Not 100% in line with the topic, because I only almost bought these retro hardware today:

I got outbid minutes before the auction ended. Gosh darn it.
The keen eye spots a Tyan Titan Pro AT, a dual Pentium Pro board, complete with processors, HSFs, VRMs and whatnots. Also a Tekram vlb controller card which supposedly is nifty. The rest I can go without.

Perhaps he/she who got it is reading this thread?

We are 3 on this forum who were bidding on it, me, you and user Marquzz 😀

I will report if the board and the VLB IDE controller works.
I diddnt care for the rest either, I might use the PCI SCSI card though.

The stuff was sold as untested. "Found in attic".

How much was it in the end?

Arctic wrote:

How much was it in the end?

Not very cheap if most things are broken, very cheap if everything works. $75

Well it's a bit much for a gamble, so best of luck!

Cyrix200+ wrote:

It has been a while, had other priorities (getting my MSc, baby daughter, etc). Some 'new' stuff:

Congrats. Hope you she will be "Fathers girl" as time progresses. (My daughter is)
Just be prepared for pink and violet colours everywhere. 🤣

Arctic wrote:

Well it's a bit much for a gamble, so best of luck!

My bet is that in worst case I will end up with two working 200 MHz 256KB PPro CPUs, two nice coolers for said CPUs and some more or less worthless cards, the rest could very well be toast.

I really doudbt that this motherboard would have been equipped with 150 MHz CPUs 😉

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That Tyan AT-Board. Only one thing to say......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-nuV36fvgQ

brostenen wrote:

stoof wrote:

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That Tyan AT-Board. Only one thing to say......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-nuV36fvgQ

Yea it looks really really nice and as it has a DALLAS RTC it should work... or at least not be destroyed by a 3.6v NiCd battery like my old Supermicro Super P6DNF which this board will replace. I really hate my self for not removing that battery and as I diddnt even look at the board between ~2003 and ~2013 the corrosion had spread everywhere.

The Supermicro Super P6DNF was the motherboard that was mounted in my HUGE AT case when i found it, the case was even modded to fit the board as its full size AT.

Skyscraper wrote:

We are 3 on this forum who were bidding on it, me, you and user Marquzz :) […]
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We are 3 on this forum who were bidding on it, me, you and user Marquzz 😀

I will report if the board and the VLB IDE controller works.
I diddnt care for the rest either, I might use the PCI SCSI card though.

The stuff was sold as untested. "Found in attic".

Hah, I was kinda thinking that was you. I also had my eyes on that lot of memory modules you got recently.

Good to hear it will find a good home. I'll be waiting for the report on functionality. 😀

Arctic wrote:

Well it's a bit much for a gamble, so best of luck!

Gambling can be fun. It's also less risky when you can return items. So, I looked at the figure of $75 and thought "pfff - I wouldn't pay THAT much..."

However. The other day I spent £15 on a VLB graphics card. This was to go in a VLB motherboard that may or may not work. Then I spent £15 on a pair of ISA graphics cards for a 386 motherboard that may or may not work. I spent £10 on the bunch of motherboards that may or may not work. At the time these didn't seem like large sums of money but, now I look at it, I've spent nearly $75 on hardware that could be either a) really exciting or b) really pointless.

Is this fun? Yeah it is.

One of the cacheing VLB IDE controllers? Niiiiice! I bought my first 486 from Dan computers and they shipped that with a lot of systems - couldn't afford it at the time. Course, I've now installed a 4GB SLC SSD in mine, so it'll max out the controller anyway.

My retro activity for tonight is installing the OS/2 2.1 boot manager, and DOS 6.22, then seeing if the DX2-66 is too fast to run Ultima VII. I bought a '486' heatsink for it, but it turns out to be a pentium one with a clip that won't fit. So, going to see if I should get some sticky thermal tape or find a DX33 which shouldn't need a heatsink.

The reason for the OS/2 2.1 boot manager is being a Sick Bunny. I'm going to install both OS/2 2.1 (easy) and networked OS/2 1.3 (a bit harder) on it..

Picked up a Sound Blaster 1.5 CT1320-C and an Ensonic Soundscape VIVO for cheap. Forgot that I already had a CT1320-C.

PPros are hard to find at under $20 each anymore, and the heatsinks are hard to find as well. I'm glad I purchased a few spare heatsinks in the early 2000's when they were being dumped so that I would get my recent dual PPro board setup.

A socket 8 HS is all I miss to replace my P55T2P4/P200 with a GA-686NX/Ppro 1MB 😖

Bought some stuff recently...

5160 XT with 5153 monitor, DOS 2.10

AT with keyboard and DOS 3.3. Also visible is 486/100 in a case I have been looking for. Also scored the full tower version of the same case, a Vectra XU6/150 PPro, P3 Netvista and PC350 and a bunch of other random machines.

Unknown_K wrote:

PPros are hard to find at under $20 each anymore, and the heatsinks are hard to find as well. I'm glad I purchased a few spare heatsinks in the early 2000's when they were being dumped so that I would get my recent dual PPro board setup.

I agree, the gamble is only for the other $35 + shipping. If the motherboard or the VLB IDE controller works the deal was OK, if both works the deal was good. I do not really expect the Radeon card to be working as that would have been easy for the seller to test and why would it have ended up in the attic in the first place if it was working? Most of the PCI cards including the SCSI card should be working but they are not worth very much.

The fact that I really want a Baby AT Pentium Pro motherboard makes it more worthwhile taking the risk.

stoof wrote:

Not 100% in line with the topic, because I only almost bought these retro hardware today: […]
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Not 100% in line with the topic, because I only almost bought these retro hardware today:

I got outbid minutes before the auction ended. Gosh darn it.
The keen eye spots a Tyan Titan Pro AT, a dual Pentium Pro board, complete with processors, HSFs, VRMs and whatnots. Also a Tekram vlb controller card which supposedly is nifty. The rest I can go without.

Perhaps he/she who got it is reading this thread?

Yes, wanted that stuff as well, but Scyscraper is a tough competitor, he has outbid me on several auctions... 😉

Nice XT and AT. Just be aware that the keyboard in your XT photo only works with AT systems (AT model F)

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Nice XT and AT. Just be aware that the keyboard in your XT photo only works with AT systems (AT model F)

Thanks for the heads up - am a PC/XT newb 😀 I didn't realise the incompatibility, luckily have a clone XT keyboard here to use instead. Also need to track down a 240V power supply for the 5160.