look nice. Would also keep it as is. If it turns to be a standard 8088: Maybe you can exchange the ROM to make it boot DOS?

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found a scrap box locally for once...

warning: graphic content.

whyyyy 😢

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I think I spotted that one for sale. Despite really wanting a V4, I decided against it... looks like a good call.

Make sure the seller knows how much value he destroyed.

Got two GUS cards for my collection - GUS MAX and GUS P&P Pro.

I already own a GUS classic, so hope I will be eventually able to trace down also GUS ACE, GUS extreme and possibly non-pro P&P to own the complete family.

I plan to picture frame them as these are too troublesome to use in an actual PC 😀

These things are getting really expensive these days. Funnily back in 1995 I used GUS ACE since it was cheap. Now it costs a small fortune.

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Got two GUS cards for my collection - GUS MAX and GUS P&P Pro.

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I already own a GUS classic, so hope I will be eventually able to trace down also GUS ACE, GUS extreme and possibly non-pro P&P to own the complete family.

I plan to picture frame them as these are too troublesome to use in an actual PC 😀

These things are getting really expensive these days. Funnily back in 1995 I used GUS ACE since it was cheap. Now it costs a small fortune.

Very nice.

But why do you think they are too troublesome to use?

dionb wrote:

I think I spotted that one for sale. Despite really wanting a V4, I decided against it... looks like a good call.

Make sure the seller knows how much value he destroyed.

Predator99 wrote:

Imi, also bought from the "screwdriver-man"? 😉 my cards look similar.

haha yeah, their kind seems to be spreading... I jumped on it since it doesn't happen often that one pops up locally, and since I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for shipping for once, this one wasn't all that expensive, the damage was not apparent from the sellers picture, but I knew I took a gamble when I saw all the heatsinks being popped off.

I'm trying to get into contact with a few people around and I'm seriously considering trying to get this card repaired... going the check out the PCB for any other damage since the bracket was pretty bent too.

but spending another $30 for the chip and then some for getting it soldered is another gamble in case it still won't work.

It's been a while again since I've been here. Last week I've been browsing a local online flea market and found something listed as an "Inno3D Innovision PCI videocard" untested, but just for 1.60$ which with shipping came out to be about 4.30$ total. I wanted one for a while for my 450MHz Deschutes build but 100$ on ebay wasn't the price I'd pay with a smile. It arrived today but sadly I have to wait until the weekend to check if it actually works. 😒

Over all it looks to be in decent shape. A bit dirty, there is a little bit of spider web in one of the heatsinks so I hope for the best.

Picked up a nice condition Asus P2B V1.12 Slot 1 motherboard. Love the build quality of Asus motherboard. Happy with this one!

Great, another "word processor" I am now compelled to find.

I love those funky semi-computers, at least the ones that have screens (not that one-line-screen typewriter jobby).

I won't be in the market for a couple of months but I hope to find a good example of one of the late 80s/early 90s CRT word processors, especially one of the z80 machines because CPM, but it will depend on what shows up.

Also looks like 3dfx cards are falling from the sky, of course, timing!

Because I need another ISA sound card, the other 10 I have in my collection just isn't enough!

At least I get them cheaply.

combo complete! 😁

Bancho wrote:

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Picked up a nice condition Asus P2B V1.12 Slot 1 motherboard. Love the build quality of Asus motherboard. Happy with this one!

I have one similar to that, except 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, and 4 RAM slots (up to 1GB supported), P2B-F, except the board is erratic at times: 1 long beep, pause, repeat, or no beeps. Need to replace the RAM and CPU slots and I flashed the BIOS chips with different build numbers.

keropi wrote:

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combo complete! 😁

Wow, Very nice. How many turtle beach ISA cards do you have?
I only have a Monte Carlo.

^ actually atm this and a malibu nothing more in the TB front

30000 - sorry i had to do it...

bjwil1991 wrote:

Bancho wrote:

Picked up a nice condition Asus P2B V1.12 Slot 1 motherboard. Love the build quality of Asus motherboard. Happy with this one! […]
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Picked up a nice condition Asus P2B V1.12 Slot 1 motherboard. Love the build quality of Asus motherboard. Happy with this one!

I have one similar to that, except 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, and 4 RAM slots (up to 1GB supported), P2B-F, except the board is erratic at times: 1 long beep, pause, repeat, or no beeps. Need to replace the RAM and CPU slots and I flashed the BIOS chips with different build numbers.

Might be bad capacitors?

keropi wrote:

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combo complete! 😁

huh have had several TB Montego and Montego IIs but never seen the box for them.