MY purchases: I not going to listed them all.. Only the ones that are intrested to show them here.

8bit scsi seagate controller card for cheap (see them a couple of years back for around 80 -90 usd. Got this one for around 17 euros.

ECS Elitegroup socket 7 5idm2 M105 intel FX (iam keep it as a spare for my Intel Pentium 133 build

Adaptec AHA-2940u2w LVD scsi controller (purchased for my pentium 133 build Got it for 15 euros.

2x Unkown earlier socket 5 motherboards with aladdin chipset. Doesnt not have the i/o on the board (exeption seems to by one COM header?) Dont know the brand. Maybe an industrial embedded board or something?)

Stiletto wrote on 2020-01-19, 00:56:

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-01-18, 16:30:

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Full list of modifiers:

• s = Small Square (90×90) as seen in the example above
• b = Big Square (160×160)
• t = Small Thumbnail (160×160)
• m = Medium Thumbnail (320×320)
• l = Large Thumbnail (640×640) as seen in the example above
• h = Huge Thumbnail (1024×1024)

I have a thread about this Imgur thing!:
Making clickable embedded images using Imgur image hosting service

Note to self: Stiletto has a thing for great Imgur learning!

Robin4 wrote on 2020-01-19, 01:03:

MY purchases: I not going to listed them all.. Only the ones that are intrested to show them here. […]
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MY purchases: I not going to listed them all.. Only the ones that are intrested to show them here.

8bit scsi seagate controller card for cheap (see them a couple of years back for around 80 -90 usd. Got this one for around 17 euros.

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Adaptec AHA-2940u2w LVD scsi controller (purchased for my pentium 133 build Got it for 15 euros.

Just be aware that the Seagate SCSI controller might not work with non-Seagate drives (unless it has the v3.3.1 BIOS or higher), that only applies if it's a ST-01 controller. EDIT: This one looks to have the v3.3.2 BIOS so it is will work with non-Seagate drives.

As for the AHA-2940U2W, it's quite a solid performer I have one too and it's like the Swiss knife of SCSI controllers, this is quite a shame that it does not have x64 drivers (as I originally intended to use mine in my main PC, but because of that limitation, it now lives in my P133 rig).

this has been a good month so far ^^

CT3980 SB AWE 32

Spea V7-Mercury P64V with ram upgrade module

Teac FD-505 3.5"/5.25" dual floppy drive
LMSI CM205 complete with CM250 controller and cables

Plextor PX-83CS caddy drive
Yamaha CDR102 ... I just love this one

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2x Unkown earlier socket 5 motherboards with aladdin chipset. Doesnt not have the i/o on the board (exeption seems to by one COM header?) Dont know the brand. Maybe an industrial embedded board or something?)

Unlikely. At a guess I'd say an Acer OEM board with Aladdin (1) chipset. That's an ancient 1st-gen Pentium chipset, released for the So4 platform. I'm surprised it also does 3.3V - as it must with So5 and a P133 on it, but that's not unprecedented: SiS' 501 also spans both sockets and voltage. Back in the pre-i430FX period, it wasn't so common to have I/O onboard, and boards that had it tended to have afwful CMD-640 chips. This is a very late board for such an old chipset, I see end-of-1995 markings on the chips. That's i430FX territory. I'd have understood it if Acer had been dumping unsold old ALi stock (the "A" in ALi stands for "Acer"), but that M1451 is the newest chip on the board, from week 44 1995. Pretty odd they'd still be making them this late - the Aladdin II (M1511) had been released somewhere in mid 1995 (can't find exact date, but I have a Cypress clock generator datasheet from June 1995 referring to it), which would have completely outclassed this one.

Bottom line: it's a late holdover from the earliest Pentium days, hence no onboard I/O etc. It does support EDO and modestly benefits from it, benchmarks of the So4 M1451 showed it similar in performance to the i430LX, which is better than OPti or SiS So chipsets, but far, far below say an i430FX, even when using asynch cache (as a 1995 board would). So this is a slow curiosity, not some industrial board.

PCI IDE that would work with old PCI 1.x slots might be a challenge, best bet would probably be to go for a PCI SCSI adapter (like that 2940 😉 ) and add an ISA floppy+I/O controller.

Would be interested in benchmarks vs i430FX or similar if you happen to have comparison available.

I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the money, so let me know if there's something special here? He also sent me photos of Socket 3 and 7 boards that are definitely now in working state (lacking BIOS chips and other ICs..) so I'm not sure if any or all of these are in working condition. I'm planning on taking a chance on the 386DX40 with the MR BIOS though..

appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-19, 21:09:

I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the mone […]
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I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the money, so let me know if there's something special here? He also sent me photos of Socket 3 and 7 boards that are definitely now in working state (lacking BIOS chips and other ICs..) so I'm not sure if any or all of these are in working condition. I'm planning on taking a chance on the 386DX40 with the MR BIOS though..

You sure that's an MR-BIOS system BIOS? Looks like keyboard BIOS to me, the system BIOS has a regular Award sticker...

Still the most interesting board here, a late, tiny 386DX40 with cache on board as well. Apart from that some pretty standard 386SX, 386DX and 486 boards, nothing I would jump at - but if you're looking for 386-era stuff in general it's good enough, at least, if it works.

I got a large lot (for me anyway) from ebay today with many interesting items that I will share at some point.

But firstly I must share this and ask for any information on it.

Appears to be an ISA VGA-PAL converter card which I guess is not really that amazing but I find it very strange to see only 5 pins connected on 1 side and 0 on the other.

Finally one of the most fascinating CPU in my opinion, Never open, no dust on the fun, no noisy fan ecc... if I had a motherboard that could install it ... maybe someday ...

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-01-19, 22:11:

Appears to be an ISA VGA-PAL converter card which I guess is not really that amazing but I find it very strange to see only 5 pins connected on 1 side and 0 on the other.

that's probably only to power the card, everything else happens on the back, probably just VGA in / out and it converts it to a 15KHz PAL signal I'd assume, very handy actually

Vynix wrote on 2020-01-19, 11:10:

Robin4 wrote on 2020-01-19, 01:03:

MY purchases: I not going to listed them all.. Only the ones that are intrested to show them here. […]
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MY purchases: I not going to listed them all.. Only the ones that are intrested to show them here.

8bit scsi seagate controller card for cheap (see them a couple of years back for around 80 -90 usd. Got this one for around 17 euros.

[Snip]

Adaptec AHA-2940u2w LVD scsi controller (purchased for my pentium 133 build Got it for 15 euros.

Just be aware that the Seagate SCSI controller might not work with non-Seagate drives (unless it has the v3.3.1 BIOS or higher), that only applies if it's a ST-01 controller. EDIT: This one looks to have the v3.3.2 BIOS so it is will work with non-Seagate drives.

As for the AHA-2940U2W, it's quite a solid performer I have one too and it's like the Swiss knife of SCSI controllers, this is quite a shame that it does not have x64 drivers (as I originally intended to use mine in my main PC, but because of that limitation, it now lives in my P133 rig).

I have a eeprom reader / writer to fix such common problems. And always could find a other bios elsewhere.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-19, 21:09:

I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the mone […]
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I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the money, so let me know if there's something special here? He also sent me photos of Socket 3 and 7 boards that are definitely now in working state (lacking BIOS chips and other ICs..) so I'm not sure if any or all of these are in working condition. I'm planning on taking a chance on the 386DX40 with the MR BIOS though..

Iam only would go for that 486 UMC motherboard if its repairable. I wouldnt says its the best board. But its an easy one to setup if you can add the VRM to it.. There is information / data available on vogonsdrivers if you want to know more.

Those smaller motherboards are all low cost stuf. Wouldnt put my hand in the fire for it. That contaq motherboard is a first gen 486 5 volt motherboard *iam guessing supports processor till the 486 dx2 50 if you are lucky.

The intel pentium VX is a low cost motherboard as well, but the benefit: It uses UDMA 33 support.. Earlier boards only uses PIO mode Like the Intel FX.
TX is middle ground and HX is high end.

Quite an unusual board showed up today. Not seen many of these.

It's a Tyan Thunder HEsl S2567 Socket 370 Motherboard. I know that the AGP performance is quite lacking on these but will be fun to play with non the less. Came with 2 gig of EEC ram and 2x1GHZ Pentium III CPU's.

Finally, I have my own SS7 MVP3 motherboard with an AGP slot:

The point was to use an AGP Voodoo 3 on it but apparently it's not electrically compatible with high 3.3v draw AGP cards. *Facepalm* I'll use it with a Riva 128ZX and Voodoo 2 SLI.

In other news, I finally got around to ordering some ICs for my TubeTime Snark Barker project, so I'll be doing some soldering in the next few days. Just the resistors, caps and jacks.

Bancho wrote on 2020-01-20, 13:22:

Quite an unusual board showed up today. Not seen many of these. […]
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Quite an unusual board showed up today. Not seen many of these.

It's a Tyan Thunder HEsl S2567 Socket 370 Motherboard. I know that the AGP performance is quite lacking on these but will be fun to play with non the less. Came with 2 gig of EEC ram and 2x1GHZ Pentium III CPU's.

Nice! AGP performance may be lacking, but memory bandwidth is competitive with i840 and SiS635. Would love to get my hands on one to go head-to-head with my ECS P6S5AT 😉

appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-19, 21:09:

I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the mone […]
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I didn't buy any of these but found a seller offering these for around $30 each. I don't know if any of them are worth the money, so let me know if there's something special here? He also sent me photos of Socket 3 and 7 boards that are definitely now in working state (lacking BIOS chips and other ICs..) so I'm not sure if any or all of these are in working condition. I'm planning on taking a chance on the 386DX40 with the MR BIOS though..

#1 is a generic late 386SX-33. The dirt looks very suspicious - was it kept outside? I would not buy one.
#2 is the most interesting of the bunch - in's a late 386DX-40 with cache, which is not common. It has two RAM modules, but will only start with four because of 32-bit system bus of DX. I would buy this one if I were you.
#3 is a cheap 430VX Pentium I board. It resembles Lucky Star but bears no manufacturer name. The BIOS chip is missing. I would not buy it.
#4 is Chaintech 486CCLB. There's some little info on it here: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Chainte … xxxx/index.html. It looks complete. It might work. Is it good? I don't know. Something strikes me as wrong. Maybe it's the chipset I know nothing about?
#5 is a cut down late 386DX-40 with only one bank of RAM (4 slots). It looks undamaged, but I would not buy it.
#6 looks like a good 486 VLB board, but heavy corrosion near the battery is a huge concern. It is most probably dead.

The main part of the ebay lot I picked up this weekend was this 386 pc (Still with delivery box from 1991 and CRT also in delivery box from the same time.)

The caps near the power connector have blown so I am unable to power the machine until they are replaced (my first job soldering in 17+ years!)
The battery had just started to leak and there is some light corrosion on the pin nearest to it so I acquired this just in time to save it!

I have never owned anything older than a 486dx4 100 so I am unsure what to do with it. Any info on this specific board would be welcomed. I believe that I will likely use the chassis for my socket 7 system so it can have a proper AT set up and not be bodged into an ATX case.

3DFX Voodoo Rush - Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo MSMT467 6MB PCI (1997)
(Just a quick pickup to replace my broken version in the box)

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000Mhz (AMD-A1000MMR24B) with Cooler (2000)
(I have the 52B version (Athlon Classic) so I wanted to grab the 1Ghz TBird Version)

Also picked up some additional synths straight from Japan..

Yamaha TG100 (1991)
(I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed at the sound of this one for the money. Definitely not as rich sounding as the Roland SC-55 but not bad in the games I've tested!)

Yamaha MU500 (2000)
(AWESOME synth - love those XG files)

Roland MT-32 'New' (Boxed) (December - 1991)
(Finally found a 'new' version of this one, and in a box to boot! This one is the variant with the headphone jack on the rear. I can never get enough of those Monkey Island soundtracks using MT-32! This one is one of the cleanest, most complete I've seen.)

Rendition Vérité V1000-E - Sierra Screamin' 3D 4MB PCI #2 (Boxed) (1996)

Microsoft Windows Sound System v2.0 (NOS) (1993)
(I've been looking for a boxed/complete version of this one for a bit - How about a sealed version?!)

Wonderful toys indeed! I've never seen a brand spanking new MT-32, noice.