Reply 36440 of 52818, by kdr
Today's $50 e-waste haul:
Some PS/2--AT keyboard adapters (both kinds), a MIDI cable, an AUI to 10BaseT media converter, some generic 8-bit network cards...
But the star of today's show is the VLB Super I/O, the first time I've ever found a VLB card "in the wild":
And this WD8003EP adapter, which has a really awesome feature: it's boot ROM can be configured to reside *anywhere* in the upper 512KB of memory, and it has a mode that lets you stick a 32K SRAM in the boot ROM socket! I already have one of these cards (with a couple of SRAM chips on their way) so I was quite excited to find another one. Even if it does look like it has been dragged through a paddock:
Anyhow, with a 16-bit ISA Ethernet adapter and a 32-bit VLB super I/O, my 486 build gets a little bit closer to completion... still need to find a VLB video card, though, so I might be waiting a while...