Sad day... dropped by the only real computer recycling center that I know of close to me that sells to the public and they were closed down and the building was cleared out.

Booo!

cyclone3d wrote:

Sad day... dropped by the only real computer recycling center that I know of close to me that sells to the public and they were closed down and the building was cleared out.

Booo!

Jade Falcon wrote:

What if I want to switch to disk2 when I have 5 disks in the drive? dose it eject disk 3, 5 and 5? or can to switch to disk 2 from 5? and so on?

I've gotten around to testing it, and basically it appears as 5 cd drives like I said before. It seems to cache the directory of the Cds so you can switch drive letters and it will show you the directories but if you try to run something it takes a little while to switch discs.

Formulator wrote:

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Always good deals out there.

Nice! Tell us about the monitor... is this CGA / EGA?

Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases.

The first one is a 386 which unfortunately has a leaky battery (we'll see if it's salvageable)

The second one is a 486 with VLB video and IO cards

Thanks to a very generous canadian vogon-er, I now have one less 2-cpu board to hoard: (spoiler: it's an ASUS PC-DL)

I'll let him post here if he wants to bask in everyone's adulations.

probnot wrote:

Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases. […]
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Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases.

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The first one is a 386 which unfortunately has a leaky battery (we'll see if it's salvageable)

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The second one is a 486 with VLB video and IO cards

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I wish I could find cases like these, I just want a turbo button.

I found some Verbatim 8" Floppy Disks and a case, now I need a 8" floppy drive

^^^ 🤣
In a similar vein, I picked up a 10 pack of CD-Rs for a buck, a 5:4 LCD for $5, a $1 usb mouse and a sealed pack of floppies for 50 cents.

Swung by a thrift store that saves goodies for me and got all this for $12:

- Dell QuietKey PS2 keyboard (actually free, was in the junk pile)
- Boxed USRobotics 56k external modem (for my boxed hardware shelf 😉 )
- Random Intel LGA775 board with Pentium E5400 2.7ghz CPU and 1 stick of 2 gig DDR2-800
- A whole ton of "Bonus by Verbatim" 360k DD 5.25" disks, seem to work fine but some have concerning moldlike spots on the disk

Groovy wrote:

I found some Verbatim 8" Floppy Disks and a case, now I need a 8" floppy drive https://i.imgur.com/1kWc7RV.jpg […]
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I found some Verbatim 8" Floppy Disks and a case, now I need a 8" floppy drive

I've never seen one of those in person. That's a really cool find!

Holy crap, the 386 board actually works! It was really nasty (a lot of traces looked gone, but metered ok).

I got a little antsy after using vinegar on it, and although it did post, when I tried to get into the BIOS, the PC speaker made a horrible noise and the board start sizzling under the BIOS chip (guess I didn't quite dry up all the vinegar). Ever see electricity through a pickle? Yeah.... At least it didn't smell like anything at all, actually.

After some time with a fan, and the chip removed to help dry it out, she's working 100% 😀 A nice little AMD SX-25 w/ 2MB RAM in 4x 30-pin SIMMs.

I'm going to do a post in System Specs for the 486...that was a much bigger adventure.

luckybob wrote:

Thanks to a very generous canadian vogon-er, I now have one less 2-cpu board to hoard: (spoiler: it's an ASUS PC-DL) […]
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Thanks to a very generous canadian vogon-er, I now have one less 2-cpu board to hoard: (spoiler: it's an ASUS PC-DL)

I'll let him post here if he wants to bask in everyone's adulations.

Haha, no need of basking in anything. Glad it found a good home after sitting unused in my closet for so long. 😀 It's a cool board.

I was originally gonna use it for multitrack recording but ended up going with a C2D so I could stuff 16GB of RAM & a 64-bit OS on. More "boring" but more practical. If you don't need 64 bits you can still run surprisingly modern stuff on the old Netburst Xeons; they do punch above their weight IMHO.

probnot wrote:

Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases.

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Nice find! Still looking for a case like the one on the left myself (one day!).

MMaximus wrote:

Nice! Tell us about the monitor... is this CGA / EGA?

It is a Samtron SC-452C CGA monitor - first one I have found that is not IBM. Have not tested yet, but hopeful for working.

Gered wrote:

probnot wrote:

Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases.

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Nice find! Still looking for a case like the one on the left myself (one day!).

The case is basically the one I've been looking for too! I love the small form factor and satisfying complex late 80s, early 90s look. Also the LED readout (which none of my other computers have).

One thing I didn't notice until taking it apart...if you look closely? Two fake floppy covers! The computer has no removable media drives (only had an ancient Seagate HDD, that unfortunately I couldn't take, since it was at the recycler).

Groovy wrote:

I found some Verbatim 8" Floppy Disks and a case, now I need a 8" floppy drive https://i.imgur.com/1kWc7RV.jpg […]
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I found some Verbatim 8" Floppy Disks and a case, now I need a 8" floppy drive

Very nice. I recently picked up a case of 5¼" DD disks new in box for my ITT Xtra XT system. The case is dated 1991 and all the boxes are sealed still. I got the case of 100 disks for $35.99. I have noticed, though, it has gone up in price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/KAO-MINI-FLOPPY-DISKS … 872.m2749.l2649

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luckybob wrote:

Thanks to a very generous canadian vogon-er, I now have one less 2-cpu board to hoard: (spoiler: it's an ASUS PC-DL) […]
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Thanks to a very generous canadian vogon-er, I now have one less 2-cpu board to hoard: (spoiler: it's an ASUS PC-DL)

I'll let him post here if he wants to bask in everyone's adulations.

Haha, no need of basking in anything. Glad it found a good home after sitting unused in my closet for so long. 😀 It's a cool board.

I was originally gonna use it for multitrack recording but ended up going with a C2D so I could stuff 16GB of RAM & a 64-bit OS on. More "boring" but more practical. If you don't need 64 bits you can still run surprisingly modern stuff on the old Netburst Xeons; they do punch above their weight IMHO.

I have a few pairs of the Dempsey Xeons that I'm really interested in playing with... whenever I get the time. I originally planned to plop them in my Skulltrail board, but it does not boot with them.

Ended up getting the original Intel "V8" board instead. Curios to see how well they run a modern OS, and how badly they bottleneck a modern GPU.

probnot wrote:

Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases. […]
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Two systems I grabbed if only for the sweet, sweet baby AT cases.

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The first one is a 386 which unfortunately has a leaky battery (we'll see if it's salvageable)

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The second one is a 486 with VLB video and IO cards

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Pretty cases, and nice innards!

probnot wrote:

I've never seen one of those in person. That's a really cool find!

I seen one before, its only 8", but you'd think it was far bigger.

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Anyway that's what she said.