Please benchmark, and then contribute the results to the 386 speedsys thread. I don't think we have much on UMC chipsets.

Nice stuff. 😀 That second board, it has the UMC 82c491 VLB Chipset which is normally used for 486s!?
Like this one. http://www.amoretro.de/2012/03/umc-486-umc-49 … otherboard.html

gerwin wrote:

Nice stuff. 😀 That second board, it has the UMC 82c491 VLB Chipset which is normally used for 486s!?
Like this one. http://www.amoretro.de/2012/03/umc-486-umc-49 … otherboard.html

Board has markings from 40 to 80 MHz, so it looks to me like it is a repurposed 486 board, or one of those boards that could possibly handle a 386 and a 486? CPU looks like a AMD 386DX-40 from that picture.

Good to see you back with 386 gear dirkmirk 😀

I thought you took a break or something.

Received one of those pin-modded Korean Tualatins just now 😀

Bought this from a co-worker today for 10 euros

Nice, clean, almost like new..

And also very good condition... Samsung SyncMaster 3. Haven't adjusted picture at all in that pic, it went nice straight edges when i did.

Atrend ATC-1425A motherboard

And nice rock 😀

8 megs of ram and CL GD-5440, and probably 2xcd-rom

Let´s see what i´m going to do with this one

tokroger wrote:

Bought this from a co-worker today for 10 euros

That's the whitest old computer I've seen! 😳

devius wrote:

tokroger wrote:

Bought this from a co-worker today for 10 euros

That's the whitest old computer I've seen! 😳

Ditto! And I've seen a LOT of old computer cases.

Shesh...now I look at some in my collection and think I need to get them whitened up. They're almost the color of someone's urine who is very dehydrated! 😵

dogchainx wrote:

Shesh...now I look at some in my collection and think I need to get them whitened up. They're almost the color of someone's urine who is very dehydrated! 😵

Yeah, that's what you'd expect from old computers. I have one case that is practically brown now on the exposed parts, while the non-exposed parts are mostly in their light beige original color. A good candidate for my first attempt at producing Retr0bright 😀

devius wrote:

dogchainx wrote:

Shesh...now I look at some in my collection and think I need to get them whitened up. They're almost the color of someone's urine who is very dehydrated! 😵

Yeah, that's what you'd expect from old computers. I have one case that is practically brown now on the exposed parts, while the non-exposed parts are mostly in their light beige original color. A good candidate for my first attempt at producing Retr0bright 😀

I use this stuff with either direct sunlight or black lights and it works a treat! I just kinda 'paint' it on the plastic parts and let them sit there for 2-3 hours. I had to go to a beauty supply store though because no other places carry this stuff with the high concentration % of peroxide. Use gloves and wear eyewear - it will burn!

Had some luck today:

Spotted on a local auction site a guy who had 2 boxes of computerparts for sale. Since it was not to far from my city and i spotted some isa cards and a voodoo1 in the pictures i made him an offer of 10 euro.
He answered: it's yours!

When i was there he said he had 2 old systems i could take for just 10 euro more. Bought them too....

This is what i found (that was interesting for me) in the boxes and systems:

A-trend voodoo graphics with stock heatsinks and 83mhz memory
Creative Sounblaster pro2 ct1600
Creative ''sound machine'' ct1336
Creative audiopci
IDT winchip c6 225mhz (LOVE IT! never saw one before in real life)
QDI P6v693a/a5-133 slot1 board
Asus TUV4X with celeron tualatin 1000A
Pcchips m590 socket 7 board with Intel p200mmx
Nvidia Geforce ti4200
Aopen 300w atx psu
VLB videocard 1mb Diamond? wg-6000vl

Very nice score i think for a total of 20 euro, will test this weekend so let's hope i get it all working....

The rest is stuff like crystal sound, trident vga, sis vga, modems lan etc. etc. that i have no use for.

Great score! A tualatin in there too. Pretty sweet.

I just used some earnings from eBay to purchase a Dreamblaster Synth S1 from serdashop. This'll be my first foray into wavetable boards. I've listened to a bunch of the sample mp3s and I think it'll be great to start out with for the price. Obviously I'd love a Roland, but I can't justify the price I'd have to pay for one.

Got this for free. Dunno if it counts retro tho. 😁

Found two more vintage systems at the dump today! Dunno if they work or not, but, since both systems are pretty wet right now, I'm not gonna test them out.

On the left: An IBM Aptiva 2170-245. I don't know about the specs, but it looks to be a K6 or K6-2.
On the right: A Compaq Presario 2200 or similar, missing the faceplate. Very interesting system with the processor soldered to the motherboard! I thought it was a DVD player at first, until I saw the speakers and the floppy drive! Also, no expansion slots!

Looking inside the Aptiva:

And now, inside the Presario:

I'll probably make a separate thread for the Presario if I get it working.

I got this dirty ATX Baby Tower , there are no cracks/scratches - just coffee stains and dirt 🤣

The mobo is an A-OPEN MX59 PRO II with a k6-2/450 cpu. Can't say I like it much - onboard vga/sound (via mvp4 embedded vga? never heard of that before... and the bog standard ac97 audio codec) , no AGP and 1x ISA slot. :\

I also got 75 27C256 70ns eproms, all tested/cleaned/erased and ready to be used. They only had 1 write/erase cycle so they are practically as good as new 😀

edit:
found some info on the onboard vga:

Vibrant Integrated AGP2X Capabilities
The VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset integrates the Trident Blade3D AGP graphics engine to deliver vibrant graphics capabilities for running 2D/3D software and Internet applications.

The Presario is a fairly uncommon and fairly horrible system. I had one for awhile. Pretty much no expansion capabilities. Hell even getting windows 98 to run on it rather then 95 is a task.

keropi wrote:

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I got this dirty ATX Baby Tower , there are no cracks/scratches - just coffee stains and dirt 🤣

The mobo is an A-OPEN MX59 PRO II with a k6-2/450 cpu. Can't say I like it much - onboard vga/sound (via mvp4 embedded vga? never heard of that before... and the bog standard ac97 audio codec) , no AGP and 1x ISA slot. :\

I also got 75 27C256 70ns eproms, all tested/cleaned/erased and ready to be used. They only had 1 write/erase cycle so they are practically as good as new 😀

edit:
found some info on the onboard vga:

Vibrant Integrated AGP2X Capabilities
The VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset integrates the Trident Blade3D AGP graphics engine to deliver vibrant graphics capabilities for running 2D/3D software and Internet applications.

Use a PCI Voodoo 3 and some nice ISA soundcard, it could be a nice DOS/Windows 98 system. I bet the board can run a K6-3+ as its a very late socket 7 board.

Hello everyone, my latest discovery is a Compaq EVO series, I think the model is precisely the D5D - Pentium 4 1.5, SDRAM memory, 20GB disk, CD and CDRW added later by the former owner and one VGA I can't remember in this moment. Tested and running, quiet and of fairly small size. Around 2000 in my city there was a trial regarding PowerLine connectivity for urban use, and remember these were the models of PC rented for this use.

1.5 GHz Pentium 4 and SDRAM... yep, that must've chugged.

Artex wrote:

I use this stuff with either direct sunlight or black lights and it works a treat! I just kinda 'paint' it on the plastic parts and let them sit there for 2-3 hours. I had to go to a beauty supply store though because no other places carry this stuff with the high concentration % of peroxide. Use gloves and wear eyewear - it will burn!

I've used cream peroxide too but I tend to get some streaking/'brush stroke' effect which is quite noticeable after rinsing and drying. Has that happened to you?