Skanque wrote:

I also have this bad boy incoming, along with a TIvx ! So keen an eye out for mine so we can compare.

Thanks! It will be a while before I can put this into its home system (probably 440BX + P3 1ghz) and test it out but I'll look out for yours in this thread.

Especially looking forward to playing with the 3D glasses which were a total bonus, didn't know they were part of the package.

Got a manual for PC Chips -M598LMR Super Socket 7 MB. If someone has the board I can send it, I dont need it

respect2759 wrote:

Got a manual for PC Chips -M598LMR Super Socket 7 MB. If someone has the board I can send it, I dont need it

If you have the time, perhaps scan in the manual and upload to Vogonsdrivers - thereby, anyone who in future acquires such a board can then just download the manual

Got a CPU for my notebook 😀 Intel Pentium SX969
the bearing of the fan is not in the best condition but its working. The CPU is a reserve for me, in the notebook there is a 133MHz one, this is 75. Notebook is under repair now, the display is broken off unfornutely. Also CCFL is dead, so I will change it to LEDs. Will post something when its ready. If you are interested some specs: 541MB HDD, swappable floppy and 2xspeed CD reader, 8MB ram on board - I have two 8Mb and two 16Mb sticks but IDK if they dont work or the board has some problems. Battery leaked out so plastics has weird colors. CMOS battery had 0,36V and was counting down 0,1V every 5 seconds so dead 😒 Its a LEO Designote 35series, I think its monochrome. It has a nice Yamaha soundcard and much ports. When ready (at least a few weeks I will post photos, now its in horrible condition... As you see if u dont want floppy or CD reader u can have two batteries. And I dont know whats that port near PS2

Just received a JumpTec DIMM-PC. This must be the smallest 486 ever made. It has a AMD 486-SX @ 66mhz (and yes, SX, because the sc410 doesn't have a FPU), 16MB of Ram, and an sandisk flash drive with 16MB...
It also has 2 RS232 port, 1 LPT, 1 FDD port, 1 IDE port, and a 16bit ISA.

Found a video where this module is used to boot windows 95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhYDtamnqH0

This thing had whopping price tag of $1,495.00 😲
https://megagames.com/news/matchbox-pc-smallest-world

Got this lot for $30 shipped..

Acer V55-2 Socket 7 ALi Aladdin III Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-686LX Slot 1 Intel 440LX Motherboard
Intel Pentium 120 SY062
Intel Pentium MMX 160 SL27H
ATI Video Xpression Mach64 VT2 PCI
6x 32MB 72-Pin EDO RAM

Nothing I really needed in here but I got a good price. The seller had 4 more Acer boards for $5 each but I passsed, already have enough Socket 7 boards, I just wanted an early ALi for variety. Also, PS/2 keyboard and mouse on an AT board - cool.

Got some nice things to show today.
First a bunch of AGP cards and an PCI S3 Trio64V2.

2x Gallatin Xeons and Ensonic AudioPCI 3000.

4MB simms, this was listed just as "old memory". I wasn't the only one seeing what it was sadly, still ok price.

And now the really good stuff 😎 Another Aptiva 2144. With the matching mouse and keyboard. I have been looking for an model M2 for ages, but when they show up they're damn expensive. The machine comes with DX2-66, 540mb HDD, 16mb RAM, ESS688 and some random NIC.

And more good stuff. Got this for free, by mere coincidence. One of our suppliers at work was replacing their entire softwaresystem last week and at the same time replacing all computers. So I asked their driver what would become of their old machines. He didn't know and wondered why I would want to know. When I answered that I was collecting old computers he said he had one he had been meaning to throw away. A laptop with a red thingy in the middle of the keyboard. This said it all for me. Then he said that its old, probably 10 years (yeah, try 25 years). But anyway, today he had it with him. In a nice bag (hp) but with awesome accesories. The dockingstation, the right PSU, matching mouse and the very nice external IBM numpad. No dongels for the PCMCIA cards though (modem and lan). But what can you ask when it's free 😁

It's a Thinkpad 360Cs. 486Sx33, 8mb RAM. The screen is not lighting up however and at boot with external screen it's can't find the external cd-drive. I have to ask him about that 🤣

EDIT: The screen works. The lidswitch needed som excercise.

I made a little offer on whas seemed like somebodies 1980's computer hobby supply. I was not disappointed!

There was a lot of stuff that wasn't directly interesting to me, some newer HDD's, a few hundred(!) blank DVD-R and DVD+R, cables (serial, parallel, SCSI). My eye was caught by a nice red Raaco storage cabinet, with some interesting looking contents.

Mostly pictures now:

Sorted:

Some CPUS's. The 5 small ones are Intel 286 8MHz parts. They came with sockets that can be soldered in and use a sort of heatsink to clamp the CPU in the socket. Only two of those included though.

I'm happy to get the 40MHz 386 and Cyrix FasMath!

And then a whole heap of BIOS chips (which I should probably dump to files and put on the internet), sorry about the flash.

Now I can organize my zip disks!

Something I didn't buy today... was too honest with a clueless seller who had a Gravis Ultrasound PnP on offer for EUR 15 in a misspelt listing. Now he's asking EUR 250 and bidding is over EUR 100 already...

dionb wrote:

Something I didn't buy today... was too honest with a clueless seller who had a Gravis Ultrasound PnP on offer for EUR 15 in a misspelt listing. Now he's asking EUR 250 and bidding is over EUR 100 already...

So I wasn't the only one here that saw that. I too was weirded out by the fact he had all the "vintage", "retro" and "collectors' item" mumbojumbo yet asked a ridiculously low price for it. He had an ad for AGP and PCI cards as well, at €1,50 each (at least, that's what it suggested), one being an Orchid Voodoo1.

Recently on Tweakers.net another guy got a Voodoo4 4500 PCI card out of his bin of old cards and put it up for €5. I was on that immediately, but that guy caught on too, and bidding was over €125 last I checked. Good thing I went in totally expecting it to be too good to be true. 😵 🤣

I knew I wasn't getting the Orchid, but I tried..... 🤣

Yep, spotted that Voodoo 4 too. Slightly miffed that the Ultrasound seller didn't even thank me. He did however make separate ads of the exact two things I told him he was asking too little for...

Oh well, I already have a GUS Classic and I hate PnP out of principle, so I can live without it.

The Orchid isn't that expensive though?

Not yet. Interesting design V1, very compact.

Spotted a couple of these complete in box, but useless. I remember these things. Portable 90s email. Just find a RJ-11 jack and you're good to go. 🤣

dionb wrote:

Not yet. Interesting design V1, very compact.

The relais (relays?) make it extra cool.

dionb wrote:

Something I didn't buy today... was too honest with a clueless seller who had a Gravis Ultrasound PnP on offer for EUR 15 in a misspelt listing. Now he's asking EUR 250 and bidding is over EUR 100 already...

Why do you feel the need to inform the seller? That's just stupid. You could have bought it (assuming the seller really didn't know the retail value) or if you really wanted to make friends, you could have shared the offer with another enthusiast.. It's offers like these that keep the hobby interesting and affordable. Almost nobody wants to buy a € 250 25 year old sound card from an unknown private seller who doesn't offer any form of warranty or ability to test it.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I'm as much in favour of an amazing deal as anyone, but only if it's an honest deal where the seller knows what he's selling or makes absolutely clear he doesn't care.

dionb wrote:

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

You have my full support here.

SpectriaForce wrote:

Why do you feel the need to inform the seller? That's just stupid.

No wonder you are so upset. Looking at your website I kinda understand this was most likely a missed opportunity for you to buy cheap and flip for the upmost profit. It's not the original owners asking for high prices that ruin the hobby, it's businesses like yours which desperately try to squeeze into the c2c market without offering any extra value.