Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-17, 18:05:

Next scrap pile 😁 Made the seller an offer which he declined. At the end I got it cheaper than that....

Really difficult to spot the usable parts in it....most important task will be to get rid of all the remaining junk again when I get it 😉

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Some interesting stuff in there! There appears to be what's left of a Commodore brand IBM Compatible in there, consisting of its two interconnecting boards. If anything it'd be worth selling on for parts if it's still in OK shape, or maybe sticking in some case to make it a PC again. Also some neat ISA, PCI and AGP cards, among what appears to be VCR and other A/V PCBs.

Daniël Oosterhuis wrote on 2020-04-17, 18:41:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-17, 18:05:

Next scrap pile 😁 Made the seller an offer which he declined. At the end I got it cheaper than that....

Really difficult to spot the usable parts in it....most important task will be to get rid of all the remaining junk again when I get it 😉

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Some interesting stuff in there! There appears to be what's left of a Commodore brand IBM Compatible in there, consisting of its two interconnecting boards. If anything it'd be worth selling on for parts if it's still in OK shape, or maybe sticking in some case to make it a PC again. Also some neat ISA, PCI and AGP cards, among what appears to be VCR and other A/V PCBs.

Correct. Its the Commodore PC10 (XT). Board is divided in 2 parts
https://www.commodore-info.com/foto/computer_pc10_04.jpg
Also asked for the case but seller didnt know what I am talking about...

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-17, 18:05:

Next scrap pile :-D Made the seller an offer which he declined. At the end I got it cheaper than that.... […]
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Next scrap pile 😁 Made the seller an offer which he declined. At the end I got it cheaper than that....

Really difficult to spot the usable parts in it....most important task will be to get rid of all the remaining junk again when I get it 😉

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I love lots like that. So much fun to dig through.

I spot an MFM + Floppy card on the left and a Cirrus Logic GD510\520 ISA card in there. From what I've read they are known for excellent (near perfect) CGA compatibility, where as many other VGA cards have issues. Would probably make a nice card for a 286 or 386. I'm sure it isn't very fast, but for a system that may dabble in really old CGA games it may be handy. 😀 I have at least one of these (and another one that's similar) but have yet to really tinker with it. I know they're fairly uncommon though.

Certainly a good sign for that pile. Who knows, maybe the whole bottom layer is all ISA sound cards. 😱

EDIT: Almost forgot... my absolute favorite thing about these really old parts is that they almost always work. They are very light weight and have very few fragile components on them, so they can take a beating. Compare this to scrap lots with late AGP cards. Ughh... I think only about a third of the cards I find made after the year 2000 have all of their SMD components intact. Once you hit the FX and Geforce 6 or 7 series I'd say about 10 percent have survived unless they're in boxes or antistatic bags. I have very little concern with static but those bags have saved SO many cards from having all their SMD caps sheared off.

PODP3V125 - latest addition to my growing family of Pentium Overdrive chips:

Today there was a good buy-at-once offer for a Commodore PC10 case with PSU. I was sure I got the corresponding board longer time ago in a scrap lot and repaired it. Therefore this would be a perfect match.
Just found the board and happy to get the system complete without having space for it 😁

heh nice, that has been there for months iirc ^^... I contemplated about getting one of those for a while just because I like the look but I wouldn't have any commodore stuff to put in, so I'm glad to see that happen ^^

I saved a boatload of hardware from scrappers today by going way above my comfortzone in bidding... like literally all of the bidders apart from maybe one or two with lower bids were scrappers... there were about five 486 boards with VRMs and one with some other local bus... theoretically just worth it for those if they work, only one of them seems to be corroded.

was three seperate auctions, one with a bunch of simms and coast modules, one with like 20 boards and one with a bunch of gpus a SB 2.0 and some other cards.

.snipped out some of the seller's pictures:

this seems to be an Opti Local Bus board? good luck to me ever finding a fitting card x3

I'm sure someone of you can tell me where this one belongs to ^^

some of the other boards... the hyundai board seems to have quite bad corrosion, the others look pretty OK
on one the battery leaks quite badly but the board looks fine

The one on the bottom left, which one is that? When I zoom in, I cannot see the markings. I never knew Hyundai made motherboards or computers.

looks like this one: https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fil … 471&menustate=0

I haven't found much about the hyundai board yet either, I did know they made computers though.

Are there any other markings on the Hyundai board? Good haul as well.

Got a bunch of 486 parts today. Moscow is in lockdown now, so I've used a delivery service — which resulted in seller packing quite a lot more stuff than I asked for...

Iwill SIDE controller: SCSI, IDE, floppy, LPT and COM on one port. Someone took the BIOS chip — if anyone has a BIOS image, please let me know.

A regular VLB controller.

An unknown SIS471 VLB board without jumper description:

Gave me some beeps with the wrong RAM. Once I changed the RAM, it stopped giving any kind of feedback. Then I tried a few other DX2s I have. Intel ones didn't work, but I had some progress with Cyrix DX2-66. Some text appears on the screen, but after a second everything disappears. In other cases there would just be a green rectangle in the center row of the screen.

Another SIS471 — no BIOS chip.

A UMC-based motherboard, supports only 5v chips. It works, so I immediately replaced the barrel battery.

A-Trend OPTi-895 Deep Green Model 1442G. It worked with an Intel DX4, though it occasionally gives the "no keyboard error" (even though the keyboard works even then). It also reports 0KB L2 cache even though the motherboard obviously has 256 KB. Any way to get rid of the "no keyboard error"?

PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works.

Another PCI board with an ALI chipset. Works.

A PCI-400 motherboard. Doesn't work.

A DataExpert EXP4045 motherboard — doesn't work.

A 486SLC board with a VLB and an FPU. Doesn't work.

Some controllers and VGA cards for ISA.

nice 😁 more 486 boards
also that 486SLC board is an Alaris Leopard including the FPU 😀

bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-04-19, 00:08:

Are there any other markings on the Hyundai board? Good haul as well.

I'll be able to tell when I get them ^^ only other thing I can decipher is "DX4 CPU 100" and what looks like "GA-486V3S REV/D" ...gigabyte OEM it seems.

fits: https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/ga486vsp.jpg

imi wrote on 2020-04-18, 23:21:

.snipped out some of the seller's pictures:

this seems to be an Opti Local Bus board? good luck to me ever finding a fitting card x3
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Nice. I wish I found this as I have a matching card and keep looking for a board 😀

jheronimus wrote on 2020-04-19, 00:14:

Got a bunch of 486 parts today. Moscow is in lockdown now, so I've used a delivery service — which resulted in seller packing qu […]
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Got a bunch of 486 parts today. Moscow is in lockdown now, so I've used a delivery service — which resulted in seller packing quite a lot more stuff than I asked for...

A PCI-400 motherboard. Doesn't work.

Got a same one recently. I can see a bunch of missing jumpers, which might be the issue.

EDIT: The VRM is missing.

Bought a second white Xbox 360 to accompany my black Xbox 360-S. Falcon board and with RGH, should be fun. 😀

Bought this little guy a few days ago from another retro hardware collector:

I only got the computer - no power supply, no accesories. Seller said it's not working. I had a look inside, and it seems someone cut the 3 jumper wires on the motherboard. I soldered them back together and got the computer to power on using 5v from my testbench power supply. The back says Atari 65XE, but looking at the motherboard, all memory slots are populated, witch means it's probably a atari 130. Can't tell if the slots were populated by a former owner, if the motherboard is from another machine or if it actually came like this from the factory. I have no disk drives or cartridges for this computer, but I'm planning to buy a SD card interface for it after I get a Gotek for my Amiga 500.

Happy easter!

Oh man... every time I see an Atari XE I get sharp pain in the nostalgia-center of my brain. When I was a child (late 80s, early 90s) my Aunt and Uncle had either a 130XE or 65XE with an Indus GT disk drive (I remember them opening the front cover and inserting disks for me, and it had the little LCD display) and I played all sorts of games on it. Tree Surgeon and Ninja are the ones I remember the most but I'm sure there were dozens of others. Almost 20 years ago my aunt gave us that computer (or what looked to me to just be the keyboard), the Indus GT drive and all the disks for the games I'd played as a kid. It sat in a box on my floor for a while until I did some teenage "spring cleaning" and determined that without the rest of it (the monitor... probably just an old TV!!) it was useless to me. So I think I told my mother donate it somewhere.

.... 😢

I think if I had at least kept the disks I wouldn't be so bummed about it, but as it is, I don't even remember what games I played aside from the two above. Now, the computer and drive are worth way more than I would realistically spend on them. I just hope they went to someone who used them, rather than being chucked into the trash.

jheronimus wrote on 2020-04-19, 00:14:

PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works. […]
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PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works.

I have the exact same board, mine had a barrel battery. Can you give me a good clean shot of the battery area so that I can cross check? From what I can tell only the diode on D14 and resistor on R12 are missing, I'd be delighted to learn I can just remove those and slap on a battery holder onto this!

Finally able to add a Prometheus Aria to my collection.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-19, 20:53:

I have the exact same board, mine had a barrel battery. Can you give me a good clean shot of the battery area so that I can cro […]
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jheronimus wrote on 2020-04-19, 00:14:

PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works. […]
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PC Partners PCI board with a UMC chip. Works.

I have the exact same board, mine had a barrel battery. Can you give me a good clean shot of the battery area so that I can cross check? From what I can tell only the diode on D14 and resistor on R12 are missing, I'd be delighted to learn I can just remove those and slap on a battery holder onto this!

Why not just connect a battery pack to the 4-pin external battery connector?