Long time lurker, first time poster here. Love this forum. 😀
I usually don't buy stuff that often. My local recycling area provides me with plenty of nice old (and new...) stuff. I consider myself more of a curator of nice things that otherwise would have gone to waste, rather than the one buying stuff others might be wanting to buy. But when I saw this little puppy:
I couldn't help myself. A fair price and it being available locally sealed the deal for me, I was the only bidder and today I lugged it home. What's inside then?
A Tyan Tomcat IV dual socket 7 motherboard, twin P200 MMX, and a smooth 128 MB RAM. I just noticed that it seems to have the dreaded Dallas RTC, not too happy about that, but whatevs. All for the price of ~15 EUR, a local transport fare and some muscle labor.
Neat. 😀
Oh, and when I got to the seller, he also happened to have a room full of cool stuff that he wanted to get rid of. Among other things, I saw a full height 5.25 SCSI HDD, a bunch of old Matrox cards, some fancy looking S3 card with a mezzanine memory upgrade, some 3dfx etc.
The hoarder inside me started twitching, but I held him back. 🙁 😀 <-- That right there is a mixed emotion smiley...
But yeah not entirely though, I did get this:
two Matrox cards (~5 EUR) that I have yet to identify properly. The PPro with bent pins was for free. 😀
The seller seemed like a real nice guy, appreciating that there were people like us out there and taking the time and trouble to put it up for auction for peanuts instead of taking it to the dump. Kudos.
He now has this up for auction, which might be one of the coolest things ever: the PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 200, supposedly the meanest PSU for the PC/XT and first product from the legendary manufacturer. Too bad I don't have a case to put it in.
Cheers! *scuffles back in to lurking*