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2 minutes ago, OscarMike said:

i got a stick of Single data rate ram. a whole 32mb CL3 @100mhz. we got so much old stuff at work. antient graphics cards old pentium 1 processors etc. i took this stick home coz i thought it was fun

So you have a 32MB stick...
Behold the power of my 1GB stick!

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I have 4 total.

One is in use.

Three are not.

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3 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

So you have a 32MB stick...
Behold the power of my 1GB stick!

 

I have 4 total.

One is in use.

Three are not.

dayum those must have been expensive back in the day. there was a 64mb stick at work but i opted to take the slowest module home :D

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1 minute ago, OscarMike said:

dayum those must have been expensive back in the day. there was a 64mb stick at work but i opted to take the slowest module home :D

They were free - to my dad.

He often took home old computer parts from work.

Question - what exact GPUs did you find?

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Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

 

Question - what exact GPUs did you find?

i have no idea mate. we have a bin in a cupboard with an asortment of antient fanless (somtimes a tiny super loud mini fan) graphics cards. ill go to work tomorrow and have a look exactly what we got. i wont be able to test them all to find out what they are but i can take some pictures. we are a charity and we take donations of old pc's to fix up and donate to people who cant afford a pc, so we get all sorts of stuff come in. 

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Just now, OscarMike said:

i have no idea mate. we have a bin in a cupboard with an asortment of antient fanless (somtimes a tiny super loud mini fan) graphics cards. ill go to work tomorrow and have a look exactly what we got. i wont be able to test them all to find out what they are but i can take some pictures. we are a charity and we take donations of old pc's to fix up and donate to people who cant afford a pc, so we get all sorts of stuff come in. 

Cool!

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Time to release the SCSI drive...

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1GB.

50-pin SCSI.

IBM.

I have no idea if it works.

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12 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Cool!

so today i asked the boss if i could test the cards we have to see which ones were actually working and worth keeping. good excuse to get some pictures. i magaged to only do a few so theres more to come. some were not as old as i thought they were although by no means new. theres still a whole bunch to test and get through so ill keep you posted.

 

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They're all worth about $20 on eBay still, but most of them are so old that if you're using Windows on these PC's the drivers are no longer getting updates. Less of a problem if you're using Linux.

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6 hours ago, Bitter said:

They're all worth about $20 on eBay still, but most of them are so old that if you're using Windows on these PC's the drivers are no longer getting updates. Less of a problem if you're using Linux.

Lack of up-to-date drivers still won't stop me from buying a Radeon HD5650 in decent condition. The mobile version in my old laptop was easily pushed to near desktop clocks, and it ended up being a pretty capable card (especially with a Phenom II N970 upgrade - P920 sucked).

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On 11/25/2020 at 5:03 PM, ragnarok0273 said:

Problem is, it can't boot anything. Just pulls up the Apple logo, then the circle with line through it.

And this is a 1999 Mac.

Thankfully I have burned copies of OS 9, OS X 10.0, OS X 10.1.3, and OS X 10.4.6.

So I should be able to get it working :)

*After I replace its CMOS battery.

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8 hours ago, OscarMike said:

so today i asked the boss if i could test the cards we have to see which ones were actually working and worth keeping. good excuse to get some pictures. i magaged to only do a few so theres more to come. some were not as old as i thought they were although by no means new. theres still a whole bunch to test and get through so ill keep you posted.

Ooh, I have a hd3650!

I could use some help with this!

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prior build:

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1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Show-off.

 

That's the whole point of this thread! :P

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2 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Do you really need 6 copies of OS 9?

Do some of us really need multiples of any lovely thing? No, do we deserve them? YES!

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3 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Lack of up-to-date drivers still won't stop me from buying a Radeon HD5650 in decent condition. The mobile version in my old laptop was easily pushed to near desktop clocks, and it ended up being a pretty capable card (especially with a Phenom II N970 upgrade - P920 sucked).

Security holes and getting locked out of Windows updates or a greater chance of problems with updates are what comes with end of driver support. None of those are fun. With open source community drivers it doesn't matter as much on Linux, but for Windows it can be some problems.

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36GB HDD SCSI Maxtor Atlas 10K IV and it's new sealed :)

 

I bought it many years ago for a cheap price on eBay.

 

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PC #3 : Mini PC Zotac 4K | Celeron N3150 | 8GB DDR3L 1600 | 250GB M.2 SATA WD Blue | Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB | Samsung Blu-ray writer USB | Genius SP-HF1800A | TV Panasonic TX-40DX600E UltraHD | Win10
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Got a 36" Sony Trinitron!!! Was watching a video about one, the guy said he got it on offerup, so I opened up offerup and there it was. LMAO 20 bucks well spent.

It has the remote, front cover and everything. :D

 

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Got her all calibrated. It has some minor bowing at the top that couldn't be fixed in the service menu, but oh well. Still incredibly stoked about this! My Panasonic Tau has a better image, but it's only 27" soooooo yeah this is still a big upgrade.

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4 minutes ago, 2Buck said:

Got a 36" Sony Trinitron!!! Was watching a video about one

I learned about them today via Technology Connections.

Best channel ever for sarcasm, interesting videos, and the best subtle humor ever.

"Now that we've finally discussed the VHS vs. Betamax war, all of you Betamax snobs can continue being smug about it, even though VHS still won. There. The video is done - where is my HD DVD player?"*

*Paraphrased because brain

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Very nice! I've got a pair of 21" Trinitron, Dell and IBM branded, in my basement.

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3 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I learned about them today via Technology Connections.

Best channel ever for sarcasm, interesting videos, and the best subtle humor ever.

"Now that we've finally discussed the VHS vs. Betamax war, all of you Betamax snobs can continue being smug about it, even though VHS still won. There. The video is done - where is my HD DVD player?"*

*Paraphrased because brain

Technology connections = the best

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Asus p8z77-v lk - 480GB Samsung 870 EVO w/ W10 LTSC - 2x1TB HDD storage - 240GB SATA SSD w/ W7 - EVGA 650w 80+G G2

3x 1080p 60hz Viewsonic LCDs, 1 glorious Dell CRT running at anywhere from 60hz to 120hz

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