That seller wouldn't post (I asked, didn't get a reply) so it was a nice buy there seanneko! How was the rest of the machine?

The battery has leaked unfortunately, but I think it may have just been recently. I can't see any corrosion, only the liquid itself still on the motherboard. Hopefully after cleaning it up it'll come to life.

Otherwise everything is pretty much spotless inside. Looks like it was fairly highly specced when new. It has a 10MHz coprocessor as well as the Game Blaster.

I also live interstate but luckily I had a family member who could pick it up for me 😀 It'll be a few months until I'm able to get the entire thing back home (I'll have to drive over - I only flew this time and can't take it on the plane), so for now it'll stay sitting, but I've pulled the Game Blaster out and took it home for now.

seanneko wrote:

Bought a complete 286 from someone who clearly knew nothing about it. Inside was this. Can't complain about that.

rsz_img_20180610_164959.jpg

It's a CT1300A!

It warms my heart that this card was rescued, it saddens me to think that these things end up on landfill or get destroyed on recicling.

seanneko wrote:

Bought a complete 286 from someone who clearly knew nothing about it. Inside was this. Can't complain about that.

rsz_img_20180610_164959.jpg

hnnnnnnnnng what a find!

^... Eh? That's not an Overdrive without the HSF, is it?

Board smells like PC Chips.

SW-SSG wrote:

^... Eh? That's not an Overdrive without the HSF, is it?

Board smells like PC Chips.

Cache chips looks legitimate, though. 🤣

That's not an Overdrive without the HSF, is it?

Intel Overdrive DX4 without heatsink. ODP version to be exact, which has extra pin to disable soldered CPUs.

Like this one:

Board smells like PC Chips

It is PC Chips. M912 Revision 1.7 with proper cache and late AMD CPUs support.

Second time so far that I managed to thrift 3dfx hardware for 1Euro!

Added a temporary fan since the stock heatsink looks way too tiny to cool it properly.

I decided to put it up against a 32MB S3 Savage4 in a SS7 rig - K6-3 400MHz, 128MB PC100 RAM, W98SE, Vortex1 sound card.

Quake2 800x600x16:
Savage4 - 58.7; Banshee - 45.4

Quake3 800x600x16
Savage4 - 29.4; Banshee - 27.6

Unreal 800x600x16
Savage4 (Metal) - 30.4; Banshee (Glide) - 32.9

Tried to compare 3dMark99, however I couldn't get it to work with the Banshee. Tried several of the official drivers. Reading online it seems some of the OEM drivers fix this, however I'm too exhausted to bother at this point.
@default benchmark settings Savage4 scored 3238 3Dmarks and 6192 CPU 3Dmarks.

Few minutes ago, i picked up these two items for free local.

Few weeks earlier i had bought a nice EGA monitor from Unisys (which is yellowed, but fixable)

The keyboard looks almost new (its a cherry 6000 with ps/2 connector.

The monitor is a 15 inch VGA low radiation.

Kinda off topic (but still retro)

Found this at a garage sale for $8, still new in the box.

It was low end then, it's beyond useless now, but it still works at least 😀 ...(poor reception aside, it looks much better in person)

omg I had one of those for a while... Wasn't citizen branded as I remember, but still identical. Obviously american companies re-branded the Samsung ones.

luckybob wrote:

omg I had one of those for a while... Wasn't citizen branded as I remember, but still identical. Obviously american companies re-branded the Samsung ones.

It's interesting how Samsung manufactured for such a cheap brand like Jutan International (known for such names like Citizen, Candle, Craig, Concerto, etc). I have another Jutan TV (9" B&W Candle) that was manufactured by Gold Star (now LG)

Analog TV in 2018 ?

verysaving wrote:

Analog TV in 2018 ?

Digital converter box + transmitter.

Also, it came with a schematic! I didn't know they did this as late as 1987!

EDIT: Twins!

If they ask, tell Industry Canada you've definitely wrapped your house in a Faraday cage.

Well, another AGP HD3850 is on the way.... cheapest I have gotten yet. And this one seems to have all the original accessories as well.

Found at a local Goodwill. Been wanting to try a trackball mouse, should be interesting.

Precision Pro was from a friend and the Gravis Phoenix was on Ebay, rest are from local thrift stores. I've been wanting a Phoenix for years because it just looks radical, like it belongs on a Klingon bridge or something. Can't wait to try it out.

Found in a local thrift store. Can't tell what brand or model this one is, but it had a 386 on it so I grabbed it up. Noticed later the battery leaked but it doesn't look too bad. Don't have any parts to check the BIOS so would appreciate some help in identifying it. More Pictures

Bought a Compaw ESS 1868F on Ebay for my Windows 98 machine, but when I went scrounging through a box of parts in my garage, found that ESS Solo-1 ES1938S. Pretty sure it's a cheapie China card, but is it better than the 1868F, especially for a Win 98 machine? Don't know much about that one.

Finally a nice little flatscreen CRT I picked up at a thrift store. It has an S-video port and the Geforce 4 MX 420 card I put in my Windows 98 machine has one as well. Might use it as a monitor until I can find a CRT PC monitor.

Those Logitech ones are quite good. If you need the drivers for 9x let me know which OS you're running and I can find the right MouseWare version.