Estate Sale finds---April 4-8, 2009

[johnorun]

I saw an ad on Craigslist about an abandoned house Estate Sale this past weekend and I found a trunkload of goodies--6 computers (including a nice AT&T 6386 WSG & IBM-PC AT 5170), computer books (Including one about "Quirky QWERTY") and software manuals, a Garmin GPS-V, 2 large US Robotics Modems, a Heathkit Electronic Circuit learning program kit, and several CPU's.

Any ID's on the non-CPU chips would be appreciated, so I can stick the info on each chip to remember what they are.

[johnorun]

More finds...
- 80502-200 Pentium
- book about QWERTY
- server 486 EISA bus M-Board with 486DX-50, SX546 plus Intel NG82358-33, NG82357 and S82352's
- Heathkit learning kit
- AT&T 6386 WSG interior w. daughter board and cards. The M-board is on the bottom of this Olivetti made computer.

[johnorun]

More finds...

- large US Robotics External Modem board with Intel N80C188-16 CPU, unknown Signetics PLCC and two TMS320C25FNL33 PLCC's
- AMD Athlon slot CPU marked AMD-K7100MNR53B ...It seems like some part numbers are missing? What is the speed of this chip?
- AMD N80C188-12 PLCC on unusual Hard drive controller cards
- Unusual INTEL OverDrive Ready socket with an AMD 96080LA CPU on a Visiontek socketboard. (DAMN EPOXY!!! ) These are the first I have seen of these. Is this an uncommon CPU?
Notice the HINT support chips (CS8002 & CS8001). I've never seen these before either!

Happy hunting to all....

[Neon_WA]

[johnorun]

[CPUShack]

the 1Ghz Slot As are pretty sweet, and somewhat uncommon

[donutty]

I hope you are going to keep the PC AT (IBM) complete!

[el_gecko]

PGA 286 motherboard... lucky guy

[Neon]

I think the Orion 1000 may be the least common of the slot A processors, aside from ES. Great find!

[Windmiller]

[Chiefish]

Nice load of stuff John, thats the way to keep stuff out of the landfills.

[CPUShack]

I see a custom marked Signetics 80451 next to the Intel 80C188

[johnorun]

@ CPU-Shack...the 1Ghz Slot As are pretty sweet, and somewhat uncommon
@ Neon...I think the Orion 1000 may be the least common of the slot A processors, aside from ES.
How can you tell if it's uncommon? Is it only because they don't show up often?...or? Orion is the nickname?

@ donutty...I hope you are going to keep the PC AT (IBM) complete!
I would love to pull the CPU from this PC....but it's in such nice condition and the hard-drive purrs, so I guess I'm stuck keeping it intact if I can find a way to access the os on the hard-drive, since the IBM Basic screen appears at startup and I don't know how to switch to DOS or whatever is running on the hard-drive!
Any help would be appreciated.

@ el Gecko...PGA 286 motherboard... lucky guy
Why? Because of the Seimens CPU (first one I have seen) or are all PGA 286 M-boards scarce?

@cpu-shack...I see a custom marked Signetics 80451 next to the Intel 80C188
So all we can say is that it's some kind of communications chip?
I hate to have chips that are stuck in limbo...

[johnorun]

I also plan to keep the AT&T 6386 WGS intact, since it also booted up to a VGA screen, but I can't get past the "keyboard missing" error because the special keyboard requires a 9 pin plug to fit in a CGA-type 9 pin female socket! (No keyboard was found for it. It's an Olivetti built machine after all...)

Where can I find such a keyboard OR does an adapter exist to convert a standard keyboard to fit in the 9 pin plug?

Thanks.

[Neon]

Orion is the core nickname.

I don't think that any of the slot A are rare;

if I recall, the fastest slot A processors were not favorites at launch, because the socket A platform was available with equally fast processors. So the 600-800 seem to show up a lot more frequently.

I just won an eBay auction of slot A processors, which should arrive next week. If they are all 1000's, then I will change these words.