Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Sousuke]

Planning on a P1 build using the motherboard I have, any recommendations on what parts I should use? 

 

Also my XPS T700R is getting some games, This will deffo be a stretch to use on this system but going to give it a try! 

 

 

[PrEDRiSing]

A AMD ATHLON 64 with no or little bent pins.

A AMD ATHLON 64 FX with no or little bent pins.

A AMD SEMPRON with no or little bent pins.

I know it isn't amazing but I thought it was amazing that the pins weren't bent completely.

[Guest]

On 7/11/2018 at 4:31 AM, Monkeybiz0985 said:

It may have been 100KB but I very distinctly remember it being less than 1MB.

 

*edited for spelling

im certain it would have to be 10mb or more, even my ibm ps/2 model 30 from 1987 had a 20mb HDD

i think some of the first true hard drives even were around 5mb

[NoCarrier]

7 hours ago, campy said:

im certain it would have to be 10mb or more, even my ibm ps/2 model 30 from 1987 had a 20mb HDD

i think some of the first true hard drives even were around 5mb

 

I wonder if he got it confused with a 720k 3.5" floppy?  even back then, because they weren't as "floppy" as a 5.25 or 8" diskette, many people thought they were "hard drives"

 

[Bananasplit_00]

My job at the recycling center is awesome... Had to let go a load of other really freaking cool old add in cards though

 

So far I have picked up:

 

Intel Pentium

Intel Pentium MMX

Intel Pentium III

Intel Celeron SLOT 1

An entire IBM PC/2 with Windows even

An ATI GPU from the early 2000s

And two sound cards i have yet to identify but man are they big boys! 

 

[Mattias Edeslatt]

The bottom of the two sound cards is a Turtle Beach https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turtle_Beach_Corporation#/Sound_cards

 

Most likely a TURTLE BEACH MULTISOUND TBS 2-HL https://www.thefullwiki.org/Turtle_Beach_Systems#wikipedia_Brands

 

The card above is a TerraTec AudioSystem EWS64 XL - Sound card - 16-bit - 48 kHz - stereo - ISA - Cirrus Logic CS 4236B Series 

https://www.cnet.com/products/terratec-audiosystem-ews64-xl-sound-card-16-bit-48-khz-stereo-isa-cirrus-logic-cs-4236b-series/specs/

[flibberdipper]

52 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

My job at the recycling center is awesome... Had to let go a load of other really freaking cool old add in cards though

 

So far I have picked up:

 

Intel Pentium

Intel Pentium MMX

Intel Pentium III

Intel Celeron SLOT 1

An entire IBM PC/2 with Windows even

An ATI GPU from the early 2000s

And two sound cards i have yet to identify but man are they big boys! 

 

mmmmmmm back when Turtle Beach wasn't overpriced GaYmER gEaR

[InMiseryWeSeekPancakes]

Oh man remember these things?

 

 

I had these voodoo 2 beasts paired up with a pentium 3!

That was like top of the line. I absolutely loved that system.

My specs currently are still really outdated if you wanna take a look  

 

[thedonheath]

Some where in a box upstarts i have a tnt 2 32bit and a ati 2d video card 

[Dem son]

I have a bunch of pentium 4 a pentium 3 somewhere and a bunch of celerons laying around and i think i have ddr1 ram too but dont know where

[YourDarlingNoor]

Pulled this out of a PC that was on the verge of dying, when i pulled it out you couldn't even read what it was called but damn this CPU into days task is terrible! the PC had trouble just launching up Vanilla Minecraft. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

6 hours ago, VendettaHD said:

Pulled this out of a PC that was on the verge of dying, when i pulled it out you couldn't even read what it was called but damn this CPU into days task is terrible! the PC had trouble just launching up Vanilla Minecraft. 

What model Athlon 64?

[Darkimane]

Gtx 210 Asus.

[NoCarrier]

On 7/19/2018 at 10:09 PM, Inx said:

Retro computers?  My alley!

 

IBM PS/2 Model 25, heavily modified..  8086 CPU (V30 upgraded), 640KB RAM, 2GB IDE SSD (on a home made XT-IDE card), VGA graphics wired to the internal analog monochrome CRT, and lastly, a DOS/Unix hybrid I have been working on for some time now.  Oh, and it has an Ethernet adapter on the parallel interface, so it does get on the Internet for IRC and FTP access (and HTTP access for retrieving files), oh and telnet of course..  Works good still after all these years.

:Lovely PS/2!!   i have a PS/2 model 30 that i plan on putting a v30 in.  bought a few (one for my tandy 1000) just haven't had a chance to install and test.  Need to find some good DOS benchmark apps so i can get a real understanding of how much better the V30 is.

 

I also have a PS/1 in the same form factor as yours.  I love how compact they are. it's great when you collect retro rigs to have machines like these so you can squeeze them in.

 

 

 

 

[8uhbbhu8]

6 minutes ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

My young 9-year old brother after I gave him a 5960X mobo and GTX 770 from the E-waste bin of luck (the same one where I found my GV100 workstation): "That's so OLD! Why can't I get anything new?!" 

Bear in mind I gave him a VERY good air cooler as well and there were like no bottlenecks.

 

Then I pulled out a good old 8086 and told him I could disable 7 cores and hyperthreading if he kept complaining. I work hard to find these components.

With that attitude he doesn't deserve anything honestly.

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

My young 9-year old brother after I gave him a 5960X mobo and GTX 770 from the E-waste bin of luck (the same one where I found my GV100 workstation): "That's so OLD! Why can't I get anything new?!" 

Bear in mind I gave him a VERY good air cooler as well and there were like no bottlenecks.

 

Then I pulled out a good old 8086 and told him I could disable 7 cores and hyperthreading if he kept complaining. I work hard to find these components.

The only really "old" hardware in that list in the GTX 770, which is still a fairly capable GPU.

[PlayStation 2]

I still have my sad old ThinkPad.

I should throw Nicktoons Racing on it again and see how the S3 suffers if it's even used in the game.

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Please post the glorious specs?

It's an IBM ThinkPad T23. I think it has a 1.13GHz Pentium III and it has 384MB of RAM with Windows 2000 on it.

[ThomBOY]

Mac Color Classic, featuring a blazing 16 mhz Motorola processor and 4 mb (not gb) of memory

[Guest]

just got a PCI MX 420 for my early 2000's mini itx pentium 4 machine

[jonrosalia]

this is my Panasonic toughbook one of the only times I have seen a touch screen full windows XP laptop with wifi since its Centrino it was only 500 Mb of ram when I was given it and its at 1.5 now with my help and it isn't terrible to use its just normal low spec laptop its very cool I rescued it from the dumpster pile at work and had to promise never to bring it back lol but its near mint and its so clean and so much dust and water proof I/O on it.  so many cool things in this thread I just want to own I think I have a tech addiction.

[flibberdipper]

21 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I'd love that to compare that to the 2600X I'm stuffing in my system.

Old stuff like this fascinates me.

Well, my 4600+ got a whopping 95CB in Cinebench R15, so with the extra 600MHz the 6000+ has you'll probably get around 105...

[NoCarrier]

12 hours ago, ThomBOY said:

Mac Color Classic, featuring a blazing 16 mhz Motorola processor and 4 mb (not gb) of memory

 

the color classic is SURPRISINGLY valuable..  these will only keep going up in value.

[NoCarrier]

1 hour ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I'm trying to get an emulator running on an emulator running on an emulator running on Windows 7. Any ideas?

Well, off the top of my head, you can emulate an amiga via WinUAE in windows 7.

 

then on the amiga you emulate a 68k mac  (i believe an emulator exists)

 

then on the 68k mac you can run ][ in a mac which will emulate an apple II.

 

which should be pretty interesting..

[Mattias Edeslatt]

3 hours ago, ONOTech said:

Finally got around to playing with my old CPUs. This is a screen grab from a video I'm working on. 180nm and 150nm goodness!

 

Internet points to whoever can guess what these are. Hint: each is from a different CPU manufacturer

 

 

Intel P-III, AMD Thunderbird or Duron and a Cyrix. Might be a PPC from Motorola / IBM