HanJammer wrote on 2021-08-06, 11:04:

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-05, 21:29:

Could find a motorola CPU in there. VME bus control system or something.

Yeah. It has 6809 in it with boards marked as 'EPSILON'. It also has stickers with a date the modules were tested (20.11.84 so few years before VME was standarized). Do you have any idea what it may be?

Don't really know anything else. For A 6809 system, suspects include SS-50 and STE bus, OS/9 operating system or a version of CP/M or SWTPC Flex. Also 8 bit motorola systems often used a motorola supplied BIOS type firmware called MICBUG which had basic monitor, debugger and bootstrap functions so if you find something like a serial port, you might be able to use whatever the standard procedure is to get into that.

Been wanting one for awhile now. They rarely come up for auction anymore, and the ones that I've seen have been a whole lot more than I offered for this one. Pretty dirty looking but I guess thats how you hope to find things from non collectors. Doesn't do SB16 whatever still it's quite a lot better than any awe64 gold. I'm sure it will clean up well. I see one semi bent pin but doesn't look bad enough that I couldn't fix.

Any idea how this thing compares to the Terratec EWS64 ?

(PS ...found another one on evil cove, but price seems a teeny tiny bit too high...😆, though if anyone else has the urge: 274689024262)

ya that one is over double of what I paid.

I guess difference is ess and essfm vs crystal and crystalfm.
20mb ram vs 64mb ram
both can load sfs in dos
Wavetable header on card, vs needing a front panel bay
Otherwise very similar.

Which one is better I guess depend on opinion of ess fm vs crystalfm in my opinion.

other thing that spark my interest is the version of card
is a rev A ver 1.0 which I have never seen before. I've never seen a 1.0 card.

my best guess is 1.0 is pre lawsuit. so might have the earlyer ripped patchset idk.

Warlord wrote on 2021-08-06, 19:03:

Been wanting one for awhile now. They rarely come up for auction anymore, and the ones that I've seen have been a whole lot more than I offered for this one. Pretty dirty looking but I guess thats how you hope to find things from non collectors. Doesn't do SB16 whatever still it's quite a lot better than any awe64 gold. I'm sure it will clean up well. I see one semi bent pin but doesn't look bad enough that I couldn't fix.

Fantastic card, one of my favorites right next to Terratec EWS

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-06, 13:30:

Don't really know anything else. For A 6809 system, suspects include SS-50 and STE bus, OS/9 operating system or a version of CP/M or SWTPC Flex. Also 8 bit motorola systems often used a motorola supplied BIOS type firmware called MICBUG which had basic monitor, debugger and bootstrap functions so if you find something like a serial port, you might be able to use whatever the standard procedure is to get into that.

Thanks, yes it does have serial port, although I will dump EPROM first and test the PSU before trying to turn on anything.

Also I was invited to the "SS50 & SS30 Computer Bus Chat" group on facebook - some really knowledgeable guys there and they have similar suspicions to yours.

A Clevo/Kapok/Sager Pentium laptop with a D-pad and 4 buttons adjacent to the track pad.

Not sure if it's a DSTN or TFT display.

Has a slight crack on top, but I'll be able to patch it.

Seller's photos:

I didn't get this "today" but relatively recent, an ASUS I-A16C sound card. It's mentioned in the manual for SP97-V motherboard as an add-on (which I have). So it makes a nice combo. Not sure about the quality of it, seems like a generic SB16 Vibra. Nothing special.

Picked up this pair of mice today for £1. Both working 😀

Been after one of these for a long time as the ball mouse I have been using is terrible on my modern mouse mat and my modern ones dont play nicely with a ps2 adapter on my KVM.

Finally got my hands on a Thinkpad 755CD. Cannot wait for this to arrive 😀

pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-08-08, 11:58:

Finally got my hands on a Thinkpad 755CD. Cannot wait for this to arrive 😀

Oo that is one sleek beastly looking machine...

pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-08-08, 11:58:

Finally got my hands on a Thinkpad 755CD. Cannot wait for this to arrive 😀

Nice find indeed. You'll have to let us know how you plan to use it. Enjoy it!

Finally made my mid-00s dream come true
https://twitter.com/mgawronskikot/status/1424 … 7483607042?s=21

pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-08-08, 11:58:

Finally got my hands on a Thinkpad 755CD. Cannot wait for this to arrive 😀

Those are awesome laptops. That was may main daily driver back in the mid 2000's. The only reason I went with the Versa over that was because I was on a very tight budget and not patient enough to wait to find one at a good price. I was able to find LiIon replacement batteries for those (NiMH came stock, but apparently they made a LiIon option sometime later), used it doing a refresh for AT&T, would play DOS games in the parking lot in my truck off the battery on lunch.

As for me - I decided to to pick this Panasonic Sound/SCSI KXL-D20 up after perusing the PCMCIA Sound Card thread, I'm going to likely use it with all of the Versa (including the 40 EC I bought yet another motherboard for), but it'll probably be living in my M/75 the most as I just got the Touch-screen assembly put back together and am getting a Digitizer on another paycheck.

Fail of the week...

Thrift pick up #1 ATI All in Wonder 9600, boxed, card check, remote check, remote receiver check, manuals check, driver/software CDs check, weird octopus dongle thingy "ATI output adapter" part number 6110017300, bzzzzt. Nope. AWOL. Gone. Absent. Missing.

Thrift pick up #2. Boca Research Box for Bocaboard IOAT41, manual, card? It's a 1P1S card... itssss not the Boca one with the 115kb serial port... it's the take out... FCC comes up as AT&T Deutschland ??? Sticker with that on says Honeywell on it. Was certified as a component not a retail item, but AT&T bought in systems from Olivetti etc... so no freaking clue who really made it. So generic boring serial/parallel card..... wellll it's an extra mousehole I guess, or will save me finding/wiring another header bracket for 2nd port on some other card.

Oh and there was a prior, yesterday, grabbed a V-Tech Precomputer 1000 for messing with, as they have a nice little Z80 setup inside that wants to grow up and become a CP/M box.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-08, 21:04:

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Fail of the week...

Thrift pick up #1 ATI All in Wonder 9600, boxed, card check, remote check, remote receiver check, manuals check, driver/software CDs check, weird octopus dongle thingy "ATI output adapter" part number 6110017300, bzzzzt. Nope. AWOL. Gone. Absent. Missing.

Thrift pick up #2. Boca Research Box for Bocaboard IOAT41, manual, card? It's a 1P1S card... itssss not the Boca one with the 115kb serial port... it's the take out... FCC comes up as AT&T Deutschland ??? Sticker with that on says Honeywell on it. Was certified as a component not a retail item, but AT&T bought in systems from Olivetti etc... so no freaking clue who really made it. So generic boring serial/parallel card..... wellll it's an extra mousehole I guess, or will save me finding/wiring another header bracket for 2nd port on some other card.

Oh and there was a prior, yesterday, grabbed a V-Tech Precomputer 1000 for messing with, as they have a nice little Z80 setup inside that wants to grow up and become a CP/M box.

Is it one of these dongles or something different?

I've got three of those kind, but nope a really weird one, 29 pin thingie, looks a bit like a fattened up sawn off DVI (squareish) They appear to be worth twice as much as the card 🤣

Pulled down this pinout, https://pinouts.ru/Audio-Video-Hardware/ati_le5_pinout.shtml but it appears to be for the later gen x800 AIW with digital outputs, mine needs analog VGA... but I suspect there some semi standard way DVI to VGA is wired that will give me clues from that.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-08-07, 23:36:

A Clevo/Kapok/Sager Pentium laptop with a D-pad and 4 buttons adjacent to the track pad.

Not sure if it's a DSTN or TFT display.

Has a slight crack on top, but I'll be able to patch it.

A Kapok 5200P, nice 😀 I was digging through their old site the other day since I hadn't known how Kapok relates to Clevo, it was a sub-company that made high end / specialist laptops until it was reabsorbed in 1999. This page mentions the relation and has your laptop mentioned on there too. These great quotes as well, I'd love to know where this was originally hosted:

1The Twinhead Slimnote 60T uses a fan to keep the computer cool. This is unusual in a laptop, and has been widely panned. 

1Kapok will have a Pentium Pro laptop out soon. The power requirements (double those of a regular pentium) and heat will be major hurdles.

I've got a 6200AT with the TFT screen and it's got a nice ES692 wavetable integrated into it.

Got all of this from a guy who wanted only a few DDR3 mem sticks for the lot. Have to test everything and see if it all works. Now I just have to find the am2cpu upgrade board somewhere and test how my HD3850 AGP works with a better cpu.

GF 4 mx 440

p4 2.8c HT with the x700 gpu

small form p4 1.5ghz with the tnt m64 vanta

939dual-sata2

EP-8HMMI-A s754

K7N2 Socket 462

7600GS AGP, SB live, radeon 9000 and the Radeon 7500 ddr

EP-8KDA3I

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 09:45:

Got all of this from a guy who wanted only a few DDR3 mem sticks for the lot. Have to test everything and see if it all works. N […]
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Got all of this from a guy who wanted only a few DDR3 mem sticks for the lot. Have to test everything and see if it all works. Now I just have to find the am2cpu upgrade board somewhere and test how my HD3850 AGP works with a better cpu.

939dual-sata2

Sweet find! Is that the weird AsRock mobo that had PCIe and AGP and the abiity to use use either an 754 or 939 socket CPU? I remember salivating over it at the time but went with a DFI board instead for overclocking.