Today's flea market finds:

Biostar M5ALA ver 2.0 with an AMD K6-III 400MHz, two sticks of 128 MB PC133 SDRAM and an AGP Ati Rage Pro Turbo graphics card with a 4 MB memory addon

Got this combo mainly for the K6-III CPU and for the 4MB memory upgrade stick.
I don't have high hopes for the mobo, it has it's top PCI slot damaged and a few scraches onthe back... but still it was worth the money spent.

Bought this Ati Radeon 8500 All in Wonder for 5 EUR. Not tested.

Drove an hour each way to get this stuff from a facebook ad for $50.
Sorry no pics for this quick post I could be coaxed to share some if someone is interested.

- Number Nine Revolution IV T2R4 PCI 32mb with interesting Zalman heat sink
- SGI 1600SW digital flat panel (N9 card has connector for this DFP)
- Unicomp Model M keyboard (2003 version)
- Fancy Coolermaster Aluminum (silver colored) early 2000s ATX case with PC Power and Cooling PSU (40A 5V)
- DFI KT600-AL motherboard inside case (Socket A, not sure which CPU)
- Also contained an Audigy 2 with front bay, and a silver faced fan controller with 4 knobs
- Funky copper Zalman cooler on cpu with fan suspended aboue heat sink on a bracket, not attached to heatsink
- Everything extremely clean physical condition

So far I have verified the N9 card and KB are working, Put card in my P233MMX rig for now, nice display quality.

.info wrote on 2023-07-23, 16:35:

Drove an hour each way to get this stuff from a facebook ad for $50. Sorry no pics for this quick post I could be coaxed to shar […]
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Drove an hour each way to get this stuff from a facebook ad for $50.
Sorry no pics for this quick post I could be coaxed to share some if someone is interested.

- Number Nine Revolution IV T2R4 PCI 32mb with interesting Zalman heat sink
- SGI 1600SW digital flat panel (N9 card has connector for this DFP)
- Unicomp Model M keyboard (2003 version)
- Fancy Coolermaster Aluminum (silver colored) early 2000s ATX case with PC Power and Cooling PSU (40A 5V)
- DFI KT600-AL motherboard inside case (Socket A, not sure which CPU)
- Also contained an Audigy 2 with front bay, and a silver faced fan controller with 4 knobs
- Funky copper Zalman cooler on cpu with fan suspended aboue heat sink on a bracket, not attached to heatsink
- Everything extremely clean physical condition

So far I have verified the N9 card and KB are working, Put card in my P233MMX rig for now, nice display quality.

The Zalman cooler sounds like one of their flower coolers as those are the only ones that had the fan mounted in a separate bracket.

Here's the BIOS I promised for the Epox EP-4PLAI-A, in case anyone needs it. Do be warned that it's in a non-standard size, 384KB, which is 3MBit.
No, it's no typo, the BIOS chip on some of these EPoX boards that use Breeds Hill/Springdale-PE (848P and 865PE) chipset is 3MBit in size, as even Flashrom reports a SST 49LF003A chip when reading and flashing.
There is an issue where some of these were also shipped with standard 4Mbit chips - in this case, you must use Uniflash with the -E option to get the 3Mbit BIOSes to flash.

Got Matrox Millennium G400 MAX for 5 euro.
https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … ennium-g400-max

While scanning through ads, a card cought my eye. The chip to be exact. I remembered that my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro has a socket for a Future Domain SCSI Controller that looked like this one. I'm not sure if this exact chip can be used in the Sound Galaxy and I wouldn't remove it from the card anyway, but I thought it's good to have it 😀
The card itself is also interesting because it's a SCSI, IDE and Floppy controller.
Edit: and it even supports 4 floppy drives

Took delivery of a couple modern-retro cards, an Orpheus II LT and a BlasterBoard.

well i re-acquired some hardware today insofar as i recovered a box of components that i was told was thrown out 8yrs ago. here is a list of the haul which so far has all tested out working:
- abit vt7 motherboard
- qty2 abit kw7 motherboard
- biostar p4m90-m4 motherboard
- qty2 athlon xp 2500 barton
- intel p4 2.6ghz northwood
- intel p4 2.4ghz northwood
- qty2 thermaltake socket a all copper heatsink
- intel p4 factory heatsink
- zalman p4 all copper heatsink (half arc style where fan bolts to expansion slot bracket)
- qty4 1gb ddr ram
- qty2 512mb ddr2 ram
- qty2 sapphire radeon 9600xt 128mb
- maxtor 300gb 7200rpm hdd
- seagate 120gb 7200rpm hdd
- qty5 hitachi 128gb 7200rpm hdd
- nec nd-3520 dvd burner (analog audio output)
- dell nps-180bba 180w psu

rejoice! that the evil electronics recyclers have been twarted.

Untested but including pass through cable, kept in antistatic bag ... 500DKK ~ US$70

Not too too vintage, but it's PATA and 15+ years old now I think. "Accidentally" stumbled into a thrift, found an open box new in box LiteOn iHAP422-98 DVD-RW drive, which I think has all the premium audio extraction features. So a bit whelmed about that. I seem to be scared of running out of working ODDs, I can't leave decent looking ones if I see them, though this one is a bona fide good-un I think. I think it might be better for "backing up" some kinds of disks also, not totally informed on that.

Also vintage hardware but weird for this thread probably, a "bag full" of 90s radios... Cobra CB, uniden bearcat and RadioShack handheld scanners and a SW amplified antenna. I mess with that kind of thing on an off. I know it's all Software Defined Radio this and that these days, which is wildly flexible, but if you find something interesting to monitor, you can maybe stick an old scanner on that frequency and free up the SDR setup. Handheld CB is a lot nicer than the one I've got already which is a bit too antique, (and kinda not all that smaller than original WWII walkie talkie 🤣 ) and I plan to use it when camping/boating etc. The bearcat specifically does weather channels as well which might be handy. These were all in very decent shape, probably over $100 worth to the right people. They may yet get involved in vintage computing, there's some data on the airwaves still.

box is a bit rough but, includes the card, breakout cable and discs.
they've had a lot of cool stuff there recently.

One more FX5600, and MX440 to play with and mod them.

Compaq ESS sound card this time with bracket intact.
Bunch of stopwatches. Yes I collect them and play with them, restore too.

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-07-26, 00:39:

Bunch of stopwatches. Yes I collect them and play with them, restore too.

Nothing like having time on your hands. ... ... ... I'll be here all week don't forget to tip your waitress.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-07-26, 01:22:

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-07-26, 00:39:

Bunch of stopwatches. Yes I collect them and play with them, restore too.

Nothing like having time on your hands. ... ... ... I'll be here all week don't forget to tip your waitress.

Hahah.

Cheers,

stanwebber wrote on 2023-07-24, 20:10:

well i re-acquired some hardware today insofar as i recovered a box of components that i was told was thrown out 8yrs ago. here […]
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well i re-acquired some hardware today insofar as i recovered a box of components that i was told was thrown out 8yrs ago. here is a list of the haul which so far has all tested out working:
- abit vt7 motherboard
- qty2 abit kw7 motherboard
- biostar p4m90-m4 motherboard
- qty2 athlon xp 2500 barton
- intel p4 2.6ghz northwood
- intel p4 2.4ghz northwood
- qty2 thermaltake socket a all copper heatsink
- intel p4 factory heatsink
- zalman p4 all copper heatsink (half arc style where fan bolts to expansion slot bracket)
- qty4 1gb ddr ram
- qty2 512mb ddr2 ram
- qty2 sapphire radeon 9600xt 128mb
- maxtor 300gb 7200rpm hdd
- seagate 120gb 7200rpm hdd
- qty5 hitachi 128gb 7200rpm hdd
- nec nd-3520 dvd burner (analog audio output)
- dell nps-180bba 180w psu

rejoice! that the evil electronics recyclers have been twarted.

that's a good collections of things, imagine how many similar things have been thrown out in other situations, good to rescue a few

I'm a Portuguese living in Japan.
I'm always impressed by how careful they are with things.
I bought this used 20 years old Radeon. Look at how glorious this box looks. Even the sticker is very carefully placed.

I Bought this MSI PT880 Neo board of a recycler with missing heatsinks,

then I found the 2 vrm heatsinks in his other listings,

but north bridge heatsink was nowhere to be found, luckily found this nice looking heatsink in my stash,

Also board would not power on, after lots of probing and head scratching I realized he also has yoinked the jumpers,
after putting back the cmos jumper, it posted just fine.

Karbist wrote on 2023-07-26, 15:12:

I Bought this MSI PT880 Neo board of a recycler with missing heatsinks, […]
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I Bought this MSI PT880 Neo board of a recycler with missing heatsinks,

PT880.jpg

then I found the 2 vrm heatsinks in his other listings,

VRM.jpg

but north bridge heatsink was nowhere to be found, luckily found this nice looking heatsink in my stash,

NB.jpg

Also board would not power on, after lots of probing and head scratching I realized he also has yoinked the jumpers,
after putting back the cmos jumper, it posted just fine.

Why the jumpers .. thats a truly weird thing to yoink, I mean you can buy a thousand of them for a tenner. There is zero reason to remove them even for recycling 🤣.

Trashbytes wrote on 2023-07-26, 15:23:

Why the jumpers .. thats a truly weird thing to yoink, I mean you can buy a thousand of them for a tenner. There is zero reason to remove them even for recycling 🤣.

Probably he thought they are gold plated. 🤣