SOLD!

[JKD]

OK, more closet finds....

I ran this in a RAmiga 7 slot zorro tower for years,  I have:

486 board - It's an slc2/50Mhz (internally clock doubled)
Fastest ISA SVGA gfx board money could buy (at the time) Orchid/Fahrenheit Kelvin 64!!!
SB16 (or clone)..I found the CDROM...since it has it's own on-board I/F
I/O board (multiple ser/par etc.) - haven't located this yet!
ISA Network card - have two of these, will send both!

I recall disconnecting the fan on the GGate and using a larger 5V one powered by the main PSU but other than that it should work perfectly

Comes with original software disks but not sure I still have the manual :-/

Some pictures here:

http://homepage.mac.com/jkd_steve/PhotoAlbum45.html

[Jeff]

You have PM

[JKD]

Replied

[JKD]

Found the CD-ROM drive...it is one of those dedicated on-board pseudo-ATA type interfaces..

[JKD]

Had about 3 enquiries on this before I even posted it FS...I guess interest died ? :-?

[Jiffy]

JKD wrote:
I guess interest died ? :-?

Well, I'ld be interested, but as I just purchased an A2386, a XSurf-card and some other stuff, I am not really planning on paying big bucks. I know it's a pretty rare find and should run older DOS-programs rather nicely and therefor would be a nice addition to either my A2000 or A3000.

Any indication how much you want for it?

[thewalrus]

Hi there I could be interested. What price and cost to ship to New Zealand via normal economy air mail

[JKD]

I am trying to sell all cards together for $500...shipping down under for this stuff is probably $40.

Steve

[Jiffy]

JKD wrote:
I am trying to sell all cards together for $500...shipping down under for this stuff is probably $40.

Yay! I wouldn't even be interested if it were half that price...  :-o

I understand it's not a very common card, comes with some nice ISA-cards and Amigahardware seems to be getting some higher prices here and there, but no way I'm going to shell out this amnount of money for some hardware to run DOS on...

Big chance that's wat causes the lack of interest.

[Dazxy2001]

JKD wrote:
I am trying to sell all cards together for $500...shipping down under for this stuff is probably $40.

Steve

Could buy a bunch of 486`s for that kinda cash Think I`ll stick to my PIII and DOSBOX for retro games

[Jiffy]

Dazxy2001 wrote:
Could buy a bunch of 486`s for that kinda cash

A bunch? How about 100 fully loaded 486s including a nice 15 of 17 inch CRT for all of them? I wasn't even able to give away ten P166s for free two or three years ago.

Sorry, but $500 is way, wáy out of proportion for several bog standard ISA-cards and a nice Amigacard. I can get all the pc hardware for about $1 to $5, which would make the Golden Gate-card somewhere between $495 and $499. Excluding shipping. That's ridiculous, imo.

[Dazxy2001]

A bunch? How about 100 fully loaded 486s including a nice 15 of 17 inch CRT for all of them? I wasn't even able to give away ten P166s for free two or three years ago.

Hmmm hook em all up and make a render farm hehe. Guess thats the prob with old stuff, no one wants it if it cant handle Vista etc... make nice unix firewalls though  :-D

I sometimes wonder if people put such a high price on Amiga stuff because its either some mug will no doubt pay or its just greed, I could never justify the expense on old hardware, specially as theres always the chance of it dying soon after receiving it :/

So far Ive spent around £100 on my amiga`s since returning to the scene and have got a nice A500, A600 both freebies, A1200 Blizzard 68030 50mhz 32mb ram external CD drive, A1200 for spares, CDTV, 1084S monitor and a stack of floppies and CD`s.. cant be bad

[JKD]

You're entitled to your opinion and  erm...thanks...I think?

I don't know that anything you posted is actually relevant. The Amiga is a collectors/hobby scene and rare items are priced accordingly. If I was ripping people off, this would be on eBay fetching $1k.

I'm sure people really appreciate you telling them they shouldn't 'waste' their money...

People are *free* to make offers, heck it might even sell for $400 or whatever people offer...if the demand isn't there, the price will fall accordingly.

The $ is really week right now..for some people $100 = 50p or summat

[amigadave]

@JKD,

Do you know if all Vortex 486slc Bridgeboards at 25mHz can be "internally clock doubled" to 50mHz?  Or does it take a new crystal to accomplish?  And do you think most, or all of them can handle such doubling and retain reliability in operation?

I have a 486slc 25mHz that I am about to put back into service to run a couple of old MSDOS programs/games, so I would like to speed it up as much as possible.  I am also looking for my 386sx Vortex and Commodore bridgeboards so I can sell them if anyone is interested.  But unlike you, I don't think they are worth the kind of money you are asking.  Good luck getting $500 for all your cards together, you might find a few collectors that will be willing to pay that much, but the economy is not too good right now and as you said, the dollar is weak.

[JKD]

amigadave wrote:
@JKD,

Do you know if all Vortex 486slc Bridgeboards at 25mHz can be "internally clock doubled" to 50mHz?  Or does it take a new crystal to accomplish?  And do you think most, or all of them can handle such doubling and retain reliability in operation?

The CPU part in question on my board is actually an slc2 so I don't know if an slc CPU provides that facility.

Sounds like you have a good board and I'm really not trying to be unreasonable on price, I've told everyone they can make me an offer