Some stuff from the Bay and Mr. Bezos arrived today.
I bought a used ASUS XP55T2P4 Rev.3.x mainboard with 256KB cache onboard and an empty slot for a COAST module. In the package was a, apparently NOS, ASUS P55T2P4 Rev.3.10 mainboard with 512KB cache onboard. I’m trying to contact the seller to sort it out, now.
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Once you start buying Gotek floppy emulators … you keep reordering them. The first thing I always do is a firmware upgrade, an OLED mod and an active buzzer mod. Although it’s not quite the same sound, it still is satisfying somehow. Usually I put them into the computer as drive A: and a real one as drive B:, but it never really looks quite right. Someday I’m going to design a different case for these resembling a real floppy drive and print them.
I also bought 128MB of EDO DRAM as well as a rather expensive ASUS Rev 3.0 COAST for the “wrongly delivered” mainboard (I hope to receive the one I ordered).
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