Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 6/17/2021 at 2:32 AM, Alex-Bubbler-Leo said:

Parts from my old computer:

A Ram

A Motherboard with an Intel GPU

thats not a intel gpu, its a pentium2 cpu on a card.

[Jacob_uhhh]

On 12/19/2013 at 3:25 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 really hate how most of the retro tech posted in this discussion is either better or the same standard as my current main pc...

[Corrupt_Liberty]

2 hours ago, Jacob_uhhh said:

I really hate how most of the retro tech posted in this discussion is either better or the same standard as my current main pc...

I can help with that! 

 

[Kilrah]

So can I (again), just got this Thinkpad 755cs 486DX4-75 for $20 3 hours ago. 36MB RAM, 4 soldered and 32 added. Didn't exactly know what I was getting since the owner posted no specs, a wrong model no and no picture where it could be seen but I wanted a 486 and decided to try my luck and it turned out to be one. Came from the original owner who said they were an assistant MD back in the day and was at the top of tech when he bought it with nobody else around having anything that fancy...

 

Unfortunately it came with no HDD and the adapter PCB/cable is missing as well so I can't just shove another HDD in, and the display has a fault on the bottom half. Seems to work fine otherwise. Will see if the display issue is just a bad contact with a bit of luck, haven't taken the top apart yet.

 

The hybrid flex/rigid CPU carrier is interesting. 

 

 

 

 

Interestingly another one of the same series in much better condition appeared on the local aution site just after I won this one, might get it if it stays cheap enough.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

So can I (again), just got this Thinkpad 755cs 486DX4-75. 36MB RAM, 4 soldered and 32 added.

 

Unfortunately it came with no HDD and the adapter cable is missing as well so I can't just shove another HDD in, and the display has a fault on the bottom half. Seems to work fine otherwise.

 

The hybrid flex/rigid CPU carrier is interesting. 

 

That is definitely the strangest CPU mount I've ever seen.  The display issue looks more l like a bad connection.  Maybe try cleaning the contacts or checking the solder joints? 

[Kilrah]

Yeah just added some more details, haven't opened the top yet but it does look like it could be just that. 

 

EDIT: panel is fine, it's the LCD cable. 

 

[Dabombinable]

45 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

So can I (again), just got this Thinkpad 755cs 486DX4-75 for $20 3 hours ago. 36MB RAM, 4 soldered and 32 added. Didn't exactly know what I was getting since the owner posted no specs, a wrong model no and no picture where it could be seen but I wanted a 486 and decided to try my luck and it turned out to be one. Came from the original owner who said they were an assistant MD back in the day and was at the top of tech when he bought it with nobody else around having anything that fancy...

 

Unfortunately it came with no HDD and the adapter PCB/cable is missing as well so I can't just shove another HDD in, and the display has a fault on the bottom half. Seems to work fine otherwise. Will see if the display issue is just a bad contact with a bit of luck, haven't taken the top apart yet.

 

The hybrid flex/rigid CPU carrier is interesting. 

 

 

 

 

Interestingly another one of the same series in much better condition appeared on the local aution site just after I won this one

Better than my first PC...which was also my Mum's first PC in the late 80's (some form of 386).

[Corrupt_Liberty]

6 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Better than my first PC...which was also my Mum's first PC in the late 80's (some form of 386).

The first computer we had growing up was definitely worse.  A Tandy Color Computer 3.

It was great with Clowns n' Ballons though. 

[Dabombinable]

20 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

The first computer we had growing up was definitely worse.  A Tandy Color Computer 3.

It was great with Clowns n' Ballons though. 

The only reason we ended up with the 386 was because my Mum needed it for work, and got it at a reduced price+claimed on tax. It was technically better than her work's main computer - it took up an entire room, with the terminal in another.

[Kilrah]

Turns out that while browsing the BIOS there surprisingly was a PCMCIA entry in the boot list, so I threw a PCMCIA CF adapter with a 2GB card to try and yes it does see it and boot from it, piece of cake. So not even a problem not to have the HDD connector... weird since none of my newer machines will boot from a PCMCIA HDD.

Installed DOS and W3.1 from floppiesssss. Also hadn't noticed you could lift the bottom to access the bays, pretty cool.

 

 

[justconstruction]

Socket 7 AMD (not sure what the specific model is) chip from a Monorail aio

Slot 1 Pentium 3 450 + sdram, which are part of a windows 98 system

Veiw sonic G810 (sorry for the bad picture) and Sony PVM-97

 

[Kilrah]

My small TV wasn't filling the screen vertically, and along with making it apparent that the picture wasn't perfectly straight that was kinda triggering my mild OCD so had a go at adjusting it.

 

 

 

 

Much better now, fills the screen vertically, horizontal width reduced a bit as it was overscanning too much there, horizontal position was quite a bit off too, I could improve focus a little and tweaked the color balance a tad.

 

[Bitter]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164890421154

No affiliation, boy GPU's used to look so cool.

[da na]

On 6/20/2021 at 8:43 AM, justconstruction said:

Socket 7 AMD (not sure what the specific model is) chip from a Monorail aio

Slot 1 Pentium 3 450 + sdram, which are part of a windows 98 system

Veiw sonic G810 (sorry for the bad picture) and Sony PVM-97

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait, did you say Monorail AIO? LGR covered one of those a while ago. By any chance do you have a pic of the whole PC? The chip's a K6 btw.

[da na]

22 minutes ago, Bitter said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164890421154

No affiliation, boy GPU's used to look so cool.

[da na]

So a personal story. I actually learned to program on a Commodore 64, I was born in the late 00's so even then it was pretty old. I know my way around one of those machines pretty well, and at one time had the load commands for like 20 games memorized. We still have the machine, I love the sound those dual 1541 drives made when loading. We also have the Commodore Datasette, the counter is a bit off but it works. Currently it's in my dad's office at work. (he runs a vintage computer club at the school he teaches at, fun fact. We have an Apple II, IIe, two c64, and a c128 that doesn't work too well - pretty sure it's a RAM issue.

 

I learned when I was around 8, with a lot of my dad's help I programmed a very, very simple text game. There were like 4 intersections, you had to help Bob get pizza or something, you would choose left or right at each and Bob would either trip and get his sleeve wet or get closer to the pizza place or something, or maybe it was in a forest? Don't quite remember the plot but it's on a 5" disk somewhere...

[JustRupes]

I will have to go to my storage unit for this thread, but the highlights include:

 

Atari 2600 Woody - OK so there are millions of those still around 

Sega Master System - The MK1
Numerous Gameboys, original, colour, micro

Sega Game Gear - I recapped myself :-)
An Acorn Electron - This was I think largely a UK only home computer system released in 1985 that used audio tapes to record data onto 
Dragon 64 - This looks and smells like a Vic 20 / Commodore 64 - again audio tape data storage
Several old servers including an Olivetti 286 server that came from a UK bank with a 300gb SCSI HDD (it takes up 2 5.25" bays on it's own!
Amstrad NC 100 and Amstrad NC200 notebooks with small green and black LCD screens
and the crown of my collection an MFM hard disk, these predate IDE and had two ribbon cables.  It's quite chunky and makes an amazing noise when the heads move, sounds like a Roland plotter.  It has a staggering 40Mb of storage space.  I remember thinking when I packed the system it came with into my dads care in the early 90's wow 40Mb's I'm never going to use all that!

My father got me into computers his company was the first to implement CAD with the "Cadvance" system in the UK.  It was a specially designed system with 32Mb of RAM based around I think a 8088 or 186 processor, it had a 20" CAD VDU (Visual Display Unit) that was white and black only (not even monochromatic!) and talked to another system with a SCSI disk up in the computer room for storage and backup.  The company paid £64,000 for the system.  In todays currency taking into account inflation it would equate to £180,000.  They had the option of extending the memory further but it worked out at just over £1,000 per MB.  When it finally arrived I was taken out of school to see the whole commissioning process, as my father could see that IT was going to be the way forward.   To give you an idea of how far ahead of it's time this sort of thinking was, two floors up they still had a typing pool with about 60 typists with a mix of both electronic and manual typewriters banging away.

They were also the first to introduce a warehouse with computer driven trains that went around that would transport stock, and were the first to introduce computerised POS in their stores which reported back to a central database at head office.  The computer suite took up a whole floor of the building which would have been about 3000sq feet.  I remember seeing it for the first time I was about 3 or 4 and there were rows and rows of floor standing tape drives whizzing away clicking and buzzing when they needed attention, gosh it was amazing.  My father even provided pictures and did a talk at my school so the other children could see it, he even did an audio tape recording of the sound of the computer suite, that really shows it's age!
 

[mbeware]

3 hours ago, JustRupes said:

I will have to go to my storage unit for this thread, but the highlights include:

 

Atari 2600 Woody - OK so there are millions of those still around 

Sega Master System - The MK1
Numerous Gameboys, original, colour, micro

Sega Game Gear - I recapped myself
An Acorn Electron - This was I think largely a UK only home computer system released in 1985 that used audio tapes to record data onto 
Dragon 64 - This looks and smells like a Vic 20 / Commodore 64 - again audio tape data storage
Several old servers including an Olivetti 286 server that came from a UK bank with a 300gb SCSI HDD (it takes up 2 5.25" bays on it's own!
Amstrad NC 100 and Amstrad NC200 notebooks with small green and black LCD screens
and the crown of my collection an MFM hard disk, these predate IDE and had two ribbon cables.  It's quite chunky and makes an amazing noise when the heads move, sounds like a Roland plotter.  It has a staggering 40Mb of storage space.  I remember thinking when I packed the system it came with into my dads care in the early 90's wow 40Mb's I'm never going to use all that!

My father got me into computers his company was the first to implement CAD with the "Cadvance" system in the UK.  It was a specially designed system with 32Mb of RAM based around I think a 8088 or 186 processor, it had a 20" CAD VDU (Visual Display Unit) that was white and black only (not even monochromatic!) and talked to another system with a SCSI disk up in the computer room for storage and backup.  The company paid £64,000 for the system.  In todays currency taking into account inflation it would equate to £180,000.  They had the option of extending the memory further but it worked out at just over £1,000 per MB.  When it finally arrived I was taken out of school to see the whole commissioning process, as my father could see that IT was going to be the way forward.   To give you an idea of how far ahead of it's time this sort of thinking was, two floors up they still had a typing pool with about 60 typists with a mix of both electronic and manual typewriters banging away.

They were also the first to introduce a warehouse with computer driven trains that went around that would transport stock, and were the first to introduce computerised POS in their stores which reported back to a central database at head office.  The computer suite took up a whole floor of the building which would have been about 3000sq feet.  I remember seeing it for the first time I was about 3 or 4 and there were rows and rows of floor standing tape drives whizzing away clicking and buzzing when they needed attention, gosh it was amazing.  My father even provided pictures and did a talk at my school so the other children could see it, he even did an audio tape recording of the sound of the computer suite, that really shows it's age!
 

You have a lot of interesting things! I never saw a Dragon64... I hope you find time to go to the storage unit... I'd really like to see all  those computer/console.

 Are we lucky enough that you have pictures of the Cadvance system ? Never seen (or heard of) one before!! Seems interesting!

I would love to hear the tape and the pictures your father took for presentation... That would be a computer history gem!

(I should have recorded.photographed all mainframe and mini I worked with. Starting today, I will film all server room and computer I interact with with. For the futur of computer history!)

[da na]

This exists, for some reason…

pda? Nah. Gameboy cartridge? Yes

[matskats]

On 12/19/2013 at 10:25 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

that intel core dua is in my pc rip me

[Bob_101]

I recently found this in my loft that is my mums and is currently cleaning it to get to turn on and thought I would share a photo of it as it is old school

[WhitetailAni]

I went to a computer repair store today and came back with some stuff. Quick list:
- Gigabyte GA-P43T-ES3G

- Mystery LGA775 CPU

- 72mm Intel stock cooler

- Gigabyte GTS 250

- Cooler Master HAF case (not sure which model)

- Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W

- Lian Li case

- Samsung 860 Evo 250GB
- WD Blue 1TB

 

The items of interest are the PSU and the Lian Li case.

The PSU is missing some modular cables - has 2 open slots for more Molex and 2 more PCIe power cables. Currently has:
1x 20+4-pin

2x 4+4-pin

2x 6+2-pin

2x 6-pin (daisy-chained off of 6+2-pin)

6x SATA power

2x Molex

 

The Lian Li case is very familiar to me, but I don't know where I've seen it before... I think something with LGR that I watched recently?
Here's a picture of the front, maybe someone else knows what it is?

Spoiler

In any case (pun intended) I'm starting work on P4HT now.

And (as with my P3 build, which needs a name) I'm giving it way more insert thing here than it needs or would have been able to have. With my P3 build, it has 2GB of RAM. With P4HT, it's got a 250GB boot drive and 1TB of HDD space.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

 

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Looks very similar to this case, may in fact be the same one.

[WhitetailAni]

Update on the LGA775 CPU.

It's a Core 2 Quad Q9550S. I was not expecting to get a Core 2 Quad, rather a Core 2 Duo E8400 or something similar. But nope. Now I have a Core 2 Quad, along with a motherboard that takes DDR3, and a GTS 250.

Windows Vista retro build? I do have a spare case...

 

Also, I think I may watercool P4HT, at least the CPU and northbridge. The case I have has 2 80mm fans that move a decent amount of air (hooked them up to a 9v battery) and I think with 2 80mm radiators I can cool the small sun of a chip that I have. Does anyone have any recommendations for waterblocks for Socket 478 that don't destroy my bank account?

 

EDIT:
I may sell off my C2Q and Gigabyte GA-P43T-ES3G. It seems they go for ~$50 each on eBay, which would definitely pay for the water cooling supplies for P4HT. I might need to get a PSU for it as it seems that my 1000W unit doesn't have a -5V rail which I'm fairly certain I need for serial ports (yes, I am actually going to use them, I can send data between my Ryzen PC and P4HT because I got a null modem cable), plus it currently has a total of 2 Molex connectors.

It has plenty of PCIe and EPS power connectors though!

[bcredeur97]

so now that windows 11 is coming do all the pre-2016 computers end up on this thread? xD