Reply 30320 of 52760, by Warlord
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Story goes that I searched ebay for AOPEN for an unrelated reason, and came across a listing for a socket 5 board. The board was in bubble wrap and I couldn't quite make it out. In another image there was a VLB video card standing proped up aginst the box. Curious I Bing Image searched that particular board so I could see the PCB layout. To my surprise the picture didn't at all look like the same board that was obscured by the bubble wrap. I realized at this point that the board in the images did not match the Ebay listing.
I was determined to figure out what exactly this this was. So in an effort to identify the board I down loaded the image of the bubble wrapped board and enlarged, sharpened and adjusted the colors in irfanview. I immediately realized that this must be something special when I could barely make out what looked to be an American flag sticker on the chipset.
Still having no idea what exatly this was I posted a picture of the bubble wrapped board on Vogons titled "Mystery Board" . Within minutes several users stated this was an Alaris Cougar and that its a rare board etc. Now I was pretty hyped at the possibility that at the sellers expense, that he didn't really know what he had made some kinda mistake. Without knowing exactly what it was worth, I just clicked buy without second guessing as it was 20 US Dollars buy it now.
Next few days I wondered if it really was, what I thought it was then it finally came today, what looks like a unused new old stock motherboard.