Car Boot Flea Market Retro PC Finds 23rd June : This Was A Great Find!

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• oh boy does turbopascal bring some memories back

• note, working 5.25" drives are pretty valuable

• You need a zip drive for the second machine so the circle is complete.

• A great find very jelly with machine 2 🙂

• PATH might have helped speed things up lol

• I use a garden blower Rich, much more efficient lol oh and outside 😉

• Brilliant episode looking forward to the live stream

• Heya, a very nice I5 MB what can handle I7 cpu very nice. oh wouw a dos 5.0 with win 3.1 that a nice oldy. 1 off the better carbooty I think

• Infact, one machine I tore down the other day had and Asus P2B DS dual slot 1 mobo with 2 500mhz Piii, a Voodoo 3500 and a bunch of SCSI drives!
  Turns out the machine once belonged to a computer repair shop not far from me in Croyden and was like a time capsule of their operations and repairs from the early 2000's! 😮

• Really nice car boot finds this week Rich, well worth the €40!
  You're as bad as me, I'm always buying bargain machines to flip and then deciding I want to keep them and searching for a use for them 😅

• You could run autoexec in win3.1

• With reference to the beige socket 7 machine you will find between the keyboard connector and the top PCI slot is a break-out shield with a PS/2 mouse port.
  Your board has the i430VX chip-set and will accept up to 128mb of ram, so maybe worth an upgrade if you're going to hold-on to her.
  Also, I am a sign-writer by trade and in 1992 I ran a 286 machine with Windows 3.1 and CorelDraw 3 to make computer-cut vinyl graphics for signs, which for the time was leading edge tech and a lot faster than the brush.

• that 1TB ssd is a nice find!
  and the old dos pc was really interesting with part of schematics / source code for something

• My guess is that the first pc was used as some sort of multi-user machine. One monitor per user and serial connections for the keyboards or mice. I made a similar setup with a Linux OS but with the keyboards/mice all connected via USB. The reason for the DVI-HDMI adapters (which I also used) is to standardise on the monitors.

• My interest peaked when I saw MPLAB and its for PIC and AVR what version is it please ? Have a look and see if there is any EDA software from that period as what we have seen suggests the owner made PCBs as well ! and of course the picture featured Valves…cheers.

• I bought one just like this from you, Richard. It's a performer! I installed a Xeon 1290, 32Gb RAM, boot SSDs, SAS controller, 2-18GB spinny drives and Asus Essence sound card. It boots W10 and Ubuntu Studio.

• omg the second pc is old, i haven't seen DIN keyboard port in a very long time. Also i havent opened an AT machine in over 25 years so lol nice ordinosaurus rex you found there XD

• it was more likely to be a 8gig kit, I dont think you can get 8gig sticks of ddr3

• I vaguely recall Wang machines were generally early word processors used in typing pools.

• I have the same baby AT case as this one, exept mine has the 7 segment clock display. Mine is a pentium 166 with 64mb sim ram, QDI explorer II board, ISA sound blaster ct2890T and a cirrus logic 5446 graphics card. Bought it installed with win 98se (and the win98se cd included) happy ebay find about 3 weeks ago 🙂

• QVO are the cheapest Samsung SSDs u can buy vs the EVO or the EVO Pros

• That DOS/Win3.1 machine is a real score!! Super programme.

• The 860 QVO is the despicable quad cell flash SSD. A Z77 is my newest and best computer. It never made sense to upgrade. It's amazing how much freedom you have and money you save when not a gamer. 😉

• That circular connector on the back is for a mouse…

• I have a whole box of serial mice. You want one or two?

• That’s a decent board. It’s like 15 yo but it should still rock and roll. Plus, they’re still worth cash. That ASUS Dual Processor TPU/EPU is an excellent find. Hell, the 1TB hard drive was an excellent find… everything else is gravy!!

• Every time you do the car boot episode, I’m blown away by all the cool tech that made it to the island. Crazy! Great video as always!

• Good luck finding a serial mouse that works today. They never even worked very good in the past. But that motherboard may have the pins for a PS/2 connector? If it does then you might be able to add a riser to it. PS/2 predates that PC by 10 years. So it conceivably could support it. There's also projects to adapt modern mice to serial. That may be a better solution today.

• Might be interesting to show the free Samsung disk software which can report on the usage and status of their disks. Just wondering if it might explain the slow loading time.

• Glad the sandy motherboard is working, I had my money on a blown south bridge. It's really common for them to go bad on boards of that era.

• Richard, keep these videos coming, thanks for sharing. Paul, USA

• What a couple of crackers! A near modern fully operational machine and an historic dos/early Windows number, must be worth 10x what was paid. Plus great keepers. Serial to USB and PS/2 available on Amazon/Ebay/Aliexpress , couple of bucks.

• I have a couple AT keyboards hanging in my nostalgic pile lol. Sealed Microsoft DOS 6.22 retail box lol bunch of other things

• lol yea I could tell it was a smoker pc before you even said anything 😅

• Thanks Richard hell ya man!

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