I've noticed a lot of old computers and components being sold out of Eastern Europe, actually. This is conjecture, but I figure a lot of systems ended up there when they were considered obselete in Western Europe and eventually became too old for any practical use. I remember that we used to talk …

Traded away a Radeon 8500 and a Voodoo 3 1000 for a 486 motherboard with PCI slots and a TI 486 DX2-66; still not sure if I got the worse deal or not, but I need 486 motherboards :( Can anyone help me identify the board I got? No identifying markings at all? Unsure about what it is still since eta …

Picked all this up for $15 PS/2 mouse and parallel bracket (unfortunately not the right pinout for my motherboard) Pentium III 450 (Katmai, SL35D, an early one but apparently a good overclocker) 2.5GB of DDR2-667 (2x1GB and 1x512MB) I was really after the PS/2 bracket, but the PIII was neat and the …

All my retro cards are actually quite short, with a Pentium-era ethernet adapter the longest (and it only extends a few inches past the end of the ISA slot). Interesting. I wonder if there are ISA cards longer than AWE32, or modern PCIe cards longer than 6800 Ultra Mac. The HD 5970 edges out the …

I have a similar card based on the same chipset, though mine might be a little newer. Sadly, I was never able to find any info on it, and I killed the system it was in.