jaZz_KCS wrote:

Those Yamaha speakers look neat. Are they shielded?

They look really nice. I'm betting they are shielded as were most speakers from this era because they were designed to be used next to a CRT monitor.

So nice to see Skeletor alive and well on vogons.

Found a good monitor: Eizo Flexscan S2100-M: 21.3" UXGA (1600x1200) that I can use for retrogames undistorted. Local used computer hardware seller had it for sale for just 39 euros, looks brand new, manufacturing date is may 2010 and image quality is fantastic.
Put it onto my retro computer desk in my workshop 😀

Ah yes those Eizo monitors, they're built like tanks, heck I've got a L557 that has nearly clocked in 10k hours of runtime (IIRC) not a single dead pixel.

jaZz_KCS wrote:

Those Yamaha speakers look neat. Are they shielded?

MMaximus wrote:

They look really nice. I'm betting they are shielded as were most speakers from this era because they were designed to be used next to a CRT monitor.

Thanks, and yes they're shielded.

oeuvre wrote:

So nice to see Skeletor alive and well on vogons.

What's this time of year without the old traditions 🤣 The picture is good and DSUB / USB video connection combo is nice (seems to have fairly broad OS driver support for the USB) but the touch-sensitive OSD buttons are a royal PITA due to bad case / circuit design.

oeuvre wrote:

So nice to see Skeletor alive and well on vogons.

qft 😊

No pics to post yet as the card hasn't been received yet but I had to share my joy at finding a Radeon X800XT PE AGP for 5 bucks! Now I can downgrade my Socket 754 from an X1950PRO to this, add a cheapo YMF-724 or Solo-1 sound card and it can double serve as my ULTIMATE Windows 98 PC!

I've not bought much hardware recently but I saw this the other day, and its always a good idea to pick up Super Socket 7 motherboards!

It arrived to day and it's a MSI MS5169 Rev 4.0 motherboard. Quite looking forward to trying this out on the night before Christmas! 🤣

I finally found a Radeon DDR close by. I almost missed it, since it was listed as "ATi Rage Theater" instead of Radeon DDR/Radeon 64 DDR / Radeon 256 DDR.
And it's one from before the 7200 rebrand.

And the other the Ti 200 I mentioned here listed as "videocard" by it's former owner, though I haggled down the price a bit. So I'm not a combo breaker anymore.

After a quick stroll through the flea market I obtained this mystery AT box €5. Proper yellowing and everything!

The inside surprised me a bit - the case design made me think this would be a late 486, however this had a SS7 board inside!
DFI P5BV3:

ATI Rage pro turbo agp expanded to 16MB, ESS audiodrive 1869, 32MB ram, and underneath the incorrectly attached heatsink - K5 PR100.

Has W98 installed and it appears this was used as an office PC until around 2002.

Sadly cant play around with it atm as this is a busy time for me.

Bancho wrote:

I've not bought much hardware recently but I saw this the other day, and its always a good idea to pick up Super Socket 7 motherboards!

It arrived to day and it's a MSI MS5169 Rev 4.0 motherboard. Quite looking forward to trying this out on the night before Christmas! 🤣

Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a retro board was posting
Nor had I a working 9-pin mouse

andrewreader wrote:

Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a retro board was posting Nor had I a working 9-pin mouse […]
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Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a retro board was posting
Nor had I a working 9-pin mouse

The old plasma luggable,
with brownish clam-shell.
It dared me to boot it,
t'was posting quite well.

An eerie orange glow,
emitted from within.
This sharp orange display,
'tis really quite slim.

Ensoniq Vivo w/ OTTORED ES5506

Well I got some "junk" in a box cheap, mainly on the strength of visible slot-type floppy cables, which I'm short on. The cables were nice to have, but under a desk phone, a couple of cheap routers, and stuff like that, was:

DX4-100 VLB motherboard - everything's untensted as of yet but most of it has a pretty minty smell to it.

Okay this one has an *IBM* DX4-100 on it. That's nice, I had an IBM SLC 166 back in the day.

A VLB drive controller, nice,

*Two* VLB video cards, neither spectacular but still cool. I need to do a little research on the configs of these. I have a VLB S3 already.

And, the piece de resistance:

The shock of my day, found shoved to the side in this box, a very clean Sankyo DM-600 floppy drive.

So after the PPro Haul, this is probably my favorite deal of the year, for a few bucks of "junk I'm throwing out anyway."

I didn't get a pic of the Radeon 4850, because I've already got a 4890 and it's kind of barely retro.

Separately I got a few other things for free, including a Dell Precision I may actually use, with a monitor. Big haul day.

Does that 486 board have COAST cache?

That's what it looks like to me as well.

Merovign wrote:

*Two* VLB video cards, neither spectacular but still cool. I need to do a little research on the configs of these. I have a VLB S3 already.

S3 805-P and what seems to be an ATI Mach32 (XLR) are pretty decent cards and far ahead of 80% of VLB crap out there. The empty socket on the ATI card can be used to install an ATI 68875 RAMDAC.

Merovign wrote:

Okay this one has an *IBM* DX4-100 on it. That's nice, I had an IBM SLC 166 back in the day.

The MB looks like a PC Chips, albeit the cache might actually be real (it's at least socketed and doesn't have "WRITE BACK" printed on it). The CPU is either a Cyrix manufactured and branded by IBM or an Intel DX4 manufactured and branded by IBM; I'm still fuzzy on which it is with the 486 chips...

Yeah... S3-805's are decent cards. I always recommend them over any CL-54xx-VLB. They are faster and have a better VGA signal.

Score fx 5900 ultra $20 from Facebook marketplace shipped to me