Auzner wrote:

Munx wrote:

Horrifying childhood memories of dead-end un-upgradable and slow hardware

810 yep. My PC back then even said "AGP" on it, so I thought I was all set for a GF2 in the future.

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It's that 56k modem that really had you future-proofed though.

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Okay, here's a weird one. I got some really nice lots of parts recently and was just going through some of the miscellaneous stu […]
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Okay, here's a weird one. I got some really nice lots of parts recently and was just going through some of the miscellaneous stuff that came in the boxes. I saw this card and was trying to figure out where I'd seen it before and where I'd read that model number. Its a Gigabyte GA-107:

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Then, when I saw that connector at the top, it hit me... it was this discussion over at VCF I'd read a while back.

What a crazy-weird card. Probably not too many systems that have 5v PCI slots and no onboard floppy controller, but in the odd case where the floppy might be dead, this could be handy.

I got a pretty penny for that card. I would have kept it, if I wasn't obligated to sell it.

I'll tell you which board it would be perfect for. Asus PCI/I 486AP4. No idea who thought it would be a good idea to leave off FD and I/O but still include two buggy EIDE ports.

Munx wrote:

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Horrifying childhood memories of dead-end un-upgradable and slow hardware are probably what made me pick this up - an AGPless Socket370 board! Intel D815EGEW.
What came as a surprise to me the chipset is i815 and not i810 like I expected. Integrated Analog Devices AD1885 sound. Came with a 1200MHz Tualeron.

There are some fantastic PCI cards you can drop into a PC of that caliber (Voodoo 2/SLI/3, Matrox G400/450/550, TNT2, GF2MX, Radeon 7000/9250, etc.) and it turns into a most versatile build thanks to i810/815's great compatibility as a chipset with old things. My DELL GX110 for example, an i810 PC, with a Matrox G450 PCI and an ESS Solo-1 can play any game from mid-DOS to mid-XP. I absolutely love it.

Artex wrote:

Hey there Fabian! Long time no 'see'! Hope all is well!

Is this a reference to something that I'm not catching on to? 🤣

Another 15€ bargain: a microstar PC MT5. Bought it (again) only because of the nice case, which is in perfect shape - just a bit dirty, but what's inside was a real surprise. 😀 An early RAMBUS-based Pentium 4! Asus P4T-M mainboard (Socket 423, i850 chipset) with four RIMM slots - two are populated with RAM, the other two with dummys. Have not checked yet if the system is working, but it wasn't sold as defect, so it should.

Voodoo4 it finally arrives!

And I also bought Sapphire X800XL, which will be donor for the cooler (standard Zalman cooler is not connected to PCB fan connector and therefore managed, you can only feed it with 5V or 12V from MOLEX).

Velocity Sisa 1000-P:

Japanese Pentium 3 1 GHz system with 128 Mb RAM, a (probably dead) hard disk, 52 speed CD drive, Asus Cusi-M motherboard with integrated sound and network, including driver CD, JP Windows 98SE OEM (rare), Windows 98 companion CD, mounts to put case vertically, JP keyboard, mouse, power cord, all manuals, and two of the original boxes.

An ISA 8-bit dual EGA/VGA.. and maybe CGA/MDA as well video card for super cheap. (6.99 shipped) Now I will have something to use my EGA CRT on once the case for my 386 industrial computer build gets here.

Maxlogic MX675B

Sellers pic:

Better pics of same model card from recycledgoods.com:

KCompRoom2000 wrote:

This nVidia RIVA TNT2 Pro 16MB AGP Universal card came in yesterday (was too busy to post about it then so I'm posting about it today), it was packed inside a grey bag padded with a piece of newspaper so I wasn't sure how well it worked, so I put it in one of my machines, ran Video Memory Stress Test on it, and it works.

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This is mainly a spare card for my 95OSR2 Slotket build just in case I run into a problem with the ATI Rage Pro GPU.

I have the 32mb Ultra edition of that Compaq card. They are well build and good cards. Congrats.

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Okay, here's a weird one. I got some really nice lots of parts recently and was just going through some of the miscellaneous stuff that came in the boxes. I saw this card and was trying to figure out where I'd seen it before and where I'd read that model number. Its a Gigabyte GA-107:

Then, when I saw that connector at the top, it hit me... it was this discussion over at VCF I'd read a while back.

What a crazy-weird card. Probably not too many systems that have 5v PCI slots and no onboard floppy controller, but in the odd case where the floppy might be dead, this could be handy.

That's indeed a weird one. A super controller I/O card, but not ISA, but PCI (!)
In times where mainboards usually came with everything it offers: Serial, parallel, IDE, FDD, Gameport (? cant see that clearly).

PS: Yes, game port. It's unpopulated, though 😜 (CN2)

I have few early 486pci mobo, that have only ide onboard, but no other ports (A-Trend ATC-1415 for example).

I wonder if this kind of cards could be used on modern systems to get access to floppy disks

Normally the way these PCI cards work is there is a header that connects to a ribbon cable that plugs into one of the ISA slots for getting the missing signals.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Normally the way these PCI cards work is there is a header that connects to a ribbon cable that plugs into one of the ISA slots for getting the missing signals.

Most components on this board don't need extra signals.
And looks like, that this kind of board designed only for one-few special mobo from same brand, so it ever can use some "free"/GND pci lines to provide required resources.

IBM eServer Xseries 260 server plus a vintage vacuum and some misc electronics like a vintage clock radio and APF branded calculator. Plan to upload the teardown video of the server today. (Picture too large for vogons and I'm not at home right now.)

UPD: Yes, in Gigabyte GA-486IM mobo manual I found next description:
"GA-107/108 only can be installed in PCI SLOT2, so please set item 2 SLOT2 using INT#:"D-PIRQ1" and set item 6 PIRQ1# connected IRQ14 by single"

appiah4 wrote:

Munx wrote:

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Horrifying childhood memories of dead-end un-upgradable and slow hardware are probably what made me pick this up - an AGPless Socket370 board! Intel D815EGEW.
What came as a surprise to me the chipset is i815 and not i810 like I expected. Integrated Analog Devices AD1885 sound. Came with a 1200MHz Tualeron.

There are some fantastic PCI cards you can drop into a PC of that caliber (Voodoo 2/SLI/3, Matrox G400/450/550, TNT2, GF2MX, Radeon 7000/9250, etc.) and it turns into a most versatile build thanks to i810/815's great compatibility as a chipset with old things. My DELL GX110 for example, an i810 PC, with a Matrox G450 PCI and an ESS Solo-1 can play any game from mid-DOS to mid-XP. I absolutely love it.

Looking back on it I can definitely see some upgrade paths, though since this was past 2000 and PCI was becoming a bottleneck, especially once T&L became a thing. Would have gotten so much more out of a socket A system with a Duron for the same price. I think the biggest horror for me personally was the fact that I got am AGP MX400 before I found out my PC was PCI only... 😵

On a different note, I received a boxed Radeon X800XT PE today. All accessories and pack-in games included!

Bought the following today on eBay for my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus (PB450M):

11) 8 pcs WinBond W24257AK-15 15ns 32Kx8 SRAM TAG Memory Cache Chip DIP Vintage
22) 14pcs Winbond W24257AK-20 32K x 8 CMOS Static RAM SRAM - 9332 Date Codes
33) IC Chip Extractor Circuit ROM Mother Board Remover Puller Plier Tool PLCC U-Type
44) (1) AT&T ATT7C187P-15 64K 64Kx1 15ns SRAM 5V 300MIL 22 PIN DIP IC = CY7C187-15PC (2x)

Soon:

Commodore 64 PSU <-- bidding on one
QTY (10) UPD424170V-70 NEC 40 PIN ZIP 256Kx16 FAST PAGE DRAM NOS 1 TUBE <-- GPU RAM upgrade for the Packard Bell

IWILL P54TS, Pentium 133mhz, 32mb ram, SB Pro 2.0 CT1600. Comes with a fancy Iwill cooler.

Now I need to find any documentation for this board, looks like it was quite uncommon. Anyone have one?