Reply 57000 of 57001, by BitWrangler
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A yearly fleamarket I go to, not an internal card to be seen this year, there's usually at least a modem or NIC kicking around in ISA or PCI flavors. However scored some bits and pieces to help out, and a full system from 1982...
... A Timex Sinclair 1000, BASICly a ZX-81 with the RAM doubled to a whole 2kB.. boxed, but no paperwork, looks very little used, still smells kinda new. Gotta get my 3D Monster Maze on.
Then I guess the actual retro bits in the rest are really just the Slot 1 cooler, which is a help when I've got 2 functioning ones for 5 CPU and an ATI GPU cooler for spare. Nice fat fat fan there, might go on a ridiculous K6-3+ build. Corsair 750W PSU, real heavy that one. 744W available on single 12V rail, that oughta fry something real good. Been a 21st century PSU down since Jan so, noice. USB 2.0 PC Card, VGA2USB, I was thinking that was gonna be a crappy slow usb VGA card, but no it's actual USB VGA capture, which will be interesting to get caps from DOS stuff with no screenshotting. Another USB-IDE adapter, maybe this one will work right since it's a "brand" though Vantec is a'ight but not stellar. Then some "toy" oscilloscope, only 1 MSPS, ~200khz nominal. Mayyyyy be useful for a handful of things... started wondering if I could maybe build a floppy drive alignment rig with it.
Then unpictured, some generic stuff like a DB25 shell, odds and ends of connectors, a couple of 1 whole Farad capacitors, wondering about using for a NVRAM card, and a more retro than most stuff piece, a 70s Scout/Camp knife by Colonial, which should be a nice usable pocket knife.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
