Picked up some external drives.
A YD-8UN10 USB floppy drive and a Buffalo DVSM-PC58U2V USB optical drive.
Mainly to use it with modern laptops and old thin clients.

Two LOGI motherboards from the scrapyard
Picked up two not-so-common LOGI branded boards today — an XT and a 286. Both have clearly “seen things,” but I’m optimistic they can be brought back to life.

Susanin79 wrote on Today, 14:49:

Two LOGI motherboards from the scrapyard
Picked up two not-so-common LOGI branded boards today — an XT and a 286. Both have clearly “seen things,” but I’m optimistic they can be brought back to life.

Those are so cool looking! I have never seen a white PCB motherboard from either of those eras. In fact, I don't recall seeing white motherboards until maybe the Socket 478 era when Soltek started doing it.

Susanin79 wrote on Today, 14:49:

Two LOGI motherboards from the scrapyard
Picked up two not-so-common LOGI branded boards today — an XT and a 286. Both have clearly “seen things,” but I’m optimistic they can be brought back to life.

Please open a thread fro these. Can't wait to see what works.

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 15:06:

Susanin79 wrote on Today, 14:49:

Two LOGI motherboards from the scrapyard
Picked up two not-so-common LOGI branded boards today — an XT and a 286. Both have clearly “seen things,” but I’m optimistic they can be brought back to life.

Those are so cool looking! I have never seen a white PCB motherboard from either of those eras. In fact, I don't recall seeing white motherboards until maybe the Socket 478 era when Soltek started doing it.

They have a really striking look, that's for sure. Are you going to keep the non-standard leading edge style power connector or will you put in a P8 & P9 ?

douglar wrote on Today, 15:46:

They have a really striking look, that's for sure. Are you going to keep the non-standard leading edge style power connector or will you put in a P8 & P9 ?

Not sure, may be temporary replace them and return back when boards would be repaired.

Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:17:

Please open a thread fro these. Can't wait to see what works.

This would be a good idea. Will keep you posted.

Susanin79 wrote on Today, 16:03:

douglar wrote on Today, 15:46:

They have a really striking look, that's for sure. Are you going to keep the non-standard leading edge style power connector or will you put in a P8 & P9 ?

Not sure, may be temporary replace them and return back when boards would be repaired.

This probably goes without saying, but double check the pinout. That connector could use a totally different pinout than a standard P8+P9.

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 16:15:

Susanin79 wrote on Today, 16:03:

douglar wrote on Today, 15:46:

They have a really striking look, that's for sure. Are you going to keep the non-standard leading edge style power connector or will you put in a P8 & P9 ?

Not sure, may be temporary replace them and return back when boards would be repaired.

This probably goes without saying, but double check the pinout. That connector could use a totally different pinout than a standard P8+P9.

Of course, I will trace the pins with the ISA slot power pins, just not to burn something else)

Another peculiar board in my collection. AM2NF3-VSTA.

I bought a Socket 7 board with a Cyrix 6x86 already with it...not sure yet if it's going to replace the Socket 3 / 5x86 or await its own case. It supports 2.8V and dual voltage, would it theoretically work with a 2.9V Cyrix MII? Officially it supports up to a Pentium MMX 200 but there's not much on the board itself. Either way, I think figuring out what I want for a mid 90s build has been the most difficult of them all.

sunkindly wrote on Today, 18:40:

I bought a Socket 7 board with a Cyrix 6x86 already with it...not sure yet if it's going to replace the Socket 3 / 5x86 or await its own case. It supports 2.8V and dual voltage, would it theoretically work with a 2.9V Cyrix MII? Officially it supports up to a Pentium MMX 200 but there's not much on the board itself. Either way, I think figuring out what I want for a mid 90s build has been the most difficult of them all.

I'm currently working on a socket 7, MB ACORP A-5VIA3P chipset VIA VPX, CPU Cyrix MII-333 (3.5X 75), you can see it on my page on MB tests, it's not the first Cyrix I have, but it's the last one I built, let's say I don't mind, but personally I prefer AMD K6 CPUs, especially those with integrated L2 cache.
Theoretically you could put any S.7 CPU on it, using an interposer, realistically you can only if the regulators are switching, while with linear ones, it is better not to exceed 200 MHz, or at most 233 MHz, which for a Cyrix is equivalent to a MII-266 or 300.