Picked up 4 D815EEA2 motherboards which support Tualatins boards for 15 bucks a pop on ebay. He had them listed for 22 bucks a pop and I offered him 60 bucks for 4 of them and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141919627854

Apart from the floppy.CD combos from my previous post, I also picked up a socket 423 motherboard (i850) with SB-link connector; and separately a P4-1.7 and some RDRAM.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252353885775?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

At the time I skipped the P4 generation altogether so this will be interesting (I went to the AMD camp after P2)

Rhuwyn wrote:

Picked up 4 D815EEA2 motherboards which support Tualatins boards for 15 bucks a pop on ebay. He had them listed for 22 bucks a pop and I offered him 60 bucks for 4 of them and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141919627854

Those are nice boards. I use one such, as the backbone of my primaery P-III system.

Tetrium wrote:

I'll go through some of those dodgy websites to snfif for a manual for ya later. I like doing this sort of stuff and I have a vmware machine just specifically for this.
That would be awesome! Neat idea too, using a vmware rig specifically for this. I used to use one for dodgy software before 😊

Not sure what you were looking for but all I can find is this "Specifications Sheet" so here you go.. direct link so you avoid all these websites. http://pdf.datasheetarchive.com/indexerfiles/ … DSA00292159.pdf

been a decent week for classic computers here

Well guys... I just had a super impulse purchase moments ago.

(seller's photo, since, again, I literally just bought the thing minutes ago)

For $20? I'll take it! Supposedly working, too! 😎

Sutekh94 wrote:

For $20? I'll take it! 😎

That's a totally reasonable price for an unboxed one of those without the Sega pads and everything. Have fun with that!

Wow, I would have bought that on the spot if I'd seen it for that price. Nice find!

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Well guys... I just had a super impulse purchase moments ago.

(seller's photo, since, again, I literally just bought the thing minutes ago)

For $20? I'll take it! Supposedly working, too! 😎

Damn, I know someone said 20 is reasonable but I doubt I've seen one for under 100 for just the bare card in a long time.

NVM.

Went to the local recycling center to look for ISA cards. Instead of finding them, one of the employees overheard me and asked if I wanted to buy old computers as well? I ended up with these for 36€ which wasn't too bad. One had a strange card in it, for video editing or something? It doesn't a have antenna/cable connector, so I doubt it's a tuner card. There was also this weird sound card (radio tuner?) or something...

Industrial automation or science related (laboratory). IBM PS/2s were outfitted with specific PCBs quite frequently.

the PS1/pro at the top is the same as the one I still have from back when it was new, it should be a 386sx/20 machine with onboard vga and 2mb ram, needs special 72pin ram to upgrade to max 16MB ... what's your plans for it?

I dunno yet, I only cleaned them on the inside and quickly turned them on to see that they boot without error beeps. I've been looking for a PS/1 or a PS/2 for a long time as they are almost impossible to find, unless you want to spend a 100€ on a local auction site. 😵

edit: The PS/1 Pro had nuts inside! Also sawdust and still it worked perfectly.

^ yeah, these machines are build to last!

Just got back from picking this up locally. Its a Cooler Master 201 ATCS case. Planning to do a build in it. Was £20 with Optiarc DVD writer, Akasa Fan controller, Card reader and Evo Case labs 750watt PSU. The PSU i will sell on as they are not the best.

These cases are so well built and high quality. Really please to have picked it up.

Lucky spot bagged me this LS-120 drive. It was listed as a 180mb floppy

Pleased as its the older Mitsubishi drive (1998) which complements my newer matsushita one 😎

Mr_ppp wrote:

Lucky spot bagged me this LS-120 drive. It was listed as a 180mb floppy

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Pleased as its the older Mitsubishi drive (1998) which complements my newer matsushita one 😎

I still have the one that came in my original Gateway G6-400 back in 1999. I really like those LS-120 disks. I only ever used the two that came with my computer but they still work and all of the files on them (from 1999-2001) are still accessible.

Mr_ppp wrote:

Lucky spot bagged me this LS-120 drive. It was listed as a 180mb floppy

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Pleased as its the older Mitsubishi drive (1998) which complements my newer matsushita one 😎

When these were new I worked in a computer store and we highly advocated them. I still wish they had caught on.

found this little gem at a thrift store yesterday. doesn't post, seems to be the motherboard. Which suits me just fine. it is a 440lx crap board. the siig ide card is awesome, I love these things. and the p2-300 is also nice.