Show off your old and retro computer parts

[flibberdipper]

11 hours ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

We don’t have the hassle with logging in. They are all in a domain. The domain and file server is running Windows Server 2012 R2, but I don’t know what’s inside it.

The hard drive in our PCs are actually quite snappy. Takes maybe 2 - 4 minutes to boot and log in.

But they’re often already running from the lesson before.

We also lost 5 in the last 2 weeks because of PSU failure.

Technically speaking all the machines are in a domain, but it still downloads the bare profile (ie saving a doc on one machine means it stays on that machine), and it's a fucking mess at the start of a school year because you'll have tons of new Chromebooks logging on, raping the wifi, and then at some point you'll have ~30 kids buttfucking the servers trying to get logged into one of the Windows machines, and GOD FORBID you use the Mac lab and try logging on with OS X.

[PlayStation 2]

I saw an Athlon 64 X2 at a thrift store for $4, in the box. Didn't pick it up because, as it is, I have a lot of shit laying around.

Although, I do have an old IBM ThinkPad from late 2001.

That ThinkPad compared to a newer education ThinkPad.

[ProjectBox153]

37 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I saw an Athlon 64 X2 at a thrift store for $4, in the box. Didn't pick it up because, as it is, I have a lot of shit laying around.

Although, I do have an old IBM ThinkPad from late 2001.

 

That ThinkPad compared to a newer education ThinkPad.

I want an older ThinkPad that works. I have one (I don't remember the model) but it always freezes shortly after boot, has BIOS issues, and doesn't have the proper power adapter. 

[TheLaserCucumber]

51 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Technically speaking all the machines are in a domain, but it still downloads the bare profile (ie saving a doc on one machine means it stays on that machine), and it's a fucking mess at the start of a school year because you'll have tons of new Chromebooks logging on, raping the wifi, and then at some point you'll have ~30 kids buttfucking the servers trying to get logged into one of the Windows machines, and GOD FORBID you use the Mac lab and try logging on with OS X.

No, we aren’t allowed to save anything on the PC itself. We have to work from the fileserver.

[flibberdipper]

57 minutes ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

No, we aren’t allowed to save anything on the PC itself. We have to work from the fileserver.

I was talking about my old school.

[NoCarrier]

Why is everyone posting brand new stuff?

 

Here is one of my battlestations..  8mhz 286, 512k of RAM.  30mb MFM hard drive and 16 color EGA display.

 

 

here on the right is my Commodore Amiga 1000 - the first amiga.  This little guy had preemptive multitasking before any x86 based machine.  On this machine it was possible to download a file in the background AND play a game, all with limited memory and NO HARD DRIVE (OS and games running off floppy only)

 

[flibberdipper]

11 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

Why is everyone posting brand new stuff?

 

Here is one of my battlestations..  8mhz 286, 512k of RAM.  30mb MFM hard drive and 16 color EGA display.

 

 

 

here on the right is my Commodore Amiga 1000 - the first amiga.  This little guy had preemptive multitasking before any x86 based machine.  On this machine it was possible to download a file in the background AND play a game, all with limited memory and NO HARD DRIVE (OS and games running off floppy only)

 

 

>30MB HDD

Boi that's too dern big. You'll never fill that, let alone the 512K of RAM being 500% overkill! Nobody will ever need more than that.

[Shreyas1]

old intel PGA CPU:

 

 

 

 

 

Got it out of a laptop. I believe it was an Intel core solo

[ultimatemythbuster]

On 10/6/2017 at 2:34 PM, Dan Castellaneta said:

I saw an Athlon 64 X2 at a thrift store for $4, in the box. Didn't pick it up because, as it is, I have a lot of shit laying around.

Although, I do have an old IBM ThinkPad from late 2001.

 

That ThinkPad compared to a newer education ThinkPad.

Even today, I'd prefer the older ThinkPad to the new one.  I'd bet the old one will still function perfectly the day the new one gives up.

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, ultimatemythbuster said:

Even today, I'd prefer the older ThinkPad to the new one.  I'd bet the old one will still function perfectly the day the new one gives up.

The IBM one is built like a fucking brick and weighs like one, too.

The rubberized texture on it is starting to show its age but it's not too bad. It has a DVD-ROM drive so it's not like I can't find use out of it.

[ultimatemythbuster]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

The IBM one is built like a fucking brick and weighs like one, too.

The rubberized texture on it is starting to show its age but it's not too bad. It has a DVD-ROM drive so it's not like I can't find use out of it.

My current daily use ThinkPad is a T61.  I also have an X201t and a T450s.  If I had more money, I'd also have a lot more ThinkPads.

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, ultimatemythbuster said:

My current daily use ThinkPad is a T61.  I also have an X201t and a T450s.  If I had more money, I'd also have a lot more ThinkPads.

I would like to get a more "modern" IBM ThinkPad eventually, more as a toy than anything else, but it'd be interesting to have one.

I got this one for free because my band teacher had it and had no use for it. Last use of it was, I believe in May 2011 before I got it. Battery basically is of no use but it works fine.

[ultimatemythbuster]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I would like to get a more "modern" IBM ThinkPad eventually, more as a toy than anything else, but it'd be interesting to have one.

I got this one for free because my band teacher had it and had no use for it. Last use of it was, I believe in May 2011 before I got it. Battery basically is of no use but it works fine.

I still use the T60 daily for work.  I've been trying to convince my employer that they should be providing me a new ThinkPad, but I'd probably be happier with my older one.  If only Lenovo had made more than one SKU of the T25, I'd seriously try to get one of those.

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

old intel PGA CPU:

 

 

 

 

 

Got it out of a laptop. I believe it was an Intel core solo

My T2600 was a dual core....so that's probably a Core Duo (2x heavily updated Pentium III in the same die).

[ProjectBox153]

Why does everyone post stuff like Core 2 Duos? They aren't old!

[Shreyas1]

20 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

My T2600 was a dual core....so that's probably a Core Duo (2x heavily updated Pentium III in the same die).

When I searched up the laptop, it said Intel core solo. Oddly enough, when I opened the laptop up, I found 2 cpus inside: a desktop and a mobile processor as well as a dedicated gpu.

 

 

 

the laptops model is the dell latitude d620

[Sousuke]

18 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Why does everyone post stuff like Core 2 Duos? They aren't old!

I agree! Old is like P3 and older. Even P4's are "Newish" to me as some P4s supports X64 and HT.

 

Just now, Shreyas1 said:

When I searched up the laptop, it said Intel core solo. Oddly enough, when I opened the laptop up, I found 2 cpus inside: a desktop and a mobile processor as well as a dedicated gpu.

 

 

 

the laptops model is the dell latitude d620

One is a "North Bridge", They wouldn't put 2 CPU's in a laptop (Well a simple dell wouldn't). The good thing is that your CPU Can be upgraded to a Core 2 Duo.

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

When I searched up the laptop, it said Intel core solo. Oddly enough, when I opened the laptop up, I found 2 cpus inside: a desktop and a mobile processor as well as a dedicated gpu.

 

 

 

the laptops model is the dell latitude d620

It would have been upgraded since Core Solo are terrible. As it is I saw a noticeable improvement going from a the Core Duo T2600 in my laptop to a Core 2 Duo T7600.

[Shreyas1]

4 hours ago, Sousuke said:

I agree! Old is like P3 and older. Even P4's are "Newish" to me as some P4s supports X64 and HT.

 

One is a "North Bridge", They wouldn't put 2 CPU's in a laptop (Well a simple dell wouldn't). The good thing is that your CPU Can be upgraded to a Core 2 Duo.

 

2 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

It would have been upgraded since Core Solo are terrible. As it is I saw a noticeable improvement going from a the Core Duo T2600 in my laptop to a Core 2 Duo T7600.

I don’t use it anymore... I scrapped I for hard drives and to see if there is anything else in there that is usable

[Dabombinable]

15 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

 

I don’t use it anymore... I scrapped I for hard drives and to see if there is anything else in there that is usable

Lol, that's what happened to my old laptop (the one with the eventual Core 2 Duo). It stopped working suddenly about a week after I replaced the screen's backlight so the HDD ended up being used for storing DOS Box+DOS games (its one of the early+really slow 100GB 2.5" HDD)

[Mrunkown]

3Gb total of ddr2 1 Samsung 1gb and 1 2gb jetram 

The ram up top is from this Acer Mobo from 2007 with a intel core 2 duo e4500

 

256MB of ddr-400

 

This GPU is from my acer its a Nivida GeForce 8500GT  I think it has a after market heat sink

[aconfusedpcgamer]

my whole system og cm690 case,xfx 780i mobo ddr2,gskill pk 4gb ram intel 2,q6700,radeon hd 6870,corsair rgb gs psu ithink

[Dabombinable]

Guess which of the 2 HDD have problems:

Spoiler

Would have uploaded the photo with them all+the 20GB Samsung Spinpoint V20 ...but I hit the file limit.

[flibberdipper]

19 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Guess which of the 2 HDD have problems:

Would have uploaded the photo with them all+the 20GB Samsung Spinpoint V20 ...but I hit the file limit.

That's a looooooot more than 2 drives. The mind boggles.

 

(and remember, keep yer dick in a vice)

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

That's a looooooot more than 2 drives. The mind boggles.

 

(and remember, keep yer dick in a vice)

I meant that only 2 of them have problems (spoilers its not the 2x 80MB-they run like new). BTW that's not all of my collection of working IDE drives. I've got these not shown in the photo; 4x 250GB, 2x 80GB, 1x 60GB, 6x 20GB, 1x 10GB, 1x 8GB, 1x 3.2GB.
And then there are these in my SATA collection; 2x 200GB, 1x 100GB, 1x 160GB, 1x 500GB, 1x 2TB (running a 2GB HDD above it is fun).

Edit: I only bought the 2TB, 1x 80GB, 1x 60GB, 4x 20GB, 1x 80GB, 4x 250GB HDD BTW. The rest were all salvaged or given to me with a lot of other pre 2000 parts (my family+family friends had a lot of really old desktops).