Show off your old and retro computer parts

[BrianTheElectrician]

Had a pretty awesome time today with some of the LMG crew on a video. Why this is retro will be more apparent when the video is out or checkout the story on yt.

[sub68]

On 10/12/2019 at 10:54 PM, Schnoz said:

Could you please not quote the entire post? If you could edit it and delete the images, that would be awesome. Sorry for the trouble.

i'm sry 

[Kilrah]

"Yum" those old awful passive matrix LCDs... got one too, snagged a P133 Extensa 650CD from the same time for 30 bucks with all accessories. Basically in "just came out of the box" condition... with both the CD and floppy drive. Thing was like $4.5K back in the day and it seems it really barely was ever used.

 

Didn't boot, but a total disassembly and CMOS battery replacement later it fired right up, exactly as it was when it was last powered 18 years earlier...

Floppy drive needed a belt replaced but works now too. Been keeping the original drive intact and playing with reinstalling stuff on a CF card. Came with W95, and I still haven't been able to get the PCMCIA slots to work on anything more recent unfortunately, even 95OSR2. Rest all works fine on 98.

 

[seagate_surfer]

22 hours ago, Genwyn said:

Taking out boxed stuff to clean it up and make sure it all works.

380ED from 1997 still going without issue, screen is still... mushy, but not any worse than last time 

WOW! The Thinkpad when it was still manufactured by IBM  and here my friends, we have a millennial warrior...

[HerpDaDerp]

I have a Radeon 6350...

 

 

 

 

I also use it in my PC...

[givingtnt]

I feel like this is appropriate : 

 

[Akshay Patil]

I recently had an 10 year old PC i donno much of config but what i knw was that it had core to duo processor, 4 GB RAM, CD ROM and Nvidia graphic card 4GB donno which exactly and iball cabinet.

sadly i cannot share the picture as I gave it off to my friend.

 

[Matthew J Johnson]

On 12/19/2013 at 1:25 PM, TheTechnerd said:

 Today I thought we would do something fun and different. This is a topic about showing of all your old pc parts (or old computers). Feel free to post some pics:) It will be fun:D

 

Here's some of mine:

 

 

Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

how is the core 2 retro already i feel old now.

[Matthew J Johnson]

On 10/17/2019 at 6:59 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

Pictures or they don't count.

Can we see said pictures?   

[Matthew J Johnson]

On 10/18/2019 at 5:19 PM, TualatinMan said:

The printer server cost about $45, but I thought it was expensive, so I threw together a set of computers specifically for LAN printers.

Computer case: $8.

Motherboard Foxconn n15235: $7.

CPU: Intel e2140 $1.20.

Memory chip Kingston ddr3 1333 4g $7.

Fan and power: $13

Use Microsoft RD Client LAN remote desktop

I WILL EXPLODE OF U DON'T CLEAN THAT PC.  0_0 stares into your soul (eye holes) EVEN THE THE THUMBNAIL IS HORRIFIED. 

Edited October 24, 2019 by Matthew J Johnson
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[Bitter]

I'm pretty sure my friend is still using an E2140 I built her back when we dated with 4GB and a GT 730...lol.

[MrNeil1972]

[MrNeil1972]

 

 

[X-System]

10 hours ago, MrNeil1972 said:

-snip-

Old logo of ROG It was the first ROG motherboard ?

 

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Striker_Extreme/

[Jessica.Fawkes]

On 10/25/2019 at 1:13 AM, Matthew J Johnson said:

how is the core 2 retro already i feel old now.

Hey I know people calling 5 and 6th gen Core CPU's "ancient".

And that's because they bought the device with a spindle drive.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

38 minutes ago, Jessica.Fox said:

spindle drive

I think we can all agree the proper nomenclature is 'rigid rotating iron oxide binary storage medium' or RRIOBSM for short.  

[The King of the Undead]

22 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

I think we can all agree the proper nomenclature is 'rigid rotating iron oxide binary storage medium' or RRIOBSM for short.  

same kinda thing as calling water dihydrogen monoxide

[GenericFanboy]

Enjoy my collection

[Equinox1191]

I found this in some tomb  in Egypt and the ghost there said it was a computer so I took it home and sure enough, different combinations take you to alternate realities. Just remember what your home is.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

6 minutes ago, Equinox1191 said:

I found this in some tomb  in Egypt and the ghost there said it was a computer so I took it home and sure enough, different combinations take you to alternate realities. Just remember what your home is.

Don't underestimate the power of obsolete technology.

 

 

[Equinox1191]

That's more the operator than the tech itself. The cpu is her brain, the abacus would be like an early storage device, it was reliable and stable when placed on it's side but was subject to vibration induced data loss.

[Jessica.Fawkes]

13 hours ago, Equinox1191 said:

That's more the operator than the tech itself. The cpu is her brain, the abacus would be like an early storage device, it was reliable and stable when placed on it's side but was subject to vibration induced data loss.

Could also suffer from frequent virus attacks due to other connected CPU's

[Nova98]

[Bitter]

Hahaha ball mice, I remember the battle of keeping clean rollers and then running across someone who NEVER KNEW about cleaning the rollers and picking through 2-3 millimeter of crap on the rollers. Ugh! Back when a PC tune up was as much about just cleaning the peripherals as it was about cleaning the PC!

 

Clean ball, clean rollers, blow out key board, blow out printer, blow out PC, blow out monitor, THEN fix operating system/de-clutter disc, run disk cleanup to clear up Windows cache etc, then defrag with something like jkdefrag to put files in order on the disc in one contiguous block. OS files on the fastest part of the platters, gap for swap space, then user files in order of most heavily used from faster to slower sections. When you were all done it was really almost like getting a new PC!

[seagate_surfer]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

Hahaha ball mice, I remember the battle of keeping clean rollers and then running across someone who NEVER KNEW about cleaning the rollers and picking through 2-3 millimeter of crap on the rollers. Ugh! Back when a PC tune up was as much about just cleaning the peripherals as it was about cleaning the PC!

 

Clean ball, clean rollers, blow out key board, blow out printer, blow out PC, blow out monitor, THEN fix operating system/de-clutter disc, run disk cleanup to clear up Windows cache etc, then defrag with something like jkdefrag to put files in order on the disc in one contiguous block. OS files on the fastest part of the platters, gap for swap space, then user files in order of most heavily used from faster to slower sections. When you were all done it was really almost like getting a new PC!

Yes! I remember the days of cleaning the mouse and the prefetch folder, stop the Windows messenger from running (not MSN but messenger of windows computers connected via LAN) and getting rid of XP's balloon tips! Good days!