I haven't taken a picture (and since I'm sure you all know what it looks like, I don't think it's needed), but today I received an Intel Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz SL5XL Socket 370 CPU. I've just installed and tested it in my Dell Optiplex GX150 tower and now it has the maximum supported CPU. 😎

Got another lot of mostly unknown cards today. The only one I was sure of was the CT1350B.

Sound Blaster 2.0, Yamaha based sound card, Logitech in-port mouse adapter ?, Sound blaster Vibra 16C, D-Link 4-port ISA NIC/hub - this one is interesting. Original price was $495.

80286 CPU/memory board and video boards.

Memory boards.

NIC and combo memory/serial/parallel board.

Came with a bunch of other cards, but they were just NICs and modems.

stamasd wrote:

debs3759 wrote:

stamasd wrote:

Got this Dell-branded 3DLabs/Intergraph monster, a Wildcat 4000 AGP+PCI:

(BTW if anyone else wants one, the seller has one left - search by name)

I can't find it. Has it sold?

-snip-

Thanks. It's now en route to AVICC 😀

Predator99 wrote:

liqmat wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

The 286-12 is B-E-A-Utiful

Yes and a very smart individual cut the barrel out and replaced with a wired battery so no leakage thank goodness, but I still need to test the beast next week. Let's hope it works without much fuss.

Looks very cool! Can you please post some better pictures, also of the inside?

I am half way through cleaning it up so here are a few more from today. I'll get better photos once I'm done with it.

What retro activity did you get up to today?

A brand new Amiga500 internal disk drive....
The old lady is nearly fixed and refitted with new goodies. (Scandoubler, accelerator, new diskdrive and mem upgrade)
The correct Kickstart is all I need now, in order to have the Amiga I was dreaming about in 1992.
After that, I will focus on getting my 600 fitted with a scandoubler, and a kickstart switcher (1.3 and 2.0)

SW-SSG wrote:

amadeus777999 wrote:

... Albeit it looks kinda too generic for my liking.

On the flipside, I'd like to see a modern-day card (GTX 1080 or so) with that kind of "styling". No RGBLEDs, superficial plastic, or weird PCB colours, and the HSF manufacturer's logo on the fan hub instead of the board maker's. IMO it would be very refreshing.

I'm not into newer stuff, but I have to agree with you - that stupid looking overstylized "Batman" design is totally annoying. It reminds me of HiFi products of the 80ies which the proletarians put into their cars(Pioneer was huge among the mullet crowd).
Exactly that kind of stupid is being emitted by "modern" hardware in a more "classy" way. It's mass marketing to the extreme. While in former decades computers where a huge niche appealing to weirdos who didn't care for looks(unless they were uppity Apple users), the trend seems to have been of a "mainstream cool" design choice.

The look of the V6600MX is nonetheless bad when compared to a stock GeForce256 - be it SDR or DDR. I hope it survives the soldering experiment.

Bought a Compaq Deskpro EN P3-1GHz 256MB SFF PC; turned out to have a i815 B0 chipset so I can use my P3-1266 in it. But it requires a BIOS update and I would rather swap out the HDD and Im already lost in trying to figure out how Compaq’s rom/firmware/bios thing works..

My first Digital Camera. My original that I purchased in 1998.

So I was able to pick this one up. It looks pretty NEW. with the original contents.

It's an HP C30 Digital Camera.

It was a good day… a friend of mine gave me IBM NetFinity 7100 - working system with 4 Xeons 700.
I'm not into servers and worstations that much - but it's definitely interesting. I'll try to make some use of it 😀

I won an eBay auction with a 486 abc and a 3850 AGP card for $30 shipped. Seller now claims he can’t find those two parts. Ugh.

Batyra wrote:

It was a good day… a friend of mine gave me IBM NetFinity 7100 - working system with 4 Xeons 700.
I'm not into servers and worstations that much - but it's definitely interesting. I'll try to make some use of it 😀

NetFinity7100.jpg

Personal render farm + medium-sized room heater combo device.

I bought some really nice stuff for an all-in-one retro Build.

The first one is a "Last dinosaur" with ISA and Universal AGP slot.
Abit KT7A-RAID socket 462 motherboard

The second one is another "last dinosaur" with ISA and Universal AGP slot
SOYO SY-K7VTA PRO socket 462 motherboard

the third one is a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI

and at last, a CMI8738 (i wanted to try this card because of the known Audioexcel ISA sound card that is good, this is sopposed to be like the PCI version and i hope it is good)

Finally got myself a Sound blaster Pro 2.0

Batyra wrote:

It was a good day… a friend of mine gave me IBM NetFinity 7100 - working system with 4 Xeons 700.
I'm not into servers and worstations that much - but it's definitely interesting. I'll try to make some use of it 😀

NetFinity7100.jpg

Ah memories! We used them years ago at work. Was the first computer I ever saw that had 1GB of RAM. Also the first time I'd experience a RAID controller failure and NT4 was sitting in RAM when it died - accessing anything on disk just crashed explorer. Managed to copy off most of the IIS website that was running on it as it was cached in RAM though!

@xjas @SteveC
The first time I ran it literraly scared me. Its loud like a jet engine… I'm very curious if Obsidian Brick works with it… (SMP enabled in Q3? on Obsidian drivers?)

SteveC wrote:

Batyra wrote:

It was a good day… a friend of mine gave me IBM NetFinity 7100 - working system with 4 Xeons 700.
I'm not into servers and worstations that much - but it's definitely interesting. I'll try to make some use of it 😀

NetFinity7100.jpg

Ah memories! We used them years ago at work. Was the first computer I ever saw that had 1GB of RAM. Also the first time I'd experience a RAID controller failure and NT4 was sitting in RAM when it died - accessing anything on disk just crashed explorer. Managed to copy off most of the IIS website that was running on it as it was cached in RAM though!

Wait, RAID isn't supposed to do that unless you have several simultaneous HDDs go bad... Or if you had one go bad and you ignore it until another one does too. Unless you run the array in RAID0 or in "append" mode (which is apparently so bad that it doesn't even deserve a number in RAID classification) - which you shouldn't do with a commercial server, only crazy amateurs like me are allowed to. 😀

(edit) oh you said raid controller failure - makes more sense now. Wonder why there aren't redundant RAID controllers. Mirror the controller too not just the drives.

Todays 20 kg scrap...most looked really ugly and going to get rid of it asap. But some interersting parts:

Graphics card, one CGA with Cinch + Serial:

Funny ISA IDE-card with VLB connector, CT1350B

Still need to find out what this one is for:

Inherited this guy today. A contractor was working on our home and noticed my collection. He asked if he could drop off an old computer - I didn't expect too much but not bad - clean inside and external battery!

It posts but cannot get it to booth the drive even after manually entering the hard drive settings. Need to do some more testing but a seemingly decent system in great shape. And the MB sheet on the reverse side of the case cover - wha?!! Awesome. 😎

Predator99 wrote:

Still need to find out what this one is for:

IMG_9953.JPG

Looks a little bit like this one, may give you an idea what it may be:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CORNERSTONE-PC164I-D … 6-/111483121167

stamasd wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

Still need to find out what this one is for:

IMG_9953.JPG

Looks a little bit like this one, may give you an idea what it may be:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CORNERSTONE-PC164I-D … 6-/111483121167

Yes, indeed.
FCC ID H2T6311760: Cornerstone Imaging Inc Video Card

The one at Ebay seems to have VGA+BIOS and may work as single graphics card, but mine doesnt. Seems to be used to connected a special Hi-Res monitor. Therefore it seems to be rather useless today.