Just picked up my new acquisition. A new and sealed Roland CM500!!!

Wolfus wrote on 2021-07-29, 12:19:

Chadti99 wrote on 2021-07-29, 12:05:

Wolfus wrote on 2021-07-29, 06:58:

I love this card. It has everything needed for DOS gaming.

Can you tell me more about this card? I’m guessing this one has some decent wave table midi?

It does not have best of all worlds but it is definitely universal and well ballanced card. It has very good SBPro 2 compatibility, good OPL3, ESFM, which is very nice alternative to OPL3 and also onboard wavetable (not the top notch one, but definitely nice to have). Generally good all-in-one solution.

is the ES692S comparable to the ES690F?

Edit: A little bit of searching and it seems the 692S is similar but with the 1mb patchset built in.

Pierre32 wrote on 2021-07-29, 10:12:

appiah4 wrote on 2021-07-29, 07:16:

Pierre32 wrote on 2021-07-28, 23:04:

A long awaited acquisition for my Presario 425.

(Seller pic.)

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Sometimes I feel like I am the only person on earth who can't seem to stumble on a good deal on these ESS + Wavetable sound cards..

I know the feeling man. It's taken a while, and luck finally went my way this morning. I happened to hit my saved searches while I had my first coffee, and this gent on the other side of the world had just put up a variety of cards.

Hey, me too! I saw your card 😀 I think someone's selling their collection perhaps, a whole lot quite rare cards came up for sale at some pretty great prices. I seem to have got lucky too - a random search and I don't usually search internationally. Never thought I'd find one and seems silly to covet a GUS clone so much, but this is what I wanted so I'm happy:

It'll be a while until it arrives, but I 'm really looking forward to sticking some RAM on it.

Thermalwrong wrote on 2021-07-29, 21:12:

Hey, me too! I saw your card 😀 I think someone's selling their collection perhaps, a whole lot quite rare cards came up for sale at some pretty great prices. I seem to have got lucky too - a random search and I don't usually search internationally. Never thought I'd find one and seems silly to covet a GUS clone so much, but this is what I wanted so I'm happy:
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It'll be a while until it arrives, but I 'm really looking forward to sticking some RAM on it.

Nice! I didn't even spot that one.

Dimitris1980 wrote on 2021-07-29, 15:18:

Just picked up my new acquisition. A new and sealed Roland CM500!!!

Also nice. Beautiful score.

Gonna fire up my 9595, and put this up head to head against the soundblaster pro.

Any requests for the game music to choose?

Secret of Monkey Island.

Just Joshing.

Found this on a company liquidation last week:

A Siemens Simatic PG 740
Basically a Pentium portable used for programming S5 and S7 SPS systems.
System comes up to BIOS but does not boot.
The second one, a PG 740 PII does not boot, but seems to have only a powerbutton problem.
An A3 Flatbead plotter MP 4200 and a Thinkpad T60 completed the bundle.

Thermalwrong wrote on 2021-07-29, 21:12:

Hey, me too! I saw your card 😀 I think someone's selling their collection perhaps, a whole lot quite rare cards came up for sale at some pretty great prices. I seem to have got lucky too - a random search and I don't usually search internationally. Never thought I'd find one and seems silly to covet a GUS clone so much, but this is what I wanted so I'm happy:
2021-07-29 22_09_26-Window.jpg

It'll be a while until it arrives, but I 'm really looking forward to sticking some RAM on it.

Nice! I'd like to get an AMD sound card, what keywords did you use to find it? Did you go by 'AMD', 'interwave', 'Phillips <code>'? Or any computer model that used to include them? All of that?

Thanks.

I just searched for "isa" on the computers section, that usually turns up the most interesting stuff. It's quite rare to find a GUS anything these days, even more rare at a reasonable price.

I got 3 NOS Maxtor IDE hard drives, 3.5 GB each. Planning to use them for early socket 7 builds.

Brawndo wrote on 2021-07-31, 05:56:

I got 3 NOS Maxtor IDE hard drives, 3.5 GB each. Planning to use them for early socket 7 builds. […]
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I got 3 NOS Maxtor IDE hard drives, 3.5 GB each. Planning to use them for early socket 7 builds.

Nice find!

As mentioned in my SCSI thread I picked up a USB Zip250 off eBay so I can transfer stuff over to my retro PCs that aren't networked via an original parallel port Zip drive.

One of my ewaste guys got the following trash can (literally) of cards (from another recycler):

Pulled out the following:
(the better stuff)

(others)

Also got these Amiga cards and Powerbooks (3 Pismos and 3 Wallstreet) from him as well (No Amiga itself though 🙁)

Pretty happy and as usual I just paid scrap rates for the cards.

Great cards in there. But why take the NICs?

Putas wrote on 2021-07-31, 19:57:

Great cards in there. But why take the NICs?

I would see them as important for getting early systems with no onboard networking connected to an existing network, and online. I have a few etherlink iii cards for that (although mine were nos in oem packaging when I bought them). Also useful for things like xtide.

debs3759 wrote on 2021-07-31, 20:07:

Putas wrote on 2021-07-31, 19:57:

Great cards in there. But why take the NICs?

I would see them as important for getting early systems with no onboard networking connected to an existing network, and online. I have a few etherlink iii cards for that (although mine were nos in oem packaging when I bought them). Also useful for things like xtide.

Dito. Nics come in very handy for that.

omg, an NV1...

pray that it works! i know there was an ebay listing recently for the sega saturn controller adapter!

Also....

luckybob wrote on 2021-07-31, 20:34:

omg, an NV1... […]
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omg, an NV1...

pray that it works! i know there was an ebay listing recently for the sega saturn controller adapter!

Also....

There is a boxed complete one on ebay UK right now. Price already getting high!

LewisRaz wrote on 2021-07-31, 20:48:

luckybob wrote on 2021-07-31, 20:34:

omg, an NV1... […]
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omg, an NV1...

pray that it works! i know there was an ebay listing recently for the sega saturn controller adapter!

Also....

There is a boxed complete one on ebay UK right now. Price already getting high!

And... check out what ELSE that dude is flogging currently ! The ultimate vogons wish list .... 😁

Well, for $5, I can’t say no to a nice project.

It’s missing a handful of keys, and I don’t have a way to connect or power it, but the price alone made it worth it. Now to recap it when the caps come in, find replacement caps and stems, and get it to actually work.