I did pick up this Toshiba 2100CDS for $5, overall seemed in good shape, the mouse buttons are gummy though. The Toshibas of this era seem to make good portable 95/98 gaming PCs. For $3, I took this Brother EP-20 word processor in excellent shape. It should be fun to tinker with

It's Flea Market Friday on the 4th of July! The market was hopping and weather was pleasant. Saw this bin with some ATI (PCI-E) graphics cards and 3D builder software, the latter was tempting but didn't ask prices. Seems like some (low) quality odd-ware there...

@shiroishimatora I guess the upside is, that sounds like it will only sip power - so that's good.

The 2.8ghz i5 was having issues with the hdd, swapped in a SSD and it is lots happier. Bad news is, the i5 is a 2 core. It’ll be fine for a single Ubuntu server, but not what I was hoping.

I did pick up these two Mac Minis - one is a late 2014 i5 1.4GHz / 4 gb RAM and the other is a 2.8 GHz i5 / 8 gb RAM. Got the pair for $45. In hindsight, meh because the RAM is soldered on. Plan is to use in home lab stuff I’ve been working on, still can just less ideal.

Hot day at the flea, even in the morning. Saw a few things and a pickup. One table had a bunch of Compute and Antic magazines for $2 each and saw most of a G5 machine. IIRC, seller quoted $70 but it did have an extra card in it (FireWire card I think). Still way too much imho.

One of those things that has meaning probably only to me but when I was a kid, I set up a tent in the back yard, ran an extension cable and took a little portable B&W TV and my TG-16 out to the tent to ‘camp’ and thought this was the coolest thing - thus the nostalgia here.

Today one of the vendors had some cases of cassettes. Had to grab a photo of this one - all recorded tapes, but I can just imagine this was some teen’s prized collection back in the day.

Did pick up one item at a yard sale today - this very small Radio Shack Portavision 16-130 5” Black and White CRT TV with power brick for $5. Went for it since last was nice enough to plug it up there where I could see it work and I do love tiny CRTs. Needs a cleaning still :)

Friday and Saturday were mostly rainouts for the flea - I did see this Sony Vaio tower that was priced down to $15 before I left the table. The case was kind of in rough shape, missing/broken doors, so I passed but slightly tempting.

@botolo86 flea market finds! Where most of my treasures are found :)

@Irishmasms not new, guy said he was a teacher - so guessing used in a classroom for some time way back (had a bunch of midi sample floppies as well). Guess he just kept the box and stuff.

Not the greatest test of ability but just a quick composite video to vga test. It has an overscan setting which is nice and doesn’t immediately seem to have lag between input and screen action. It also has a freeze frame button!

Finally - a couple $1 items - got this Audigy Z2 PCMCIA Laptop sound card with software - need to try one of these eventually - and this Dell PSU. I have a laptop with this same PSU that is defunct, worth a dollar to try if this one still works.

Same table had this Kramer VP-437xl Switcher/Scaler for $4. Had to pick it up for all the ports - I’m sure I can find use for it with consoles/computers….(2/3)

Found some interesting things at the flea today - a VGA switcher for ($3) - I’ve been looking around for a commander but this will help for now…(1/3)

I was also surprised at how easy it is to open and service, relatively speaking. Before testing a cassette, I wanted to clean the heads and just clean dust/gunk out - of which there was a fair amount around the tape deck that had gotten in...

I'm so behind on posting about things - I picked this Sony Mega Watchman on the trip in May (same trip as the MiniDisc player). It was at a yard sale in a free pile, figured it might be toast but nope, works and sounds good, just crusty/in need of cleaning...

No pickups for Flea Market Friday today, saw a very sad CD Mavica that had the lens extended and was just floppy - guy wanted an offer on it but I didn't need a parts camera (should have gotten a photo though, maybe tomorrow if still there).

Finally got around to running dxdiag on the Compaq to figure out the clock speed on the CPU - it's 500MHz. Also tried some other graphics cards - settled on a Radeon 9250 (PCI / 256mb) I had from back in the day. It's not AGP good, but some improvement over the SiS 530 integrated