Thanks but I usually like to get these because I find it's fun to add the components. The end result is a decent 250W PSU. (maybe more for those with real ERL-35 transformers - I cherry-pick these so I know these exist)
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB
Well..got a stack of CD-Rs a couple days ago, 10 pcs taped together (of course all still sealed 🤣). The 3.5in ones, haven't seen those in a while. They were cheap and only a single toss into the basket, so I took em. Not really sure why though 🤣.
I responded to an ad of someone cleaning up their storage, and found two systems for a few euro's each. One of the systems was advertised as a Pentium 1 so I decided to go pick them up. No Pentium 1 unfortunately, but a very very diry Dell Dimension Petium 4 system and a 'budget' Pentium II Packard Bell system:
The Dell was missing a power supply and had some burned parts on the motherboard, so I decided to strip it and test the parts later. I got a
Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3650 (my fastest AGP card, if it works but it looks OK).
One of those ' cheap' SoundBlaster Live! cards I saw mentioned a few posts up.
And the DDR SDRAM, a PCI FireWire card an all the screws/backplates etc I could scavenge.
All of this needs to be tested to see if it still works.
The Packard Bell was also a bit uninpressive, the motherboard was a MSI MS6147 with onboard ATi Rage (Pro?) and Creative sound chip and a Pentium II Slot 1 350MHz. They did some sort of 'upgrade' with a PCI SiS 305 based PCI video card.
Okay, stupid question perhaps... What makes me lucky? I'm sorry my knowledge stops in about 2003. I tried Googling but could not find anything that makes this card special?
luisile wrote:
Cyrix200+ wrote:Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3650 (my fastest AGP card, if it works but it looks OK).
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Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3650 (my fastest AGP card, if it works but it looks OK).
The boxes were slightly wet because it had rained, but inside they were dry. Some people didn't bother to cover their electronics at all and some stuff was standing in pools of water, and for that reason I skipped over a stack of 50 5.25" DD disks (also rather expensive at 0.50 cents a disk), some MiniDisks (water was inside the cases), and some other stuff. 😢
Unfortunately the Psion still had the original batteries inside, which had leaked, but thanks to the well-designed battery compartment damage seems to be minimal (however, the tab for the battery compartment broke off when I tried to open it):
Then, at the fleamarket in a nearby larger town, which usually sucks really badly (tons of absolute junk, sellers who think they're selling the crown jewels), I came across this:
Yamaha Portatone PSR-21, from 1986, in pretty good condition, including manuals, power supply and some music sheets. Unfortunately it lacks MIDI, but it does have a (very limited) synthesizer on board. That one cost me 30 Euros.
Bringing it back on my bike was no fun at all though, especially when the sun showed up and it got quite a bit hotter than the announced 6 degrees Celsius...1.5 hours walk for a distance that takes no more than 10 minutes by bike. 😵
And it works, too. Sounds very digital and unrealistic 🤣 I'll have to try to find the expression pedal that goes with it, and it has a (mono) aux out so I can hook it up to other equipment (might just use the stereo headphone connector instead, especially if it mutes the integrated speakers).
I also came across a weird Adaptec controller (PCI) that had an onboard memory module slot with a DIMM in it and no internal or external connectors...any clue what that was?