It shrinks the image down (without ruining the photo, of course) to 1024x1024, however, you can add the link to the bigger photo to something like this:

[img]link.com/imageh.jpg[/img]

In binary, this is page 14.

appiah4 wrote:

Well. Intercourse is good. Just saying.

Yup. Everyone needs a good cardiovascular workout.

I got a box today!

Here is the box and the item that was hidden inside.

But what is it and did it work? ... Yes!

I already had one of these but that one is new and wants to stay in its plastic casing.

Bought NOS 8-pin 262 DINs (5 Qty), 6-pin IEC DIN (5 Qty) for my Commodore 64, as well as 4x 1m (3 ft) 5-contact cables, 100 ohm, 300 ohm, and 10 ohm resistors, 2A 250V fast blow fuses, and 1 µF capacitor for my C64 DIY cables (A/V and IEC) and PC speaker to sound card DIY cable.

Now that I'm moved and starting to set up my "office" again, I have picked up a few things off eBay, most of which have not shown up yet.

- NOS 486 DX4-100 Overdrive chip ($30 and comes boxed? Hell yes!)
- XT-IDE (bare board to be built later)
- Belkin OmniView Pro 8-port KVM (anyone tried these? I'm interested to see how the video quality is and how the serial mouse emulation works out)
- Slot A 700MHz Athlon Thunderbird (because I used to have one... nostalgia build I guess)
- K7 Pro motherboard to host the Athlon, which incidentally has an Athlon 700 already installed

Next on the list? Maybe a Tualatin setup.

Couldn't resist this cute little thin client. It's a Computerlab International ST5500 ca. ~2009. Most of the info on these is barely accessible & teetering on the edge of the internet, about to fall off. What else is new.

As you can see it gets dwarfed by a "proper" computer:

Has all of the ports you could want including DVI, which is nice. Usually only newer ones than this have it.

There's a 1GB disk-on-module inside that I really want for something else, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to open the damn thing. A project for another day I guess.

^^ Furious button mashing at the startup image (a full-screen, 256-color dithered 3D rendering of the thin client itself - why?) got me into this bog-standard BIOS, thankfully.

Tons of options for boot devices!

I fired up Linux (AntiX 16 32-bit in this case) just to see what it was packing:

Via C3 500/800MHz(??), S3 UniChrome graphics, 8237A HDA audio. Pretty much what I expected. I was hoping it would have the 82C686B for sound but I guess it's too new for that.

Amusingly despite this being the "Windows Embedded" version (CLI also make dedicated Linux thin clients) the DOM held an ancient copy of Damn Small Linux - version 4.0, which dates to about 2007 (this machine was built in 2009.) I guess it uses DSL to bootstrap until it receives its Windows Embedded image over the network. Or who knows.

Nice little machine! I've got a use in mind for it. Would still like to figure out how to open the thing though.

appiah4 wrote:

In other news I found a new old stock 14" Super VGA Monochrome Monitor (how does that work?), Tatung VM-14AF. It's not gonna br […]
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In other news I found a new old stock 14" Super VGA Monochrome Monitor (how does that work?), Tatung VM-14AF. It's not gonna break the bank at around $25. Is it worth buying? I have no hardware older than a 486SX, so it wouldn't really be a fluffy fit for anything at the moment, but maybe one day it would be great for an 8086/88 or 286 with say a Hercules card? My first PC was an 8086 with a Hercules and b/w monitor. But I have a feeling this is not actually a very retro hardware at all, sounds like it has a make year of 1998? What the hell IS a Super VGA Monochrome monitor anyway? 😕

Having used a 12" VGA Mono on an Amstrad 2386, the VGA Mono operates off the green channel, and with Windows 3.1 not offerring a proper VGAGRAY driver, had to use it in "colour" mode, as the Windows VGA Mono driver was 1 bit black or white and intermediates stippled horribly.

Super VGA would be 800 x 600 - and the mono monitors tend to be very crisp indeed on text & graphics

Bit of a rant, but I got an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board off of ebay, and the seller shipped it wrapped in TINFOIL! And they did not even get a free priority mail box from USPS, they wrapped it up in old cardboard and duct tape.
I cannot test it until the weekend, but I hope it will work.

this Hyundai HMM-1401 amber MDA monitor

tannerstevo wrote:

Bit of a rant, but I got an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board off of ebay, and the seller shipped it wrapped in TINFOIL! And they did not even get a free priority mail box from USPS, they wrapped it up in old cardboard and duct tape.
I cannot test it until the weekend, but I hope it will work.

I never heard about wrapping electronics in aluminum foil until somebody on this forum mentioned it.

And then I ran across wrapping parts in aluminum foil in a factory user manual for some piece of old computer hardware I got. I don't remember exactly what manual it was, but I was surprised.

tannerstevo wrote:

Bit of a rant, but I got an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board off of ebay, and the seller shipped it wrapped in TINFOIL! And they did not even get a free priority mail box from USPS, they wrapped it up in old cardboard and duct tape.
I cannot test it until the weekend, but I hope it will work.

Similar situation here- I bought this lot of cards from an eBay like-site in Brazil (MercadoLivre), and the cards were wrapped around a freakin plastic bag (!!!!). Now, what if I told you that one of the cards on this lot was a very rare PowerColor Evilking IV 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card? Yep. My heart stopped a bit when I opened the package (arrived today). The rest of the pack includes a Trident PCI (working), a Trident ISA (not tested yet) and a Radeon 9000 (not tested yet). The whole deal was R$ 70 plus R$ 20 for shipping which is about 25 USD, so it was a steal.

But I was lucky for a change as the card works perfectly 😀
It is my first Voodoo card ever so I'm still learning the ins and outs of getting stuff working.

I've also been to a flee market last weekend and found this IBM Aptiva 2162 - Pentium 166 MMX, 32mb, Crystal CS4237B + CS9233 Waveblaster, 4gb HD and an ATI Mach II 2mb. It needed some cleaning to get it working, had to replace the faulty memory stick as well, but even managed to find a close-enough Recovery CD for it and restored it to its original state.

bregolin wrote:

Now, what if I told you that one of the cards on this lot was a very rare PowerColor Evilking IV 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card? Yep. My heart stopped a bit when I opened the package (arrived today).

Just be careful with that card, even thought it has universal AGP connector, it's 3.3V card only!

Srandista wrote:

bregolin wrote:

Now, what if I told you that one of the cards on this lot was a very rare PowerColor Evilking IV 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card? Yep. My heart stopped a bit when I opened the package (arrived today).

Just be careful with that card, even thought it has universal AGP connector, it's 3.3V card only!

Would a Voodoo5 5500 work in an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe?

squiggly wrote:

Would a Voodoo5 5500 work in an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe?

No, it doesn't fit because it's keyed differently.

Got a message from a guy that I bought a Pentium 3 from last year, he had some more stuff for me, for free. Ended up with his collection of floppy discs with games (all neatly labeled in boxes), an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ PC (have not opened that one to check the specifics) and this Sony Multiscan CRT (with BNC cable)! Especially happy with the discs and monitor! I have too many CRT's now, really need to get rid of some 🙁 Which sucks, because they are all nice.

Well this was listed as a Dell 9600XT

Yeah Nope. Anyone else think that cooler looks a weeeee tiny bit big and flashy for a die shrunk 9600? and is it just me or is dual slot kinda unlikely for such a low power card? yes? Ok that's good.

Because you would be right. I ran the part number and it's a Dell 9800XT. The OEM according to one source is Hercules so hopefully the build quality is good. XTs are die shrunk with higher clock speeds, better cooling, and lower temps.

The pointy tip of the shader model 2.0 food chain (X800 series with there "shader 2.9" not withstanding)

Not bad for $28 dollars. I was just wanting a period correct 2002-2003 video card for my Gateway 700x tower earlier. How fortunate.

As far as I can tell the seller stole there information from an older listing. Straight copy and paste. Really screwed themselves considering the last time one of these went to auction to my recollection it sold for $75

keropi wrote:

this Hyundai HMM-1401 amber MDA monitor

Sweet! You got a matching monitor for, among others, the Super 16TE desktop model

Srandista wrote:

bregolin wrote:

Now, what if I told you that one of the cards on this lot was a very rare PowerColor Evilking IV 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card? Yep. My heart stopped a bit when I opened the package (arrived today).

Just be careful with that card, even thought it has universal AGP connector, it's 3.3V card only!

Indeed, I already knew what I was getting- I'm running it on a Soyo 7VBA133, AGP 2x v3.3

Damn, just missed (by <5min) a box of "old crap" with piles of 90s stuff. Condition looked iffy here and there but there were al least 10 regular 486 CPUs, an Overdrive and a PODP-83 and some Pentium Pro, along with So5/7 stuff, DIMMs, VRMs and who knows what else under that. My first offer (while still very low for what was visible) was even EUR 5 more than the other bloke he'd just said yes to 😢

Still, my Adaptec AHA-2940U2W arrived today, so can drown my sorrows in testing the Seagate Cheetah 10k drive I got for free two weeks back.

Page 15 (in binary). Also, damn, that sucks. Had to order a new front brake set for my pedal bike (wish it was a motor bike) on eBay since the front brake disintegrated and was warped. On the plus side, I ordered 2 different DIN connectors (8-pin 262, and 6-pin IEC) on eBay, fuses, resistors, wiring, and capacitors on Digikey for making the PC Speaker to Sound Card cable, IEC to Uno (Uno2IEC) project, A/V cable for S-Video, composite, and audio for the C64 system.