Hey, I recognise that small FM radio! Used to have one as a kid too 😀.

Lol I can't tell you how many of those I've seen in junk stores around here.

Nice to see a big brother of my Satellite 200CDT getting showcased. The question is though; can it last for nearly an hour on a full charge like mine still can, with the original battery? 😜

I bought these a few days ago, but they just came today. Close enough.

From top left to bottom: AudioPCI, Matrox Mystique 220, Intel SE440BX-2 (I think so anyways. Seller had "Seattle2" in the title and it sure looks close to an SE440BX-2).

Bought a couple of retro gear past days:

- a generic Voodoo 1 card (condition unknown, not tested yet)

- an S3 based ELSA Winner 2000Pro/X-PCI-4

- a Roland MT-32 (old one) with some scratches & dents, but otherwise fully working. It will make a nice complement to my Roland CM-300 😀

- K5 CPU to my humble collection, supposed to be OK. , I am waiting for the postman

I am sorry for the pictures quality, just made quick shots with my mobile.

98 runs pretty ok if you have 64 MB of RAM especially if you have a 486/100 but even a 66 should be workable.

Its W2K that gets painful

smeezekitty wrote:

98 runs pretty ok if you have 64 MB of RAM especially if you have a 486/100 but even a 66 should be workable.

Its W2K that gets painful

Ever tried XP with only 64 now that makes W2K look a lot better. 😵

Got a box full of stuff from the junkyard again... found many unusual ISA and VLB cards this time. Also some 386 boards with Cyrix 387, are these any good?

I love that every MT-32 has that ring of fingertip-wear around the volume knob.

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That is beautiful. I like the angled front especially. Is the logo correct in that it has a 486DX2?

nforce4max wrote:

smeezekitty wrote:

98 runs pretty ok if you have 64 MB of RAM especially if you have a 486/100 but even a 66 should be workable.

Its W2K that gets painful

Ever tried XP with only 64 now that makes W2K look a lot better. 😵

XP runs badly enough with 256MB, in my experience!

Lukeno94 wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

smeezekitty wrote:

98 runs pretty ok if you have 64 MB of RAM especially if you have a 486/100 but even a 66 should be workable.

Its W2K that gets painful

Ever tried XP with only 64 now that makes W2K look a lot better. 😵

XP runs badly enough with 256MB, in my experience!

Agreed. I can't imagine it on 64MB; I've seen W2k on 64MB and it was bad enough. 😵 But agreed that for 98 it shouldn't be too much of a problem - if memory serves the last 98 install I did it was "idle" on the desktop with only ~30MB of memory in-use (the entire install was only like 200MB), whereas W2k and XP tend to want to hover around 100MB.

I just finished identifying most of the stuff I got today. Here's a list:

1- Video:
2VLB      - Tseng ET4000/W32P (6x)
3VLB      - Diamond Stealth 64
4AGP      - ATi Rage 128 Pro Ultra 32MB
5AGP      - Number Nine SR9 DVI (2x)
6AGP      - nVidia Vanta-16 (2x)
7AGP      - 3dfx Voodoo3 3000
8AGP      - 3dfx Voodoo Banshee (Magic TwinPower)
9PCI      - 3dfx Voodoo3 2000
10PCI      - ATi Mach64 GT (+ daughterboard)
11ISA-8    - ATi Small Wonder Graphics Solution v2
12ISA-8    - V-Tech Laser CGA/Hercules
13ISA-8    - TECMAR (CGA/EGA/Herc???)
14ISA-16   - DFI VG-5000 (Tseng ET4000AX) (5x)
15ISA-16   - Tseng ET4000AX
16ISA-16   - iCL CL-GD5428 (made in Finland!)
17ISA-16   - OAK OTI067 VGA (CGA/EGA/Herc too?)
18ISA-16   - OAK OTI077 VGA (2x)
19ISA-16   - OAK OTI087 VGA
20ISA-16   - OCTEK PVGA1C (WDC WD90C11A)
21ISA-16   - Trident TVGA8900C (4x)
22ISA-16   - Trident TVGA8900D
23ISA-16   - Trident TVGA9000B
24ISA-16   - Trident TVGA9000C (3x)
25ISA-16   - Ahead AVGA V5000
26
27- Audio:
28ISA-16   - Crystal CS4236
29ISA-16   - ASC Trouper 4x4 ??? (broken) (SB16 compatible?)
30ISA-16   - Highscreen Sound-Boostar [sic] 16/32 (AD1816AJS)
31ISA-16   - Yamaha YMF719
32ISA-16   - PC Chips (?) CMI8330A
33ISA-16   - Aztech AZT2320
34PCI      - Creative SB Audigy SB0570
35
36- I/O:
37VLB      - UMC I/O controller
38VLB      - Winbond I/O controller
39ISA-16   - CGS Prime3B I/O controller
40ISA-16   - unknown I/O controller
41ISA-16   - Siemens Nixdorf Profibus adapter ?
42ISA-16   - V-Tech Laser LPT/COM card ?
43ISA-16   - Acer I/O controller (2x)
44ISA-8    - Some more LPT/COM cards (I think)
45PCI      - NetMos NM8935CV dual COM card?
46
47
48- Misc:
49Slot 1   - Asus S370-DL slocket (with retainer clips and voltage select) (6x)
50ISA-16   - Siemens Nixdorf SAS-DUE adapter III ???
51ISA-16   - Artisoft LANTastic 2Mbps
52ISA-16   - 3Com Etherlink III (2x)
53ISA-8    - Logitech Scanman Plus
54ISA-8    - Chinon 43001JC-EP10A card ??? (only external port)
55ISA-8    - WDC WD1002A-WX1 MFM hard drive controller
56ISA-8    - Hewlett-Packard SCSI controller
57PCI      - Lenten RebornXP (14x)
58PCI      - Winbond W89C940F ethernet card
59PCI      - Intel S87557 ethernet card
60

61- Mainboards:
62Slot 1   - Compaq unknown,              i810 (what!), 2x ISA-16,                   5x PCI
63Slot 1   - Gigabyte GA-686KX,           i440FX,      3x ISA-16,                   5x PCI
64Slot 1   - MSI MS-6119,                 i440BX,      3x ISA-16,           1x AGP, 4x PCI
65Socket 7 - Abit AB-AX5,                 i430FX,      4x ISA-16,                   4x PCI
66Socket 3 - Gemlight/Vextrec GMB-486SG,  SiS 85C471,  3x ISA-16,           3x VLB, 
67Socket 3 - Bioteq MB-1433/50UIV-A,      UMC UM4898F, 4x ISA-16,           3x VLB, 
68Socket 3 - unknown,                     ALi M1489,   4x ISA-16,                   3x PCI
69386      - Uniron unknown, Am386SX-25 + Cyrix 387,   6x ISA-16, 1x ISA-8
70386      - unknown,        Am386SX-25,               6x ISA-16, 2x ISA-8
71XT       - unknown,         no CPU,                             8x ISA-8
72XT       - Philips NMS9100 (broken)

I'm especially happy about finding a PCI Voodoo3 and all those Hercules cards 😀
And that Logitech PS/2 card, didn't even know these existed!

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jwt27 wrote:

And that Logitech PS/2 card, didn't even know these existed!

It's probably a MousePort card, not PS/2. (Like this? Bought a Logitech 270120 8bit ISA Mouse port card, any info? )

If it IS a PS/2 card, then we really need to reverse-engineer it pronto.

SquallStrife wrote:

jwt27 wrote:

And that Logitech PS/2 card, didn't even know these existed!

It's probably a MousePort card, not PS/2. (Like this? Bought a Logitech 270120 8bit ISA Mouse port card, any info? )

If it IS a PS/2 card, then we really need to reverse-engineer it pronto.

On closer inspection, you're right, it slightly different from a normal PS/2 port.
Looking up the number on the PCB however, reveals that this is actually a Logitech Scanman Plus card... An interface card to connect a handheld scanner. Oh well. 🙁

🙁

Many disappoint.

Time to upgrade Guile (Dual Slot 1 P3) to silly proportions.

Two 1.4GHz Tualatin PIII's with 512KB Cache. Probably will run them at 1050MHz because I don't like pushing my BX board to 133MHz for long periods of time. These slotkets have their own VRMs onboard to get around the voltage problem, I am prepared for microcode-related warnings.

For those of you who have never encountered the machine and wonder about it's current configuration I did [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1X9HOQ6aKA[/url]a YouTube video on it a long time ago, early into using the formatted... err... format for my videos so it's not perfect. Another will follow in future if the upgrade is successful, planning on jamming a Radeon 4000 in there and seeing what happens if I run Crysis. Tempted to track down the RAIDPort thingy but I probably don't need it.

Got this Big Blue today... I´m not big fan of ibm but it´s kind of cool anyway 😀

IBM 300 GL Model 6282-730. P166 MMX, 64 mb EDO, somekind of hd and cd, haven´t check those out yet. Don´t know if it runs neither.

There's a little moisture inside, think i'm going to let it dry for few days 😀 took the heatsink off and it's cool ceramic MMX...Love those...