Just got these three standard ATX I/O shields

Now I my Asus P5A box is near complete according to its manual (except that it's not the original case but whatever). All I need now is a bag of jumpers and ribbon cables 😀

(fyi I had the board loose at the beginning)

This will come handy for other motherboards too.

imi wrote on 2020-06-20, 01:53:

pretty, do you have a black board to go with it?

About 17-18 years ago I did, I had a cusl2-c Black Pearl that had to be sold to offset my NF7-S upgrade. Sadly this will be going into a slightly more period correct BE6-II v2.

Finally international travel restrictions are relaxing so I could visit my parent's house and collect some hardware I bought earlier and couldn't pick up.

SMT4321 "Terminator" motherboard:

Two SiS551x based motherboards. That chipset was missing in my Early Pentium Chipset survey. One of them has Asus Media BUS and the other (Abit PG5) two weird looking expansion slots.

And then a number of riser boards for various OEM systems.

Added another computer to my collection -

Hasn't arrived yet, so stock image from google.

Acorn BBC Micro Model B, Issue 7 motherboard. I was going to get one of these later in the year, but decided to go ahead and get it earlier. Has the disk interface & DFS ROM installed, so should pair nicely with my Gotek. Not sure what disk interface is inside actually, so possibly may later order the 1770 upgrade if necessary.

Picked up an E-MU Darwin 8 track hard disk recorder with two gigantic external scsi boxes, both full. The two scsi boxes weigh like 50lbs each, one has a jazz drive. they feel like they are full of bricks. crazy. I've not seen external scsi boxes like these with the id numbers on the back the way they are.

the 4 black boxes next to the power have the scsi id that you can select by button push.

I didnt even ask for the scsi boxes, just the Darwin, and the guy threw them in with it. crazy.

Sellers pic. Not clear but looks like I have myself a nice fake cache board. PC Chips M507

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-06-20, 17:32:

Sellers pic. Not clear but looks like I have myself a nice fake cache board. PC Chips M507

I never heard of socket 7 pentium fake cache boards.

So I had told myself "no more big loads of crap" and "no more P3 era stuff". Then an ad for a "Windows XP machine" came up and I couldn't resist.

Here it is:

SCSI Plexwriter, IDE DVD-RW, and yes, that frontless 3.5" drive is LS-120.

Then the insides:

Asus P3C-D i820 dual slot 1 board, 512MB RDRAM, 2x P3-933 with Golden Orbs, Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter with Quantum Atlas V HDD, NEC USB 2.0 card. Oddly, seller was most enthusiastic about the VGA card, but it's just an FX5200. Oh, and a Zalman 300W silent PSU and I believe an InWin case.

It all works, booting into Windows XP as promised 😜

Extremely nice, but there's more. The obligatory fuzzy seller pics showed what looked like components from the system photographed outside. Nope, that was a whole new box the seller chucked in too:

Highlights: two more Slot 1 orbs, two more SCSI CDrom drives (and the caddy for the Plexwriter), another LS-120 drive and a very nice Pabst silent fan.

CoffeeOne wrote on 2020-06-20, 19:04:

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-06-20, 17:32:

Sellers pic. Not clear but looks like I have myself a nice fake cache board. PC Chips M507

I never heard of socket 7 pentium fake cache boards.

A few hits on google suggest this board may have them. Soon I will see 😀

dionb wrote on 2020-06-20, 19:20:

Here it is

I'd have bought that tower for the plextor caddy drive alone... also what a haul 😳 I'm jelly of those orbs too.

also two LS120 drives, case does not look like an in-win to me though, still nice.

imi wrote on 2020-06-20, 19:25:

dionb wrote on 2020-06-20, 19:20:

Here it is

I'd have bought that tower for the plextor caddy drive alone... also what a haul 😳 I'm jelly of those orbs too.

also two LS120 drives, case does not look like an in-win to me though, still nice.

The P3C-D was the main thing for me, I've gone through literally >10 over the years, not one that worked. This one does. But that plus two orbs and a Plexwriter would have been enough for me too. Discovering two LS-120 drives and two new, unused orbs as well... wow.

Whatever the case it, it's top quality thick steel with nicely bent edges. No shredded hands here 😀

Wow, very nice big load of crap! The 5,25" floppy drive also caught my eye. Those are hard to find around here.

Wow what a haul. That system with the dual golden orbs is beautiful.

I bought an 8 bit ISA Wifi adapter with the Pre-802.11 standard, it uses 2.4 Ghz. with a top speed of 2 mbit. Had to scower ebay to buy the matching Wireless access point 😀
It's the Aironet Arlan 655-2400 made by Aironet in the early 90's before they were purchased by Cisco. It even has drivers for Dos and Windows 3.1 😀

Wow that WiFi card is awesome. That must of cost a fortune back then

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-20, 22:00:

Wow that WiFi card is awesome. That must of cost a fortune back then

The Wireless bridge from that series(Arlan 640-2400) was around $ 2.695 dollars in 1995 according to Network World. So i guess the card itself would be somewhere in the 750-1500 ish?
Not sure what the Wireless Access point price would have been. (Arlan 630-2400)

https://books.google.nl/books?id=_BIEAAAAMBAJ … 55-2400&f=false

Thats actually less than I was thinking but still a good amount of money

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-20, 22:22:

Thats actually less than I was thinking but still a good amount of money

After a little digging, I found some list prices from an old website around the same time for the ISA and PCMCIA adapter

Aironet ARLAN 655-2400 DS 1-2 Mbps 100 mW ERP 150 m 5 km ISA card (1/2 size) $ 945 5 channels
Aironet ARLAN 690-2400 DS 1-2 Mbps 100 mW ERP 150 m 5 km PCMCIA Type II $ 795 Radio/antenna module is external (2.85"x4"x1")

Got this Zenith TurboSport 386 with power supply pretty cheaply off eBay, but like the seller advertised it just doesn't turn on. There's an "External Power" LED lit up but that's it.

Master_Shifu wrote on 2020-06-20, 22:41:

After a little digging, I found some list prices from an old website around the same time for the ISA and PCMCIA adapter […]
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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-20, 22:22:

Thats actually less than I was thinking but still a good amount of money

After a little digging, I found some list prices from an old website around the same time for the ISA and PCMCIA adapter

Aironet ARLAN 655-2400 DS 1-2 Mbps 100 mW ERP 150 m 5 km ISA card (1/2 size) $ 945 5 channels
Aironet ARLAN 690-2400 DS 1-2 Mbps 100 mW ERP 150 m 5 km PCMCIA Type II $ 795 Radio/antenna module is external (2.85"x4"x1")

Great find and that is a huge amount of money unless you consider they were designed to transmit for miles not just a hundred feet , if I read that link correctly.