I found and bought on eBay some speaker I had 25 years ago with my first Pentium 75 ! So happy to get it, the picture was clean and clearly white... but when I received them, I've been disappointed to see this yellowish color 🙁 Only 5$, but still...

A "magic" bath with Hydrogen peroxide later...

Now I can really enjoy them 😀

Lately, I've been a bit lazy about posting on this thread but this was easy enough to take pictures of ha-ha:

Roland MPU-IMC (Microchannel, Boxed). I have this (bare) but boxed ones show up rarely so I felt it was worth picking up imho.

Macintosh speakers.

These actually sound pretty good for there age.

Works great with my iPad too.

rikukos wrote on 2020-07-31, 17:37:

Lately, I've been a bit lazy about posting on this thread but this was easy enough to take pictures of ha-ha: […]
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Lately, I've been a bit lazy about posting on this thread but this was easy enough to take pictures of ha-ha:

Roland MPU-IMC (Microchannel, Boxed). I have this (bare) but boxed ones show up rarely so I felt it was worth picking up imho.

If you are into ibm micro channel stuff, i guess thats the card to have. you have to be into it tho cuz its useless without that.

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devius wrote on 2020-07-31, 09:05:

pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-30, 20:02:

He also has an Asus P2-99B AT motherboard, but there is a blown capacitor on it, so I didn't take it.

What??? Blasphemy!

imi wrote on 2020-07-31, 10:37:

pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-30, 20:02:

He also has an Asus P2-99B AT motherboard, but there is a blown capacitor on it, so I didn't take it.

I'd take it :p

that sure is worth to repair ^^

hahaha

Alright guys I'll grab it next time I'm there.

I've never been great with a soldering iron but I guess I'll make a thread about attempting to repair that board when I have it.

Motherboard obtained. Along with a Geforce 2 MX400 64MB AGP card. Attached pics show board and bad cap. The motherboard looks brand new except for that one bad cap.

If I can replace that capacitor and get the board working I'll likely replace my K6-2 machine with this and a Pentium 3 600.

rikukos wrote on 2020-07-31, 17:37:

Roland MPU-IMC (Microchannel, Boxed). I have this (bare) but boxed ones show up rarely so I felt it was worth picking up imho.

*gasp*

speaking of microchannel stuff, I picked up this PS/2 56slc with 486slc2 processor upgrade :3c
... the power supply is borkd though, I hope the rest is ok, no cards unfortunately ^^

also my second 8" floppy arrived... it was supposed to be a pristine Mitsubishi M2896-63-02M double sided double density 8" drive including an adapter.

...but shipping was not kind to it :'(

I don't know if the metal bracket hurt or prevented even more damage, the metal bracket got bent and the front panel broke in several places and got stuck underneath, also the pristine cardboard protector got pretty roughed up
in hindsight it was wise that I asked the seller to unplug the adapter from the drive as to reduce the risk of it breaking the connector/PCB at the back by sticking out during shipping.
the front should be fixable, one of the posts holding it to the drive at the back shattered and idk if I found all the pieces... but seeing as it got bumped very hard probably idk if everything is still going to be in alignment, at least it did have the cardboard protector.

pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-31, 18:48:

Motherboard obtained. Along with a Geforce 2 MX400 64MB AGP card. Attached pics show board and bad cap. The motherboard looks brand new except for that one bad cap.

If I can replace that capacitor and get the board working I'll likely replace my K6-2 machine with this and a Pentium 3 600.

that should be an easy fix, it might actually still work with that cap anyways, though I'd be safe and replace it before trying ^^

imi wrote on 2020-07-31, 18:51:

speaking of microchannel stuff, I picked up this PS/2 56slc with 486slc2 processor upgrade :3c

56 SLC is a lovely machine, especially with the CPU upgrade installed. Built like a tank and takes 16 MB on planar - also fairly spacious for such a compact form factor (me likes : ) Did I mention SCSI onboard - lovely! Congrats!

imi wrote on 2020-07-31, 18:51:

that should be an easy fix, it might actually still work with that cap anyways, though I'd be safe and replace it before trying ^^

Hopefully!

It was very easy to desolder the cap and I've ordered a new one from digikey.

Mostly I am hoarding. Bought two AMD systems from around 2002. I've taken apart the computers, and this is what I got. I like very much PC fan controller, external drive bay, and the arctic cooler mounted on AGP Radeon 9600 card. MSI motherboard needs recapping (one day 😀 ) Funny thing when I was removing DDR Ram I saw the one with heatsink from sides. I thought: "oh how nice ". When I grabbed in my hand: plastic 😀

NyLan wrote on 2020-07-31, 16:56:

I found and bought on eBay some speaker I had 25 years ago with my first Pentium 75 ! So happy to get it, the picture was clean and clearly white... but when I received them, I've been disappointed to see this yellowish color 🙁 Only 5$, but still...

Wow great result! I've tossed out some great stuff over the years because of yellow, dang it.

Turbo -> wrote on 2020-07-31, 21:07:

Mostly I am hoarding. Bought two AMD systems from around 2002. I've taken apart the computers, and this is what I got. I like very much PC fan controller, external drive bay, and the arctic cooler mounted on AGP Radeon 9600 card. MSI motherboard needs recapping (one day 😀 ) Funny thing when I was removing DDR Ram I saw the one with heatsink from sides. I thought: "oh how nice ". When I grabbed in my hand: plastic 😀

Even though Rambus hasn't been relevant since the turn of the millennium, I still associate RAMsinks with RDRAM. It wasn't till I scrolled up a bit and actually read your post that I realized the module in your last picture was DDR. 😜

NyLan wrote on 2020-07-31, 16:56:

I found and bought on eBay some speaker I had 25 years ago with my first Pentium 75 ! So happy to get it, the picture was clean and clearly white... but when I received them, I've been disappointed to see this yellowish color 🙁 Only 5$, but still...

A "magic" bath with Hydrogen peroxide later...

Now I can really enjoy them 😀

Nice work! I just switched over to the 12% peroxide bath + UV light method vs developer cream + plastic wrap myself. Works well - nice and uniform restoration vs streaking.

rikukos wrote on 2020-07-31, 19:55:

imi wrote on 2020-07-31, 18:51:

speaking of microchannel stuff, I picked up this PS/2 56slc with 486slc2 processor upgrade :3c

56 SLC is a lovely machine, especially with the CPU upgrade installed. Built like a tank and takes 16 MB on planar - also fairly spacious for such a compact form factor (me likes : ) Did I mention SCSI onboard - lovely! Congrats!

Like imi, the PSU in my 56 (486SLC2 at...50MHz? Yeah, 50MHz) is also borked, all it does is make a high pitched whine if you plug power in. And there's a ton of surface rust inside the case that I'm not really sure how to handle...

If it's just surface rust you can treat it with CLR or a similar rust remover.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-08-01, 01:39:

If it's just surface rust you can treat it with CLR or a similar rust remover.

+ baking soda!

That's a good one too Artex.

pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-31, 15:21:

hahaha

Alright guys I'll grab it next time I'm there.

I've never been great with a soldering iron but I guess I'll make a thread about attempting to repair that board when I have it.

"You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, don't ya?"

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-08-01, 01:39:

If it's just surface rust you can treat it with CLR or a similar rust remover.

I was actually thinking Evaporust, but CLR would probably work too!

Part of the problem is that the motor for the floppy drive also has some serious surface rust and that would be much harder to clean...

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-08-01, 02:02:

https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/XNAF5pAQENI/hqdefault.jpg "You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, don't ya?" […]
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pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-31, 15:21:

hahaha

Alright guys I'll grab it next time I'm there.

I've never been great with a soldering iron but I guess I'll make a thread about attempting to repair that board when I have it.

"You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, don't ya?"

hah yep.

Bought last month but arrived this week:

ESS AudioDrive ES1868
Wow, what a sound card! I was 90% happy with my previous sound card, an AWE64, but I am 99% happy with the ES1868.

The AWE64 was very nice but there were two things I didn't like about it. First, it causes sound effects to skip in Build engine games when using an external synth, unless you reduce the sfx quality to 11khz. Second, I didn't care for how it handled FM synth. The ES1868 doesn't exhibit the Build engine bug, and features FM synth very close to the classic SB OPL.

I expected these improvements (that's why I ordered the ES1868 in the first place), but am also happy with the much simpler configuration (no more Creative PNP driver!) and, to my ears anyway, much better sound quality overall.

Sadly, it still suffers from a few issues I was somehow hoping it would magically resolve:

- Might & Magic III and Might & Magic IV still insist on muting the sound card's LINE IN when they launch, which prevents Roland music from playing. I assume the only way to resolve this is to use a dedicated MIDI interface card. Until then, the workaround is to just plug my MT-32 into the LINE IN on my speakers.
- Xargon is WAY TOO LOUD. I thought this might be some weird AWE32/64 bug, but I verified that it goes an sets the mixer values for the sound card itself from 8 to 14. Really bizarre.
- Configuring MT32 music for Spirit of Excalibur and the other games that use its engine (Vengeance of Excalibur and Conan the Cimmerian) slows the game down massively, rendering it unplayable (ultimately freezing). I assume these games are some of the few that only work with a genuine MIDI interface rather than SoftMPU.

For the first two issues above, I wonder if it's possible to "lock" the mixer settings somehow to prevent games from fooling with them?

Anyway, I'm VERY pleased with this card!