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Today's acquisitions: DVD RW drive, 5,25" Floppy drive, serial mouse, High speed ISA serial port, ISA serial card and somewhat ISA card

Let me take a guess... J.P.N. Corp DS-53A? The front plate retrobrites really well, but the screws are a pain in the ass to take off. They put threadlock on them from the factory...

Been looking for a case and a mobo for a little while for a 1999ish build, everything on ebay expensive or wont ship.

Spotted a listing for pallet of 25 pcs with hdd removed for spares 2 hours away. The cases looked good and i figured i could build at least a couple out of the spares, keep some for myself, get a case for my build and sell the rest to recoup my cash. Stuck £51 max on it, someone bid me up to £50 but i won them this morning £2 apiece!

Havent tested everything yet, but at least 8 of them have 7 gig DOMs in them, lots of old cd roms and floppies, 4 p3 600mhz, couple of celerons, various video cards. By the looks and names of them they were call recorders from a call centre, a lot of the cases are in really good nick.

Mobos so far lots of Asus CUV4X, couple of Asus P2B, Gigabyte GA-6VEM.
Photos and specs to follow if any interest!

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Been looking for a case and a mobo for a little while for a 1999ish build, everything on ebay expensive or wont ship. […]
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Been looking for a case and a mobo for a little while for a 1999ish build, everything on ebay expensive or wont ship.

Spotted a listing for pallet of 25 pcs with hdd removed for spares 2 hours away. The cases looked good and i figured i could build at least a couple out of the spares, keep some for myself, get a case for my build and sell the rest to recoup my cash. Stuck £51 max on it, someone bid me up to £50 but i won them this morning £2 apiece!

Havent tested everything yet, but at least 8 of them have 7 gig DOMs in them, lots of old cd roms and floppies, 4 p3 600mhz, couple of celerons, various video cards. By the looks and names of them they were call recorders from a call centre, a lot of the cases are in really good nick.

Mobos so far lots of Asus CUV4X, couple of Asus P2B, Gigabyte GA-6VEM.
Photos and specs to follow if any interest!

Photos or it didn't happen. 😀

I saw this joystick on ebay, just like the one I used as a kid to play Rebel Assault on our family 486. It was also just listed as 'old' and thought I've got nothing to loose for £10. It arrived today and it turned out to be new old stock and still factory wrapped!

I wrote a little post about it on my blog Here
and did a quick video of the unboxing which is Here

Totally cheap stick but I'm glad to own it again!

Whiskey wrote:

Totally cheap stick but I'm glad to own it again!

Who cares if it's cheap, it looks awesome.

Whiskey wrote:

I saw this joystick on ebay, just like the one I used as a kid to play Rebel Assault on our family 486. It was also just listed […]
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I saw this joystick on ebay, just like the one I used as a kid to play Rebel Assault on our family 486. It was also just listed as 'old' and thought I've got nothing to loose for £10. It arrived today and it turned out to be new old stock and still factory wrapped!

I wrote a little post about it on my blog Here
and did a quick video of the unboxing which is Here

Totally cheap stick but I'm glad to own it again!

Very nice find, I had one of these after the Quick Shot Warrior 5 joystick, this one was much better built out of the two 😀

I got an external LS-120 drive without the USB to IDE cable, so I've swapped its facia with my dead LS-120 drive (bought in a job lot about a year ago).
This drive has the distinction of actually functioning and being one of the later models so it reads floppy disks super quickly. I had to trim down the button to fit since I can't just swap the button over, but I think this looks good 😁

The button trimmed down with the original transparent door because the doors also can not be swapped:

I also got this nice Vaio keyboard which folds up out of the way, very handy since this is my side desk. I love the mid 90s Sony Vaio designs, I think this one is from a P4 system? Though it won't do much good when I start using my CRT again:

Some of you may remember about six months back I purchased the VERY hard to find (complete) Cardinal SNAPplus video capture/overlay card new & sealed in box. Well, grabbed another one off Ebay for cheap for two reasons. 1.) This is an earlier revision of the bundle which has a slightly different variety of driver disks that I want to image and 2.) it has the Cardinal SNAPplus special edition of Mathematica's Tempra software which I also want to image. 3.) The proprietary cables are actually the rare part of this product so having a second set is always handy as well. You will see these cards come across just by their lonely on Ebay usually missing those cables. Without them you can't use any of the card's special video editing/overlay capabilities. The box is pretty banged up, but it's the contents I am after.

what kind of connectors do the proprietary cables have? I bet it'd be not too hard to make up new ones; just map the pinout with a multimeter. Looks like standard DIN & mini-DIN jacks from in the photos.

Sounds like you're sorted, but for all those bare-bones cards on Ebay... 😉

xjas wrote:

what kind of connectors do the proprietary cables have? I bet it'd be not too hard to make up new ones; just map the pinout with a multimeter. Looks like standard DIN & mini-DIN jacks from in the photos.

Sounds like you're sorted, but for all those bare-bones cards on Ebay... 😉

I'm actually almost done editing my Youtube video on the SNAPplus, but yes, one end is either composite or s-video and the other end is the SNAPplus proprietary 8 pin connector. The nice thing is the manual labels those pins. I am also refining my large archive of photos, manuals and software images for the card and will resubmit it to archive.org when I am done. It will be the definitive documentation and software archive for the card.

I scanned in the page with the pinout diagram:

Is it not just a standard 8-pin mini DIN as the manual shows?

wiretap wrote:

Is it not just a standard 8-pin mini DIN as the manual shows? […]
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Is it not just a standard 8-pin mini DIN as the manual shows?

That looks like it. Never was able to find cables with the 8-pin to S-Video or composite that comes with the card, but I am sure someone with better skills than mine could build one. Not that you would want to since you can do much better today with any video editing suite. My main purpose is to archive the manuals, paperwork and software of the card, which I have done almost 100% except for this slight variation I picked up on Ebay.

80286 16 MHz
Ram 1 MB
HDD IDE 40 MB
Video ISA OTI 256 KB Ram
ISA hdd and floppy controller
OS: Ms Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.0

https://imgur.com/a/xFIim

liqmat wrote:

Photos or it didn't happen. 😀

Started going through them making a rough list so i can decide what to keep...

1 BCOM
sticker – do not remove BBC radio Merseyside
52x cd rom
fdd
ide to sata converter
40g ide hdd
Gigabyte GA-6VEML – caps good
celeron 1.2 ghz
256 ram

2 DAN
fdd
ati cr2csd
asus cuv4x – caps good
celeron 633
64 ram
16g dom

3 DAN
fdd
ati cr2csd
asus cuv4x – caps good
16g dom
p3 633
64 ram
ati cr2csd

4 hp vectra
48 x cd rom
fdd
ide to sata converter
p3 800mhz
192 ram

5 world of computers
bbc leicester
52 x cdrom
fdd
2 x db9 pci card
intel d845epi/d845gvsr – caps good
no psu

6 Dan
3com etherlink xl pci
ati rage iic
p2 350
32 ram
power button stuck in
asus p2b – caps good

7 Dan
cd rom
fdd
rage cr2csd
16g dom
64 ram
p3 633

8 BCOM
cd rom
fdd
gigabyte ga-6veml – couple caps require replacement
celeron 1.2g
128 ram

9 dan
cd rom
fdd
celeron 1.4
256 ram
7 gig dom
gigabyte ga-6vem – caps good

10 dan
2 x huge isa cards – pcl-722 144 dio card rev a2
fdd
asus vx97 – caps good
pci mach64 vt
3com 3c905-tx
at keyboard
pentium 150mhz
16meg ram

11 ipe
cd rom
fdd
tyan computer corp S1854 AGPX4-PCI-ISA - caps good
rage xl
8gb dom
doesnt power up, test with another psu

12 bcom
40g maxtor hdd
integral 3.5 to 2.5 hdd fitting place
ide to sata adaptor
cd rom
fdd
gigabyte ga-6veml – caps good
p3 1 gig
256 ram

13 bcom
radio guernsey
cd rom
fdd
40 gig ide
ati – pn109-49300-01
p6v694t/a10t – caps good
celeron 950mhz
128 ram

14 dan
cd rom
fdd
3com 3c905-tx
ati pn 109-49300-01
celeron 466
asus p3b-f - caps good
320 ram

15 compaq deskpro
cd writer
fdd
matrox mga-g200a-d2
3com etherlink
128 ram
p3 500mhz

16 compaq deskpro
cd rom
fdd
ati rage pro turbo agp low profile
3com etherlink
p2 400 mhz
192 ram

And just to annoy the missus even more, picked these up today on the way home for freebies...

Nice! ^^^^

Your place is beginning to look like mine. 🤣 That'll keep you busy for awhile.

mmx23 wrote:

80286 16 MHz Ram 1 MB HDD IDE 40 MB Video ISA OTI 256 KB Ram ISA hdd and floppy controller OS: Ms Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.0 […]
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80286 16 MHz
Ram 1 MB
HDD IDE 40 MB
Video ISA OTI 256 KB Ram
ISA hdd and floppy controller
OS: Ms Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.0

https://imgur.com/a/xFIim

Nice. Next steps could be to add a little extra RAM and maybe a sound card 😎

I suspect you may have gotten lucky with that HDD (WD93044-A); this particular model was known to be very unreliable back in its day.

Thank's SSG.
I have tried to add more ram but it seems that i have to configure a jumper on the Motherboard for the simm's to be active and I have no documentation. But, it does pretty good job with 1MB too.
For sound card options, I have somewhere an SoundBlaster 16.
Regarding the hdd, it's running well, no bad sectors, of course has a specific sound (pretty loud).
As I have only a few MB available, I will update it, with a Conner 170 MB hdd.

What I like it a lot is the BIOS that has the diagnostics embedded on it with graphical part that was found in Turbo Pascal demo graphics.

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Oh my god; I'm so jealous! That's such a nice find my friend! 😊

Although this is my first post here on VOGONS, i'm more than 1 year in active collecting of retro hardware - i'm mostly stick with the russian communities of retro things, but why not tell about my collection here. 😀
Anyway, here's "monthly report" of my acquisitions (october and couple days of november actually, but whatever), since i was always doing reports like that.

ATi Rage IIC
nVidia GeForce 3 Ti200
ATi Radeon 9200SE
Matrox Mystique with additional 2 megs of memory.
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429
STMicroelectronics KYRO II
3dfx Voodoo 4 4500
3DLabs Permedia 2 PCI
Chromatic Mpact 2
3DLabs Permedia 2 AGP
ATi Radeon 7500
ATi Radeon HD4670 (PowerColor AG4670 1GBK3-PV2 with whopping 1 gig of memory)
Matrox G400 "almost MAX"
ATi Radeon 8500LE
S3 Trio32
Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4670
SiS 6326 AGP (never seen version with SGRAM memory before)
Aureal Vortex AU8820B2
Creative Sound Blaster 16 Menuet (Vibra 16S) CT2860 (with actual OPL3 chip)
S3 Savage4 Pro

Lots of interesting stuff i think.
😀

bjwil1991 wrote:

Bought a sound card + Creative Labs CR-563-B combo on eBay. […]
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Bought a sound card + Creative Labs CR-563-B combo on eBay.

edit: darn phone keyboard is too small for my thumbs.

Seller's picture:

Got the bundle today:

Sort of an interesting little parallel port LAN device for older laptops without a LAN port. I imaged the driver disk if any of you come across another one all by its lonely. Going to get the manual up on minuszerodegrees hopefully soon with the help of vcfed member modem7.

UPDATE 11/10/2018: Modem7 of VCFED submitted my manual/box scans and disk image to minuszerodegrees:

http://minuszerodegrees.net/manuals.htm#Genius_LAN