Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Corrupt_Liberty]

34 minutes ago, X-System said:

I have too but much older, with his license keys

 

Did you say older?

 

 

 

 

 

I have MS-DOS 6.22 and 3.2 around here somewhere...

[Corrupt_Liberty]

Since we're including monitors and software, how about cameras?

 

Sony Mavica FD-200 - Picture taken with Sony Mavica FD-90

 

And a photo of the siblings together.  

[X-System]

46 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

 

Did you say older?

 

-snip-

 

I have MS-DOS 6.22 and 3.2 around here somewhere...

Ah me too

 

 

 

 

 

 

[X-System]

And tools

 

 

 

Hard disk tools, they came with hard disk drives (for WD, I remember it was 8.4GB but I don't remember the size for HDD Seagate).

 

Sound Blaster CD driver and Mouse driver, I got them when I had my Pentium II 233 MHz rig in 1998. And I still have my old Creative Sound Blaster CD 24x

 

 

[X-System]

In my CD shelf, I found that  

 

 

For ATI DVD Player, I got it for my ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo 8MB AGP (ATI XPERT@Play) in 1999 

 

For Ruby ROM, I don't remember how I got it.

[swarfega]

 

[Corrupt_Liberty]

Loving that 486 porn. And if WD would bring back that windowed raptor drive I would happily go back to spinning rust. 

[lVaderl]

I have a old matrox gpu that has 256 mb of vram XD

 

(its a AGP card too, not PCI)

[mg7134]

I have an ibm thinkpad t21 pictured below

It runs debian gnu linux 10 ( I am stuck on it and need to install windows xp for more functionality)

[mg7134]

Dell and hp are better brand for repair screens.

You could buy parts from Alibaba or somethings like that. 

 

And do you know any way to install wifi driver for my ibm thinkpad t21?

Reply in this post: 

 

[mg7134]

12 hours ago, Genwyn said:

The screen itself isn't physically damaged, something's loose on the controller board or got wet and is somehow affected by slapping.

I can fix it when I have my tools with me. Currently at a hotel.

 

As for your T21 your best bet is to really just use a more "plug and play" OS on it for the sake of simplicity. Manually installing drivers on older hardware on specific Debian configurations is a pain in the ass, and it's all heavily dependent on a bunch of other stuff which may not be working fine out of the box.

As well, tp link doesn't play well on Linux, it sorta functions "as is", the Linux drivers don't have a lot of features and a lot of hardware stuff is on lockdown.

example, my w725n Nano adapter, I cannot use it on USB 2.0, it only works on the 1.1 port, it won't work via USB on pcmcia, and I can't change the MAC address.

All of those issues are related to the drivers for the USB and pcmcia controller that won't recognize the tplink adapters well, it's an old issue and there aren't many known fixes.

I suggest going with something like xubuntu 16.04 32 bit just to get everything kinda together with the larger variety of out of the box drivers.

I would also suggest looking at the think wiki pages for it and seeing if there's any discussion there about driver compatibility. Some of the early 2000's models have a lot of little problems.

 

As for the current Debian issue, if you can't get into sudo with su +password you may have borked your install. 

In the past, about 1 or 2 months ago,

I install windows 7 on this ibm machine but it doesnt have enough space so i decided to install debian

It used to have the same tp link usb device and it also used to work very well

And i know that it is very difficult to install it 

I run the command lsusb and it shows "Realtek semiconductor corp RTL8188EUS 802.11N WIRELESS NETWORK ADAPTER"

Which tells me that the motherboard recognizes the USB device.

Edited September 22, 2019 by mg7134

[Bitter]

Ubuntu can be a little more user friendly and is based on Debian. Xubuntu or Lubuntu would run fine on hardware that old, might need a 32 bit version.

[Gegger]

12 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

I believe there was a time where a building caught fire with a Thonkpad in it. The screen and keyboard melted, but the thing can still run fine.

 

Article: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/6-true-tales-of-thinkpad-laptops-cheating-death/

 

I also found a Dell Latitude D820 in the school e-waste last year after it rained HARD. That thing powered on fine when I plugged it in later and turned it on.

thinkpads are linus proof!

[Bitter]

Linus is Thinkpad proof!

[luminare]

18 hours ago, swarfega said:

 

I remember my Vertex 2 dying just within warranty but just near end of line, so they sent me back out a sealed Vertex 3 I ended up reselling. 

[SimplyChunk]

Hi guys.  Thought this would be the best place to ask this.

 

I'm looking at an old Packard Bell 486ES.  It's got a 25MHz 486 in it.  I was wondering if it was possible/simple to upgrade the chip at all?

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 hour ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Hi guys.  Thought this would be the best place to ask this.

 

I'm looking at an old Packard Bell 486ES.  It's got a 25MHz 486 in it.  I was wondering if it was possible/simple to upgrade the chip at all?

Judging from Wikipedia, there are some faster clocked 486 models:

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The initial model, the 80486DX, was introduced with 25 and 33 MHz models. Later a 50 MHz part was added, then clock-doubled DX2/50 and DX2/66 parts, and later still, clock-tripled DX4/75 and DX4/100 ones.

Just a simple matter of finding one of those bad boys.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

2 hours ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Hi guys.  Thought this would be the best place to ask this.

 

I'm looking at an old Packard Bell 486ES.  It's got a 25MHz 486 in it.  I was wondering if it was possible/simple to upgrade the chip at all?

A 486 DX 50Mhz or 66Mhz will probably be the easiest to find.  The ultimate would be a Pentium Overdrive CPU.  These were 5V compliant pentiums designed for in place upgrade of older 486 PC's.  I'm guessing they won't be cheap though, I see two on eBay for $85 and $135.  

 

Also double check your MB will support Overdrive CPU's.  I'm fairly certain it should but I'm no expert and these things can be finicky. 

[SimplyChunk]

56 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Judging from Wikipedia, there are some faster clocked 486 models:

Just a simple matter of finding one of those bad boys.

 

15 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

A 486 DX 50Mhz or 66Mhz will probably be the easiest to find.  The ultimate would be a Pentium Overdrive CPU.  These were 5V compliant pentiums designed for in place upgrade of older 486 PC's.  I'm guessing they won't be cheap though, I see two on eBay for $85 and $135.  

 

Also double check your MB will support Overdrive CPU's.  I'm fairly certain it should but I'm no expert and these things can be finicky. 

Ok thanks to you both

[X-System]

@YouSirAreADudeSir I found a test 486DX4/100 vs Pentium Overdrive :

 

For the games, the performance is same and 486DX4/100 is cheaper than Pentium Overdrive on eBay.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

25 minutes ago, X-System said:

@YouSirAreADudeSir I found a test 486DX4/100 vs Pentium Overdrive :

 

For the games, the performance is same and 486DX4/100 is cheaper than Pentium Overdrive on eBay.

I wish I'd had the opportunity to try these back in the day.  I grew up with a Tandy 1000 TX (weird system with a 16 bit 286 on an 8 bit bus).  We weren't a rich family so the next upgrade we got was a P133. Many years reading about those awesome 386 and 486 PC's. 

[X-System]

28 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

I wish I'd had the opportunity to try these back in the day.  I grew up with a Tandy 1000 TX (weird system with a 16 bit 286 on an 8 bit bus).  We weren't a rich family so the next upgrade we got was a P133. Many years reading about those awesome 386 and 486 PC's. 

My first PC x86 was Compaq Presario equipped 486DX4/100 with 8MB FPM (upgraded to 24MB), 512k VRAM VGA 256-color, 420MB HDD and CD-ROM drive. It was a good PC

[Corrupt_Liberty]

23 minutes ago, X-System said:

My first PC x86 was Compaq Presario equipped 486DX4/100 with 8MB FPM (upgraded to 24MB), 512k VRAM VGA 256-color, 420MB HDD and CD-ROM drive. It was a good PC

Ooooh, a HDD!  I only had 3.5 and a 5.25 double density floppy drives.  I did have a 2400 baud modem that I used for that good ol' BBS time.

[X-System]

4 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Ooooh, a HDD!  I only had 3.5 and a 5.25 double density floppy drives.  I did have a 2400 baud modem that I used for that good ol' BBS time.

But in 1995, 420MB wasn't enough... Because a few games took a lot of space storage. For example, The Need for Speed, a full install took 114MB storage

 

I remember, with 420 MB HDD, only 7 big games and it was aleady full... (the operation system was Windows 3.1 with MS-DOS 6.22). When I want to play an other game, I must to uninstall an installed game...

 

For the modem, I hadn't until in 1999/2000 to get U.S.Robotics Faxmodem 56k V.90 when I got my Pentium II rig.

[Zipfire]

Digging in one of my bins and found this hi end gaming rig from back in the day. It did post last time i tried it. open to offers