The adapter may be proprietary. An OEM may have had a bunch of 60/66mhz Pentium boards left over when the new socket was released and didn't want to waste them so they had adapters made so they could sell the old boards until they ran out. I would think if it was sold retail that someone would have seen one by now or at least remember reading about them at some point.

I would think if it was sold retail that someone would have seen one by now or at least remember reading about them at some point.

But such things were available at retail. I can't remember ever seeing 'em in B&M stores, but there were a fair number of mail-order outfits that sold 'em. They're just rare as balls, since few people bought Socket 4 systems and even fewer cared to upgrade them.

Powerleap made one, there was an Opti one, and a few generic Taiwanese ones. I'd suspect the one Squallstrife has falls into the latter category... the sort of thing sold out of the slightly-shady ads in the back of Computer Shopper and whatnot. 🤣

keropi wrote:

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SB Pro 2 CT1600 for less than a tenner posted (was listed as untested). Not too shabby

Some acquisitions recently:

Zenith 386-20
Intel 386DX20
Intel 387 FPU
64kbit cache
4MB RAM
330MB SCSI HD
MS Mouseport
Date: All parts from 1990 (except two of the memory sticks which looks added later). Must have been a crazy expensive machine.

486 VL machine with DX2-66, 8MB of RAM, Tseng ET4000W32 VLB, 320mb conner drive, 14" monitor

Here it is with new hardware installed (will be used as my main VLB case):

Sierra Screamin' 3D. The box has been opened and have seen better days, but the contents are brand new. Card have never been used.

Nice! Been trying to find a Sierra Screamin' 3D for a year to complete my Rendition Verite collection.

Artex wrote:

Nice! Been trying to find a Sierra Screamin' 3D for a year to complete my Rendition Verite collection.

Didn't you get one on Ebay some time ago?
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vetz wrote:

Artex wrote:

Nice! Been trying to find a Sierra Screamin' 3D for a year to complete my Rendition Verite collection.

Didn't you get one on Ebay some time ago?
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Nope, I opened the bubble wrap and almost shed a tear. The dude blatantly lied to me, trying to pass off a Creative CT6260 as a Screamin 3D & spinning some BS about he *thought* it was the card because it said "Rendition" on it. I guess he used a Google Images picture for the posting, and even after I asked him through eBay about specifics of the card to make sure it was the card I was after, he insisted it was still a Screamin 3D.

I actually had to open a dispute, and got a partial refund since I decided to keep the card anyway because I didn't have a Creative Rendition card in that particular model (I had the Verite 1000-based CT6240).

I was pretty pissed for a while there... 😢

Got this on on Monday (I believe): an ISA 16 bit I/O card:

I installed it in an Everex 486 that has a fried FDD/HDD controller on the MOBO. I was able to disable COM1/2 & LPT1. The card works great. I can now use the Everex again.

Bought the ISA card @ Goodwill for $14 including shipping so that was not that bad. Plus it is charity.

Found some stuff at the thrift shop again.

- NIC, or something like that, for 16-bit slot. looks industrial. PCB reads TELES.S0/16.3.
- NIC or something with 4 BNC connectors. Probably just a switch, taking only power from the ISA slot.
- NIC for 8-bit slot. Network Interface Corp PCARC. Made in USA (quite obviously, there's an american flag printed on the circuit board)
I have no idea what the circuit board on top is.

- Genius handheld scanner. Completely pointless but hey, it said PC/XT compatible so I couldn't just leave it there, could I? 🤣
- Nice handheld halogen light... 1000 watt!!! 😳

A long time ago, in the Ford galaxy, I owned a Sun Cobalt Qube2 web appliance. In a nutshell, it was a RISC based web/email/etc server that sat on your desk and looked pretty while doing it. Sold it on ebay for like $200 almost 10 years ago. As fate would have it, I looked up the cobalt the other day, just to see if they still existed. Long story short, I found a Qube3-pro and I Just won it for a VERY good price. It uses a K6-2 (450?) chip in leu of the RISC on in the #2, so there is that. I might spring for that 570 k6-2+ thats been on ebay FOREVER... Anywho, here is the link to the auction, I'll post good pics once it arrives.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111234093857

- NIC, or something like that, for 16-bit slot. looks industrial. PCB reads TELES.S0/16.3.

That would be an ISDN card. Interesting thing, but even less useful than an average modem these days.

- NIC for 8-bit slot. Network Interface Corp PCARC. Made in USA

Arcnet controller. Basically a low-cost (for the time) alternative to ethernet. It's an interesting system, but you'd need more than just one card to be able to do anything with it. It also used an odd type of cabling... I think it was RG-62, versus the RG-58 used for 10Base2.

I believe the middle card is an Arcnet hub.

As for the board at the top, I can't really make out any of the details on it, but I'd guess from the look of it and the context that it's also ISDN related, perhaps part of a modem or something.

Hey, thanks! So it seems the only really useful thing I got yesterday was the 1000W light... and I already had one of those (though not in a handheld/camera-mount form)

Old Thrashbarg wrote:

As for the board at the top, I can't really make out any of the details on it, but I'd guess from the look of it and the context that it's also ISDN related, perhaps part of a modem or something.

Just had a closer look at it and it definitely has something to do with ISDN. Text on the board reads "Pittway Corporation", "(C)2000 ISDN Telesignal IMOD 1 Rev 4". It looked kinda interesting because it has an RS-232 header, some Zilog chip (of Z80 fame) and an EPROM.

Bought a CT2230 with removable ASP/CSP cheap today ($3 + shipping). 😊

Purchased a MSI 655 Max P4 motherboard (SIS chipset) and a P4 2.66ghz 533 FSB to go with it. Mostly I just wanted to see how an old P4 with a Geforce 5900 SE ran Under Windows 98SE. back in the day I skipped from Intel P3's to AMD Athlons so I never realy messed with P4's until XP was around and I got a free Dell Dimension 8300 (p4 3ghz HT). The SIS chipset is also interesting since it is supposed to have GB Ethernet. Had to dig around to find 2x256MB DDR333 DIMMs so that Windows 98 will not freak out when I do the install.

Got some more Roland modules:

- MT-32 (serial no. 863879) complete with AC adapter and manuals
- U-110
- JV-880

I am now 138mm closer to completing my tower of doom.

One tested Evergreen processor for me: (tested)

It goes away for a very low price!

Can used it on the boards i have over, that wont accept AMD 5x86 P75 133mhz by stock on the motherboard.
Some will do to 100mhz, and some till 120mhz, but wont regonize the AMD 5x86 P75 133Mhz by default.

Robin4 wrote:

One tested Evergreen processor for me: (tested)

Nice! Just picked up a New Old Stock version myself.

has anyone ever got a mt-32 with a headphones jack?

schlang wrote:

has anyone ever got a mt-32 with a headphones jack?

I believe Cloudschatze owns at least two of them.