Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Pablox]

Another retro activist here.

boxes full of ISA/PCI videocards and soundcards and motherboards from most sockets like socket3, socket4,socket5,socket7, supersocket7, socket8,pentium2, 3, athlonxp etc.

Only kept whats expensive, like SB16 cards, PAS16, two gravis ultrasound,  AWE32 and awe64gold, and trashed all regular awe64

Videocards i got some gems like all voodoo cards, about 3 geforce256 cards, and many other models until 8800gt

 

the silver lian li was black, the owner ruined it with scratches and dents, had to remove the black with caustic soda, still a work in progress.

 

the thermaltake lanfire is my main pc for casual gaming, it has a digital touch screen thermaltake commander fan controller

 

During the past 3 years i have bought all that i ever dreamed on having. There are just a few missing things i would like to get like an inwin A500 case, or a lianli pc60, and a siluro geforce3

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 2/12/2021 at 5:29 PM, ProjectBox153 said:

And who are you to say something doesn't count? There aren't any hard rules for this thread, so if someone thinks something is old tech it can be posted. Do I think some of these posts qualify as old or retro? No, but they may be considered that way to someone else. 

I think he was being a bit sarcastic.

[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I think he was being a bit sarcastic.

I was.

A lot of my jokes don't carry over well in text form.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

I was.

A lot of my jokes don't carry over well in text form.

Jokes don't in general.

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Jokes don't in general.

Sad.

A lot of what I say makes no sense unless you get the underlying humor, which is completely missed.

[da na]

I absolutely covet that Thermaltake Lanfire... I had a Thermaltake case from early 2000's but sold it a few years ago when they got kinda rare. Wish i still had it, had so many drive bays

[ProjectBox153]

51 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I think he was being a bit sarcastic.

Maybe so, but it wasn't said in a sarcastic manner. I wish text in general wasn't so unclear about what someone means. 

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Maybe so, but it wasn't said in a sarcastic manner. I wish text in general wasn't so unclear about what someone means. 

It's difficult to convey tone across written word

[ProjectBox153]

6 hours ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

It's difficult to convey tone across written word

Yep. I couldn't figure out how to say that last night. 

[Valentyn]

Uniting a classic with it's new boxed home, and goodies.

[s3riouscat]

Found my original GeForce 256 DDR. This was ungodly expensive for the teenage me at the time. Walked thru snow to buy it at a local shop for I think 399CAD.

[SEAL62]

Found something nice today

[Mark Kaine]

This is funny, it's from a PC I bought in 2008 which I got back from a friend I gave it to - the PC needs fixing, might be as easy as replacing the thermal paste for the cpu, but could also be motherboard... Anyways:

 

(I cleaned the fan since then as good as it gets, also replaced thermal paste)

 

[WhitetailAni]

33.6K modem.

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It's a butt to find drivers for Windows 2000.

Still haven't found any.

[Kotonoha]

core2 are no retro

1999 and below

[WhitetailAni]

9 hours ago, Hakemon said:

I was getting tired of USB floppy drives all performing poorly.  Now while this solution still doesn't give me double density support, I did build my own USB floppy drive out of a OWC enclosure, and one of those Amazon USB FDC controllers (they use a Teac FDC controller and work well if you feed the drive external power, and not USB power).  I also cleaned, and refurbished this lovely black with amber LED Teac drive I purchased on eBay and put new white lithium grease on it.

 

Now I have a USB floppy that performs quite well and reads all my high density disks with ease and good reliability.  Why am I using this?  No real reason, just nostalgia and I like putting some stuff on floppy disk.  lol  And play my original copies of my old games.

 

-snip-

That's what I did for my floppy drive. The first one I got didn't let me write to disks, but they sent us another for free and that one worked.

I'm currently using USB power because (unlike what the Newegg listing said) the GM-750 doesn't have floppy power, but it works fine right now.

I'd like to switch it away as soon as I can, though.

[Fast_N_Curious]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sub68]

4 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

@Storm-Chaser This is hardly a retro and at least not a retro computer part.

 

 

airsoft glock

[WhitetailAni]

Realized I never posted here so here ya go:
Ageia PhysX card. Doesn't have a fan... yet.

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I have Win2K drivers for this.

 

Also, here's an 8-bit ISA 33.6K Winmodem:

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I found the drivers for them... sort of. They were on an FTP server, but that FTP server no longer exists.

So guess I'm going Internet hunting. Fun!

[8tg]

380ED may be the largest MP3 player ever made

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, 8tg said:

380ED may be the largest MP3 player ever made

That reminds me of an old Pentium 4 based Toshiba Satellite I have stored somewhere. It's got a desktop P4 in it (not sure which socket, it's either 423 or 428), so it's a beefy machine. It has front-panel audio controls that allow the optical drive to be used while the machine itself remains off. I used to use it as a desktop CD player. 

[Fast_N_Curious]

On 2/27/2021 at 3:24 PM, Grumpy Old Man said:

@Storm-Chaser This is hardly a retro and at least not a retro computer part.

 

 

In regards to the picture, its the motherboard that's the reason I'm posting it (I still have the board, I just need to get the capacitors replaced). the gun was just laying there in the front. it's an airsoft glock replica that fire BBs that is in no way connected to this thread. 

[mamamia88]

This is my new favorite setup. All second hand or recycled from stuff lying around. Thinkpad for $100 with an upgraded screen and ssd. Docking station for $25 bucks or so on Amazon, TV that a family member used to use prior to large tvs being affordable basically $20 at goodwill, some Sony speakers for like $5 at goodwill,a trackball mouse for rsi,and a cheap amp to power the speakers. All on a desk pulled from the side of the road.  What do you think? Better speakers?

 

[Bitter]

21 hours ago, BillyGoat1776 said:

A co-worker found this museum worthy piece in one of the labs at a local state college

 

 

 

Probably runs the whole online class registration backend for the college.

[WhitetailAni]

Much RAM:

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This is most of my RAM.

There's 2 1GB PC133 sticks in a machine, 2 more of the OCZ DDR3 sticks in my MC server, 2 4GB DDR3 sticks in my MC server, and then a 1GB and a 512MB DDR stick in my iMac G5 (sort of).

Also, yes, that's ECC DDR.

I think my dad permanently borrowed it or something.

 

EDIT:
The Stack^TM:

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