More things I found in our school's E-Waste bin
Posted by LeadingAd4802@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 14 comments
I found more stuff, a Terratec Maestro 32/96, a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and VHSs that used to teach the teachers how to use MS Word and Excel when it was a new thing back then (I handled everything well, sorry for last time again)
bok4600@reddit
i would rip those vhs tapes
LeadingAd4802@reddit (OP)
That's what I had in mind but at the moment I only have one of those cheap capture sticks I used to digitalize my hi8 camcorder videos. Right now I'm trying to get it to work but I don't have a damn scart to component adapter that sends signal out...
rjchute@reddit
The SB128 is a dime a dozen, but the Maestro card is definitely worth something.
I'd be curious if you could rip and upload to archive.org the VHS tapes. They are probably worth preserving, especially non-English copies, if they aren't already on archive.org.
Neat find.
LeadingAd4802@reddit (OP)
I do have a device to do that. The VHS tapes are more like "talk shows" that explain to you how everything works but still interesting
Jorpho@reddit
The trendy thing these days is to use VHS decode, if you want to go that far.
Red_Redditor_Reddit@reddit
Are ISA SB16 cards worth anything? I've still got mine from my childhood.
rjchute@reddit
If they're truely SB16 and not a SB Vibra, then yes. Not to say SB Vibra aren't worth anything, just they're quite common. I wish I had a true SB16 for my period build, but I make do with a Vibra.
Red_Redditor_Reddit@reddit
Yeah I saved the card but I never saved the cdrom drive that came with it. For some reason the card had a IDE connection on the card itself.
majestic_ubertrout@reddit
That was pretty common. A lot of people had a IDE controller with only one channel and needed another channel for the CD-ROM.
SB16 value is going to generally depend on a number of factors. The ones with a real Yamaha YMF chip are worth more, and there are specific ones prized for avoiding certain things like avoiding the hanging note bug or better processing. It's a bit of a maze.
H0verb0vver@reddit
Terratec Maestro!! Great card!
Mairon121@reddit
The German is all wrong here. This isn’t authentic and it lacks capitalizations which is an essential feature of the language. This is a very bad translation.
It really should be “DAS GATES FUHRER REICH UND WORD 6.0!!!”
LeadingAd4802@reddit (OP)
OH MY GOD ITS TOM HANKS!!!
LeadingAd4802@reddit (OP)
Ah sorry, is should've said OH MEIN GOTT ES IST THOMAS HÄNKER!!!
TorazChryx@reddit
An example of the Terratec Maestro 32/96 sold on ebay for Euro 238.11 back in February, that's legit _a find_