I wish it was that simple Most ISA/VL-Bus/EISA/MCA or any sort of bus from that era cards have LS245 bus transceivers everywhere 🙁

I found this and it looks like this model was actually made with EISA-like proprietary local bus:

I think I will need to spent some on researching this before putting it into EISA motheboard...

moved discussion here - Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Bought an ASUS V6800 DDR 64MB AGP card. Seller has 1 left. I'd put the link on here, but, that's a big no.

I have the SDRAM version of the same card. Actually, I have the TVR version with VIVO.. Nica build quality overall.

I also have an SDR version (not ASUS brand) and it does work, but there is shadowing in the graphical images, excluding DOS (CLI) and the BIOS.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-02-27, 12:42:

Bought an ASUS V6800 DDR 64MB AGP card. Seller has 1 left. I'd put the link on here, but, that's a big no.

Wat? The link cyclone3d already posted?

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-02-26, 22:53:

Have an ASUS V6800 DDR 64MB (Geforce 256) on the way.

Seller has 3 left

Some stuff I got today:

Also this one. Anyone knows what graphics card this is? Seems to have a gameport - at least the port uses that color as defined by the ATX standard. Have not tested it yet.

//edit:
After some research, this seems to be an MPDD card by Village Tronic for the Mac and uses the Trident Blade3D chip. Wonder if it can be used in a PC...

Also got a lot of -20 and -15 SRAM chips. No "NOS" china fakes, but real used ones. 😀

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-27, 14:50:

Also this one. Anyone knows what graphics card this is? Seems to have a gameport - at least the port uses that color as defined by the ATX standard. Have not tested it yet.

//edit:
After some research, this seems to be an MPDD card by Village Tronic for the Mac and uses the Trident Blade3D chip. Wonder if it can be used in a PC...

The "game port" probably is for proprietary Apple monitors (ADB?).

If it is indeed a Mac card, then that is the Apple monitor connector, yes. Silly that they used that color.

liqmat wrote on 2020-02-27, 14:09:

bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-02-27, 12:42:

Bought an ASUS V6800 DDR 64MB AGP card. Seller has 1 left. I'd put the link on here, but, that's a big no.

Wat? The link cyclone3d already posted?

Links deleted, thanks for the head's up.

Moderator's note: please stop with the "helpful" eBay links posting, let's not kill another thread over that.

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-27, 17:21:

No "NOS" china fakes, but real used ones. 😀

I intend on buying some memory chips for ISA VGA Card, but I think they are, as you said, China fakes. However I don't have problem with that if they'll work. So my question, are China fakes any good or not?

Bought a Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06 GHz that arrived yesterday.
AFAIK, this was Intel's first CPU that featured the Hyperthreading technology. Its launch in Nov. 2002 was closely followed by the launch of the Xeon "Prestonia" Socket 604 family, also featuring the NetBurst architecture and Hyperthreading.

I got this one because it is the fastest CPU that will fit the Biostar P4TGE in my slightly accidental P4 build.
I already installed it and it works nicely - decreased the SuperPi 1M time from 1:07 to 0:58. I remember when anything below 1:00 was unbelievably fast, so it was great fun to see this machine do it in 0:58.
Looking forward to doing some more benchmarks tonight!

Turbo -> wrote on 2020-02-28, 07:08:

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-27, 17:21:

No "NOS" china fakes, but real used ones. 😀

I intend on buying some memory chips for ISA VGA Card, but I think they are, as you said, China fakes. However I don't have problem with that if they'll work. So my question, are China fakes any good or not?

No. From what I've encountered, many times they are just blank molds, i.e. solder trainer chips that they added the markings to. No electrical connections inside at all.

Turbo -> wrote on 2020-02-28, 07:08:

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-27, 17:21:

No "NOS" china fakes, but real used ones. 😀

I intend on buying some memory chips for ISA VGA Card, but I think they are, as you said, China fakes. However I don't have problem with that if they'll work. So my question, are China fakes any good or not?

The fake ones are not counterfit ones that are working copies, but ones that are not real - should perhaps be described as dummy or blanks really rather than fake I guess.

I recently ordered several sets of SRAM chips from different sellers. While I cannot guarantee they have advertised specs and many were DOA, most of them somehow worked. So definitely not dummy chips. But rather rejected batches or relabelled parts.

For SRAM chips it's true, they are normally working but don't have the speed they are labled with.

"Turbo ->" however is looking for DRAM. I've never bought DRAM chips from China, as there is no need to. These are readily available from (serious) sellers all around the world. My hint these days is simple anyway: avoid anything that says "NOS", then the chance of getting a faked chip is rather low.

Found a couple of these IDE mobile racks, always wanted one of these for my win98 build to fill out empty 5.25 bays, I guess you could plug a CF adapter inside too, but does anyone really have a use for these nowadays? A large storage drive for transfering CD images between builds perhaps.

Also got a serial+USB Logitech Wingman Force Feedback, often referred to fondly as "old red", anyone owned this back in the day? What games did you play with it?

Kinda crazy how much it cost back then from some archive.org PC mags, some later wheels like Momo/DFGT still go for $40-60 here.

I got a QuickShot QS201 joystick in the mail today but it requires a thorough cleaning before I can present it. One of the finest Joystick Port joysticks of its time 😀

If you have it apart, pls take some pics. AFAIK that's not online.