SB16 CT1740 but hanging note bug. Only relevant if I'm using MIDI with it, which I won't be (I have an AWE64) plus I've always wanted an early(ish) Sound Blaster i.e. one that has an analogue volume dial. At £11.50 BIN it was a no-brainer. The search continues for a bargain SB 1.5...

P.s. the brown paper you see is what it was wrapped in. The 'padded' envelope it was in didn't seem to be helping much either but it made it in one piece.

stamasd wrote:

Kadath wrote:

I've got the Dock II 3546 time ago, for my little ThinkPad 370C (486-DX4 75mhz) - fortunately, and oddly enough, I paid very little for it, on eBay

I'm envious now. My 755CX has been crying for one of those for quite a long time.

Don't be envious stamasd, I've just been lucky, and patient: I'm sure that you'll find this dock too, but you've to check the usual sites regularly, waiting for the right bargain.

Today got me a old coppermine for parts (needed the Graphics cards desperately for a new project). after testing only the HDD has some problems starting windows XP (some bad sectors I guess and the CMOS battery was dead so I am going to replace it before selling.

- Intel PIII Coppermine 1000 mhz/256/1,7
- Aopen ATX 250W
- Nvidia 256 (guilemot) (cleaned it and put new cooling paste underneath the fan)
- Microstar MS 6309 Lite
- Realtek RTL8139D 10/100 PCI (going to save this one)
- Pci-usbvia6212-3 (dunno anything about this one couldn't find anything)
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also an unknown modem/sound card

Got this today. Card is probably unused and in great condition, complete in box. Wonder what kind of hidden store room it has been lying around in...

Finally I own a graphics card that is longer than my current GTX 970.

Anyone know which "computer generation" this would be used with?

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Got this today. Card is probably unused and in great condition, complete in box. Wonder what kind of hidden store room it has been lying around in...

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Finally I own a graphics card that is longer than my current GTX 970.

Anyone know which "computer generation" this would be used with?

CGA is perfect for a XT-class machine, or the original PC.

I have a Taxan EGA card that is somewhat smaller than that. Unfortunately no EGA monitor to use it with.

The gold scrap category on eBay continues to be a... wait for it... gold mine. Hurr.

Got all of this for $28 shipped. It was being sold as scrap, and I actually had to message the seller telling him not to break and saw everything apart to fit it in a smaller box, as that is what he planned to do.

Most notably we have an Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and Diamond Speedstar card with Tseng ET4000AX chip, as well as a 486 motherboard with blown up battery and corroded traces (of course!) Mitsumi 16-bit CD card, Winbond IDE card, and yet another modem card I have no idea what to do with. Plus some RAM and what appears to be a 7-segment clock speed LCD.

The package was shipped in nothing but a flat-rate envelope despite telling the seller of my intention to actually use the stuff. No bags or anything, just metal against metal. Thankfullly, no broken capacitors.

I mainly brought this lot for the SB Pro alone, and I'm glad to report it works wonderfully. Sadly, the Speedstar may have not been so lucky. Text modes work fine on it, but anything graphical gives me a black screen. (Maybe I have to mess with the jumpers and dip switches.) However I'm still very happy as I got a working CT1600 for half their going rate, saved it and everything else from a fate of being scrapped, and it all arrived on my birthday to boot.

I got a CS9233 based Wavetable.

Making it the third wavetable card I own:
Serdaco Dreamblaster S1
Serdaco Dreamblaster X2
IBM S-W1/C (KD020103) Crystal CS9233.

The Thinkpad 380ED I bought earlier seems to be thrown in a loop by USPS. It was shipped to me a few days ago from a place that's about a 30 minutes drive from my location, and since then it was sent to another state twice. Yay for efficiency.

1Departed USPS Facility
2Dec-02-16, 04:16 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
3
4Arrived at USPS Facility
5Dec-01-16, 19:06 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
6
7Departed USPS Facility
8Dec-01-16, 02:36 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
9
10Arrived at USPS Facility
11Nov-30-16, 05:57 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
12
13Departed USPS Facility
14Nov-30-16, 03:47 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
15
16Arrived at USPS Facility
17Nov-29-16, 23:48 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
18
19Acceptance
20Nov-29-16, 11:25 AM, ESSEX, CT 06426

Well, well. My long coveted AT case finally arrived. Time to start building my "Dream 486" equipped with Roland LAPC-I & SB Pro 2.0. Only trouble is am I going to go VLB or PCI route... 😀

I'll probably start with VLB because this PC will have Intel 486 DX-33 CPU. No need for excessive PCI graphic muscle so I'll save my PCI motherboard for a DX2 or DX4 CPU build.

It's nice to see it survived the trip 😀 The LCD display was set to 100 / 33.

Good luck with the "dream" build 😉

kixs wrote:

It's nice to see it survived the trip 😀 The LCD display was set to 100 / 33.

Good luck with the "dream" build 😉

Thanks, mate! And thanks for selling me this case in the first place. You don't happen to have instructions for LED configurations for this , do you..? 😁

Nope... But I think they are pretty generic. Google should find something...

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1Departed USPS Facility
2Dec-02-16, 04:16 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
3
4Arrived at USPS Facility
5Dec-01-16, 19:06 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
6
7Departed USPS Facility
8Dec-01-16, 02:36 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
9
10Arrived at USPS Facility
11Nov-30-16, 05:57 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
12
13Departed USPS Facility
14Nov-30-16, 03:47 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
15
16Arrived at USPS Facility
17Nov-29-16, 23:48 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
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19Acceptance
20Nov-29-16, 11:25 AM, ESSEX, CT 06426

That is big government in general, more hoops and loops than one can imagine.

Kadath wrote:

stamasd wrote:

Kadath wrote:

I've got the Dock II 3546 time ago, for my little ThinkPad 370C (486-DX4 75mhz) - fortunately, and oddly enough, I paid very little for it, on eBay

I'm envious now. My 755CX has been crying for one of those for quite a long time.

Don't be envious stamasd, I've just been lucky, and patient: I'm sure that you'll find this dock too, but you've to check the usual sites regularly, waiting for the right bargain.

TBH I have attempted many times in the past few years to get one. I tried on ebay, I tried at various online stores that listed it as available if the prices weren't crazy, etc. I hadn't able to get one thus far; usually my order got canceled for various reasons "item listed by mistake" "out of stock" etc.

So after I saw your post yesterday, I tried ebay again. There was one listed, price not too great but not ridiculous either.

I ordered it. And lo and behold when I checked this morning, it had not only been shipped but delivered too. 😁 They shipped it I think by fedex overnight, which explains part of the price, and also how it was delivered this morning at 11AM when I ordered it yesterday at 4PM. Wife confirms that there was a huge package left at the door, I guess I'll have a nice evening with it when I get home. 😎

some of You guys did exceptional nice cases by hand, some metal, others from wood; some of You are savvy when it comes to electronics and programming - proposal - try to make some docks for those machines? i know its a tough one - whats life without a failure here and there :>

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The Thinkpad 380ED I bought earlier seems to be thrown in a loop by USPS. It was shipped to me a few days ago from a place that's about a 30 minutes drive from my location, and since then it was sent to another state twice. Yay for efficiency.

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1Departed USPS Facility
2Dec-02-16, 04:16 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
3
4Arrived at USPS Facility
5Dec-01-16, 19:06 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
6
7Departed USPS Facility
8Dec-01-16, 02:36 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
9
10Arrived at USPS Facility
11Nov-30-16, 05:57 AM, STAMFORD, CT 06910
12
13Departed USPS Facility
14Nov-30-16, 03:47 AM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
15
16Arrived at USPS Facility
17Nov-29-16, 23:48 PM, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01152
18
19Acceptance
20Nov-29-16, 11:25 AM, ESSEX, CT 06426

That is big government in general, more hoops and loops than one can imagine.

Well USPS isn't a government agency anymore, but yeah.
Also the latest tracking information shows that they sent it again to Stamford, CT which does not sound right. FWIW, both Essex CT and Springfield MA are closer to me than Stamford. 😀

stamasd wrote:

Well USPS isn't a government agency anymore, but yeah.

It's a private entity which is granted a forced monopoly by the government and is fed money to keep it alive. Effectively, there's no difference.

Finished restoring the Huynday Super-386C pc I got some time ago... it's a 1989 cacheless 386DX-20 pc with a dead 40MB ST251-1 HDD+controller, dual FDD (1.2MB and 1.44MB) and a Realtek 512kb VGA with Greek characters in the ROM.

There is a CPU card and a busboard - max 8MB of RAM (there is a special ramboard for it but I see no point searching for it)

Speedwise it is slightly faster than my IBM PS1/pro 386sx/20 and a 286/16 board I got recently. All of them lack cache. Haven't decided what to do with it - I consider it an alternative of a 286/16 build : same speed more or less but with 386 cpu and onboard IDE/FDD .

Finally got a somewhat "true" SoundBlaster 16 bundled with some other stuff for mere 8 bucks. I have an SB16 Value, an AWE32, several PnP SB16s, several Vibras, several AWE64s. This one, however, is CT2700:

Unlike my other SoundBlasters this one has an OPL3 chip AND a WaveBlaster connector (I'm finally getting my first daughterboard soon — the DreamBlaster X2). There doesn't seem to be a lot of info on this card online: I can't find the DSP version or any comments on its sound quality. Guess I'll know when I'll plug it in and see the diagnose.exe output. This board will probably go into my ongoing 5x86 VLB build. More jumper hell for me, yay!

Another part of the bundle is this Asus TXP4 motherboard:

Not too excited about this board, though — I have plenty of TX-based Socket 7s, and this is an Asus board with its weird MIR connector (PS2+USB+IRDA combined). I already have two Asus boards without a proper PS/2 (a P2B-B and a TX97-E) and these MIR accessories are pretty hard to find. Well, considering the price of the bundle I think of this board as free. 😀

Also got a floppy drive and an S3 Trio in the bundle.

jheronimus wrote:

I can't find the DSP version

The DSP version is written on the smaller square chip located directly below the first of the 2 larger square chips at the top of the card. The image you posted is of too low quality for me to be able to read it. That generation of cards generally has DSP v4.11 or 4.13

(edit) the chip circled below