A little retro - I bought a modern USB EPROM programmer and a couple of old CMOS EPROM chips. Should be good to play around with hopefully.

Decided to get one of these after discovering a broken leg on a BIOS chip on an old 8088 Motherboard - no wonder it wasn't POSTing! I already have the ROM image so if I can replace the chip hopefully I can get this old board working again.

jheronimus

And here I was thinking that old hardware is too niche of a thing to try and con people.

3dfx cards are very popular and widely known, obvious choice for a con.

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Incidentally after complaining that my supply of cool stuff had dried up, I managed to score this:
*snip*

That battery powered floppy is just ridiculous and awesome. Not ridiculously awesome, ridiculous and awesome. 😀
HPs of this vintage always tickle my fancy.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

jheronimus

And here I was thinking that old hardware is too niche of a thing to try and con people.

3dfx cards are very popular and widely known, obvious choice for a con.

Old computer hardware - of which 3dfx-cards are a part - is very much a niche. An obvious choice for a con would be a recent macbook or iphone. 😉

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Got this Dell Dimension XPS T500 for 30 euro.

It has a Pentium III 500mhz, 448 MB RAM, integrated Yamaha audio (says "Yamaha DS1"), a 3dfx Voodoo3, two network cards, an USB-PCI card, two hard drives.

It runs Windows XP

You can max out the RAM at 768MB. Update the BIOS, get a slocket adapter, put in a Coppermine Celeron of 1GHz, add a socket 370 heatsink and you'll have a screamer 98SE build. Love those machines. So versatile and reliable.

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- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

Got a nice Sun GDM-5510 for next to nothing. In "person" this thing is simply gorgeous + dandy build quality.

debs3759 wrote:

dionb wrote:

- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

Not 100% certain of the P100 rating, it's not printed on the CPU, but AFAIK all the big silver heat spreader versions were at least P100, and the nearest serial number I could find here was also a P100.

Mine is:
Nx586-XXXX-4.0-CPC-202
AAH7004 P09003XR P23016XR

All running computers posted here must be shown with Skeletor from now on.

oeuvre wrote:

All running computers posted here must be shown with Skeletor from now on.

YES

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debs3759 wrote:

dionb wrote:

- NexGen NX586 CPU P100 (CPC-202 big silver heat spreader) with original glued-on HSF

That's quite rare, most that I have seen have been P90.

Not 100% certain of the P100 rating, it's not printed on the CPU, but AFAIK all the big silver heat spreader versions were at least P100, and the nearest serial number I could find here was also a P100.

Mine is:
Nx586-XXXX-4.0-CPC-202
AAH7004 P09003XR P23016XR

If it is not marked, it is usually a P90. P90 can be smaller or larger heat spreader. Still a nice find, they have been going up in value for at least a couple of years 😀 They typically go for around $75 on CPU-World forums.

oeuvre wrote:

All running computers posted here must be shown with Skeletor from now on.

Maybe it should be a Vogon instead? 😁 https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&q=vogon

But I can go with Skeletor 😉

debs3759 wrote:

If it is not marked, it is usually a P90. P90 can be smaller or larger heat spreader. Still a nice find, they have been going up in value for at least a couple of years 😀 They typically go for around $75 on CPU-World forums.

Would be even nicer if I knew it worked - but motherboards are of course unobtainium (or in any event priced out of my league 😢 )

Beautiful.

Oh my.

Moar junk 🤣

Intel i440FX socket 8 board including CPU, heatsink (S8 heatsink is not very common) and some SIMM RAM.

Beneath the heatsink is hiding... surprise, surprise - Pentium Pro 200 MHz / 256 KB 🤣

4x 32 MB EDO also isn't that common these days 😀

2x Asus P4P800 SE - cut down variant, but for overclocking P4 it should be good. Notice the extra mosfets at VRM section - there are 9 total, while many P4P800 and P4C800 (even Deluxe versions) have only 6.

These things arrived at my place over the last couple of days:

Soundblaster CT1350B with the needed CT1336 chip and some CMS compatible upgrade chips. Already tested these out and the work like a charm. Monkey Island on CMS is really nice in my opinion, I listend back to back with the MT-32 and it is actually not that easy to still call the MT-32 my favorite version. CMS has charm for sure.

Also a MediaVision Pro Audio Studio, so an PAS16 with SCSI (I think, not an expert on those cards). Not tested yet but looks good.

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Got this Dell Dimension XPS T500 for 30 euro.

It has a Pentium III 500mhz, 448 MB RAM, integrated Yamaha audio (says "Yamaha DS1"), a 3dfx Voodoo3, two network cards, an USB-PCI card, two hard drives.

It runs Windows XP

Great condition of the case, seems the previous owners was not a morons that smoke all over the place and spill coffee, water and other crap, too bad not many people keep their computers in that factory state...

oeuvre wrote:

You can max out the RAM at 768MB. Update the BIOS, get a slocket adapter, put in a Coppermine Celeron of 1GHz, add a socket 370 heatsink and you'll have a screamer 98SE build. Love those machines. So versatile and reliable.

You can compare Compaq every time to old DELL, Compaq win every single time in build quality and durability.......
I have even DELL Latitude with Pentium III is not working. Also i have Compaq Armada 1700 working great, well guess what the quality of the plastic, and the overall feeling of the Compaq is way better, while the DELL feels like wooden, all parts on it are feeling more bad like the plastic, the screen, the keyboard feels way worse, feels just too cheap....
I have also DELL Optiplex 150 working is ok small PC, but compared to Compaq DeskPRO case and overall parts inside is just funny....

Just snagged Toshiba Libretto 50CDT. So happy - have been searching for one in decent state AND in decent price. It's making its way through snowy Poland right now, so seller's photo atm, will update with real one when it arrives.

Any recommendations as to how restore battery (and if it's worth it) or on how to swap HDD for CF card?

OldCat wrote:

Just snagged Toshiba Libretto 50CDT. So happy - have been searching for one in decent state AND in decent price. It's making its way through snowy Poland right now, so seller's photo atm, will update with real one when it arrives.

Any recommendations as to how restore battery (and if it's worth it) or on how to swap HDD for CF card?

Awesome snag. They are getting ridiculously expensive nowadays.
This device uses a proprietary PCMCIA floppy card, iirc, that is connected to a rather standard Toshiba floppy caddy of that time (comparable to Satellite series), but connects to the computer via PCMCIA. This way they could forego the floppy connector.
I do not know what is needed for a battery reconstruction, but it should be a pretty standard NiMH that is to be substituted.
Also regarding the SD-/CF2IDE adapter, pretty staight forward. Choose a CF/SD card size --> Use overlay software to get access to full capacity --> profit. You'll need a 2.5" SD/CF-IDE adapter.

I also got a Libretto 50CDT, got OS X running on it too!