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please tell me the pile of 20 year old ISA cards I refused to throw out all these years are my path to retirement lol
by ck2 4y ago
please tell me the pile of 20 year old ISA cards I refused to throw out all these years are my path to retirement lol
- quercusa 4y agoJust a couple more years...
- pdw 4y agoIf you have a stack of Adlib Gold cards, that might be true.
- ck2 4y agohad to google it - wow they sell for thousands?! I know I have an adlib card in there somewhere but not sure if "gold" model I knew to save the name brand ones vs cheap clones Some massive scsi controllers that were hundreds of dollars, just can't put them into a landfill.
- Lammy 4y agoThe "Gold" cards are rare because Creative paid off Yamaha to delay the release of the Gold's OPL chip for long enough to make Ad Lib Inc go bankrupt, so very very few Gold cards saw the light of day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_Inc.#AdLib_Gold_1000_(1992) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_Inc.#AdLib_Gold_1000_(...
- acuozzo 4y agoCheck out vogons.org to see which ones are valuable, if any.
- chem83 4y agoLet's see: I kept a Diamond Multimedia 16 bit ISA card (meh!), an 8-bit SBPro 2 on the original packaging (this one is somewhat valuable) and, I think, an SBLive! Value (this one is PCI). Might have kept a 3Com 56K modem and some assorted LAN cards (also meh). I wish I had kept my SB AWE64. I also have an original P5 Pentium 60 with the FDIV bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_processors#P5_based_Pentiums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_processo...) and a Samsung 5.25 floppy which may be useful to get a file from a disk some day.