This card arrived today. It's a Tseng ET4000AX VLB. I believe that the ET4000AX chip was manufactured in the 12th week of 1992.

I'm not sure of the OEM, but it is apparently an "Eng. Sample." NSSI recognizes it as a 1MB Tseng card. It works perfectly, and the colors really pop.

I just received this. It's in a sorry state. But it was almost free, so I took it. I don't even know if it works.

daikatana wrote:

it was almost free, so I took it.

Honestly those are the best aquisitions, imho. And if it doesn't work, making it work is SO satisifying.

boxpressed wrote on 2020-05-26, 20:16:

This card arrived today. It's a Tseng ET4000AX VLB. I believe that the ET4000AX chip was manufactured in the 12th week of 1992.

I'm not sure of the OEM, but it is apparently an "Eng. Sample." NSSI recognizes it as a 1MB Tseng card. It works perfectly, and the colors really pop.

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That's cool. Looks like a very early VLB device. I have ET4000AX of about the same age. But that's a pre-VESA local bus implementation.

luckybob wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:12:

daikatana wrote:

it was almost free, so I took it.

Honestly those are the best aquisitions, imho. And if it doesn't work, making it work is SO satisifying.

That's so true. I'll test the module tomorrow.

mpe wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:16:

That's cool. Looks like a very early VLB device. I have ET4000AX of about the same age. But that's a pre-VESA local bus implementation.

I have what I believe to be the production version of this card on the way. It even comes with a manual and drivers, so I should know more about its branding soon. I think it is a "generic" OEM and not one of the big-name companies.

Yes, the ET4000AX shows its ISA lineage in my benchmarking. It's about 10% slower in Superscape and Doom than my other VLB cards (Cirrus, NCR, ET4000/w32p).

lolo799 wrote on 2020-05-26, 17:57:

Could you take a picture of the ram expansion port?

yes

Well, I won this strangely, and possibly Tandy 1000 compatible LightPen on E-bay today. No real basis except that it uses a DB-9 female port and I have enough electronics skills to backup actually figuring out the pinout and looking at the circuit. I'm kind of hoping it's one of the "Warp Speed" light pens - the connector looks right and it looks like some documentation pictures - and I have the software from some experiments. Will check the pinout first - since I have the Tandy's pinout for the lightpen port written down in my desk from my experiments last summer (where I almost make a working one but was having trouble with tracking being very consistent or working at all).

Saw this ARK2000 Card for a very cheap price so decided to grab it.

This came in the mail today:

Sound Blaster 16 CT1740

It was listed as untested/not working and I got it for a steal. Sadly, it's got one of the "hanging note bug" DSPs.
Even more sadly, it doesn't seem to output anything on the left channel. It might just be a matter of applying some contact cleaner to the speaker OUT jack, but since it's got the hanging note bug and since I use external MT-32/MIDI I'm not really inclined to replace my AWE64 just to get better FM music. I'll store it away for now and revisit it at a later date, once I eventually get a dedicated MPU card clone, etc.

Predator99 wrote on 2020-05-23, 13:09:

I decided to collect the missing Chips for my junk AMIGA A2620 card Bought these (retro) hardware today […]
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I decided to collect the missing Chips for my junk AMIGA A2620 card
Bought these (retro) hardware today

I got all 3 from different sources and at the end I paid a lot of money for them (incl. shipping..):
68882 22,50€
68851 30€
68020 11,5€

Hope I get it working, did not test anything so far...

Today I took the time to make a short test of my 68020 Turbo-Card:
Sellers Picture:

Added some gold:

In my A2000:

😀 😀 😀

But I have to admit I had to close J303 to disable Fast-Ram...without that an error appears.

MAZter wrote on 2020-05-26, 23:52:

yes https://i.postimg.cc/cLLGsCsr/IMG-20200526-173511.jpg […]
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lolo799 wrote on 2020-05-26, 17:57:

Could you take a picture of the ram expansion port?

yes

Same on my models, except I have the 4M ram expansion in each, and somehow I have one half of the 16M expansion.

Got this macintosh Color Classic today. Seller said the condition is unknown. Usually when I see that said, I assume the seller knows it's broken. So I sent him a real low offer, and to my surprise he accepted. This time it was nice exception, it booted right up.

Seems quite dirty, but everything is intact. No cracked plastics or anything, no big scratches, no burn in. It isn't even yellowed. Some sticker glue residue in couple of places. I think after good cleaning this will look really nice. Now only if I had mouse and keyboard for this 😒

I like this plug and play motherboard, slides right out of the case.

Screen has slightly darker area in the upper right corner. Other than that, it is really sharp and good looking. Seeing that it has finnish language operating system is nice.

CrFr wrote on 2020-05-27, 20:04:

Got this macintosh Color Classic today. Seller said the condition is unknown. Usually when I see that said, I assume the seller […]
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Got this macintosh Color Classic today. Seller said the condition is unknown. Usually when I see that said, I assume the seller knows it's broken. So I sent him a real low offer, and to my surprise he accepted. This time it was nice exception, it booted right up.

Seems quite dirty, but everything is intact. No cracked plastics or anything, no big scratches, no burn in. It isn't even yellowed. Some sticker glue residue in couple of places. I think after good cleaning this will look really nice. Now only if I had mouse and keyboard for this 😒

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I like this plug and play motherboard, slides right out of the case.
IMG_0901_DxO.jpg

Screen has slightly darker area in the upper right corner. Other than that, it is really sharp and good looking. Seeing that it has finnish language operating system is nice.
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ADB mice and keyboards are expensive . There is also this https://www.bigmessowires.com/usb-wombat/ , if you want to use USb peripherals instead . Less authentic, more practical , IMHO .

That CRT might need to be degaussed, also, I'd recap the whole machine if I were you, some compact Macs were known for suffering from leaky SMD capacitors.

On top of my head I know that the following compact units are affected (I'm excluding the other Macs) :

• Macintosh SE/30 (the SE seems to be unaffected)
• Macintosh Classic
• Macintosh Classic II
• Macintosh Color Classic (not sure about the "obscure" Color Classic II)

The older (128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, Plus/ED, OG SE and SE FDHD) could benefit from a analog board recap and the replacement of the axial caps that they use (which didn't go bad as much as the SMD shitcans used on later 68K units).

Also careful about that PRAM battery, these are known for exploding and often taking the logic board with them.

Got this stash delivered today.

Great haul Caluser

CrFr wrote on 2020-05-27, 20:04:

Got this macintosh Color Classic today. Seller said the condition is unknown. Usually when I see that said, I assume the seller […]
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Got this macintosh Color Classic today. Seller said the condition is unknown. Usually when I see that said, I assume the seller knows it's broken. So I sent him a real low offer, and to my surprise he accepted. This time it was nice exception, it booted right up.

Seems quite dirty, but everything is intact. No cracked plastics or anything, no big scratches, no burn in. It isn't even yellowed. Some sticker glue residue in couple of places. I think after good cleaning this will look really nice. Now only if I had mouse and keyboard for this 😒

IMG_0900_DxO.jpg

I like this plug and play motherboard, slides right out of the case.
IMG_0901_DxO.jpg

Screen has slightly darker area in the upper right corner. Other than that, it is really sharp and good looking. Seeing that it has finnish language operating system is nice.
IMG_0906_DxO.jpg

This website has some good resources and you can access it from your color classic with Netscape 3.1 web browser.
http://obsolete.macfixer.com/vintage-software/

You can download to a mac computer and then burn to a CD.
But you will need a CDROM drive for your Macintosh.

I would upgrade your Color classic with a 500gb hard-drive at least first. And add more RAM. I think it take up to 16mb.
( Apple Quantum Fireball SCSI 500mb hard drive )
All you need is 8mb to use Netscape and go online.
Also get a network card. They are cheap.
System 7.1 is light on the CPU. ( if you only have 8mb ram ) ( I think you have to install from floppy disks ).
System 7.5 used al little more resources. ( if you have 16mb ram )
Don’t put anything higher than System 7.5.1
Also get an Apple SCSI CDROM drive. You can build your own SCSI CDROM drive using the Apple CD300i or CD600i drive.
Replace the battery.
OWC computers NO longer supports this computer as it is too old. But you can find parts on eBay.

Specs

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classi … lorclassic.html

See my Posts:
Macintosh Color Classic ( Extreme )

lolo799 wrote on 2020-05-27, 19:04:

Same on my models, except I have the 4M ram expansion in each, and somehow I have one half of the 16M expansion.

Nice, what are these memory modules called? Are they have part numbers?

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-05-28, 00:29:

Great haul Caluser

Thanks. The plastic covered one had a 3.4Ghz P4 and the Grey one a 2.8Ghz Celeron. Swapped out the Celeron mobo with the P4 one which more ram slots and was fitted with 2gig of DDR400 ram. The 40gig hdd in the grey box has a fresh install of XP on it which asks for activation. I'll fit a far larger drive and install some flavour of Linux on it. Paid $nz60. That included petrol money for the seller to drive 50km to drop it off this morning. I was really only interested in the monitor but the seller put in some other goodies as well which I thought was nice of him.😀 Threw the plastic covered case in the recycling after stripping all the components I could use on other system/projects. It came with a combo 3.5" fdd/CF/SD card unit and DCD rw drive.