Received the Yamaha FB-01 today and did some tests on it:

1) plugged in the unit and it powered on without issues
2) unplugged the unit, opened the unit to get to the battery, and according to my multimeter, it showed 2.85V, which is a good sign that the battery was still good*
3) hooked it up to my laptop using my Roland UM-ONE MK2 USB MIDI adapter and played some games with DOSBox.

* will install a removable battery method someday.

I also attempted to install some sound banks using MIDI-OX and it shows as dump/received!! but it's not loading for some reason. The FB01 Sound Editor software refuses to open those SYX files for an odd reason.

Sound banks obtained from here: http://mmmazes.blogspot.com/2010/05/fb-01-patches.html

I also did some inspections for anything wrong and no missing or broken pieces on the unit itself. Could use a bit of cleaning in the back, however, there is a bit of paint missing on the top cover. Other than that, in great condition and working without issues. Best of all, no damage from the shipping carrier and packed very well with packing peanuts and bubble wrap.

Pictures:

Gallery: https://imgur.com/gallery/LlOsTnc

bjwil1991 wrote:

I also attempted to install some sound banks using MIDI-OX and it shows as dump/received!! but it's not loading for some reason. The FB01 Sound Editor software refuses to open those SYX files for an odd reason.

Sound banks obtained from here: http://mmmazes.blogspot.com/2010/05/fb-01-patches.html

Well, if they were for the DX-21 originally and were manually converted to something the FB-01 can load, it may very well be that its software editor cannot handle them due to subtle differences...

(actually, I didn't know other Yamaha 4-op patches could be successfully converted to the FB-01, as the latter is a rather simplified module compared to the others)

Does the FB-01 have a memory protection setting (like most Yamahas)? If so, disable that before sending a dump to it. Also make sure you're sending it to the user bank...

I had the memory protection disabled by going into System Settings. I'll send a command via the Sysex applet and see if that works. Probably the computer is too fast to send the commands, and I probably need to change the latency to a lower setting possibly?

It's been a while since I bought a scrap lot, but this went within my price range and actually contains something I want - the cards on the right being the most interesting, with the pile of laptop fans being the least interesting 😁

Highlights:
Matrox MGA with memory expansion
Medion 9800XL
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
Very disgusting Soundblaster Vibra card
Basic CMI8738 card
Soundblaster Live SB4760 - reminds me of the one I had in my Athlon 800 PC

dionb wrote:

Btw, what digital connector is that on the Chips card? It almost looks like it would fit a 1600SW... could that be the elusive Siemens-Nixdorf S26361-D964-A11GS-7? If so I might DM you offering a kidney shortly 😉

Its a Siemens W26361-D964-X-02 / W26361-D964-Z4-02-36. Send me a PM if interested 😉

Thermalwrong wrote:

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It's been a while since I bought a scrap lot, but this went within my price range and actually contains something I want - the cards on the right being the most interesting, with the pile of laptop fans being the least interesting 😁

Highlights:
Matrox MGA with memory expansion
Medion 9800XL
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
Very disgusting Soundblaster Vibra card
Basic CMI8738 card
Soundblaster Live SB4760 - reminds me of the one I had in my Athlon 800 PC

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Sweet. If so inclined you can make some very nice low profile coolers out of those laptop coolers for retro machines so that you aren't using a cooler that will block longer cards from being used

Soooo, somewhat interesting haul today:

It's an ASUS TX97-X motherboard. 430TX chipset, onboard SB16 Vibra (no OPL3, unfortunately), 4 ISA slots.

I have a soft spot for ATX boards, and I'm still looking for a proper "universal" DOS build because my Pentium 3 machine doesn't run some games I want. So I might patch this board for K6-3+ support and try setmul (or even try it with Pentiums) and install DOS/Win 3.11.

Below is a Tseng ET6000, but oddly enough all the MDRAM chips have been removed. I have other Tseng cards, so this one will probably be tested and sold.

Hello, I am new here, this is my todays finding

So far my most expensive additions to collection. Buyed from China. Nec TE5LS - mainstream model of last generation of NEC OpenGL accelerators sold only in NEC workstations.
S3 Supersavage is mobile chip with some additional chips for camera inputs.

Edit: have someone some connections on NEC USA? Looking for whitepapers that sadly web archive have not....
http://web.archive.org/web/20021017224525/htt … p.com/graphics/

On today's episode of "Terrible packaging by eBay sellers" and maybe also "terrible postage service from Bulgaria":
Oh, wonderful, that's just fine!

Nothing to see here!

A single layer of 1/8 inch foam, that'll protect it all right! (there was no bubble wrap in the box and it was just barely big enough for the card)

But fortunately the card is fine. ET3000AX for my work-in-progress 286. Haven't had time to test it though 😵

respect2759 wrote:

Hello, I am new here, this is my todays finding

Welcome to the forum 😀

That looks like a pretty good board - I have a couple of LPX boards myself that I have yet to do anything with - do you have the riser card? It looks like as LPX boards go, it's quite good, nice integrated graphics (with extra ram fitted?) and standard cache.

vlask wrote:

So far my most expensive additions to collection. Buyed from China. Nec TE5LS - mainstream model of last generation of NEC OpenGL accelerators sold only in NEC workstations.
S3 Supersavage is mobile chip with some additional chips for camera inputs.

Interesting - I had no idea there was an S3 Supersavage IX card variant - they're fairly good for PCI cards aren't they? My IBM T23 had the same card and Unreal era games were moderately playable on it.

cyclone3d wrote:

Sweet. If so inclined you can make some very nice low profile coolers out of those laptop coolers for retro machines so that you aren't using a cooler that will block longer cards from being used

Yeah, sadly my house is full of electronics and heatsinks and things that I don't want though, so I'll probably combine it with a large selection of modems and other boards I don't want, to go off as scrap again . I'll keep *some* of the laptop heatsinks though, those little blower fans can be handy, but adapting the heatpipe fitting to anything useful is beyond me right now

vlask wrote:

So far my most expensive additions to collection. Buyed from China. Nec TE5LS - mainstream model of last generation of NEC OpenGL accelerators sold only in NEC workstations.
S3 Supersavage is mobile chip with some additional chips for camera inputs.

Love the name of that S3, SUPER SAVAGE and absolutely love the HSF design on that NEC card.

Thermalwrong wrote:

respect2759 wrote:

Hello, I am new here, this is my todays finding

Welcome to the forum 😀

That looks like a pretty good board - I have a couple of LPX boards myself that I have yet to do anything with - do you have the riser card? It looks like as LPX boards go, it's quite good, nice integrated graphics (with extra ram fitted?) and standard cache.

I dont have the riser card 🙁 This is my oldest PC so I dont know much about it. It has inetgrates 512Kb graphics and extra 512Kb added, its the max amount. Processor is i483DX and 2x4Mb RAM. It was a lucky find for 10Euros + 3EURO postage 😀 The battery is dead, I will replace it. My othet build is my very first pc a Pentium 1 will post something tomorrow

Been a little scarce lately for vintage PC stuff, however I did just grab this off the local classifieds:

1966 GE Porta-color, all tube, possibly all original - very low hours 😀

respect2759 wrote:

Hello, I am new here, this is my todays finding

Nice little LPX. Watch out with the RAM - you almost certainly need four identical 30p SIMMs in the first bank to be able to boot, not the two in here now.

probnot wrote:

Been a little scarce lately for vintage PC stuff, however I did just grab this off the local classifieds:

1966 GE Porta-color, all tube, possibly all original - very low hours 😀

Very nice find!! Would love to see NES on a classic like that.

beastlike wrote:

probnot wrote:

Been a little scarce lately for vintage PC stuff, however I did just grab this off the local classifieds:

1966 GE Porta-color, all tube, possibly all original - very low hours 😀

Very nice find!! Would love to see NES on a classic like that.

No NES, but how about some Goldeneye?

respect2759 wrote:

I dont have the riser card 🙁 This is my oldest PC so I dont know much about it. It has inetgrates 512Kb graphics and extra 512Kb added, its the max amount. Processor is i483DX and 2x4Mb RAM. It was a lucky find for 10Euros + 3EURO postage 😀 The battery is dead, I will replace it. My othet build is my very first pc a Pentium 1 will post something tomorrow

Be careful with the riser boards you may be able to find and first try to find the motherboard manual (that hopefully will show which riser boards can be used), as sometimes the riser boards are specific to the motherboard.

dionb wrote:

respect2759 wrote:

Hello, I am new here, this is my todays finding

Nice little LPX. Watch out with the RAM - you almost certainly need four identical 30p SIMMs in the first bank to be able to boot, not the two in here now.

I dont have more 30p SIMMS only these two. This is my oldest PC I am new in retro field I was only collecting now I want to start with builds. So I have to buy now 4 identical? Here we dont have much retro stuff and ebay shipping fees are too high for me (for a 1euro thing postage is about 10-15) I found the manual online, its a Siemens Nixdorf S26361-D756-v motherboard.

A Asus PhysX P1 Card

with Cellfactor and some other Games bundled.