Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Kilrah]

 

 

 

Acer Travelmate "313D" mini laptop from 1998 restored by mixing parts from a 313T (P266MMX, 800x600 TFT) I found locally a year ago and the 312D (P233MMX, 640x480 DSTN) another forum member had with no way to use it due to missing the HDD connector that I got through a trade.

 

Mine had the left hinge completely missing (someone must have messed with it at some point to remove and lose the metal hinge) along with very broken top casing around that area, and the LCD was flaky. Took the best parts from each for the casing, used my faster mobo and appropriately localized keyboard, put my modem in, hoped to be able to fix my better LCD and use it but unfortunately it apparently failed completely instead  

 

Runs very nicely with 144MB RAM and a 4GB CF. Got 3 working batteries, they give a good hour and some each.

 

Having fun running some old programs I made in VB5 back in the day while listening to some old MP3s with Winamp... Also took out the first microcontroller devboard I programmed on (think Arduino but 20 years ago and programmed in BASIC) that hasn't been touched since 2002 and added a couple of functions to a program from back then, still works perfect  Program stored on a floppy of course, because why not.

Would have been programming that on a dumpster dive 486 laptop back then, so I guess the STN LCD is more period-accurate...

 

 

Nowadays the laptop is the same size than a photo of it on my main monitor, things have changed a tad 

 

 

[Rex Hite]

My 1999 vintage cash register setup.

Most of it is original, including the Epson Dot matrix printer, the Epson thermal printer and I think the bottom APC power supply. But its battery has been replaced quite a few times. 

 

 

 

The sound a dot matrix printer makes is somehow reassuring. You really feel like your printing something when that screeching/ripping sound starts up.

Like something has been accomplished.

[Rex Hite]

Here's some old tech I no longer use but works. A Toshiba 1000LE laptop.

 

 

 

It has Wordperfect 5.1 and it's a great way to write on a word processor when you don't want any distractions. Because the computer just can't do anything else!

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Rex Hite said:

The sound a dot matrix printer makes is somehow reassuring. You really feel like your printing something when that screeching/ripping sound starts up.

Like something has been accomplished.

After spending years of my life listening to one belt out 1000+ pages at a time and then separating the pages and the holey paper strips from the edges I would gladly never ever deal with one again. EVER!

[mbeware]

All consoles are working. They are plugged in a 24"crt TV. The most recent console I have is a PS3. It is plugged on a cheap 40" RCA LCD TV. I should move it on the CRT. The image quality might be better.

 

Those are 3 of the 5 first computer models we had at home (not all at the same time, we "upgraded"). The first one we had was the TRS80 (the one in the middle). That is were I started to learn programming, first by typing programs from magazines, then changing them. Then we got a TI99 and a C64 for games.

Here is my complete collection, but the top of the shelves where cut out of the picture. There are some Mac and clone of appleII. The Apple II beside the TI99 is MY computer. It is not only the model were I learn real programming but it is the actual unit that I bought back from the person my father sold it too. There is a MAI Basic Four mini-computer with a terminal. 
What we had that I still don't have is a PET. I also want to get some Atari Computer and console. Never had them, but they are history. An Amiga would be cool too. 

[mbeware]

4 minutes ago, Bitter said:

After spending years of my life listening to one belt out 1000+ pages at a time and then separating the pages and the holey paper strips from the edges I would gladly never ever deal with one again. EVER!

Old Printer noises, son. Nothing else in the world sound like that. I love the sound of industrial ribbon printers in the morning

 

[mbeware]

On 5/16/2021 at 9:56 PM, Rex Hite said:

I need that in my collection! 

[da na]

27 minutes ago, mbeware said:

 

All consoles are working. They are plugged in a 24"crt TV. The most recent console I have is a PS3. It is plugged on a cheap 40" RCA LCD TV. I should move it on the CRT. The image quality might be better.

 

 

Those are 3 of the 5 first computer models we had at home (not all at the same time, we "upgraded"). The first one we had was the TRS80 (the one in the middle). That is were I started to learn programming, first by typing programs from magazines, then changing them. Then we got a TI99 and a C64 for games.

 

Here is my complete collection, but the top of the shelves where cut out of the picture. There are some Mac and clone of appleII. The Apple II beside the TI99 is MY computer. It is not only the model were I learn real programming but it is the actual unit that I bought back from the person my father sold it too. There is a MAI Basic Four mini-computer with a terminal. 
What we had that I still don't have is a PET. I also want to get some Atari Computer and console. Never had them, but they are history. An Amiga would be cool too. 

Nice PS2 fat... Network/HDD mod? Any custom bootloaders?

[mbeware]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

Nice PS2 fat... Network/HDD mod? Any custom bootloaders?

No mod. No nothing. 
And as you can see on this picture, it is plugged and it is working. 

[mbeware]

38 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Nice PS2 fat... Network/HDD mod? Any custom bootloaders?

I just realized that the question about it being plugged in was your signature... Lol... 

[da na]

9 hours ago, mbeware said:

No mod. No nothing. 
And as you can see on this picture, it is plugged and it is working. 

 

Nice! I've got a PS2 fat with the network adapter, but no HDD. I also have this bootloader on one of the 8mb memory cards called Free McBoot that allows you to run games straight from a network, USB drive, or HDD if you have one.

[Rex Hite]

Kind of related to old computer tech.

This is the toolkit I have been using for about 20 years to build and maintain my workstations.

The extra long Philips is because most of my workstations were in large EATX cases and the long magnetic tip was useful.

The small Philips was added recently because of M.2 drives.

 

The forceps are for getting at wires, handling jumpers, handling front panel header plugs, and most important, jumping the power riser for testing.I prefer them over needle nose pliers.

 

 

 

 

 

[da na]

Some more pics. Changed the CMOS battery today and was amazed at the sheer size of the CPU. It looks big compared to the rest of the laptop.

Then I figured out the HDD was dead (heads didn’t move) so here’s my 4.3gb drive.

Edit: I noticed something about the drive. It's got 2 platters but there are only heads contacting one of them... The hell? Maybe that's why it didn't work...

Edit 2: There's an ethernet jack on the board, but there's a plug over it on the outside. Guess you have to buy the DLC to use it.

[WhitetailAni]

Look what I found!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/324670761491?hash=item4b97e2aa13:g:w8YAAOSwAW9gwmAo

It's another 820-1747-A logic board, what I need to replace the logic board in my iMac G5.

I unfortunately do not have enough right now, but I'm going to save up for it. GTX 690 thermal upgrades can come later since it only reaches 80C under load (F@H used to bring it to 90C but by pulling off the front panel and sticking a desk fan pulling air out I can drop it to 83C.

 

I'd imagine that the thermal upgrades (Kryonaut for GPU and PLX dies and 12.8 W/mK thermal pads for VRMs and RAM, including the pads that go on my backplate) will drop it further, but 80C for summer is pretty good. Curious how much temps will drop if I open the window? It caused a 15C drop before.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

 

Pfft, have fun in the 'Future' losers, I'm here in the year 2000, watching anime, playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, all before the world went to hell.

 

......What do you mean 'Now it's your job to stop 9/11'???  How am I supposed to do that???

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

 

 

Pfft, have fun in the 'Future' losers, I'm here in the year 2000, watching anime, playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, all before the world went to hell.

 

......What do you mean 'Now it's your job to stop 9/11'???  How am I supposed to do that???

Is your name secretly Clint?

[CerealExperimentsLain]

9 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Is your name secretly Clint?

I don't think LGR does anime much, he's barely mentioned it.

[da na]

On 6/12/2021 at 10:00 PM, CerealExperimentsLain said:

I don't think LGR does anime much, he's barely mentioned it.

Lazy Anime Reviews?

[da na]

Got my CF to IDE adapter today, hopefully I can install Windows 98

[Alex-Bubbler-Leo]

Parts from my old computer:

A Ram

A Motherboard with an Intel GPU

[Beyond_The_Berm]

A friends PC from 2004ish we took out of storage...that ASUS AX800Pro GPU though..

[abit-sean]

Clearing out my Grandads loft and found these.

 

[Kilrah]

While we're on AV stuff, an old analog cheapo home video titler from it seems around 1993... Got it a couple of years ago when someone went "we're throwing this away, want it?" and I obviously had to say yes as usual especially since I never used one. Never took it out until today, now I have a CRT TV I could dig it out with an appropriate match, along with an old DV camera.

 

It's really tedious to enter stuff, it's "navigate cursor, press what you want there" with no insert, shift, delete etc so if you want to center something good luck typing it 3 times until you found the right place to start. Can do color if it's making the whole frame, but only B/W when superimposed. Can't fade the titles in over existing video, only fade everything and turn titles on/off or make them appear with a scroll. 

 

Video fader was scratchy and some RCA connectors were making bad contact, resoldered all those, poured alcolhol in the pots and gave them a good workout, it's as good (bad?) as new now 

 

Funny, the EPROM in there has what it seems like a model/SN sticker from a Sharp pocket computer or so used as window cover, wonder if the same factory made both things... It's also more than half empty so they could have used a smaller one. 

 

 

 

 

 

[FoamyFog]

On 12/19/2013 at 9:25 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

I know we are talking about computer parts but i have a ps1 chunky eu model

[FoamyFog]

On 6/13/2021 at 2:32 AM, CerealExperimentsLain said:

 

Pfft, have fun in the 'Future' losers, I'm here in the year 2000, watching anime, playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, all before the world went to hell.

 

......What do you mean 'Now it's your job to stop 9/11'???  How am I supposed to do that???

just cahnge the day on your pc to 8/11