My girlfriend doesnt make any problem that i have a retro computer hobby.. I have my own space here and i can do what i want. If she cant cope with it then she better leave.. Simple as that..
You need to leave both in there value.. This is my hobby, and my girlfriend likes horse riding..
~ At least it can do black and white~
It's probably a good thing I'm single. Because I just brought home this ridiculous haul...
http://imgur.com/fL37P66
http://imgur.com/zC0czQo
A good chunk of retro stuff, and some modern things too. Here's the full list.
CPUs:
Pentium 4 Prescott (SL7E4) 3.00Ghz/800FSB/1MB Socket 478 CPU
Video Cards:
Nvidia GeForce4 440 (Dell OEM) AGP
Trident TVGA96PCI (8257G/V5) (1 MB, TGUI96xx chipset) PCI
S3 Trio64V2/DX (APAC) PCI
ATI Rage 128 Ultra AGP
Matrox G450 Dual-Head 32MB AGP
ATI Radeon 7000 64MB PCI
ATI Radeon X300SE 64MB PCIe
Sound Cards:
Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)
Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371)
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value (CT4520) ISA
Sound Blaster 16 Vibra (CT2940) ISA (x2)
Networking:
Netgear FA312 REV-A1 10/100 Ethernet PCI
Xircom SpringPort SWE1100 Wireless-B PC Card
Netgear MA521 Wireless-B PC Card
Memory (Desktop):
ProMOS 512MB DDR2 PC2-4200 (x3)
ProMOS 256MB DDR1 PC-3200 (x2)
G.Skill 512MB DDR1 PC-3200 (x2)
Hynix 512MB DDR2 PC2-4200 (x2)
PNY 1GB DDR1 PC-3200
Nanya 512MB DDR2 PC2-4200 (x2)
Nanya 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400
Infineon 512MB DDR1 PC-2100 (x2)
Kingmax 512MB DDR1 PC-3200
Micron 512MB DDR2 PC2-4200 (x3)
Samsung 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400 (x2)
Crucial 512MB DDR2 PC2-5300 (x3)
Crucial 1GB DDR1 PC-3200 (x2)
Memory (Notebook):
Visiontek 64MB 144-pin SDRAM
SEC 32MB 144-pin SDRAM
Samsung 1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 (x2)
Hynix 256MB DDR2 PC2-4200 (x2)
Hynix 512MB DDR2 PC2-5300 (x2)
Sony 512MB DDR PC-2100 MicroDIMM
Storage:
Seagate 9BD833-560 250GB External USB drive
Iomega Zip 250 IDE drive
Imation Neon 1.44" Floppies (Box of 10, and one extra)
Seagate 9Y7865-560 300GB External USB drive
Fujitsu 160GB 2.5" SATA drive
Dell external DVD-RW USB
Iomega Zip 250 External USB (Externally-powered)
Iomega Zip 250 External USB (USB-powered)
Fujifilm Zip 100 disks (x3)
Iomega Zip 750 IDE drive
SiliconTech 16MB ATA Flash Storage (PCMCIA card)
Cables & adapters:
ASUS 2x USB backplate
No-name 2x USB backplate
USB > PS/2 mouse adapter (x5)
PS/2 mouse+keyboard > USB adapter (x2)
PS/2 keyboard > USB adapter
PS/2 extension cord
IDE cable (80-pin)
IDE cable (40-pin)
SCSI cable (50-pin)
Molex>SATA power adapter
PS/2 > AT keyboard adapter
CD-audio cable (x4)
SATA cable (x2)
USB extension cord (x4)
VGA > DVI adapter (x4)
VGA cable
3.5" headphone+mic male-male cable
3.5" headphone male-male cable (x2)
Serial cable
Serial > USB adapter
Belkin OmniView Pro 3 4x KVM switch
Misc:
Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI PCI
Adaptec AVA-2906 SCSI PCI (unopened!)
SIIG NN2601 3-port Firewire 400 PCI
HDMI extender
Case fans (x3)
Antistatic wrist straps (x2)
Oh, and I should probably note this was all free.
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wrote:wrote:Little box o' trouble...
what's inside?! 😊
The PS/1 Audio Card & Joystick bundle.
It's going to go great with the PS/1 system that I donated to Goodwill last year...
D'oh.
wrote:The PS/1 Audio Card & Joystick bundle. […]
wrote:wrote:Little box o' trouble...
what's inside?! 😊
The PS/1 Audio Card & Joystick bundle.
It's going to go great with the PS/1 system that I donated to Goodwill last year...
D'oh.
wrote:It's probably a good thing I'm single. Because I just brought home this ridiculous haul...
Oh, and I should probably note this was all free.
Wow you hit the jackpot 🤣
Seriously such collections are the best way to get you started...
My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card:
~ At least it can do black and white~
After work in an old town I came home with some great toys.
HP Pavilion 8396 12GB quantum and a rare 450mhz p2
Generic p4 build with asus board GF2 mx200 32mb
Dell Precision 420 933mhz slot1 p3, 512mb rdram, 32gb (jumpered to 8gb) scsi160, 3DLabs Wildcat 4110 (this system can do smp) Intel 840 based! So in a few months P3 might see 2gb 😎
Free flame thrower (propane) that needs a lot of work (used to clearing brush)
All three machines were bought as trash salvage for a buck each.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
wrote:Free flame thrower (propane) that needs a lot of work (used to clearing brush)
Nice, we had an old a petrol one - didn't know there were propane ones.
wrote:My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card: […]
My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card:
How do you like it? I got one years ago complete in box.
Collector of old computers, hardware, and software
I grabbed that Gravis Ultrasound PnP clone that someone posted in another thread a couple of weeks ago. That was a great price for that card so I had to have it. A genuine Gravis is too pricey and I don't see anyone listing one for less than the current going rate any time soon.
wrote:Had an Ultrasound MAX, was cool at start, but nothing special 😀
GUS was the card to have until AWE32 was released. That was the first card that really gave the GUS any serious competition, IMHO.
wrote:wrote:My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card: […]
My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card:
How do you like it? I got one years ago complete in box.
I didnt play much with it.. I have only checked on the first one if the controller was working..
I only can use it with iam going to build my 486 system.
Iam looking for a manual or data sheet for the settings on that card.
~ At least it can do black and white~
This isn't a purchase, but it's one of my latest acquisitions. One of my clients was clearing out a storage closet at his office and I picked it out of the junk pile.
Behold, the classic Enlight 6680:
I think everybody here will recognize this case straightaway, and the majority have probably owned one at some point or another.
It's in quite good shape, no dents anywhere, just a few minor scuffs in the paint and a bit of yellowing on one side of the faceplate. The power supply is the original Enlight as well. As you can see, it also has a Samsung 24X CD-ROM drive, and a 250MB floppy-tape drive (which I'm guessing is a transplant from an older system, given its early '94 date code).
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It came equipped with an Asus P2-99B. Fukken sweet. 😎
Baby-AT Slot1 boards are really damn hard to find, and reputable brands even more so. It's only a 440ZX, rather than a BX, but it is the latest revision which supports 133FSB, and supposedly it's also possible to flash it with the last P2B beta BIOS and get it to run a Tualatin.
Incidentally, the same client also has several old Gateway full towers he's going to be getting rid of pretty soon, whenever he gets around to moving the stacks of file boxes out of the way to get to them. I spied a P5-60, a P5-100, and a P5-166, but there's apparently a couple more hidden in a corner that I couldn't see.
wrote:I didnt play much with it.. I have only checked on the first one if the controller was working.. I only can use it with iam goin […]
wrote:wrote:My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card: […]
My second Iwill SIDE SCSI VLB i/O controller card:
How do you like it? I got one years ago complete in box.
I didnt play much with it.. I have only checked on the first one if the controller was working..
I only can use it with iam going to build my 486 system.Iam looking for a manual or data sheet for the settings on that card.
Collector of old computers, hardware, and software
The picture doesnt look the same.. Iam really sure its a Iwill one.. Because i had this card in the computer and had intering the onboard bios.. In the bios it said Iwill..
~ At least it can do black and white~
wrote:I grabbed that Gravis Ultrasound PnP clone that someone posted in another thread a couple of weeks ago. That was a great price for that card so I had to have it. A genuine Gravis is too pricey and I don't see anyone listing one for less than the current going rate any time soon.
It was being sold just as 'some STB sound card'. The seller wasn't aware of it being a GUS clone. Yet I recognized it judging by its exterior typical for Gravis PnP. 20$ was a real bargain for such a card.
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wrote:You guys are unlucky. My girlfriend finds my hobby interesting and often asks to see what I'm fiddling with. But then again I only bring out one old PC at a time and have all the rest of the stuff packed away when I'm not using them. I don't litter them all over the house.
I am very happy with my wife really. She is very flexible with me spending time on my hobby instead of watching TV with her. It is just that I had a 3 dining room table setup in 2010 / 2011 with 8 to 10 PCs setup. She does not want to see that again. It looked like a nutty professor setup back then with all the CRTs, cables, noise, MIDI modules and so forth. 😊
wrote:http://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/IBM/PS1/JPG/92F9425i_s.jpg […]
That is really cool! 😀
wrote:Incidentally, the same client also has several old Gateway full towers he's going to be getting rid of pretty soon, whenever he gets around to moving the stacks of file boxes out of the way to get to them. I spied a P5-60, a P5-100, and a P5-166, but there's apparently a couple more hidden in a corner that I couldn't see.
Cool. When you have a chance you should take / buy those. You can easily recover some good $ even when you sell those cheap. Gateway 2000 has a big following in the retro community.
Got a SCC-1 @ my EU address today. No idea whether it works. I will test it in December. It was sold as an Edirol product with lots of MIDI files back in the day. 😎 No midi-MIDI cable. I will have to find one of those once I confirm it still works.
^ well, the scc-1 has an onboard SG synth (scb-55) so all you need to test is is a pair of speakers!
Nice stuff btw 😁
