Really like having a look at your finds. The beige boxes you find are gold, but the others are good too. Finding a Voodoo 3 is simply outstanding. Your teaching electronics videos are really good but these flea market finds are just brilliant and good fun. I wish we had flea market sales, but then again perhaps not. I would keep the finds! 😁😁
Heya, yes it is fun to see what you'll find inside these old pc and if something is not working see if you can repair it even if it is for a learning purpose only but if it is wort something and youy can sell it. you have a bissness to run too
Fun times. The problem with the TV capture cards is that there are no more stations they can pick up. You'd be capturing static-at least in this part of the world. Maybe you can find a place they still use this old technology, or a collector who will pay a high price to complete a collection of TV capture cards. Do you believe in miracles? 😅
one use is to use it to convert VHS to mpeg (for example archiving old home videos etc), but the TV card needs to have a video input. A dedicated analog TV-only card is really just junk now.
Nice score on the Voodoo 3 Richard! 😃 I've found 2 myself in IT ewaste job lots, one I've kept in my personal collection and one I sold for £120. I also have a Voodoo 2 which is from the derelict Cranebank British Airways training centre at Heathrow which was probably once used to train the pilots in flight simulators that fly us around today which I find pretty cool! 😃 The Creative Live Drive and slot load Pioneer DVD drive are also cool finds of which I've a couple of in my machines/collection. Worth £30-50. Finally, those are some great motherboards, probably bought by enthusiasts at the time and I'm sure will hold some value today!
Always love these videos, such random finds sometimes. A bit off topic, was it Gran Canaria you live? Wife looking at it for holidays and I said I may know of a top man on RU-vid who lives there haha, was after some recommendations if you have five.
Yes I live and work in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria. I also have a RU-vid channel called Gran Canaria Uncovered filming along with my wife Julie and Detlef, you may like it 😉 Here a couple of our most recent videos to show the sort of thing we do ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DCVHTt5aE_Q.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sT953du2Zog.html
I think the reason for the smaller bios chip in a larger socket is simply because the board designer didn't know what size chip was going to be needed. From experience I know what it is like when the board design doesn't allow for a big enough chip.
Interesting couple of PCs. I wonder what the person with all that video gear in that last one was up to. I would have to poke around in the system some to try and find out.
@@andymouse that desktop was icon city. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I don't know why they bothered with background wallpaper at all. It's not like you could make it out behind all that junk. Microsoft Windows setting computing back by decades. You can't even put icons on the desktop of the Window Manager I run. That's the way I like it too. But there are Managers and Environments that do support desktop icons if they're your thing.
Yeah I can't imagine it is worth anything today due to no software being available anymore. Plus the stuff is probably a dinosaur anyways. Still, it does make me wonder what it could do. Back when it could do anything at all.
Not ultrasonic but I have put boards in the sink and washed them with soap and water then put out in the sun to dry for several hours. I do the same thing with some really nasty arcade boards too. If you look you will see some people washing boards in a dishwasher, same result.
You're probably not trying to make the past PC of your dreams either, are you? I don't do the retro thing myself but I understand where they're coming from.
@@g4z-kb7ct a DVD drive is appropriate if someone is assembling a max build. Which would be the highest performance available in a given OS version. Like say if someone was building a max Win 98 PC. That could have had a DVD drive in it.
The video card is indeed a Voodoo 3. Most probably Voodoo 3 3000. I've got one just like that. Nice haul of retro parts. Sometimes people don't realise what they're selling could have a greater value if only they'd put some effort into identifying what they're actually selling.
Yes, it's a Voodoo 3 3000 i froze the screen when he started the PC and that's what it said it was.I have one of these also and quite a bit of other retro hardware like this from back in the day.
