I have several items I'd like to give away for free. I'm not using them, and my wife really wants me to reduce clutter in my corner of our living room
1) Cherry G80-3000LPMEU. This classic Cherry keyboard is equipped with MX Black switches. PS/2. Lasered PBT keycaps. The case is heavily yellowed, one of the Ctrl keycaps has a crack.
This keyboard worked several months ago when I tested it on my office PC, but I couldn't get it to work on my HP Elite 8300 at home — the LEDs briefly flash when the PC is turned on, but afterwards the keyboard is completely mute. I don't know if it's the keyboard or the PC, and I currently don't have anything else to test it on.
2) Chaintech 5RSA2 Super Socket7 motherboard + 128MB PC100 SDRAM. This mATX motherboard is based on ALi Aladdin V chipset, it has 1 AGP, 2 PCI and 2 ISA slots. This motherboard doesn't officially support AMD K6-III+ CPUs, but there's a patched BIOS which adds support for K6-III+ and removes 32GB IDE HDD limit. You will need an officially supported CPU (any Socket7 Pentium/Pentium MMX, AMD K5, K6, K6-II, Cyrix 6x86 or M2) to flash this patched BIOS. I haven't tested the motherboard personally, but I was assured by the previous owner that it worked perfectly 2 years ago.
3) AMD K6-III+ 450MHz CPU. This CPU can be used to run games and applications from 386, 486, Pentium and Pentium II eras because you can enable and disable its built-in caches and change the frequency multiplier on the fly. In terms of performance it's roughly equivalent to Pentium II 400 MHz when run at 100MHz FSB (4.5x multiplier) and to Pentium II 333 MHz when run at 83MHz FSB (5.5x multiplier). This CPU is NOS (never used previously).
4) AMD K6-II 400 MHz CPU. Tested as fully working several years ago, but never used since then.
5) Pentium MMX 166 MHz CPU. In active use (by me) until approximately 19 years ago, but it has been unused and untested since then.
I'd prefer to send items no. 2, 3 and 4 together as one bundle because this is how I intended to use them. My idea was to buy an old IBM NetVista Pentium 4 PC, gut it and use its case and PSU (both are mATX compliant) to build a solid retro gaming station. However, I don't really have time or lebensraum to pursue this further.
All items are located in Ireland, I don't expect shipping costs within the EU to be particularly high.
