Show off your old and retro computer parts

[X-System]

Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB is the best classic mouse. It's my first optical mouse, bought about 20 years ago, still works and never problem

 

First, it was for my personal use at home. A few years after, I bought an other mouse but black version (I have it at home as collection, in perfect condition, and I use it a few times when I need it). And this mouse, white version, became old, I use it at work because this mouse is much better than many mouses that come with prebuilt profesionals PC

 

I use the gum for to clean the surface of my old mouse

 

[Kilrah]

Powerbook G3 joined the collection of old macs, details here  

 

 

[X-System]

15 hours ago, The_Tuba_Titan said:

This is me playing my old HP Computer! It ran Windows XP, I think.

Look Windows sticker on the case. It was maybe Windows 98.

 

Because Windows XP sticker looks like it :

 

[Dabombinable]

The SiS 305 and 3DLabs VX1:

The Asus V3005 looks cute.

[NuclearNerdz]

I have an old emachines computer that runs Windows XP. It will not POST because there is a broken pin on the Intel Pentium D CPU. I want to rebuild this pc so any advice is welcome.

 

 

 

 

(The broken pin is in the lower left hand corner of the above image.)

[XAIXER]

You can always try to replace the pin.

[Bitter]

You can get a new used CPU for probably $5 on eBay, maybe less locally if you have an e-waste recycler around you. Otherwise for testing only jam a lil bit of copper wire in the socket hole and jam the CPU on top it and see if it goes or not.

[Dabombinable]

I used 2200uf low esr caps instead if 3300uf, since it sort of worked with dead ones:

What was my Uncle's desktop (XP pro SP1 with 128mb RAM)

Spoiler

And the brand new board my Athlon has been waiting for. I'm happy they lost the Palomino and sent a Thoroughbred instead:

Spoiler

 

I'll be making use of my 2x 200GB SATA 1 HDD in RAID 0 on it as well...

Edit: 3.5" diskette for the drivers as well...lol.

[Moonzy]

it's a GPU used in my P4 rig, an AGP GPU

 

 

the box was all I had, the P4 rig was junked in 2010 when we replaced it with newer hardware

[Peterwoo802]

A Toshiba Satellite A10 PSA10K-05QVEP my parents used back in Korea

and some old ThinkPad (With no battery though)

[sub68]

4 minutes ago, Peterwoo802 said:

some old ThinkPad

looks like it has no battery but these are still fun to use

5 minutes ago, Peterwoo802 said:

A Toshiba Satellite A10 PSA10K-05QVEP

yep looks like a korea layout keyboard

[Peterwoo802]

2 minutes ago, sub68 said:

looks like it has no battery

Oh ya forgot to mention that 

3 minutes ago, sub68 said:

fun to use

Oh yea, it feels really nice to hold one too being so small and compact 

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, Peterwoo802 said:

Oh ya forgot to mention that 

well amazon has a couple for 20-30 bucks also its a thinkpad x60

looks like it is when ibm was switching thinkpad to lenovo

11 minutes ago, Peterwoo802 said:

Toshiba Satellite A10 PSA10K-05QVEP

its a korea only model

[sub68]

9 minutes ago, Peterwoo802 said:

Oh yea, it feels really nice to hold one too being so small and compact 

I have a old IBM t23 that thing is chunky but awesome

it ran windows 95 about 512 mb ram and a 30gb hdd

pretty fun laptop for little things

[OldTweaker]

Oldest component that still gets regular use: a reset cable rescued from an old case. Probably over 25 years old. I think it was even an AT case. I use this when working on a motherboard outside of a case by connecting it to the power pins.  Especially when troubleshooting I find this much more convenient than shorting the power pins with a screwdriver. 

 

[kirinzon]

Dug this out. Over a decade old. Amd Athlon, 650ti, ddr3...i think.

[LubyMoo]

HotBit, a Brazilian MSX build from circa 1986. More about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbit

[Zabanja]

Matsonic Pentium 3 motherboard with SIS 8MB Graphic card (chipset). we spent an awefull long time together (till 2006) i just couldn't throw her away have you noticed that AGP was actually First used as CPU support, while it got 3 PCI X1 slots it stil had 1 ISA slot (very very old) while delivering 3 SDRAM DIMM 

The only thing it was missing was USB but hey .... 1999 manufacturing
 

[Bitter]

That is some incredibly non standard AGP slot placement, I assume it was some kind of OEM board with a specific case for it?

[Zabanja]

4 hours ago, Bitter said:

That is some incredibly non standard AGP slot placement, I assume it was some kind of OEM board with a specific case for it?

As i said it was a CPU slot. and that's where INTEL 500 MHZ CPU was, leaving the one we consider standard nowdayq empty 

[BrianTheElectrician]

5 hours ago, Zabanja said:

As i said it was a CPU slot. and that's where INTEL 500 MHZ CPU was, leaving the one we consider standard nowdayq empty 

I dont think slot 1 and agp use the same connector but I could be wrong. Either way yes it is a slot 1 for the old cartridge style pentium 2's and 3's. Pentium 2 was 233mhz to 450mhz, P3 was 450 to I believe 1ghz in the cartridge style. Socket 370 was originally just for the celerons so that board might not support anything but a celeron in the socket 370.

 

Other neat things are the fact it has an AT style keyboard connector, not ps/2 and that it supports both ATX and AT power supplies. Cool board!

[Dabombinable]

First post in its life - and so far only the SiS 305/Asus v3005 works with it. 

[Bitter]

18 hours ago, Zabanja said:

As i said it was a CPU slot. and that's where INTEL 500 MHZ CPU was, leaving the one we consider standard nowdayq empty 

That board has a slot AND socket for CPU? Truly strange.

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

First post in its life - and so far only the SiS 305/Asus v3005 works with it. 

Toss Xubuntu or Lubuntu and post FROM it, not a picture of it

[Dabombinable]

16 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Toss Xubuntu or Lubuntu and post FROM it, not a picture of it

Don't have install discs ATM. It'll have 98SE on it anyway, since it is a better platform than my VP6. I also need to find the SLI and passthrough cables again.