Went to pick up a couple of auctions that I won on eBay for local pickup. First up, a "1993 computer with monitor, keyboard and mouse", listed with a few pics and not much more info. Starting bid 1eur, might as well go for it, I was after an AT chassis to build a Pentium into. Once getting it home I saw that it's pretty clean and in good nick! Came with a Highscreen 14" CRT, generic keyboard and a Microsoft serial mouse. Nice looking Highscreen case, quite handsome IMO:
Looking around the back... doesn't look like there's much in here.
Popped the top and I was surprised by how spotless it is inside. Cables nicely managed, not a spec of dust!
Turns out it's an AMD Am486DX4-100, and it booted into Win98 with the typical CMOS battery error. Don't know much about 486s (my first computer as a kid was a Pentium MMX 166), but from what I can gather the motherboard is quite a good one! Other than that, it's a solid base for my build!
Mobo: ECS UM8810P-AIO Rev1.1
CPU: AMD Am486DX4-100 (100MHz, 33MHz FSB)
RAM: 4x4MB SIMMs
Video: STB Cirrus Logic 5430/40 PCI
HDD: Seagate 545MB
CDROM: Toshiba XM-5302B
Second pickup for the night was for a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick, with it's power adapter, driver CD and Mechwarrior 3.
The guy selling it was really happy for it to find a home and for someone to get some use out of it! He said he has some other stuff and a Pentium 4 that he wants to get rid of too. Wasn't interested in the P4 but he came up with a dusty set of 3 expansion cards - a Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB with loop cable, an ATI 3D Rage Pro (I think 4MB) and an AWE32 CT3900 with 2x4MB SIMMs! He asked if the Voodoo card was worth anything, I told him about 15 or 20 bucks (didn't want to screw him around, he was a decent guy), and he just says "the other two don't look like they're worth anything, you can have the lot for 20eur". I was stoked! I'd almost given up on finding an AWE32 for cheap, and it jumps into my hands from nowhere.
After a cleanup:
Also, a couple of AGP cards came in the mail today. Firstly, a Voodoo3 3000:
And an ASUS V8460 Ultra (Geforce4 Ti4600) with a massive Zalman cooler, in the box with the manual and driver CD:
Very happy this week!