H3nrik V! wrote on 2026-10-29, 20:39:

At just shy of $50 shipped, I couldn't help but pull the trigger on a PODP5V not knowing whether it's a 63 or 83 MHz. If it's a 63, it's an addition to my collection, if it's 83, hopefully it'll run @100, which my current PODP5V83 doesn't, and then I'll probably flip one of them ...

Showed up yesterday ... Seems a bit interesting: Is this a legit PODP5V83 ES anyone care to share their thoughts?

Bought a Toshiba Satellite 2180CDT. Worked for half a hour then died. 🙁 Waiting on a 4070CDT now.

Another arrival today, I wasn't even aware these existed when they were current but it's a sweet little box that should make a good dos gamer!

Spec is
ASUS P/I-AP55T Motherboard with riser card
ATI Maché64 onboard with expansion to 2MB
Onboard Vibra 16s
Pentium 133MHz
48MB Memory
8x CD-ROM drive

I need to not only work out where the hard drive is meant to mount, but find one of a suitable size or replace altogether with an ide to sd setup or similar! This machine is really compact, I may have to try and find an original voodoo or similar for it!

gmaverick2k wrote on 2026-10-31, 20:03:

Thanks, came with the 2.5".. will post some pics in post your battlestations thread (actually halloween thread). tried to get silver disk drive working but its dead and the psu doesnt give 5v to disk... came with 2200+, put a 1500+ athlon mobile 4 in thinking put less strain on old psu. tried a dead 2600+, asked google AI which is best chip I have on hand, it suggested 2200+ thorton was so that went in.
Had the win98 sticker for more than a decade ago, on it goes to this build. can finally move the two atx builds i have in here out (qdi advance 10t & a7v333)

Looks mint! The case seems to be in excellent condition. Win 98 sticker is a nice touch.

RetroAddict wrote on 2026-11-01, 18:00:

classic_cola wrote on 2026-10-22, 20:43:

oldGPU wrote on 2026-10-21, 03:25:

Great condition! What speeds do you get on the CF reader?

Good question, haven't tested CF speeds yet. Was delighted with the condition! The only small complaint I had was that in shipping, one of the plastic hooks next to the socket had snapped off, the ones that the cooler retention bracket clips on to. Fortunately there are two hooks each side, and seems okay on the one good hook so far.

I guess after 30 years, some of the plastics get a bit brittle.

How are you finding the machine, hopefully it scratched your retro itch?! I've got a soft spot for the omega machines myself! That, RM and Tiny unfortunately too! Have plenty of 3 clip fans if you still need one - free of course!

Haha it's my eBay seller!

Yes I'm delighted with it, with the socket 370 cooler I've had no issues.

I only have a small collection of vintage PCs. A 486DX-33 from 1992, a Duron machine from 2000, and this one sits perfectly in between them. Very happy.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-03-03, 08:20:

I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero i […]
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I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero information about the existence of this machine online aside from the trademark registration in 1993 and one 20 year old post from someone saying they repurposed the chassis of one of these.

It's a Dell Exclaim 486/50 (DX2-50) desktop, with original keyboard, mouse and monitor in original box. As a bonus, someone had upgraded this with a Media Vision multimedia kit, so it has a PAS16, 2x SCSI CDROM and fancy Labtec stereo speakers! So far, everything works, and the CRT is absolutely gorgeous! Perfect blacks, excellent color.

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I found it listed recently and managed to get it for a great price in untested condition. Thankfully, the seller not only packaged it back into the box appropriately (base off of monitor, original packaging in place and double boxed to protect the artwork!!).

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Inside it is incredibly clean and the CMOS battery is, thankfully, external. It had slightly corroded the battery negative battery pin but there appears to be no damage on the top of the board (haven't pulled it yet to check the back). Everything else seems to be working great though! I get a tiny bit of sporadic noise from the power supply so I will probably crack that open and see how things look in there.

To my astonishment, I managed to get the hard drive reading by just setting the drive parameters to auto (not as shown in the picture above... those are the defaults due to the lack of battery) and rebooting the PC. It has DOS, Windows 3.1 and an interesting startup program called Dell Library Menu.

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Also, there are hand-written labels on the pull tabs on all of the drive ribbon cables... but not on the CD-ROM cable which was added later. Surely, the writing didn't come from Dell, did it? 🤣

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Anyway, I plan on making a thread about this but I had to post something now. I'm super excited to get it 100% cleaned up and to get all the kinks worked out.
From my reading online, non-business-oriented Dell PCs were barely a thing in 1993, which is when this was manufactured. It's very well built too. The back of the chassis is painted and looks very "premium", except for the fact that the keyboard "hole" is obviously DIN\AT sized but has a PS/2 port in the middle of it... which tells me this case wasn't tooled exactly for this machine.

I know.. old post but I unearthed one of these systems. Anyone know the mounting situation is with the 5.25 bays? Do they need rails?

SGT-Pentium4 wrote on 2026-11-07, 00:51:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-03-03, 08:20:

I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero i […]
Show full quote

I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero information about the existence of this machine online aside from the trademark registration in 1993 and one 20 year old post from someone saying they repurposed the chassis of one of these.

It's a Dell Exclaim 486/50 (DX2-50) desktop, with original keyboard, mouse and monitor in original box. As a bonus, someone had upgraded this with a Media Vision multimedia kit, so it has a PAS16, 2x SCSI CDROM and fancy Labtec stereo speakers! So far, everything works, and the CRT is absolutely gorgeous! Perfect blacks, excellent color.

The attachment 20230302_202829 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

I found it listed recently and managed to get it for a great price in untested condition. Thankfully, the seller not only packaged it back into the box appropriately (base off of monitor, original packaging in place and double boxed to protect the artwork!!).

The attachment 20230302_185123 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Inside it is incredibly clean and the CMOS battery is, thankfully, external. It had slightly corroded the battery negative battery pin but there appears to be no damage on the top of the board (haven't pulled it yet to check the back). Everything else seems to be working great though! I get a tiny bit of sporadic noise from the power supply so I will probably crack that open and see how things look in there.

To my astonishment, I managed to get the hard drive reading by just setting the drive parameters to auto (not as shown in the picture above... those are the defaults due to the lack of battery) and rebooting the PC. It has DOS, Windows 3.1 and an interesting startup program called Dell Library Menu.

The attachment 20230302_204141 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Also, there are hand-written labels on the pull tabs on all of the drive ribbon cables... but not on the CD-ROM cable which was added later. Surely, the writing didn't come from Dell, did it? 🤣

The attachment 20230302_191328 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Anyway, I plan on making a thread about this but I had to post something now. I'm super excited to get it 100% cleaned up and to get all the kinks worked out.
From my reading online, non-business-oriented Dell PCs were barely a thing in 1993, which is when this was manufactured. It's very well built too. The back of the chassis is painted and looks very "premium", except for the fact that the keyboard "hole" is obviously DIN\AT sized but has a PS/2 port in the middle of it... which tells me this case wasn't tooled exactly for this machine.

I know.. old post but I unearthed one of these systems. Anyone know the mounting situation is with the 5.25 bays? Do they need rails?

I just checked and I never took any pictures of the drives or drive cage removed from the system, but from what I can tell there is no gap between the side of a 5.25" drive and the drive cage, so I don't think there is any room for removable rails. The Exclaim I had used a pretty outdated style of case so it probably goes together in layers (having to take parts out to work your way to the drives) more like an IBM PC\XT than like newer systems with rails that are easy to access.

(See the red circled area in this picture. It seems like there is no space for a rail at least on the left side of this CD-ROM.)

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2026-11-07, 03:10:

I just checked and I never took any pictures of the drives or drive cage removed from the system, but from what I can tell there […]
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SGT-Pentium4 wrote on 2026-11-07, 00:51:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-03-03, 08:20:

I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero i […]
Show full quote

I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero information about the existence of this machine online aside from the trademark registration in 1993 and one 20 year old post from someone saying they repurposed the chassis of one of these.

It's a Dell Exclaim 486/50 (DX2-50) desktop, with original keyboard, mouse and monitor in original box. As a bonus, someone had upgraded this with a Media Vision multimedia kit, so it has a PAS16, 2x SCSI CDROM and fancy Labtec stereo speakers! So far, everything works, and the CRT is absolutely gorgeous! Perfect blacks, excellent color.

The attachment 20230302_202829 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

I found it listed recently and managed to get it for a great price in untested condition. Thankfully, the seller not only packaged it back into the box appropriately (base off of monitor, original packaging in place and double boxed to protect the artwork!!).

The attachment 20230302_185123 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Inside it is incredibly clean and the CMOS battery is, thankfully, external. It had slightly corroded the battery negative battery pin but there appears to be no damage on the top of the board (haven't pulled it yet to check the back). Everything else seems to be working great though! I get a tiny bit of sporadic noise from the power supply so I will probably crack that open and see how things look in there.

To my astonishment, I managed to get the hard drive reading by just setting the drive parameters to auto (not as shown in the picture above... those are the defaults due to the lack of battery) and rebooting the PC. It has DOS, Windows 3.1 and an interesting startup program called Dell Library Menu.

The attachment 20230302_204141 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Also, there are hand-written labels on the pull tabs on all of the drive ribbon cables... but not on the CD-ROM cable which was added later. Surely, the writing didn't come from Dell, did it? 🤣

The attachment 20230302_191328 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Anyway, I plan on making a thread about this but I had to post something now. I'm super excited to get it 100% cleaned up and to get all the kinks worked out.
From my reading online, non-business-oriented Dell PCs were barely a thing in 1993, which is when this was manufactured. It's very well built too. The back of the chassis is painted and looks very "premium", except for the fact that the keyboard "hole" is obviously DIN\AT sized but has a PS/2 port in the middle of it... which tells me this case wasn't tooled exactly for this machine.

I know.. old post but I unearthed one of these systems. Anyone know the mounting situation is with the 5.25 bays? Do they need rails?

I just checked and I never took any pictures of the drives or drive cage removed from the system, but from what I can tell there is no gap between the side of a 5.25" drive and the drive cage, so I don't think there is any room for removable rails. The Exclaim I had used a pretty outdated style of case so it probably goes together in layers (having to take parts out to work your way to the drives) more like an IBM PC\XT than like newer systems with rails that are easy to access.

(See the red circled area in this picture. It seems like there is no space for a rail at least on the left side of this CD-ROM.)

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Awesome! I bought one at eBay prices and had no pictures of the interior. It’s like buying a 🤣 Surprise box. I know it boots to bios and the hard drive is dead. I’m also betting he bought it at a yard sale or picked it up on garbage day. https://ebay.io/m/l7kMch

I’m more of an XP guy but wanted something earlier in my collection. I’m planning a 313 BBS tribute for a computer show and wanted something period correct.

SGT-Pentium4 wrote on 2026-11-07, 12:19:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2026-11-07, 03:10:

I just checked and I never took any pictures of the drives or drive cage removed from the system, but from what I can tell there […]
Show full quote

SGT-Pentium4 wrote on 2026-11-07, 00:51:

I know.. old post but I unearthed one of these systems. Anyone know the mounting situation is with the 5.25 bays? Do they need rails?

I just checked and I never took any pictures of the drives or drive cage removed from the system, but from what I can tell there is no gap between the side of a 5.25" drive and the drive cage, so I don't think there is any room for removable rails. The Exclaim I had used a pretty outdated style of case so it probably goes together in layers (having to take parts out to work your way to the drives) more like an IBM PC\XT than like newer systems with rails that are easy to access.

(See the red circled area in this picture. It seems like there is no space for a rail at least on the left side of this CD-ROM.)

The attachment 20230325_163734 (Custom).jpg is no longer available

Awesome! I bought one at eBay prices and had no pictures of the interior. It’s like buying a 🤣 Surprise box. I know it boots to bios and the hard drive is dead. I’m also betting he bought it at a yard sale or picked it up on garbage day. https://ebay.io/m/l7kMch

I’m more of an XP guy but wanted something earlier in my collection. I’m planning a 313 BBS tribute for a computer show and wanted something period correct.

Nice! It's possible the hard drive may be okay.

As mentioned in the post you quoted, mine just needed the hard drive configuration set to auto... Which for some reason wasn't the default when the battery was dead. Once I did that it booted to the original OS with some funky Dell software on it.

Why show off one thing when you can show off three...

Last month I bought a Creative X-Fi Champion edition complete in original box. I wanted the (reasonably) best possible sound card for my XP rocket and I'm a sucker for bay units. This was just before the rather extreme price hike on these top of the range X-Fi's, so I lucked out. Next to it is the original box of the Creative Voodoo² 12MB, which I bought new back in the day. These days I run two in SLI in the W98 rocket. I still have all the games that came with it minus Actua Soccer 2 which I never played and lost years ago.

In front is the craziest lightgun ever. It is huge, modular (headstock and long nozzle can be removed to create different guns) and perhaps just a bit too realistic. It came with the most luxuruous version of the Tandy TV Scoreboard of all consoles. That is the version with colour, the largest amount of games, a knob infested console, two paddles, a hand throttle (also on the photo) and this military spec lightgun. I bought that console, again in its original box, a while ago as they tend to be dirt cheap while they do pack a good Pong with analog control.

I didn't buy this case today (seller's photos), but I received it from the seller today. I decided to build a beige computer out of the Coppermine P3 1GHz and Tyan Trinity 400 I recently purchased. I found this case sold as an open box on eBay. I probably paid too much ($130 shipped), but I really liked the look.

I was hoping to find a beige ATX mid-tower with translucent plastic accents for a bit more of a turn of the century build, but this one looks gloriously gawdy. It's a bit more modern with silver accents and a side window with mounted fan. I'd say it's from the 2005 / 2006 timeframe since it came with a 400W power supply with 2x SATA power connectors. The beige paint looks simply sublime.

I only opened the box to make sure none of the plastic broke in shipping. It looks like it arrived in excellent condition, and the plastic wrap is still sealed around the case. I'm going to tape it back up and ask my wife to give it to me as a birthday present in a few weeks. I don't mind waiting and letting the anticipation build.

fosterwj03 wrote on Yesterday, 03:06:

I was hoping to find a beige ATX mid-tower with translucent plastic accents for a bit more of a turn of the century build, but this one looks gloriously gawdy.

Your PSU assembly with SATA and 24-pin is post-2003, but the design of your case could be earlier because a side window with a fan was already a popular characteristic in 2002. Any chrome trim is hard to judge because fan grills were always chrome.Attached supporting evidence from a-top.com

I had a similar timeline concern when rehoming my Athlon64 (2003) into black case with round chrome buttons (2013), but my concern has eased after seeing a-top.com had already anticipated/sold that aesthetic in 2002! All I need to do is find some gaudy blue neon strips.. 😁

I think that Quantum case is perfect for a turn of the century vibe. It combines 90's dipped in plastic forms with 90's tribal shapes and nillies "Oakley cool organic shapes".

MattRocks wrote on Yesterday, 04:22:

fosterwj03 wrote on Yesterday, 03:06:

I was hoping to find a beige ATX mid-tower with translucent plastic accents for a bit more of a turn of the century build, but this one looks gloriously gawdy.

Your PSU assembly with SATA and 24-pin is post-2003, but the design of your case could be earlier because a side window with a fan was already a popular characteristic in 2002. Any chrome trim is hard to judge because fan grills were always chrome.Attached supporting evidence from a-top.com

I had a similar timeline concern when rehoming my Athlon64 (2003) into black case with round chrome buttons (2013), but my concern has eased after seeing a-top.com had already anticipated/sold that aesthetic in 2002! All I need to do is find some gaudy blue neon strips.. 😁

You make excellent points. I have to admit, I didn't keep up with astetic trends closely back then, so my memory is pretty rusty about the era.

It's also possible that it's an older case design that the manufacturer updated with a contemporary PSU late in the product cycle. I wonder if the parts package that came with the case will include some documentation that will give clues of who made the case and when.

Nicolas 2000 wrote on Yesterday, 09:57:

I think that Quantum case is perfect for a turn of the century vibe. It combines 90's dipped in plastic forms with 90's tribal shapes and nillies "Oakley cool organic shapes".

That's exactly the kind of style I wanted 😉.

The faux handle on top really sells the look.

Few days ago I got a hold of Leadtek A360LE, an FX 5700 LE card, 128-Bit version. I got it rather cheap, 15 USD and had 0 expectations. At first the card didn't fire up... so I thought that's that... but it seems it was just sitting off power too long, because after 5-6 attempts it booted up perfectly, ran NFSU, 3D mark, Tomb Raider Legend, all fine. Left it off power over night, and booted up fine again. Reflashed the BIOS to prevent bit rot, and it goes on the shelf for a while. Very happy with this find 😀

Finally got this to my collection. Not that I had been super actively searching, but occasionally checking if somewhat reasonably priced units would pop up:

This is of course the Intel Premiere PCI/ED aka "Batman's Revenge" and with the just "Batman" among the first Socket 4 Pentium motherboards from 1993. It came with 32MB RAM, IO cables/brackets and above all with Pentium 60 SX835 CPU which still carries the infamous FDIV bug. Both the nature and where this motherboard stood on the marketplace and the CPU with a bug makes this combo IMO historically interesting.

It should be in fully working condition sans the empty Dallas. I might swap this combo with my Zida 4DPS mobo and AMD 486DX4-120 CPU in one of my builds at somepoint, but I more or less bought this because of what it is and as of now I have no serious plans what I'm going to do with it.

RetroAddict wrote on 2026-11-05, 23:19:

Another arrival today, I wasn't even aware these existed when they were current but it's a sweet little box that should make a good dos gamer!

Oh I love these.

Nicolas 2000 wrote on 2026-11-08, 20:18:

In front is the craziest lightgun ever. It is huge, modular (headstock and long nozzle can be removed to create different guns) and perhaps just a bit too realistic.

This is so cool.

fosterwj03 wrote on Yesterday, 03:06:

I was hoping to find a beige ATX mid-tower with translucent plastic accents for a bit more of a turn of the century build, but this one looks gloriously gawdy.

Man, the case designs back then were SO much fun. So awful, yet so perfect at the same time.

Shader_BiH wrote on Yesterday, 22:52:

Few days ago I got a hold of Leadtek A360LE

A Leadtek A360LE for $15 that runs everything find — awesome. I feel like all my $15 finds end up being e-waste. 🙁

CharlieFoxtrot wrote on Today, 10:44:

This is of course the Intel Premiere PCI/ED aka "Batman's Revenge" and with the just "Batman"

I miss the days of copyright-infringing codenames. Nice pickup!

Today I had a seriously lucky day... I went to the flea market and found a very dirty XFX 5870 Radeon... When I looked at it, my immediate thought was, there is no chance this works. There was sand... and mud in it... on the PCB and outside... So I gave 3 USD for it, and I planed to remove the heatsink and present a nice big PCB with Cypress XT core as display. When I got home I disassembled it and started cleaning it with isopropyl pads and spray cans, but it was so bad... that those didn't help. So in the end I decided, for the first time in my life, to wash a PCB, with water and soap... in the sink... and I did 🤣

After that I dried it for about 4 hours in front of fan, with mild temperature, and then I decided to take a risk and try it in my PC. I plugged everything in and kept my hand on the switch to turn everything off if things start burning or exploding. And then, it just booted... it just booted, went into Windows 10, took the drivers, and ran 3D mark, Tomb Raider Underworld, Blades of time, like a champ.... with perfect voltages, temps and stability... No hitches, no stutters, no graphical corruptions, absolutely 0 issues....

To be honest I am still shocked by this result. I never got to wash a graphics card... or any PCB for that matter, I just couldn't get over that somehow. As Jensen says, "It just works".

I also grabed a 9800 GX2 EVGA for same money, didn't wash it yet though... it's in the same mud and sand condition. Both cards actually look like they were in a flood or something...