I remember people saying "microfloppy" from time to time, but usually only in movies or documentaries where someone would otherwise go out of their way to say "Betamax" or "VHS" instead of just "tape". Normal human beings would just say "floppy disk" or "five and a quarter" for the bigger ones, as you generally knew already what kind of floppy or tape you needed given the context. This was my experience in the 90s, although I'm sure it was different for others.

It's so bizarre to watch documentaries where our poor cousins had to wait for cassette tapes to load. I'm grateful to have never had to deal with anything like that.

Saw a iBook G3 Clamshell (graphite) for sale and after debating for a few days, I finally pulled the trigger (long story short, ever since I was a kid I always dreamt of owning one of these)... Looks like I'm on a roll when it comes to Macs lately.

I paid more than I would like to, but honestly, I don't really see clamshell iBooks for sale in my area, though there's some that pop up from time to time, most iBooks I saw for sale were the later "SnowBook" G3/G4 ones.

That one according to the seller is a SE 466MHz, with the stock 60gb HDD (which I'll see about replacing it with a SSD) it apparently had its RAM upgraded to 576mb... Apparently the battery still holds a charge (which is kinda doubtful for a machine of this age).

I can't wait for it to arrive, so in the meantime the seller's pictures will suffice.

Sometimes i see things on the fleamarket and want to have them... just because they are cheap or nice looking 😁
2 new aftermarket Dreamcast controllers , 2 new aftermarket GameBoy color link cables, 1 new aftermarket Playstation 1 link cable and a used zoltrix PCI soundcard with optical breakout board.
Transluscent plastics? YES PLEASE!
Alltogether for 5 Euros.

found me a computer.,

An IBM Music Feature Card. Wonderful! I had to look real closely. At a distance it might be confused with a Roland LAPC-I.

no breakout box sadly. not sure if there's a jerry rigged version or cable out there. it's got a DE-9 connector so I suspect there's a breakout cable of some sort around

I picked up, what appears to be, an unused Radeon 8500. Everything is sealed including the CD, no scratches on the support bracket, and it has that "new card smell," heh...

I tested it and it works fine. Back to the shelf it shall go, though.

fool wrote on 2022-07-29, 12:27:

I have been "offline" from vintage computer purchases&activity some months. Saw some easy picks I could no more pass. Image is c […]
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I have been "offline" from vintage computer purchases&activity some months. Saw some easy picks I could no more pass.
Image is crappy, so here's the list:
XTec AGX016A VLB

Wow this one is very interesting. Is it 2 or 4MB version? Could you please upload a better photo from that card? I seen and measure the PCI version back then, around 24 years ago.

Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse sleeper /"troll machine", or even a time period correct flagship. Love it !!!!

Near a uninteresting Acer Veriton for scale ...

Xicor wrote on 2022-08-01, 17:36:

Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse s […]
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Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse sleeper /"troll machine", or even a time period correct flagship. Love it !!!!

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Near a uninteresting Acer Veriton for scale ...

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I love that case and I really wanted it when I was building my 775 system back in 07 but it was just way out of my price range sadly.

I added another Trident ProVidia 9685 to the pile; this one without video out, but still has the 2MB VRAM expansion module. And the other added is an STB Nitro 3D (S3 Virge/GX). It overclocked to 83/83MHz from 75/75MHz. Anything more, and the screen gets pixelized. The STB Nitro 3D will be a part of a late-1996/early 1997 build using a Pentium 200 Classic or MMX (I haven't decided, yet). This one has good black levels, thankfully, and looks great on the CRT (but terrible on an LCD, as opposed to the Trident, which looks great on both).

Xicor wrote on 2022-08-01, 17:36:

Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse s […]
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Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse sleeper /"troll machine", or even a time period correct flagship. Love it !!!!

IMG_20220801_182330.jpg

Near a uninteresting Acer Veriton for scale ...

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Nice case, did not know about this CM Cosmos Model, did think there is only the Cosmos S 1000, seems this was even older.. Even as nice as this Cosmos case is, it is still far from the looks and specially the excellent build quality of SilVerstone`s high end TJ line up, that is 95% made of aluminium, only the legs, filters, fans are plastic, and the mesh and grills are metal. Also the cases are made with whole top-fron-bottom body... I dont think any brand or model of case comes close to what these TJ07 and TJ11 has to offer. But is no wonder, after all the SS founders are former CM engineers, that did design the very first aluminium CM cases back in early 2000, that everyone is looking for. Ofc since they left CM, now CM as a brand is not as unique and interesting, same happened to other companies like ABIT they was known for their very well made boards for OC and BIOSes as well. Things when to the shit, when the main guy that was responsible for the top OC boards of ABIT moved to the shitty company DFI to create the insane LanParty series. After that ABIT went bankrupt 2 times, as the second was final..

Very few brands have the front panel, to be metal, not shitty plastic... And yes the state of the black TJ11 is very poor, scratches all over the place, broken and missing stuff like all HDD cages, PSU bracket, 2 of the 4 holders of the top metal panel. But since i got it for 45 euros only, and since the cooling for the x58 system is very important i buy it, the original case i got that is like brand new Corsair 600T is crap much plastic + it overheats the system, so it had to be replaced. Sadly some of the previous idiot owners of that SS TJ11 did even pain the case with some shit cheap paint, so when i did clean the case with water (it was dirty ofc...) the paint started falling, these idiots... At least the TJ07 is well preserved, no missing stuff, few scratches, no cheap shitty paint, only the front legs are broken.

Xicor wrote on 2022-08-01, 17:36:

Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse s […]
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Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse sleeper /"troll machine", or even a time period correct flagship. Love it !!!!

IMG_20220801_182330.jpg

Near a uninteresting Acer Veriton for scale ...

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Amazing case. I imagine two people on either side picking this up by the handlebars and taking it to a LAN party as the game server. Are those handles load-bearing by any chance or just decorative?

liqmat wrote on 2022-08-02, 14:04:

Xicor wrote on 2022-08-01, 17:36:

Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse s […]
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Pulled the trigger on a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000. Its a massive case from 2007. It has potential to become a sleeper, reverse sleeper /"troll machine", or even a time period correct flagship. Love it !!!!

IMG_20220801_182330.jpg

Near a uninteresting Acer Veriton for scale ...

IMG_20220801_182411.jpg

Amazing case. I imagine two people on either side picking this up by the handlebars and taking it to a LAN party as the game server. Are those handles load-bearing by any chance or just decorative?

The handles on that case are load bearing. Back in tbe day me and a friend went to a local lan party and two guys had that case are they both carried them with the handles. They are part of the structure of the case body.

I acquired a Compaq Proliant ML370 Gen1 and Gen3 machine this weekend from a customer, they are huge and weigh a ton but I am very happy with what I got for "free".

Gen 1 currently has one pentium 3 slot 1 CPU slot populated which I will look to increase to two and a spare drive slot for a tape drive if I want to go that route. Not sure what I am going to do with it but may try gaming on Windows 2000 or 2003 for a laugh.

As for the Gen3 version(which weighs twice as much as the Gen1), I was disappointed to find that when I opened it up I found no CPU present. Rather than spend time on it I am just going to give it away to a good home. Motherboard is present and it looks fully populated in ram. So, if you want it then you can arrange pick up from me, I am UK based.

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:31:

I acquired a Compaq Proliant ML370 Gen1 and Gen3 machine this weekend from a customer, they are huge and weigh a ton but I am very happy with what I got for "free".

Gen 1 currently has one pentium 3 slot 1 CPU slot populated which I will look to increase to two and a spare drive slot for a tape drive if I want to go that route. Not sure what I am going to do with it but may try gaming on Windows 2000 or 2003 for a laugh.

As for the Gen3 version(which weighs twice as much as the Gen1), I was disappointed to find that when I opened it up I found no CPU present. Rather than spend time on it I am just going to give it away to a good home. Motherboard is present and it looks fully populated in ram. So, if you want it then you can arrange pick up from me, I am UK based.

Windows 2000 is just fine for gaming. I played all my games with zero issues on a dual P3 machine for 4 years or so.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:57:

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:31:

I acquired a Compaq Proliant ML370 Gen1 and Gen3 machine this weekend from a customer, they are huge and weigh a ton but I am very happy with what I got for "free".

Gen 1 currently has one pentium 3 slot 1 CPU slot populated which I will look to increase to two and a spare drive slot for a tape drive if I want to go that route. Not sure what I am going to do with it but may try gaming on Windows 2000 or 2003 for a laugh.

As for the Gen3 version(which weighs twice as much as the Gen1), I was disappointed to find that when I opened it up I found no CPU present. Rather than spend time on it I am just going to give it away to a good home. Motherboard is present and it looks fully populated in ram. So, if you want it then you can arrange pick up from me, I am UK based.

Windows 2000 is just fine for gaming. I played all my games with zero issues on a dual P3 machine for 4 years or so.

Thats good to hear, wondered how it would cope with two CPUs.

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:48:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:57:

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:31:

I acquired a Compaq Proliant ML370 Gen1 and Gen3 machine this weekend from a customer, they are huge and weigh a ton but I am very happy with what I got for "free".

Gen 1 currently has one pentium 3 slot 1 CPU slot populated which I will look to increase to two and a spare drive slot for a tape drive if I want to go that route. Not sure what I am going to do with it but may try gaming on Windows 2000 or 2003 for a laugh.

As for the Gen3 version(which weighs twice as much as the Gen1), I was disappointed to find that when I opened it up I found no CPU present. Rather than spend time on it I am just going to give it away to a good home. Motherboard is present and it looks fully populated in ram. So, if you want it then you can arrange pick up from me, I am UK based.

Windows 2000 is just fine for gaming. I played all my games with zero issues on a dual P3 machine for 4 years or so.

Thats good to hear, wondered how it would cope with two CPUs.

Perfectly windows 2000 is NT based. You can do up to 4 cpus with 2000 pro and alot more with the server variants.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:51:

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:48:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-08-02, 15:57:

Windows 2000 is just fine for gaming. I played all my games with zero issues on a dual P3 machine for 4 years or so.

Thats good to hear, wondered how it would cope with two CPUs.

Perfectly windows 2000 is NT based. You can do up to 4 cpus with 2000 pro and alot more with the server variants.

2 CPUs for Professional, 4 with Server, 8 with Advanced Server, and 32 with Datacenter.

Meatball wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:54:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:51:

original_meusli wrote on 2022-08-02, 16:48:

Thats good to hear, wondered how it would cope with two CPUs.

Perfectly windows 2000 is NT based. You can do up to 4 cpus with 2000 pro and alot more with the server variants.

2 CPUs for Professional, 4 with Server, 8 with Advanced Server, and 32 with Datacenter.

Yes that is correct thank you!!! It's been awhile since I had to use my 2k knowledge. Now I think I need to build a way over kill 2k pro system with my spare nforce 680i motherboard