zuldan wrote on 2024-04-01, 10:21:

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-04-01, 10:16:

Very nice! I love this board, it was my first proper PC upgrade that I did, also with a K6-2 500. I bought myself a brand spanking new GA-5AA 3.2 last year 😁

Very nice!. A brand new one must have cost a fortune. Very lucky to get that.

It was a bit expensive, but I wouldn't say outrageous for one of these still BNIB after 25 years. It was worth it for that new electronics smell! I stumped up £130 for it and justified it to myself based on sentemental value, condition, and the fact I'd been messing around with a used one already that was causing me headaches and I just wanted something that had the best chance of working properly. And you know what - it's been bloody brilliant. Super super stable, such a versatile little machine. I fitted a Creative Voodoo Banshee to make it exactly the same spec I had a long time ago. Played through Half-Life on it again. Simply lovely 😀

I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it.
Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i always wanted to have one (even more a 40 MHz one)

Not tested, the battery seems to not have leaked too much, and at 20€ I'm not risking a lot of money.

My box of crap arrived, this one...

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-26, 22:48:

This lot ended up tempting me, so I am now awaiting their arrival... was just idly pondering needing another PCI soundcard or tw […]
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This lot ended up tempting me, so I am now awaiting their arrival... was just idly pondering needing another PCI soundcard or two... and this popped up..

In order, Audigy SB0090, Live CT4780, Live CT4780 , ewaste*, NIC, NIC, RadeonVE DVI, Radeon 2400Pro PCI 32bit.

*ewaste is one of those extra monitor connectors for onboard graphics, don't think I'll have a use for it, unless someone tells me headless GPU can be used with them.

I dunno why but I'm also a sucker for late PCI graphics, and I wanted some lower profile NICs to be using next to things that need to breathe too.

I am mildly disappointed, as the RadeonVE or 7000 or whatever it is, was packed in a bag with the NICs and got a surface mount scraped off in transit, just a couple of caps near the RAM it might not even matter. I bought as untested pulls from a guy who doesn't do much computer stuff normally, so knew I was taking a risk with that. Apart from that, everything looks very nice, close to new appearance. That radeon was not a DVI as assumed, it's got something weirder on it, the cable I have for the HD3450 dual head splitters does not match, that has 4 rows in it. This is only 3 with a regular D shaped shell not DVI shaped. It says EDD next to it but appears to be some form of..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Enhanced_Video_Connector
I am wondering if I am going to bother trying to use it, will have to eyeball all my adaptors and stray cables and see if I do have one by chance. I am wondering if for analog the pins have the same relational position as DVI-I then I might saw off the sides of the shell off a DVI-VGA adaptor and mash that in the hole.

What was it with ATI from about 2002 to 2008ish? They used a hell of a lot of weird video connectors.

Guess I'd better get that GA486AM/S set up for it's new GPU, can put a Cyrix DX2-80 in it, some 32MB SIMMs and run the HD2400Pro PCI to the peak of it's abilities!! ... yeahyeah, it's "that" day of the year 🤣

acl wrote on 2024-04-01, 17:41:

I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it. Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i a […]
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I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it.
Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i always wanted to have one (even more a 40 MHz one)

Not tested, the battery seems to not have leaked too much, and at 20€ I'm not risking a lot of money.

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I love those little boards, hope it comes alive for you.

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-01, 17:51:

acl wrote on 2024-04-01, 17:41:

I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it. Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i a […]
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I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it.
Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i always wanted to have one (even more a 40 MHz one)

Not tested, the battery seems to not have leaked too much, and at 20€ I'm not risking a lot of money.

IMG_20240401_193344.jpg

IMG_20240401_193430.jpg

I love those little boards, hope it comes alive for you.

Thanks 🤞

Just acquired this one:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/archive/m … rboard/370de6-g

I think at a very reasonable price.

Just bought my first video card from Quantum3D!! Sellers picture.

What I thought I was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

Dats a big boy, back in the day I had a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT designed for Autocad and such, thing was a complete unit of a monitor with almost every kind of input and out put you could want, I wish I still had it but younger me was a retard and threw it away.

Look after that beast they are getting harder to find at this quality !

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

How heavy is that? Must weigh a ton.

^^^^ My Viewsonic 21" didn't weigh nearly as much as the 21" NEC Multisync P1150 I had before it - that weighed 35kg!

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:05:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

Dats a big boy, back in the day I had a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT designed for Autocad and such, thing was a complete unit of a monitor with almost every kind of input and out put you could want, I wish I still had it but younger me was a retard and threw it away.

Look after that beast they are getting harder to find at this quality !

I used to have a Viewsonic 19" and a 21". A few months after this pic was taken in 2004, I moved 1000's of km away and left pretty much everything in this pic behind. Uhhhhhggggggg. ☹️

ubiq wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:18:

^^^^ My Viewsonic 21" didn't weigh nearly as much as the 21" NEC Multisync P1150 I had before it - that weighed 35kg!

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:05:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

Dats a big boy, back in the day I had a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT designed for Autocad and such, thing was a complete unit of a monitor with almost every kind of input and out put you could want, I wish I still had it but younger me was a retard and threw it away.

Look after that beast they are getting harder to find at this quality !

I used to have a Viewsonic 19" and a 21". A few months after this pic was taken in 2004, I moved 1000's of km away and left pretty much everything in this pic behind. Uhhhhhggggggg. ☹️

Ughhh Ive moved a number of times and I always hate having to leave stuff behind but I have never had to leave computer stuff behind, not sure I could part with a 21" if I ever got another.

Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:16:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

How heavy is that? Must weigh a ton.

70 lbs (32kg)!!!

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 02:01:

Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:16:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣
IMG_5013.jpg

How heavy is that? Must weigh a ton.

70 lbs (32kg)!!!

Nods .. the Cad Trinny I had was about the same if not a bit heavier .. had a lead weight in the base IIRC so was a mongrel to move about.

I guess the next question would be .. what would the shipping costs be on a 70lb CRT 🤣. (Im guessing it would be freight rather than shipping so damn expensive)

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-04-02, 02:15:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 02:01:

Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:16:

How heavy is that? Must weigh a ton.

70 lbs (32kg)!!!

Nods .. the Cad Trinny I had was about the same if not a bit heavier .. had a lead weight in the base IIRC so was a mongrel to move about.

I guess the next question would be .. what would the shipping costs be on a 70lb CRT 🤣. (Im guessing it would be freight rather than shipping so damn expensive)

If that is any indicator, the original retail price was around $800 on these... At this point $80 in shipping is almost nothing. 😁

Linoleum wrote on 2024-04-02, 01:01:

What I thought I was going to pickup was a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor (my dream), turned out to be a 22 inch!!!!! If I am reading the manual correctly, this thing can do 2048 x 1536 @ 60 Hz. Now I am going to feel like John Carmack when he was coding Quake!! 🤣

Me just curious, when you turn it on, does it have a LOUD 'bang' each time ?
Louder than you'd expect, I mean ? And what is the manufacture date on the back (month/year) ?
PS: also the max resolution seems to be possible even @68hz refresh rate.
(page 5 in the manual, bottom table, the 'manually' set rates vs the preset timings)

Picked this up today, Gigabyte GA-7IXE. Sold as new, although I believe it's from unsold pre-built computers (the seller has a bunch of these). There's some slight wear on the mounting holes that would support that. But it smells brand new, no dust, has no other signs of use. Just £50. I've got a couple of CPUs on the way. Looking forward to building my first Slot A system 😀

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-04-02, 12:29:

Looking forward to building my first Slot A system 😀

I've heard that these AMD systems need a very strong 5V rail, which doesn't seem to be a common feature in modern power supplies. If the system is unstable, this might be the reason.

Picked this up today. Goldstar Midi Art GS1000R. It's not a motorcycle despite its name. Sold as defective but since I saw that is has reverse polarity just like Roland I took a chance. And it's working fine!
The jury is still out about the samples thou... Since there are so few videos of this one on youtube I will try to record some of the usual tunes this weekend.
Other Vogon-users are discussing the model in this thread: Midi Art GS1000R Synthesizer?

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-04-02, 13:13:

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-04-02, 12:29:

Looking forward to building my first Slot A system 😀

I've heard that these AMD systems need a very strong 5V rail, which doesn't seem to be a common feature in modern power supplies. If the system is unstable, this might be the reason.

Good to know, thank you!