Random yard sale find on the way home. Looks to be a PS/1 2155, but haven't pulled it out of the box just yet.

ooohhh that's the same keyboard my 2123 had - before throwing it out as a teenager because it made clicky sounds in the night 🤣 🤣 🤣

A pretty special day for me having finally replaced the long lost PAS16 I had as a teen. Many thanks to the generours member of the community who made this happen - here's hoping all the positive karma points the universe can muster are being credited to his account as we speak.

This beauty will find a home in my 486, but first I have to RTFM - all 162 pages of it 😎

badmojo wrote:

A pretty special day for me having finally replaced the long lost PAS16...

Neat!
Vogons painfully lacks some recordings of PAS16; I think it will be nice to have some real reference with common games like Doom, Duke3D, Warcraft2, which have a lot of digital PCM sounds that supposed to be the strong side of PAS16 over the SB16.
Also, some recordings of the SB emulation part of the PAS16, to compare to the real SB.

@badmojo, do you think it can be done?

keropi wrote:

ooohhh that's the same keyboard my 2123 had ..

I got this: https://www.google.com/search?q=RT6856T
They were very common OEM keyboards back then.

Bought a bunch of 3dfx cards, i hope they arrive today. 17 in total, 1 defective one, 16 working. Rush,Banshee,Voodoo1, voodoo3 boxed, voodoo3 tv, voodoo4 and voodoo5 cards should all be in the package.
Some will be added to my collection, some will be sold.

I'm missing an arm right now but it should've cost a leg too so i'm alright 🤣

Fingers crossed it comes today and undamaged!

Hello everyone. I recently bought my first 3dfx card on ebay for very good price.

I think my Pentium 150 is too slow for this card..... so that means I have to build another PC 😎

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Hello everyone. I recently bought my first 3dfx card on ebay for very good price.

I think my Pentium 150 is too slow for this card..... so that means I have to build another PC 😎

An S3 805 VLB vga card.

badmojo wrote:

A pretty special day for me having finally replaced the long lost PAS16 I had as a teen. Many thanks to the generours member of the community who made this happen - here's hoping all the positive karma points the universe can muster are being credited to his account as we speak.

This beauty will find a home in my 486, but first I have to RTFM - all 162 pages of it 😎

Great outcome mate, have been following your quest with interest 😀 guess that means no more funny pics on Amibay though!! I too have affinity for the Media Vision cards, my first sound card was a Pro 3D which is now the only boxed hardware bought by me in the 90s in my collection. Did you source your beauty from AU or elsewhere?

On another note here's my recent score ...

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Bought a bunch of 3dfx cards, i hope they arrive today. 17 in total, 1 defective one, 16 working. Rush,Banshee,Voodoo1, voodoo3 […]
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Bought a bunch of 3dfx cards, i hope they arrive today. 17 in total, 1 defective one, 16 working. Rush,Banshee,Voodoo1, voodoo3 boxed, voodoo3 tv, voodoo4 and voodoo5 cards should all be in the package.
Some will be added to my collection, some will be sold.

I'm missing an arm right now but it should've cost a leg too so i'm alright 🤣

Fingers crossed it comes today and undamaged!

Would you have Banshee PCI or Voodoo1 to offer?

Stumbled across a big box of random PC hardware at a flea market. All this for less than $10. Most of it is hard drives and controller cards, XT-386 era 😀 Fun to see all these deceased brands; Kalok, Miniscribe, Tandon...

einr wrote:

Stumbled across a big box of random PC hardware at a flea market. All this for less than $10. Most of it is hard drives and controller cards, XT-386 era 😀 Fun to see all these deceased brands; Kalok, Miniscribe, Tandon...

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LOVE those old hard drives! The fact that they used to hand write the defect areas is so cool. 😀 Hopefully some of them still work and you can get some life out of them...

Nice haul, man.

Okay so here is what I've got for 50€ (including the 8088 that I'm trying to put back to work : Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088) (sorry for the blurry photos 🙁 ):

My GIANT 486 (sadly the battery leaked and the mobo doesn't do anything ...)

Some of these parts are from the giant 486. Some other were just in boxes

An AT socket 7 with a 6x86, what seems to be a CGA card (neat !), some kind of controller card, another AT style 8088 motherboard and what seems to be an MCA card.

A MFM controller card, two MCA video cards, an ISA card with an 8088 (what is that ?), a dual socket 1 card that is (according from the seller) coming from an IBM server, an ISA card with a "386EX" on it and random stuff.

some other dual socket 1 boards, another MCA VGA card and the motherboard from the giant 486.

And there is still more !

Here is the rest

a LPX socket 5, a big sound card (it says "SC-8000") a memory expansion card and another io card (i've got many of them. And i've also got a bunch of opti sbpro clones)

A PCChips 486 which doesn't POST at all (my POST card stays empty. I don't know what could be wrong here) At least it has VLB IO and VLB video card (and it had a second ISA video card for some reason, but I've put it in the 8088 to have a video output)

And here is an IBM 386 .(SX ? DX ? I don't know) I didn't try it because I can't open it at the moment 😒

There is some stuff that I didn't showed (2.88 floppy drives, a few HDDs, a few cards), but yeah very nice haul IMO 🤣

This site has turned me into some kind of weirdo...

Every time I see blurry, shadowy pictures of old ISA cards I start salivating. As if every card could be a long lost sound card that secretly every game developer used to write music, and would bring tears to my eyes if I heard it in action.

In reality, I know that these things are just neat old relics that won't change anyone's life... and yet, here I am.

... *drool*

I know! I was looking at those ibm cpu complexs, hoping for a pentium.

@Ozzuneoj, Right on the Money !!

Probably some kind of compulsive Buying disorder combined with hoarding disorder.
Both actually documented as psychiatric disorders or mental illness in more common terms. 😁

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This site has turned me into some kind of weirdo...

Every time I see blurry, shadowy pictures of old ISA cards I start salivating. As if every card could be a long lost sound card that secretly every game developer used to write music, and would bring tears to my eyes if I heard it in action.

In reality, I know that these things are just neat old relics that won't change anyone's life... and yet, here I am.

... *drool*

My daily pre-bedtime occupation for many months now: scanning ebay and other sites for newly listed old hardware.

anonymous retrophiles meeting, here we go...