Just bought an Apple "PC Drive NuBus card" from someone on 68kmla. It's an interface card to allow a Macintosh II-series computer connect to a specific Apple-made "PC" 360kb 5.25" floppy drive. (A drive whose sole purpose is to connect to that interface card; it is not compatible with Apple II 5.25" disks or computers; nor is the interface card compatible with any other floppy drives.). I've had the drive for years, but never had the interface card.

Anonymous Freak wrote:

Just bought an Apple "PC Drive NuBus card" from someone on 68kmla. It's an interface card to allow a Macintosh II-series computer connect to a specific Apple-made "PC" 360kb 5.25" floppy drive. (A drive whose sole purpose is to connect to that interface card; it is not compatible with Apple II 5.25" disks or computers; nor is the interface card compatible with any other floppy drives.). I've had the drive for years, but never had the interface card.

Was that the one Alaska360 was selling?

Latest goodies..

Fat stack of Yamaha cards to replace some noisy Sound Blasters + act as hosts to some wavetable DBs

Sealed 3DFX Voodoo3 3500TV

Boxed 3DFX Velocity 100 AGP

Sealed 3DFX Diamond Monster Fusion 3D (EU Packaging)

Boxed 3DFX Colormaster VoodooMania (3DFX Voodoo Chipset)

Boxed Canopus Spectra 2500 (NVIDIA RivaTNT Chipset) & Ready for WitchDoctor!

Artex, you never buy just one thing do you... 🤣

James-F wrote:

Artex, you never buy just one thing do you... 🤣

I buy lots of 'one things' 😀

1 retro mouse + 1 retro card = 1 retro haul :>

I just had a small pile of boxes show up on my porch this morning.

A 12" iBook G4 1.33GHz (fills the gap nicely between my 68k macs and my intel macs)
A 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (in keeping with the 3DFX trend from above)
A sealed box of 3M 1.2MB 5.25" floppy disks
A 4 port 16c650 Based RS232 Serial card
A 5x86 "486 Overdrive" Chip. I do not know a whole lot of details about it, but it does seem to be made by Trinity Works?

EDIT: Looks like it is a PNY Quickchip. An AMD 5x86-133 upgrade cpu. now to find the dip switch settings... This will likely go into my Compaq Prolinea 4/66.

Artex, I don't even want to know what you paid for all of those boxed cards. I have a feeling it's either so much that it would make me cringe our so little that it'd make me cry.

I'll probably stuff this into one of my Sun boxes.

@CelGen, Nice! That's a brand I haven't seen in a while!

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Artex, I don't even want to know what you paid for all of those boxed cards. I have a feeling it's either so much that it would make me cringe our so little that it'd make me cry.

Got the Velocity 100 and Spectra 2500 on trade. The V3-3500 was the most expensive and the sealed Fusion a close second (due to shipping from EU), but I've been looking for a sealed version 4-ev-er and now I can hopefully try to sell my other two boxed (non-sealed) versions to offset some of the cost. Colormaster Voodoo was el-cheapo.

This arrived today. It's more difficult than I thought it would be to find slot-based case fans. The ones you always see exhaust from the slot rather than blow air directly on the spot you want to cool. This device is basically two 80mm case fans attached with two small brackets with a slot cover on one end. You just move the slot cover if you want air to blow in the other direction. Will use this with V3 or V5 cards.

About $10 shipped from China. Took about 2 weeks.

Update on the Thinkpad 770Z: I found the hard drive. It's an actual HDD, IBM Travelstar 14.3GB. It was located where it should be, I was just looking in the wrong place for it. 😀 Sometimes it pays to read the manual. There's an empty slot with a connector at the bottom of it which looks like it could accommodate a HDD, but it fact it's for a MPEG decoder card.

Another funny thing about the hard drive: it's 14GB, but it only has a 2GB partition on it (FAT) with NT 4.0. The rest of the space is unpartitioned. Whoever owned this laptop before probably didn't even know they had so much more storage space on it. 😁

CelGen wrote:

I'll probably stuff this into one of my Sun boxes.

Micropolis! Does that model sound like a table saw when powered on? Or has the motor seized up? My experiences with Micropolis drives in the late 90s were bad. I hope your new vintage drive works well.

boxpressed wrote:

This arrived today. It's more difficult than I thought it would be to find slot-based case fans. The ones you always see exhaust from the slot rather than blow air directly on the spot you want to cool. This device is basically two 80mm case fans attached with two small brackets with a slot cover on one end. You just move the slot cover if you want air to blow in the other direction. Will use this with V3 or V5 cards.

About $10 shipped from China. Took about 2 weeks.

Not bad, I have this one

Finally found a used Pentium Overdrive (83MHz) for a reasonable price - $18.50. Has some bent pins, but it looks like it can be easily fixed.

Brickpad wrote:

Finally found a used Pentium Overdrive (83MHz) for a reasonable price - $18.50. Has some bent pins, but it looks like it can be easily fixed.

Nice find. I've been looking for one of those for quite a while now - just not willing to pay 45$ + 40$ shipping for it. And there's no chance o sourcing one locally - these things cost more then a cheap socket 5 board + Cyrix or AMD K5 CPU back in the day (in Romania at least).

kanecvr wrote:

Brickpad wrote:

Finally found a used Pentium Overdrive (83MHz) for a reasonable price - $18.50. Has some bent pins, but it looks like it can be easily fixed.

Nice find. I've been looking for one of those for quite a while now - just not willing to pay 45$ + 40$ shipping for it. And there's no chance o sourcing one locally - these things cost more then a cheap socket 5 board + Cyrix or AMD K5 CPU back in the day (in Romania at least).

You should look at some chip trading sites. I got over the past 2 years a few overdrives from http://www.cpu-world.com for much less than that, and they show up regularly. And some of the biggest sellers there are from Russia and Ukraine, so shipping should be decent.

Not hardware, but yesterday I found this set of unopened IBM PS/1 system restore diskettes at a thrift store on Long Island. They include OS/2 2.0.

SiliconClassics wrote:

Not hardware, but yesterday I found this set of unopened IBM PS/1 system restore diskettes at a thrift store on Long Island. They include OS/2 2.0.

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Hey.... Floppy disks are hardware. 😁