gex85 wrote on 2020-01-06, 13:42:When browsing eBay Classifieds the other day, an ad with a lot of mainboards and expansion cards raised my interest. In the orig […]
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When browsing eBay Classifieds the other day, an ad with a lot of mainboards and expansion cards raised my interest. In the original photos, the cards were piled so that most of them weren't fully visible, but there was one on top of the pile that couldn't be overlooked.
When I asked for more photos, I was pleased to find that there was acutally one more rare card in the lot.
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Who can spot the cards that caught my attention? (One is very easy, the other one not too difficult either) 😄
According to the seller, most of the stuff should work (and there was quite a bit more in the lot that isn't in this picture) so I decided to get it for 55€ shipped.
Received the lot today, everything was literally thrown into a box with no cushioning at all.
The CT1350B looks quite good, no visible damage apart from a few scratches, so let's hope it works!
The Voodoo 5 5500 on the other hand has suffered a bit more. Three SMD caps ripped off on the front, one bent coil, one SMD resistor almost ripped off on the back. The card was on the very bottom of the box and I guess it was mostly intact before it was thrown in there. However, from a mechanical perspective this is fixable, so I will solder the components back on and see if it's alive.
The other sound card turned out to be a CT2290 (not 2910) which is really dusty but seems OK otherwise.
I still have to look through the other stuff, but there were some mainboards (2x A7V266-E, TMC PCI48AL, two Socket 7, one Super Socket 7, two MSI Slot 1), some VGA cards (an ATi Mach64 PCI, a Tseng ET4000 ISA and some more), heaps of network cards and modems, some less interesting sound cards, various controller cards of all sorts, a bag of RAM, 6 CPUs (the interesting ones being a 486DX4-100 and an AMD K5 133). A few CD-ROM drives, floppy drives, mice, trackballs, KVM switches and so on.
I will probably keep the most interesting stuff and get rid of the rest as quickly as possible. Don't have storage space (and use) for all of it...