Brickpad wrote:

Those Quantum Bigfoots are notoriously SLOW ala 3600RPM. I have two of the 2.5GB variants, but both have bad sectors. Did I mention they are slow? I've watched ice melt faster in a freezer. 🤣

I kinda regret only having 2 of those, both being like 1.2GB and maybe 2GB or so (there were like 20GB ones or so I think before Quantum (or Maxtor) stopped manufacturing these?) and iirc one of these seemed broken when I tested it 😢

But I'll keep em anyway 😁

The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) were the late 90s version of something like a WD Blue--cheap, slow but lots of storage space. I've got two of them myself (somewhere between 8-20GB), both are in perfect health. 😀 I've fired them up once or twice and run SpinRite on them occasionally to keep their health up, but otherwise they are sitting on a shelf.

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The mystery has been solved! Unfortunately, no Pentium Pro machine hidden in the 19"case. But I was happy nontheless!

There she is, on the test bench:

Dang! Not a PPro 🙁 But is is Socket 7, my favourite platform!

Let's see what else is in there!

SoundBlaster 16 CT4180. Meh, but it could be worse!

Trident VGA. Yuck!

Now this is nice! A Quantum Bigfoot!

Let's check out the CPU. Probably a boring Pentium 1 right? Or not?

My precious!

Let's push my luck and just switch it on, I mean what could go wrong right? (I know this is a bit of a gamble)

Tadaaaaa!

The motherboard is an Intel TX one, can't find any markings now. EDIT: Some Googling tells me it's a Shuttle HOT-569

I don't have time to disassemble it yet, but the original reason I started this retro hobby is to rebuild my first own real computer, A Cyrix 6x86L PR200+ on an Abit T/P?X5 with a Quantum Bigfoot. So this systems is quite close!

And that for just 20 euro.

I have no idea what to do with the case though, I have to many already...

🤣. The CPU on that PC makes honour to your name xD

Brickpad wrote:

Those Quantum Bigfoots are notoriously SLOW ala 3600RPM. I have two of the 2.5GB variants, but both have bad sectors. Did I mention they are slow? I've watched ice melt faster in a freezer. 🤣

Still quicker than the CF card that's in my 486 laptop... I think its transfer speeds are about on par with those in the original IBM PC hard cards...

i had a bigfoot 6,4gb on a k6 2 350, my first quake 3 experience iirc 😀))
loved the machine

SIX! SIX SIX! THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST! HELL, AND FIRE, WAS SPAWNED TO BE RELEASED! 🤣

clueless1 wrote:

The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) were the late 90s version of something like a WD Blue--cheap, slow but lots of storage space. I've got two of them myself (somewhere between 8-20GB), both are in perfect health. 😀 I've fired them up once or twice and run SpinRite on them occasionally to keep their health up, but otherwise they are sitting on a shelf.

WD Blues aren't that slow, sure you're not thinking of the WD Greens?

Lukeno94 wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) were the late 90s version of something like a WD Blue--cheap, slow but lots of storage space. I've got two of them myself (somewhere between 8-20GB), both are in perfect health. 😀 I've fired them up once or twice and run SpinRite on them occasionally to keep their health up, but otherwise they are sitting on a shelf.

WD Blues aren't that slow, sure you're not thinking of the WD Greens?

Blues are less expensive than Greens. But you could throw the Green in the mix too.

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SIX! SIX SIX! THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST! HELL, AND FIRE, WAS SPAWNED TO BE RELEASED! 🤣

In honor of this milestone I will power on my build with a Radeon X850 in it. The Radeon has some sort of beast painted on the heatsink. I will make it fiery hot. 😀

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CkRtech wrote:

Congrats!

It looks like that card has been at the bottom of a pile for awhile. While it is perfectly normal to have those components leaning over or flattened, it seems like the ones on your card are doing so due to other items stacked on top of them. That cap you mentioned basically had its back broken by being smashed into another component. Also note that your IRQ selection pins are bent. One area that concerns me just a little bit is IC7 - it looks like you might have a bit of pin corrosion - probably just enough that it needs to be cleaned up slightly (in other words - no leg damage).

But really that board first needs to be cleaned! Hopefully you have someone local that can help you out with component testing/replacement. I am jealous! 😀

Thanks for the insight! I don't even want to think what this poor card went through. It certainly was at the bottom of the box when I received it.

I will clean it this weekend with compressed air and q-tips, and inspect if there's some further damage. Then I'll look into replacing that cap, I hope it's still salvageable!

Better replace all those caps, perhaps the other ones are in bad condition as well.. (they dont have to be broken to became bad) On this old hardware you want to be sure that every cap is in perfect condition.

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You rang?

clueless1 wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) were the late 90s version of something like a WD Blue--cheap, slow but lots of storage space. I've got two of them myself (somewhere between 8-20GB), both are in perfect health. 😀 I've fired them up once or twice and run SpinRite on them occasionally to keep their health up, but otherwise they are sitting on a shelf.

WD Blues aren't that slow, sure you're not thinking of the WD Greens?

Blues are less expensive than Greens. But you could throw the Green in the mix too.

Up until recently Blues were mainstream desktop drives running at 7200rpm. The Greens were the 5400rpm drives with automatic head parking that were really just good for bulk storage. People liked the Blues so WD stopped developing them after 1TB (the WD10EZEX) while the Greens kept getting bigger. When too many people persisted in not liking the Greens, WD solved that problem by renaming the Greens as Blues. Once the Blue branding is sufficiently tarnished maybe they'll rename them again.
In other words, WD has exited the market for mainstream 7200rpm drives but because people liked them, they co-opted the label for what they still sell.

shamino wrote:

Up until recently Blues were mainstream desktop drives running at 7200rpm. The Greens were the 5400rpm drives with automatic head parking that were really just good for bulk storage. People liked the Blues so WD stopped developing them after 1TB (the WD10EZEX) while the Greens kept getting bigger. When too many people persisted in not liking the Greens, WD solved that problem by renaming the Greens as Blues. Once the Blue branding is sufficiently tarnished maybe they'll rename them again.
In other words, WD has exited the market for mainstream 7200rpm drives but because people liked them, they co-opted the label for what they still sell.

A great way to ruin a good product! 😁

shamino wrote:

Up until recently Blues were mainstream desktop drives running at 7200rpm. The Greens were the 5400rpm drives with automatic head parking that were really just good for bulk storage. People liked the Blues so WD stopped developing them after 1TB (the WD10EZEX) while the Greens kept getting bigger. When too many people persisted in not liking the Greens, WD solved that problem by renaming the Greens as Blues. Once the Blue branding is sufficiently tarnished maybe they'll rename them again.
In other words, WD has exited the market for mainstream 7200rpm drives but because people liked them, they co-opted the label for what they still sell.

Sounds just like the kind of decision that a corporate shmuck would take! He will probably even get a bonus to his paycheck for "streamlining" the WD drive line-up 😁

Well seems today was a good day,in flea market i got:

Cirrus logic cl-542x on GD 5429 chip

TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

ESS MF-1868

with... wavetable daughterboard MediaForte SoundForte SF32-WTS-01

finally got one of those

Nice catch! I love the VLB stuff!

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Well seems today was a good day,in flea market i got:

Cirrus logic cl-542x on GD 5429 chip

TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

ESS MF-1868

with... wavetable daughterboard MediaForte SoundForte SF32-WTS-01

finally got one of those

Two more pacakages arrived today, again from local sellers:

Socket 7 board, Intel FX chipset, it's a 'BCM SQ595'. Good tech support, the site is still up! http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/sq595/tech595.htm . The CPU is a 75MHz Pentium

486 VLB board, Gemlight? GMB-486UNP V2.2, with Intel 486 DX2 66MHz

486 PCI board, UMC chipset, removed barrel battery but quite some acid damage near the keyboard connector unfortunately. No markings on the board, but good silkscreened settings on it fortunately.

386 motherboard, AMD 386 DX-40, again removed barrel but again acid damage 🙁 I also think some cache chips are missing? No markings to tell brand or type...

Various memory and 2 CPU's, Intel 486 SX 33 and Pentium 100

Great to see so much 486 gear still being found.

My second AGP-era PCI card in the last week: found this for £1 at a boot sale:

PowerVR Kyro based card. Hard to find apparently. Thanks to amoretro.de for the info.

shamino wrote:

Up until recently Blues were mainstream desktop drives running at 7200rpm. The Greens were the 5400rpm drives with automatic head parking that were really just good for bulk storage. People liked the Blues so WD stopped developing them after 1TB (the WD10EZEX) while the Greens kept getting bigger. When too many people persisted in not liking the Greens, WD solved that problem by renaming the Greens as Blues. Once the Blue branding is sufficiently tarnished maybe they'll rename them again.
In other words, WD has exited the market for mainstream 7200rpm drives but because people liked them, they co-opted the label for what they still sell.

That explains why I was a bit confused - until a couple of months ago I still had a Caviar Blue 640GB drive in my desktop, which was definitely 7200RPM and definitely wasn't hopeless. I hadn't heard that they'd done that (my last two drives have been Seagate).

I must admit I will jump on any 486 stuff I can find locally, especially VLB.

That Hercules card is cool, looks so modern yet PCI 😀

brassicGamer wrote:

Great to see so much 486 gear still being found.

My second AGP-era PCI card in the last week: found this for £1 at a boot sale:

PowerVR Kyro based card. Hard to find apparently. Thanks to amoretro.de for the info.