Show off your old and retro computer parts

[stikle]

For my first LTT post, here's my contribution:

 

 

Trident 1MB VGA card.

 

I don't have any pics or parts from my first "gaming PC", but it was a 286-20 with 2 x 1MB SIPP modules and a 20MB MFM hard drive and a 300 baud modem.  It was bliss.

[flibberdipper]

HD 3650 512MB for my XP rig. Can't wait to get home and slap this bitch in and pray to hell that it works.

 

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, campy said:

Got a little bit of a bios corruption or the gpu is having some issues

 

I'd say that's the GPU. Though at least most of the image is there, and the driver is loaded correctly....my Geforce 3/4 (can't remember-tossed it in a draw and left it) is stuck at 4 bit colour, 640x480. With full blown checkerboard artifacting.

[T4220]

Finally a use for all of the old photos of random stuff I had lying around

 

This last one is the best, this Windows XP computer was left powered off in the middle of updates:

[ClarissKrays]

Behold the glorious PEGATRON. Salvaged from a friends HP desktop and Frankensteined into... something else.
 

I still have this thing in a box because I don't know what to do with it. It's super dusty because my old case didn't have filters on it.

[demotricus]

I still have an old 8086 PC stashed in my attic too, it was working... (I`ll check when I get a free moment and post pics if it still does).

I`ll probably need to sweep the dust of it first though

 

Edit:- Apparently not...someone in my household decided to throw it out....

They left the monitor, some old cases and bits of detritus for me...so for the record, here they are:-

(a bit of a come down from a working 8086 but hey-ho, whatever...)

 

 

 

The Black Hole of Calcutta:-

 

[Radium_Angel]

At midnight tonight, one of the items I've been lusting after for a long time, will have the auction end, and I"m feeling good about it.

A Compaq Portable III (pic is an exmaple)

 

It's highly yellowed, anyone have any experience restoring the yellow to an original colour?

I'm considering (but only considering right now) making it more like those old dirty terminals you see in Fallout games, but I am yet undecided. I may take it to work and see if I can connect it to our network (I'm the IT person here, so I can get away with such silly things)

 

[VIVO-US]

On 2/18/2019 at 1:43 AM, Karma12gaming said:

Behold the glorious PEGATRON. Salvaged from a friends HP desktop and Frankensteined into... something else.
 

I still have this thing in a box because I don't know what to do with it. It's super dusty because my old case didn't have filters on it.

Make sure to put a small fan on that chipset heatsink so it doesn't burn up, because the heatsink is actually insufficient for the wattage used by the GeForce 9100 underneath when used passively!   I'm honestly amazed it's lasted this long.  Before we were into our current product line, we used to sell hundreds of these boards because they kept dying.

[PerpetualToddler]

I just got an IBM Model M from 1995

[RollinLower]

19 hours ago, PerpetualToddler said:

I just got an IBM Model M from 1995

buckling springs man, it'll always be a dream to have a keyboard using those. typing heaven!

[ReeseRiverson]

Just a few of my retro computer machines and parts... and one of my 486 motherboards is the model with an actual GUI for the BIOS. I wonder if @LinusTech ever happened to of seen one of those beauties before? 

 

 

 

By the way, I can capture any footage of the BIOS directly if any one would like a clearer shot, since I can capture VGA output easily.

 

Now for the rest of the goodies.

[ReeseRiverson]

4 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

What's the second socket for? The SX means the FPU is disabled right?

I believe it was for a separate chip to support FPU when you have the 486SX installed. Like the 487, IIRC. 

[Dabombinable]

4 minutes ago, ReeseRiverson said:

I believe it was for a separate chip to support FPU when you have the 486SX installed. Like the 487, IIRC. 

All I know is, who ever originally sold or installed that board with the 486SX is a complete dick. Its got no L2 cache...and even just 128KB made a huge difference.

[ReeseRiverson]

4 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

All I know is, who ever originally sold or installed that board with the 486SX is a complete dick. Its got no L2 cache...and even just 128KB made a huge difference.

Unfortunately many of the Gateway 2000 boards I've come across are like that, lacking the L2 cache. From what I've found out a while back they used some odd standard for the cache chips. So any of the ones I have on another board simply won't work on these. Which is a shame because I really wanted to run my Pentium Overdrive in one of these Gateway 2000 machines I have... 

 

I mean it does work, but my 486DX4 machine still kills the Pentium Overdrive in raw performance just because of the lack of L2 cache in the machine it's installed in. While that 486DX4 has plenty of L2 cache on hand.

 

I definitely agree with how much of a difference it makes, it's quite amazing, yet frustrating at the same time. 

[Steo]

@ReeseRiverson That's an amazing collection! You make my collection look like complete crap in comparison, I don't think I have a system that was built for anything older than XP at the moment.

 

I'd love to have more stuff, mainly a decent CRT monitor for starters, but I don't have anywhere to store anything else and people already call me a hoarder. 

[64 Tech]

My dos/windows xp build. Has 750mb DDR and a gpu with 512mb DDR2. Also a dual core 1.0Ghz and processor. 2 addon pci cards

[flibberdipper]

9 hours ago, campy said:

I have no idea why but these intake fans sound like aids

theure decent fans, new, the identical exhaust sounds fine 

oh well, noise isn't important in the era of ddr and AGP

 

Pentium D 925, 2gb 333mhz DDR, GTX 970, 120gb adata sp550 and 1tb WD gold 

 

Notices ATC with the SB front panel

[flibberdipper]

10 minutes ago, campy said:

Also you know that feeling when you spend an obscene amount of money on old rare ram and a week later an identical kit shows up for 10 bucks and you want to die a little

yeah thats how it be i guess

 

 

welp, that'll be all 4 slots filled, 2gb of ram total in the xp machine

also means i can make a graphic equalizer

May not be rare but this is enticing me a whole hell of a lot even though I know I do not have the funds necessary lmao https://www.ebay.com/itm/4GB-4X1GB-PC133R-333-542-Z-HB52RF1289E2-75B-133MHz-ECC-REG-RAM-TESTED/171360301204?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

[demotricus]

Needs more Soundcards....

[lord of mush]

On 12/19/2013 at 2:25 PM, TheTechnerd said:

 Today I thought we would do something fun and different. This is a topic about showing of all your old pc parts (or old computers). Feel free to post some pics:) It will be fun:D

 

Here's some of mine:

 

 

Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

Here are some of the old parts I have laying around lol.

[Ωhmbreon]

I still can't believe how fast storage technology has improved. Have some old hard drives from 2002.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Ωhmbreon said:

I still can't believe how fast storage technology has improved. Have some old hard drives from 2002.

I've got a small stack next to me from that era as well.

 

Even my laptop's 5400RPM drive is faster than those.

[Chronified]

Remember that "vintage" RAM kit that Linus refused to peel the plastic off of?

Well I had the same kit in an old rig, checked AND STILL HAD THE PLASTIC ON MINE TOO.

I really hoped the video I took would take off more, but here it is lol

 

[SimplyChunk]

On 12/3/2018 at 12:18 AM, flibberdipper said:

I would absolutely kill to have my dad's old case instead of the one I'm using now. He had one of these bois and my god would it look mint with my parts.

I used to have one of those.  I had a AMD Athlon XP 2400+  (Might have been a 2600+) running in it.  First computer I built from ground up myself  (Mine was black though)

[Bitter]

I've got some older stuff laying around but I had these handy for a different thread. I imagine it would boot up if I had XP installed and some RAM in it, I have the RAM around somewhere.