Pentium Pro 180 MHz
The ES on the back side stands for an Engineering sample? I have never seen this on any of my PPro CPUs... all of them are just Malay or Philippines (1M variant), no ES marking.

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No they are not engineering samples.

Thank you.
Still, it is a nice CPU to have - I love goldcap Pentium and Pentium Pro most of all processors. 😊 Too bad they are so expensive these days.

Not computer hardware but certainly retro.

It's missing a couple tubes and will need some work. 1949 -- early American FM broadcast.

Never understood why people collect those... I mean, it's a radio. No next button, no playlists, pfft.

I dunno, probably just me having grown up in a digital age. The point-to-point circuits from that time though are a work of art, you've gotta post some images of the internals.

Just to be clear, I think it's good that people do collect those, they should be preserved.

HighTreason wrote:

Never understood why people collect those... I mean, it's a radio. No next button, no playlists, pfft.

I dunno, probably just me having grown up in a digital age. The point-to-point circuits from that time though are a work of art, you've gotta post some images of the internals.

Just to be clear, I think it's good that people do collect those, they should be preserved.

🤣 Really?

I grew up in the digital age too. I just appreciate and enjoy collecting older technology for what it is.

If you don't like what is playing, you can always turn the dial.

Yeah...
People just don't understand my love for retro computing as well.
Only my oldest brother understand it, and he is only into dynablaster and a couple of older games as I am into the hardware aspect and gaming secondly.
As a matter of fact, I have only come across one person in the entire country, wich are into retro computing as well, in the past 5 years or so. All others are saying "Why"....

Just paid for an Asus P5A mobo and a GF2-MX 400. Waiting for it to arrive.
Finally I am getting an low watt GFX, faster than the TNT and finally an ALI-V board after some years of searching.
Have those via based mvp3 boards, and as much as I love the Ga-5AX, the Asus are all I can get a hand on.
Patience are the key to hunting down hardware I guess.

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Pentium Pro 180 MHz
The ES on the back side stands for an Engineering sample? I have never seen this on any of my PPro CPUs... all of them are just Malay or Philippines (1M variant), no ES marking.

Good find sir. 😀
Just think of the holocaust that the P-Pro have gone through, in the recent years, regarding gold scrappers.

I actually scrap gold my self, only from parts that are defect and beyond any repair.
And modems too. As they have no real value at all. Working parts are kept safe.

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Yeah...
People just don't understand my love for retro computing as well.
Only my oldest brother understand it, and he is only into dynablaster and a couple of older games as I am into the hardware aspect and gaming secondly.
As a matter of fact, I have only come across one person in the entire country, wich are into retro computing as well, in the past 5 years or so. All others are saying "Why"....

I am more lucky 😀 I was completely alone for the first several months until I joined the forums, but later I met more retro enthusiasts than I would expect. One man was staying in Omsk (the city where I live) for a while, he posted an add "PCI FM radio and ISA TV tuner giveaway in Omsk", we met, he even gave me a Zip250 USB and PIII-550 on top of that. And then he started to talk about his notebook collection. It always surprises me how much lust retro enthusiasts have at the first sight of understanding in the collocutor's eyes. We spoke for more than an hour and all I did was nod and insert comments, I owed him that 😀

The next guy I met was a 14-year-old boy from our city, Eugene, with a hint of mustache and a strong interest in Tualatin systems. We met via local add, he was giving away a nice Vibra16 sound card and we ended up talking a lot. Later I gave him that PIII-550 I mentionned earlier.

The third guy I ran across was Igor, a middle-aged CPU collector. This guy found me on a forum and asked for a phone number immediately 😀 We keep in touch and help each other out when it comes to local adds.

The forth guy I met is around my age, name is Yuri, as in Yuri's Revenge. Giveaway add once again 😀 We exchanged gifts, among other stuff I got a zip drive once again 🤣 this time 100Mb ATAPI.

So, if you're looking for an associate, post up a giveaway add! Someone might show up when and where you least expect.

Hmmm. Think I might do it.
Would be Nice to hold a retro computerweekend like the ones we had back in the early 90's.
With people that went to one of such events back then.

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Not computer hardware but certainly retro.
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It's missing a couple tubes and will need some work. 1949 -- early American FM broadcast.

1949, very nice. 😀

My audio system I'm using for my main PC (and soon some of my retro computers as well - when I find some sort of an audio switch).
Manufactured in 1978 - Tesla ARS 820. Quite popular retro brand in my country (they are no longer in business anymore - for 20 years or so).

And stereo amplifier AZS 223 - from late 1980s.

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Good find sir. 😀
Just think of the holocaust that the P-Pro have gone through, in the recent years, regarding gold scrappers.

I actually scrap gold my self, only from parts that are defect and beyond any repair.
And modems too. As they have no real value at all. Working parts are kept safe.

A little off topic but I actually have some friends in rural dairy land Pennsylvania that actually are too far out for broadband, or rather the one broadband they are offered is something like $200/month for 128KB DSL that they normally are still connecting by modems. There actually are some places in the USA that are not covered by broadband yet, or if they do have it, the option is too expensive for some people. Modems actually still do have a use for some folks. Fortunately they're utterly cheap as dirt today.

smeezekitty wrote:

Not computer hardware but certainly retro.

It's missing a couple tubes and will need some work. 1949 -- early American FM broadcast.

Cool!
I got a few of those too, including an OTL Philips I've been meaning to fix someday, though they're not as old as yours.

Weird though how your 40's radio goes up to 108MHz FM while my 50's radios all max out at 100 (and turn right-to-left).

Along with retro computing I like retro video capture/editing equipment (analog) along with 80's to 90's era audio. One of my last purchases was a Panasonic DAT player/recorder SV-3800.

Unknown_K wrote:

Along with retro computing I like retro video capture/editing equipment (analog) along with 80's to 90's era audio. One of my last purchases was a Panasonic DAT player/recorder SV-3800.

i got a ton of video toaster stuff if youre interested!

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smeezekitty wrote:

Not computer hardware but certainly retro.

It's missing a couple tubes and will need some work. 1949 -- early American FM broadcast.

Cool!
I got a few of those too, including an OTL Philips I've been meaning to fix someday, though they're not as old as yours.

Weird though how your 40's radio goes up to 108MHz FM while my 50's radios all max out at 100 (and turn right-to-left).

Perhaps the country it was built for only went up to 100MHz at the time? Just a guess.
I don't know the history of FM in the European countries.

I did not post images of the two things I bought the other day, as I were on Vogons, using a Windows Phone.
Here they are....

I hope they arrive in good working order, as the seller have said that he have packet it all in antistatic bags,
and a lot of filling material. He has even dismateled the CPU-Cooler for me.
Boy I hope that the cpu is an K6-III+ or just another K6-III. He did not mention anything about that and the
CPU and perhaps the memory is just bonus as I see it. I bought whats in the picture for a low price.

This is the 6th Geforce 8800 GTX I have bought this winter... and the 3rd working one.
Finally I can mess around with G80 tripple SLI.

XFX Pine Group Geforce 8800 GTX. The factory OC for this card is 630/1000 up from 575/900.
The GPU on the Geforce 8800 Ultra is only clocked at 612 MHz so this card should be just as fast.

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This is the 6th Geforce 8800 GTX I have bought this winter... and the 3rd working one. Finally I can mess around with G80 tripp […]
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This is the 6th Geforce 8800 GTX I have bought this winter... and the 3rd working one.
Finally I can mess around with G80 tripple SLI.

XFX Pine Group Geforce 8800 GTX. The factory OC for this card is 630/1000 up from 575/900.
The GPU on the Geforce 8800 Ultra is only clocked at 612 MHz so this card should be just as fast.
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Make sure the clock speeds on both core and memory all match, nvidia SLI is picky about this on all generations of cards, new and old. You can put mismatched overclocked/not-overclocked cards together, but unless you manually match the clocks, you'll see bluescreens and crashes and all sorts of nastiness.