appiah4 wrote:

Also, still trying to figure out the make/model of this 486 board I am expecting in the mail.. real cache? fake cache?

If the chips are socketed, it's real. If soldered on, it's fake. Looks real to me.

bjwil1991 wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Also, still trying to figure out the make/model of this 486 board I am expecting in the mail.. real cache? fake cache?

If the chips are socketed, it's real. If soldered on, it's fake. Looks real to me.

Yippee!

twilliamc wrote:

I picked up this PSU with no idea whether it works or not. Any way to test it without plugging it into a board? […]
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I picked up this PSU with no idea whether it works or not. Any way to test it without plugging it into a board?

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I could not pass up this unique looking CD drive. Sadly, it looks as though it might require a specific sound card to work properly. I will research it more when I finish my current project. It also has something rattling in it which I believe to be a ball bearing from the slider.

That is an Mitsumi single speed CD-Rom drive. Yes it is unique, the way you load it. That model was actually the first drive that I ever had. And I was stupid to sell it back in 1995. The downside of this drive is the fact that it is operating in single speed, and as far as I remember, I had a dedicated controller for the drive. The controller had real phono-plugs, so you could actually hook it directly up to an amplifier and play music CD's that way.

Today it is special because that unique way of ejecting the drive. Everything is build into the tray, and it is a 100% mechanical mecanism. No motor ejection on the drive. As I said. It was the first model that I ever owned, and I sold it in order to get money for a QIC-80 Tape streamer from Connor. (still miss that too). I was the second owner, and used it on my first computer (Cyrix 486-slc2-50). The person I bought it from, used to have it installed in a 486dx-33. So this is the type of computer's that it was used in, when the drive was brand new.

anything from Canopus is nice, I want one 😁

but today I got some things too

MAC 9800XT 256MB

6800GT 256MB AGP

900MHz Orion core

another sound card which I'am not collecting 😁

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WOW!!! I have no idea what kind of chip it is based on. All I can say, is that this soundcard is one of the most awesomme looking card that I have ever seen. Even the box and everything is sooooo awesomme. They used a damn chillie. Now that is special. It might not be that good for gaming in a computer, thought the presentation of the card justify a place on the bookshelf for display. It's a keeper for the looks alone.

Awesomme find. The most awesomme box art I have seen to date 😳 😜 (not like those manga-sluts from the 00's aimed at hormonial teens)

I. Need. It.

Sound chip is nothing special. Will be nice for "white build" with other Triplex HW.

That's exactly what I need it for - got a Triplex Ti4800SE in the mail...

Would be nice to listen to some recordings, and then a review of the card, regarding how it handles midi compliant dos games in Win98se. SB-Pro is ok, though how does the MIDI part sound in Doom-II and Duke3D. It's got A3D and stuff. So it should theoretically be decent for games such as Quake2 and UT99. I would say a P3-800 build, with 810 chipset would be a nice build for that soundcard.

A Compaq Prolinea 5100. Made an offer and they accepted so it wasn't too pricey. I'm guessing Pentium 100.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Prolinea-5100 … DD/372275888608

Anyone know where I can find drivers for this sucker?

Stuff I got today:

Goldstar 3DO console? Nice!

Driving around yesterday, spotted a garage sale, saw these in the back, and picked them up immediately for $5 a pop.

I have no real-world knowledge about tubes. I know how they work in theory but not in practice. So I will cut my teeth on these. Worst case scenario, the Crosley 656 (wood) has very nice case. So worst case scenario, I could put a new radio inside. But if anyone has any sort of guidance when it comes to these things, I'm all ears. If nothing else it will be motivation to get an o-smell-o-scope.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Goldstar 3DO console? Nice!

Yes, I love the front loading ones. Had a Panasonic FZ-1 for quite a while and wanted to get one of these again, but then I saw that mint Goldstar one and couldn't resist. 😁

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WOW. That's actually kinda beautiful in a weird-ass industrial biomech sort of way; it looks like it evolved rather than was designed. Neat example of electronics laid out to fill a space before PCBs came around.

Hope you can get it going at any rate. Looks like a challenge, but the fun kind.

Batyra wrote:

Some new stuff I got today 😀

Leadtek Winfast S3 Virge GX2

Nice find! Don't think I've ever seen a Virge card like that. I'm wondering what those headers are for?

Managed to get this ECS P6BAT-Me board. Came with the box, manual, and CD which may help when installing drivers if Win98 complains.
mATX with AGP, PCI, and ISA and it can do 133MHz FSB.

Easiest board I think I've setup and tested so far, worked first try.

Also just got this NV1 card off of ebay today. Listed as non-working and so far that seems to be the case.

Haven't done much other than re-seating the ROM chip but no dice. This card has the noisiest DIP socket I've ever heard, squeaking/crunching just lightly pressing on the board near it. Gonna try some other steps (clean ROM chip/socket, replace ROM chip, replace DIP socket, etc.) and worse case scenario I have a good candidate to use for tracing and drawing up a schematic of the card.

luckybob wrote:

Driving around yesterday, spotted a garage sale, saw these in the back, and picked them up immediately for $5 a pop.

I have no real-world knowledge about tubes. I know how they work in theory but not in practice. So I will cut my teeth on these. Worst case scenario, the Crosley 656 (wood) has very nice case. So worst case scenario, I could put a new radio inside. But if anyone has any sort of guidance when it comes to these things, I'm all ears. If nothing else it will be motivation to get an o-smell-o-scope.

I have no personal experience with old tube gear, but I've always heard that you should replace all of the paper/wax capacitors before even attempting to power it up. They're all 50+ years old now, and the electrolyte is long dead. Power testing them like that is a good way to blow the tubes, especially with the voltages involved.

Rawrl wrote:

luckybob wrote:

Driving around yesterday, spotted a garage sale, saw these in the back, and picked them up immediately for $5 a pop.

I have no real-world knowledge about tubes. I know how they work in theory but not in practice. So I will cut my teeth on these. Worst case scenario, the Crosley 656 (wood) has very nice case. So worst case scenario, I could put a new radio inside. But if anyone has any sort of guidance when it comes to these things, I'm all ears. If nothing else it will be motivation to get an o-smell-o-scope.

I have no personal experience with old tube gear, but I've always heard that you should replace all of the paper/wax capacitors before even attempting to power it up. They're all 50+ years old now, and the electrolyte is long dead. Power testing them like that is a good way to blow the tubes, especially with the voltages involved.

indeed! I had a poke around the unit. Found a schematic, a diagram of the tube locations and everything. Because of the Age, I've found this unit might have its short-wave function disabled. Apparently it was a thing in WWII to disable shortwave radio for certain people. Something to do with aliens from other countries.

This will be a fun LONG term project.

So, I bought an nVidia Geforce4Ti 4200 128MB AGP video card at a price that was worth the gamble, it came today.

I took the time to test it, unfortunately, it has screen artifacts, I've tried both VGA and DVI outputs and I tested the card in two different computers (which are my Dell Dimension 4600 and my Athlon 64 rig with an ASUS A8V motherboard).

I bought this card to use as a spare for my Windows 98 build just in case I ever saw the need for an nVidia GPU (for things like table fog and 8-bit paletted textures), but it turned out to have technical difficulties. Assuming the seller will let me keep it upon refund, I wonder which area is to blame, the RAM chips, the GPU chip, or the missing pin gap on the AGP connector.

luckybob wrote:

Driving around yesterday, spotted a garage sale, saw these in the back, and picked them up immediately for $5 a pop.

I have no real-world knowledge about tubes. I know how they work in theory but not in practice. So I will cut my teeth on these. Worst case scenario, the Crosley 656 (wood) has very nice case. So worst case scenario, I could put a new radio inside. But if anyone has any sort of guidance when it comes to these things, I'm all ears. If nothing else it will be motivation to get an o-smell-o-scope.

kc8adu over at badcaps.net restores old radios.