I think we may have to coin a new term.... "PeterLI'd"

I'm just sayin!!! 😀

I received some nice gifts from a friend:

a nice looking baby-at tower, just needs a little cleaning 😀

and inside it has a mobo , it's a "486SLE" model (no idea what make or if it's any good) and is a VLB/ISA one... it was an Award BIOS that really makes me wish it works (untested) ... also a 486/66 cpu, a very basic realtek vga and an isa I/O controller

also this SOYO s7 mobo with a Pentium 75mhz cpu, couldn't find a model and it's untested as well...

truth is I only got this bundle for the baby-at tower since they are hard to find, the mobo inside is a nice bonus, I hope it works 😀

Nice find! SIS chipset boards should always be decent. The battery looks fine, maybe even replaced.

The S7 board has an ODIN RTC. So either needs a mod or replacement if you get a battery error.

I bought a set of 4 x 4 MB 30 pins simms like new.

Samsung Spinpoint SV2046D - 20 GB just for 1 euro, and 10 euro shipping from germany.

Two Western Digital 40GB Internal IDE / 7200rpm 8.50 euros for both drives.

Two Western Digital 80GB Internal IDE /7200rpm

keropi wrote:

I received some nice gifts from a friend:

a nice looking baby-at tower, just needs a little cleaning 😀

Love that case, it should clean up really well. It's always good to get the original drive covers and a fake floppy drive cover always brings a smile to my dial 🤣

Some of my latest freebies:

Epox P55-VX Socket 7 board, with a P166 and (I think) 96MB worth of EDO RAM.

Intel Plato 430NX board, with a gold-top P90 and some unknown RAM... probably 4MB sticks.

STB Lightspeed 128 (Tseng ET6000 2MB), STB Powergraph Pro (S3 864 2MB), STB Powergraph 64V (S3 Trio64 2MB), plus some random ISA NICs and a Yamaha YMF-71x card.

One of those cool Epson combo floppy drives, and a Newtronics/Mitsumi 1.2MB drive with an unusual faceplate.

A SCSI internal Zip drive. I'm really happy about this one... the ATAPI ones are common as dirt, but the SCSI ones are damned hard to come by.

And finally, a Pentium MMX 200 Overdrive and a neat K6-2 case badge.

Not a bad haul, I'd say. 😎

keropi wrote:

also this SOYO s7 mobo with a Pentium 75mhz cpu, couldn't find a model and it's untested as well...

IIRC the model is a 5TC2. I used to have one of those... I may even still have the manual for it around here somewhere. I remember it being decent enough as far as 430FX boards go...

IIT 387 co-processor 40mhz

Thunderboard? Nice work!

Not quite as good of a deal as yours, but I nabbed one this am as well!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231122269580

Some stuff i picked up lately:

3 SS7 motherboards,all with the Via Mvp3 chipset:

Soyo sy 5-ehm v1.0

PcChips M577

Acorp 5Via77

Voodoo 3 3000,i already have 1

Intel 740 videocard,unknown manufacturer with 8 mb of ram

Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo Graphics 4mb ram

Stb Nitro 3D S3 Virge Gx 4mb ram

Creative SoundBlaster Awe64

Artex wrote:

Thunderboard? Nice work!

Not quite as good of a deal as yours, but I nabbed one this am as well!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231122269580

It's not the card that was BIN'ed in USA at $20. I bought mine in Ukraine using a middleman.

My card is rev 03D, that one which went for $20 is rev 03, yours should be 03F if I get it correctly from ebay pics.

Nice gear guys!

I can see a lot of AT based Socket 7 gear being sold and bought. Very nice 😀

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Got this a while ago but only now the time to test it 😀

The ET4000 is old however and works fully.

Today I played with VLB for the first time. Foxed up a Biostar motherboard, got all the manuls, jumpered it correctly with a 486SX 25MHz, de-soldered the RTC, and installed a socketed Dallas, installed 256KB Cache and it's working again. I did have a VLB IDE controller and that also works.

But now I tested these two VLB graphics cards. Funny enough the ISA ET4000 beats the VLB card. The Trident card has memory missing. What chips would I need?

Slower than ISA ET4000 VLB card:

^ that weitek chip IIRC is a gui accelerator or something , it could be a fast win3x vga

keropi wrote:

^ that weitek chip IIRC is a gui accelerator or something , it could be a fast win3x vga

Oh I See 😀

So I stole some memory from my Acer 486, which has an onboard ATI but the Trident VLB isn't any better. Same score as the ISAET4000 with a 486SX-25 that is.

have a look here, I think that's the drivers: http://www.weitek.com/textual/support/driver.html

keropi wrote:

^ that weitek chip IIRC is a gui accelerator or something , it could be a fast win3x vga

Yes that's my understanding too, I have a massive PCI card which uses the weitek chipset which has heatsinks and generally looks very impressive, but the DOS performance is awful.

Your viper would have cost a bomb back in the day though!

That trident is the lowest of the low. Great compatibility I think but I've tried a few recently and they all have shocking output quality.

badmojo wrote:

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keropi wrote:

^ that weitek chip IIRC is a gui accelerator or something , it could be a fast win3x vga

Yes that's my understanding too, I have a massive PCI card which uses the weitek chipset which has heatsinks and generally looks very impressive, but the DOS performance is awful.

Your viper would have cost a bomb back in the day though!

That trident is the lowest of the low. Great compatibility I think but I've tried a few recently and they all have shocking output quality.

Ah I see it now!

The Viper has a separate chip for DOS from OAK. OAK must have made the slowest VGA cards for DOS 😀

PS: Are there decent benchmarks to test these "Windows acceleration" features?

Got a Cyrix MII 366GP 100x2.5 for a good price. I'd been eyeing one of these for a while since the 400GP and 433GP versions are so hard to find. I finally found one listed for about 25% below the usual price they are listed for and with free shipping.