PTherapist wrote:

That PC is currently maxed to 128MB RAM, so I'll have to remove 2 RAM sticks and leave it at 64MB to take advantage of the cache.

Use XMSDSK to put a 64MB ramdisk on top of the memory (which is not cached) and then you have all available ram cached + some temporary space to use whenever needed. 😉

Picking up this PC at the weekend, only photo I have. Idk what is inside, any ideas?

respect2759 wrote:

Picking up this PC at the weekend, only photo I have. Idk what is inside, any ideas?

Nazdar! 😉 It looks like 486DX2 we used to have at high school computer classroom.

Wolfus wrote:

respect2759 wrote:

Picking up this PC at the weekend, only photo I have. Idk what is inside, any ideas?

Nazdar! 😉 It looks like 486DX2 we used to have at high school computer classroom.

Ahoj! Thanks! A guy gives it to mee with a few socket 478 PCs Celerons and Pentium 4 PCs if I upgrade his notebook. Also two CRTs a 14 and 15 one, will post some photos

Vitaj! Try to open it up, once you'll get it and post photos of it either here, or into System Specs forum. We'll surely help you with closer identification.

I hate sellers that do that. I placed an offer on a sound card and CD-ROM combo a couple of times and the seller and I agreed that $50 is a good price.

Found these at the local thrift store today for the princely sum of $12. It's an AOpen AX6BC motherboard, Crystal CX4235 sound card, some modem/sound card combo by Conexant, 64 meg DIMM stick, an 8 gig WD Caviar, and a bizarre 370 slotkey with a 400 Mhz Celeron. I was hoping to scoop up a few more parts (especially a video card), as they just set it out on the sales floor, but I waited to no avail. I don't have a PSU to test the board, but I tested the HDD in my main machine only for an I/O disc error. The Crystal works, though (albiet justt as broken as it came from the factory), so hopefully everything else works!

Made an offer on a sealed Reveal SC400 (Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16) for a bit over $50 and the seller did a counter offer of $60. Accepted the offer, because, why not?

Got these printed because it seems I will be needing them for my many upcoming sound card soldering projects..

I will be drilling holes for my Adlib using Dremel.

Anyone know exactly what size nuts and bolts I need for these?

Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL

...Running 😀 I really like the Warcraft 2 Soundtrack on this card, for me it sounds better than on GUS!

Then: Philips CDD3610 - really like the design of that drive 😎

Predator99 wrote:

Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL […]
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Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL

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...Running 😀 I really like the Warcraft 2 Soundtrack on this card, for me it sounds better than on GUS!

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Then: Philips CDD3610 - really like the design of that drive 😎

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I really like the clarity of those TerraTec cards too.
Nice find.

Predator99 wrote:

Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL […]
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Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL

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...Running 😀 I really like the Warcraft 2 Soundtrack on this card, for me it sounds better than on GUS!

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Then: Philips CDD3610 - really like the design of that drive 😎

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Nice find.

Technically it is not an XL without the 5.25" bay module though.

And for an XXL, it has to have the Waldorf midi module mounted in the 5.25" bay module.

Predator99 wrote:

Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL

...Running 😀 I really like the Warcraft 2 Soundtrack on this card, for me it sounds better than on GUS!

Then: Philips CDD3610 - really like the design of that drive 😎

Very nice! Are those things for a vintage computer you want to build, or did you collect them just to have?

Predator99 wrote:

Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL

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Piece of art.

cyclone3d wrote:

Nice find.

Technically it is not an XL without the 5.25" bay module though.

And for an XXL, it has to have the Waldorf midi module mounted in the 5.25" bay module.

Thanks - you are right. But there is a sticker "Model: EWS64 XL" under the RAM. Therefore this card was part of a kit.

JonathonWyble wrote:

Very nice! Are those things for a vintage computer you want to build, or did you collect them just to have?

Just to have/play with. No room for complete systems and my interests change very fast 😉

Sound card time today:

Don't normally go for boxed stuff, but if you can't find it without box and the price isn't too inflated, why not. I hate 3.5mm jacks, which leads me into the realm of prosumer audio stuff like this Emagic Audiowerk 2. It's nothing fancy, just analog and SPDIF stereo in and out with a 16 bit DAC - but easy Win9x, 2k/XP, MacOS Classic and Linux drivers and very good SNR. Not a gaming card, but perfect for HTPC work.

The second card is potentially more insteresting. It has an FCC ID - JUGMML9050 - and a model sticker PA-WP9050-B (REV C), which suggests something by Wearnes Peripherals. The seller had repeatedly tried - and failed - to get it to work (he may be reading here, he suggested I look on Vogons for help 😉 ). Now it's my turn. What makes me optimistic is that this thing looks extremely similar to the Orchid Soundwave/Gamewave 32 cards. We'll see if that similarity helps me get it running...

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To counter that, here's what I just bought for 1/1000 of that (4 EUR): […]
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To counter that, here's what I just bought for 1/1000 of that (4 EUR):

Ooh, that brings back many fond memories. My dad used to have a very similar laptop (maybe even the same?) that I used to watch him type his university papers on back in '91/'92. It fascinated the 5 year old me. 😊

Managed to snag this 7800GS AGP for only $30 CAD today!

So now I have three of these cards. I've been using the first two in my AXP-2800/NF2 and A64-4000/NF3 machines. This third 7800GS, however, is going to be slotting into something totally different:

Yep, it'll be pushing pixels in my PowerMac G4 MDD. This beast has two 1.25GHz G4 processors w/ 2MB of L3 cache each, 2GB of PC2700 RAM, and a 300 GB SCSI HDD. It currently has the stock Radeon 9000 Pro in it, so the 7800GS will be a massive upgrade. It should even help Leopard run a bit more efficiently, as it supports Core Image in hardware. Just need to flash a Mac ROM to the 7800GS, then will be playing Doom 3 and UT2004 in no time!

Speaking of which, I've always wondered how the 1.25GHz G4 stacks up against my DDR-based PIII-S @ 1.63GHz in gaming workloads. I already have Doom 3 and UT2K4 installed on the PIII-S, and it handles both games quite well with a 6800GT. The 7800GS isn't much faster, and I'm sure the G4s will be the primary bottleneck, so this should make for a fairly interesting 2002 PPC vs x86 comparison. I have a feeling the PIII will win (unless the games can make use of the 2nd CPU in the Mac), but we shall soon see!

I don't like paying this much money for a system to be honest but grabbed this case for $35.

That's because it had the following inside:

As some of you may know I am currently having trouble getting a 386SX-40 board with cache to work but I've been making a lot of promising progress lately. That got me kind of interested in other 386 boards so when I saw this motherboardI sprang for it. It turned out to be only an SX-25 but if I can't get the SX-40 working I now have a fallback option.

The case itself is incredibly dirty shape but it should be a decent case once I clean it up. There is a speed display LED under the black glass.

oh that case looks nice, not even yellow ^^, I still haven't found any decent cases in my area, and shipping would probably cost just as much as the case.

but I picked up some other things... not that retro, but useful

HD4670 in a near mint box (pointing at the important bit)

like I said, not really that retro, but got a box full of industrial PC goodies (including 2 sbcs) for really cheap, bought it mainly because of the CF disks I plan to use for retro builds... but upon opening the box I got another surprise, two more pata SSDs, those are going to come in very handy too.

and this:

paid a bit too much again probably, but I really like those "high end" AT boards ^^