Roland SC-155, relatively local and at a pretty good price (~50 euros).

Predator99 wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Gonna say the same thing I said on the dumpster find thread. Exposing your board to anything other than proper electronics cleaning chemical is going to end very badly in the long run. [...]

Hmm yes I agree...curious if something of the card is left later or if it is completely dissolved in the Coke 😁

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How many liquids have you used to clean this card?

Bought over the last month or so, an ISA PCMCIA adapter with an external enclosure, Aztech Nova 16 Extra sound card rebranded as a Reveal SC400, and a 64MB SmartMedia card to use in a thin client I have around.

yawetaG wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Purchased some Commodore related stuff the last few weeks.... (all sellers pictures, items not recieved yet)

Replacement feet for my A600

feet.jpg

My first thought was "Ooh, nice package of aspirins!" 🤣

Looks like one of those strips where you press in one side and the pill bursts through the aluminium backing sheet...

Have not thought of it like that. Though true that. 😁 They are however not original, made in the Commodore years.
The original feet's have a slightly more beige tint to them. I hope that they are not hard plastic compared to the original rubber feel.

1x extra p3b-f and 2 other slot1 440BX boards: one from intel and one from Aopen.

Bought 10 slot1 coppermine cpu's without plastic casing (made topic about how to determine the speed)
2x extra k6-2+ cpu's
1x extra k6-3 cpu
2x Aopen Psu 450w, 30A on the 5v
IBM 486 cpu 100mhz
TILLAMOOK MMX 266 cpu ! (really like this one)

A lot is said about the Tillamook and that it can work on certain boards. I've read that it works on 430tx boards but it does not post on my A-trend 5030 (430tx).

on the web i found a topic where someone said it works fine with cache on a Ga-5ax, well, it doesn't post on mine.
Here at Vogons someone said it works fine with cache on an Aopen ax59pro. i have the board and need to test that. I hope so!

It does post on a jetway 542B ali V ss7 board but without cache and no 4x multi.
It does post on a s7 SiS board and WITH cache enabled but without the 4x multi.

I have 20+ s7 and ss7 boards so i hope i can find a board that can make full use of the Tillamook. As soon as i know about a good functioning board i will make a topic.

if anyone knows from their OWN experience about a fully functioning setup please let me know which board it is/was!

I bought a Comdial WI-STAR150, which was one of those late 486 Cyrix SOC made by ST, HighTreason610 made a video about it.
I got the computer for $50 bucks after going back and forth with the seller, and at one point the seller told me not to make any more offers, but after pointing out a majority of industrial computers on eBay have been listed for like 3-4 years without selling , the seller accepted my offer for $50 shipped.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Comdial-WI-STAR150-De … cvip=true&rt=nc

HighTreason610's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAhbsVbVLoI

meljor wrote:

1x extra p3b-f and 2 other slot1 440BX boards: one from intel and one from Aopen. […]
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1x extra p3b-f and 2 other slot1 440BX boards: one from intel and one from Aopen.

Bought 10 slot1 coppermine cpu's without plastic casing (made topic about how to determine the speed)
2x extra k6-2+ cpu's
1x extra k6-3 cpu
2x Aopen Psu 450w, 30A on the 5v
IBM 486 cpu 100mhz
TILLAMOOK MMX 266 cpu ! (really like this one)

A lot is said about the Tillamook and that it can work on certain boards. I've read that it works on 430tx boards but it does not post on my A-trend 5030 (430tx).

on the web i found a topic where someone said it works fine with cache on a Ga-5ax, well, it doesn't post on mine.
Here at Vogons someone said it works fine with cache on an Aopen ax59pro. i have the board and need to test that. I hope so!

It does post on a jetway 542B ali V ss7 board but without cache and no 4x multi.
It does post on a s7 SiS board and WITH cache enabled but without the 4x multi.

I have 20+ s7 and ss7 boards so i hope i can find a board that can make full use of the Tillamook. As soon as i know about a good functioning board i will make a topic.

if anyone knows from their OWN experience about a fully functioning setup please let me know which board it is/was!

I've noticed a lot of Socket 7 boards (including my MSI MS-5156) don't support Intel CPUs above 233MHZ, but many do support 266MHZ AMD CPUs for whatever reason. I'm not sure what the difference is or if its just a case of them being manufactured before Intel CPUs at those clock speeds. My motherboard has to be configured using jumpers to set the clock speed and multiplier so I can't really be much help. I suspect a jumpered board might have more success though due to the clocks and multi being set in hardware.

Got a whole stack of old recovery discs for win 98 - early xp era toshiba laptops along with a whole bunch of mostly p4 toshiba laptops and a few dells. Planning on restoring and selling what I can. I got the lot for the dell laptops which included a sweet latitude x200. It's thin even for a modern laptop but has a P3 933 and I think it can run win98. Question is, what do I do with all the recovery discs? I can't imagine anybody would buy them on ebay, and I don't know anybody who will host them online.

xplus93 wrote:

Got a whole stack of old recovery discs for win 98 - early xp era toshiba laptops along with a whole bunch of mostly p4 toshiba laptops and a few dells. Planning on restoring and selling what I can. I got the lot for the dell laptops which included a sweet latitude x200. It's thin even for a modern laptop but has a P3 933 and I think it can run win98. Question is, what do I do with all the recovery discs? I can't imagine anybody would buy them on ebay, and I don't know anybody who will host them online.

Image them and upload to archive.org

They'll be very useful to someone I'm sure.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

meljor wrote:

1x extra p3b-f and 2 other slot1 440BX boards: one from intel and one from Aopen. […]
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1x extra p3b-f and 2 other slot1 440BX boards: one from intel and one from Aopen.

Bought 10 slot1 coppermine cpu's without plastic casing (made topic about how to determine the speed)
2x extra k6-2+ cpu's
1x extra k6-3 cpu
2x Aopen Psu 450w, 30A on the 5v
IBM 486 cpu 100mhz
TILLAMOOK MMX 266 cpu ! (really like this one)

A lot is said about the Tillamook and that it can work on certain boards. I've read that it works on 430tx boards but it does not post on my A-trend 5030 (430tx).

on the web i found a topic where someone said it works fine with cache on a Ga-5ax, well, it doesn't post on mine.
Here at Vogons someone said it works fine with cache on an Aopen ax59pro. i have the board and need to test that. I hope so!

It does post on a jetway 542B ali V ss7 board but without cache and no 4x multi.
It does post on a s7 SiS board and WITH cache enabled but without the 4x multi.

I have 20+ s7 and ss7 boards so i hope i can find a board that can make full use of the Tillamook. As soon as i know about a good functioning board i will make a topic.

if anyone knows from their OWN experience about a fully functioning setup please let me know which board it is/was!

I've noticed a lot of Socket 7 boards (including my MSI MS-5156) don't support Intel CPUs above 233MHZ, but many do support 266MHZ AMD CPUs for whatever reason. I'm not sure what the difference is or if its just a case of them being manufactured before Intel CPUs at those clock speeds. My motherboard has to be configured using jumpers to set the clock speed and multiplier so I can't really be much help. I suspect a jumpered board might have more success though due to the clocks and multi being set in hardware.

It is because the AMD's were made for the desktop, the intel tillamook 266mmx is not. It is a slightly different design with a lot lower voltage (smaller production) and it was made for a laptop.
If Intel made a normal mmx with a 4x multiplier it would run no problem on a desktop at 266mhz, but they stopped at 233mhz and locked the multiplier.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Got a whole stack of old recovery discs for win 98 - early xp era toshiba laptops along with a whole bunch of mostly p4 toshiba laptops and a few dells. Planning on restoring and selling what I can. I got the lot for the dell laptops which included a sweet latitude x200. It's thin even for a modern laptop but has a P3 933 and I think it can run win98. Question is, what do I do with all the recovery discs? I can't imagine anybody would buy them on ebay, and I don't know anybody who will host them online.

Image them and upload to archive.org

They'll be very useful to someone I'm sure.

IDK if I can, some of them have XP on them, and from my understanding that's technically off limits. Also, I didn't know they let people upload random stuff, especially big disk images.

Suddenly decided that it is already retro enough (and falling into oblivion), so I bought a NIB Killer NIC M1.
And now the question - does any of you guys still have any FNApps that were developed to be run on its "NPU" back in the days? I've been looking all over the net (including archive.org obviously) and have managed to get only one - some strange "console.zip". The other two (torrent client and firewall) seem to have disappeared completely.
Would appreciate your help very much!

Some very nice acquisitions made recently - I think seeing the ATi Fury Maxx was my favourite (so many pages I had to look back over).

So here's my latest delivery, a trade from Italy:

Western Digital WDXT-GEN2 Plus MFM controller for my XT clone so I can finally get my 40MB drive online and not have to load every bloody game from 5.25" floppies (the novelty didn't take long to wear off).

Just some Sound cards today. Labway ESS Solo-1 and what i think is a Miro Connect 34 Wave Minus the Modem Module.

I'm about to receive this card I always wanted to have. OK, not always, but for about two years now:

(photo by courtesy of Batyra. All rights reserved.)

I pay in money, but I call this transaction a swap, as I previously sold my Ensoniq Soundscape II Elite to the seller, for nearly the same price. I'm more into FM synthesis than this modern wavetable stuff and having Yamaga SW60XG and GUS Classic i just feel I don't need anything else in the wavetable department of my collection.

I feel like putting it in some small display cabinet along solely with my CT-1320A (SB 1.0) and maybe Aztech Sound Galaxy NX, as the first soundcard by Aztech.

Recently picked up a load of scrap motherboards for cheap including these two guys here which are missing their bios chip. Anybody have the BIOS for these two? Or maybe even knows what the right one is called cause I cant figure that out too...

The left board is an "Abit AB-PB4"

I've found this that might work : http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Abit/bi … pb4p/index.html

For the right one, I don't know, I don't see any label indicating which board is it. Though I've got an HP computer with the same chipset so it may be compatible ?

Look on the bottom of the ISA slot if you can't see a sticker, they may be some informations on it. Maybe also on the back of the motherboard ?

Eleanor1967 wrote:

Recently picked up a load of scrap motherboards for cheap including these two guys here which are missing their bios chip. Anybody have the BIOS for these two? Or maybe even knows what the right one is called cause I cant figure that out too...

PCI and EISA, that's a pretty sweet board. If a VLB/ISA/PCI board is a VIP board, does that make yours a PIE?

@tikoellner - hehe, I think I've seen this photo somewhere ;D
Ensoniq works great, and luckily I've got myself a second PAS 8bit, so the state of my collection remains the same...

xplus93 wrote:

Eleanor1967 wrote:

Recently picked up a load of scrap motherboards for cheap including these two guys here which are missing their bios chip. Anybody have the BIOS for these two? Or maybe even knows what the right one is called cause I cant figure that out too...

PCI and EISA, that's a pretty sweet board. If a VLB/ISA/PCI board is a VIP board, does that make yours a PIE?

It's not EISA.

It was discussed before - PISA:
www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=24053