Thanks all.... Looking forward to fire this baby up.
It was my parents first machine ever, and I learned to compute on this exact machine.
Much old and happy memories are linked to this machine.

brostenen wrote:

Gotten a Unisys PW/2 series 300 (286 machine) for free.
Pictures will be added next week.

I had the same computer as my family's first computer in my parent's house. Looking forward to the pictures.

As my last 486 died (Magnavox) I bought an AST Advantage today. Cool OEM desktop: even with CD-ROM and SB16 for $70 shipped. 🤣

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Got this Roland SC-55 mkII off eBay from Netherlands few days ago.

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Bought IBM xSeries 220 server.

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Basic configuration:
2x 1.4GHz P-III Tualatin 512KB
1GB memory
3x 18GB SCSI HDD
Geforce2MX

I always liked xSeries and just couldn't resist 🤣

PeterLI wrote:

As my last 486 died (Magnavox) I bought an AST Advantage today. Cool OEM desktop: even with CD-ROM and SB16 for $70 shipped. 🤣

Nice, AST's were always among the nicer OEM's, IMHO.

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Good to see some more Kyro PowerVR-based cards out there. What are you plans for these tile-based rendering blue beauties?

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philscomputerlab wrote:

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Good to see some more Kyro PowerVR-based cards out there. What are you plans for these tile-based rendering blue beauties?

I never had any of these cards, so it will be a journey of discovery! And I will benchmark them for my Windows 98 SE benchmark project 😀

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Got this Roland SC-55 mkII off eBay from Netherlands few days ago.

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Sorry, I've had trouble linking from Dropbox (even from public folder). I moved all pics I've posted in Vogons to Photobucket, I hope that solved it.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Artex wrote:

philscomputerlab wrote:

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Good to see some more Kyro PowerVR-based cards out there. What are you plans for these tile-based rendering blue beauties?

I never had any of these cards, so it will be a journey of discovery! And I will benchmark them for my Windows 98 SE benchmark project 😀

Sounds good! I knew you had something up your sleeve. 😀 I have a soft spot for these Kyro/KyroII cards, and well... all PowerVR-based cards really. In a market flooded with many, MUCH more popular (and more expensive) cards back in the day, these held their own (except where hardware Transform & Lighting came into play) at a much lower price point.

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The 4000XT seems to have a bulging cap directly to the left of the HSF.
Have you checked if this is indeed the case?

I remember one of my own Kyro's had the same issue (can't remember exactly what model it was though, but I still have it somewhere).

Tetrium wrote:

The 4000XT seems to have a bulging cap directly to the left of the HSF.
Have you checked if this is indeed the case?

I remember one of my own Kyro's had the same issue (can't remember exactly what model it was though, but I still have it somewhere).

looks like the other two are also.

Nicely spotted, thank you!

I'd be inclined to check the back of the 4500 as well on that basis.

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Bought IBM xSeries 220 server.

Sample image:

Basic configuration:
2x 1.4GHz P-III Tualatin 512KB
1GB memory
3x 18GB SCSI HDD
Geforce2MX

I always liked xSeries and just couldn't resist 🤣

That is gorgeous! I'll definitely keep an eye out for one of these!

philscomputerlab wrote:

Nicely spotted, thank you!

yw 😀

I bought another lot a week ago and it arrived today but I have not opened the package yet.

I tried to snipe this lot at the last second to get it cheap but my max bid turned out to be just enough. As long as most of the stuff works it was still decent value for money.

Here is the sellers pictures.

The barely visable Soundblaster 1.0 or 2.0 caught my interest.

I hope most of these work.

Two nice VLB video cards.

A 486 VLB motherboard and some overdrive CPU.

There was another image showing a Socket 7 board and some more images showing the HDDs in more detail.

I did also buy a boxed Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and an IBM Aptiva 486 motherboard from the same seller but these were not included in the lot, everything was shipped together in the same huge box though.

This stuff should keep me occupied for a while.

Skyscraper wrote:

This stuff should keep me occupied for a while.

Nice haul!! Very jealous!!

What's that SBC?