TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Robert B]

Flea market day today:

* AMD K6-2/500AFX
* AMD Athlon 1200MHz - A1200AMS3C
* Unidentified HUGE PCI DUAL PCB CARD - bought mainly for resistors, inductors and capacitors. The price was very low. Those type of components are all over many V1 and V2 cards, so it is very good to have spare parts just in case. The board might be related to telecommunications systems?
* Pentium 4 S423 1.4GHz - SL4SC
* S423 cooler - taken from an Intel D850GB motherboard which looked kind of meh and I didnt want to buy it and find out that it needs repairs.
* Titan CU5TB - I still have my original CU5TB and man it was noisy as hell. I still dont know how I put up with those dbs back in the day...

The AMD CPUs had some bent pins but nothing too serious.

There was plenty of stuff today at the flea market and I had to restrain myself and buy small pieces as I really have A LOT OF PARTS ALREADY! ( the little green card isnt small by the way...34cm of glory )

 

[lexluthermiester]

* Unidentified HUGE PCI DUAL PCB CARD - bought mainly for resistors, inductors and capacitors. The price was very low. Those type of components are all over many V1 and V2 cards, so it is very good to have spare parts just in case. The board might be related to telecommunications systems?

Looks like and early add-in IDE card based on the connector on the top of the board.

 

[FireFox]

How old has to be a piece of Hardware if i want to post it?

 

[lexluthermiester]

How old has to be a piece of Hardware if i want to post it?

Anything that causes nostalgia? Kinda subjective. If you get nostalgic about it, it qualifies, IMHO.

 

[Bungz]

Spares repairs came good for once.

Very tarnished agp connector cleaned and seems to work fine.

7800GS+ so 7900GT core

 

[Mr.Scott]

Nice card. Overclocks like a champ I bet. Me jealous.

 

[Bungz]

I don't tend to clock my cards but I don't doubt it would clock like stink, barely gets warm with that cooler.

Silly quick for a ago card.

 

[Mr.Scott]

It is the top dog Nv AGP card.

 

[FireFox]

I know it's not that old but i didn't know i had it, found it today while cleaning the Basement.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Does it still work?

 

[FireFox]

Like a Champion it was inside my first and last Laptop i bought in 2010

 

[Ruru]

Flea market day today:

* AMD K6-2/500AFX
* AMD Athlon 1200MHz - A1200AMS3C
* Unidentified HUGE PCI DUAL PCB CARD - bought mainly for resistors, inductors and capacitors. The price was very low. Those type of components are all over many V1 and V2 cards, so it is very good to have spare parts just in case. The board might be related to telecommunications systems?
* Pentium 4 S423 1.4GHz - SL4SC
* S423 cooler - taken from an Intel D850GB motherboard which looked kind of meh and I didnt want to buy it and find out that it needs repairs.
* Titan CU5TB - I still have my original CU5TB and man it was noisy as hell. I still dont know how I put up with those dbs back in the day...

The AMD CPUs had some bent pins but nothing too serious.

There was plenty of stuff today at the flea market and I had to restrain myself and buy small pieces as I really have A LOT OF PARTS ALREADY! ( the little green card isnt small by the way...34cm of glory )

AXIA core on the Athlon, those are the best ones for overclocking.

 

[Robert B]

Flea market day today!

1. Diamond Monster MX300 AUREAL Vortex 2 - AU8830A2. Needs a few caps and a little TLC. I paid less than 2 EUR.
2. Aureal Vortex BA88ST - AU8820B2. I paid under 1 EUR. Full of ELNA caps.
3. 2x128MB PC800-45 RIMM and 2xCRIMM - I paid under 3 EUR.

EPIC DAY TODAY!!! Friggin' MX300!!!

The dog was not for sale!

 

[Ruru]

Playing PSP emulator on my phone with a Xbone S gamepad via bluetooth. I did not see this coming when PSP released 14yrs ago.

Edit: wrong tab, my bad, but as I play FF IV this kinda belongs here I guess..

 

[Trekkie4]

It's been way, WAY overdue but I'm FINALLY working on my profile rig, RetroMaster 2500 & moving it into the new Thermaltake case. Unfortunately, the entire process is taking ages & is proving to be very frustrating, as I had to fix several issues along the way. Damaged USB port on that Thermaltake case for example & a whole new cable arrangement due to different (modern) component layout inside the TT case.

Still got approx. 40% to go, and I have to source a double-sided tape for the RGB LEDs, but once I'm done it'll be one mean-looking system! Eventually I might even swap the existing blue 120mm LED intake fan for a RGB one, but considering I also got blue LED 140mm fan on top, I would really have to swap them out in pair, otherwise it wouldn't make much difference TBH.

 

[TOMCAT]

@ Robert B (Saturday post #7451)

unidentified Card is from Shiva Corporation (see Wikipedia).
Shiva Corp. was known for their LanRover products.
The Rockwell chips L3903-57 and RC288DPi usally used for 28.8 Modems.

Sorry, i do not remember the Part number.

 

[Trekkie4]

Well, I'm finished ... sort of! Have to say, this turned out to be a major pain in the backside, probably a lot more than it's worth. Now you see why I had to be creative, this case was never designed to house an old ATA system, so routing cables (especually PSU one) was a real nightmare.


On a side note, it's that time of the year again...

 

[SniperHF]

A while back I said I had more old crap to post. Here's the oldest stuff I've got:

Atari 130XE

AFAIK it all still works, I'll try and power it up later. All *well* used as you can see
The 8 key is missing, snapped off. Might be floating around the other box. Also one of the paddles is busted.
I left my disks/carts in another box somewhere so I'll have to find them first.

 

[TOMCAT]

OK, when Atari is on vogue I will add three pics of original Atari boxes.

Someone interested in looking inside?


It is the most common Atari stuff and i did not open the boxes for at least 8 years.

 

[stinger608]

Someone interested in looking inside?

You, of course, know everyone is going to say yes to that question.

 

[turbo098]

i do hope it was ok to post in here.
i found some of my older hardware. it still all work too. the motherboard is a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D 939, cpu is a amd athlon 64 x2 3800+ that oc'ed like a dream,and last is the ocz ddr booster.

 

[TOMCAT]

Ok. here are the pictures of my ATARI 1040STF hardware.
Last three pictures show my second working 1040STF.
The Megafile 30 (30MB) seems to be defect. Three bombs when booting from it.
To show how big the Megafile case is, i put a 3,5 '' HDD on it.

Sorry for the poor picture quality, just made on the floor of my small storage room.

 

[Trekkie4]

Just wanted to share this beauty, that's been (apparently) made in '89... A marvelous piece of engineering!

 

[SniperHF]

Apparently my 130XE has some bum RAM
I swear it was in working order when I put it away.

It will play Star Raiders though, since Star Raiders bypasses some of the POST checks for whatever reason.

Seems I can buy some RAM pretty cheaply and replace the bad ones but that's a lot of soldering. Will have to think about it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

3. 2x128MB PC800-45 RIMM and 2xCRIMM - I paid under 3 EUR.

Nice. Do you have more? 256 total is a bit on the lean side, unless you're going to run Win 98.

Well, I'm finished ... sort of! Have to say, this turned out to be a major pain in the backside, probably a lot more than it's worth. Now you see why I had to be creative, this case was never designed to house an old ATA system, so routing cables (especually PSU one) was a real nightmare.

Dual VooDoo2's in the original SLI. Very cool. That takes me back. Thanks for posting your built progress. It's been fun to watch!

On a side note, it's that time of the year again...

Yes, yes it is!

Someone interested in looking inside?

Heck yes. Let's see!

I swear it was in working order when I put it away.

You may want to check your capacitors on the motherboard as they may have leaked and be the cause of the memory errors. Those old Atari's were not difficult to disassemble.