BitWrangler wrote on 2026-08-05, 13:30:

PS/2 machines were decommissioned from industry in truck loads, but were unpopular for personal use secondary market due to MCA and expense of upgrades. Thus they had a period of being dirt cheap and highly available. Which translated into being scrapped by the truckload also. Late 90s you could still hope to put a few hundred Mhz in the case of an old AT 386 or 486, not so much with a PS/2 box. So it was a total lost investment into obsolete stuff, whereas AT bits might be more adaptable and save you $50 or so on the next configuration. It is possible that AT machines are over represented now in the survivors. 92 or 93 it was probably biased in favor of proprietary form factors in the retail chain stores.

Seller has loads of PS/2 stuff.
So much so that he threw away cases that had bumps or needed repair, leaving boards behind.
Maybe I have to investigate further into his lair.

Is this gonna be a rabbit hole?

I'm a simple man. I see a Socket 370 board with Universal AGP, ISA slot and Cyrix/VIA CPU support, I buy it. (Seller's photo)

That's one nice board. I have an Epic Epox CU-133A for the Cyrix CPU's, but lacks ISA.

People who don't take the time to disconnect PATA cables drives me a bit mad though. Scrapper method I presume. 🙁

edit: that was an epic typo

appiah4 wrote on 2026-08-05, 14:42:

I'm a simple man. I see a Socket 370 board with Universal AGP, ISA slot and Cyrix/VIA CPU support, I buy it. (Seller's photo)

Nice board!

Looks like the seller was using a period-correct digital camera too! 😁

appiah4 wrote on 2026-08-05, 14:42:

I'm a simple man. I see a Socket 370 board with Universal AGP, ISA slot and Cyrix/VIA CPU support, I buy it. (Seller's photo)

Have a very similar GA-6VXC7-4X-P rev. 5.0. Really nice board. 👍

Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 15:17:

Looks like the seller was using a period-correct digital camera too! 😁

Speaking of vintage digital cameras: I did scavenge quite a few cameras and memory cards from flea markets and e-waste. Will sort them out and post here -- just dunno when. 😅

Thrift pickups...

I misinterpreted the RAM markings at the store, was thinking I was getting an 8MB card, but it's 4MB... I brain farted on the double bank thing, thought it was 2 banks of 512bit not two banks adding up to 512bit, so 2x256. Anyway, my Compaq Virge GX is a solid card, so I wanted to try a Compaq RagePro and have been kinda looking for "ultimate" Rage3 in 350nm for best CIF compatibility/performance since the Rage XL can be a bit iffy and need per game patches. So yeah with 8MB it would have been nice, but I am left to bodge some on or something. Might squeak 110-115mhz out of the RAM though.

Secondly, touchpads, have a couple of external already for tight space use, BUT they have high bezels and half the area, so it's like there's really only 4 separate positions my huge digit can be on them, which ain't real useful. So I will see how these do. Pondering a back of LCD mount trial on a laptop.

BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 20:50:

I misinterpreted the RAM markings at the store, was thinking I was getting an 8MB card, but it's 4MB... I brain farted on the double bank thing, thought it was 2 banks of 512bit not two banks adding up to 512bit, so 2x256. Anyway, my Compaq Virge GX is a solid card, so I wanted to try a Compaq RagePro and have been kinda looking for "ultimate" Rage3 in 350nm for best CIF compatibility/performance since the Rage XL can be a bit iffy and need per game patches. So yeah with 8MB it would have been nice, but I am left to bodge some on or something. Might squeak 110-115mhz out of the RAM though.

Compaq ATi Rage Pro looks bit different than many other Rage Pro / Rage Pro Turbo out there and its also NLX compatible design.

A lot of mostly Socket-A CPUs for a price I couldn't refuse.

Could not read most of the model numbers or speeds from the seller's potato camera pics.

And the picture here is way worse than that because it compressed 1.35MB down to 80KB.

Edit: better pics, but even when saving at 85% quality now, the forum is compressing even more. UGGGHHHHHH.

Edit 2: Saving as 84% and it doesn't kill the pic quality... How stupid.

cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 22:44:

A lot of mostly Socket-A CPUs for a price I couldn't refuse. […]
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A lot of mostly Socket-A CPUs for a price I couldn't refuse.

Could not read most of the model numbers or speeds from the seller's potato camera pics.

And the picture here is way worse than that because it compressed 1.35MB down to 80KB.

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Edit: better pics, but even when saving at 85% quality now, the forum is compressing even more. UGGGHHHHHH.

Edit 2: Saving as 84% and it doesn't kill the pic quality... How stupid.

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The one with the orange plastic is a mobile cpu.
Check the model numbers, I fried a cpu not caring.