I got my hands on an ABIT IP35-E, in its original box. Comes with a q6600 and some ram. Nothing fancy, but Abit is one of those brands I tend not to forego when the price is reasonable.

About a year ago I sold my SC-55 and MT32....

Well, kinda missed them.

Linoleum wrote on 2025-04-01, 15:19:

Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive…

However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent!

What brand floppy drive is that? It almost looks like a Teac but it's not.

And the Teac sound is legendary I think.......

eesz34 wrote on 2025-04-02, 11:41:

Linoleum wrote on 2025-04-01, 15:19:

Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive…

However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent!

What brand floppy drive is that? It almost looks like a Teac but it's not.

And the Teac sound is legendary I think.......

It's a Fujitsu YD-380C.

** Apparently, manufacturing had some kind of a hard time with their labels...

Thermalwrong wrote on 2025-04-02, 02:54:

It's got the same LM64P83 LCD panel as my AST Bravo NB used to have (before it broke) but this LCD looks pretty immaculate. The laptop cleaned up so well, still rough on the underside but it's a nice grey-brown semi-rubberised plastic stuff that apparently can turn all oily like thinkpads but this one has not.

Wow, good job!

2nd 286 box, but this is one I'm going to keep forever 😀

I'm having a hard week at work and decided I need a treat, just bought a Roland SC-55 mk II.
Saw one at a reasonable price on ebay, shipping from US and decided to get it.
Never had a MIDI module before, excited to try it.

Pino wrote on 2025-04-02, 20:34:

I'm having a hard week at work and decided I need a treat, just bought a Roland SC-55 mk II.
Saw one at a reasonable price on ebay, shipping from US and decided to get it.
Never had a MIDI module before, excited to try it.

Nice. Have Doom 2 and Sam and Max Hit the Road handy to test it out with.

Lostdotfish wrote on 2025-04-02, 20:48:

Pino wrote on 2025-04-02, 20:34:

I'm having a hard week at work and decided I need a treat, just bought a Roland SC-55 mk II.
Saw one at a reasonable price on ebay, shipping from US and decided to get it.
Never had a MIDI module before, excited to try it.

Nice. Have Doom 2 and Sam and Max Hit the Road handy to test it out with.

Sam & Max is one of my all time favorites, it's ready to go!

As an April Fools thing, I decided to not buy this Motorola XC68040RC33.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2025-04-03, 03:16:

As an April Fools thing, I decided to not buy this Motorola XC68040RC33.

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I didn't know Copilot was a thing on MacOs ..weird

Well I stand corrected I didn't know Edge was even available for Macs...not even sure why you would want to infect any computer with Edge.

Found a reasonably priced GTX 480, supposedly working 😀 Picking it up next week when seller returns home.
Will match it with my i7 980X for an ultimate spring 2010 build 😀

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-03, 05:51:

Found a reasonably priced GTX 480, supposedly working 😀 Picking it up next week when seller returns home.
Will match it with my i7 980X for an ultimate spring 2010 build 😀

A hot running CPU with a hot running GPU, good match.

I have an I7-980x on an Asus Sabretooth X58 board but used a rare MSI R9-280X 6GB card with it.

Unknown_K wrote on 2025-04-03, 07:30:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-03, 05:51:

Found a reasonably priced GTX 480, supposedly working 😀 Picking it up next week when seller returns home.
Will match it with my i7 980X for an ultimate spring 2010 build 😀

A hot running CPU with a hot running GPU, good match.

I have an I7-980x on an Asus Sabretooth X58 board but used a rare MSI R9-280X 6GB card with it.

Yeah, I know it runs hot - which apparently is also why not many 480s exist anymore? Or maybe weren't sold at all?. I had been looking at 580s in stead, but the reasonably priced ones were 3-PCIe slots wide blocking the next x16 slot on my Asus Rampage III Extreme, so wouldn't bother 🤣

Cool with a rare GPU, but it doesn't seem "period correct" if one cares about that? I actually have a GTX770 laying idle, I could've used, but for once, I'd like to try period correctness (I think the Rampage qualifies as well)

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-03, 08:54:

Unknown_K wrote on 2025-04-03, 07:30:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-03, 05:51:

Found a reasonably priced GTX 480, supposedly working 😀 Picking it up next week when seller returns home.
Will match it with my i7 980X for an ultimate spring 2010 build 😀

A hot running CPU with a hot running GPU, good match.

I have an I7-980x on an Asus Sabretooth X58 board but used a rare MSI R9-280X 6GB card with it.

Yeah, I know it runs hot - which apparently is also why not many 480s exist anymore? Or maybe weren't sold at all?. I had been looking at 580s in stead, but the reasonably priced ones were 3-PCIe slots wide blocking the next x16 slot on my Asus Rampage III Extreme, so wouldn't bother 🤣

Cool with a rare GPU, but it doesn't seem "period correct" if one cares about that? I actually have a GTX770 laying idle, I could've used, but for once, I'd like to try period correctness (I think the Rampage qualifies as well)

Yeah they are that big because the 500 series was nVidias attempt at fixing Fermi .. it didn't really work but the bigger coolers did help to control temps.

I ran a 3Gb GTX 580 for quite a few years due to how good it was, took till the GTX 770 before I replaced it.

nfraser01 wrote on 2025-04-02, 20:05:

2nd 286 box, but this is one I'm going to keep forever 😀

Love the 286, it was the first x86 PC I had. Lots of fun on BBSs with that thing.

Bought this not common Gigabyte GA-210 VESA video card. It looks like it was used before as a donor for some of the components.
May be there will be chance to repair it and return back to the life.

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-01, 16:11:

Ok, apparently I jumped the gun, the FX5200 actually works after a thorough cleaning of the edge connector. Seems to run 3DMark2001 fine now. Won't have time to finish before tomorrow though. The Radeon, I don't have much hope for, due to the corroded pads under missing components. From what I've read here, Radeon 9250 and BX should play together pretty nice, though.

Aaaaand with the help from a photo from user GigAHerZ, who has the same Radeon 9250, I hacked in a pair of reasonably similar ferrite beads, with success 😎

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-03, 20:15:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-04-01, 16:11:

Ok, apparently I jumped the gun, the FX5200 actually works after a thorough cleaning of the edge connector. Seems to run 3DMark2001 fine now. Won't have time to finish before tomorrow though. The Radeon, I don't have much hope for, due to the corroded pads under missing components. From what I've read here, Radeon 9250 and BX should play together pretty nice, though.

Aaaaand with the help from a photo from user GigAHerZ, who has the same Radeon 9250, I hacked in a pair of reasonably similar ferrite beads, with success 😎

Great!

My Ls-120 unit came in today.
It's as fast as 355KB/s and spinning ok.

One strange thing happened. I used W10 to test the unit as it just works, Linux can r/w but not format option (ok, there's a command but I was lazy), an d when I wanted to format the disk it was giving the defaults right off, but allocation size unit being on 2048 bytes made i stop at 75%. Had to select "default" on that too and it completed successfully all full formats. This value has to be set correctly, default points to the 512 bytes hence 2048 is wrong.

The noises are odd though 😀
I'm planning on recording the unit working sounds/noises to help any other poor soul out there. The more the merr... the less miserable 🤣