Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-02-23, 06:46:

I was never one to seek out boxed hardware, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity.

I'm surprised the card didn't get lost in a box that big 😀

Just got it this in the post :

Radeon X850 XT

Warlord wrote on 2021-02-23, 13:05:

Love it or hate it. It's a matter of taste. Shipping was a killer but all in all for such a rare and unique case I was happy to get it for what i paid.

Feast your eyes on the Asus Vento 3600, a rare and beautiful case from circa 2005.

This case immediately reminds me of the Guild Navigator scene in the original 1984 Dune movie.

got a sony trinitron crt in the post. plastic casing smashed

liqmat wrote on 2021-02-23, 16:16:

Warlord wrote on 2021-02-23, 13:05:

Love it or hate it. It's a matter of taste. Shipping was a killer but all in all for such a rare and unique case I was happy to get it for what i paid.

Feast your eyes on the Asus Vento 3600, a rare and beautiful case from circa 2005.

This case immediately reminds me of the Guild Navigator scene in the original 1984 Dune movie.

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I made a mirror image to better fit the photo: D

dulu wrote on 2021-02-23, 20:30:

I made a mirror image to better fit the photo: D

haha. I think we all agree it's a unique looking case. Rather like it myself.

crvs wrote on 2021-02-21, 17:48:

Got these today for $20. Green one is dead, but the gold one has passed all tests.

Interesting, I’ve never seen a green PCB M919 module.

I have tubes of NOS cache chips for these if you want to get it working

CrFr wrote on 2021-02-21, 09:44:

Bought this Toshiba Satellite 220CS for 5€ + shipping. I don't have a suitable power supply for it to test it, but i think it is Pentium 133MHz, at least 16MB RAM, 800x600 screen, Yamaha OPL3-SA3 SB Pro compatible sound card.

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I have a feeling this wasn't such a good buy, even at 5€. I bought an universal charger, and the machine just lit power leds, and kept flashing caps lock led. After opening the case, the reason is quite obvious:

Under that metal plate is Varta NiMH battery for clock and larger 7.2V battery (maybe to be able to swap the main battery without shutting down the laptop first). Horrible mess. Motherboard doesn't look too bad. I cleaned it, and it seems like there is only one or two traces broken. But they are thinner than a hair, and I think it will be too difficult for me to repair. I might as well try, this machine is junk anyways.

CrFr wrote on 2021-02-23, 20:56:

Horrible mess. ... I cleaned it, and it seems like there is only one or two traces broken. But they are thinner than a hair, and I think it will be too difficult for me to repair.

That looks terrible! It's probably easier to try to use a wire to directly connect the components the broken traces were connecting.

E-waste pickup

*Sound Blaster 32s
*a whole lot of Voodoo3s and early Sound Blasters
*3dfx banshee
*a Geforce256 DDR I believe
*a Voodoo2 (love those). likely 8mb
*brand new 250mb Zip disks for an internal zip drive that I bought earlier
*Gigabyte Slot 1 mobo
*and some other stuff (I'm just getting sick of typing)

^ oh wow , 6x CT1330A - you don't see the dual-opl2 PROs that often and now we see six of them 🤣

I replaced a 370-pin cpu socket and recapped a motherboard in just over 2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7Moxa2JhI

Shameless self promotion, i know.

Nice work, you've got to get those tits in the little slot! I hate those single clip retention's, much prefer when they use all three lugs to spread the load.

keropi wrote on 2021-02-24, 00:17:

^ oh wow , 6x CT1330A - you don't see the dual-opl2 PROs that often and now we see six of them 🤣

oh wow indeed :0

Warlord wrote on 2021-02-23, 13:05:

Love it or hate it. It's a matter of taste. Shipping was a killer but all in all for such a rare and unique case I was happy to get it for what i paid.

Feast your eyes on the Asus Vento 3600, a rare and beautiful case from circa 2005.

Oh wow I haven't seen that case since my Sr. Year of high school. I built two systems for friends in that case it really wasn't a bad case to work in. Seriously nice find! I was going through stuff at my parents house awhile back and I found an original CM 690 case still in its box. I bought it for a project back in 08 and just never did anything with it. My spring project will be to move my socket 775 system into it.

Aublak wrote on 2021-02-23, 23:13:

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E-waste pickup

*Sound Blaster 32s
*a whole lot of Voodoo3s and early Sound Blasters
*3dfx banshee
*a Geforce256 DDR I believe
*a Voodoo2 (love those). likely 8mb
*brand new 250mb Zip disks for an internal zip drive that I bought earlier
*Gigabyte Slot 1 mobo
*and some other stuff (I'm just getting sick of typing)

That's a lot of Sound Blaster Pro CT1330As. Excellent score, man.

Great haul Abulak, wish there was a place like that in northern va. There was/is a place in crestline ohio I used to visit but they don't have old stuff anymore.

And Luckybob gj, didn't know you were fatguywithold computers, I stumbled on that channel year ago maybe longer and saw that great Ppro haul but I never knew that was you.

I have something special for the vento 3600, Too be announced but it will be a legendary build, perhaps similar to others but not like no other.

Aublak wrote on 2021-02-23, 23:13:

E-waste pickup […]
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E-waste pickup

*Sound Blaster 32s
*a whole lot of Voodoo3s and early Sound Blasters
*3dfx banshee
*a Geforce256 DDR I believe
*a Voodoo2 (love those). likely 8mb
*brand new 250mb Zip disks for an internal zip drive that I bought earlier
*Gigabyte Slot 1 mobo
*and some other stuff (I'm just getting sick of typing)

Are you kidding me!?!

Where on earth was this ewaste facility!?

🤣

Even with the missing brackets and heatsinks, that is just a stupidly valuable lot of stuff to find. I have had my hands of several hundred old PC components in recent years, and I've only found ONE CT1330A... and it had all the capacitors stripped from it, which I had to replace myself (and it still doesn't work just right). You found SIX in one location at scrap prices... 😮

Warlord wrote on 2021-02-24, 01:54:

Great haul Abulak, wish there was a place like that in northern va. There was/is a place in crestline ohio I used to visit but they don't have old stuff anymore.

Too bad Scott's Bargains closed, used to be a great place.

And I though getting a second CT1330A for $50 recently was a great deal.

I wish there were still recycling places around here that sold stuff. Last one I knew of closed down like 5 years ago.

In any case, I picked up a Zoltrix Audio Performer / (Audio Excel Pro 16 ? - according to the readme in the driver) which is a Sound Blaster Pro 1.0 clone but with the ability to use a waveblaster type card from the looks of it.

Anybody ever try a waveblaster type card on one of these?

I did download the drivers for the Audio Excel Pro 16 and then downloaded the Audio Performer drivers from the archived Zoltrix website.
They may be the same, but the file names are different at least.

I'll have to test this out when I get a chance.

The manual apparently was never available from Zoltrix on their web site.

Edit: Looks like this card was sold by Zoltrix and by Protac though I need to test the card with both driver sets to see if it is indeed the same exact card.

Zoltrix - Audio Performer
Protac - Audio Excel Pro 16

Protac is/was a division of PCCHIPS.

I just love finding old links and then going on archive.org and tracking down the web sites for that company for different countries by trial and error.