Merovign wrote:

Holy noodle! I love late 70s and early 80s stuff, and I never see it except in archive.org magazines. One of these days I'll be in the right place at the right time.

Or 3D print a Soroc or IMSAI VDP-80 orCanon AS-100 case and mount an emulator in it.

The Sharp MZ-80K is from 1979 (it has date codes on the DRAM IC's), maybe the HP 9835A too (the interweb claims it was manufactured from 1979-1983). The rest is certainly from the 1980's (rest: Apple Macintosh II, HP Integral PC, Epson PX-8, Tulip PC Compact 2, Spectravideo SV 328). The Sharp MZ-80K is pretty rare in Europe nowadays, especially compared to a common black & white Commodore PET 2001, but the HP 9835A is very rare. The HP 9835B (without CRT) is much more common. I think that if you're willing to spend time on searching the internet every day and ask people for old computers, then you might still be able to find such old treasures.

Thunderboard? I've never seen it before. SB compatible?

I'm in Sopot now and I met a guy on the train that tells me to check out Lombard (like a pawn shop) for old computer stuff. I'll give it a shot, see what's around here.

Jed118 wrote:

Thunderboard? I've never seen it before. SB compatible?

Yes, mostly SB (2.0 ?) compatible.
Some MediaVision chips + Yamaha OPL2, but no sockets for CMS.
I've had some compatibility problems with mine, though, and the amusing thing is that it was with Pinball Fantasies, which explicitely lists ThunderBoard as one of the supported devices.
Actually, the "ThunderBoard" option uses the SB 1.x driver, so it works perfectly with any SB clone, just not ThunderBoard 😁

Interesting, if I ever see one on allegro, I'll buy it. 😁 If the price is right. Speaking of allegro,

Looks like I lost this one:

https://allegro.pl/oferta/stary-komputer-ambr … acf77d00be2ff62

The price got a little too high for me with no guarantees of it working, plus it looks like it has no cache, an SX-25 CPU, and a relatively small hard drive. I could have probably doubled my earnings on it, but with the work involved in bringing it up to spec with a CDROM and a soundcard, it scarcely seems worth my while. Plus the seller never answered my questions about it. Oh well, someone bought it for close to $170 with shipping! That's a lot for something like this in the country it is being sold in, I've had cousins buy Seicentos and Matizes for about the same out in the boonies.

what special is in this computer?

retropol wrote:

what special is in this computer?

Nothing. It would be special if I can get it for 150 PLN, or at most 200. This is why I stopped bidding 😉

This would have been purely a turnaround machine. I think by now most Poles have figured out that these antiques are worth a little more. It was not so long ago that I would buy random boxes (like Nostalgia Nerd did a while back with his Hungarian PC) and find really cool things inside - A Voodoo 2, several SCSI hard drives not connected, neat Yamaha soundcards... Albeit sometimes I would get burned and buy pure shit. One particularly bad lot, the only working thing was a 250Mb hard drive, and I sold that for exactly what it cost me for the whole rotten pile of crap, shipping included. I even got a decent case out of it for a future build, but it required a lot of cleanup and painting.

All in all, this venture of mine is going to come to an end in about a year, and it seems that the local market is wising up. But you can still find the occasional gem here and there. Right now I am focusing on individual components, partially for builds of my own, partially for resale.

For example, this just came up:

https://allegro.pl/oferta/retro-komputer-cx48 … 40hz-8169963891

It will likely go over 250PLN, which for a clone, is too much for me. It has several things going for it: VESA, a case with a spot for a seven segment display, and a switchable (to 120v) AT power supply.

I don't get too bent out of shape about not winning these, as there is only a certain amount of this stuff I can bring back with me from Poland at any given time, and it has to be well worth my while to do so.

Plus also I have like 20+ AT systems at my home right now, which will likely occupy me well into winter of this year, and a local source (albeit not nearly as profitable) at hand.

Plus, really, in the end, I get to build AT systems 25 years after I learned how to build AT systems and have a little fun!

wiretap wrote:

MSI 694D Pro V1.0 Motherboard (seller photo). Looks like it comes with some RAM and CPU's as well, but I don't know what they ar […]
Show full quote

MSI 694D Pro V1.0 Motherboard (seller photo). Looks like it comes with some RAM and CPU's as well, but I don't know what they are yet. Unsure if this board can support a dual Tualatin mod, but I'll find out. If not, I'll just stick with some 1GHz PIII's.

Let us(me) know how your board and dual 1.4's go I have that board and dual 1.4's but when the second chip is installed I get ram errors and generally unstable.

SpectriaForce wrote:

Merovign wrote:

Holy noodle! I love late 70s and early 80s stuff, and I never see it except in archive.org magazines. One of these days I'll be in the right place at the right time.

Or 3D print a Soroc or IMSAI VDP-80 orCanon AS-100 case and mount an emulator in it.

The Sharp MZ-80K is from 1979 (it has date codes on the DRAM IC's), maybe the HP 9835A too (the interweb claims it was manufactured from 1979-1983). The rest is certainly from the 1980's (rest: Apple Macintosh II, HP Integral PC, Epson PX-8, Tulip PC Compact 2, Spectravideo SV 328). The Sharp MZ-80K is pretty rare in Europe nowadays, especially compared to a common black & white Commodore PET 2001, but the HP 9835A is very rare. The HP 9835B (without CRT) is much more common. I think that if you're willing to spend time on searching the internet every day and ask people for old computers, then you might still be able to find such old treasures.

Yeah if I was still making what I was 3 years ago I'd already have them, I'm sure. 😐

Hope you have fun with them! Nice to see they found a home.

This just got delivered at work. Still sealed

Awesome !!

Bancho wrote:

This just got delivered at work. Still sealed […]
Show full quote

This just got delivered at work. Still sealed

Hell ya!!

cyclone3d wrote:

This isn't new, but just detailed pics of the motherboard and cards that came in that rack mount wave soldering computer I poste […]
Show full quote

This isn't new, but just detailed pics of the motherboard and cards that came in that rack mount wave soldering computer I posted in here a while ago.

mb_model.JPG

The Red comtrol card is an 8-port serial card.
The AVED card ( AV550-LVDS ) Is a video card that is also a controller for I think a touch screen LVDS flatscreen display. I didn't really find exact specs on this model, but did find some info on a newer model.

Pretty much useless to me.

cards.JPG

That looks like the Aved AV550 I've been following on ebay, because I need a video card for my lunchbox that can drive the internal display. The one hitch making me hesitate to buy it (other than compatibility question; but the lunchbox is supposed to take a Chips video card) is if I would eventually be able to connect the output of a Voodoo 2 accelerator to its video input, so I could have 3D acceleration on the internal display.

2x Diamond

and 2x VHS cassette ... or not? 😁

cyclone3d wrote:

I've got a thunderboard as well. Came in a completely unknown to me lot of cards I got a while back. All I knew was it was ISA sound cards. I might actually have 2.

These came today - a couple a Intel QX9775 CPUs - cost was $20 shipped. 😀 I already have a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard that is modded for LGA771 CPUs and I think I have at least 1 more of those conversion stickers. If not, I'll have to order some more.

2x Intel QX9775.jpg

I know where you can find an appropriate cooling system for those CPUs. These guys are doing a part out right now, should have what your looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

You might need more than one. Those were only designed to cool nuclear reactors.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

I know where you can find an appropriate cooling system for those CPUs. These guys are doing a part out right now, should have w […]
Show full quote

cyclone3d wrote:

I've got a thunderboard as well. Came in a completely unknown to me lot of cards I got a while back. All I knew was it was ISA sound cards. I might actually have 2.

These came today - a couple a Intel QX9775 CPUs - cost was $20 shipped. 😀 I already have a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard that is modded for LGA771 CPUs and I think I have at least 1 more of those conversion stickers. If not, I'll have to order some more.

2x Intel QX9775.jpg

I know where you can find an appropriate cooling system for those CPUs. These guys are doing a part out right now, should have what your looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

You might need more than one. Those were only designed to cool nuclear reactors.

HAHAHAHAHA.

I'll probably be using one of my enormous heatpipe coolers.... maybe a Noctua NH-D14 or similar.

Picked up a small box of old CD / DVD drives from my local IT recycler, for beer money 😀 - most seem to still work, except a few dodgy Samsungs. No SCSI ones, but these are probably the stand-out IDE retro ones

^^^ I seem to recall BTC CDROMS ejecting discs still spinning. This year I got a P166 with a 10x BTC CDROM and yeah, I recalled correctly.

Excellent driver software package though, I've been using it for 20+ years on all my retro builds (same diskette, too!)

From a friend who was throwing these away. Paid a modest 5€ for the lot as a gesture of goodwill.

Jed118 wrote:

^^^ I seem to recall BTC CDROMS ejecting discs still spinning. This year I got a P166 with a 10x BTC CDROM and yeah, I recalled correctly.

Excellent driver software package though, I've been using it for 20+ years on all my retro builds (same diskette, too!)

Haha that reminds me, I had a couple of drives do that, one may have indeed been the same brand. The worst culprit though was an old DVD-ROM drive where pressing eject was nerve-wracking, if you were lucky it wouldn't fly out spinning towards you. Always reminded me of that movie Dark Angel/I Come in Peace. 🤣