Just received this boxed "funny" bundle. AOpen AX3SP Pro CheChe motherboard and Geforce 2 Pro PA256 deluxe CheChe... it's so nice to have it. Quite limited I guess.
I just collect the hardware — others make it run.
Wow, I've never seen anything like that... especially from that era.
Its strange, in the US its incredibly rare to see any hardware that was intended for Asian markets. Most of the hardware we have was made there, but it was all made for western markets. Makes me wonder if there are any hidden gems out there with names that are unsearchable in english.
weird stuff I like it 😁
^Guess AOpen were more forward-thinking than most. 95% of consumer-targeted MBs today do similar things (albeit less outright "weird"). ;p
They had a whole range of boards with weird colours and odd gimmicks around 2000. A friend of mine did a pink fluffy cube casemod with a completely pink AOpen So370 (or maybe SoA, it's been a while 😉 ) board inside. They started a few years before, iirc there was a version of the AX6BC in black with gold/silver lettering in 1998, back when everything else was brown or green.
^Yes there was Slot 1 AOpen AX6BC Pro II Millenium Edition with black / platinium finisz (got this one)
And S370 Abit ST6E-RAID "Casper" on white pcb (got this one either)
(photos from the net)
I just collect the hardware — others make it run.
Just bought 5 3COM Etherling XL PCI network cards for £4.50 each (best offer on eBay). Brand new in box (IBM OEM) with driver discs and documentation. Seller has 5 more. If he still hase the in two weeks, I'll snap them up 😀
Just right for some retro builds 😀
See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.
Got one of these from ebay.
7900GTX 512! I always ogled this video card when it was king!
I almost dare to say it's new, shinny and and clean, doesn't even have screw scratches on the pcb bracket.
wrote:Just bought 5 3COM Etherling XL PCI network cards for £4.50 each (best offer on eBay). Brand new in box (IBM OEM) with driver discs and documentation. Seller has 5 more. If he still hase the in two weeks, I'll snap them up 😀
Just right for some retro builds 😀
Etherlink XL is 10Mbit right?
Time for some VLB goodness (more to come):
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:wrote:Just bought 5 3COM Etherling XL PCI network cards for £4.50 each (best offer on eBay). Brand new in box (IBM OEM) with driver discs and documentation. Seller has 5 more. If he still hase the in two weeks, I'll snap them up 😀
Just right for some retro builds 😀
Etherlink XL is 10Mbit right?
It's 10/100, and described as Fast Etherlink. I can't see exactly what it says on the card from the supplied pics.
See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.
wrote:wrote:wrote:Just bought 5 3COM Etherling XL PCI network cards for £4.50 each (best offer on eBay). Brand new in box (IBM OEM) with driver discs and documentation. Seller has 5 more. If he still hase the in two weeks, I'll snap them up 😀
Just right for some retro builds 😀
Etherlink XL is 10Mbit right?
It's 10/100, and described as Fast Etherlink. I can't see exactly what it says on the card from the supplied pics.
Mine says 10Mbit..
super compatible, can run DOS/9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/OS2/etc.
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
Today was a good day for me:
Got all of them for free.
Finally.......the 5 year search is over. EISA Mach32. Boxed (horrible wear, but whatever) 😎
Can't wait to put this in my Gateway 2000 486 EISA tower. BIG THANKS to bregolin for helping me out on this!!!
386DX-40MHz-8MB-540MB+428MB+Speedstar64@2MB+SoundBlaster Pro+MT-32/MKII
486DX2-66Mhz-16MB-4.3GB+SpeedStar64 VLB DRAM 2MB+AWE32/SB16+SCB-55
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wrote:Today was a good day for me:
Got all of them for free.
Anything for free is good, and there's enough stuff in here that would have been worth paying for.
Is that a Tseng ET4000 ISA card in the third pic?
And what's the middle card in the fourth - oddly small heatsink...?
wrote:wrote:Today was a good day for me:
Got all of them for free.
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And what's the middle card in the fourth - oddly small heatsink...?
Permedia 2 based maybe? Those always look tiny.
1982 to 2001
That's original Rage128 with 16mb VRAM.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:That's original Rage128 with 16mb VRAM.
Now you mention it, I think I can just make out "R128" on the video BIOS.
Are you sure that's VRAM though? Looks like regular SDRAM to me...
Yes, that's normal SDRAM memory, most likely 8ns.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
