Picked up an incomplete AT clone from Kijiji - it looks like it never had an internal hard disk or any floppies (all drive bay covers are present - no pics and ad is gone). Seems there's a card missing. It came with a CGA card, a modem, and what I suspect is an internal/external floppy adapter, perhaps some boffins can help me ID it?

Turns out it is a 286-10 with a fairly primitive BIOS. 1Mb RAM via DIP chips. Hercules card is mine, put in there to see if it'll POST.

So what kind of card is this?

These actually didn't leak past the battery holder. Good that it wasn't a barrel battery.

The CGA card:

I have a Type 1 MFM drive, or a Type 42 IDE drive, a low density floppy, and the monochrome monitor and card. I have all the parts to make this into a viable machine, although I'd have to look for a 1.2Mb floppy. The case is in great shape too.

Jed118 wrote on 2020-04-13, 13:02:

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So what kind of card is this?

I believe that's an IBM floppy drive interface or clone. The edge connector on the end of the card is what the floppy cable connects to.

I'm intrigued by the motherboard as it looks very similar to an AT clone I've got but doesn't work. At first I thought it was missing a couple of BIOS ROM chips but your board suggests otherwise. What's the ID code on the edge of the board by the ISA slots?

some dirty hardware, fresh out of quarantine...

IBM terminal keyboard, needs a thourough clean and a replacement keycap, but it was cheap :3

a very dirty Asus XP55T2P4
no the caps are not leaking, that's caked on dust, I already checked ^^

and an equally dirty Terratec Maestro 32/96 from the same lot
quickly wiped it down with some alcohol to be able to take a picture where the card is actually visible but also needs a deep clean

Nice..! Does this keyboard work with a normal PC..?

Next one...my offer was accepted 😀

Nice lot predator hopefully everything works upon arrival.

I didn't see that one ^^

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-13, 18:14:

Nice..! Does this keyboard work with a normal PC..?

nope ^^ not out of the box, but you can get an adapter for it or just replace the internal controller.

Got this rather rough IBM PS/2 Model 56 in today off eBay, it's got some kind of power supply problem and a fair bit of internal surface rust (including rust on the floppy drive stepper motor) that I'm not sure yet how I'm going to fix.

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-13, 18:15:

Next one...my offer was accepted 😀

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A Voodoo3 2000. The rest is more or less electronics junk as far as I can tell.

hey now :c
there's a hercules S3 trio, a nice spea mercury P64V too, passive gigabyte geforce 6600 AGP is also handy

some more...

Asus V8420, GF4 Ti 4200 (still need the deluxe version of that one)
Aztech MM PCI 168 with "AZFIN 3328", supposedly has a real OPL3 and great compatibility?
and an ATi Graphics Ultra Pro mach32 VLB :3

I have an IBM model 77, from the same era as the model 56 you have. Take off the front and look for a switch in the front left of the chassis. if its anything like my model 77, there is a "tamper" switch there that prevents the machine from turning on unless you know its there.

might look like this:
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_ … 77s_3_full.jpeg

brassicGamer wrote on 2020-04-13, 14:01:

I believe that's an IBM floppy drive interface or clone. The edge connector on the end of the card is what the floppy cable connects to.

I'm intrigued by the motherboard as it looks very similar to an AT clone I've got but doesn't work. At first I thought it was missing a couple of BIOS ROM chips but your board suggests otherwise. What's the ID code on the edge of the board by the ISA slots?

Yes, when I opened it up the first time, I saw the staggered BIOS chips and I was like, OK, that's odd, but they read ODD and EVEN so I didn't worry too much.

I'm going to do a complete teardown and clean all the dust off it probably in a few days, depending on the progress of my final assignment. For now I hope this will suffice

And this is the actual case:

No floppy drives at all. I'd love to know how this was used...

Was it part of an old token ring network, and booted via the network?

Cobra42898 wrote on 2020-04-14, 00:46:

Was it part of an old token ring network, and booted via the network?

I thought so as well, but there was no NIC in there. There was an empty slot cover so who knows what was removed. The floppy controller has a big external connector (40 or so pins) so maybe it booted externally off a floppy drive? The guy who sold it to me knew little about it, just that it was stored for close to two decades.

Jed118 wrote on 2020-04-13, 22:38:

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And this is the actual case:

No floppy drives at all. I'd love to know how this was used...

Looks great ! Good luck and hope you get it running !
Got two NOS still in box, never used Serial port 8bit ISA cards (for a Song and Dance 🤣). One has a 1999 date sticker from Best Buy the other (Siig) looks much older and has Parallel too. The SiiG should work great in my next XT/286 build along with with a SCSI controller and HD.
Also got a Fujitsu M2949 and IBM DDRS39130 HD's as trade for an old Nvidia Gf 2 Ti that I did not need, not sure if they work though, was a "spur of the moment thing"....

Jed118 wrote on 2020-04-13, 22:38:

Yes, when I opened it up the first time, I saw the staggered BIOS chips and I was like, OK, that's odd, but they read ODD and EV […]
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Yes, when I opened it up the first time, I saw the staggered BIOS chips and I was like, OK, that's odd, but they read ODD and EVEN so I didn't worry too much.

I'm going to do a complete teardown and clean all the dust off it probably in a few days, depending on the progress of my final assignment. For now I hope this will suffice

And this is the actual case:

No floppy drives at all. I'd love to know how this was used...

Yes, you have 2 spare ROM sockets there to insert an additional option ROM.

Very nice case and PC, keep us updated!

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-04-13, 18:23:

Nice lot predator hopefully everything works upon arrival.

Thanks, Yes, I asked for a packing each card in newspaper and this was confirmed...

blurks wrote on 2020-04-13, 20:16:

A Voodoo3 2000. The rest is more or less electronics junk as far as I can tell.

Thats apparently why I bought it, but I will keep some other cards as well.

Jed118 wrote on 2020-04-13, 22:38:

No floppy drives at all. I'd love to know how this was used...

External floppy drive unit. Usually those have 1-4 drives...

Bought this Hitachi docking station for Visionbook Pro series laptops. Label says for 7000/8000 series, but it works fine with my 6000 series laptop. The key features why it's of any value for me is the game port and the line-in connector.
Here are the pics.

DPT PM2122 EISA SCSI controller with CM4000 cache module.

Plus, something I didn't know until just now, it has one of those freaking awesome strobing LED blocks! Can't wait to bench this against VLB and ISA caching controllers...