CRT 17" iiyama LS-702-UT Vision Master 1402 for €19.

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-03-27, 17:22:

CRT 17" iiyama LS-702-UT Vision Master 1402 for €19.

That's not a Sony.
Just kidding, at least it's not smashed up in the mail. 😜

Now on to hunt for a DiamondTron / Flatron / Trinitron / you-name-it-Tron?

The one I bought and then was refunded for is still available for purchase. I sent a message to the vendor wanting to know if I could try buying it again...
But iiyama is a very good brand, and I needed only one.
OK, maybe too.

Picked up this monitor today for free! Had a nice chat with the guy too! Also a retro gamer.

Technically its probably way worse than the HP it replaced but its got that early LCD warmth that really reminds me of my first one!
Goes up to 1280x1024 too which was a surprise but the important part is it does the lower resolutions a lot better than the other screen did.

Very nice colors !

yawetaG wrote on 2021-03-27, 12:55:

blurks wrote on 2021-03-26, 07:31:

stege wrote on 2021-03-26, 00:27:

Brand new, sealed in box VCR and some brand new cassettes (Hi8 and betas). Just need a decent tube flat TV and I can reimgine some of my youth..

Awesome! I'd love to tinker around with VHS stuff again but most of these systems are pretty unreliable as there is so much cheap fault-prone mechanics involved.
All the better that you could find a new system.

Some prosumer equipment is much easier to service, because they forego the all-in-one tape mechanisms that so often fail on regular consumer models.

Those all-in-one mechanisms are why pretty much every VCR I own is made from the mid-90s or earlier, they're annoying and every time one comes across my workbench I have to clean the mode switch to make it work at all.

To refresh these mode switch, take them apart carefully, I use zinc-based thermal paste (white stuff), and swab. Then polish the contact tracks, comes out very bright silver which they what are they made of (plating). Clean them, then now IMPORTANT part, grease well filling the tracks with high quality mineral based grease then you have a 100% reliable mode switch for another several years.

This what we do back in the day when VCR is in use when I was tv tech.

Cheers,

Bought an AST SixPakPlus NIB and a Zuckerboard Color video card NIB.

BetaC wrote on 2021-03-26, 18:03:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-03-26, 10:15:

BetaC wrote on 2021-03-26, 03:13:

I picked up two things today, only one of which is fully retro by most people's standards. image0.jpg Yeah, dud, I got a dell. I […]
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I picked up two things today, only one of which is fully retro by most people's standards.
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Yeah, dud, I got a dell. It's a rubber dome keyboard, but hey, it feels rather nice for one. It's also much smaller in volume and size when compared to my previous cheap keytronics model M clone.

I also picked up a rather nicely preserved iPod Mini 2nd Gen, and promptly flash modded it.
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And I can't complain about the results.
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Flash modded? As in replaced flash for bigger ones?

iPod Minis actually use Hitachi Microdrives, which are quite literally the spinning disk version of CF cards. They’re pin compatible, so it was a straight up drop in replacement.

Ah, yeah, I do remember that, now when I think of it. Thanks for reminding me 😀

This is something I’ve longed for but never managed to attain. Teenage years lusting after this very card (I think my family actually skipped this and got a TNT2 after our Matrox card, that’s how excruciating the wait was.

Cost me $65 🙌

Finally found an M919 cache stick on eBay... while I was scouring through a ton of listings.

Going to dig througb my car's trunk to see if a stick or 2 of pc133 is kicking around to test my recent dumpster find

H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-03-29, 04:15:

Ah, yeah, I do remember that, now when I think of it. Thanks for reminding me 😀

You're welcome. I can recommend it, if you ever have interest in an apple audio device.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303930527344?ul_noapp=true

Overpaid for a single p-pro board. Like seriously. The only reason I decided to fully open my wallet was the chipset. All p-pro boards I've seen are 440FX or TX. This is the first one i've seen based on the 450GX. Which is the same chipset in my ALR 6x6.

So a massive multi-processor chipset, on a single cpu board...

Decided to make an offer on the lot of 5 motherboard (386/486 board with the pile of modern ones) and I think I went overboard.

Bought an Asus P4Pu-800X for my S478 chipset comparison project. An Uli to make things interesting.

Seller's picture:

Now finally one of the most influential graphics card of PC history I bought last Friday have arrived. And also an 8800GT.

The 3DImage9750 will participate in my early 3D accelerator adventure. When I get home I'll check if it works. It supposed to post, but the seller haven't tested it with the drivers installed. It seems to be pretty high-end compared to what's shown in the video. Nothing helps on the bad game support and lacking feature list, but maybe I'm luckier with this one than I was with the Savage3D and it runs on decently high clocks. I think it also looks nicer than what the guys at the VGA Museum have.

And the 8800GT is to finally send the Ultra to retirement. It's a late version manufactured on the 65nm process. Probably not long before they got rebranded as 9800GT I should be much cooler and more silent than the Ultra. And since the Ultra pulled over 250fps in Team Fortress 2, even if the GT is slower (it should be by about 20%), it should still be plenty powerful for the mid- and some late-2000 games. Also, on the resolution I'm planning to use would mostly eliminate the bandwidth advantage of the Ultra. And it's still period correct and also something I wouldn't regret dying on me.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-03-29, 18:27:

Finally found an M919 cache stick on eBay... while I was scouring through a ton of listings.

Me too. It also came with the motherboard 🤣

RandomStranger wrote on 2021-03-30, 11:30:

Now finally one of the most influential graphics card of PC history I bought last Friday have arrived. And also an 8800GT. […]
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Now finally one of the most influential graphics card of PC history I bought last Friday have arrived. And also an 8800GT.

The 3DImage9750 will participate in my early 3D accelerator adventure. When I get home I'll check if it works. It supposed to post, but the seller haven't tested it with the drivers installed. It seems to be pretty high-end compared to what's shown in the video. Nothing helps on the bad game support and lacking feature list, but maybe I'm luckier with this one than I was with the Savage3D and it runs on decently high clocks. I think it also looks nicer than what the guys at the VGA Museum have.

And the 8800GT is to finally send the Ultra to retirement. It's a late version manufactured on the 65nm process. Probably not long before they got rebranded as 9800GT I should be much cooler and more silent than the Ultra. And since the Ultra pulled over 250fps in Team Fortress 2, even if the GT is slower (it should be by about 20%), it should still be plenty powerful for the mid- and some late-2000 games. Also, on the resolution I'm planning to use would mostly eliminate the bandwidth advantage of the Ultra. And it's still period correct and also something I wouldn't regret dying on me.

Trident on an AGP? What kind of sorcery is that?

Great finds!

kixs wrote on 2021-03-30, 11:36:

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-03-29, 18:27:

Finally found an M919 cache stick on eBay... while I was scouring through a ton of listings.

Me too. It also came with the motherboard 🤣

Hah... I have an M919 that came in a scrap lot but with no cache stick. Was actually contemplating selling it and then the other day decided to do one of my way too broad searches on eBay and found the cache stick after looking through at least 1,000 listings.