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First post, by Varka

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Spent a few hours digging through the basement and have a quick inventory:

386dx40 motherboard populated with what should be 4mb of RAM (spent almost $500 on that memory to play Doom.)

Unknown Socket 7 motherboard with 3 isa, 4 pci slots, pentium 166 chip. This motherboard has AT-style keyboard connector and PS/2-style mouse connector on-board. Very nice.

HP desktop system with 133mhz Pentium, 4 ISA/2 PCI slots, on-board Virge/GX video

A few Dell P4 systems PCI-only, no RAM

About 30 168-pin DIMMS of unknown size
11 72-pin DIMMS, unknown size
8 30-pin dimms, unknown size

2 Trio64 PCI cards
3 Voodoo2 cards
1 TNT2 Vanta
1 Riva 128 with the tiny little heatsink
2 Virge-based video cards (DX I think)
3 SB Awe32 cards of various styles
1 Awe64 Gold
1 SB PCI (Ensoniq AudioPCI)
3 Gravis Ultrasound PNP (two are OEM boards for Compaq)

Gonna start identifying what works and what doesn't this weekend.

Reply 2 of 4, by Tetrium

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Pics? I may be able to help identify a couple of your items 😉

And some general info:Usually there are somekinds of marks printed on the PCB somewhere. These markings "usually" help to positively identify any given item.

And about the memory, when it comes to identifying SDRAM, I'll usually ID the 16MB SS and 32MB DS DIMM's and just test the rest in a spare old VIA s370 board

Varka wrote:

11 72-pin DIMMS

These are SIMM's actually. SDRAM was the very first DIMM to make it to the market en-masse 😉

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
Report spammers here!

Reply 3 of 4, by Varka

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Tetrium wrote:
Pics? I may be able to help identify a couple of your items ;) […]
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Pics? I may be able to help identify a couple of your items 😉

And some general info:Usually there are somekinds of marks printed on the PCB somewhere. These markings "usually" help to positively identify any given item.

And about the memory, when it comes to identifying SDRAM, I'll usually ID the 16MB SS and 32MB DS DIMM's and just test the rest in a spare old VIA s370 board

Varka wrote:

11 72-pin DIMMS

These are SIMM's actually. SDRAM was the very first DIMM to make it to the market en-masse 😉

Heh, yeah, I was pondering whether I should edit that after I posted, but didn't really care that much...

Reply 4 of 4, by Tetrium

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Varka wrote:

Heh, yeah, I was pondering whether I should edit that after I posted, but didn't really care that much...

Thats quite alright, but being careless is a recipe for magic smoke 😉

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
Report spammers here!