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that video card was the first peice of hardware i ever bought every thing else there was givin to me paid $10 at a computer show. from 2 drunk women at least they acted drunk or high one of those 2. i miss those shows they were fun to walk around in found some interesting stuff there. where i got my stuf for my curent of the time  pentium 2 build but back then i bought random stuff im suprised it worked cuz i had no clue what i was doing. still didnt know what i was doing properly till i found linus videos now i can build a pc the right way next stop figuring out manual overclocks and and why my pc one pc refuses to sleep. the other ones i figured out and sleep like a baby

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Welp, time for old stuff.

 

CPUs:

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My older unused expansion cards:

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My 386SX-20 laptop:

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My 486:

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Pentium 75MHz on the left, Pentium MMX 200MHz on the right.

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Pentium 75MHz innards:

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Pentium MMX 200MHz innards.

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I have a few other old laptops and a Pentium 3 that I might post later.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Dogecoin minig with this as we speak! :D

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this baby has served me well over the years; ive thrown heavy 3D rendering at it, and now im coin mining with it, cant belive it still works!post-8537-0-48952000-1393914398.jpgpost-8537-0-77095900-1393914411_thumb.jp

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erm.... most of this stuff doesn't fit my definition for retro or old computer parts... but hey Im getting old, so I guess that my definition is not the only valid one anymore. *shrug*

 

My current most vintage PC (though I want to make older ones)

 

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"fuzzy" 386DX-40MHz, with mathco.

all SCSI, all non PnP parts, all (most) era parts.

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erm.... most of this stuff doesn't fit my definition for retro or old computer parts... but hey Im getting old, so I guess that my definition is not the only valid one anymore. *shrug*

 

My current most vintage PC (though I want to make older ones)

 

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"fuzzy" 386DX-40MHz, with mathco.

all SCSI, all non PnP parts, all (most) era parts.

 

Nice computer. The AM386DX-40 is quite the CPU for the time. I need to find myself a non laptop 386 lol.

 

BTW, I don't know if you know this or not, that blue battery on the back of the motherboard, cut that off. Those tend to leak and ruin old motherboards. My 486 got a bit of corrosion on the board from one of those. Typically there is a 4 pin header on motherboards that allow you to connect an external non rechargeable battery.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Nice computer. The AM386DX-40 is quite the CPU for the time. I need to find myself a non laptop 386 lol.

 

BTW, I don't know if you know this or not, that blue battery on the back of the motherboard, cut that off. Those tend to leak and ruin old motherboards. My 486 got a bit of corrosion on the board from one of those. Typically there is a 4 pin header on motherboards that allow you to connect an external non rechargeable battery.

I was actually a tech when these things were new ^.^ I know all about the NiCD leaking issue - I have vinegar and a toothbrush waiting, but amazingly there is ZERO sign of the thing having issues, at the first sign I will desolder it and put in a diode and 3v stubby lithium battery like the old macs had. :)

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I was actually a tech when these things were new ^.^ I know all about the NiCD leaking issue - I have vinegar and a toothbrush waiting, but amazingly there is ZERO sign of the thing having issues, at the first sign I will desolder it and put in a diode and 3v stubby lithium battery like the old macs had. :)

 

Nice, gotta keep them old computer running :P

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Dogecoin minig with this as we speak! :D

2006 Dell inspiron 1420, core 2 duo, 2gb ram, running windows 7 (not sure what it shipped with though; probably XP, maybe vista)

this baby has served me well over the years; ive thrown heavy 3D rendering at it, and now im coin mining with it, cant belive it still works!attachicon.gifDell 1420 image 1.jpgattachicon.gifDell 1420 image 2.JPG

 

core 2 duo is a modern computer, how on earth is that old and retro? 

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Lol im waiting for someone to upload a picture of a Betamax. 

That is not a computer part.

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true but it's okay as long a it's old or retro

wanht a pic of my top loading vcr then?

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wanht a pic of my top loading vcr then?

Nah that doesn't really fit here, maybe there is another topic about that :)

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Why am I at college away from my word processor and printer from pre MS-Dos 1.0 :<<<<<<<<<

Nothing to see here, move along

 

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This beast, and maybe a box of unused 3,5 inc floppys that are totally not floppy

(the box underneath is from an ati 9600 pro, not the geforce 2)

I was waiting to see an old agp card.

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Why am I at college away from my word processor and printer from pre MS-Dos 1.0 :<<<<<<<<<

I dunno ;(

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I have an NVIDIA P117 (Dell OEM) that runs through AGP 8x just in case it's ever needed (no desktops in me home).

 

640MB of DDR RAM in a little baggie...

 

3 Floppy Disks....

 

And even though Linus will *probably* hate on me for this, I use VGA for my external laptop monitor.  B)

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Hey Everyone! First post. Some of my old school gear. Wanted to post a pic of my old Celeron 300 but I think it ran away after years of being tortured@900d+Mhz. 

 

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WOOT for COAST module and cel300! boo for not being celeron 300a, no L2 cache, so horribly slow compared to the a.

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Hey Everyone! First post. Some of my old school gear. Wanted to post a pic of my old Celeron 300 but I think it ran away after years of being tortured@900d+Mhz. 

 

 

 

          

 

 

Hey there and welcome :) Nice pics! :D

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Hey Everyone! First post. Some of my old school gear. Wanted to post a pic of my old Celeron 300 but I think it ran away after years of being tortured 900+Mhz.

 

Nice, a coast module and an AWE32 Value.

 

Would make a decent computer for sure.

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I'm gonna get some pictures of my old laptop up later on, hopefully. :D I get to show off my baby. It's funny how most people just let their old PC's sit around like trophy's, then there's me, who uses them all the time.

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I'm gonna get some pictures of my old laptop up later on, hopefully. :D I get to show off my baby. It's funny how most people just let their old PC's sit around like trophy's, then there's me, who uses them all the time.

I would love to see your old laptop :D It will get the respekt it deserves on this topic ;)

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I would love to see your old laptop :D It will get the respekt it deserves on this topic ;)

I'm just sad, since it has a stress/old age crack in the corner, and the backlight is finiky for some reason. Still a badass laptop. :)

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