liqmat wrote:

Hey Merovign, nice score!

BTW, I came across quite a few small Number Nine AGP cards and they are going to be recycled. Not sure if I should grab them and spread the joy or just let them go to their final destination in the silicon sky. I think they are $2-$3 each at the recycler. They are all very clean and intact.

AAAAUGH Oh okay I could probably buy one more. I think I have one of those.

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 missed a trailer load of "old computers" this week. The guy who refers me to stuff was really apologetic about it, wanted to let me do a quick rummage before it got shipped off but the timing didn't work out.

I got a Gateway 233MX tower and a CompUSA PIII tower, haven't opened either one up. Got a couple of keyboards, one AT and one PS/2 Gateway 2000 with the proper layout (bar enter key). Almost all my vintage keyboards have l-shaped enter keys, which I don't use.

Almoststew1990 wrote:

This was available locally for £20 so I snapped it up to replace my vibra 16 waveffects and sit along side my awe 32... […]
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This was available locally for £20 so I snapped it up to replace my vibra 16 waveffects and sit along side my awe 32...

Don't know much about it though other than no proper opl chip.

Never mind, it sounds absolutely awful! My Vibra sounds much better...

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?

From the bios id would be easier.

appiah4 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 […]
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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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MB-8500TVX

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).

Merovign 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.

arncht 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.

liqmat 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. […]
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Merovign 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.

arncht wrote:

A nice, but not too useful hercules et6000, with 4m mdram.

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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?

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

arncht 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.

arncht wrote:

BIOSTAR MICROTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
MB-8500TVX

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.

Many thanks friend!

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. 😀
 

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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.

bofh.fromhell 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.

Some NOS AT PSU’s.