Thallanor wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Initial asking price was too much so I put in an offer and it was accepted.. woohoo!

I can tell it was an incredible deal when you're buying them by the pound!

Heh. Not sure it was an incredible deal, but it was a decent deal considering the Cyrix 5x86 120.

This should complete my attainable high-end socket 3 CPUs anyway.

Intel 486 DX4-100
AMD 5x86 133
Cyrix 5x86 120GP
Intel PODP5V83 (Pentium 83Mhz)

Seeing how beaten those CPUs are, what makes you think the Cyrix even still works?

cyclone3d wrote:

Heh. Not sure it was an incredible deal, but it was a decent deal considering the Cyrix 5x86 120. […]
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Heh. Not sure it was an incredible deal, but it was a decent deal considering the Cyrix 5x86 120.

This should complete my attainable high-end socket 3 CPUs anyway.

Intel 486 DX4-100
AMD 5x86 133
Cyrix 5x86 120GP
Intel PODP5V83 (Pentium 83Mhz)

That is cool. I now have a small collection of CPUs but have yet to inventory them properly. The biggest issue that I am starting to run into now is finding heatsinks and fans for older CPUs. An example would be my 486/66 which I just feel more comfortable having a heatsink and fan on. But the socket doesn't have anything to attach to. In this case, I was lucky and a friend gave me a heatsink and fan that actually clips to the edges of the CPU itself. At least as my CPUs get newer, I move onto more standard sockets. 😀

derSammler wrote:

Seeing how beaten those CPUs are, what makes you think the Cyrix even still works?

There are only 3 CPUs (The 2x IT's and the one DLC) in that lot that look like they would not work.. and maybe one of the 486SX chips.

I'm guessing the ones that are physically broken were broken when the dummy was trying to remove the heatsinks for scrapping purposes.

The others all just have bent pins which are easy to fix.

Thallanor wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Heh. Not sure it was an incredible deal, but it was a decent deal considering the Cyrix 5x86 120. […]
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Heh. Not sure it was an incredible deal, but it was a decent deal considering the Cyrix 5x86 120.

This should complete my attainable high-end socket 3 CPUs anyway.

Intel 486 DX4-100
AMD 5x86 133
Cyrix 5x86 120GP
Intel PODP5V83 (Pentium 83Mhz)

That is cool. I now have a small collection of CPUs but have yet to inventory them properly. The biggest issue that I am starting to run into now is finding heatsinks and fans for older CPUs. An example would be my 486/66 which I just feel more comfortable having a heatsink and fan on. But the socket doesn't have anything to attach to. In this case, I was lucky and a friend gave me a heatsink and fan that actually clips to the edges of the CPU itself. At least as my CPUs get newer, I move onto more standard sockets. 😀

I know the feeling. Luckily for me I came across a couple different lots of CPU coolers. Even have some brand new ones for socket 3 CPUs.

I wasn't willing to spend the absurd amount that a lot of people try to sell a single cooler for.

Was very happy to see the postman today - three separate purchases arrived together:

- two TEAC 5.25" 1.2MB floppies with 1980s vintage black front. Also a freebie 3.5" FDD and ATAPI ZIP100 drive used as packing material to fill out the box 😁
- an IBM rubber dome keyboard to go with my keyboardless PC330
- an ECS SL486E motherboard with EISA & VLB, if not new, at least in original box with original manual and EISA config disks. Too bad about the soldered Dallas RTC though...

Nice on Dionb

dionb wrote:

Too bad about the soldered Dallas RTC though...

Much better though than a leaking barrel battery.

keropi wrote:

in this case this is a Z8 MCU , not a full Z80 cpu. It does stuff that it needs to do very quick and it's clocked at 12mhz.
The card is compatible 100% with the Roland "intelligent mode" functions, the firmware is just a port to the Z8 mcu from Roland's Hitachi (iirc) MCU so you don't need any drivers or other software to run the software that requires it

today, by coincidence, i was prepping to scrap an old broken tape drive, when I noticed it had a removable flash rom. due diligence, I was going to pull it to save it. There is a small processor on this tape drive. A Z8 chip. Just felt like sharing.

zilog sure enough was popular back then!

keropi wrote:

zilog sure enough was popular back then!

Fun fact: Zilog was founded by ex intel employees, and the Z80 was meant as a compatible improvement on the i8080.

keropi wrote:

just got that from ebay […]
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just got that from ebay

still sealed. I plan to install it in my IBM PS1/pro , my childhood pc. Maybe I can even find the other parts I need to make it complete, I only have the main unit 🙁

I'm so envious for that. Been looking for an upgrade for a 386SX I have for ages (either the above or a 486SRx2) no luck so far.

^ the guy said he had 30 of them , SX and DX versions but I saw his new price it was 110GBP+shipping this time... too much if you ask me and I think I already overpayed

The only make-it-486 I can see on ebay now is the 286 version, for $400. 🙁

I see even the last one sold pretty fast at 110GBP + shipping. I guess he will list more or contact him directly:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Make-IT-38 … x-/173552105534

Well I don't have that kind of money anyway... I want to get one of those eventually, but not high priority.

Matrox Mystique 220 Business

blurks wrote:

Matrox Mystique 220 Business

I remember those games coming with my Matrox cards.
Moto Racer !

So I was suppose to get a p4 and a pentium, but I asked the guy why are you selling? He said I am going to throw it anyway but didn’t have time to sell more, so I asked if I can take what he was throwing? And the answer was yes... so I ended up with two ibm pentium pro servers and a dell desktop pentium pro, everything for around $180

Not a bad price. I haven't used a Pentium Pro system in years (had a Gateway 2000 G6-200XL that had a Pentium Pro 200 in it).