I'm after a few things:
* Virtually any type of floppy drive - I've got quite a few computers that lack a floppy drive (or I want a 3.5" drive for - but I still need 5.25" drives too). Just let me know what spares you have and I'll accept or decline appropriately. In particular I'm very interested in:
** Bog-standard PC 3.5" drives
** DD PC 3.5" drives
** Any form of PC 5.25" drives
** Any form of Acorn floppy drives (3.5" or 5.25")
...but I could do with some other more obscure types of drives too.
* Colour ribbon for Panasonic KX-P2135.
* Classic mac DA-15 monitor to VGA DE-15 converter
* A few floppy cables (5.25" ones (including ones that also have 3.5" connectors), with and without twists)
* Some of those weird 4.5V RTC batteries for old computers and Macs
* A USB dialup modem that is compatible with Linux (if you can find out)
* Some drive caddies that allow you to place 3.5" drives in 5.25" bays
I'd also like some advice - in about half a year's time, I'll probably buy a new motherboard as I'm getting fed up with this one's limitations. I'm only interested in a new motherboard that'll fit in with the rest of my existing hardware. Can someone advise me on a motherboard that has the following features:
* Core 2 Duo-compatible (not sure what socket # that is, but I can check if need be)
* DDR2 RAM-compatible, at least 2 slots (preferably more)
* At least 3 SATA ports, preferably 4 or more
* PCI-E graphics card port
* Lots of USB ports, and at least two headers on the motherboard (for a card reader and case ports)
* Integrated ethernet
* Serial port (>=1)
* Parallel port (>=1)
Now for the things my current motherboard doesn't have enough of or lacks altogether:
* >=2 IDE ports (my current one only has 1 and I'm forever juggling drives around, I swear I've broken one or two just from having to move them so much)
* >=1 floppy port, whose controller supports >=2 drives of most types (my current one only supports 1 drive, and only DD or HD 3.5")
* >=5 bog-standard PCI ports - my current one only has 3, which simply isn't enough - I want to have at least a sound card, wifi card, TV card, dialup modem and firewire card at once, so I have to juggle, and I nearly broke my computer the other day doing this - I had boot on PCI turned on, and my PC turned on when I was inserting a PCI card, wiped the BIOS settings but caused no other damage.
* A decent internal sound card, that supports 4.1 surround (weird I know, but I don't want to buy a new speaker system) and a microphone at the same time (I have to rely on an external sound card, which further worsens the problem above) and has a header for case ports.
* If it has integrated graphics, I need to be able to turn it off
* Ditto with wifi, though that's less important (I can just blacklist the driver in Linux)
If there is still much choice left after this long list of demands p), I'd also quite like:
* A header for a serial port so I can put a 25-pin serial port directly on it
* One of those shiny quick-boot-up-into-Linux-from-ROM thingies
* Moar ports - firewire, extra serial...
(As you can see, I'm sort of going for nice modern features with plenty of retro features so I can still use Amiga hard drives, a variety of floppy disks, etc.)
Hmm... this might turn out expensive...
* Virtually any type of floppy drive - I've got quite a few computers that lack a floppy drive (or I want a 3.5" drive for - but I still need 5.25" drives too). Just let me know what spares you have and I'll accept or decline appropriately. In particular I'm very interested in:
** Bog-standard PC 3.5" drives
** DD PC 3.5" drives
** Any form of PC 5.25" drives
** Any form of Acorn floppy drives (3.5" or 5.25")
...but I could do with some other more obscure types of drives too.
* Colour ribbon for Panasonic KX-P2135.
* Classic mac DA-15 monitor to VGA DE-15 converter
* A few floppy cables (5.25" ones (including ones that also have 3.5" connectors), with and without twists)
* Some of those weird 4.5V RTC batteries for old computers and Macs
* A USB dialup modem that is compatible with Linux (if you can find out)
* Some drive caddies that allow you to place 3.5" drives in 5.25" bays
I'd also like some advice - in about half a year's time, I'll probably buy a new motherboard as I'm getting fed up with this one's limitations. I'm only interested in a new motherboard that'll fit in with the rest of my existing hardware. Can someone advise me on a motherboard that has the following features:
* Core 2 Duo-compatible (not sure what socket # that is, but I can check if need be)
* DDR2 RAM-compatible, at least 2 slots (preferably more)
* At least 3 SATA ports, preferably 4 or more
* PCI-E graphics card port
* Lots of USB ports, and at least two headers on the motherboard (for a card reader and case ports)
* Integrated ethernet
* Serial port (>=1)
* Parallel port (>=1)
Now for the things my current motherboard doesn't have enough of or lacks altogether:
* >=2 IDE ports (my current one only has 1 and I'm forever juggling drives around, I swear I've broken one or two just from having to move them so much)
* >=1 floppy port, whose controller supports >=2 drives of most types (my current one only supports 1 drive, and only DD or HD 3.5")
* >=5 bog-standard PCI ports - my current one only has 3, which simply isn't enough - I want to have at least a sound card, wifi card, TV card, dialup modem and firewire card at once, so I have to juggle, and I nearly broke my computer the other day doing this - I had boot on PCI turned on, and my PC turned on when I was inserting a PCI card, wiped the BIOS settings but caused no other damage.
* A decent internal sound card, that supports 4.1 surround (weird I know, but I don't want to buy a new speaker system) and a microphone at the same time (I have to rely on an external sound card, which further worsens the problem above) and has a header for case ports.
* If it has integrated graphics, I need to be able to turn it off
* Ditto with wifi, though that's less important (I can just blacklist the driver in Linux)
If there is still much choice left after this long list of demands p), I'd also quite like:
* A header for a serial port so I can put a 25-pin serial port directly on it
* One of those shiny quick-boot-up-into-Linux-from-ROM thingies
* Moar ports - firewire, extra serial...
(As you can see, I'm sort of going for nice modern features with plenty of retro features so I can still use Amiga hard drives, a variety of floppy disks, etc.)
Hmm... this might turn out expensive...