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 Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 15:06:

Susanin79 wrote on Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 16:03:

douglar wrote on Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 16:15:

Susanin79 wrote on Yesterday, 16:03:

douglar wrote on Yesterday, 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 Yesterday, 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.

PC@LIVE wrote on Yesterday, 20:03:

sunkindly wrote on Yesterday, 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.

Ah! I compared ours and unfortunately this board only supports up to a 3x multiplier and 66MHz FSB. It has a 512KB cache on stick with it which is interesting. It's all good though, I'm not really seeking performance moreso something unique (and therefore some self-imposed suffering haha). I was thinking about Super Socket 7 but it'd overlap a little too much with Slot 1 which I already have.

Bought some hardware for my IBM PC Portable 5155:

Extended RAM card
JoyClock (Joystick + RTC) card
SAAYM sound card
XT-SD card adapter (XT-IDE)

And some PITs for my 5150 - Intel P8253-5, AMD P8253-5, and NEC D8253-5 since I think the original one is actually dead.

sunkindly wrote on Today, 02:04:

PC@LIVE wrote on Yesterday, 20:03:

sunkindly wrote on Yesterday, 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.

Ah! I compared ours and unfortunately this board only supports up to a 3x multiplier and 66MHz FSB. It has a 512KB cache on stick with it which is interesting. It's all good though, I'm not really seeking performance moreso something unique (and therefore some self-imposed suffering haha). I was thinking about Super Socket 7 but it'd overlap a little too much with Slot 1 which I already have.

Ok
Well it seems strange to me that you can't use the multi 3.5X, to do 233 MHz (more than 200 MHz), just set 1.5X and the rest is done by the CPU, at least with 6X86MX and MII it works like that.
If, on the other hand, it is not possible to use CPUs faster than 200 MHz, it is possible that it depends on linear regulators, and the older S.7s are all like that.
Usually in motherboards with Intel chipsets, I don't recommend the Cyrix, VIA or other chipsets instead, are more suitable for creating that particular PC, although perhaps the final result could be quite slow, for a 200 MHz PC or a little more.