Got the CD-ROM drives in yesterday. It came with a Mitsumi / Panasonic 8BIT ISA controller card as well. So I got the Mitsumi double speed to work. Had to disable COM2 to use IRQ3. IRQ 2/9 is MPU-401, IRQ 5 is LPT1 and IRQ 7 is CT1350. It also came with a CT1350. 😀

Also picked up a 486DX2-66 desktop (works:allbeit flaky: VLB I/O & VGA do not) and AMD K6 mini tower (does not work yet: came with spare MOBO). I will use the desktop for a Pentium 233 MMX I am building and sell the rest. The AMD K6 has a CT3600 in it.

Had a nice little find today, popped into my local electronics repair shop to collect a motherboard i'd left there for recapping. Got talking old PC's with the owner, long story short, I got all these CPU's 😀 27 in total for £20, all are working, he just wanted to clear out his old stock, most came in bags marked with the prices, £25 for a Pentium 4 1.3 anyone?? These are real OLD stock 😀
Socket 370 chips : Celeron 667,1000,1400 Pentium III 733(x2), 866,933.
Socket 423(!!) chips : Pentium 4 1.3(x2),1.7,1.8
Socket A chips: Duron 650(x4), Duron 1100, Athlon XP 1500+, XP 1600+,XP 2000+, XP 2400+(x2), Geode NX 1750+, Semperon 2800+
Socket 478: Pentium 4 M 1.6
Celeron M 1.4,1.5
Pentium M 1.4
Core Duo 1.733.

easy_john wrote:

Solarstorm wrote:

If you have suggestions feel free to comment here or on the video.

I do not want to criticize, but the first 5 minutes of video about nothing. Show docbox and phase x64 can be take 20 seconds. Need to better plan what you want to show.
The second 5 minutes if only for sound. It could be better if you shown midi score on the monitor.

No problem.
TBH i didn't even had plan what to show. (except the testing of the card)
It was very impromptu and spontaneous.
Like i was opening the case of the card and suddenly "hm, i can record this and upload it" 😁

Roland LAPC-I vs. IBM PC Music Feature card:

More or less same size. Full length ISA, if I get it right.

Turtle Beach Multisound Classic vs. IBM PC Music Feature card:

The Multisound is obviously shorter by a couple of millimeters.

No wonder he hadn't sold a 1.3 GHz P4 for £25 - that's a ridiculously slow chip, and you can get a 1.4GHz P4 S423 on eBay for £2.95 right now! Still, a very nice find, and if you've got the systems for them, it might be interesting to do some benchmarking with them (Celeron 1400 v Pentium 4 1800 might be an interesting comparison).

I found S423 1.4 and 1.5 GHz models dirt cheap here.
Thought since they were crap no one wants them.
As well with adapter for Slot 478.

Stojke wrote:

I found S423 1.4 and 1.5 GHz models dirt cheap here.
Thought since they were crap no one wants them.
As well with adapter for Slot 478.

I already have skt 478 willamette's at 1.4 & 1.5. Never knew there were adaptors for 423>478, custom heatsink required as well I'd assume, interesting, now I want one 😀

Lukeno94 wrote:

No wonder he hadn't sold a 1.3 GHz P4 for £25 - that's a ridiculously slow chip, and you can get a 1.4GHz P4 S423 on eBay for £2.95 right now! Still, a very nice find, and if you've got the systems for them, it might be interesting to do some benchmarking with them (Celeron 1400 v Pentium 4 1800 might be an interesting comparison).

Those prices were from 2002 when these chips were last on display in the shop, £35 for XP2400+, £10 for PIII 733mhz, Celeron 1200 £15. I'm much happier with the 75p each I paid 😀 I don't have a tulatin board, or socket 423 sadly, but it's cool to have them, I'm sure one day.............

478>423 is what i meant, the other way around would be kinda weird 😁

BSA Starfire wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

No wonder he hadn't sold a 1.3 GHz P4 for £25 - that's a ridiculously slow chip, and you can get a 1.4GHz P4 S423 on eBay for £2.95 right now! Still, a very nice find, and if you've got the systems for them, it might be interesting to do some benchmarking with them (Celeron 1400 v Pentium 4 1800 might be an interesting comparison).

Those prices were from 2002 when these chips were last on display in the shop, £35 for XP2400+, £10 for PIII 733mhz, Celeron 1200 £15. I'm much happier with the 75p each I paid 😀 I don't have a tulatin board, or socket 423 sadly, but it's cool to have them, I'm sure one day.............

Ah, my bad - but how on earth did he not manage to shift a XP2400+ in 2002 for £35? Even a couple of years down the line that would've been an absolute bargain - I didn't have a system with anything better until about 2007, when my Athlon XP 2200+ system was replaced by a shitty Dell Inspiron 531, with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+... How I don't miss that Dell. Inadequate RAM, awful motherboard with the slowest SATA speeds ever, weak CPU, junk power supply that couldn't pull its label ratings, no IDE support so I couldn't keep the DVD drive I had in my previous system, a DVD drive that crapped out after a couple of years... the only good thing was a card reader I still have.

With my head in india;

Solarstorm wrote:

It was very impromptu and spontaneous.
Like i was opening the case of the card and suddenly "hm, i can record this and upload it" 😁

I do the same. Life is too busy to do fancy editing and voice overs 😀 Raw is good!

Got an original box Pro Audio Spectrum (PAS) 8 bit today (with blue caps), original disks and manuals...I have never seen the original box for this card, until now.

retrofanatic wrote:

Got an original box Pro Audio Spectrum (PAS) 8 bit today (with blue caps), original disks and manuals...I have never seen the original box for this card, until now.

Wow! One of the most rare soundcards around! I had two of them, both with black caps. Never seen the box either.

I had two 3,5" driver disks but one of them was faulty. Hope you can properly read yours and upload their contents to Vogonsdrivers.

bristlehog wrote:

I had two 3,5" driver disks but one of them was faulty. Hope you can properly read yours and upload their contents to Vogonsdrivers.

I was thinking that since I don't think I saw the disks on vogonsdrivers....I can also try to scan the manual if I can get my flatbed scanner setup....very busy at work lately, but I will try to upload soon.

Can you upload some high resolution pictures?

I have uploaded what I could salvage to Vogons drivers: link. However, two files are still missing, one of them plain mscdex.exe, the second is some DLL seemingly related to Windows 3.1 part.

Agreed with Stojke, the high res pics and manual scan would be much appreciated.

Love the artwork on that PAS box - Great '90s vibe!

AWESOME! That is sooooo rare! Nice work!

Congratulations! Great find! 😀

Thanks....and yes I will take high res pics as well...

How do I upload to vogons drivers?

Edit: nevermind...just saw this topic Topic 39122