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[Mr Skrunts]

Look what I found whilst having a clearout.   









30 pin pin SIMM

Probably some are 256k.

Wonder if they still work.   

[dave the builder]

quite a few on the OOF are loosing their memory 

[Mr Skrunts]

During the Covid clear out......

I have found so far...

Brand new Rainbow Runner Graphics Card 2MB (Lol)
ISA cirus logic card - ancient
Printer servers (new and boxed/paralell port)
Hard drive caddys
 loads of 30pin simms, DDR, DDR2 Etc
MFM hard drive and cables. RLL hard drive and cables
All the adaptec SCSI card range from ISA through to 64bit PCI
9 pin serial mice (new/boxed and used)
PS2 mice n keyboards

The list goes on and on. Didnt realise I was such a hoarder pmsl

[Lizzie Zoom]

You need to find a IT museum to take on all that Skruntie!

[Mr Skrunts]

You need to find a IT museum to take on all that Skruntie!

Dont think I could afford the transport cost to get there.

[Lizzie Zoom]

You need to find a IT museum to take on all that Skruntie!

Dont think I could afford the transport cost to get there.

You poor old sod!

[TheBoy]

In todays world of next day delivery - assuming you avoid egay - there is absolutely no reason to hoard PC stuff.

Still, it will easily all fit in the wheelie bin this week

[dave the builder]

Gold recovery ,job lot , sell it on that site TB recommended , Ebay 

[LC0112G]

HM50256P-15 are 256K * 1 bit 150nS devices, so nine on a board is probably a 256K*9bit SIMM/DIMM. I'm guessing original PC XT/AT type era?

Shame they're not the faster -12 (120nS) devices :-)

[Mr Skrunts]

You need to find a IT museum to take on all that Skruntie!

Dont think I could afford the transport cost to get there.

You poor old sod!

Now then, I resamble that, and starting to feel it.

[Mr Skrunts]

HM50256P-15 are 256K * 1 bit 150nS devices, so nine on a board is probably a 256K*9bit SIMM/DIMM. I'm guessing original PC XT/AT type era?

Shame they're not the faster -12 (120nS) devices :-)

I remember buying (Second hand) 4 x 4 mb 30 pin SIMM for £160 and feeling realy chuffed with my self.

Plus before that I bought my 1st system, an Amstrad 1640 with twin 5.25 floppy drives and a mono screen with a DMP4000 dot matrix printer for £999

Then a few years ago PC part prices were quite reasonable and now component prices are geting silly again.  I mean the new graphics cards coming onto the market with 24GB video ram are heading past £2K in some cases.

[Broomies Mate]

HM50256P-15 are 256K * 1 bit 150nS devices, so nine on a board is probably a 256K*9bit SIMM/DIMM. I'm guessing original PC XT/AT type era?

Shame they're not the faster -12 (120nS) devices :-)

I remember buying (Second hand) 4 x 4 mb 30 pin SIMM for £160 and feeling realy chuffed with my self.

Plus before that I bought my 1st system, an Amstrad 1640 with twin 5.25 floppy drives and a mono screen with a DMP4000 dot matrix printer for £999

Then a few years ago PC part prices were quite reasonable and now component prices are geting silly again.  I mean the new graphics cards coming onto the market with 24GB video ram are heading past £2K in some cases.

GPU pricing is solely down to Cryptocurrency miners.

I am a PC Gamer, and still use a MSI 2080Super.  I cannot FIND, let alone afford a new RTX 30xx series card.

The card I currently run, working from memory, cost me around £530.  I could easily sell it today (at 2.5yrs old) for £700.

The whole industry is mental.

That said, now that AMD are actually properly romping Intel, the price war on CPU's is in full-swing.  Because of that, motherboards are also very competitive.

There has never been a better time to build/buy a PC...... as long as you don't want it for gaming.

[Broomies Mate]

Just to add, my first PC was an IBM AT, with a single 5 1/4" FDD, a 20MB MFM drive and Monochrome Monitor.

The thought of having more Cache on my CPU now than the entire storage on my first computer is very strange! 

[Mister Rog]

During the Covid clear out......

I have found so far...

Brand new Rainbow Runner Graphics Card 2MB (Lol)
ISA cirus logic card - ancient
Printer servers (new and boxed/paralell port)
Hard drive caddys
 loads of 30pin simms, DDR, DDR2 Etc
MFM hard drive and cables. RLL hard drive and cables
All the adaptec SCSI card range from ISA through to 64bit PCI
9 pin serial mice (new/boxed and used)
PS2 mice n keyboards

The list goes on and on. Didnt realise I was such a hoarder pmsl

I still prefer PS2 mouses & keyboards. They just work, absolutely everytime. USBs don't

[Mr Skrunts]

I still prefer PS2 mouses & keyboards. They just work, absolutely everytime. USBs don't

I have dug out out a couple of laser printers (paralell port) and tried to use them on a windows 10 PC (USB only) so bought a Parelell port card, them a USB to PP cable adapter and neither of them worked.  So found a AMD 2400 PC and set it all up to use the laser printers, but in the process had to find a PS2 keyboard & mouse.  Managed to find an IBM one, bought it from CPC years ago for a fiver and was that impressed with it bought a spare one in case this one broke.  (Bloody heavy though)

So all now on a little trolly, my old 19" Dell monitor, PC with a xerox & HP laser printer.  Just need to start a leaflet printing business to earn some dosh.

[TheBoy]

I still prefer PS2 mouses & keyboards.

Modern fancy stuff.  Far to easy to plug them in the wrong port, unlike the proper originals.

[TheBoy]

GPU pricing is solely down to Cryptocurrency miners.

Only if you listen to (notoriously lazy) computer journos.

Whilst the crypto-miners have had an impact, you'll find most are going into data centres and supercomputers.

[Broomies Mate]

I still prefer PS2 mouses & keyboards.

Modern fancy stuff.  Far to easy to plug them in the wrong port, unlike the proper originals.

9Pin Serial Mouse and AT Keyboard.  All industry standard at the time..... oh how things have changed.

GPU pricing is solely down to Cryptocurrency miners.

Only if you listen to (notoriously lazy) computer journos.

Whilst the crypto-miners have had an impact, you'll find most are going into data centres and supercomputers.

Data centres don't tend to have a huge array of GPU performance, for obvious reasons.  Supercomputers, yes, but they are not as prevalent as people make out.  The *new* big thing in PC gaming was going to be Cloud Gaming.... it never really took off, and big names in the industry have since dropped plans to expand, or indeed scrapped what they had already implemented.

Seriously, cyrptocurrency mining is MASSIVE, and only getting bigger.  You only need to look at the number of new currencies which are being made-up on the spot sold as the next BitCoin.  Serious money is being spent by the Energy companies, as Electricity theft is a huge problem, and not for growing Herbs.

[TheBoy]

Data centres don't tend to have a huge array of GPU performance, for obvious reasons.

//Panto mode

Oh yes they do

//Panto off

As datacenters move off Intel (and AMD, though they were never dominant) x86 and towards ARM, they deploy a lot of GPU clusters for data crunching compute.

These aren't the same that you and I can buy retail, but heavily customised GPUs that are only available to certain companies that I'm not allowed to say...  ...but think of the hyperscalers.  This is where all their (limited) production is going.  Nobody comes out and says this too loudly, because nVidia and AMD do not want people to know they are doing this, and are quite happy to blame shortages on the selfish, nasty crypto-miners.

[Mr Skrunts]

Still sorting, just found this, brand new and boxed.

Look at the specs

https://www.diytrade.com/china/pd/2149553/Pen_Digital_Camera.html

[ronnyd]

I still prefer PS2 mouses & keyboards.

Modern fancy stuff.  Far to easy to plug them in the wrong port, unlike the proper originals.

9Pin Serial Mouse and AT Keyboard.  All industry standard at the time..... oh how things have changed.

GPU pricing is solely down to Cryptocurrency miners.

Only if you listen to (notoriously lazy) computer journos.

Whilst the crypto-miners have had an impact, you'll find most are going into data centres and supercomputers.

Data centres don't tend to have a huge array of GPU performance, for obvious reasons.  Supercomputers, yes, but they are not as prevalent as people make out.  The *new* big thing in PC gaming was going to be Cloud Gaming.... it never really took off, and big names in the industry have since dropped plans to expand, or indeed scrapped what they had already implemented.

Seriously, cyrptocurrency mining is MASSIVE, and only getting bigger.  You only need to look at the number of new currencies which are being made-up on the spot sold as the next BitCoin.  Serious money is being spent by the Energy companies, as Electricity theft is a huge problem, and not for growing Herbs.

Talking of cryptocurrencies, I've just started having a few spam e-mails trying to get me hooked. Never had any before, until last week. 

[Mr Skrunts]

There is spam in my inbox and on Facebook daily, Even using Dragons den members for thier adverts