gex85 wrote:

Intel486dx33 wrote:

In 2000 I was using an IBM T43 with Win-2000 at work.

Tell me more about how you travelled five years forward in time, bought a T43 and travelled five years back 😉
IBM Thinkpad T43 was introduced in 2005.

Yes, Interesting.
I don’t know.
I must have been in another dimension.

A little offtop, but cool

Your time has come, brother!

I have been looking for this for weeks! Finally found a seller.

Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 - XT class accelerator. It is an ISA card with a mini 286 motherboard. It also has a socket for an 8088, so you can toggle between the two processors with a switch. Can't wait to put this in my turbo XT 😁

Nice, just be sure to make a quick prayer to your tantalum god before trying it out.

mothergoose729 wrote:

I have been looking for this for weeks! Finally found a seller.

Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 - XT class accelerator. It is an ISA card with a mini 286 motherboard. It also has a socket for an 8088, so you can toggle between the two processors with a switch. Can't wait to put this in my turbo XT 😁

Very nice, also the box - would also like to have such board to play with...

This board actually looks pretty simple, I wonder if it can be reproduced easily ? Maybe clones could even host a 386SX ? 😁 Imagine upgrading your 5160XT with a Ti486SLC 🤣

There are similar boards that house a 386. What I like about this particular board is the toggle switch. A 386sx would arguably be more useful, but I didn't want to give up compatibility with XT class software!

Deksor wrote:

This board actually looks pretty simple, I wonder if it can be reproduced easily ?

If you can dump the PALs, then probably yes.

faster than a Standard AT... that's cute

Got my SD11, looks brand new as advertised. Seller said no accessories, but it also included an I/O shield, a separate Lotes strip (for protecting against HSF overhang?), and an IDE cable.

What a strange freakin' board. Totally believable what Anand says about this being an engineering sample that was pushed out the door.

Revision 1.8 confirmed (per Anand, the first stable revision).

Also snagged the fastest 1999 Athlon (AMD-K7750MTR52B A) for this board.

piatd wrote:

Got my SD11, looks brand new as advertised. Seller said no accessories, but it also included an I/O shield, a separate Lotes strip (for protecting against HSF overhang?), and an IDE cable.

Let me know what you think of it once you've spent some time with it. I got one in a dumpster find last year and while it's nice to have in the collection I'm not sure its practicality.
Slot A FIC SD11 Dumpter find

Not that its the fault of the SD11 Redhill quite liked them, more due to AMD abandoning the 750 chipset quite early I think so the drivers never matured.
http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-00.html

Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc.
Can't stop facepalming over the fact that I literally dumped a complete, working Slot A system (700 MHz on an Asus board afair) about 10-12 years ago.

What do you guys think would be a somewhat reasonable price to pay for a board + CPU combo in the 700 MHz range?

gex85 wrote:

I saw an auction yesterday with some "PC parts", containing (amongst some rather boring optical drives, power supplies, floppy […]
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I saw an auction yesterday with some "PC parts", containing (amongst some rather boring optical drives, power supplies, floppy drives, PCI USB interface cards etc.) a pile of VGA cards:

Asked the seller for details and he sent this picture:

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ATI Rage Fury MAXX 😲

The auction started just below 20€, but the seller had "Best Offer" enabled, so I offered 30€ and got accepted immediately. 😲 😎

Other interesting things in the lot:
- Nvidia Riva 128 ZX AGP
- Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro PCI
- Some mystery AGP card, might be Savage3 or something (not the Rage 128 in the photo, obviously)
- NOS Revoltec Geforce 4 cooler
- internal Iomega Zip Drive

Now I just really, really hope that everything is still working.

Bloody hell!!! that's an awesome find and a half!

gex85 wrote:

Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc.
Can't stop facepalming over the fact that I literally dumped a complete, working Slot A system (700 MHz on an Asus board afair) about 10-12 years ago.

What do you guys think would be a somewhat reasonable price to pay for a board + CPU combo in the 700 MHz range?

Makes you feel better I dumped a 286, whole heap of Pentium MMX's and around 5 P3's just 2 years before getting back into this 😢
Price wise its difficult. Really Slot 1 is a similar but much better platform so less then that but the obscurity of Slot A puts them in the collectors market where reason depends on how much you want one (I'd given up till this fell in my hands)

piatd wrote:

Got my SD11, looks brand new as advertised. Seller said no accessories, but it also included an I/O shield, a separate Lotes strip (for protecting against HSF overhang?), and an IDE cable.
Also snagged the fastest 1999 Athlon (AMD-K7750MTR52B A) for this board.

Nice ! FIC always made good boards IMHO. Wish I had that A-750, have a Asus K7M with a A-600.

piatd wrote:

Got my SD11, looks brand new as advertised. Seller said no accessories, but it also included an I/O shield, a separate Lotes strip (for protecting against HSF overhang?), and an IDE cable.

what a strange freakin' board. Totally believable what Anand says about this being an engineering sample that was pushed out the door.

I think I read that same review on that board not that long ago - isn't that the same one that also warns that this board is EXTREMELY sensitive to the PSU you use to power it?

Intel486dx33 wrote:

What?... In 2000 I was using an IBM T43 with Win-2000 at work. The IBM 380/755 was an old computer to be using near 2000 I think […]
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dionb wrote:

Ooh, 755CD - that brings back memories. Took notes in class with one of those around 1999-ish. I was the first student to use a laptop in class (history major in a provincial university, not the most high-tech environment), it raised quite a few eyebrows, particularly as I decided that torturing myself and that DX4 with Win98 wasn't a great idea, so I just ran DOS on it and took notes in EDIT.COM. When the lectures were so bad it wasn't worth taking notes I fired up Colonization 😉

I can do you one better. In 2000 I took lecture notes on a *monochrome* TP750...with prehistoric WIFI. I can't remember if it supported 802.11B or not...maybe just 802.11A. Surprisingly my uni did have WIFI at that time. Strangely, like you, I was the only person taking notes on a laptop, despite it being an engineering school.

What?...
In 2000 I was using an IBM T43 with Win-2000 at work.
The IBM 380/755 was an old computer to be using near 2000
I think I had a Sony Vaio 14” 500-P3 in 1998.

Of course the 755CE was an old computer in 1999, that's why I could afford it doing history and prioritizing beer and international travel over IT stuff 😉 I forget exactly where I got it from, but it cost me next to nothing as it was "ancient and useless", even back then. Bull, I could use it for something sensible. No WiFi though, just some PCMCI 10MbE card to dump my stuff on my LAN.

gex85 wrote:

Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc.

Really? If I look at sold Slot A stuff at eBay Germany (not overpriced "give me your money" buy-it-now offers), it sells so cheap that I'd even say Slot A stuff is almost worthless here. There are complete Slot A mainboards with CPU and RAM sold for around 30 bucks. How's that overpriced?

Yesterday got these from a collector friend. My first 5,25 FDD Panasonic.
Trident 8900C I want to upgrade it to 1 Mb and put in my 386 which has now 512kb

derSammler wrote:

gex85 wrote:

Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc.

Really? If I look at sold Slot A stuff at eBay Germany (not overpriced "give me your money" buy-it-now offers), it sells so cheap that I'd even say Slot A stuff is almost worthless here. There are complete Slot A mainboards with CPU and RAM sold for around 30 bucks. How's that overpriced?

Well, that was my impression every time I looked up Slot A stuff on eBay Germany in the past months. Good to hear that I might be wrong with this. 30€ is perfectly OK for a complete kit. My impression was that CPUs and boards tend to start at 50-60€ each, which would make well over 100€ for a combo. Maybe I should set up some notifications, so when a reasonably priced bundle shows up I can get it 😀