Saw a Creative Voodoo2 12mb (here in Belgium) because I wanted to SLI for the first time. Min was 30€, 40€ was his asking price. As soon as the person saw that 4 people were bidding, he removed the 40€. Money greedy f********** Indeed the downside on increasing interest in old stuff 🙁
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Saw a Creative Voodoo2 12mb (here in Belgium) I wanted to SLI for the first time. Min was 30€, 40€ was his asking price. As soon that the person saw that 4 people were bidding, he removed the 40€. Money greedy f********** Indeed the downside on increasing interest in old stuff 🙁
That's certainly no different - pretty much the only way to get good stuff at less than stellar prices is for it to be part of a larger lot being sold by someone who doesn't know or care what he's selling (or just wanting to feed stuff back to the community - like the bloke I got my haul from on Tuesday, who certainly knew how attractive his Model M was, and specifically chose not to show it on the pics to keep the gold diggers away).
Saw a Creative Voodoo2 12mb (here in Belgium) I wanted to SLI for the first time. Min was 30€, 40€ was his asking price. As soon that the person saw that 4 people were bidding, he removed the 40€. Money greedy f********** Indeed the downside on increasing interest in old stuff 🙁
That's certainly no different - pretty much the only way to get good stuff at less than stellar prices is for it to be part of a larger lot being sold by someone who doesn't know or care what he's selling (or just wanting to feed stuff back to the community - like the bloke I got my haul from on Tuesday, who certainly knew how attractive his Model M was, and specifically chose not to show it on the pics to keep the gold diggers away).
These people are becoming scarce...
And a Model M dammmmnnnn 🙁
I got three nice dos/w95 laptops today.
Toshiba 110CS/810 with Pentium 75 in nice shape, fully working except screen.. backlight isn't working
IBM Thinkpad 760XD, nice Pentium MMX machine
And
IBM Thinkpad 380z, screen is broken, but on external display everything it's fine.
Now some cleaning and other staff to do...
Went to a thrift store today and got two keyboards for cheap. This practically new Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite was in perfect condition. Only $2.50!
underside
closeup
authentic AF
It works! Tested fine.
Logitech Internet Navigator USB keyboard. Not exciting but I had this keyboard for most of the 2000s and used it daily for a a long time. This one was also in great shape, albeit needed a bit of a cleanup. All the keys work fine. I needed a decent USB keyboard anyways so this will work.
@dionb: there seems to be a lot more retro stuff up to the north jeez! Or I can't find it here :p
Can't comment on the relative frequency (it's been 21 years since I lived in BE), but up here it's also hit-and-miss too. You need to watch Marktplaats etc like a hawk and take risks based on bad pics and little to no info. Sometimes you lose, but sometimes (like this week) you win 😉
Yes, and more people being interested in this old junk doesn't help either 😉 Although it's also a blessing, since I need to debulk my collection soon.
I think people with large collections dumping hardware into the market is the only thing keep prices down. Ten years or more ago I knew plenty of people who kept their older machines around for whatever reason, these days older machines not usable on the net are junked the second they are unusable. There are also many more people advertising for your old PC trash compared to a decade ago so they can recycle it.
The gold rush and recycling in general has destroyed quite a bit of older collectable equipment. Same with thrift stores what save games for resale but recycled most hardware donated to them.
Collector of old computers, hardware, and software
Thrift stores certainly have far less Pentium 2 or older stuff than 10 years ago, but that's in no small part due to the fact that that stuff is 10 years older now. Back in ~2008 stuff from the late 1980s wasn't common either. You still see more than enough ~10 year old PCs in thrift stores, but that means Core2Duo or Athlon64 or later these days. They're as uninteresting to most retro fans now as a Pentium 2 was 10 years back - but that will change with time. The only difference is that starting about 15 years ago, a lot of people stopped buying desktop PCs and moved to laptop and later to mobile. That will seriously reduce the supply in the future, but that hasn't even started to bite yet, as most of us are looking for older things than that.
I've been going to computer swapmeets since '97 or so, and i've noticed that you can only really find second hand hardware there - at any price - from within the last 15 years. The interesting thing is that it applies today, when there were far more pentium 1/2 computers made than 286/386 ones
How did you deal with this, waited it out? I had a VLB VGA shipped to me from Spain 1.5 months ago and tracking information suggests it got lost right after it left Spain for international flight, no more tracking information of any kind since. I'm tracking with local post, he's trying Spanish post, nobody can find it. Do these things eventually just pop up? As others noted earlier this is a 5x86 133 processor, not a K5-133 - this one goes onto a 486 motherboard.
I waited it out, unfortunately. I wasn't sure if I was scammed or not but glad I finally got it. The AMD chip is intended for a newer 486 board, just got the name completely wrong. 😀
Too bad that here the PowerVR chip is used only as a PCI bridge for that small interface to the Saturn ports...
No actual PowerVR pleasure unfortunately 🙁
Predator99 wrote:Just ordered a CGA card with Composite out from the well known auction site. Its a "Epson Colour Video Board Model Q505A-E", bra […] Show full quote
Just ordered a CGA card with Composite out from the well known auction site. Its a "Epson Colour Video Board Model Q505A-E", brand new and with original box. Its for 22€ + shipment and therefore quite OK. There are more of them available.
I hope this card will support me playing with Supersoft/Landmark Diagnostic ROMs. There is no support for VGA and I do not have enough space to have my EGA monitors up all the time. With this card I hope I am able to connect to the composite-in of my DELL 2709W main LCD.
EPSON CGA card arrived today. Usually I expect when its labeled as "new" and the box is on the photo that the box also arrives in good condition and is not used as shipping box...but OK.
At least the card is new and unused and does what it is intended for. On the photo its composite out is connected to my DELL flat screen and the picture is shown as PiP. Looks indeed very very good, can recommend this card!
But: This card does really only fit into a 8-bit slot...
You should be able to get those labels off by heating them up with a hair dryer while peeling them off in order to remove them without damaging the box.
Do a few test label removes on a regular box first to get the hang of it.
The PiP on your monitor is fancy, man. My Samsung SyncMaster 215BW has that as an option as well. Heck, I can watch TV and use my FX-6300 PC at the same time.
EPSON CGA card arrived today. Usually I expect when its labeled as "new" and the box is on the photo that the box also arrives in good condition and is not used as shipping box...but OK.
I also ordered one of those cards, bummer to hear that my box will probably arrive ruined... Well I guess still better than the one time I bought a new in big box linux distro and it arrived totally smashed and tapped up...
The PiP on your monitor is fancy, man. My Samsung SyncMaster 215BW has that as an option as well. Heck, I can watch TV and use my FX-6300 PC at the same time.
On my DELL PiP only works with composite input, not VGA or HDMI.
