dr.ido wrote:

In some places ewaste (and recycling in general) is more about exploiting subsidies and government contracts than the resale value of the materials extracted - It doesn't matter that you (or anyone else) is willing pay more for a PC or component intact that they worth in scrap value because they have to do everything according to policies to receive the grant/contract money that is the bulk of their income.

In my country it is exactly this, it has nothing to do with EU regulation. The recycling companies need to recycle an X amount of stuff according to the contract to get money.

Used my Ebay bucks to get a "free" Diamond Stealth 24 VLB for my 486 machine.

Wolfus wrote:

Friend of mine bought very old Chicony notebook (386?) without PSU brick. Power connector is a bit strange (pic). Do you know that type? It looks like smaller mickey mouse plug, but we don't know how to find similar...

Looks a lot like the connectors Dell used to use in the mid to late 90s.

Try Dell Latitude XPi CD and Inspiron 8100/1100/2600. They used 2 different connectors between those that looked similar.

SpectriaForce wrote:

dr.ido wrote:

In some places ewaste (and recycling in general) is more about exploiting subsidies and government contracts than the resale value of the materials extracted - It doesn't matter that you (or anyone else) is willing pay more for a PC or component intact that they worth in scrap value because they have to do everything according to policies to receive the grant/contract money that is the bulk of their income.

In my country it is exactly this, it has nothing to do with EU regulation. The recycling companies need to recycle an X amount of stuff according to the contract to get money.

I had luck, visited a small computer shop (also repair shop) Here these kind of shops must have a storage for old computers and you can leave there your old stuff. Like car repairshops must take back car batteries and old tyres. And this shop is a small one so they have small storage. They let me to browse their stuff and choose what I want for free. They even told me there is one more guy who takes stuff from them. I was only one time and picked up a S370 MSI with 1300MHz celeron 256Mb SD ram and a Manli Geforce2, and a Pentium 4 MicroATX Fujitsu Siemens Scenic. The S370 needed only a PSU, the other one a HDD.
There is one more PC shop in the town I will go there too to buy something nad ask them. If they dont have something I have the other place where the seller told me he will reserve me everything older than 2002, notebooks too. I will go there with a coffee and a bottle of wine for him next week.

SpectriaForce wrote:

In my country it is exactly this, it has nothing to do with EU regulation. The recycling companies need to recycle an X amount of stuff according to the contract to get money.

Here it's the exact opposite. Recycling is strictly regulated and all the electronics will be dismantled, the cases go for scarp metal that ends up being melted in the end and reused. All the copper and other valuables from the mainboards gets collected and reused and so on. The local recycling company claims it can recycle over 99% of a laptop it receives.

Wolfus wrote:

we don't know how to find similar...

An exact model number would help.

SpectriaForce wrote:

Sometimes I am lucky at my municipal waste disposal station

I stopped going there because they put the containers outside and by the time I get to them everything of value rusted. (the ones that aren't crushed by huge TVs and fridges). The best thing I found there was a rusty P4 system without it's side panel. Most stations like this don't allow outsiders because it's their own side business so they sell the machines themselves.

sf78 wrote:

All the copper and other valuables from the mainboards gets collected and reused and so on. The local recycling company claims it can recycle over 99% of a laptop it receives.

Copper is the main reason our waste recycling plants are so overregulated now. Certain groups collected all the copper electrical wire (sometimes panels) and burned the PVC off them to sell as scrap. It went as far as stealing material from construction sites and cutting LIVE WIRE from train lines! As a result everything that has metal parts have to be registered upon scrapping.

Miphee wrote:

Certain groups collected all the copper electrical wire (sometimes panels) and burned the PVC off them to sell as scrap. It went as far as stealing material from construction sites and cutting LIVE WIRE from train lines!

I know about a case when some guys stole optical fiber cables, and then tried to burn off the insulation 😁

Got this in mail today for 4 bucks, complete-in-box.
Can't wait to try it out

Got this drive yesterday on a local forum for free in place of the other drive that was destroyed during transit.
Thank you again kind soul!

Another Highscreen to part out... Octek Jaguar V inside, Trident 8900... But it also has this CD-ROM drive and 360kB 5,25" floppy drive... It is working, I wonder what I will find on HDD...

HanJammer wrote:

Another Highscreen to part out... Octek Jaguar V inside, Trident 8900... But it also has this CD-ROM drive and 360kB 5,25" floppy drive... It is working, I wonder what I will find on HDD...

What type of CDROM drive is that ?

I bet it is a single speed Mitsumi drive. I had one of those.

Grzyb wrote:

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derSammler wrote:

I have the 1542CF, which should use the same BIOS

Very unlikely, even impossible.
B is configured by jumpers only.
CF only has DIP switches for the most basic settings, the rest is configured in BIOS.
Also, CF supports Fast SCSI, so the microcode must be different as well.

Some Adaptec cards have the option of configuring it entirely by jumpers, or via the on-card BIOS.

Found this for really cheap (and half off!) at a thrift store. It came with a lower processor, no RAM and no HD but I had extra stuff lying around anyways. It had some scuffs on it and I used a magic eraser... and accidentally erased the badge where it says "OPTIPLEX 755." Oh well.

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz dual core processor
4GB DDR2 RAMATI RADEON HD2400 Pro 256MB PCIe video card
DVD-RW drive
DVD-ROM drive
3.5" floppy drive
320GB 7200RPM HDWindows XP Professional
PCI FireWire card
2xUSB 2.0 ports front
6xUSB 2.0 ports rear
Audio in/out jacks front/rear
Ethernet
Parallel port
Serial port
DMS59
S-Video

Rear

Spray painted the sides silver... close to original color. The original paint was faded and had all sorts of marks

Other side

Side panel removed

Closeup of the cards

BIOS screen

Programs + specs

Windows XP desktop which you've seen 453 times by now...

Runs quite well after the cleanup! Will just toss in a slightly better GPU at some point and it'll be set. I only got it for the floppy drive since i have no machines with one atm.

HanJammer wrote:

Another Highscreen to part out... Octek Jaguar V inside, Trident 8900... But it also has this CD-ROM drive and 360kB 5,25" floppy drive... It is working, I wonder what I will find on HDD...

Wow, that CD drive looks like one of those things that seems like an amazing idea on paper, but in reality it just doesn't work well.

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Predator99 wrote:

Adlib looks good, I have learned the date code on the Yamaha is important, but difficult to read. […]
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Adlib looks good, I have learned the date code on the Yamaha is important, but difficult to read.

I have just bought 10 of these boards and some other nice things (sellers photo) - of course I dont need that many. They seem to be boards from a PHILIPS PC-XT (5107). CPU, ROM, RAM-sockets and crystals are missing. Seems to be easy to replace and after removing the COM/LPT connectors this may fit in a standard case. Think 8-bit IDE and Floppy is onboard. Hope a standard BIOS will do the job and I get this running 😀

xta.jpg

xtb.jpg

I think i have the same board - somewhere, if you still need the bios dump, i will dig it up for you. If you dont want to wait, you can try this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1989-PC-Computer-808 … egAAOSwa0ddlXMF

Hi iPonRMA,

can you please provide your BIOS? I soldered some RAM-sockets. Supersoft doesnt report relevant errors anymore, RAM seems to work. But I do not find a working BIOS to boot. Turbo XT BIOS does not work, same applies to the one from Cyrix200+. Also never seen that "G2 GC100A-PC" chipset on a XT...

Thanks!

Hi,

I dont know the reason, but it seems i cannot reply your PM. I found the board and just made a backup of the BIOS, so please send me your email address and i will send there.

Intel486dx33 wrote:

What type of CDROM drive is that ?

Mitsumi LU005

iPonRMA wrote:

Predator99 wrote:

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iPonRMA wrote:

I think i have the same board - somewhere, if you still need the bios dump, i will dig it up for you. If you dont want to wait, you can try this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1989-PC-Computer-808 … egAAOSwa0ddlXMF

Hi iPonRMA,

can you please provide your BIOS? I soldered some RAM-sockets. Supersoft doesnt report relevant errors anymore, RAM seems to work. But I do not find a working BIOS to boot. Turbo XT BIOS does not work, same applies to the one from Cyrix200+. Also never seen that "G2 GC100A-PC" chipset on a XT...

Thanks!

Hi,

I dont know the reason, but it seems i cannot reply your PM. I found the board and just made a backup of the BIOS, so please send me your email address and i will send there.

Hmm, strange, aslo cannot write to you anymore...can you please upload it here? You can use my photo if you like
XT BIOS image collection

Dont know if you read it, but in the mean time I had some success:
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

But still not happy with that BIOS, the original one will be better.

Many thanks for your efforts!

Some old SVGA pr0n - Trident 8900, yet another Tseng ET4000AX and WD Paradise.

TVGA8900 with 26 DIP switches, plus some jumpers...
Why the hell such a simple card needs so many settings?