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Reply 35380 of 52720, by Sedrosken

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YMF719E-S card for my 486 since my CT2800 blew three caps and lost an output channel last night. I feel like I'm going to have a blast getting the WSS stuff working -- I've never messed with that before -- but it ought to go alright.

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Reply 35381 of 52720, by Joseph_Joestar

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Sedrosken wrote on 2020-08-10, 11:52:

I feel like I'm going to have a blast getting the WSS stuff working -- I've never messed with that before -- but it ought to go alright.

It's worth it, especially for late-era DOS games. And contrary to popular belief, quite a few of them do support WSS.

I'm using WSS all the time on my OPTi card and I was even able make it work with some games that didn't support it natively. It's pretty easy to do for anything that uses the Miles sound system. If you're interested, I go into a bit more detail in this thread.

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Reply 35382 of 52720, by Miphee

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I have a thing for full-length ISA cards from the 80's even if they aren't particularly useful!

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Reply 35383 of 52720, by ildonaldo

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Bought 2/4 pcs. 8xCD-Drives, Sony CDU311 (1996/1997) for my 1997 Pentium 1 with matrox m3d (PowerVR PCX2).
Two where broken, but got another two (working) as replacement for the first (bad) delivery- free 😀

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Reply 35384 of 52720, by creepingnet

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Bought a Docking Station for my NEC Versa/Versai/Versas.......it's an AT&T Branded one that just dropped down low enough for me to afford. It comes in in a week or two, maybe by then the "lab" will be ready and I can start really using these a lot. I paid using the money refunded from buying a 9.4" total size (not viewable area, the viewable area was 8.4") MicroTouch touch panel that did not fit (need 10.4" total size, 9.4" viewable area).

So I'm sure you're asking "why are you getting an AT&T Docking Staton for an NEC laptop?" - Well....I've started cracking the "code" so to speak on who made what between NEC, Samsung, NCR, and AT&T......

In the early 1990's AT&T And NCR marketed laptops that were made by other makers under the "Safari" and "Globalyst" models....they were made by Samsung or NEC. Both model names were used by NCR and AT&T.

The 3151 Safari and Globalyst 200 appear to be the same model, a 50MHz 486 DX2, which I've only ever seen with a 640x480 TFT Active Matrix LCD. These were based off the Samsung Sens model laptops (Sens 500, 600, maybe 700) which have a very rounded and rather nice appearance. These were the lower end models. These differ from the Samsung with a characteristic lighter gray palmwrest and screen bezel, with Turquoise power button and lid release. The Samsung Sens models themselves had a very similar color scheme to the NEC Versa models. There's 2 Globalyst 200's on E-bay the last time I looked, and some Pentium Sens 800's that look like these as well.

The 3180, 3182, and a 100MHz DX4 models were all rebranded NEC Ultralite Versa models matching the 20, 25, 33, and M/100 models. They differ from a regular Versa by having again, light gray palmwrest and screen bezel, and Turquoise Suspend and power buttons. Otherwise, they are identical machines to their related NEC versa model. These were the higher end models it appears. These also used the dock I bought. An NCR Safari 3180 was availible on E-bay a few months ago, it was a 33MHz model with a monochrome screen.

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Reply 35385 of 52720, by bjwil1991

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Good looking docking station. Bought a Packard Bell PB450 board for $25 + S&H and taxes that has RAM, CPU, and a 3-row ISA riser card that is fully functional, except for a slight cosmetic issue with one of the SIMM slots, but I can fix that no problem.

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Reply 35386 of 52720, by Standard Def Steve

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I don't normally buy Core 2 era hardware at garage sales, but I mean this one was bright red so...

$15 got me a 1.3GHZ CULV Core 2 Duo processor, 6GB of DDR3, and 500GB hard drive. The drive and RAM passed extended testing, so I went ahead and put on a clean install of Win10 v2004, which activated right away with the Win7 COA. The display is still bright and evenly lit, and the battery appears to be in good shape. No wear on the trackpad, likely because the previous owner was using that super cheap feeling Intel Retail Edge Program mouse. 😜

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Reply 35387 of 52720, by GigAHerZ

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Got this ISA Diamond Speedstar 64! Cost only about 12€.

AFAIK, it's pretty much the best general ISA graphics card one can ever get?
Anybody knows the jumper settings for that? Probably one is for IRQ and another is for wait states?

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"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!

Reply 35388 of 52720, by schmatzler

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I always wanted to have an ATX Big Tower that looks cool and has plenty of room for ventilation and extensions.

Pretty hard to get for a reasonable price here in Germany. Either they cost an arm and a leg or they look very weird and unpleasing.

Got this one now for 10 bucks. Mission accomplished I'd say.

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Reply 35389 of 52720, by imi

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schmatzler wrote on 2020-08-11, 20:06:

I always wanted to have an ATX Big Tower that looks cool and has plenty of room for ventilation and extensions.

enjoy that in-win... I was contemplating a while if I should bid x3 but I pretty much had everything in there already, the contents alone are easily worth that anyways ^^
glad it went to a vogoner.

Reply 35390 of 52720, by LewisRaz

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I sent a low offer for this on ebay and accepted a counter offer of not much more.

Quite a mystery box... Cannot find much/anything about it and this was the only pic provided..

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Reply 35391 of 52720, by bjwil1991

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I'd say an early 486 or late 386 and the CD drive looks like a Sony or a Mitsumi of some kind.

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Reply 35393 of 52720, by Repo Man11

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Working my way through my $80.00 pile of stuff. Happy to test the GeForce 2 MX400 and find that it works.

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The end plate's a bit crusty...

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I had the end plate from a dead Ti4400 almost completely off before I realized that it has the DVI and VGA outputs reversed from this one! My test system for it is a Soyo 5EMA+ with a K6-3+ 450 @ 550. This card scores higher in 3D Mark 99 Max and 3D Mark 2000 (but much lower in 3D Mark 2001 since it's a Direct X 7 card) than the GeForce 3 Ti200 I have.

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Reply 35394 of 52720, by bjwil1991

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Here are pictures of the motherboard (PC Chips M326 V5.2) and the Promise EIDE Pro ISA Super I/O card I received recently or about a week ago:

Board:

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I/O card:

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Yes, the clock battery will be removed (hasn't leaked and the board is in pristine condition) and a battery holder will be soldered on with the charging circuit disconnected.

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Reply 35395 of 52720, by GigAHerZ

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-08-11, 17:19:

Got this ISA Diamond Speedstar 64! Cost only about 12€.

AFAIK, it's pretty much the best general ISA graphics card one can ever get?
Anybody knows the jumper settings for that? Probably one is for IRQ and another is for wait states?

So a quick update:
The top jumper does not affect the speed, but when bottom is closed, card becomes faster. Therefore the bottom jumper probably enables 0 wait state and top one possibly enables the IRQ allocation.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!

Reply 35396 of 52720, by Deksor

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bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-08-12, 07:48:
Here are pictures of the motherboard (PC Chips M326 V5.2) and the Promise EIDE Pro ISA Super I/O card I received recently or abo […]
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Here are pictures of the motherboard (PC Chips M326 V5.2) and the Promise EIDE Pro ISA Super I/O card I received recently or about a week ago:

Board:

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Hey can you please help me check something here Identifying PCChips 386 era chipsets ? 😀

I suspect the m326 to have a UMC UM82C491F chipset under the hood (actually I have very good reasons to think it is), but I have no way to verify that.

If you can flash new bios chips, try to run the mrbios ROM designed for UM82C491 and tell me how it goes 😀

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Reply 35397 of 52720, by blurks

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-08-11, 17:19:

Got this ISA Diamond Speedstar 64! Cost only about 12€.

AFAIK, it's pretty much the best general ISA graphics card one can ever get?
Anybody knows the jumper settings for that? Probably one is for IRQ and another is for wait states?

Congratulations, the 5434 is indeed one of the fastest chips for the ISA bus available and usually fetches top dollars although not as much as.. let's say a Mach64.

Reply 35399 of 52720, by Predator99

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-08-04, 21:46:
Quite surprised my price proposal was accepted, but I think it was fair. - CT1350B - MACH32 ISA - several SBCs - MFM controller […]
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Quite surprised my price proposal was accepted, but I think it was fair.
- CT1350B
- MACH32 ISA
- several SBCs
- MFM controller
- 2x ET4000 ISA
- ET4000 VLB
- 386/387
- ...

Arrived. Very nice deal again..!

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