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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 28240 of 52354, by Artex

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Are those caps original ?
Those are beast.
I have a PAS16 with small blue caps it is a Gateway 2000 part number.

Yep!

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Reply 28241 of 52354, by Cyrix200+

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Not so much the last few months, this was it. Sorry for the (sometimes) crappy pictures.

I bought a box of e-Waste 😉 There was more but no pictures, they were CDROM drives and floppy drives, nice old ones in different shades of beige and grey. I like having some to choose from to get an authentic look.

Loooooong ISA card. Anybody have any idea what this might be? It's labeled MCS 8603/2. EDIT: Googling finds this: "The TDA3561A is a decoder for the PAL colour television standard."
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Plexwriter with caddy. I hope it works
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Sony computer interface board for a VHS? player. I have no use for it.
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Some old video cards, nothing exciting
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VLB controllers
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From other seller:

Maxi Games Xentor 32 TNT2 Ultra
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Saving the best for last. Bottom one is in a sorry state. But they were not expensive. Not tested yet, had a busy weekend.

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Reply 28242 of 52354, by Murugan

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No pictures yet but yesterday I bought:

1) NES unboxed that needs a cleaning
2) classic Xbox unboxed that also needs a cleaning
3) Tandy 1000 TL: turns on but need to hook up a monitor to see if it actually works and then....give it a good scrub 😀
4) IBM 5162 'as is' so need to check it. Got some free floppies and xt guide to operations along with it.

And now I need to stop due to buying a house and needing money for that :p

My retro collection: too much...

Reply 28243 of 52354, by respect2759

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Never seen something like this, is that a server board? I bought it with a couple of other boards but i dont know whats that. Only photo, I see its Compaq. It looks like there goes SD rams and a notebook ram (or something which look like a notebook ram) Your opinion ?

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S26361-D756-X Intel i486DX 33MHz, 4Mb ram, 512Kb - 1Mb graphics on board

Reply 28244 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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That looks like a server board to me. And the slot next to the riser board is possibly a Level 2 cache or something thereof? Do you see a P/N number on that boar or a serial number? The SD-RAM slots are the server graded ones and require the server graded SD-RAM. I had a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server of similar vintage or board style and that thing weighed about 50 pounds. Took it apart years ago, yet, I kept the SCSI hard drives and the Pentium II Xeon 400 processors.

Speaking of servers, I saw an HP Visualize J5600 server (runs on PA-RISC PA-8600 @ 550MHz) at a thrift store for $99.99 (almost took it, but, they only accept cash, and that thing wouldn't fit in my 4-door sedan). Also, did you know that the processors for servers (PA-RISC) and the Nintendo 64 (NEC VR4300 (MIPS R4300i)) were 64-bit CPUs in the 1990's before Intel and AMD adapted the 64-bit architecture? The server itself had memory support up to a whopping 8GB (their type of RAM) and RAM that size used to cost a lot in the 1990's.

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Reply 28245 of 52354, by PcBytes

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That slot next to the riser board is an RAM expansion for the onboard ATI Rage 3D PRO chip.

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Reply 28246 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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That's interesting.

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Reply 28247 of 52354, by respect2759

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bjwil1991 wrote:

That looks like a server board to me. And the slot next to the riser board is possibly a Level 2 cache or something thereof? Do you see a P/N number on that boar or a serial number? The SD-RAM slots are the server graded ones and require the server graded SD-RAM. I had a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server of similar vintage or board style and that thing weighed about 50 pounds. Took it apart years ago, yet, I kept the SCSI hard drives and the Pentium II Xeon 400 processors.

Speaking of servers, I saw an HP Visualize J5600 server (runs on PA-RISC PA-8600 @ 550MHz) at a thrift store for $99.99 (almost took it, but, they only accept cash, and that thing wouldn't fit in my 4-door sedan). Also, did you know that the processors for servers (PA-RISC) and the Nintendo 64 (NEC VR4300 (MIPS R4300i)) were 64-bit CPUs in the 1990's before Intel and AMD adapted the 64-bit architecture? The server itself had memory support up to a whopping 8GB (their type of RAM) and RAM that size used to cost a lot in the 1990's.

I have no power supply to this, no ram, so I can't test it 😢

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Reply 28248 of 52354, by Tiido

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That board looks very similar to ones in couple Compaq Deskpros I have here.

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Reply 28250 of 52354, by JonathonWyble

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I just received a graphics card I got for a vintage desktop I'm currently working on. It's an Intel RH1N07 graphics card, and I got on eBay last week. This is a replacement graphics card for this PC, because I screwed up its previous one.
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Basically a VGA graphics card. It also has a little cooling fan, because graphics cards do need to work hard for their money 😁

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Reply 28252 of 52354, by Thermalwrong

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respect2759 wrote:

Never seen something like this, is that a server board? I bought it with a couple of other boards but i dont know whats that. Only photo, I see its Compaq. It looks like there goes SD rams and a notebook ram (or something which look like a notebook ram) Your opinion ?

That's a Compaq Deskpro EN, from the pentium II era - the fan on there is odd, maybe it's a klamath PII?
The SODIMM slot is for VRAM expansion memory, fairly pointless.

See here for some pictures of what it looks like disassembled (not my site)
The diagonal power supply connector is what gives it away, that case & psu are very specific to that model

Reply 28253 of 52354, by JonathonWyble

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Well don't screw up the second one.. It is on carpet. 🤣

Pfft! I doubt having a graphics card on a carpet won't hurt it. I actually screwed the last one up because back when I took this desktop apart to clean it, I was being a little dumb and tried to take the card's main chip off with a knife (I thought I could convert this vintage computer into a modern gaming PC, but that was an epic fail).

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Reply 28254 of 52354, by retardware

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Btw, cats love carpets that aren't antistatically treated.

And I have shot enough stuff to have become paranoid about static electricity 😀

Reply 28255 of 52354, by JonathonWyble

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retardware wrote:

Btw, cats love carpets that aren't antistatically treated.

Who said I had cats? 🤣 No, I do not have any pets.

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And I have shot enough stuff to have become paranoid about static electricity 😀

Yeah, I guess I couldn't agree more. Static electricity can harm hardware. But luckily it's spring time, so I don't have to worry about that (static electricity occurs mostly in winter).

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Reply 28256 of 52354, by yawetaG

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JonathonWyble wrote:
Who said I had cats? :lol: No, I do not have any pets. […]
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Btw, cats love carpets that aren't antistatically treated.

Who said I had cats? 🤣 No, I do not have any pets.

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And I have shot enough stuff to have become paranoid about static electricity 😀

Yeah, I guess I couldn't agree more. Static electricity can harm hardware. But luckily it's spring time, so I don't have to worry about that (static electricity occurs mostly in winter).

No, it occurs anytime the right atmospheric conditions are combined with rubbing the fabric that may become loaded with static electricity.

Which, depending on the country, may occur throughout the whole year, and is more likely to occur inside than outside due to heating drying the inside air. 😀

Reply 28257 of 52354, by wiretap

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JonathonWyble wrote:
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Well don't screw up the second one.. It is on carpet. 🤣

Pfft! I doubt having a graphics card on a carpet won't hurt it. I actually screwed the last one up because back when I took this desktop apart to clean it, I was being a little dumb and tried to take the card's main chip off with a knife (I thought I could convert this vintage computer into a modern gaming PC, but that was an epic fail).

Yes, it would be very likely to hurt it, common with a latent failure. Here's some science for you. https://www.esda.org/about-esd/esd-fundamenta … duction-to-esd/
The whole six part handbook: https://www.esda.org/about-esd/esd-fundamentals/
Another whitepaper from Texas Instruments: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/ssya010a/ssya010a.pdf
Another whitepaper from Microchip Technology: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/00001785a.pdf
Here's a nice illustration using the Human Body Model for what type damage occurs: http://www.desco.com/ppt/Photos_of_ESD_Damage_Desco.ppsx

I always see people say "oh well I've been doing this for 20 years and I've never had any problems".. but they're always posting about weird issues with their hardware, like BSOD's, random parts dying later on down the road, odd post failures, etc. Then they get offended when you mention ESD controls.. a very basic proper handling of circuit boards to prevent damage that doesn't always show up right away. The damage is microscopic. I send out dozens of boards per year for electron microscope / x-ray / destructive failure analysis and see it all the time from improper ESD controls which damage or degrade gates/junctions. I've seen everything from no failures with imminent failure possible, to random reboots happening, to shifted/scrambled bits in CMOS devices to flat out failures where the static electricity blows apart logic gates. There's a reason why companies spend millions of dollars a year on ESD controls when manufacturing and packaging circuit boards.

Anyhow, you can easily prevent it at home (or limit it like 95%+) by spending a few bucks on a properly grounded mat, wrist strap, and HVAC control.

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Reply 28258 of 52354, by stalk3r

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I've just received this beauty, but then realized that a proper DB15 midi cable is even harder, if not impossible to get nowadays.
There are some Chinese vendors who sell them, but one of them confirmed that it does not come with the extra resistors etc built in. Any idea where can I source it?

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Reply 28259 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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The Joystick DB15 to MIDI adapters? Bought one a long time ago and it has a DB15 port that allows me to hook up my joystick to my computer whilst playing MT-32 games on my Socket 7 (this was before I bought an MPU-401 clone card) and I still have the cable for testing the sound card's GamePort for issues.

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