h-a-l-9000 wrote:

See http://dau-alarm.de/g_ram.html

Wait, there are people who modify sticks to "make 'em fit" (but unlikely work) instead of putting them in the other way around? 😵 Some people are really beyond help...

Well, it's not a Sound Master II: http://imgur.com/a/w3hKR

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I haven't yet received this item yet, but I'm all ears if anyone knows what it is.

As far as I can tell, it is some kind of 8-bit audio card made by Covox. It doesn't look like the Voice Master card or the Voice Master Key card shown on Great Hierophant's blog: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/09/t … nd-devices.html

If you look closely at the photo, you can see the Covox logo in the upper-left hand corner. Almost completely hidden under the round orange capacitor is a date. It looks like "1987" to me.

Here's the original eBay listing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/391604326631?_trksid=p2057872

I made an offer, and the seller accepted it, so I didn't pay the asking price.

Just scored a NOS AT case for less than USD 10 from a local computer shop that is clearing out old stock! Based on what the seller told me it seems to be a late 90s AT case so no turbo switch or MHz display but still a nice find.

Pics incoming tomorrow (hopefully) 😀

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Well, it's not a Sound Master II: http://imgur.com/a/w3hKR

Right. It's a much earlier card than that. What's interesting is that Great Hierophant's blog says that Covox made two 8-bit ISA cards, but the one I bought doesn't look like either one in his photos. So either Covox made at least three 8-bit ISA cards, or one of the cards in his photos is not a Covox card.

That's so cool! Maybe you could ask Mr. Hierophant himself? Covox is such an interesting brand 😀

boxpressed wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Well, it's not a Sound Master II: http://imgur.com/a/w3hKR

Right. It's a much earlier card than that. What's interesting is that Great Hierophant's blog says that Covox made two 8-bit ISA cards, but the one I bought doesn't look like either one in his photos. So either Covox made at least three 8-bit ISA cards, or one of the cards in his photos is not a Covox card.

boxpressed wrote:

I haven't yet received this item yet, but I'm all ears if anyone knows what it is.

As far as I can tell, it is some kind of 8-bit audio card made by Covox. It doesn't look like the Voice Master card or the Voice Master Key card shown on Great Hierophant's blog: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/09/t … nd-devices.html

It looks like a variant/revision of the Voice Master Key card to me.

Bought this parallel port Compact Flash adapter which works fine on my XT 😀

In addition to the Millennium II on the previous page, I bought this:

Not for the card itself (though I'll definitely bench it in DOS), but for the 4 removable memory chips. 😀 For $12 shipped, that's about $3 per chip, not bad!

This was a nice surprise to find.. a New, In Box Teac FD-505

I found a Unicorn!

Sound Blaster 16 CT2940 with OPL3. I don't care If I ever use it but at least now I have one and it only cost me $12.00 including shipping.

Crappy picture but it looks like I will have a few IDE pins to straighten out.

HI ..

I just bought this Processor, Pentium 233-MMX from Ebay last week, to replace with my current Pentium 90 Mhz.

Here's some pictures:-

Before:- Pentium 90

Funny.. the Sticker is hidden behind..

After:- Pentium 233-MMX

It's working... 😀

Just a quick question... I didn't apply any Thermal Paste..... even the Pentium 90 Do not have Thermal Paste in place.... Do I need to?

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HI ..

I just bought this Processor, Pentium 233-MMX from Ebay last week, to replace with my current Pentium 90 Mhz.

After:- Pentium 233-MMX

I hate to say it, but that is a Pentium 200 MMX. The FV80503200, where the last three digits are the speed. You seem to be overclocking it to 233mhz okay, but if it was sold as a 233, they sent you the wrong one.

Panties wrote:

Just a quick question... I didn't apply any Thermal Paste..... even the Pentium 90 Do not have Thermal Paste in place.... Do I need to?

Don't need to, but it wouldn't take long to apply (right?), so might as well.

But as the previous poster said, that is a 200MHz part, not 233MHz......

rkrenicki wrote:

Panties wrote:

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HI ..

I just bought this Processor, Pentium 233-MMX from Ebay last week, to replace with my current Pentium 90 Mhz.

After:- Pentium 233-MMX

I hate to say it, but that is a Pentium 200 MMX. The FV80503200, where the last three digits are the speed. You seem to be overclocking it to 233mhz okay, but if it was sold as a 233, they sent you the wrong one.

Yeah.. I believe they sent the wrong one too.. but it's okay. For a low price .. I don't mind..
But why it shows 233Mhz on the BIOS? @@ BIOS mis-read it?

SW-SSG wrote:

Panties wrote:

Just a quick question... I didn't apply any Thermal Paste..... even the Pentium 90 Do not have Thermal Paste in place.... Do I need to?

Don't need to, but it wouldn't take long to apply (right?), so might as well.

But as the previous poster said, that is a 200MHz part, not 233MHz......

Yeah.. I agree.. well, I dont mine it is 200Mhz.. but, why does the BIOS shows 233mhz? I "only" replace the processor.. xD
BIOS update?

My 9800GTX+ arrived today with the IO shields screw area on the top bent more out of shape than Donald Trump at a presidential debate.

The idiots packed it like this (I'm used to bad shipping habits but Christ has this guy never owned a PC before??)

1.) USPS paper mail bag thing
2.) Thin, static generating, foam sheet, wrapped around card
3.) Horrible incredibly thin sheet of bubble wrap around card

The mail bag had holes in it and stuff by the time it got to me. Between the card being beat to hell and the static bomb he put in there i have no idea how it arrived not only functional but aside from the not so easily unbent IO shield perfectly factory pristine.

I dare anyone here to top this bad shipping story. I mean Jesus it was a hole filled bag of static being shipped via USPS.....

squareguy wrote:

I found a Unicorn! […]
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I found a Unicorn!

Sound Blaster 16 CT2940 with OPL3. I don't care If I ever use it but at least now I have one and it only cost me $12.00 including shipping.

Crappy picture but it looks like I will have a few IDE pins to straighten out.

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I saw that a couple days ago, I was going to post it here just to point it out but I assumed that someone from here would do things the old fashioned way and be happy they discovered it.

Glad you found one! I would have bought it if I didn't already have one. 🤣

I believe that's the only one I've seen on eBay in all the time I've been looking at old cards (about a year).

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My 9800GTX+ arrived today with the IO shields screw area on the top bent more out of shape than Donald Trump at a presidential d […]
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My 9800GTX+ arrived today with the IO shields screw area on the top bent more out of shape than Donald Trump at a presidential debate.

The idiots packed it like this (I'm used to bad shipping habits but Christ has this guy never owned a PC before??)

1.) USPS paper mail bag thing
2.) Thin, static generating, foam sheet, wrapped around card
3.) Horrible incredibly thin sheet of bubble wrap around card

The mail bag had holes in it and stuff by the time it got to me. Between the card being beat to hell and the static bomb he put in there i have no idea how it arrived not only functional but aside from the not so easily unbent IO shield perfectly factory pristine.

I dare anyone here to top this bad shipping story. I mean Jesus it was a hole filled bag of static being shipped via USPS.....

I got a Kraft Premium III joystick in the mail the other day wrapped partly in bubble wrap, then wrapped in A SHEET OF PAPER... and then loosely wrapped with packing tape. That's right, it was just a joystick shaped lump of tape and paper. The little red button on the top was poking out when I picked it up. What on earth is wrong with people? The thing is nearly 30 years old and ended up needing some internal repairs (possibly from shipping damage), but why would you ship something like this?

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

I dare anyone here to top this bad shipping story. I mean Jesus it was a hole filled bag of static being shipped via USPS.....

That is a PS2 fat. Two layers of thin bubble wrap, one layer of Kraft paper. A lot of packing tape.

Shipped Media Mail.

squareguy wrote:

I found a Unicorn! […]
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I found a Unicorn!

Sound Blaster 16 CT2940 with OPL3. I don't care If I ever use it but at least now I have one and it only cost me $12.00 including shipping.

Crappy picture but it looks like I will have a few IDE pins to straighten out.

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Nice! I have one of those. Clean output, nice sounding output, just a good card all around.

Leave it to Creative to release two significantly different cards under the same model number...