Then you actually had to dig very deep..

A friend of mine who runs a scrap yard / metal recycling business told me he got a bunch of stuff I might find interesting. So I didn't really have to dig at all 🤣

Bought a CM-32L & CM-32P today to add to my Roland modules stack. 😊 They should arrive late this week / early next week.

^ will you be combining them to make the CM64?

I was under the impression that the CM-32P is basically of no use for games?

For IBM PC games, yes. Some Japanese home computer games can use those sounds though.

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I picked up this Epson SD-800 pretty cheaply because it was untested, but it works fine and looks like new after a bit of a clean-up. I bought it for an upcoming project, namely backing up all my floppy disks before they’re all kaput, and my PIII machine had a 3.5” but no 5.25”. The PIII is perfect for the job now – it can handle all my disks, run decent floppy backup software (in either DOS or Windows 98), and has USB for easy transfer to my main machine. And from there it's up into the cloud baby!

There was one trick to getting it to work in this machine because by default the A: was the 5.25”, and the B: was the 3.5”. Fortunately the BIOS had a “swap floppy” option, and that solved the problem, now it works like a charm:

I just bought a Thermalright HR-03 GT
It is almost retro 😁

$10 + 7$ shipping new in box 😀
I will try to attach it to my FX5900 Ultra. If I fail I guess it goes on some newer card.

Edit

I did also buy these 3 beauties. 3.90 Euro + 3.80 Euro shipping.

badmojo wrote:

I picked up this Epson SD-800...There was one trick to getting it to work in this machine because by default the A: was the 5.25”, and the B: was the 3.5”. Fortunately the BIOS had a “swap floppy” option, and that solved the problem, now it works like a charm

There's a jumper on the drive that will do this as well, FWIW.

Cloudschatze wrote:

There's a jumper on the drive that will do this as well, FWIW.

Good to know, cheers.

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Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought a Thermalright HR-03 GT

Where/what webshop ?
(assuming there are more for sale...)

bestemor wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought a Thermalright HR-03 GT

Where/what webshop ?
(assuming there are more for sale...)

Im afraid not.
I found it on Swedish Ebay (Tradera) and the seller only had one.

I was going to wait till all my stuff had arrived, I got quite a lot of stuff lately (including 2 s423 board, one with bad caps but hey, it was free anyway).
Today I went with a friend to pick something up by car and on the way back he decided to take another route.
So I told him that I knew there was a second hand shop on the way and he agreed to take a stop there and have a look around.

They had very few parts (I bought a white non-yellowed DVD drive and a black DVD burner for €2,50 each) but they had about 8 systems.
Of course it was the older systems that interested me and looking at the back of a midi tower I was surprised one was AT! So I bought that one for €10 and another ATX case for €7,50 (both had a good amount of expansion cards in them, alone worth the risk and the price was good anyway).

Back home I opened the ATX sidepanel and in there was an ASUS graphics card (V3800/32M something with a fan and 8 RAM chips on the front) and a soundblaster live. Not bad, the system also had 2 x 256MB PC-133 SDRAM. Too bad the motherboard was full of leaking caps, the PSU was a crappy el-cheapo brand and the CPU was a non-inspiring Pentium III 733MHz. The CPU cooler was a Socket 7 cooler, strangely. It housed a CDROM drive (also not particularly interesting).
The case was an old beige aluminium cheap ATX case without ventilation and with sharp edges. So all in all not a bad deal considering the graphics card, RAM and the soundblaster live.

Now on to the AT case, it was quite heavy. It housed a CDROM drive (has room for 3 instead of the more usual 2) and weirdly enough had 2 side panels, so I was thinking it's probably a recent Socket 7 rig. I opened it up and it had some Diamond 64 something PCI card. Soundcard was some crystal ISA card. But then I noticed empty cache sockets and buried beneath lots of cables and 3 harddrives (yes it came with 3 harddrives!) there was Socket 3! No leaking battery, it had one of those real time clocks in a black housing (probably empty by now).
I haven't checked the CPU yet, but I suppose it's probably a DX2 or DX4 (a 5x86 if I'm really lucky).

UMC chipset, I got myself a looking-like-new 486 PCI system for 10 friggin euro's! 😁

Edit: I checked the CPU and it's an "It's ST 5x86 100MHz 3.45v" part. The motherboard is the "MB-8433UUD-A VER:2"

Tetrium wrote:

The motherboard is the "MB-8433UUD-A VER:2"

Great board!

Well,I got myself a new skt478 board after my Chaintech MPM800 died and the MSI P4MAM-V didn't work.This one is a P4i45D+,845D chipset and Prescott support.I have to get new RAM for it though,as my old sticks aren't working.Motherboard beeps though,so it's alive.
Pic of motherboard installed in case along with Celeron D CPU.Don't mind the text on it.

10kg of various retro stuff packed neatly by force into an huge potato sack 🤣
And possible new stuff from a colleague from college 😀

Stojke wrote:

10kg of various retro stuff packed neatly by force into an huge potato sack 🤣
And possible new stuff from a colleague from college 😀

Pics of the huge potato sack! 😁

Since i don't have a decent camera, and its night, it looked sorta like this 🤣

There are quite a few TV cards, some ESS, Sound Blaster 1.5 SB1350B with FM, 3D Blaster, FM cards (radio), a whole lot rage cards and SCSI, YMF724, and so on 😀
And of course lots of dirt and dust 😁