No pictures yet, but as I was walking out of a pawn shop, I spotted a 1st-generation Roland MT-32 for $35 and bought it. The box is a bit beat-up, but it works and sounds terrific. I've now got all the Roland boxes I ever needed: the CM-64, the CM-300, and now, a 1st-generation MT-32.

Nice! And quite the bargain 😀

Nice score on the MT-32. It's getting really hard to find deals on those. If only I could get a good price on a D50 synth...

Today's arrivals..

These...

For These...

now who was the lucky one that outsniped me for this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … em=160852555852

TheMAN wrote:

now who was the lucky one that outsniped me for this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … em=160852555852

Not me. I was going to bid on that one as soon as it was listed but changed my mind.

TheMAN wrote:

now who was the lucky one that outsniped me for this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … em=160852555852

Perhaps you can convince this guy to relist:

www.ebay.fr/itm/230831357231

To be SLI'd with a Creative 12MB V2

As you can see, it includes the SLI cable, and that lovely fat pass-thru cable. 😀

With all the nice stuff being posted here lately i have to admit i felt a bit jelly sometimes. 🤣

Hopefully i can bite back with this latest grab of mine. A genuine and complete Tandy 1000 TX system with that nice CM-5 tandy monitor.
The TX is interesting as it is kind of an Hybrid XT-AT machine. It has a 286 class cpu but operates over a 8 bit data bus and overall XT architecture. I feel like its quite unique, and really a looker Imo.

Got it "AS IS" for pretty much the steal. Its quite dusty, obviously spent a good deal of time forgotten in a basement. I powered it and it posts fine and asks for a system disk. Ill clean the thing good before i try to insert disks in it. very happy with this one 😁

Hmm, don't the later Tandy machines have DOS in ROM?

I know my RL does.

Cloudschatze wrote:

TheMAN wrote:

now who was the lucky one that outsniped me for this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … em=160852555852

Perhaps you can convince this guy to relist:

www.ebay.fr/itm/230831357231

C'est problème. Je ne parlez français. 😜

There is a good chance he or she speaks English, I'd just send a message anyway and see what happens.
😀

SquallStrife wrote:

Hmm, don't the later Tandy machines have DOS in ROM?

I know my RL does.

I was expecting it to have DOS in ROM but apparently it does not. Unless it's been deactivated somehow? Ill have to investigate.

EDIT : Well the TX apparently came with a HDD, but from what i gathered the Tandy TX hard drives pretty much all died since then. Probably what has happened with my machine. Maybe i can replace it.

One of my friends has a 1000TX. It's a nifty system but by standards of it's day, it was already outdated. It's odd they'd bother putting a 286 into the thing as the motherboard is 8-bit XT architecture. I suppose it's still an upgrade though for a home user moving up from an Apple II or Commodore 64 or one of the many Z80 based computers from the day.

On the models that included a hard drive, it was in the form of a hard card. Only some models of the 1000 had DOS built into ROM; I don't think the TX is one of those models.

Today i have got 2 voodoo 2 cards from powercolor NEW in the box.. They arent used and are both factory new! With manual, driver cd, SLI cable, VGA cable..

Those are going to be used in my Pentium rig.

160GB Seagate Sata drive for $1 in scrap DVR
IBM Aptiva 2174 with original retail monitor, keyboard, and speakers for $5
Installed is a http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%2 … MTR51B%20C.html
128mb ram and haven't gone that much further as I am cleaning it out. Condition is really good 😀

here is my latest haul .

ISA NIC

ASUS PCI-AV264CT-N mediabus card

A CT1350B , too bad it's not a rev 3/4

Total costs just under €27 including shipping! 😊
Now i'm off to test my new toys

wow, I didn't know asus made a card with a vibra chip on it!
how do you tell if it's rev 3/4 on a CT1350? the white sticker on the back of the card?

TheMAN wrote:

wow, I didn't know asus made a card with a vibra chip on it!

Wish i had one of those just for the sake of populating my media-bus mobo 🤣

TheMAN wrote:

how do you tell if it's rev 3/4 on a CT1350? the white sticker on the back of the card?

As far as i know it is silk screened on the PCB EXAMPLE.

MaxWar wrote:

Wish i had one of those just for the sake of populating my media-bus mobo 🤣

HEH i have the card but no mobo to put it in!