Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Speedbird]

In 10 years, Haswell will be retro. Just think about it for a while...

[Caironc]

Best friend's father owns a computer store since the 90s and still has a lot of the stock from back then lying around. Maybe I should go there and take some pictures one day. 

[SpyRosL]

So i came for a few days in my parents' home and found some old stuff..

2 IDE CD roms 

A freakin samsung floppy drive

And my very first computer case which oddly looks like a mercedes front.

Gaps were filled with cd/dvd roms and a floppy and there was glass with blue/red leds in the ''lights''

 

Oh i would so much do a mercedes mod pc if i had some spare cash..

 

[Gr8White_Bear]

I found a random 128MB DDR 400 ram stick in my dad's office...

[Filippus]

Still got her in my rig, she has been true to me for 5 years.

[flibberdipper]

 

Still got her in my rig, she has been true to me for 5 years.

Nice.

[Commander_Z]

the new

 

 

these are not old and/or retro parts

[elecxonica]

Quality CRTs actually own most flat screens that are not ips.

Except when they give you a massive headache.

[Sauron]

Except when they give you a massive headache.

 

Never happened to me, or at least not in a condition where my flat screen wouldn't have given me a headache too. Maybe you missed the "quality" part

[elecxonica]

Never happened to me, or at least not in a condition where my flat screen wouldn't have given me a headache too. Maybe you missed the "quality" part

True. I tried a Phillips CRT from 2001 or so recently and got one just from the whining noise of it.

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

I have a whole stash of ancient PC parts; they include:

 

- Copper tinted ASUS mobo for Pentium 3 (still sealed inside)

- Pentium 4 1.8A C1

- 20GB IDE HDD

- A pair of floppy drives

- NVidia GPU from E.L.S.A that had a single VGA output

- Printer port expansion wire

- Asus USB/MIR rev 1.11; A USB 1.1 expansion PCB  

- Samsung DDR1 256MB PC2100 CL2.5 RAM

- Kingston ValueRam PC100 256MB CL3 3.3V RAM

[The Gaige]

I had this card at one time & it was an awesome card back in the day!

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127325

[Tr3vor]

Speaking of degauss coils inside of monitors/TVs, It annoys me how they are switched on and off by heat on older monitors. When you turned them on cold, the degauss coils remained active until it heated up. So if your shadow mask is magnetized when its warm, you gotta turn it off and let it cool to get rid of the color distortion. Newer TVs and monitors have relays that switch it on and off. Much better idea.

[Heiski]

I don*t have a pic right now, but my mom uses pc that has core 2 duo, 4gb ddr2 ram and TWO geForce 140 (or something like that) in sli. It used to be a gaming beast... also I think I have those  old 268mb ram sticks lying somewhere...

[Liam-McShane]

I don*t have a pic right now, but my mom uses pc that has core 2 duo, 4gb ddr2 ram and TWO geForce 140 (or something like that) in sli. It used to be a gaming beast... also I think I have those  old 268mb ram sticks lying somewhere...

That PC is not retro, not even close.

[.:MARK:.]

Oh boy, I love my old computer hardware.

This is only a small taster. MORE in the attic, my 8086, ataris, FPGAs... and so on.

Oh BTW the keyboard you see there, is a buckling spring keyboard from my ICL DRS M40. It's got a freaking huge 10Mb Winchester drive.

I have all this from an old computer science lab in a university. Got about 20 or so machines with FPGAs and IBM PCs with Model Ms, Interface cards. All sorts.

[terrytek]

Oh boy, I love my old computer hardware.

This is only a small taster. MORE in the attic, my 8086, ataris, FPGAs... and so on.

Oh BTW the keyboard you see there, is a buckling spring keyboard from my ICL DRS M40. It's got a freaking huge 10Mb Winchester drive.

I have all this from an old computer science lab in a university. Got about 20 or so machines with FPGAs and IBM PCs with Model Ms, Interface cards. All sorts.

Yay! 486DX FTW.

[.:MARK:.]

Yay! 486DX FTW.

I have DX2s too!

[Tr3vor]

I have DX2s too!

 

You should show more.

 

Do you have anything older than 486 stuff? I'd love to see more of that too.

[Owade73]

I have a Pentium 4 LGA 770 or 750 (I can never remember) and some DDR2 RAM along with an old budget GPU that I threw away. Didn't even have a brand name on it and was very VERY UGLY.

[.:MARK:.]

You should show more.

 

Do you have anything older than 486 stuff? I'd love to see more of that too.

I will soon, It's all in the attic of the house I'm moving into.

I do have an 8086, there is a 286 in the M40 and I have various 386 models. I have some old clone chips too, like the Cyrix ones.

I do have some traditional home computers as well:

Atari 800xl

Atari 2600

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (and a few other Sinclair PCs)

And an Acorn BBC Micro.

These are all off the top of my head. Will take an inventory and photos of everything when I move.

[DigitalHermit]

As promised earlier, here are some stuff that's in my college's networking and application development labs...]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.S.

The HPs are early P4s, and the rest are P2 to P3 but upgraded to 1st gen single core Atoms...

[twodarray]

Two old Pentium 4s.

 

My father told me when he bought these ten years ago, they were the best on the market.

[flibberdipper]

This fan is from the mid to late-80's, I do believe. Moves a decent amount of air and is pretty quiet at 4.8 volts. At 12 volts it moves a ton of air and it's too unreasonably loud.

 

[Tr3vor]

I got moar socket 7 goodness from a thrift store today. also there was a dipshit there carrying off all the cruddy P3/P4s. Probably for scrap. This halfway pisses me off, and halfway makes me happy. Just as long as he doesn't touch my Socket 7 and older hardware I'll be fine with him doing that shit >.>

 

 

 

I'd love to give this board/CPU a go, but it doesn't have a case, and I'm not sure if I'd like to run an AT board outside of a case...

 

yes, grainy camera is grainy.