sliderider wrote:

@ Skyscraper

You shouldn't expect anyone selling scrap lots of computer parts to pack them to prevent them from getting damaged. The whole point of making a bulk lot and labeling it as scrap is to save on packing time and material and to not have to accept returns when half the parts don't work when they arrive because theya re being sold as junk to begin with. That's the reason why so many sellers are selling as-is, untested, scrap, junk, non-functioning, or as a collectible now. They don't have to deal with with returns when what they sell breaks and they can make a case against ebay if they force a refund even though the listing said it didn't work all along.

It wasnt sold as scrap though but as 11 AGP cards tested and working + 20 or so untested cards.
But the seller seemed dodgy so my expectations wasnt high.

I did also find a PCI SCSI card and a MPEG decoding card in the box along with some useless TV-cards.
I have tested the Radeon 9600 PRO for my benching project and at least this cards works flawlessly altough it looks somewhat roughed up.

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*Some* bulk lots can be pretty decent. The set of six untested laptops I got gave me six working laptops, although one turned out to have some signs of liquid damage. Only one had any real physical damage, and that was some small chips in the screen, and a palmrest that doesn't screw into the chassis any more, neither of which were likely to have been caused by the seller. It is very much a lucky dip though, even with good sellers.

Lukeno94 wrote:

*Some* bulk lots can be pretty decent. The set of six untested laptops I got gave me six working laptops, although one turned out to have some signs of liquid damage. Only one had any real physical damage, and that was some small chips in the screen, and a palmrest that doesn't screw into the chassis any more, neither of which were likely to have been caused by the seller. It is very much a lucky dip though, even with good sellers.

I bought a lot of THREE 386 motherboards. One had keyboard issues, and finally died on the 5th boot (sparks...) and the other one didn't even boot. The third works well, no issues. $45 shipped for all of them....so not horrible, but not great either.

However, I did score a SoundBlaster Pro (I have 5 of them now...shesh), a Orchid 128 Fahrenheit ISA, multi IO controller, ISA IDE disk cache controller and Pro Audo Spectrum Plus all for $40.

I think I'm done with hardware collecting for now....🤣

That's very unfortunate, but at least one of them worked. I've found another couple of Pentium MMX laptops from oopsilon-it on eBay, both Dell Latitude CPs with HDD caddies and adapters in place... sadly, I can't afford to get them.

Can you share photos of the three 386 motheboards, even though 2 are already dead?

finally pulled the trigger on ebay today

Shuttle-HOT 433 ver. 4 I have no idea what I'm going to do with it though when it gets here. maybe it will replace the infamous m919 motherboard I have in my one machine. it seems superior in just about every way except for that pesky Dallas RTC chip.

ReeseRiverson wrote:

Well, this is pretty sweet, still factory sealed computer! Complete in box! I almost don't want to open it! :cool: […]
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Well, this is pretty sweet, still factory sealed computer! Complete in box! I almost don't want to open it! 😎

It'd be ultra cool if I could get the original monitor for this thing.

Great find especially when it's manufactured by NEC. What kind of computer is that?

Looks like some Pentium I non-MMX.

ReeseRiverson: Where did you found that? How is it possible that it's still boxed, that's cool anyway 😀

kixs wrote:

Looks like some Pentium I non-MMX.

sticker looks like a Pentium 1 MMX though.

cool looking machine!

Yeah, I agree, the sticker looks like a Pentium MMX, and the 24x cd-rom drive dates it around late 1997 or early 1998 if I recall correctly, so that seems realistic.

Looks like a cool system. I personally don't mine that waffle pattern so much. Grats with getting a new-in-box NEC system 😀

I also like the NEC pc, it's looking really really nice! nice find!

soviet conscript,

Is that the HOT-433 that I posted for $50 with a video card and RAM? I thought that was a really good deal at that price but I have too much stuff now and need to start thinning the herd.

sliderider wrote:

soviet conscript,

Is that the HOT-433 that I posted for $50 with a video card and RAM? I thought that was a really good deal at that price but I have too much stuff now and need to start thinning the herd.

yhea, I thought it was to good a deal to pass up. I have an m919 but this board just seems better.

Been thrift shopping again today! Found a Schneider/Amstrad GT65 green monochrome monitor (FINALLY!!!) and two serial mice.

Also some games:
- Tomb Raider
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- Starfighter 3000
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- SimCity
- SimCity 2000
- SimCity 2000 Special Edition
- Theme Hospital
- Tom Clancy's ruthless.com
- Theme Park World
- Codename: Outbreak
- Oni
- Mafia 2
- Fallout 3

And uh, I got my sister into retro computing too now... She just bought a complete Amiga 1200 with monitor, CD drives, several floppy drives (both 5.25 and 3.5), optical mouse, scanner, joystick, and a truckload of CD's, floppy's, manuals, magazines, VHS tapes and who knows what more 😳

jwt27 wrote:

And uh, I got my sister into retro computing too now... She just bought a complete Amiga 1200 with monitor, CD drives, several floppy drives (both 5.25 and 3.5), optical mouse, scanner, joystick, and a truckload of CD's, floppy's, manuals, magazines, VHS tapes and who knows what more 😳

OMG that's impossible 😁

soviet conscript wrote:

finally pulled the trigger on ebay today […]
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finally pulled the trigger on ebay today

Shuttle-HOT 433 ver. 4 I have no idea what I'm going to do with it though when it gets here. maybe it will replace the infamous m919 motherboard I have in my one machine. it seems superior in just about every way except for that pesky Dallas RTC chip.

actually. does anyone know if this is one of the boards with a undocumented 60mhz FSB setting?

Been thrift shopping again today! Found a Schneider/Amstrad GT65 green monochrome monitor (FINALLY!!!) and two serial mice.

Great picture

Also some games: - Tomb Raider - Grand Theft Auto 2 - Starfighter 3000 - The Dukes of Hazzard - SimCity - SimCity 2000 - SimCity […]
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Also some games:
- Tomb Raider
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- Starfighter 3000
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- SimCity
- SimCity 2000
- SimCity 2000 Special Edition
- Theme Hospital
- Tom Clancy's ruthless.com
- Theme Park World
- Codename: Outbreak
- Oni
- Mafia 2
- Fallout 3

And uh, I got my sister into retro computing too now... She just bought a complete Amiga 1200 with monitor, CD drives, several floppy drives (both 5.25 and 3.5), optical mouse, scanner, joystick, and a truckload of CD's, floppy's, manuals, magazines, VHS tapes and who knows what more

Awesome!

actually. does anyone know if this is one of the boards with a undocumented 60mhz FSB setting?

Well anything above ~40Mhz would tend to be a big problem for PCI

Artex wrote:

That NEC is U-G-L-Y but awesome! 😎

It like it.. Is having a real Pentium 1 area period look.. 😘