Nexxen wrote on Today, 14:22:

One Imation LS-120 reader.

It's a struggle, it works but to have it recognized is a head banging experience.
And I already had one, but 2 is better anyway. I know, my fault but price was so low...

One is kinda pointless, but with two, sneakernet is upgraded to 120MB packet size 🤣

zuldan wrote on Today, 10:11:

tehsiggi wrote on Yesterday, 15:05:

well.. time is short right now 😁

However, a first look at it here: Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

I missed that post. Thanks for the update! Hopefully she can come alive again.

Fitting to the topic and the card:

3 x NOS memory ICs:

Shader_BiH wrote on Today, 13:21:

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-05-13, 20:57:

Wow, it's real, new Pentium MMX in 2026... […]
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Wow, it's real, new Pentium MMX in 2026...

I ordered these half expecting they'd either be out of stock, due to listing that was stale, or they would turn out to be reclaimed, but nope, look brand shiny new, no heatsink scuff, shipped in antistatic eggbox style CPU holder, so no whining about outer bubblewrap.

These might be a Canadian only deal on Amazon dot ca .Turn up with a search for MMX CPU I think, just under $25CDN each with free ship in Canada. There was only 9 left last I saw. Came out of Mississauga apparently so ship to me was just a couple of business days. I wasn't actually expecting them until Friday.

Edit: guess I should say NOS, New old stock, they're not making them still.. I suck at intel date codes so not sure when they rolled out the plant.
EditII: 13th week of 1999 if my quick and lazy lookup was right.
EditIII: Stock level showing as 10 at 6:30 not sure if they are just topping up their amazon storefront as required or had an order cancelled or what.
Edit numero quatro: So turns out it isn't the best value MMX in Canada at the moment maybe, the same vendor AmberCnE seem to have beat themselves on newegg dot ca with an 18 CDN free ship option that has refurbished P233MMX listed. Mine do not look refurb, "dirt" in pic appears to be a little bit of crumb/dust from tray cutting. IDK if they are the same stock and they couldn't enter new on a SKU that old or whether they are refurb stock.

Wow... that's a really cool find. I can just imagine the feeling of have brand new hardware that old 😁

Yah, sweet feeling. Though I did get a new ULSI 387 a while back that is 3 years older, but it might have been enough of a while back that they were the same age when I got them.

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 15:19:

Nexxen wrote on Today, 14:22:

One Imation LS-120 reader.

It's a struggle, it works but to have it recognized is a head banging experience.
And I already had one, but 2 is better anyway. I know, my fault but price was so low...

One is kinda pointless, but with two, sneakernet is upgraded to 120MB packet size 🤣

Price was so low I couldn't skip... At least I have a good 1.44MB floppy reader.
IIRC you got one recently, or at least it was a pack of disks.

I'd like to find a LS-240, just out of curiosity.
Units and/or disks are rare in the EU. I'd like to go to Japan but I'd get lost in Tokyo.

Shader_BiH wrote on Today, 13:21:

Wow... that's a really cool find. I can just imagine the feeling of have brand new hardware that old :D […]
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BitWrangler wrote on 2026-05-13, 20:57:

Wow, it's real, new Pentium MMX in 2026... […]
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Wow, it's real, new Pentium MMX in 2026...

I ordered these half expecting they'd either be out of stock, due to listing that was stale, or they would turn out to be reclaimed, but nope, look brand shiny new, no heatsink scuff, shipped in antistatic eggbox style CPU holder, so no whining about outer bubblewrap.

These might be a Canadian only deal on Amazon dot ca .Turn up with a search for MMX CPU I think, just under $25CDN each with free ship in Canada. There was only 9 left last I saw. Came out of Mississauga apparently so ship to me was just a couple of business days. I wasn't actually expecting them until Friday.

Edit: guess I should say NOS, New old stock, they're not making them still.. I suck at intel date codes so not sure when they rolled out the plant.
EditII: 13th week of 1999 if my quick and lazy lookup was right.
EditIII: Stock level showing as 10 at 6:30 not sure if they are just topping up their amazon storefront as required or had an order cancelled or what.
Edit numero quatro: So turns out it isn't the best value MMX in Canada at the moment maybe, the same vendor AmberCnE seem to have beat themselves on newegg dot ca with an 18 CDN free ship option that has refurbished P233MMX listed. Mine do not look refurb, "dirt" in pic appears to be a little bit of crumb/dust from tray cutting. IDK if they are the same stock and they couldn't enter new on a SKU that old or whether they are refurb stock.

Wow... that's a really cool find. I can just imagine the feeling of have brand new hardware that old 😁

Today one of my more humble orders from e-bay arrived. MSI MX 4000 T128

I actually ordered it because of cool looking passive cooler and because I already got the best of this line, the MX 460, so I though, let's go for the worst one now.
My recent luck however seems to have ran out 😁 The card was advertised as 64MB, which I didn't find odd at first because I didn't check the exact model, which is T128. It was supposed to be a 128MB DDR1 card, with 64-bit bus. Pictures of this one however are showing Aida32 info with 64MB and 32-bit memory bus. Now it's hard to really blame the seller as the card really was advertised as 64MB

This model has 4 memory chips K4D551638F-TC50, which should really equal to 128MB.... so I guess some of these chips died at some point or something.... The card however works without crashes or artifacts.... it's just halfed in memory and bandwith... I guess I got the absolute worst of MX4000 by accident. I will be testing it today to see if there's anything I can do about it.

Cool passive cooler, indeed!

Just yesterday, I ordered a fan shroud for a passive cooler device. Not retro, it's a LSI 9300-16i HBA that was generating nearly all the heat in the system and was so hot I couldn't remove it for a while. I expect it'll be fine, but I've been copying 1-3 full drives at a time to repartition and reformat all the drives. Meanwhile, I dug out some fans from the retro box. They're a bit noisy but keepin' it cool.

PS. For those who've seen my other thread, I moved it from the pcie2 slot to the pcie3 slot and that LBA card went from copying 2 drives at a time to 3. Looks like It can saturate 4 drives going full blast.

Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:38:

Price was so low I couldn't skip... At least I have a good 1.44MB floppy reader. IIRC you got one recently, or at least it was a […]
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BitWrangler wrote on Today, 15:19:

Nexxen wrote on Today, 14:22:

One Imation LS-120 reader.

It's a struggle, it works but to have it recognized is a head banging experience.
And I already had one, but 2 is better anyway. I know, my fault but price was so low...

One is kinda pointless, but with two, sneakernet is upgraded to 120MB packet size 🤣

Price was so low I couldn't skip... At least I have a good 1.44MB floppy reader.
IIRC you got one recently, or at least it was a pack of disks.

I'd like to find a LS-240, just out of curiosity.
Units and/or disks are rare in the EU. I'd like to go to Japan but I'd get lost in Tokyo.

Yes I have two now, plus some disks to use with them. I joke about one being pointless, they are a fast floppy drive and read erratic disks well.

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 15:42:

Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:38:

Price was so low I couldn't skip... At least I have a good 1.44MB floppy reader. IIRC you got one recently, or at least it was a […]
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BitWrangler wrote on Today, 15:19:

One is kinda pointless, but with two, sneakernet is upgraded to 120MB packet size 🤣

Price was so low I couldn't skip... At least I have a good 1.44MB floppy reader.
IIRC you got one recently, or at least it was a pack of disks.

I'd like to find a LS-240, just out of curiosity.
Units and/or disks are rare in the EU. I'd like to go to Japan but I'd get lost in Tokyo.

Yes I have two now, plus some disks to use with them. I joke about one being pointless, they are a fast floppy drive and read erratic disks well.

I tried them to read bad floppies, hoping it was just a bad drive in my machine but, alas, nothing. After 30 years it happens.
I bought a Master of Magic box, in bad shape, and 5 disks out of 7 are unreadable.
All stuff is inside in very good shape though, not complaining in the end.

Our hobby 😀 We gotta love it!!
Have a good one in Canada!