Show off your old and retro computer parts

[stikefreedom]

37 minutes ago, sheekorah said:

F4DXL-UC4主板

英特尔486SX 25MHz 

原始的IBM XT，我的骄傲和喜悦，拥有高达4.77 MHz的处理器，512Kb的RAM和20MB的硬盘......当我有时间展示内部时，我会打开它

ADD a 8087 Math processor chip？

Edited October 1, 2018 by MEC-777
Removed quoted images.

[NoCarrier]

I've been trying to find one of these for a while now. They go for crazy money on ebay

 

52 minutes ago, stikefreedom said:

Antique sound card

 

[stikefreedom]

22 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

I've been trying to find one of these for a while now. They go for crazy money on ebay

 

 

 

3 version of Antique sound card

[Guest]

GEE PEE YOUUUUS

aint this aint even all of them damn, these are just the ones that fit on the table

 

i also have like 20 different audio cards ranging from the original adlib card all the way up to creative audigy cards and things like the turtle beach santa cruz

[Guest]

also among the things i recently purchased, i got a gainward gtx 680 phantom for pretty cheap on ebay so that should arrive next year since its in australia, ill have to inspect it for spiders

also got a few random other cards like a gt 420 because meme points

but as far as old and retro go, i got this gainward 8800 gt golden sample card, should arrive fairly soon, ill be playing around more extensively with this one because ive got an idea for a metallic red build

[Popper]

Acquired from working and long since gone systems.

 

[nntantidakis]

Im sure it can run Crysis

[LukeSavenije]

found these yesterday, have a lot more laying around. might post some more here soon

[LukeSavenije]

1 hour ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Looking at your description, that's a LOT of PCs!!! Might want to flaunt them in Show Off Your Setup (s) and the older ones here. I really want to see the insides and that hard drive smaller than a stick of RAM.

 

Also I have an old HP laptop with the same APU (6410) that sucks balls. I feel you.

Wish that Fujistsu SIemens still worked. one of the harddrives is actually from the Fujitsu, but my connector between the harddrive and the mobo broke and i have no idea where to get it. but if i have some time i'll show some more here.

[flibberdipper]

10 minutes ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Just search up [model number of laptop] parts or the numbers/letters on the broken cable on Ebay and you'll find tons of sketchy matches that will deliver but with 30 year shipping!

If it were that simple my old laptop would be in like-new shape. Not every laptop has a ton of parts available.

[LukeSavenije]

8 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Then use duct tape. If fixes anything somehow. According to the Andy Weir book The Martian: "Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."

one problem, duct tape doesn't bring over signal between my harddrive and the mobo

[Snifferdog3]

My whole system is from about the time this post was first made haha.

[LukeNukem9]

I have a 486 DX2 based machine. its not operational as i just need a AT PSU. in it i have a I486DX2, 20mb of ram, soundblaster 16, trident 1mb s-vga card and some windbond controller card. also need a case. i'll upload pics off my other account later.

[NoCarrier]

Floppies anyone? 

 

8", 5.25", 3.5"  .. i bet a lot of you haven't seen an 8" before. 

 

note the 128gb USB thumb drive for comparison..  infinitely more storage.

[MEC-777]

6 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

Floppies anyone? 

 

8", 5.25", 3.5"  .. i bet a lot of you haven't seen an 8" before. 

 

note the 128gb USB thumb drive for comparison..  infinitely more storage.

 

Awesome. When floppies were actually floppy. lol. 

 

When I was a kid back in the 80's, we first used those 5.25" bad-boys. Never saw an 8" before though. 

[xriqn]

I was born in early 2002, never personally used floppies, seen them used and I own a couple old mitsuki floppy drives. Hoping to get hold of a few floppies so I can make some classic windows 3.1 install media and stuff.

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

Floppies anyone? 

 

8", 5.25", 3.5"  .. i bet a lot of you haven't seen an 8" before. 

 

note the 128gb USB thumb drive for comparison..  infinitely more storage.

I have a small box of 3.5" floppies

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I have a small box of 3.5" floppies

I need more small boxes of 3.5" floppies.

Hopefully here soon I'll also be needing a box of 5.25" floppies...

[NoCarrier]

17 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I need more small boxes of 3.5" floppies.

Hopefully here soon I'll also be needing a box of 5.25" floppies...

So here's the thing.   3.5" floppies have an extremely high failure rate, and it doesn't matter if they're new or used.  What matters most is the quality/brand of the disk, and when it was manufactured.  Ive gotten mega 100 packs of fairly new high density 3.5s where fully 70% were dead.

 

5.25" is MUCH more reliable.   the lower density the better.   I have boxes and boxes of 360k 5.25's from the mid 80s that still work every time i pop them in.  Just food for thought.

 

I think with the retro resurgence, manufacturers might start making them again.  I think that's whats happening with cassette and vhs tape.

[flibberdipper]

40 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

So here's the thing.   3.5" floppies have an extremely high failure rate, and it doesn't matter if they're new or used.  What matters most is the quality/brand of the disk, and when it was manufactured.  Ive gotten mega 100 packs of fairly new high density 3.5s where fully 70% were dead.

 

5.25" is MUCH more reliable.   the lower density the better.   I have boxes and boxes of 360k 5.25's from the mid 80s that still work every time i pop them in.  Just food for thought.

 

I think with the retro resurgence, manufacturers might start making them again.  I think that's whats happening with cassette and vhs tape.

I must just have good luck then because out of the two boxes my dad got of Imation disks (a 10 pack) we both got perfectly clean packs. Not to mention the fact that between the two of us, we have right around 100 of the bastards of varying ages and "workloads" and most of them are perfectly fine.

[MEC-777]

Yeah the 3.5's were pretty sketchy. I remember if you walked through the scanners at the school library and that was enough to wipe or corrupt those discs. lol

[Dabombinable]

3 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

So here's the thing.   3.5" floppies have an extremely high failure rate, and it doesn't matter if they're new or used.  What matters most is the quality/brand of the disk, and when it was manufactured.  Ive gotten mega 100 packs of fairly new high density 3.5s where fully 70% were dead.

 

5.25" is MUCH more reliable.   the lower density the better.   I have boxes and boxes of 360k 5.25's from the mid 80s that still work every time i pop them in.  Just food for thought.

 

I think with the retro resurgence, manufacturers might start making them again.  I think that's whats happening with cassette and vhs tape.

They must have been stored in the shittiest way possible. Only 9 of my over 150 3.5" floppys have become faulty, and they were dirt cheap or water damaged.

[NoCarrier]

37 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

They must have been stored in the shittiest way possible. Only 9 of my over 150 3.5" floppys have become faulty, and they were dirt cheap or water damaged.

i think age might have something to do with it.  Also some brands are better than others.

 

I have thousands. I stopped counting after about 3000.  many were in new in sealed plastic.   I have multiple machines, multiple drives.  Some work great on every drive.  Some do not.  Some work great a couple of times, and then stop working.

 

By and large, my 5.25s have fare a lot better.  I have C64 disks from the early 80s that have no issues at all.

 

Floppies are a hassle, but sometimes when you have the nostalgic itch, nothing else will do.

[flibberdipper]

18 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

They must have been stored in the shittiest way possible. Only 9 of my over 150 3.5" floppys have become faulty, and they were dirt cheap or water damaged.

I have about 50 just thrown on a desk with shit piled on top of them in my grandma's basement (read: m o i s t) and they're all fine except for the ones with fucked up slides where shit has made contact with the disk, and most are going on 20 years old or more at this point.

[gamelovers11223]

Here's just a part of my collection. 

Built a system of yesteryear:

Pc Chips pc571 socket 7 motherboard 

Pentium 200 MMX

2x 64mb pc133 SD RAM

ATI Rage 3D 4mb PCI

60gb Maxtor IDE HDD

430w ATX PSU.

Windows 98 se installed. 

 

Simm 30pin ram

 

Simm 72pin ram

One of the first CPUs.