RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2022-04-10, 07:16:My newest haul arrived:
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21,57€ (shipping included) for all of it.
"yOu cAn'T fInD gOoD dE […]
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My newest haul arrived:
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21,57€ (shipping included) for all of it.
"yOu cAn'T fInD gOoD dEaLs oN eBay aNyMoRe!"
Bullshit! You just need to dig a bit deeper. 😁
Title of the auction was: "PC Audio Midi, TV card, Tuner convolute"
Two TV cards were also part of the lot, but those are probably gonna end up in the hands of a scrapper and get molten down.
Found the lot by searching for "convolute" in the PC section. Between all the crap this auction immediately drew my attention. First thought: "Hey, are there Yamaha chips on those ISA cards?" Pictures were blurry, so I had to ask comrade Google for help. For the Logitech Soundman Games I could actually read the name and found it within seconds.
For the Aztech card I had to dig a bit deeper. Could just reach, that it's an Aztech card. So I googled for "Aztech ISA" until I found a matching picture. Aztech Galaxy NX Pro. What confuses me a bit is, that it's missing the socket for the SCSI controller, the connector pins for SCSI, the jumpers for SCSI as well as those red thingies between the two connectors. I only found pictures of cards that were missing the SCSI controller but had the socket. Were these cards actually sold this way or did someone desolder them?
There something interesting about this card: It's the only one that's compatible to Disney Sound Source / Covox Speech Thing. Quite interesting addition for my collection.
That looks like a nice catch.
It probably was in my search alerts but I've laid off the Konvolute a bit, it really becomes too much clutter, eventually. Sometimes I pick them up locally to get some exercise, basically - my low key substitute for a dog.
Same with exotic ISA sound - there's no end to it.
That set, I might have raised you to 21 € as the rule of thumb for random ISA sound is "a tenner" for me. Maybe five more for the genuine gold-plated ASUS spdif bracket as a useless trophy 😉
(I just got outbid by 100 % on a socket 3 VLB board and that's probably a good thing, space being finite... caught a GF4200 for a tenner with shipping, though)
Are you really using those or are they merely collectibles to you?
That SCSI controller omitted on the Aztech - happened all the time. Many SB16 "multi CD" fell back to a single interface.
SCSI CD-ROM drives were "relatively" more common in early days when CD-ROM per se were just as elite as SCSI.
Little later, not so much - ATAPI drives already being way cheaper.
Is the remaining socket plain IDE or is ATCD proprietary? Might have been a retail bundle, so they knew the SCSI would not be needed.
Only SCSI sound cards back then I can remember were a rather rare edition of SB Pro 2.0 and, I think, one SB16. And the PAS16, not even that rare.