appiah4 wrote:

Got this lot for $20 including shiping. I think I need to stop, I have more stuff than I will ever need at this point.

I know that feeling... my current approach to collecting is more like "one of everything" instead of focusing on special parts... but I think I'll change my approach once I have a sizable selection of parts... which is a point that seems to be approaching fast 😁

stalk3r wrote:

That's a sign of a defective board in my experience i.e. someone removed the ICs. Let's hope that battery isn't leaking too much.

I've seen scrap sellers that just remove all the chips possible on all boards including roms... ram... cache... just everything and sell them seperately.

stalk3r wrote:

That's pretty brave, I was being much more cautious carrying only a crappy Trident ISA for the first time 😀

heh, yeah I'm glad it worked out, here's some of the loot 😀

BCM SQ-588
Alaris Leopard? was sold as 386 board with VLB but that doesn't seem to be entirely accurate ^^
Intel socket 5 board, someone seems to have tinkered with the RTC already
SOYO 5TE2?

2x Pentium 90
AMD-K5 PR133
A80386DX-33, A80386DX-25 and A80387-25
two nice old cooler master coolers, one to clip on the CPU with the clip still intact (also got one with the clip broken unfortunately) and one to clip onto the socket.
another ATA flash disk with 32GB and a few more IDE to CF adapters

Western Digital WD90C30-LR
ATI RageII+DVD, just collecting ATI cards
Trident TGUI9680-1
WDC MFM controller for rebuilding my first PC, I cannot find out what controller it had exactly, I only know it was western digital and it's from '89 so this should fit nicely
Miniscribe Floppy Controller?
another mitsumi cd-rom card

SB Live SB0060
SB Audigy2 ZS SB0350
FortiMedia FM801
SB Vibra 16XV CT4170
Creative branded ES1371
OAK OTI601 Mozart card

Diamond Stealth III S540? - S3 Savage 4 Pro
ELSA Gloria Synergy-4 - 3DLabs Permedia 2
SPEA Mirage - S3 Trio32
ELSA Winner 2000 AVI - S3 Vision968
another ATI RageII+DVD
ATI Mach64
S3 Trio64
MIRO 20SDPCI - S3 Vision864

Gravis Analog Pro Joystick
Logitech Cyberman
Logitech trackball (for laptops?)
external Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive, I think it was sold with a pcmcia card that I don't have, but should work with other SCSI controllers too I assume?
Pentium II233 with a nice cooler
Athlon 600 Argon also nice cooler, going to swap the cooler onto my Pluto/Orion for my Slot A build
got the s939 board because it has AGP

and some more modern stuff for the ATI collection
HD5970... already had two but both were missing the backplate, finally got one with it
X1900XT with AC Accelero X2
Sapphire HD4890 VaporX
Sapphire HD3870 Ultimate
the middle card is not that special as such, seems to be a HD5750 (no brand, sticker or anything on it, the P/N on the fan yields no results)... I just really liked the red cooler with the shiny ATI Radeon logo plate.

K5 PR133.. Jealous. I want one of these to replace my Pentium 133. K5 PR133 and the U5S SX40 seem to be so elusive for me 🙁

Love that Alaris Leopard. Has to be one of the weirdest boards out there. I want one IBM SLC/DLC/Blue Lightning board. The later Blue Lightning undoubtedly offers the best performance, but I have an i7 for that - so I'd love to get my hands on a Leopard for undoubtably the best 16b I/O performance out there.

Well now... I was contacted by guy who liquidates his retro PC parts collection. It's extensive. We have gone through several banana crates, over 100 items and I photographed all of it (first batch of things..

https://mega.nz/?fbclid=IwAR28v2tzPfgXUKqMzy8 … JIHiBB2IZo-HPYg

Things marked with pink "S" I bought yesterday 😀

Rest is still for sale (some are reserved - marked "R") - if anything is of interest to you - you may contact me for details. After 15.08 we plan to post everything that's left in batches on AmiBay.

Today’s finds!
Long awaited a1097 90W PSU (almost bought it from eBay)
no need, as it was in a dumpster haha

Predator99 wrote:

Puh, won this auction but I am afraid I paid too much money. Think some other collectors spotted this and the seller was rather […]
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Puh, won this auction but I am afraid I paid too much money. Think some other collectors spotted this and the seller was rather surprised about the outcome...

Will see if something works. We have:
4 x 286 Mainboard, 2xSuntac
3 x 486 Mainbaord, 1 with PCI+VLB
4 x Soundblaster
1 x Mediavision
3 x Voodoo I
1 x Voodoo Banshee with Cinch-Out?
ISA Video Capture
ET4000 VLB
2 x ISA ARCNet
2 interesting (full length) PCI Graphics cards, one Matrox?
..and not too much junk.

(sellers photo)

EbJul1.jpg

Lot arrived today. Doesnt look as bad as expected. Some boards look OK, some have obvious damages and for others somebody already tried a repair. Need to inspect very closely before testing. Still possible that nothing works. Cannot keep most of it anyway, was mainly interested in the 286s.

I wish you the best of luck, really like those workstation GPUs

Predator99 wrote:

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Lot arrived today. Doesnt look as bad as expected. Some boards look OK, some have obvious damages and for others somebody already tried a repair. Need to inspect very closely before testing. Still possible that nothing works. Cannot keep most of it anyway, was mainly interested in the 286s.

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There is a lot of cool stuff in there!

What channel/site will you be using to re-sell the rest?

Went all in on a Slot 1 DOS build today.

GA-6BXC Slot 1 440BX (thanks infiniteclouds)

I bought a VIA C3 Ezra and Nehemia to play with. Whichever one works the best for me is what I'll end up using.

MSI Slotket Adapter

IBM 9 Savage4 eXtreme

From a random box of junk (tossed the rest), an LG CRD-8400B

Got me a new AT case because those are starting to get more and more rare..

It was sold as an OEM computer in the early nineties by the same company I bought my first PC (Intel 486 DX33 4MB VLB) from, and it's the Mid-Tower doorless model of the case I had which was a Full-Tower with a front door.

I was going to build my 486 with a NOS AT case I had around, but this changes everything. Needless to say, a 486 system will have to be built in this and moved to storage.

I guess I will just do a PCI/VLB 486 DX4-100 build with a Voodoo 1 running Windows 95/Warp3 dual boot in the NOS case and use it as a daily driver because why not..

I also got another AWE64 for just $5.

After buying a 512MB PC133 CL3 Crucial/Micron stick yesterday (with the hope that runs at CAS2 Turbo mode, just like my Viking CL3 stick) in order to upgrade the memory to 2GB on my future TUV4X, I also bit the bullet on this:

I never had a direct experience with bridged nVidia cards, but as the Radeon X1950 Pro, while being excellent in 3D mode, falls a bit behind my old 6800GT in 2D mode (especially in graphics acceleration in web browsing), I want to give the 7800GS a spin. They say it's one of the fastest AGP cards made by NVidia, plus it was the most "affordable" one that I found, so why not. I promised myself I'm not going to buy anymore stuff in the mid to long term, as I need to save money for other, non retrocomputing related needs. I hope it won't end like the HD3850.

HanJammer wrote:

Well now... I was contacted by guy who liquidates his retro PC parts collection. It's extensive. We have gone through several ba […]
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Well now... I was contacted by guy who liquidates his retro PC parts collection. It's extensive. We have gone through several banana crates, over 100 items and I photographed all of it (first batch of things..

https://mega.nz/?fbclid=IwAR28v2tzPfgXUKqMzy8 … JIHiBB2IZo-HPYg

Things marked with pink "S" I bought yesterday 😀

Rest is still for sale (some are reserved - marked "R") - if anything is of interest to you - you may contact me for details. After 15.08 we plan to post everything that's left in batches on AmiBay.

Some nice stuff to be found!

appiah4 wrote:

I think I need to stop, I have more stuff than I will ever need at this point.

Said no collector EVER .. Well, at least not meaning it 😎

Munx wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

This is even better than what I posted yesterday (will report when it arrives..). I also won an auction of 10 kg scrap. There were mainly some interesting Soundblasters in the pile, nothing special. The seller wrote that he has 50 kg in total and if I am interested in buying more. I answered it depends and asked for a photo.
I selected 3 cards from the photo...do you see the most important? 😉

eb07.jpg

Pretty hard to miss a Voodoo 5K

OK, the 10 kg + the Voodoo arrived today. You will cry, dont scroll down if you dont like to... 😢 😢 😢

For the 10kg, I didnt see most of the cards that were inside on the sellers photo and was rather surprised about the big box. Think Imi also bid on this? 😉

So this is the box after my 1st sorting run.

I ask the seller to add the slot brackets. I think he added all he has (50 kg cards in total, will se if I get another lot).

Selection of cards:

And then this: Think I dont need to comment. The left cooler was removed with a screwdriver, the 3dfx-IC is damaged. Nothing to restore here. Will look through the box if I find the missing part of the Adlib... 😵

appiah4 wrote:

Got me a new AT case because those are starting to get more and more rare.. […]
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Got me a new AT case because those are starting to get more and more rare..

It was sold as an OEM computer in the early nineties by the same company I bought my first PC (Intel 486 DX33 4MB VLB) from, and it's the Mid-Tower doorless model of the case I had which was a Full-Tower with a front door.

I was going to build my 486 with a NOS AT case I had around, but this changes everything. Needless to say, a 486 system will have to be built in this and moved to storage.

I guess I will just do a PCI/VLB 486 DX4-100 build with a Voodoo 1 running Windows 95/Warp3 dual boot in the NOS case and use it as a daily driver because why not..

I also got another AWE64 for just $5.

The dx4 is very slow for a voodoo.

Predator99 wrote:

For the 10kg, I didnt see most of the cards that were inside on the sellers photo and was rather surprised about the big box. Think Imi also bid on this? 😉

I ask the seller to add the slot brackets. I think he added all he has (50 kg cards in total, will se if I get another lot).

b8.jpg

well... those alone are going to come in very handy, sorry about the butchered cards 🙁

I don't think I've even found that one ^^
we should coordinate our bidding :p

Just received this lovely box:

Containing a MU128:

Containing a PLG-100VL board (the exact board I once found cheap on Ebay and then forgot to bid on):

Included were the manuals, PC cable, original PSU, and inner box material. The latter was a good thing because the company I used to buy it in Japan and ship it thought this was all that was required to send it over half the world:

They didn't even bother to tape shut the box, just put a triple layer of bubble wrap around it. WTF? 😒 It could have ended in disaster.

Edit: Tested, and everything works. Also has firmware version 2.0, so it's GM2-compatible. 😀