Second huge free haul to mark year's end: guess I'll spend the holidays restoring everything!
The biggest item is, of course, the original Sound Blaster CT1320A
This revision seems to still have CMS compatibility chips. There's also some weird modification on the back — a CD audio cable soldered to some pins. I guess, I could just desolder these wires?
Next, some XT stuff:
a motherboard with a NEC V20 CPU
a multi I/O card with an RTC battery
an XT/AT mechanical keyboard with a built-in calculator screen. Sadly, in bad shape and some keycaps are missing.
an MFM controller card. I have an MFM disk, too.
I've always been kind of hesitant to spend money on XT stuff because I don't see an appeal in early games. Well, now I have everything to build a really capable machine, so I guess I have to do it. I also have an EGA monitor and videocard, so it could be an interesting experience at the very least.
Next, some 386 and 486 motherboards with AMD 386DX40 and AMD DX4-100 respectively:
Next, some S3 cards, both a bit unusual, a Vision 968 and a Virge:
Next, a Cyrix GXM motherboard — sadly, I don't have a chip to use with it.
Next, some Slot 1 motherboards:
Next, an Intel SAI2 dual Socket 370 mobo:
Next, an EPOX EP-8K5A2 mobo with Socket A:
Next, some MPEG decoder cards for ISA and PCI. Sadly, these don't seem to offer anything interesting in regards to games:
There's also a whole box of CPUs (486DX2, DX4, K5, Pentiums, Pentium 2, Celeron 300A and lots of S370 chips) and a bunch of SIMM RAM, but nothing particularly interesting there.