Haha - those look rough! Hopefully they'll shine up for ya!! No digital Mhz display in any of em?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Hey that's a white Escom? Or just a computer with an Escom sticker. They usually did black computers. It was their "signature".

I really dont know.. I never kneew they more sold black computers.(thought they sold beige ones too) I had bought the same case as `big tower` few months ago.. But arrived here with a damaged front at the doorstep, what was quiet a shame. But i could use the metal parts for an same case i already have here.. so i always have backup parts when needed. But im actually glad if i found some AT cases.. I think i cant complain now in the year 2014.. If we know theres i lot trashed away..

Artex wrote:

Haha - those look rough! Hopefully they'll shine up for ya!! No digital Mhz display in any of em?

The right one does!, but the picture is a little bit unclear.. so its hard to see.. I dont know which case the second is, bu my guesses i think its an `enlight` I have the bigger brother also here..

Escom was huge in Germany. It was a good competitor to Vobis / Highscreen. Yes pretty much all their machines were black.

Here some images:

Source: http://www.gamersglobal.de/forum/69802/alte-quelle-preise

Source: http://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=176

Wow! Those look great - they were way ahead of the curve back then!

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PeterLI wrote:

ESCOM quality & performance were pretty lousy unfortunately.

Couldn't have been worse than what Packard Bell was putting out back then.

Oh,and I found another cheap Diamond Monster Sound MX300. This one was $9.95 with free shipping. The same seller also had a SB Live! for $9.95 and a Jet Li DVD that I don't have yet for $4.95, so I bought them all. I had some ebay bucks in my account so final total for all was $2.56 after the ebay bucks were applied. 🤣

Got a boxed Thunder Board for $15 😀

Interesting that they give you the drivers/utils on both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" disks but not the game demos - lemmings and lexi-cross is on 5 1/4" and Nova 9 is on 3 1/2". Too bad if you only had one floppy drive.

DonutKing wrote:

Got a boxed Thunder Board for $15

You did what now?! Please explain how you did that!

Thrift shop most probably...

gumtree 😀 There's rarely much of interest on there though.

Great score on the boxed version!! I think that's the third Thunderboard people have managed to acquire over the last few weeks!

carlostex wrote:

Thrift shop most probably...

I can't help myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

luckybob wrote:

carlostex wrote:

Thrift shop most probably...

I can't help myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

LMAO!! 🤣 15 dollars for an thunderboard soundcard.. This is fuckin awesome.. 🤣

Landed a Thinkpad T60p for only $30 and change with 9cell battery but no charger. Come home to find it is all complete and loaded Win7 like a dream 😀 I wish they built laptops like that these days instead of plastic crap.

ibm thinkpads have ALWAYS been the nicest laptops. Does yours have the add-on video card?

nforce4max wrote:

Landed a Thinkpad T60p for only $30 and change with 9cell battery but no charger. Come home to find it is all complete and loaded Win7 like a dream 😀 I wish they built laptops like that these days instead of plastic crap.

Nice! I have a t61 and did the SATA2 mod and bios whitelist. Threw some more memory in there and a SSD - Windows 8.1 is running like a dream!

nforce4max wrote:

I wish they built laptops like that these days instead of plastic crap.

They do. There is a trend now towards an aluminium body+chassis, and you can thank Apple for that.

SquallStrife wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

I wish they built laptops like that these days instead of plastic crap.

They do. There is a trend now towards an aluminium body+chassis, and you can thank Apple for that.

Thank God they FINALLY did away with white polycarbonate.

Unknown motherboard with OPTI chipset.

Benchmarks with BIOS defaults and Diamond Speedstar 24X

3dbench2: 13.2 PCPBENCH/VGAMODE: 2.9 Doom -timdemo demo 3 -nosound fullscreen: 4.26

Board survived the journey across the ocean in a bubble envelope. Doesn't post with an ET4000, but all my other cards work fine 😀

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