I paid way too much for it but god DAMN if it isn't sexy.

An MD Data drive.
Yes, Minidisc.
Forget the fact it was in the box and pretty much complete. I never though I would ever find one.

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I paid way too much for it but god DAMN if it isn't sexy.

An MD Data drive.
Yes, Minidisc.
Forget the fact it was in the box and pretty much complete. I never though I would ever find one.

That's a great haul, especially the MD data drive! Do you have any of it's disks?

I had the same feeling when I stumbled upon an insite floptical drive. Too bad I never managed to source any of it's 21MB disks 🙁
Just recently I read there were only 70k made or sold worldwide and I reckon I can't use one of the regular floppy disks or a 2.88 one.

Do you have any of it's disks?

I have two cartridges. It doesn't seem to like formatting regular audio cartridges either so if I want more space while there are constantly one or two NOS cartridges on ebay they are typically $40 after shipping.

I have a floptical drive hidden away in my SGI Indigo actually. Before I accidentally blew up the very hard to source SCSI to floppy bridge card I found it more useful for using 1.44mb disks.

CelGen wrote:

Do you have any of it's disks?

I have two cartridges. It doesn't seem to like formatting regular audio cartridges either so if I want more space while there are constantly one or two NOS cartridges on ebay they are typically $40 after shipping.

I have a floptical drive hidden away in my SGI Indigo actually. Before I accidentally blew up the very hard to source SCSI to floppy bridge card I found it more useful for using 1.44mb disks.

I never even knew the Insite Floptical drive had a SCSI to floppy bridge card. I always assumed it was sorta integrated. Never tried to detach the SCSI connector from the drive as it looked pretty solid and I didn't want to risk damaging it as I only ever found a single drive (so if it's ruined, I can't get another one).

It's also my only SCSI floppy drive (I do have a couple IDE LS-120 drives though). And even though I never got to actually use it (can't even remember if I ever tested it), I'm very glad I kept it 😀

Do you happen to know if the Insite drive can actually be used in a PC? I already knew it originated from a non-pc computer.

I'll tell ya, that palmtop is sexy

vmunix wrote:

I'll tell ya, that palmtop is sexy

I second that 😎

Tetrium wrote:

Do you happen to know if the Insite drive can actually be used in a PC? I already knew it originated from a non-pc computer.

I've been using the I325VM model in a Tandy 1000 TL/2 build for several years now. The Rancho RT1000B SCSI adapter that I'm using has BIOS support for floptical drives, whereas Adaptec's ASPIDISK.SYS driver had been used to provide that support with the prior setup, involving a Trantor T128 adapter.

I don't know if this is really retro or not.. It's from spring 2010. But it's also under the "If you can't buy it new any more, it's retro" category, so.. decided to share here.

So I already had two of these that I bought in fall 2013, they're great together but I've always wanted to explore Tri-SLI with something useful. I've been watching ebay daily to try and find a 100% exact match to my existing pair, but no luck all this time. So when a 3rd one popped up on ebay last week.. I pounced on it. It was only $45 anyway, so couldn't resist.

EVGA GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW card.

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/gtx470/DSC05732.JPG

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/gtx470/DSC05731.JPG

And, the complete set together (Not hooked up.. just sat in a random (dead) motherboard for the photo):

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/gtx470/3-way/DSC05722.JPG

It will be a long while before I can get all 3 set up together in a system, probably next summer. But it will be interesting to see how these 3 do together in some older DirectX 8 and 9 titles for fun.

Picked up a Paradise EGA card this week for $8.

It will take some time to get here but i made a very nice deal. I wanted a 486 pci board for some time now and finally got one, i made a package deal so i will get a big box with some nice parts soon:

Sis based 486 vlb board with dx2 66mhz cpu
Sis based 486 pci board with amd dx4 120mhz cpu (acer board, hopefully a 16kb cpu). Comes in a case with psu.
Asus 430fx socket 7 board with cache module and ps2 bracket, p133mhz cpu
3x creative isa soundblasters: CT2940, CT4170 en CT3780. CT3870 awe32 comes with manual and driver disk.
3Dfx voodoo1 and voodoo2 card (can't stop buying these things when they are cheap. My 7th v1 and my 10th voodoo2)
VLB cirrus logic vga card

Paid 65 euro for all of it.

This will be my last big haul, i have so much parts that i really have to stop buying now. I have a very short list of things i still really want and i will stick to that (I HOPE).

I just had to have some nice 486 stuff to play with. I only have one complete 486 right now and it is the first i've ever build and setup. It is a Soyo board with Sis chipset and amd dx4 100mhz, 16mb ram and a Cirrus logic VLB card. Runs very nice but i really want pci, because for me every retro pc has to have a 3dfx card, even when they are to slow for it 🤣

meljor wrote:

It will take some time to get here but i made a very nice deal. I wanted a 486 pci board for some time now and finally got one, i made a package deal so i will get a big box with some nice parts soon:

That's a nice list!

Bought a Sony VGN-UX90PS, fun little machine 😀

meljor wrote:

This will be my last big haul, i have so much parts that i really have to stop buying now. I have a very short list of things i still really want and i will stick to that (I HOPE).

There will always that part that will be cheaper to buy in a random lot xD That us how I ended with more SBPro clones than I could ever want to.
Btw, congratz on the haul =)

Gotten a Unisys PW/2 series 300 (286 machine) for free.
Pictures will be added next week.

EDIT:
Could not help my self. Took some pictures. They are of bad quality, due to my shitty phonecamera and bad lightning.
Going to take some more on monday.

The computer came with the original manual, the original keyboard and an optical mouse. All dated late jan. and mid. feb. of 1988.
The specs are 286 8/10mhz, 640k ram, 20mb HDD, EGA monitor and gfx card. No soundcard and only one Serial and one Parallel port.

Got this Roland SC-55 mkII off eBay from Netherlands few days ago.

brostenen wrote:

and an optical mouse. All dated late jan. and mid. feb. of 1988.

looking fwd to pics

It arrived!

I am using the sellers' picture here, as I forgot to take one before installing it. This card is rather weird as far as its preferred ports are: by default it was setting its SoundBlaster compatible part to por 110h?! The two MPU ports were also at weird adresses (1xxh range). It seems to cohexist just fine with an AWE64 which I had to install instead of the CT3670 (only one of the ISA slots allow for a bigger card - the others interfere with VRM heatsinks), so no more loading 8MB soundfonts for me, but the EWS64XL's own synth (+ an 8MB DIMM) should make up for it.

That Unisys looks great! Gratulerer!

brostenen wrote:

Gotten a Unisys PW/2 series 300 (286 machine) for free.

Very nice machine! Would be great to see some pictures of the EGA display in action if you get the chance.

lolo799 wrote:

Bought a Sony VGN-UX90PS, fun little machine 😀

vgn-ux90ps.jpg

CUTE!!!