Awesome drives

Just payd 130 Danish Kroners for an AWE64-Gold (19,46 US Dollars) including shipping.
Waiting for it to arrive. This is going to be my 3'rd Gold in my collection.

brostenen wrote:

Just payd 130 Danish Kroners for an AWE64-Gold (19,46 US Dollars) including shipping.
Waiting for it to arrive. This is going to be my 3'rd Gold in my collection.

Great card, great price 😀

philscomputerlab wrote:

Great card, great price 😀

Indeed, indeed. The cheapest I got an AWE64-GOLD for, was 50 Danish kroners. (90 including shipping)
It arrived last week. It only needed a shower, then it was like new.
I spotted the card amoungst a bunch of 478/775 era stuff, and asked what he wanted.
He replied with an "Ohhh! that old card, you can have it for 50 kroners". What a day 😁

@brostenen
Congratulations ^^
Do you already have a system for it?

Arctic wrote:

@brostenen
Congratulations ^^
Do you already have a system for it?

Lot's of systems yeah... In a progress of building a SS7 Voodoo3 system.
Just missing a psu for that system. And the third Gold is for storage. 😀

My P133 MS-Dos-6.22 rig is happy running a SB16 CT2910 and my GUS-ACE.
No need for AWE cards in that system, as it's primaery goal is SB16/Adlib/GUS.

Ensoniq Banshee
First 3dfx card bought in this year. 😀

Amazing how hardware this old, can look so new.
Most times, passive coolers this age can have scuff-marks.

brostenen wrote:

Amazing how hardware this old, can look so new.
Most times, passive coolers this age can have scuff-marks.

Maybe it was installed just the once or twice and never thouched thereafter. Or indeed, maybe it hasn't even been used at all.. Or it was soon upgraded upon and swapped out and kept in a bag in the back of a shelf forever more.

Finally got my Sidewinder 3D Pro USB adapter - works like a charm with Win 7 and 8.1 x64

Blurredman wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Amazing how hardware this old, can look so new.
Most times, passive coolers this age can have scuff-marks.

Maybe it was installed just the once or twice and never thouched thereafter. Or indeed, maybe it hasn't even been used at all.. Or it was soon upgraded upon and swapped out and kept in a bag in the back of a shelf forever more.

A seller in the US sold a batch of brandnew Ensoniq banshees that came from the time of merger with creative.
I bought one of them and I got a brandnew ensoniq banshee + creative manual / driver CD (bulk).

Maybe it's one of those 😀 I'll keep mine sealed!

Not computer related but retro nonetheless. Note the civic defense logos on the top row, cool! 😎

It's a Hallicrafters S-107 Mark II short wave radio from the early 60's (1961 I think). I picked it up for $45 locally, and it actually works! All the tubes were fine, it just had a few resistors out of tolerance.

SW - that's cool...

Catch of the day. *Everything* has leaking capacitors! 🤣

What a strange piece of equipment...

The guy has a few left if you want one and has dropped the price, great guy, he added international shipping so I could buy this. You might have to make a wire if you have the laptop and decide to get one of these. As far as I know, it's basically this (Scan from my Zenith SlimsPORT manual);

The laptop, as people who watch my crappy YouTube videos will know, is the Zenith SmilsPORT... An epic 286-16 capable of running 3DBENCH for 45 minutes with the system speed set to FAST on a 25 year old Ni-Cd battery. If I can make this work it will be epic indeed, I will have Ethernet and Sound Blaster audio from a 286 laptop... I want to try adding a SCSI controller and I have some other ideas for add-ons which are probably just wrong and I won't discuss them unless they work.

In other news. I totally called it, the Core 2 Quad is dead, it no longer starts up, instead it infinitely cycles power on and off with no signal, no beeps and no care for whether anything is plugged into it or not. Oh well, good thing I literally just moved back onto my shoddily repaired Pentium D. My E3-1271 is nearly here and I will be able to get the board for that soon... Sorry, not retro, but I'm excited, it will be my first new machine since 2005! (Yeah, I had a Pentium D back then, connections were useful, I miss you "Arthur" where did you go?)... Anyway, it will store and manage files for retro machines, edit videos involving them or be used to help set them up, so it's somewhat relevant.

Back on the Zenith... Yeah, Zenith were the dogs bollocks back then, I sure hope this works, it would be pretty epic to put it back on the internet, even if all it can do is IRC, Telnet and FTP.

schlang wrote:

Finally got my Sidewinder 3D Pro USB adapter - works like a charm with Win 7 and 8.1 x64

It is a slick little device. I've been using mine to play Descent 3 with force feedback.

I was on the waiting list for years before I finally got mine.

HighTreason wrote:

In other news. I totally called it, the Core 2 Quad is dead, it no longer starts up, instead it infinitely cycles power on and off with no signal, no beeps and no care for whether anything is plugged into it or not. Oh well, good thing I literally just moved back onto my shoddily repaired Pentium D. My E3-1271 is nearly here and I will be able to get the board for that soon... Sorry, not retro, but I'm excited, it will be my first new machine since 2005! (Yeah, I had a Pentium D back then, connections were useful, I miss you "Arthur" where did you go?)... Anyway, it will store and manage files for retro machines, edit videos involving them or be used to help set them up, so it's somewhat relevant.

You are cursed when it comes to Core2-based hardware xD. I wonder how your experiences would've been if you went with modded Core2-based Xeons instead of Core2Quads... Surely, Intel's gotta have better quality control on their server line. Anyway, that is soon to become irrelevant, that Haswell Xeon should not only make the Core2Quad and the Pentium D look like jokes, but thanks to the "IPC slowdown" in recent years, unless a massive leap in quantum computing happens, that processor is sure to remain competitive, performance-wise, for quite a while.

Sorting hoarded cards, this one just uploaded to site also with updated 486 tests. Added to graphs Mach32 ISA for comparsion, Trident TGUI9420DGi VLB and Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB VLB. Direct link is http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks/486-tests

joe6pack wrote:

Not computer related but retro nonetheless. Note the civic defense logos on the top row, cool! :cool: http://i.imgur.com/XYg4e […]
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Not computer related but retro nonetheless. Note the civic defense logos on the top row, cool! 😎

It's a Hallicrafters S-107 Mark II short wave radio from the early 60's (1961 I think). I picked it up for $45 locally, and it actually works! All the tubes were fine, it just had a few resistors out of tolerance.

I hope you are going to replace the capacitors.

HighTreason wrote:

What a strange piece of equipment...

Woah, cool, where did you get that?
Nice timing too. Did you see the Zenith 386 I found last saturday? http://imgur.com/a/wXkJF

joe6pack wrote:

It's a Hallicrafters S-107 Mark II short wave radio from the early 60's (1961 I think).

Does it have... an actual circuit board?