Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 8/15/2018 at 1:36 PM, MEC-777 said:

2x Powermac G5's. Just picked up yesterday for $20. Both identical, only one has a GPU.  

 

Model A1047 EMC 1969C (June 2004). 

Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC 970fx.

Nvidia GeForce FX5200 64mb AGP.

RAM, not sure how much, one has more than the other. It's 400mhz DDR though.

80GB 7200 HDDs.

 

Would like to get at least one of these back up and running as original as possible for nostalgia and to keep as a working relic. The other, I might turn into a new build project.

I'd love one of those, where did you find two of them for $20??

[ExpiredTangent]

On 16/08/2018 at 3:36 AM, MEC-777 said:

2x Powermac G5's. Just picked up yesterday for $20. Both identical, only one has a GPU.  

 

Model A1047 EMC 1969C (June 2004). 

Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC 970fx.

Nvidia GeForce FX5200 64mb AGP.

RAM, not sure how much, one has more than the other. It's 400mhz DDR though.

80GB 7200 HDDs.

 

Would like to get at least one of these back up and running as original as possible for nostalgia and to keep as a working relic. The other, I might turn into a new build project. 

 

I’d you can remove the ram, it usually says the specs on the sticker 

[Pesukarhu]

On 12.8.2018 at 9:37 PM, Ωhmbreon said:

It lives.

 

an IBM Thinkpad T41 I picked up a while ago.

I have a T40 and a T41

 

Both work, i have chargers for both and a dock as well. The bigger charger also works as a car charger.

The T41 feels like new too, as opposed to the well-used T40.

 

More pictures:

Spoiler

 

The T40

It has a fingerprint scanner which is apparently dead, worst built-in wifi ever, and a slightly faded backlight. There is a bluetooth indicator but the module isn't installed or its dead. The belkin wireless card is bulky but useful. The left-click button for the trackpoint is worn out and sometimes doesn't work. Otherwise it is functional.

 

The T41

It is probably the base model without a fingerprint reader and wifi. Haven't found any issues with it.

 

The i/o

They are identical for i/o. Both have gigabit ethernet, two usb 2.0 ports and much more.

 

The charging port is in the back which is usually quite convenient.

 

Cant forget vga and a disc drive!

 

The dock:

It adds/duplicates things you might need at a desk.

The specs:

Spoiler

I upgraded the cpu and ram in the T40 some time ago along with a new battery. It used to be my best laptop until last year  
It barely handled youtube at 360p through vlc. Used to play paintball 2 with my friend on our old winxp laptops :DD
The first version of minecraft which had multiplayer support was also playable. (beta 1.5.something i think)

The T41 is probably stock. It is more responsive probably because i have less stuff installed and/or running... The cpu-z benchmark gives around 0.7 single thread and 0.4 multi-thread for both laptops.

 

I didn't realize these were that old, probably because i had been using them... They're fine for old software & old games.

[Gazereths]

 

Slot A Athlon 7, GIGABYTE GA-7IX motherboard and 3x128MB PC100 ram sticks.

[Gazereths]

3 minutes ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Did a video card come with the system?

It had an ATI rage 128. I recently sold the bundle on eBay cuz I need cash for my holiday.

[Gazereths]

 

Here's that ATI Rage 128

[Gazereths]

12 minutes ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Noice. Front side? Thank you!!!

[flibberdipper]

42 minutes ago, Gazereths said:

Slot A Athlon 7, GIGABYTE GA-7IX motherboard and 3x128MB PC100 ram sticks.

mmmmmmmmm secksie What speed is the Athlon?

[Gazereths]

3 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

mmmmmmmmm secksie What speed is the Athlon?

700Mhz

[xriqn]

9 hours ago, Gazereths said:

 

Here's that ATI Rage 128

Nice, I have the 128 pro but it's not in immaculate condition like that, its just missing a bolt on VGA.

[xXxAdamxXx]

14 hours ago, Gazereths said:

 

 

Slot A Athlon 7, GIGABYTE GA-7IX motherboard and 3x128MB PC100 ram sticks.

Nice, that looks identical to my first gaming pc build.

[JoeCoke]

Do these count?

 

My trusty Model M and N64 controller, which I use at my main rig on a regular basis. Model Ms are easily my favorite typing experience and the N64 controller is a great thing to have at my desk as I really enjoy using it for SNES/N64 games. I also got the kitshbent replacement joystick parts which made it feel good as new!

[jib9001]

I have a GeForce 2 MX somewhere, I'll post pics when I find it

[Eric Richard]

My processor is pretty much vintage right now.
Core2Duo E4600 OCd to 2.88 GHz
Kingston DDR3 2GB RAM
Transcend DDR3 2GB RAM

MSI 430GT 2GB
Asus P5G41T-MLX3
500 GB Seagate Barracuda 
both HDD and Processor are 10 yrs old

[xriqn]

32 minutes ago, Eric Richard said:

My processor is pretty much vintage right now.
Core2Duo E4600 OCd to 2.88 GHz
Kingston DDR3 2GB RAM
Transcend DDR3 2GB RAM

MSI 430GT 2GB
500 GB Seagate Barracuda 
both HDD and Processor are 10 yrs old

core 2 duo is not vintage, none of that is vintage. It's old.

[Eric Richard]

10 minutes ago, xriqn said:

core 2 duo is not vintage, none of that is vintage. It's old.

I know. I was just joking. Even with GT430, it can pull off Rise of the Tomb Raider with playable framerates with medium settings and pure hair very high and Nier Automata...well it's like playing it in slo-mo 

[Rethilgore]

about to start a retro early/mid 2000's XP Gaming machine build with the following 

 

300W PSU

Gigabyte GA-7VT600

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (thoroughbred core)

1GB Geil DDR400 (2x512 kit)

2x Seagate 7200RPM 160GB HDD

AMD Radeon 9600XT (256MB)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fata1ty (with live drive front pannel)

DVD RW

 

all jammed into a new case with a "fancy" window and will be doing some custom IDE sleeving and custom cooling for the GPU. also got a nice fancy Cooler master cooler for the socket A cpu (those are damn hard to find now!)

 

If anyone is interested in seeing the Final build let me know im planning to do a video

[Ground]

Gonna ship two of these off in a couple days, but this is still pretty crazy:

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Ground said:

Gonna ship two of these off in a couple days, but this is still pretty crazy:

Thanks, now I have to clean my entire room because of the splooge.

[Gazereths]

Found my old Amiga 500 with all the 'totally legit' games earlier while I was poking around. 

 

Also this old camera, no idea what it is though. 

 

 

Oh and some 'questionable' old DVD's lol

 

[Ruler1976]

[Sousuke]

So as part of a massive job lot I picked up recently I got a load of retro computer stuff

 

Like this Sage Green iMac G3 which is a Summer 2000 DV+ Model!! Got it up and running with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger! 

 

 

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Sousuke said:

Summer 2000 DV Model!!

What is special about this? Not much of an older Mac guy so I have genuinely no idea and the ol' Google machine is being incredibly useless on helping me figure out what the hell it is.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

What is special about this? Not much of an older Mac guy so I have genuinely no idea and the ol' Google machine is being incredibly useless on helping me figure out what the hell it is.

from everymac

" However, the iMac G3/400 DV (Summer 2000 - Indigo/Ruby) systems shipped with a CD-ROM drive instead of a DVD-ROM drive and a slightly better video processor with the same amount of VRAM (8 MB). It also replaced the oft panned Apple USB Keyboard and "hockey puck" Apple USB Mouse with the Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse, but sold for US$300 less (US$999 instead of US$1299). "

[flibberdipper]

45 minutes ago, campy said:

from everymac

" However, the iMac G3/400 DV (Summer 2000 - Indigo/Ruby) systems shipped with a CD-ROM drive instead of a DVD-ROM drive and a slightly better video processor with the same amount of VRAM (8 MB). It also replaced the oft panned Apple USB Keyboard and "hockey puck" Apple USB Mouse with the Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse, but sold for US$300 less (US$999 instead of US$1299). "

Huh, interesting how it has a worse optical drive but everything else is better. Thanks for the info.