RetroFoxWhat I also saw at the table was this monster Gateway PC tower. Guy initially tossed out a $40 price so I walked on, hoping someone would save me from myself. On the way out, made a $20 offer and he agreed - so now I have a big ass tower PC. More to follow when I have time.
Had to at least take a quick peek inside the tower. Little dusty but looks good. Not sure about the odd looking RAM config there but guessing it is the P90. Weird wire hanging out back going to a card, unsure what it is. I do see the audio is some kind of Creative card with RAM slots, though!
After a bit of cleaning, jumped into testing. Sadly the old WD Cavier 2540 540mb HDD is not working. I did pull all the cards just for better pictures - as others informed me, there’s an AWE32 card, some kind of Matrox video card, and an unknown card that has an Ant. In jack. I think it might be a radio card?
The good news is the computer boots, has 40mb RAM, the floppy drive and CD ROM works - ended up going with a CF to IDE adapter and finally got this bad boy fragging :) That SoundBlaster card sounds extra good - can’t wait to try some more titles.
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Sam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)
ewe2@RetroFox BT chip on that unknown card suggest to me an old modem but im not clear on that header you described is it some kind of serial input?
@RetroFox ah ok its a BT485 chip so pci video my bad, the one at the top right, a friend has had an FM radio like that in the past so it could be that, so that could be fun!
@RetroFox we did some digging and we think its an Aztech Sound Galaxy FM Radio https://www.amazon.es/Aztech-sonido-Galaxy-Radio-MMFM603/dp/B009SFKDXW
vga256@RetroFox great score! it's a Sound Blaster 32 - which is an AWE64 that uses regular 36-pin SIMMS.
it's worth about 4 times more than you paid for the tower 😆