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Reply 162 of 1353, by Dant

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sliderider wrote:
badmofo wrote:

It's not the price of this one that made me giggle, but I thought I'd post it here anyway.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sound-Blaster-Live … 3f8483e5&_uhb=1

What exactly is the issue with this one that makes it so interesting?

It's the wrong card...

Reply 164 of 1353, by fillosaurus

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badmofo wrote: It's not the price of this one that made me giggle, but I thought I'd post it here anyway. […]
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badmofo wrote:
It's not the price of this one that made me giggle, but I thought I'd post it here anyway.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sound-Blaste...amp;_uhb=1

What exactly is the issue with this one that makes it so interesting?

Is not a Sb Live.
Is an Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90.

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Reply 166 of 1353, by sliderider

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Jan3Sobieski wrote:

Can anyone tell me what's so special about these floppy disks?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collection-of-3-5-inc … s-/221234437889

Tried buying any in stores lately? The buyer is most likely going to wipe them and reuse them. The software on them isn't anything special.

Reply 167 of 1353, by Jan3Sobieski

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sliderider wrote:
Jan3Sobieski wrote:

Can anyone tell me what's so special about these floppy disks?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collection-of-3-5-inc … s-/221234437889

Tried buying any in stores lately? The buyer is most likely going to wipe them and reuse them. The software on them isn't anything special.

3.5" floppy disks are cheaper than ever before. There are a ton of auctions selling 10 packs for pennies and 100 packs for $20. Most stores around me still carry them and they're cheaper than dirt.

Edit: look: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-HD-High-Density-f … =p2047675.l2557

Reply 168 of 1353, by badmojo

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The price of this is kinda funny but it was the item description that made me laugh:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-PC-486-SX- … 83742ee9&_uhb=1

This is a nice very small and compact computer. Its one of the most desired in the classic computers because its an old TURBO s […]
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This is a nice very small and compact computer.
Its one of the most desired in the classic computers because its an old TURBO speed
computer with a real TURBO button on the front! A BIG TURBO BUTTON!
Its 486 mhz machine because it has a 486SX chip by intel and a blank slot
for another big square processor chip. This is an entire phone system including extremely rare 2ch phone card. There are 4 ram cards in it and 4 blank ram slots. I google searched the chip numbers on the ram cards and calculated the card size that way. The chip numbers on 3 of the cards are all MT4C1024DJ -7
and on the last card the chip numbers are all MCM511000AJ10. These are all 30 pin ram cards and i calculate these are all 8MB of ram each card and there are 4 cards making this system filled with 32MB of ram. I have several more of these 8MB cards if your intrested and will sell them separately.

It seems to have a serial video card that ran the old serial monitors. Please view the photo.
You have to have an old serial monitor to see the video on this unit unless you install VGA video card.
The front has a 3.5 inch floppy. It has
an optional key but i dont have the keys and it has a big toggle switch in front for on/off.
IT was the best machine for its day. The system is in excellent working order.
The hard drive will be removed for privacy.
It comes with a 2 channel V/IP ANALOG VIC FXS/ E&M
That card is marked 100-3686-004 REV D s/n

Reply 170 of 1353, by m1so

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sliderider wrote:

Heh, that's not even retro. Our most known online shop sells them for 143.48 EUR = about 192.4 USD, and that's with VAT http://www.alza.sk/gigabyte-n650toc-2gi-d359942.htm . Wonder what are these e-bay people thinking.

Reply 171 of 1353, by m1919

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I posted this a while back. I think the original price was $999.99

Price went up. 🤣.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SPL-EDN-Win98SE-GAMING … z-/360679930189

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Reply 175 of 1353, by sliderider

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bestemor wrote:

Not quite THAT expensive, but still makes me wonder what I am missing?:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151010736049

Sidenote: regardless of price, any reason I should pick this card over <insert-popular-retro-card-here> ?

An 8-bit ISA PAS might be rare enough to command that price, but the 16-bit ones are more common. The seller may be confusing the two or trying to mislead buyers into thinking it is the rarer one.

Reply 177 of 1353, by badmojo

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Must be all those people out there trying to run a DB on an OPLSAx card driving demand 😵

Nah I think sellers do that because they've run out of stock, and they don't want to pull the listing for whatever reason - save on fees?

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Reply 178 of 1353, by Jan3Sobieski

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badmojo wrote:

Must be all those people out there trying to run a DB on an OPLSAx card driving demand 😵

Nah I think sellers do that because they've run out of stock, and they don't want to pull the listing for whatever reason - save on fees?

I think you're right. If you check history, all the other ones sold for 3.99