About a week ago I checked in a Goodwill and came out with more junk than I've ever bought there at one time.

1) As I went in, I saw a couple rummaging around looking for something in the electronics area. One of them roughly grabbed a Matrox Mystique 220 retail box and moved it aside. I was surprised to see such a thing, made a mental note of it and went to browse nearby until they were out of the way. Then the guy grabbed it again and tossed it on the floor. I didn't want to see any more abuse so I made a beeline to get past them and grab it before he started stomping on it like a monkey or something.
I was disappointed to find that the card was not inside the box, but it did contain a manual in basically perfect condition and a sealed set of discs. I questioned my sanity as I decided I wanted to buy it anyway even without the card. I guess I'm starting to find some of the old video card boxes interesting, and I rationalize that I can store it flat. There might also be something worthwhile about those discs. When I get around to it I'll open them and figure out if there's anything worth uploading to vogonsdrivers.
I really wish the card had been in there (a Matrox Mystique 220 PCI 4MB SGRAM, apparently). I would have liked to put it in my DOS machine.

2) While digging around hoping to find the missing Matrox card, I instead found a Turtle Beach Aureal Vortex2 PCI sound card. I already had a Vortex1 version of the same card, but the Vortex2 is a nicer find. It's funny, I saw that same sound card like 6 months ago and left it there. I was sure it was gone. Apparently not, it just got buried in all the mess.

3) They had a Dell QuietKey keyboard that was in great condition and a perfect match for a Slot-1 Dell Dimension XPS mid-tower that I already have. I need another keyboard like I need a hole in my head, but I couldn't leave it there. I decided I "needed" that keyboard to go with the Dimension. I generally don't care about rubber dome keyboards but this one feels better made than others that I have.

It's a bad picture but looks very good in person. Either Goodwill actually cleaned the thing or it wasn't used heavily.

4) For various reasons I recently decided I want a scanner. So I looked and found a Visioneer 7600 USB in it's original packaging. The box made clear when it was made, loudly telling the prospective buyer that it will not work with Windows 95 or LPT ports. Unfortunately I failed to notice that it didn't have the correct power supply in the box, so it remains untested. I am further disappointed to discover that it doesn't have a driver for WinXP, so that's not going to be convenient at all.

5) They had a complete boxed copy of Might & Magic II for the Sega Genesis. I had a loose copy but with Sega games I much prefer them complete in the plastic case, so I bought it.

6) Power supply for a Sony PS2 slim. I don't have a Slim but I have thought before about modifying one to power a Sega Genesis+CD combo. It's voltage and current ratings seem perfect for doing that job while generating less heat inside the consoles than the original power supplies do.

7) About 42 blank DVD+R discs on a spindle. After thinking back on it I realize paying $5 for those was a mistake. They're just cheap old Memorex discs, I should have left them.

I have that exact keyboard for my DOS PCs. I like the position of the backslash and the narrower Enter key. Makes command prompt typing easier for my hands.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Two more pacakages arrived today, again from local sellers: […]
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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

Very nice haul! Especially for a fellow Dutch person! Well done mate! 😁
I checked your memory and it looks like nothing particularly special, except for its utter crappyness 🤣!
I dunno about the SIMM that's way in the top part of your pic, but for the rest it doesn't appear there's any 16MB or 32MB SIMMs in your lot, but those 16MB SDRAM modules are kinda fun, as I've noticed these were actually much harder to find than those double sided 32MB modules with 8 chips/side 😜

Do you have any idea about which board your UMC s3 is? There should be markings somewhere on that PCB. And thank god many of the boards of that era had relatively good silkscreening (though still 486 is one hell of a ride to jumper correctly 🤣!

brassicGamer wrote:

Great to see so much 486 gear still being found. […]
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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:

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

Seconded about that 486 stuff still being around.

And you got yourself a good deal also. Most of these are AGP (obviously), but these do used to appear from time to time, I guess these aren't extremely rare and not as wanted as 3DFX. I hope you'll enjoy your newest addition to your collection 😀

rein_ein wrote:

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

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TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

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WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass sold item.. just must of not sold very well.

kithylin wrote:

WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass sold item.. just must of not sold very well.

they are not batt-backed - no go
also someone here made a test - they were slower than many others from that time, even without cache;

kithylin wrote:

rein_ein wrote:

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

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TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

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WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass sold item.. just must of not sold very well.

I also have two of them there.. Have different versions of the VLB variant, and one or two of those with a normal ISA connector.

kithylin wrote:

rein_ein wrote:

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

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TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

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WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass sold item.. just must of not sold very well.

They are not to have but are just too costly most of the time so don't bother unless luck is in your favor. There should be a few caching ide isa controllers out there as well but have yet to find one myself. They don't do much good for fast drives so the common pleb stuff is all that one needs.

The memory came for free with two of the mainboards, so no loss 😀. I have so much memory now, I just toss it in a box (not really toss, but i wrap it in an anti-static bag and it it in a box). The 486 SX 33 is issing one pin unfortunately : ( it was also added for free, so that's okay.

I will try and have a good look at the S3 UMC board again tomorrow (or get it to post so I can get the BIOS string).

Tetrium wrote:

... Very nice haul! Especially for a fellow Dutch person! Well done mate! :D I checked your memory and it looks like nothing par […]
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Very nice haul! Especially for a fellow Dutch person! Well done mate! 😁
I checked your memory and it looks like nothing particularly special, except for its utter crappyness 🤣!
I dunno about the SIMM that's way in the top part of your pic, but for the rest it doesn't appear there's any 16MB or 32MB SIMMs in your lot, but those 16MB SDRAM modules are kinda fun, as I've noticed these were actually much harder to find than those double sided 32MB modules with 8 chips/side 😜

Do you have any idea about which board your UMC s3 is? There should be markings somewhere on that PCB. And thank god many of the boards of that era had relatively good silkscreening (though still 486 is one hell of a ride to jumper correctly 🤣!

So pics coming soon! (I hope. . .stupid work) but picked up THREE complete pc's from Value Village. A Compaq A64 Presario, with a twist! After market black psu, asus am3 matx motherboard, ADATA 4gb of ddr1333, unknown black aftermarket psu, and a 1gb HD6450 with a legit windows 7 install on a 250gb sata drive. Cost? $6. Second up! a Cooler Master Ultra light case with a modular psu, lga775 intel 945 ECS motherboard with 2gb of OCZ ram for $10. And last but not least, black Antec case w/380watt antec sata psu. OCZ ram, Intel P4 atx motherboard, some really nice disc drives, also $10.

With some information from the seller I have found out that is is probably an ADI Corp F4DXP-UC5D (http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/adi/f4dxp-uc5d/index.html)

Tetrium wrote:

Very nice haul! Especially for a fellow Dutch person! Well done mate! :D I checked your memory and it looks like nothing particu […]
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Very nice haul! Especially for a fellow Dutch person! Well done mate! 😁
I checked your memory and it looks like nothing particularly special, except for its utter crappyness 🤣!
I dunno about the SIMM that's way in the top part of your pic, but for the rest it doesn't appear there's any 16MB or 32MB SIMMs in your lot, but those 16MB SDRAM modules are kinda fun, as I've noticed these were actually much harder to find than those double sided 32MB modules with 8 chips/side 😜

Do you have any idea about which board your UMC s3 is? There should be markings somewhere on that PCB. And thank god many of the boards of that era had relatively good silkscreening (though still 486 is one hell of a ride to jumper correctly 🤣!

Online friend is sending me this thing http://i.imgur.com/UOZlU9Z.jpg

oeuvre wrote:

Online friend is sending me this thing http://i.imgur.com/UOZlU9Z.jpg

Very very nice,never used one still looking for such "futuristic" thing)

Also today scored:

Albatron PX845E

And pair or 512mb rimms

and bit offtop coz not a hardware but this cute guy 😁

Vladamir Illych! How goes the world socialist revolution?

Looks like Lenin. 😀

Got a little haul, yesterday. And when I say little, I mean it in the same way they call the giant, bald guy in the muscle-Tee "Tiny." The seller actually knocked some off the price if I took the other monitor he had, too which is some sort of old NEC from 1992 that I'm having trouble finding info for.

This baby came with the original manual, and a cable, but the cable is DB9-to-BNC so I can't use that.

Funnily enough, I once had a Hitachi branded monitor with this exact make-up, except it had a 13W3 connector instead of BNC.

kithylin wrote:

rein_ein wrote:

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

<snip>

TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram

<snip>

WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass sold item.. just must of not sold very well.

I have one also but its a 680CD with version 2.06 ROM (has an extra IDE port for CDROM I think).

Logistics wrote:

Got a little haul, yesterday. And when I say little, I mean it in the same way they call the giant, bald guy in the muscle-Tee "Tiny." The seller actually knocked some off the price if I took the other monitor he had, too which is some sort of old NEC from 1992 that I'm having trouble finding info for.

This baby came with the original manual, and a cable, but the cable is DB9-to-BNC so I can't use that.

Funnily enough, I once had a Hitachi branded monitor with this exact make-up, except it had a 13W3 connector instead of BNC.

The Diamondscan 20 was used with AVID editing systems and from what I remember it also syncs with Amiga built in video.

Unknown_K wrote:

Logistics wrote:

Got a little haul, yesterday. And when I say little, I mean it in the same way they call the giant, bald guy in the muscle-Tee "Tiny." The seller actually knocked some off the price if I took the other monitor he had, too which is some sort of old NEC from 1992 that I'm having trouble finding info for.

This baby came with the original manual, and a cable, but the cable is DB9-to-BNC so I can't use that.

Funnily enough, I once had a Hitachi branded monitor with this exact make-up, except it had a 13W3 connector instead of BNC.

The Diamondscan 20 was used with AVID editing systems and from what I remember it also syncs with Amiga built in video.

Ironically, I have the 20C which does sync at about 15kHz as you mentioned, and can be used with Amigas and other systems. There are two other versions which do not. I think there are several consoles I can use it with, but they may require an IC to give them composite sync.

Recently i bought a couple of socket 478 boards for 1€ each. Unlike i stated earlier the ecs p4vxasd2+ has an universal agp slot, the other one is a matsonic ms-9147c which is a clone board. These are counterfeit boards with a fake chipset, i already suspected that since they support sdr ram. According to the manual they feature the via p4x333 but the chipset actually is the p4x266 so no 533 mhz bus support and no ddr 333 ram either. The pci and agp are actually overclocked when you set the bus to 133 that's why the boards didn't boot with the savage 3d, now i've tested an ati rage pro and works fine at 400 mhz fsb. Both boards actually were unstable at 533 fsb when tested with the geforce2 mx and a pentium 4 2.4 ghz but at least they booted.
(there's a cardboard box below the mobo in the picture)