Just to stay on mobile-phone-topic, I just gave up my modern ASUS Fonepad for one of my desires since a long time... the legendary Nokia n900, the latest real Nokia with a Linux core (2009)! I find it amazing as mobile and "small laptop", with hidden physical keyboard and no more Android and its useless apps... I updated the n900 with power-user kernel and unofficial community update - I've found my BBS/Telnet/SSH client too, SyncTerm, for it! I just have to wait until the arrival of the new battery, not original but increased in terms of power.

Indrid Cold wrote:

Just to stay on mobile-phone-topic, I just gave up my modern ASUS Fonepad for one of my desires since a long time... the legendary Nokia n900, the latest real Nokia with a Linux core (2009)! .

Damn it, this is on my list of regrets as I sold mine 3 years ago to help pay my rent at the time. Loved that phone. CTRL-ALT-T straight into the terminal!

This months haul from the local electronics fest. haven't tested anything yet but was told it works.

haven't opened this one up yet. assume its an 8088

the Thunderboard box is missing the actual sound card but it looks like all the floppies and manual stuff is in there. Have no idea what the Model pk-232 thing is but the guy said it came with the c64 and was a modem.

total paid $9

soviet conscript wrote:

total paid $9

Right then, when can I come visit?

soviet conscript wrote:

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This months haul from the local electronics fest. haven't tested anything yet but was told it works.

haven't opened this one up yet. assume its an 8088

the Thunderboard box is missing the actual sound card but it looks like all the floppies and manual stuff is in there. Have no idea what the Model pk-232 thing is but the guy said it came with the c64 and was a modem.

total paid $9

The PK232 is an Amateur Radio device
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/tnc/pk232.html

While the major feature is packet radio, it also support RTTY teletype, AMTOR and even Morse code

Just won these:

See anything nice? It was the PCI graphics cards that caught my eye. Looking forward to benchmarking this lot!

I got some new 486 gear 😀

My plan is to replace the stuff I threw away during the dark years when I thought old computers were useless 😜

I wanted a PCI 486 system to mimic my last 486 system (DX2-80) I used during 1995, I bought the same board as I used back then, the Asus PVI-486SP3. I also bought two Lucky Star LS486E and Im satisfied with the least broken of the two which seems more practical than the Asus board as it supports large HDDs. I will probably try to replace the board with something better in time and I need a less voltage hungry AMD 5x86p75 but at least I have a 486 PCI system up and running.

I want a VESA Local bus system as I had an Olivetti VESA system back in 1994, I have bough one "untested" board so far but it turned out to be dead. I also wanted an ISA 486 system even though I never really had an ISA only 486 system with the exception of an IBM 486SX-25 I took as a trade in ~1997 but never used.

Now I think I have a good contender for the ISA system 😀

I bought a Shuttle HOT-403, maxed out with 256KB Cache and 32MB memory! The board came with a 486DX-33 CPU, it supports the DX50 but I think I will get a 40 MHz crystal and run a DX2-66 @80 Mhz. The board seems to be in perfect shape, I have seen brand new boards coming right out of the box in worse shape so I would rate this board 11 on a scale from 1-10. I have not tested it yet but it was sold as working by a seller with 100% rating so Im not the least worried.

The board also came with a Tseng ET4000AX and an ISA I/O card.

I paid 17.50 euro + 9 euro shipping from Germany and it was not a last second snipe. I have no idea why there were so few bidders on this bundle as the video card alone normally goes for the amount I paid. 😀

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PeterLI wrote:

Sometimes eBay has nice surprises.

BTW: why not use a am486DX2-80?

The 5V ones are pretty rare and my Intel DX2-66 works perfectly at 80 MHz. Overclocking can never™ damage a CPU as long as its not running too hot but overvolting a 3.3V chip at 5V probably could, at least with some bad luck and time.

Things I purchased this and last week:

1- Goldstart Prime 2C based Multi-IO ISA card
2- Two W27E257 EEPROMs (should be compatible with 27E256 EPROMs)
3- AMD K6-2 500MHz (under US$ 2.00 from the same seller as the Multi-IO - almost a freebie!)

4- Two NOS ATX cases. My K6-2 system has been transfered to the beige-only one, the blue one will be the home of a Duron system in the near future! They came missing the feet and standoffs, but I managed to get them from older busted ATX cases.

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For some reason, there was a bunch of retro hardware at a Value Village near me:

I picked these up:

Creative Graphics Blaster CT6710 (nVidia RIVA TNT)

Diamond Stealth II G460 - Should've checked before buying: Intel graphics processor. Oh well...

Now that's what I'm talking about! Velocity 100 8MB 3DFx Voodoo 3.
My previous 3DFx died a few weeks ago, not sure why.. but this one will work. Especially for 6$ 😀

Some odd ISA sound card (Opti Sound 16 82C931)...Has a wavetable connector! I was looking for one to try out the WaveBlaster I had found (complete in box - again, at a Value Village). Works in DOS, but I can't seem to find the right driver for Windows...

A Celeron 300A!
Guess I need to hunt for a motherboard that's compatible... Any suggestions?

All in all, really excited about the 3dfx and the sound card!
There was also a couple of ATI's (Mach 64 and a Rage 128) and a few AGP Trident video cards.. any that are worth picking up?

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For some reason, there was a bunch of retro hardware at a Value Village near me:

I picked these up:
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Diamond Stealth II G460 - Should've checked before buying: Intel graphics processor. Oh well...
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There was also a couple of ATI's (Mach 64 and a Rage 128) and a few AGP Trident video cards.. any that are worth picking up?

An Intel i740 card is at least unusual enough to be somewhat interesting. See eg. http://www.vintage3d.org/i740.php

Re ATI cards: Those should be very common. If they are cheap and you have a use for them, why not, but otherwise I wouldn't bother.
The Trident cards are probably not very interesting. Could you see which chip(s) those used? Trident chips support AGP from 3DImage 9750 on.

jedah550 wrote:

For some reason, there was a bunch of retro hardware at a Value Village near me:
A Celeron 300A!
Guess I need to hunt for a motherboard that's compatible... Any suggestions?

Anything with chip set other than 440FX, these don't support Cellys.

I posted this over at OCAU but thought I'd post here too.

Voodoo 3500 (OEM version).

mwdmeyer wrote:

I posted this over at OCAU but thought I'd post here too.
Voodoo 3500 (OEM version).

Good stuff - these Compaq Presario Voodoo3 3500 (Non-TV) OEM's are solid cards. I use them in several of my machines.

Gigabyte 586HX Rev. 1.56 / Pentium 200MMX / 6x32MB = 192MB EDO RAM

I found this board in my attic, apparently I own a HX board 😁
- So I decided to populate the RAM slots 🤣

Do I need some kind of TAG RAM now?

Edit: I think it's this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/W24129AK-12-Cache-TAG- … 8-/290441623465

mwdmeyer wrote:

I posted this over at OCAU but thought I'd post here too.
Voodoo 3500 (OEM version).

I have one of those too. Great card.

Arctic wrote:

Do I need some kind of TAG RAM now?

Yes, that would enable caching over 64MB. Pick the fastest you have, 15 or better 12ns.

Arctic wrote:

Gigabyte 586HX Rev. 1.56 / Pentium 200MMX / 6x32MB = 192MB EDO RAM […]
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Gigabyte 586HX Rev. 1.56 / Pentium 200MMX / 6x32MB = 192MB EDO RAM

I found this board in my attic, apparently I own a HX board 😁
- So I decided to populate the RAM slots 🤣

Do I need some kind of TAG RAM now?

Edit: I think it's this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/W24129AK-12-Cache-TAG- … 8-/290441623465

Am I going insane or is there no clock battery on this board?