I picked this up on Wednesday because it's the same case as the PC my family bought in 1997 from Tiny here in the UK. They seem to be quite hard to find now? It doesn't help that searching for 'tiny pc' gets you completely useless results! Ours was AT and S7 P200, this one is ATX and contains MSI MS-6119 board, PIII 450, 384MB ram, 6GB and 12GB HDDs, Geforce 4 MX 420, a Yamaha sound card, a modem, and a wifi card. The optical drive doesn't read discs. I'm assuming the ram has been upgraded from a 128MB base, the 12GB HDD added (the one floating around...), graphics card changed, and wifi card added. The chassis and 6GB drive are dated March 1999.

Amazingly though I just cleaned it out and it fired right up and booted into a WinXP install.

I'll retrobrite the front panel in the spring when the sun reappears and then set about building a replica of our old Socket 7 PC in it 😀

Ydee wrote on 2024-12-13, 15:10:

Xicor wrote on 2024-12-12, 15:43:

Finlay found a Roland SCC1 at a "reasonable" price, and it just arrived:
Complete in box. It wasn't crazy expensive, but not trivial either.

So only one kidney instead both?

😂 exactly my thoughts…

Xicor wrote on 2024-12-10, 14:41:

Finally, a gorgeous SunFire V250 rescued from the jaws of the recycler:

That's a beautiful case! I know nothing about the internals of SUN systems but that case is awesome.

got some uninteresting cards today and these floppies were included in the lot:

inside the win3.1 floppy the readme states:

I find it interesting that Trio32/64 are considered "minimal specs" ... I wonder if this XING MPEG player version is something of a S3 special or not... anyone knows ?

Can you upload these floppies somewhere? I'm fairly certain that I have a laptop with one of those Vision controllers. I didn't know that they supported mpeg decoding.

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-12-13, 15:30:

Ours was AT and S7 P200, this one is ATX and contains MSI MS-6119 board

Nice case. I’m pretty sure it has AT mobo screw positions (but you’ll want AT to ATX i/o shield with DIN KB cutout) as well as latching AT PSU switch mount holes (since you are removing front panel for retrobrighting anyway worth taking a look, switches are sold new)

A bit of chat with the seller I will be getting the 5EMA and Commate S7AX from, and he added a Matrox Parhaelia to the pack too 😀

Bruno128 wrote on 2024-12-13, 20:07:

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-12-13, 15:30:

Ours was AT and S7 P200, this one is ATX and contains MSI MS-6119 board

Nice case. I’m pretty sure it has AT mobo screw positions (but you’ll want AT to ATX i/o shield with DIN KB cutout) as well as latching AT PSU switch mount holes (since you are removing front panel for retrobrighting anyway worth taking a look, switches are sold new)

This is pretty much exactly my plan, they're nice and easy to convert between the two form factors 😀

Xicor wrote on 2024-12-12, 15:43:

Finlay found a Roland SCC1 at a "reasonable" price, and it just arrived: […]
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Finlay found a Roland SCC1 at a "reasonable" price, and it just arrived:

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Complete in box. It wasn't crazy expensive, but not trivial either. The tipping factor was all the paperwork and box. Cursed luck I guess.....

Nice purchase. What's this 4-pin speaker cable doing there? Definitely not part of the original package AFAIK

unfrequent daughter board Aztech Sound Galaxy Wave Power

Another FIC PA-2013 😀

So to recap, I'm going to receive these somewhere before Christmas:

-Soyo 5EMA+ v1.1
-Commate S7AX
-FIC PA-2013
-Matrox Parhaelia 128M

Anything to look out for with each of them, besides recapping? I'm aware of FIC's tendency to burn the AGP regulator up, despite being a rev2 board. (not sure if 2.1 tho, but it looks to be the 2MB version for all I can tell)

keropi wrote on 2024-12-13, 17:53:

got some uninteresting cards today and these floppies were included in the lot: […]
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got some uninteresting cards today and these floppies were included in the lot:

inside the win3.1 floppy the readme states:

I find it interesting that Trio32/64 are considered "minimal specs" ... I wonder if this XING MPEG player version is something of a S3 special or not... anyone knows ?

There are Xing players for other cards, I think it's a Trident TGUI 9680 my disk is for. There was some detection going on because usually you couldn't get one version to work with another card, even if that chipset line had same basic support and Xing was offered with their cards.... sometimes you didn't get the whole package with "white box" OEM cards.

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-12-14, 17:57:

There are Xing players for other cards, I think it's a Trident TGUI 9680 my disk is for. There was some detection going on because usually you couldn't get one version to work with another card, even if that chipset line had same basic support and Xing was offered with their cards.... sometimes you didn't get the whole package with "white box" OEM cards.

interesting, I did not knew such versions existed...back then even if I had a card that came with these floppies I would probably ditch them or forget about it tbh 🤣

Back in the day, 95-97ish, it seemed like the S3 cards always came with it, whereas other chipsets it seemed more like "manufacturers whim".

Jccwu wrote on 2024-12-14, 16:28:

unfrequent daughter board Aztech Sound Galaxy Wave Power

Wow, that is super cool!

It's basically an original Ensoniq SoundscapeDB with 2MB ROM (containing 4MB of compressed samples), but with a different layout and Aztech-yellow PCB.

Amazing find! I would love to have one of these!

Jccwu wrote on 2024-12-14, 16:28:

unfrequent daughter board Aztech Sound Galaxy Wave Power

Ooh, jealous too. I have the later (ICS and Samsung) Aztech wavetable solutions, but would (almost) give a kidney for the Ensoniq version you snatched 😉

Still, can't complain on the MIDI front - this arrived in the post today:

Most definitely not what most soundtracks were composed on, but they sound epic on it anyway 😀

Found an estate sale yesterday with some decent finds. Along with a dozen assorted PCI nics/SCSI cards, some PCI-E HBA cards:

in box with manual and accessories. Apparantly a drop-in IDE mirror solution, which is quite interesting!



Supermidro P6SBU sealed with box, manual, accessories.


Nice motherboard. Integerated Yamaha general midi, OPL3-SA/OPL4, and S3 video.
interested CPU package, haven't owned one of those before

A Socket 370 board with 6 ISA slots??

devius wrote on 2024-12-15, 16:09:

A Socket 370 board with 6 ISA slots??

That's exactly what I said. So much room for activities!!!

Bruno128 wrote on 2024-12-13, 13:58:

dominusprog wrote on 2024-12-11, 13:57:

So I want to buy a K6-2 500MHz CPU, but the seller have two different chips. One is 0016APEW and other one is 0045MPM, is there any difference between the two?

Both made in 2000, it’s exactly the same model and stepping so maybe look at underside photo whether the pins are not bent and take the better of the two.

Yes, I'll keep that in mind.