wrote:I remember seeing at least one more argentinian member.
It's interesting how "international" this forum is. There are members sharing -more or less- the same retro hobby.
wrote:I'm argentinian too :3 and yes, this forum is for every retro hardware collector around the world
otro por acá 😜
Large haul today,cpu's traded from friend (except 423 p4),his"doubles"
So my collection updated with: 200mhz Pentium Pro,Amd K5 PR100,am486-DX2-66,am386-DX 40,cyrix 87 dlc fpu seems it came with 386 and 1.5ghz P4 423 socket(this one from gold scraper)
Video cards came from sellers in region.
1st photo Trident TVGA8900C and Alliance Semiconductor AT25/3D
2nd photo Trident 3D Image 975,S3 Trio 64V+ and S3 Trio64 V2/DX
Cpus gonna be part of collection until i get working boards for em,i'm not lucky with live board... usually i obtain em highly damaged and unusable
wrote:Oh, i added one of these on my attempt of Retro Windows XP Machine, which is based on a Athlon 64 3200+ sk754, 2GB of ram and 500GB of hdd. It gave a new life to that machine as even Left4Dead2 is somewhat playable, even though it's a single core machine!
Good to know! I plan on putting it into my Athlon XP 3200+ machine 😀
wrote:You have a Creative Blaster VLB? Which organ did have to sell?
Bought it some time ago, didn't cost me an organ, but it's the single most expensive retro item I've bought 😉 The worst part is that later I managed to acquire a second card for almost nothing, but I traded that card with a member here on Vogons for a Neon250.
The card itself loves CPU power and is quite a disappointment on a DX2-66 or DX4, which was its intended market. You can find a video on Youtube with all the supported games that I filmed directly from the monitor. It's a bit fun to see the quality difference with using that technique compared to a proper VGA capture card like the DVI2PCIe.
Just been given from work:
HP Workstation XW4300 (the Pentium D model),
eMac A1002,
Apple Macintosh G5 (single core model).
Some HP scanner. Will take pictures in a bit. All great condition! The greatness that comes with working as an IT technician for a national newspaper company 😊 😊
Today's arrivals: a Gunshot GS-2 joystick and an Acer TravelMate 313T.
wrote:Yesterday I received a package from a fellow VOGONS member containing a boxed Roland SCC-1 and a boxed Roland CM-500. Great stuff!
Last week I traded one of my Turtle Beach Rio wavetable boards for a Terratec wavetable board (a revision that I did not own yet) and a Roland MPU-401AT.
Besides that I will soon be making another trade for an Ensoniq Soundscape DB. So it seems there are still opportunities for extending my collection after a bit of a slow period.
Congrats on some nice synths!
I quite like EISA graphics cards these days...
This one has the option to speed up or slow down VRAM access... either 80 or 100ns. How practical or useful this is I have yet to ascertain.
I always liked that S3 logo. Perhaps the latency thing would be useful for speed-sensitive stuff which bugs the display on faster machines? Whilst not common, this issue does exist, also, weren't there some CGA games prone to display timing problems on VGA cards? <-Not sure on that as my knowledge of CGA is limited.
Might get myself an EISA VGA Card in the next few weeks/months as I expect the supply will dry up eventually and I would like to get hold of an EISA motherboard at some stage. Unfortunately, the world always finds a way of robbing me when I try to buy them - well, I get refunded, but it either gets lost in shipping or isn't even in stock to start with. I'm starting to think I'm just not meant to own one for some reason.
wrote:Just been given from work:
HP Workstation XW4300 (the Pentium D model),
There's a job lot of similar workstations on eBay at the moment - did that model come with a Quadro or other? I used to procure XW4200s as AutoCAD workstations for an architects - they were kick-ass in 2005! 😀
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Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys 🤣
wrote:Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys :lol: http://i.imgur.com/pXmuzIwm.jpghttp://i. […]
Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys 🤣
$1 for that? Nice find!
wrote:$1 for that? Nice find!
Yup,just tested,seems it has some weird jumper configuration,both is powered up but only 5.25 reads diskettes
Edit:
Both works great,i forgot about set it right in bios 😒
wrote:Yup,just tested,seems it has some weird jumper configuration,both is powered up but only 5.25 reads diskettes […]
wrote:$1 for that? Nice find!
Yup,just tested,seems it has some weird jumper configuration,both is powered up but only 5.25 reads diskettes
Edit:
Both works great,i forgot about set it right in bios 😒
For $1 I would never complain!
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
I got a
Dell AT-101W PS/2 ALPS SKCM Black Switch Mechanical Keyboard
Creative Sound Blaster 16 ISA CT2830 Sound Card
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Dell branded Logitech 2 button PS/2 Mouse
Christmas for Windows '93 floppy disk
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers and Subwoofer
NEC Multisync CRT 17 inch monitor
and a bondi blue 233 mhz imac g3, it unfortunately doesn't work so i took the ram and hdd out.
Got some from ebay and the recycling center.
R5 5600X, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3060 TI, Win11
P3 600, 256 MB RAM, nVidia Riva TNT2 M64, SB Vibra 16S, Win98
PMMX 200, 128 MB RAM, S3 Virge DX, Yamaha YMF719, Win95
486DX2 66, 32 MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440, ESS ES688F, DOS
wrote:Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys 🤣
It looks like a black paint for the front panel (if you want to install this device into a black case) will cost you more. 😀
Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).
wrote:Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys :lol: http://i.imgur.com/pXmuzIwm.jpg […]
Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys 🤣
What are these like to use with 5.25" disks? Do they go "thunk" like a 3.5" drive does when you insert a disk? I've always wondered, and thought that if they do, it might be a bit rough for the lifespan of a 5.25" disk.
wrote:wrote:Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys :lol: http://i.imgur.com/pXmuzIwm.jpg […]
Obtained from local seller just for 1$,finally got one of that combined bad boys 🤣
What are these like to use with 5.25" disks? Do they go "thunk" like a 3.5" drive does when you insert a disk? I've always wondered, and thought that if they do, it might be a bit rough for the lifespan of a 5.25" disk.
Mine do. - Don't they all thunk?
I believe that's just the noise of the drive mechanism engaging (clamping) and centering the actual media.
It's bigger on a 5.25" so noisier.
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wrote:It looks like a black paint for the front panel (if you want to install this device into a black case) will cost you more. 😀
May be in future,but now i decided to keep it in original but now cleaner condition and install it to my many-stuffed-in dual p3 server build 😀
wrote:What are these like to use with 5.25" disks? Do they go "thunk" like a 3.5" drive does when you insert a disk? I've always wondered, and thought that if they do, it might be a bit rough for the lifespan of a 5.25" disk.
All just as PCBONEZ says
Got some more stuff this week:
Yamaha SW20-PC OPL4: - this thing sounds great. It's a pain in the ass to get running, and so far It's been acting up of PCs with FSB 100 or grater (except for MVP3, it seems to run fine on this @ 100MHz fsb) but boy it sounds good.
Creative 3D Blaster Bansee CT6760 PCI
IWill VA133 Plus socket 370 VIA Apollo with one ISA slot and manual voltage selection by jumper - 1.3 to 2.1v - perfect for pin modded tualatin CPUs.
ABIT AB7 socket 462 nForce2 Ultra - one of the best socket A overclocking boards ever made
Leadtek A350XT FX5900 XT 128MB 128bit 400mhz core 700mhz vram - got this to replace my dead PNY FX5900XT. The leadtek is clocked 50mhz higher and it's a lot quieter.
Blue card: Gigabyte FX5700 128/128 475MHz core and 500MHz vram Red card: Soltek FX5200 128/128 250 core 500 vram - would you believe I haven't owned an FX5200 since 2005?
I've been waiting for my local friend on and off to finish repairing some tape drives for me, so finally I can get in to external offline storage that's reliable... TAPES! 😀
I also bought some more kinda retro'ish stuff from a thrift store today I'll put in a second post in a little bit.
Two drives.. first an older one.
Dell SCSI LTO-2 200GB external tape drive with enclosure.
IBM Intenral SCSI Ultra-320 LTO-3 400GB tape drive.
Front.
Back
Free tapes to get my started. Each tape is a 400GB LTO-3 tape, up to 800GB compressed.
14 Tapes, 400 GB each, 5.6 TB of offline tape storage free, up to 11.2 TB with compression.
Protective plastic cases for the tapes, also free.
