Stojke wrote:

First time I see an Matrox in that form with 4.3GB.

I have a couple of Tivo Series 2 units that come with stock Maxtor 4GB HDDs.

I managed to snag a Voodoo 5 5500 for $40 today...

And over the last week I acquired these gems:

ASUS P5A (rev 1.04) Super Socket 7

MPU-401 (Working on the Interface Card...)

This one was the real surprise. A friend knew I was looking for Roland gear and brought me an SC-55 and an MPU-401/AT! Unfortunately the AT was physically damaged and will never work again. Looks like the traces were fried with lightning. But back to the SC-55...it was New in Box! The original tape used to seal it was still intact! 0_o

Then there's this weird Pentium MMX (P55C) chip. It works, but at 266Mhz @ 1.9 volts...

Wow! All great stuff! Congrats.

Ticondrius, I can't see your pictures =/

That P55C is probably a Tilamook (a mobile version of the MMX). Nice chip, but many desktop S7/SS7 boards have trouble with one installed (crashes unless you disable the L2 cache).
Congratz on the NOS Roland!

Stojke wrote:

First time I see an Matrox in that form with 4.3GB.

that model is waaay more common than you think. They came in 3.2gb, 4.3, 6.4, 8, 8.7, 10, 20, 30, 40, 80, 120 and 160

they were very reliable but slow as hell

alexanrs wrote:

Ticondrius, I can't see your pictures =/

That P55C is probably a Tilamook (a mobile version of the MMX). Nice chip, but many desktop S7/SS7 boards have trouble with one installed (crashes unless you disable the L2 cache).
Congratz on the NOS Roland!

Not sure why you can't see them, they're set to public view in dropbox.

I booted the thing up with random AGP card this evening. The CPU seems to work fine, but how would I go about disabling it's L2 cache?

brassicGamer wrote:

I saw 5.25" hard disks back in the late 90s but I've never seen a full height one!

Had a couple of full height drives in the past. One was 760MB and the other I don't remember. They were contained in an external SCSI enclosure, given to me by my uncle. I tored one of them apart, but don't know what happened to the other drive.

Ticondrius wrote:

Not sure why you can't see them, they're set to public view in dropbox.

I booted the thing up with random AGP card this evening. The CPU seems to work fine, but how would I go about disabling it's L2 cache?

I've never dealt with Tilamooks personally. I know some BIOSes disable the L2 cache automatically, and this degrades performance significantly, and that boards meant for Tilamooks (laptop boards, mainly... I guess) will work with them without a problem.

Ticondrius wrote:

[...] This one was the real surprise. A friend knew I was looking for Roland gear and brought me an SC-55 and an MPU-401/AT! U […]
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This one was the real surprise. A friend knew I was looking for Roland gear and brought me an SC-55 and an MPU-401/AT! Unfortunately the AT was physically damaged and will never work again. Looks like the traces were fried with lightning. But back to the SC-55...it was New in Box! The original tape used to seal it was still intact! 0_o

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please post a working pic of the damaged 401AT , I am curious 🤣

keropi wrote:

Ticondrius wrote:

[...]
This one was the real surprise. A friend knew I was looking for Roland gear and brought me an SC-55 and an MPU-401/AT! Unfortunately the AT was physically damaged and will never work again. Looks like the traces were fried with lightning. But back to the SC-55...it was New in Box! The original tape used to seal it was still intact! 0_o

please post a working pic of the damaged 401AT , I am curious 🤣

I would, but I already tossed it in the electronics recycle bin at work. It was in extremely bad shape. Traces all over the board were blackened streaks, well, where the traces should have been at least. Several chips were toast and the actual MIDI port was a melted block of plastic.

alexanrs wrote:

Ticondrius wrote:

Not sure why you can't see them, they're set to public view in dropbox.

I booted the thing up with random AGP card this evening. The CPU seems to work fine, but how would I go about disabling it's L2 cache?

I've never dealt with Tilamooks personally. I know some BIOSes disable the L2 cache automatically, and this degrades performance significantly, and that boards meant for Tilamooks (laptop boards, mainly... I guess) will work with them without a problem.

This is the first time I've seen one, and I knew a LOT about the original pentium and pentium pros. I used to have the Intel spec sheets (booklets) for them. I put it in the P5A board, and set the board to 2V and a multiplier that looks like it'll make 266Mhz...so we'll see how it does. If I have any issues, I'll just grab a 233MMX...they're still fairly easy to find...

sf78 wrote:

Got this beauty from a flea market for 10e. I vowed never to touch these ICL's, but the price was too tempting. It's a 486DX2-66/12Mb/430Mb/Vibra16. It also has this really weird card that gives 6V for the riser card. What the hell?! 😕

That case looks a lot like my fujitsu case.

brostenen wrote:

Picked up these two items today. Was cheap, 4 US Dollars... I know that it is a TNT2-Vanta, grabbed it because it is a PCI-Card. […]
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Picked up these two items today. Was cheap, 4 US Dollars...
I know that it is a TNT2-Vanta, grabbed it because it is a PCI-Card.

I only have one issue regarding the 9800. It has no picture on every board tested.
Does the card need some sort of external power-connector? JU2 connector perhaps?
(that's the white connector just above the Heatsink, and it looks like a Floppy powerconnector)

The 9800 is a 9800XXL by Medion. I have never seen a 9800XXL by anyone else. The core is 10mhz faster than a 9800 Pro, but the memory is slightly slower. You probably won't notice any difference between that and a 9800 Pro in operation. I'm not really sure why anyone felt it necessary to rename it when it's performance is still comparable to a 9800 Pro. It might be because they were made from binned 9800 XT (R360) chips instead of the R350 chips that most 9800 Pro's were, but some 9800 Pro's were also made from them.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b283/medion-9800-xxl.html

It was likely pure marketing driven. 9800XXL sounds better / higher / faster than 9800Pro. Medion is a massive customer, they likely got their wish.

I liked the 256MB DDR2 version (the one with the heatsinks on the ram)...

On Saturday I had to babysit our friend's kid, took him along thrifting with me, with no intent to spend any money, and found this....

I'm glad I found another one so now the Compaq Portable has a sound card in it as well. Now I just need to find that blasted LCD panel, have not been able to find the $30.00 one I found months ago so I may have to put up with $50-70ish for the cost. (it's P/N 128902-001).

Got a LOT of work done on the horror graphical adventure for DOS I'm working on.
- all but daytime backgrounds for the main game have been done
- almost all cut scenes have been fleshed out with dialog
- about 50% of the music has been composed
- have started programming sounds
- have started programming dialog
- got GUI in the works that's not working yet, I may scrap it and use something of my own design mixing elements
- have started drawing the inventory graphics
- have started drawing character sprites

At this point I'm guessing I should have a decent demo going by next summer as I'm taking my time on this. Will likely start with the same process as before but I probably want to wait until all the rooms are fleshed out for the other game as well. I also started work on the website for these titles where they are accessable.

Other things I've been up to

My Tandy 1000A's 540MB HDD started to die, so I yanked it and threw an 8GB in there - using ALL 8 GB split into 4 2.1GB partitions (mostly) on the XT-IDE controller in it. I also dumped Microsoft Network Client 3.0 in lieu of MBRUTMAN's mTCP suite, which works a lot better. It's nice to actually network an XT class machine and not have to disable 3rd party SMB server calls on my modern Windows boxes - and it's also nice that means I can finally dump NetBEUI and IPX/SPX on my other vintage boxes (286, 486). Also nice is preloading software using an FTP client rather than Windows Explorer - it crashes less when waiting for the ancient machine to copy files on some of my systems that are a bit fast and therefore whiny. I also had to replace the NIC because the EtherExpress 8/16/ Intel LAN Adapter 8/16 card stopped finding it's RJ45 connector in Softset indicating a problem. I replaced it with a Realtek RTL8019AS card I had laying around - it's much better. I also swapped out the 3c509 8/16 bit 3Com card in the Compaq out with my Linksys Etherfast PnP card (brand new in box, never used) so I have another spare 8-bit XT bus compatible card for a NIC for the Tandy should the REaltek give out.

I also have another ebay purge starting up soon, but I need to go through my stuff to start that - inventory work started on Friday and will continue tonight.

It's an awesome card. Gives a good punch and is really a great performer in Win98SE I can tell you all.
I am not complaining. Though it would be nice if I could downclock the GPU and the Ram.
It runs really hot, so it would be nice to give some of that excessive speed in order to prolonge the life.

I got 3 packages today 😀

The first package I opened only had one small item inside 😀

The second package had two items inside. The first item was an untested 486 board, I have bought an untested board from this seller before and it diddnt work, this one diddnt work either. The price was only 10 euro + shipping so as long as the 486DX-50, the 8x1MB memory and the 256KB cache works I cant really be too unhappy. If you look close around the battery you will see clues pointing to why the board is dead, the battery is now removed but some traces are totally gone.

The cost of shipping the 486 board from Italy was 16 euro and I diddnt really expect it to work so I bought yet another untested board from the same seller to save on shipping and increase my chanses of getting something that actually works. The board was not named and the picture was rather bad but it looked like a Zida Tomato 5DHX Socket-7 board with some memory and a CPU, no leaking NiCd battery on this board. The 5DHX did work so my gamble payed off but it had a master password set and it wouldnt go away by removing the battery or using the BIOS reset jumper, lucky enough the first AWARD master password I tried worked 01322222 😀. I also got 2x4MB +2x8MB memory and a P133, the price was 6 euro + 4 euro extra shipping cost.

The third package was a huge bundle with random stuff I bought for next to nothing on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera, see my post in this thread 2015-9-26 @ 21:53.

As Im limited to 4 images in this post I will only post a single item here and the rest in the following posts.

ARK1000VL Vesa Local Bus video card.

More stuff from the bundle with random stuff I bought.

AWE32 CT2760

Hercules Dynamite ET4000/W32i ISA video card.

4x S3 Trio64 PCI cards

I need help identifying this one, IBM video card.

Received a ATI Rage Fury MAXX today. It's been in the post for sometime and finally arrived at my door.

Will put it in my PIII build to see what it is capable of 😀

foey wrote:

Received a ATI Rage Fury MAXX today. It's been in the post for sometime and finally arrived at my door.

Will put it in my PIII build to see what it is capable of 😀

Nice! Just don't go higher than Windows 98SE. 😀