cj_reha wrote:

Introducing the Swagmobile. 🤣 🤣 🤣

It was a bit of a wobbly ride. I rode with one hand on the handlebars and one on the set.

That's no BI-cycle 🤣

Also, its fork is facing the wrong way.

SSTV2 wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Introducing the Swagmobile. 🤣 🤣 🤣

It was a bit of a wobbly ride. I rode with one hand on the handlebars and one on the set.

That's no BI-cycle 🤣

Also, its fork is facing the wrong way.

Thats the first thing i notice and just pissed me off 😁

cj_reha wrote:

Introducing the Swagmobile. 🤣 🤣 🤣

It was a bit of a wobbly ride. I rode with one hand on the handlebars and one on the set.

I bet you could wheelie that for BLOCKS on-end.

Also, yes, fix your fork. 😜

...you guys just made me realize that too. Damnit. 🤣

I kinda hurriedly put it back together as it had been in storage for some time, don't kill me! 🤣

cj_reha wrote:

...you guys just made me realize that too. Damnit. 🤣

I kinda hurriedly put it back together as it had been in storage for some time, don't kill me! 🤣

Dude. The photo is hilarious and who gives a flying fork about the fork. That photo is a classic with the TV on the bike.

liqmat wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

...you guys just made me realize that too. Damnit. 🤣

I kinda hurriedly put it back together as it had been in storage for some time, don't kill me! 🤣

Dude. The photo is hilarious and who gives a flying fork about the fork. That photo is a classic with the TV on the bike trike.

FTFY.

cj_reha wrote:

Was doing my weekly bike ride before trash day looking for anything interesting and spotted this old TV on the curb. It was sitting next to some 1950's era console radio cabinets that had been completely gutted and some other miscellaneous junk.

When I was tying it to the back of my bike the lady actually thanked me for taking it and said I could have whatever I wanted, so I thanked her in return and rode the half mile home with it.

After bringing it in, I found out it is a 19-inch RCA ColorTrak set from 1984. Seems to work perfectly fine, no color issues or anything, just needed some fine adjustments. Wonder why it was thrown out. Ah well, better for me anyway. Probably gonna use it with my Atari 2600 and Odyssey 2 systems. 😊

Even top brand relatively new CRT televisions are featured on a weekly basis on the free section of Craigslist in nor Cal. No one wants them now that you can buy a big LCD for a little over $100.00 at Wal Mart, which works out well for those who do have a use for them.

cj_reha wrote:

Was doing my weekly bike ride before trash day looking for anything interesting and spotted this old TV on the curb. It was sitting next to some 1950's era console radio cabinets that had been completely gutted and some other miscellaneous junk.

When I was tying it to the back of my bike the lady actually thanked me for taking it and said I could have whatever I wanted, so I thanked her in return and rode the half mile home with it.

After bringing it in, I found out it is a 19-inch RCA ColorTrak set from 1984. Seems to work perfectly fine, no color issues or anything, just needed some fine adjustments. Wonder why it was thrown out. Ah well, better for me anyway. Probably gonna use it with my Atari 2600 and Odyssey 2 systems. 😊

I had that exact set as a bedroom TV when I moved out on my own (similar roadside free find).

Nice find, those 80s RCAs were decent TVs that seem to last forever. It was probably thrown out because for the average person, it's useless 😵

My first time I see a V1 in person:
Sadly is full dirt and a cap is missing (c101)

1,50 bucks

Looks fixable,just needs a good cleaning and a cap in that spot, assuming the pads aren't ripped.

Sometimes, I find a piece of junk card that looks useless (an old serial\parallel card or modem) and is too rusty to bother with, and for some reason I don't put it in the scrap pile with the rest. This time, I'm very glad I kept this one.

I didn't take a pic yet, but its basically identical to this:
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item … -tseng-et1000-a

An ancient DFI MG-150 Tseng ET1000-A MDA\Hercules 64KByte 8bit ISA video card! The back plate is fairly rusty, but the rest of the card looks surprisingly decent considering its over 30 years old and I found it buried in a huge scrap lot (98% of which I ended up reselling as scrap because it was so bad).

According to wikipedia, this was the best selling MDA\Herc card of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseng_Labs

I don't know much about these cards. I assume that I can't really do anything with this card without a Hercules compatible monitor. I have an IBM 5153 monitor that supports CGA as well as 16 color EGA at lower resolutions, but I've read that it won't work with Hercules graphics and it'd be a bad idea to even try it. Too bad, it would have been interesting to try this out!

I haven't been picking too much stuff up recently, but here's a couple things I saved from the pile today. Gateway-branded Intel i815 motherboard with a P3/733 (the tower was there too, but I just scooped the board), and a Dell 17" monitor on one of those stands you can bolt a small-form-factor desktop onto.

^^ I like the passive cooling on this setup. I don't really need this, but I thought it was too decent to toss out. I might combine a few of my slot 1 / 370 systems and make one really good one, then flog the leftovers.

^^ I don't have the desktop type that goes on this stand (yet), but it looks good next to my same-vintage Inspiron 600m:

The carry handle on top is also a nice touch. The monitor is 17", 1280x1024, with DVI & VGA inputs, a 4-port USB hub, and doesn't need a power brick. Always handy.

xjas wrote:

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I haven't been picking too much stuff up recently, but here's a couple things I saved from the pile today. Gateway-branded Intel i815 motherboard with a P3/733 (the tower was there too, but I just scooped the board), and a Dell 17" monitor on one of those stands you can bolt a small-form-factor desktop onto.

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^^ I like the passive cooling on this setup. I don't really need this, but I thought it was too decent to toss out. I might combine a few of my slot 1 / 370 systems and make one really good one, then flog the leftovers.

It's not really passive cooling. In those Gateway cases, a fan in the power supply blows air straight onto the processor heat sink.

Got the chance to pick up some stuff that was going to the dumpster.

Some soundcards

GFX

Stuff

Laptop

Small 386 machine

Some of the parts came from the machines I picked up. Mostly branded machines missing this or that. One of the machines however has the audigy 2 front panel.
There was also 2 ISA sound cards, an 8-bit VGA card, some controller cards, random software and other stuff.

How are old Acer desktops?

Other rack-stuff, rescued from certain destruction:

Good looking rack case, ATX friendly - thanks God. Inside:

The CPU is a badly thermal-compound-covered Thoro@2.6mhz, if I'm right (rectangular core, the next model after more hot Palomino); the aux LAN adapter is gigabit; the motherboard, I don't know yet... but yellow slots let me think about DFI (I've yet to test it), with 3x256mb DDR400, 7200rpm Barracuda 80gb, and that Asus 9550 VGA. Hoping to clean everything soon and use the nice case in my rack cabinet... I'm unsure about the height, if it is enough for modern huge heatsinks like the Noctua I'm using in my main rig.

Check the caps on the board before testing it to make sure they ain't bulged up, spewed, etc.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Check the caps on the board before testing it to make sure they ain't bulged up, spewed, etc.

More than one under che socket are bulged... as tha majority of the Athlon era 😜

Also, the power supply connector needs a good cleaning or replacement (don't know for sure) since it looks like 2 spots are brown. Other than that, that's a pretty good motherboard.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Also, the power supply connector needs a good cleaning or replacement (don't know for sure) since it looks like 2 spots are brown. Other than that, that's a pretty good motherboard.

Looks just a bit darkened, should be good. Just needs a recap (Rubycons would look nice imo, but whatever you can get) and should be good!