Nice find in a box

[bunnspecial]

I was hunting through a box of various cards from a huge lot of stuff I bought back in November this morning. There a lot of good stuff in it(including some CPU upgrade cards) but I hadn't really dug into it beyond the boxed stuff.

I came across an antistatic bag of video cards that were labeled "from B&W G3."

There were four cards in the bag-all of them Rage 128s. I like keeping these cards around for PCI OWR Macs since they eliminate having to use a DB-15 monitor or mess with an adapter(plus they're a LOT better than the onboard video on these computers).

In any case, one of the cards was the relatively rare BTO TV Tuner card. This may not be a huge deal I realize, but it was none the less a nice find that I didn't know I have.

I'm also going to throw in a gratuitous picture of my video card shelf. A lot of these are the common cards, but I'll point out the nice tidy little stack of Radeon 9200s(Mac Edition) along with the X800 Mac edition on the top shelf . A lot of the better cards are waiting to find their way into a computer, although the common ones are there as spares.

I also managed to secure one of the ultra-rare Mac Edition 9700s that were BTO on MDDs yesterday(thanks to a tip-off from @LightBulbFun ), and I'm really excited about its imminent arrival.

 

[CYB3RBYTE]

Can't wait to see the 9700 in action! Wouldn't you rather want to use it in one of your G4 machines rather than put it on a shelf?

 

[bunnspecial]

Can't wait to see the 9700 in action! Wouldn't you rather want to use it in one of your G4 machines rather than put it on a shelf?

Most of the "good" cards on the shelf are just ones that are waiting for me to decide on a home. The X800 in particular is probably going in a G5 tonight. I'm waiting to get a chance to flash the X850XT Sapphire, which should be quite a formidable card. I can't wait to run the 17" ADC CRT off the X800 .

The lower end cards are primarily there because they've been removed from upgraded systems, but I keep them for testing and the like.

When the 9700 arrives, it will replace the 9600 in my main Quicksilver assuming I can get it to work(I've been told these are touchy in QSs). If it doesn't work, I'll put it in an MDD, where it belongs . There's a lot of temptation to put it in the dual 1.42 since that would truly be the high end BTO system. At the same time, I'd kind of like to put a FireGl or the flashed X850 in the dual 1.42. If that's the case, the 9700 will probably end up in my dual 1.25 MDD.