Some questions about a REALLY old PC

[MoonlightSylv]

I have a bunch of old computers in my garage but one stands out, a lot. 

 

It uses SIMMs for RAM instead of DIMMs, it has an original Pentium CPU, the motherboard looks really weird, and the power supply has a plug in and an outlet.

 

Wtf is the outlet for?

 

So what should I do with it?

Edited July 31, 2016 by ShadowTechXTS
Periods are not question marks

[Guest]

The outlet is maybe for a monitor? Donate it to a museum

 

[QueenDemetria]

My guess is that you are referring to the 5 pin DIN connector, its for a keyboard, this was used before ps/2.

 

Edit: Nevermind, the outlet connector on the power supply is for powering a monitor, something that I wish was still around today.

[Trevor87]

Just now, Lord_Doge said:

The outlet is maybe for a monitor? Donate it to a museum

 

It most like for a monitor if you could post photo that would be cool.

Yea if it Pentium recycle it.   

[MoonlightSylv]

5 hours ago, QueenDemetria said:

My guess is that you are referring to the 5 pin DIN connector, its for a keyboard, this was used before ps/2.

No it's literally an inverted PSU plug.

[QueenDemetria]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

No it's literally an inverted PSU plug.

I updated my reply, but its for powering a monitor.

[MoonlightSylv]

I'll upload some pictures hold on.

[MoonlightSylv]

5 hours ago, Lord_Doge said:

The outlet is maybe for a monitor? Donate it to a museum

Pictures:

Edited July 31, 2016 by ShadowTechXTS

[MoonlightSylv]

5 hours ago, CUDA_Cores said:

i'll start answering questions after I see some pics

 

5 hours ago, Trevor87 said:

It most like for a monitor if you could post photo that would be cool.

Yea if it Pentium recycle it.   

 

My internet is like 1mbps or less (literally) so that took about 10 minutes to upload.

[RollinLower]

2 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

 

 

My internet is like 1mbps or less (literally) so that took about 10 minutes to upload.

that pentium looks dope af, i would just keep it on my desk or somewhere around my PC case just to look at it!

Edited July 31, 2016 by RollinLower
typos and stuff

[MoonlightSylv]

5 hours ago, RollinLower said:

that pentium loks dope af, i would just keep it on my desk or somewhere around my PC case just to look at it!

It does look pretty nice, it would look nice next to my dead 6970  

[Sors]

Back in the day, we used that inverted power plug to connect our monitors, the PSU cuts completely the power when you flip the switch, that way you can turn the PC and the monitor on with a single switch.

 

This is the cable that uses to connect the monitor.

[Trevor87]

The photos bring back lots of  good memory's build pc's with my dad when I was small kid   

[themctipers]

14 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

Pictures:

I've got something older. 

 

Mine is the square socket right after the 4004 and 8008

 

run Linux  

[YedZed]

38 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

I have a bunch of old computers in my garage but one stands out, a lot. 

 

It uses SIMMs for RAM instead of DIMMs, it has an original Pentium CPU, the motherboard looks really weird, and the power supply has a plug in and an outlet.

 

Wtf is the outlet for?

 

So what should I do with it?

Dude, i have some of my dad's old pcs, and one is just like this, but older. No motherboard I/o, all in the pci slots. And the weird plugs. Runs red hat fedora Linux. Also, I have tons of old chips CPUs and ram and a pentium. Maybe I'll post about them!

[Security]

It's been so long I seen something like this I simply forgot what it was for... Good thing others do remember.

1 hour ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

It does look pretty nice, it would look nice next to my dead 6970  

Haha, I keep my dead HD5870 around just because it looks like such a beast.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

Pictures:

Looks like it's for powering a monitor. Would need a weird female (or would it be considered male?) power cable though. Haven't seen many of them lately.

 

If you don't find something  to do with the pc you could send it to me! Would be a sweet collectors item.

[PaintChips]

5 hours ago, CUDA_Cores said:

 

OK Here we go:

• The black expansion slots are called 16-pin ISA slots. These came before even PCI
• There shouldn't really be any rear I/O on the board because back in the day of the original Pentium, you were expected to buy your own expansion cards for ALL your I/O including graphics and sound.

Before PCI, every PC used VLBus graphics cards such as a Cirrus Logic 512k-1MB graphics which supported up to 1024x800.

 

As far as expansion cards onboard AC97 audio launched on AGP based Pentium II machines, my parents went from a 486 to an early Pentium II(PCI only) and we had to get a Soundblaster AWE-64

 

When it comes to old hardware I still kept a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 and the intact box

[Unimportant]

13 hours ago, PaintChips said:

Before PCI, every PC used VLBus graphics cards such as a Cirrus Logic 512k-1MB graphics which supported up to 1024x800.

Vesa local bus was introduced on the 486 platform, before that there was ISA, even for graphics.

VLB was a quick flawed solution to get faster graphics on pc at a time GUI's were becoming more popular and the ISA bus was lacking. It is nothing more then the actual 486 processor bus itself put on a slot to connect the gfx card.

As a result is wasn't a very stable bus, very much tied to the 486 itself, but it bought time until PCI was introduced.

[Unimportant]

19 hours ago, CUDA_Cores said:

OK Here we go:

• Original intel Pentium Processor (hopefully without FDIV bug)

SY007 does not have the FDIV bug.

[Monkey Dust]

19 hours ago, Sors said:

Back in the day, we used that inverted power plug to connect our monitors, the PSU cuts completely the power when you flip the switch, that way you can turn the PC and the monitor on with a single switch.

 

This is the cable that uses to connect the monitor.

I'm glad I'm not the only one on here old enough to remember these.

[vorticalbox]

You need to sort that cable management

[YedZed]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

You need to sort that cable management

Did you see Slicks video on c able management? 

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, vorticalbox said:

You need to sort that cable management

It's an old computer in my garage... why the hell would I care about cable managing it?  

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

It's an old computer in my garage... why the hell would I care about cable managing it?  

That moment when its meticulously clean but still runs like shit.