feipoa wrote:

Formulator wrote:

Picked up a decent selection of parts, nothing too special, but mostly drives for about $45. […]
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Picked up a decent selection of parts, nothing too special, but mostly drives for about $45.

Lots of white/beige 5.25" drives there. I've always had trouble finding those around town. Nice find! I only have two beige ones myself, and one is broken. Any idea what often breaks on these and is it fairly simple to rectify?

I think mostly the rubber band from the motor dries out and brakes, should be an easy fix.

Just these 3 cards today.. for $8

Geforce 6200 512MB PCI

Geforce FX 5700LE 256MB

Diamond Montser MX400 sound card

@Formulator... I wish I could find a haul like that around where I am at.

10 euro for a Diamond-branded S3 868 is, alone, a fabulous deal. Its always nice when the seller doesn't know what they have.

feipoa wrote:

10 euro for a Diamond-branded S3 868 is, alone, a fabulous deal. Its always nice when the seller doesn't know what they have.

Indeed. In this case the seller truly didn't know anything about it. Her late husband was into computers a lot, tried to get his son interested but he completely ignored it. After the husbands death the widow needed to clear up and thought it was a shame for something he was passionate about just to get thrown away. So she put it for sale, hoping someone who was passionate about this kind of old stuff would pick it up.

So I'm happy, but so is she. And I really like any deal where the seller is as happy as I am 😀

I wish I had a case like that for my Asus p65up5.

I once had one of those (with the So7/i430HX daughterboard unfortunately, not the So8/i440FX one) in a perfectly standard BabyAT minitower. It was... rather full. But it worked 😉

Still, apart from the plastic falling apart, this case is a beauty, so I understand the sentiment.

feipoa wrote:

Lots of white/beige 5.25" drives there. I've always had trouble finding those around town. Nice find! I only have two beige ones myself, and one is broken. Any idea what often breaks on these and is it fairly simple to rectify?

Cleaning the head with some IPA has done the trick for me on quite a few times on these 5.25" drives.

This thing arrived today. It is an miroMEDIA Surround, a 5.1 Dolby Pro Logic soundcard of sorts. For the times you want to watch and DVD with good sound on your ISA-equiped PC. I do not have a use case for it as of now but it was relatively cheap and in excellent condition with the driver cd so why not. Definitely not your standard ISA soundcard. It has drivers even for DOS which I find interesting.

Eleanor1967 wrote:

This thing arrived today. It is an miroMEDIA Surround, a 5.1 Dolby Pro Logic soundcard of sorts. For the times you want to watch and DVD with good sound on your ISA-equiped PC. I do not have a use case for it as of now but it was relatively cheap and in excellent condition with the driver cd so why not. Definitely not your standard ISA soundcard. It has drivers even for DOS which I find interesting.

Oh, great! I have the same card, may I kindly ask you to make an ISO image of the driver CD and upload it somewhere? Vogonsdrivers would be the best place, and if you don't have an account, I can do that for you easily.

hard1k wrote:

Eleanor1967 wrote:

This thing arrived today. It is an miroMEDIA Surround, a 5.1 Dolby Pro Logic soundcard of sorts. For the times you want to watch and DVD with good sound on your ISA-equiped PC. I do not have a use case for it as of now but it was relatively cheap and in excellent condition with the driver cd so why not. Definitely not your standard ISA soundcard. It has drivers even for DOS which I find interesting.

Oh, great! I have the same card, may I kindly ask you to make an ISO image of the driver CD and upload it somewhere? Vogonsdrivers would be the best place, and if you don't have an account, I can do that for you easily.

I need a vogons drivers account as well. Think I asked quite a while ago and never got one.

I think I haven't expressed my offer correctly enough 😀
I have no relation to the vogonsdrivers resource and thus cannot assist in getting an account, but having one myself I am totally able to upload the contents.

hard1k wrote:

I think I haven't expressed my offer correctly enough 😀
I have no relation to the vogonsdrivers resource and thus cannot assist in getting an account, but having one myself I am totally able to upload the contents.

Ah, ok, gotcha

dionb wrote:

Spotted an "ancient case from the last millennium" on the local Craigslist-equivalent for EUR 10. Pics looked intriguing, so tod […]
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Spotted an "ancient case from the last millennium" on the local Craigslist-equivalent for EUR 10. Pics looked intriguing, so today I went and picked it up. This was the result:

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Some kind of home-made or custom AT case - looks like a 19" design with handles on the one side and feet on the other to turn it into a tower - made out of partly coated aluminium. Interesting solution to 'front VGA and AT keyboard' challenge And there's something inside it...

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Pretty dusty, and previous owner was clearly a smoker - even after a few decades, it still stinks of tar and nicotine - but inside is good stuff. Not as old as I'd hoped given the outside, but mid 1990s nonetheless:

- FIC 486-GVT-2 motherboard (Via 486A chipset) with a full 256kB of L2
- FIC MIO-V (?) Winbond-based VLB Multi-I/O card
- S3 Stealth Video 64 DRAM Rev A3, with 2MB RAM and an 868 instead of the 864 I'd expected
- Seasonic SSH-220G AT PSU
- Sony MPF-520-1 3.5" FDD
- i486DX-33 CPU
- 2x 4MB 72p FPM SIMMs
- an 80mm front fan that really needs putting out of its misery

Quick check shows no leaking caps or battery (no electrolytic capacitors of any description in fact) so stuck in POST-card, keyboard and monitor, and flicked the power switch:

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Yep, we're in business 😎

Now to figure out how to get this old beast to boot from CF...

In any event I have the AT-case I wanted (even if it's rather large and the plastic bits are disintegrating), as well as a useful PSU - and some components that are interesting to mess around with. Not sure I want to keep any of it long-term, but can always use them to trade/sell for things I do want 😀

Ugh, I saw that one also but thought it was too far to drive for a 'guess'. Happy to see someone on here got it, solves the mystery for me 😀 I would not mind having got that video card 😀

cyclone3d wrote:

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I need a vogons drivers account as well. Think I asked quite a while ago and never got one.

I also have some disk images to upload (Covox Sound Master II driver disks).

Cyrix200+ wrote:

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Ugh, I saw that one also but thought it was too far to drive for a 'guess'. Happy to see someone on here got it, solves the mystery for me 😀 I would not mind having got that video card 😀

It's a small world 😉

Fortunately I had to be just round the corner from this thing yesterday, so at most 20 mins extra drive. I know the feeling, have passed up on more than enough things myself because of logistical practicalities.

I might open a topic about that card btw, the more I see, the odder it becomes - the PCB is basic Stealth 64 DRAM, but that 868 instead of 864 and some stickers make me wonder. I can't find any pics of a card exactly like it anywhere...

Cyrix200+ wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

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I need a vogons drivers account as well. Think I asked quite a while ago and never got one.

I also have some disk images to upload (Covox Sound Master II driver disks).

If you don't plan on uploading multiple drivers and want your own account you can post the disk images in this thread: VOGONS Driver Library and someone will upload them 😀

Pong console from 1979! Conic TVG-209. Can't even test it right now since it needs 6 of those huge barrel batteries 😵
Checked inside and everything seems to be alright with no bulging or cracked capacitors.

ASUS P55TP4XE with Pentium 133MHz and 32MB RAM plus S3 Trio64V+ for 9.5 euros.

wow nice price! plans for it?

anderswk wrote:

ASUS P55TP4XE with Pentium 133MHz and 32MB RAM plus S3 Trio64V+ for 9.5 euros.

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Looks like the backplate of the AT case it originated from is still attached to it? Seems a bit a waste of an AT case, unless that case was throwaway material and gutted for parts or something.

oeuvre wrote:

wow nice price! plans for it?

No plans for now. I just seemed like a good deal and I had a similar CPU back then 😀

Tetrium wrote:

anderswk wrote:

ASUS P55TP4XE with Pentium 133MHz and 32MB RAM plus S3 Trio64V+ for 9.5 euros.

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Looks like the backplate of the AT case it originated from is still attached to it? Seems a bit a waste of an AT case, unless that case was throwaway material and gutted for parts or something.

Yes, I think the seller had already thrown the case out.

I ordered an ATX->AT adapter and a PS/2->AT keyboard adapter so I can test it.

Still need to find a cable for the internal 4x2 PS/2 connector. Those seem less common.