pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-04-04, 16:47:

Nice, please grab the new picture of that card without the ESD bag? […]
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kixs wrote on 2021-04-04, 07:34:

Recently bought this CIB beauty! :D […]
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Recently bought this CIB beauty! 😁

Nice, please grab the new picture of that card without the ESD bag?

Back in the day, this was only one of two new purchases that allowed me to build 486 machine, The Hercules Dynamite and the earlier purchased 270MB IBM hard drive when I was in college. Video card can take 50MHz no problem.

Cheers,

What card do you want a photo of? This CIB has an ISA card. I have VLB too - but the card only.

Voodoo prices have been mad on evilbay since forever. But it's not just voodoos, it's everything retro that scalpers get their ugly hands on : consoles, TVs, monitors, games, hardware.
A classic is to label it 'rare' when it's not ansdput an outrageous price on it. Like voodoo cards.

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-04-05, 06:58:

Voodoo prices have been mad on evilbay since forever. But it's not just voodoos, it's everything retro that scalpers get their ugly hands on : consoles, TVs, monitors, games, hardware.
A classic is to label it 'rare' when it's not ansdput an outrageous price on it. Like voodoo cards.

I guess ı can kind of forget about getting a matching Voodoo 2 pair or a Voodoo 3 PCI..

I have noticed that voodoo2 have gone up significantly in the last 6 months. Bare cards were never that much (well since 1997 I mean), but recently they seem to always go for more than 200AUD. That's pretty expensive for a SLI setup.

Buy it from Eastern Europe if you're nearby, you can get one for $35 or less if it's untested.

You can get V2 "untested" from me for cheap 🤣

"Untested" of course means it's tested and not working!

CMB75 wrote on 2021-03-15, 07:37:

Nothing special today. An ASUS V3800 32M TNT2 Ultra. Quite generic, but I like it because I had it back in the day. It's missing the accessories, like the shutter glasses but I had/have no use for them anyway.
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I have the same card but its missing its heatsink. I can't seem to source the fan for it. its a "picoblade" connector, I believe.

A few days ago, I bought a Soyo SY-7VBA133U motherboard. It has a bunch of bad capacitors so probably doesn't work, but I haven't tested it though.

Megadragon15 wrote on 2021-04-06, 14:53:

A few days ago, I bought a Soyo SY-7VBA133U motherboard. It has a bunch of bad capacitors so probably doesn't work, but I haven't tested it though.

if you are ok to replace the capacitors there's a good chance it will work, well if so you can have a pentium 3 machine soon enough!

hello, world

Got 2 NOS 286 A-One Motherboards HT286 A1 with 20 MHZ. Things you don't need but if you can get her hands on...
The batteries leaked but the boards doesn't seems to have taken much damage.

I have no use for another SCSI RAID adaptor. But I was trying to source EDRAM modules for my Octek Hippo-VL DCA board for a while and recently bought two SCSI adaptors that might come with some.

I hope that's what I need (seller's picture).

I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yellowed, still rather dirty after using up four Magic Erasers, and I can't even open it up right now to examine the internals because the case screws are rusty and two of them had their heads strip completely, but I'm hoping I can save this one in the end!

For now though it's sidelined until I get some screw extractors and a pack of fresh machine screws from the hardware store...

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-04-07, 19:41:

I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yell […]
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I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yellowed, still rather dirty after using up four Magic Erasers, and I can't even open it up right now to examine the internals because the case screws are rusty and two of them had their heads strip completely, but I'm hoping I can save this one in the end!

For now though it's sidelined until I get some screw extractors and a pack of fresh machine screws from the hardware store...

Even if it doesn't work out, that's a nice piece to show off.

BetaC wrote on 2021-04-07, 20:01:

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-04-07, 19:41:

I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yell […]
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I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yellowed, still rather dirty after using up four Magic Erasers, and I can't even open it up right now to examine the internals because the case screws are rusty and two of them had their heads strip completely, but I'm hoping I can save this one in the end!

For now though it's sidelined until I get some screw extractors and a pack of fresh machine screws from the hardware store...

Even if it doesn't work out, that's a nice piece to show off.

That's the excuse I always make when something new has arrived that doesn't work 😆

BetaC wrote on 2021-04-07, 20:01:

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-04-07, 19:41:

I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yell […]
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I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yellowed, still rather dirty after using up four Magic Erasers, and I can't even open it up right now to examine the internals because the case screws are rusty and two of them had their heads strip completely, but I'm hoping I can save this one in the end!

For now though it's sidelined until I get some screw extractors and a pack of fresh machine screws from the hardware store...

Even if it doesn't work out, that's a nice piece to show off.

That would give me not one but TWO non-working TRS-80s though...I also have a standard Model 4 that doesn't work.

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-04-07, 21:50:

BetaC wrote on 2021-04-07, 20:01:

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-04-07, 19:41:

I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yell […]
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I probably will regret buying this, but I managed to get a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P for just over $100 shipped. It's extremely yellowed, still rather dirty after using up four Magic Erasers, and I can't even open it up right now to examine the internals because the case screws are rusty and two of them had their heads strip completely, but I'm hoping I can save this one in the end!

For now though it's sidelined until I get some screw extractors and a pack of fresh machine screws from the hardware store...

Even if it doesn't work out, that's a nice piece to show off.

That would give me not one but TWO non-working TRS-80s though...I also have a standard Model 4 that doesn't work.

Then buy more non-working ones, construct a TRS Model fort.

But in all seriousness, Hope that the issues keeping it from working are just as simple as a recap and a reseat.

Got this s370 Celeron mechanical sample. It's a dummy CPU but boy is it hard to find!
This completes my s370 Mendocino collection.

Boards arived in the mail today.... And because I did a quick video, then I can mind as well post a couple of pictures before I start the build.

I bought the black board, because the form factor is awesomme. And fans of the Alien universe might notice why the blue looks the way it does. 😉 😜

IBMFan wrote on 2021-04-08, 06:55:

Got this s370 Celeron mechanical sample. It's a dummy CPU but boy is it hard to find!
This completes my s370 Mendocino collection.

Truly interesting, never seen such a dummy CPU.
I bet it's just as 'fast' as a Covington. 😆

PD2JK wrote on 2021-04-08, 13:25:

Truly interesting, never seen such a dummy CPU.
I bet it's just as 'fast' as a Covington. 😆

It was made to test CPU sockets and heatsink dimensions in the early stages of development. They don't contain a functional CPU die so it's for collecting purposes only. Since they don't actually work they were usually discarded and only a few of them remained intact.