I always wanted an NV1, but the game support is meh, and I have a Sega Saturn, and a Saturn to USB gamepad adapter for PC 🤣 .

jwt27 wrote:

Someone found this for $50 (not me): http://imgur.com/a/LCRC3

*shakes fist* damn it all!

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

I reused his pic from the add since its already real nice

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soviet conscript wrote:

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

drooling over here... $5? That's an amazing price...congrats. ..I'm also on the lookout for a 286 for my collection but it seems they are very hard to find especially in good shape.

I love that case and monitor too...what a score!

Is that a clicky keyboard as well?

soviet conscript wrote:

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

Nice price, same/similar bare case and drives went for $60 on eBay here recently ...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Retro-Comp … 9436ff2f&_uhb=1

retrofanatic wrote:

drooling over here... $5? That's an amazing price...congrats. ..I'm also on the lookout for a 286 for my collection but it seems […]
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soviet conscript wrote:

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

drooling over here... $5? That's an amazing price...congrats. ..I'm also on the lookout for a 286 for my collection but it seems they are very hard to find especially in good shape.

I love that case and monitor too...what a score!

Is that a clicky keyboard as well?

na, its not a model M. it is a nice keyboard though. The guy I got it off of knew it was worth more but he said he just wanted to free up space and give it a new home. he even recently soldered in a brand new NICAD battery. very clean and it all works. turbo button kicks it down to 10mhz.

I'm not to sure at this point where I want to go with this machine or how much I want to "upgrade" it. the video card wasn't much to look at. some Winbond card and i'm not sure if its ega, cga or monochrome card. I have a ET4000 I think I'm going to replace it with for shear convenience. I have a 386 with a SB 2.0 as well as a V20 machine so I really want to do something different with this machine at least sound wise. I was thinking a SB pro for the duel OPL2 or maybe an adlib gold or PAS or something. of course finding any of those cards is another matter. also not sure any of the games that use those sound card features would even run well on this machine..hmmmm

I would guess the motherboard, 20MHz CPU and FPU would go for at least $150 sold together.

I think the FPU on its own may fetch a few quid, as there can't be that many 287s floating around.

JidaiGeki wrote:

soviet conscript wrote:

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

Nice price, same/similar bare case and drives went for $60 on eBay here recently ...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Retro-Comp … 9436ff2f&_uhb=1

That was my case. It sold the day I listed it. Sad to see it go but I had no need for it. The buyer has since put in a 386 DX-40 and he's loving it so I'm glad it went to a good home 😀

got a bunch of stuff , some are meh some are nice... after discarting the dead ones I am left with these:

an intel board with a 1.4ghz p4 and 128MB RamBus:

some soundcards, a nice Live! and a SB128:

a bunch of pci NICs , SDRAM, 2x classic S3 Trio3D 2x cards , a NEC usb2 card and a sas controller, no use for that:

a radeon ve, a crappy m64 with some video-out board, a FX5200/128MB and a GF4MX440SE (iirc) with 128MB DDR

2x M64s and 2x GF4MX/64MB SDRAM

2x virge cards, a Trio64 and a Monster Fusion (banshee) 😀

and lastly, a 2400pro agp card, a crappy pci-e X1300 vga with 64+512MB vram and a 16mb Savage4 pro

Also got a bunch of IDE hdds, floppies and cd/dvd drives... not sure what I'll do with all that stuff , there is some testing possibility but nothing that excites me much 🤣

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^ there is no love for MX/generic cards , I've tried gifting them in the past 🤣 🤣 🤣

obobskivich wrote:

Wow that's a nice find there - that's a 5950 Ultra and full Ti 4600 right? Does the 5950 have the custom Leadtek FX cooler? Is it quiet or not?

Both have a custom cooler. Neither are quiet 😀

I have another 5950 Ultra and replaced the cooler with a Zalman clone. Worked very well.

oh yeah - forgot to mention: that 286 setup is AWESOME!

also here is the svhs-out daughterboard, apparently it could do DVI if it was populated 🤣

Couple new things

Matrox G450 16 mb

OnStream Di30, 30 Gb tapedrive, no tapes though...

AST Advantage! 812, 100 Mhz Pentium, 8 mb, 850 mb hd

The AST is nice!
Always liked their cases.

keropi wrote:

got a bunch of stuff , some are meh some are nice... after discarting the dead ones I am left with these: […]
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got a bunch of stuff , some are meh some are nice... after discarting the dead ones I am left with these:

an intel board with a 1.4ghz p4 and 128MB RamBus:

I'm assuming Socket 423? Be good to get some benchmarks on that. I know the early P4s are dire but see how it compares to the PIII.

^ what kind of benchmarks would you like to see? 😀

keropi wrote:

^ what kind of benchmarks would you like to see? 😀

I'd be interested in memory bandwidth - always been curious how Willamette + RDRAM would stack up to mine with SDRAM. 😊

To foey's question: from what I remember from ages ago in magazines/benchmarks, the faster Tualatins were roughly on par with the faster Willamettes if SSE2 is not considered.

soviet conscript wrote:

grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Har […]
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grabbed this for $5 off Craigslist. I needed a 286 for my collection and this looks to be a late model with 4MB of RAM and a Harris 20mhz 286 + 287 copro.

I reused his pic from the add since its already real nice

motherboard

That case is a retro classic. It was also available in a full tower. And $5 for a complete system with a Harris 20 in it is amazing. Normally you couldn't buy the CPU alone for that. The IIT co-pro is a pretty good find, as well. They normally go for more than the Intel because of rarity.