Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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imi wrote on 2020-07-02, 20:54:

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Ahh cool! Very nice! Sorry didnt notice that. Have been too busy with the fun and exciting EGA-project. For those who didnt notice that one 😉
6€ MCE2VGA replacement - CGA/EGA/HGC capture with logic analyzer

The Amiga is really cool, hope you will have much fun with it.

I am currently (also interrupted) working on the same PC10, only case and mainboard so far. What else is inside yours? I like to put as many original components in it as possible.

the only other thing in there is a MFM controller for the HDD but the price was pretty ok for the PC10, monitor and the cherry MX keyboard, accidentally stumbled upon it while looking for amiga stuff x3 and was like sure why not ^^
...oh and a leaky battery, have to remove that asap x3 but it's working perfectly fine, including the HDD, it sounds awesome spinning up.

A small VLB haul today:

A QDI 6580 multi I/O. I have a non-upgradeable version of this card — works really stable on a AMD 5x86 160 (40MHz FSB) setup. Does anybody know where I can find a BIOS dump? What goes into the smaller socket? As far as I could make out the silkscreened text inside the socket, it say 74LS138. Would this chip work?

An Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus card — an S3805-based card. Just looked nice, and for 4 bucks I thought "why not".

Finally, the biggest thing, a BusLogic BT-445S VLB SCSI controller:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-02, 20:14:

Hups...I agreed on an acceptable price for 3 boxes with more than 30 kg in total... 😒 There was at least one interesting card in each, therefore I will take only some few items and sell the remaining parts again asap. 1 sellers pic of each box...

Heap 1:
Unknown TNT2 AGP
ELSA Riva 128 PCI
ZORAN MPEG Decoder PCI
Aztech Sound Card ISA
Cirrus Logic CL-GD542X VLB
ASUS PVI486-SP3 PCI Socket 3
Unknown ET4000 VLB
Spea V7 Mirage (S3 Vision864) PCI
Unknown Multi-IO VLB

Heap 2:
Matrox Mystique 2MB PCI
3 Slot ISA Riser
Unknown Slot-1 Motherboard
Unknown Socket 7 Motherboard
Formosa ES1868 ISA
Matrox Millennium 2 PCI (No bracket)
Unknown AGP card that may be anything from a fast TNT2 to a GeForce2 of some kind, with VIVO

Heap 3: (Not so hot AFAIC)
Unknown dual CPU motherboard (I'm not familiar with the socket)
OEM (Compaq?) ATI Radeon AGP (7000/7200/7500/8500/9000/9100 - who knows?)

(Also a plethore of random S3, ATI, etc. PCI/AGP video cards and Creative, OPTi etc. sound cards not worth mentioning)

appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:38:

(Also a plethore of random S3, ATI, etc. PCI/AGP video cards and Creative, OPTi etc. sound cards not worth mentioning)

There's a Yamaha SW60XG in the third photo.

Cloudschatze wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:44:

appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:38:

(Also a plethore of random S3, ATI, etc. PCI/AGP video cards and Creative, OPTi etc. sound cards not worth mentioning)

There's a Yamaha SW60XG in the third photo.

Indeed 😉 Thanks anyway for your listing appiah4!

Cloudschatze wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:44:

appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:38:

(Also a plethore of random S3, ATI, etc. PCI/AGP video cards and Creative, OPTi etc. sound cards not worth mentioning)

There's a Yamaha SW60XG in the third photo.

Oh wow, I didn't even notice.. In my defense, I never saw one in the flesh. 😀

imi wrote on 2020-07-02, 20:54:

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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I’ve seen that offer, too. Tempting, but I wanted a 286, remember? 😉

appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-02, 21:38:

Heap 1: Unknown TNT2 AGP ELSA Riva 128 PCI ZORAN MPEG Decoder PCI Aztech Sound Card ISA Cirrus Logic CL-GD542X VLB ASUS PVI486-S […]
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Predator99 wrote on 2020-07-02, 20:14:

Hups...I agreed on an acceptable price for 3 boxes with more than 30 kg in total... 😒 There was at least one interesting card in each, therefore I will take only some few items and sell the remaining parts again asap. 1 sellers pic of each box...

Heap 1:
Unknown TNT2 AGP
ELSA Riva 128 PCI
ZORAN MPEG Decoder PCI
Aztech Sound Card ISA
Cirrus Logic CL-GD542X VLB
ASUS PVI486-SP3 PCI Socket 3
Unknown ET4000 VLB
Spea V7 Mirage (S3 Vision864) PCI
Unknown Multi-IO VLB

There's another ATI video card in this heap, with a (ISA?) sound card behind it.
Behind one of the motherboards is what looks like a riser card with an ISA slot, and another card that likely is a TV card.
In the middle there is a Firewire PCI card, and a bit to the left of it something that looks like an industrial backplane.
Red KBN6PGM2-V (?) motherboard.
PCI-X? card with memory extension module and purple connectors.
Very large Siemens card (CPU board that goes with the backplane?).
Promise Ultra 100 controller.

Heap 2: Matrox Mystique 2MB PCI 3 Slot ISA Riser Unknown Slot-1 Motherboard Unknown Socket 7 Motherboard Formosa ES1868 ISA Matr […]
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Heap 2:
Matrox Mystique 2MB PCI
3 Slot ISA Riser
Unknown Slot-1 Motherboard
Unknown Socket 7 Motherboard
Formosa ES1868 ISA
Matrox Millennium 2 PCI (No bracket)
Unknown AGP card that may be anything from a fast TNT2 to a GeForce2 of some kind, with VIVO

Huge Chase AT4 ISA card.
3COM network card with boot ROM socket
Platinum Card (PCMCIA?), with what looks like another Industrial CPU board behind it.

Heap 3: (Not so hot AFAIC)
Unknown dual CPU motherboard (I'm not familiar with the socket)

Alpha?

OEM (Compaq?) ATI Radeon AGP (7000/7200/7500/8500/9000/9100 - who knows?)

(Also a plethore of random S3, ATI, etc. PCI/AGP video cards and Creative, OPTi etc. sound cards not worth mentioning)

SiS AGP card (will suck)
Another 3COM network card
CD-ROM drive interface ISA card (for external CD-ROM!)
MAde in Japan ISA Sound card.

Today I received another contender for the spot in my mid 90th 233MMX. A Hercules Stingray 64 PCI with an ARK2000PV chip. It’ll have to compete with an ET6000, some S3 cards and some MGA cards - playground: DOS 2D VGA gaming.

It seems I always pay way to much for single items … maybe I should shift my attention to all those mystery boxes with 10 EUR per 10 kilos and keep the fingers crossed.

yawetaG wrote on 2020-07-03, 05:52:

Heap 3: (Not so hot AFAIC)
Unknown dual CPU motherboard (I'm not familiar with the socket)

Alpha?

Looks like a Socket 603/604 Xeon.

Got this LS-120 drive today.
The first I've been able to get for a reasonable price.

Incoming of today

Riva tnt 2 m64 pci
And
Geforce2 mx440 pci

Happy days 😀

The purple one reminds me of the PNY "Verto" FX5200 Ultra I used to have.

After 1 month and 9 days of waiting, I finally received this:

Doom sounds amazing now.

Picked up a joblot of crap just for this 8bit serial card. It was cheaper than any "buy it now" cards for the lot.
Only other items of interest were these soundcards which unfortunately have taken some abuse but might work after some replaced caps.

Also grabbed this controller card as the floppy controller is dead on the M507 below

PC Chips M507 socket 7 motherboard with FAKE CACHE! (and a dead floppy controller)

Won this socket 5 motherboard too as its something slightly different to my usual socket 7s and wasnt super expensive.

ildonaldo wrote on 2020-07-03, 12:06:

Got this LS-120 drive today.
The first I've been able to get for a reasonable price.

Says, it's better if you set this thing as master, preferably on its own IDE channel (with a slave drive attached), from my limited testing with these, they sometimes act funny when set to slave or cable select. (or maybe my unit is a fluke..?)

got a new NOS 5pin din AT keyboard. Not going to use it on a computer, buts getting plugged into my EMU E6400 Ultra sampler.

seleryba wrote on 2020-06-29, 22:24:

https://www.vogons.org/thumbs/42095_62a9a1ac616a25975c299bacdb507f17/vog4.jpeg Inspired by LGR, I've bought full-metal aluminium […]
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Inspired by LGR, I've bought full-metal aluminium case. I'll build a Tualatin PC on it. Can't wait for the package!

Ah shit. The package arrived and it comes out that front panel is made of plastic. Seller said in the description that this case is made of aluminium. Indeed, but like almost every other case...
I will still use it for some build anyway.

Fortunately, inside the case I have found this beauty:

I love Yamaha drives and it will fit for some Pentium/K6 build like a charm. A blessing in disguise!