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Reply 26580 of 52357, by MMaximus

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Bought this lot yesterday from a hoarder: 8 desktops PCs ranging from Socket 7 to Pentium 4. 3 old keyboards, loads of floppies and 30-pin and 72-pin RAM sticks.

I might resell most of these locally without even cleaning them as It's not really an era I'm passionate about and I don't have so much time to spend on them, but of course I'll look if there are any interesting cards in them first...

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Reply 26581 of 52357, by Cyrix200+

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MMaximus wrote:

Bought this lot yesterday from a hoarder: 8 desktops PCs ranging from Socket 7 to Pentium 4. 3 old keyboards, loads of floppies and 30-pin and 72-pin RAM sticks.

I might resell most of these locally without even cleaning them as It's not really an era I'm passionate about and I don't have so much time to spend on them, but of course I'll look if there are any interesting cards in them first...
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That 'EGT Cirius 3000' looks interesting.

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Reply 26582 of 52357, by oeuvre

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oh man, that vectra and presario! quick, build a pair o' threadrippers in them!

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Reply 26583 of 52357, by MMaximus

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That 'EGT Cirius 3000' looks interesting.

That's the odd one. Looks like a proprietary system designed for telecommunications (Telex, Teletex, Fax). I don't know what's in there yet or if it would be even possible to turn it into a DOS or windows machine.

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oh man, that vectra and presario! quick, build a pair o' threadrippers in them!

I have absolutely no interest for these OEM systems so I'm not sure what to do with them at this stage 😕 Actually everytime I see a case where the 3.5" floppy drive or CD-Rom drive is hidden behind a weird proprietary bezel I run away 🤣

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Reply 26585 of 52357, by oeuvre

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MMaximus wrote:
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oh man, that vectra and presario! quick, build a pair o' threadrippers in them!

I have absolutely no interest for these OEM systems so I'm not sure what to do with them at this stage 😕 Actually everytime I see a case where the 3.5" floppy drive or CD-Rom drive is hidden behind a weird proprietary bezel I run away 🤣

damn if you were in the US I;d pay for shipping for one of them

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Reply 26586 of 52357, by brostenen

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I bought a scandoubler....

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Indivision_ECS_V2

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Reply 26587 of 52357, by liqmat

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brostenen wrote:

Is that the one that's about $100 and you can stack two of them for dual monitor? I installed one of those in my Amiga 2000 before sending it off to a museum which now uses that machine to test Amiga games they get in. I had a rev 4.1 board, which is fine, but I had to modify one of the caps so the board would fit. Great product BTW.

The Amiga 2000 I modified right before it was sent off to the museum. 2MB RAM, Indivision ECS Scandoubler/Flicker Fixer and a Lotharek HXC Rev F SD drive. Keeping it classic.

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Reply 26588 of 52357, by wiretap

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Ebay coupon for 15% off today.. ended up scoring a few items.
- Doom 2 CD-ROM version in big box ($39)
- Duke Nukem 3D Caribbean "Life's a Beach" in big box ($63)
- Pentium MMX machine for $67 shipped.. I was mostly interested in the case for my 486 build, since these are somewhat hard to come by for under $100. I have a MHz display on hand that I'll be putting in it, if it doesn't have one already. Pics:

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Reply 26589 of 52357, by ph4nt0m

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It has apparently suffered a broken cap (that apparently also tore out the solder pad) at some point, and someone fixed it like […]
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It has apparently suffered a broken cap (that apparently also tore out the solder pad) at some point, and someone fixed it like this:

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Not pretty but seller assures me it works, and if it really does I'm OK with it. I will go ahead and test it tonight.

It's possible to restore a torn solder pad by pulling one from a dead card and gluing it to the PCB with silicone sealant. Then solder everything carefully and no one will notice.

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Reply 26590 of 52357, by Cyrix200+

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Looks like an Asus P55T2P4. Nice!

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Reply 26591 of 52357, by debs3759

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Okay this one has an *IBM* DX4-100 on it. That's nice, I had an IBM SLC 166 back in the day.

The MB looks like a PC Chips, albeit the cache might actually be real (it's at least socketed and doesn't have "WRITE BACK" printed on it). The CPU is either a Cyrix manufactured and branded by IBM or an Intel DX4 manufactured and branded by IBM; I'm still fuzzy on which it is with the 486 chips...

The CPU is Cyrix compatible.

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Reply 26592 of 52357, by wiretap

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Cyrix200+ wrote:
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Looks like an Asus P55T2P4. Nice![/quote]
Yes, it is. Dead Dallas RTC battery, but that's an easy fix. :cool:

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Reply 26593 of 52357, by Cyrix200+

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wiretap wrote:
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Looks like an Asus P55T2P4. Nice![/quote]
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Yeah, it's easy to reach!

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Reply 26594 of 52357, by xjas

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wiretap wrote:

- Pentium MMX machine for $67 shipped.. I was mostly interested in the case for my 486 build, since these are somewhat hard to come by for under $100. I have a MHz display on hand that I'll be putting in it, if it doesn't have one already. Pics:

Okay, weird. I sold that exact board (unpopulated - no CPU, RAM, or cards) in that exact case to a local guy a couple years ago. I'm on the west coast, but things do move around... Would be pretty neat if it's the same system!

Where is it getting shipped from?

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Reply 26595 of 52357, by brostenen

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liqmat wrote:
Is that the one that's about $100 and you can stack two of them for dual monitor? I installed one of those in my Amiga 2000 befo […]
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Is that the one that's about $100 and you can stack two of them for dual monitor? I installed one of those in my Amiga 2000 before sending it off to a museum which now uses that machine to test Amiga games they get in. I had a rev 4.1 board, which is fine, but I had to modify one of the caps so the board would fit. Great product BTW.

The Amiga 2000 I modified right before it was sent off to the museum. 2MB RAM, Indivision ECS Scandoubler/Flicker Fixer and a Lotharek HXC Rev F SD drive. Keeping it classic.

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It is the version 2 of that scandoubler. Same company (Individual). On paper they have made it better, and they did not lie, when they told that would cost the same as the original version. I have no clue on, if it can be stacked and give dual monitor output. I am going to use my IndevisionECS V2 in my Amiga600. It is a recapped machine, and I am going to keep it classic as well. To a degree that is. I have the A604n ram upgrade installed, in order to have the IndevisionECS-V2 working. And it will allow me to use the RapidRoad USB upgrade, if I find some kind of way to install the USB-Ports somewere nice in the case. If I choose the USB upgrade, then I will be upgrading my machine to the new 3.1.4 AmigaOS released a couple of month's ago.

Nice 2000 by the way. I totally get, if they are happy with it. It must have been hard to let it go.

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Reply 26596 of 52357, by wiretap

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xjas wrote:
wiretap wrote:

- Pentium MMX machine for $67 shipped.. I was mostly interested in the case for my 486 build, since these are somewhat hard to come by for under $100. I have a MHz display on hand that I'll be putting in it, if it doesn't have one already. Pics:

Okay, weird. I sold that exact board (unpopulated - no CPU, RAM, or cards) in that exact case to a local guy a couple years ago. I'm on the west coast, but things do move around... Would be pretty neat if it's the same system!

Where is it getting shipped from?

West Virginia is where it says it ships from.

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Reply 26597 of 52357, by liqmat

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A huge find for me today, literally. This black tower of power has all the bells and whistles for its time. I will be cleaning this sweetheart up over the next couple of weeks piece by piece. A physicist from a university used to own this beast, I was told, and I found it in an old hardware shop. I wont say what I paid, but it wasn't cheap nor was it too expensive either. Once I have it all cleaned up this will be my main software imaging system and software archive box.

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Initial turn on reveals the A: drive (3½") pulls up just fine, but B: (5¼") doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Haven't had a chance to play around too much though.

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Reply 26598 of 52357, by liqmat

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Let's look inside.

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A nice mammoth full length EISA SCSI controller and a row of 16 4MB memory sticks for a whopping 64MB of RAM.

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Another mammoth ISA card. A dual line modem.

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A sweet tasting Kingston Turbochip.

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Reply 26599 of 52357, by SW-SSG

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Oooo, "Full AT" bigtower... in black! With matching SCSI HDD bay and dual-floppy!

I wonder why the owner put a floppy disk label on that HDD...

EDIT: Weitek FPU (?), too... I don't want to know how expensive that entire machine was when it was brand new.

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