Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Gazereths]

Old socket 370 Celeron, 2x64mb pc100 ram sticks and mobo, not sure of the exact models or speed. 

 

Old graphics adapter and modem, no idea of the models either. If anyone has any info let me know. 

 

[Sousuke]

1 hour 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.

 

48 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

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

 Yep it was basically marketed as a "Digital Video" Model and included a DVD Drive. When I got the iMac it still had stock memory (64MB) Which I've upped to 512MB everything else is how you see it, did include OS X 10.1 which was useless. 

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Gazereths said:

Old graphics adapter and modem, no idea of the models either. If anyone has any info let me know.

That's uh... Not a graphics adapter. It's a serial port expansion card.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Crunchy Dragon
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[Gazereths]

12 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

That's uh... Not a graphics adapter. It's a serial port expansion card.

Ahh OK thanks. 

[Rethilgore]

So i salvaged and restored an old Compaq Presario thought you guys might like to see some pics. 

 

https://imgur.com/a/f97IiZn

 

Please note that this is still a work in progress and I'm not finished with the inside of the case or transplanting in hardware yet

[flibberdipper]

7 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

What card is that?

 

*when your heatsink fins aren't just branded MSI, they're shaped MSI*

Says right on the sticker on the back that its an MX4000 lol

 

4 hours ago, Rethilgore said:

So i salvaged and restored an old Compaq Presario thought you guys might like to see some pics. 

 

https://imgur.com/a/f97IiZn

 

Please note that this is still a work in progress and I'm not finished with the inside of the case or transplanting in hardware yet

Interesting choice of sound card considering it's not even one of the good Compaqs...

[Rethilgore]

1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Says right on the sticker on the back that its an MX4000 lol

 

Interesting choice of sound card considering it's not even one of the good Compaqs...

lol it will shortly be transported into a nicer build that is just waiting for a motherboard to arrive at the moment but i couldnt resist testing it out will likely be plopping a SB Live or Asus Xonar DG back in this one

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, Rethilgore said:

lol it will shortly be transported into a nicer build that is just waiting for a motherboard to arrive at the moment but i couldnt resist testing it out will likely be plopping a SB Live or Asus Xonar DG back in this one

Ah, that makes more sense lol

 

For a minute there I thought you were crazier than me.

[NoCarrier]

On 8/26/2018 at 8:19 AM, Gazereths said:

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

Nice A500. Funny how the tank mouse has yellowed but the amiga chassis itself hasn't.  Time for retrobrite!

I have a pair of 1000s, a pair of 2000s, a 3000, and a 1200.  don't own any 500s yet for some reason.  I guess i can't ever find a clean one at a reasonable price.

[Jayjaysquid]

Heres my GT 8800 Alpha dog edition ! 

[ShadowChaser]

Most of this ain't that old but whatever, I've been using them all up till this point save for one.

PowerMac G4: One of the higher end models with 2 (Yes, TWO!!! What a concept!) PPC G4 1Ghz cpus.

Unfortunately it crapped out after its power management battery died and I can't find a replacement, but fortunately I have the following!

PowerBook G4 12": It has a 1.33Ghz CPU and 512 MB of RAM, unbelievable!

It's a little rough at the edges after it fell off a jetway (true story), but the original hdd, charger, and battery (most common points of failure) are still in great shape!

Then I got an upgrade.

MacBook 13 (Late 2007): It's white, and plastic now, not much of an upgrade I suppose? But it has two cores! On a laptop! Oh and it has 4 GB of RAM, right.

And a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB.

And a 1TB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive.

And it's just as usable today in 2018 as it was back in 2008.

Apple has changed a lot over the years.

[RobbinM]

I remember I swapped my AWE64 Gold with my uncle for his AWE32, so he could use it to record his band.

He threw it out, in the trash. Regrets. Never gonna get it back. Still have the AWE32 (with extra memory).

Remember my Voodoo2 SLI setup. Still have them. Need For Speed II SE, Rayman 2, Monstertruck madness. Yes it was madness. Lan party over serial ports. Used to have 100Mbit LAN, now have 500Mbit WAN. I miss my 64kbit cable modem. I miss the 14.4k modem because it was so much faster. 

Still have the Pentium Pro. Where's my matrix printer.

[Gazereths]

17 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

 

Nice A500. Funny how the tank mouse has yellowed but the amiga chassis itself hasn't.  Time for retrobrite!

 

I have a pair of 1000s, a pair of 2000s, a 3000, and a 1200.  don't own any 500s yet for some reason.  I guess i can't ever find a clean one at a reasonable price.

 

 

 

Yeah I wondered why the mouse was excessively yellow, maybe sweaty hands? If I recall correctly the psu is pretty yellow as well though, would sunlight affect it that way? I think the main computer used to get covered when not in use. 

 

I couldn't find my Atari St or this old windows 95 laptop I used to have, maybe they were thrown away/sold and I can't remember

[Exiled Nephilim]

This case is from an old Windows Millennial Edition Machine that I tore apart. Would be cool as a sleeper case IMO.

[InMiseryWeSeekPancakes]

I made a new pc specifically for coding, yeah its probably substantially weak in terms of performance and hardware in general but its only for coding and truthfully you can do pretty decent coding on this

 

remember this thing?

 

so with that being said here are the specs of the pc i built recently...

 

CPU: Pentium 4 @ 3GHZ

 

Motherboard:  Asus P4P800-E Deluxe 865PE Motherboard

 

Ram: 2 GB DDR2 RAM

 

GPU: Geforce 8800 GTS 512 MB

 

Case: A really fucking old aopen case 

 

HDD: 80 GB IDE SSD ( Woah! I didn’t expect that considering your low income! ) 

 

PSU: Antec 450w ( probably overkill but its what I had laying around so I decided to put it back to work its been lazy for a couple of years!  )

 

Its all connected to the same monitor and everything its just nice having two pc’s each of them 

One having linux because I fucking love linux for coding, programming, a little bit of hacking tutorials here and there just for fun and all the other pleasureful things that come with linux but since I game quite often I have a separate pc just for that running winxp. Its fucking beautiful   

 

[TetraSky]

I hope you got the parts for free.

 

To think that, once upon a time, that case may have been white.

[InMiseryWeSeekPancakes]

IBM Model 30, love this thing

I refurbished it so its in tip top shape

 

I have a model m keyboard

My vic 20 from the fucking 80s 

 

 

I don’t have a picture of the actual unit itself but heres the mb i guess

 

my linux system ( see profile ) is probably considered retro by today’s standards including my main pc as well lol

 

I have a kenwood cd drive from the 90s and it spins at 5400 rpm but it uses 7 individual lasers inside the unit and is deemed the fastest cd drive despite its slow rpm, I don’t have a picture of it sorry,

 

my voodoo 2s 

 

and I am typing this on a macbook 2008 haven’t used it in like what 4 years? 

Just took it out again to type this out. Heres a screenshot of it its running el captain 

 

Its somewhat capable wish it had a ssd.

 

[InMiseryWeSeekPancakes]

(2/2) Also regarding the macbook here are the specs 

 

[BLLDoesTech]

Well my old tech is my first pc. I found this on the way to school in 2005, and kept it cause I liked computers. I upgraded and always was tinkering around with it.

Soundblaster 16

3Dfx Voodoo 1

Ethernet card

Almost a GB of RAM

80GB HDD

Floppy

All in a HP Vectra case

Windows 98

All still works to this day

[BLLDoesTech]

19 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Nice! Was there a heatsink on the CPU? Can we see it?

I'll take a pic and the air channel

[NoCarrier]

On 9/3/2018 at 7:17 AM, BLLDoesTech said:

I'll take a pic and the air channel

Nice, not a lot of retro Pentium Pro rigs running anymore.

 

Take some pride, man! clean that thing up!

[BLLDoesTech]

3 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

Nice, not a lot of retro Pentium Pro rigs running anymore.

 

Take some pride, man! clean that thing up!

Thanks

It is clean, bad picture is all. You should of seen it when I pulled it from storage!

[NoCarrier]

picked up an ultra-clean Tandy 1000TL this weekend.  45mb XTA IDE (not ATA mind you) hard drive, complete with matching keyboard and monitor.  I like it when things match.

 

 

[UZ41RM]

I have a hp g56 laptop, pentium d t4500, 2x2gb ddr2, integrated graphics that give me 3 fps on the fortnite lobby on low with most things off and no characters loaded in

[Need4Speed214]

I had a GTX260 till i gave it away the card was brand new along with a GIGABYTE P35-GA-DS3R motherboard and a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked to 3.8GHZ with stock voltage