Received two NEC XR385 wavetable cards today 😀

Now I'll have to see if they still work, one of them has some nasty scratches on the circuit board...

I ordered one from China on eBay but it apparently got lost because I never received it.

🙁

jwt27 wrote:

Received two NEC XR385 wavetable cards today 😀

Now I'll have to see if they still work, one of them has some nasty scratches on the circuit board...

Artex wrote:

I ordered one from China on eBay but it apparently got lost because I never received it.

🙁

jwt27 wrote:

Received two NEC XR385 wavetable cards today 😀

Now I'll have to see if they still work, one of them has some nasty scratches on the circuit board...

Did you not get a tracking code from the seller?

I did have a tracking number, but the web site was all in Chinese.. Thank god for Google Translate.

I did, but the last known spot was Great Britain, and it has not changed since then (April 18th). It was ordered on April 3rd and now it's May 16th. 🙁

I used the following site (which appears to be rather unstable) to track the package:
http://intmail.183.com.cn/item/itemStatusQuery.do?lan=0

The eBAY seller was "double-fish1981"

jwt27 wrote:

Artex wrote:

I ordered one from China on eBay but it apparently got lost because I never received it.

🙁

jwt27 wrote:

Received two NEC XR385 wavetable cards today 😀

Now I'll have to see if they still work, one of them has some nasty scratches on the circuit board...

Did you not get a tracking code from the seller?

I did have a tracking number, but the web site was all in Chinese.. Thank god for Google Translate.

Hmm that sucks.

I got mine from the same seller, and it arrived in 12 days after shipping. Maybe yours got stuck in customs or something, the package is marked as gift with a total value of $10 even though the ebay listing says "We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as gifts".

Didn't buy these but checked out a pile of parts that was going to the skip. There is more there, especially a huge dual CPU server board with onboard storage controller.

The whole computer weighted a ton!

The Adapted controller and video card is from another machine altogether.

Here are the pics of the bits I took home today

Just press CTRL and - to make the images smaller:

I have that exact SCSI card, it came from a Dell Poweredge system with Dual P3 Xeons.

It's great, very configurable. 😀

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Didn't buy these but checked out a pile of parts that was going to the skip. There is more there, especially a huge dual CPU ser […]
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Didn't buy these but checked out a pile of parts that was going to the skip. There is more there, especially a huge dual CPU server board with onboard storage controller.

The whole computer weighted a ton!

The Adapted controller and video card is from another machine altogether.

Here are the pics of the bits I took home today

Just press CTRL and - to make the images smaller:

And to get your browser back to NORMAL, press CTRL and 0.
Or you could always right click on the picture you want to see and select View Image.

Wow those images take up 2 of my 3 monitors. 🤣

Just another Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, and that makes my third.

Anyway, I never thought this thread would be so big, with 68801 views and 1088 replies, and keep on going. The number of replies is about three times of that of bought these games today thread. Are we more interested in old hardware than old games?

I think so! I have all this gear but have actually played very little. The games I did play properly I did so through DOSBox and ScummVM.

Artex wrote:

I did, but the last known spot was Great Britain, and it has not changed since then (April 18th). It was ordered on April 3rd a […]
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I did, but the last known spot was Great Britain, and it has not changed since then (April 18th). It was ordered on April 3rd and now it's May 16th. 🙁

I used the following site (which appears to be rather unstable) to track the package:
http://intmail.183.com.cn/item/itemStatusQuery.do?lan=0

The eBAY seller was "double-fish1981"

You COULD try the tracking code in either the USPS tracking system, or the one for RoyalMail(if it was passing thru the UK).

As these codes should be universal (RGxxxxxxxxCN, correct ?).
At least I am able to do that for MY registered packages, no matter where they are from... 😎

Using my local post providers search enginge, I get to see all data from the time it is passed on to the shipper in the senders country, and until it lands at my doorstep.

Though I assume it may have gotten stuck in US customs ?
Or stolen... I do believe you can get at least some money from the USPS if so... (this beeing 'Registered' and all?)

Or, I also have experienced an outgoing(from US) package going to Canada of all places, far from my location, but eventually was corrected onto the right path... 😵

Artex wrote:

The eBAY seller was "double-fish1981"

I bought a couple of these DB's from this seller and they took over a month to arrive, just got stuck somewhere I guess. But they turned up eventually and work fine.

Yeah, that's the same guy I got mine from too. He certainly wasn't in any particular hurry to get it sent out, nor did the postal service seem to be in any particular rush to get it in motion, but my board did eventually arrive. I think mine took closer to two months... TBH, I'd mostly forgotten about it by the time it arrived, so I didn't notice exactly how long it was.

I also bought my board from that guy. It took about 14 days to arrive (about 10 working days) in Norway. The tracking was way off, it arrived when the tracking said it was still in China.

No luck on USPS or Royal mail. The seller already refunded me the $$$. 🙁 Anyone US-based care to sell me one?

Got a Chieftec EATX case today to house my Pentium 4 system. Came with 3 fans, a bunch of cables and a cardreader/usb/lcd front panel thingy.. for only €15 😀
This is it: http://www.chieftec.com/BH02.html

Now I'll have to see if it fits on my desk.. this thing is huge 🤣

Finally also got one of these NEC General Midi boards from eBay. Card works fine 😀

And I got a new 450W PSU for my Super Socket 7 time machine because the old OEM one that came with the case stopped working...

Picked up a working 80gb maxtor ide drive for $1 off a yard sale 😀

Basic MS mouse that works as a PS/2 mouse 😀

Been hoarding Creative sound cards lately. Got another CT1350B, a CT1330A, and 3 more CT1600s one of which was boxed and appears unused. My other CT1350B and CT1600 are in a 286 and 486 respectively.