Show off your old and retro computer parts

[da na]

12 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Just finished building this bit of kit over the weekend.  Boots CP/M like a champ and I love the blinky lights.  

 

 

How about a nice game of chess?

Beautiful! How hard was soldering the switches?

[XGoodGuyFitz]

14 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Just finished building this bit of kit over the weekend.  Boots CP/M like a champ and I love the blinky lights.  

 

 

How about a nice game of chess?

I am not sure what that does. Is it audio equipment or a really really old computer

[Corrupt_Liberty]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

Beautiful! How hard was soldering the switches?

The switches weren't bad at all.  The worst was the micro sd card reader (surface mount) and the anchors for the serial ports took a lot of heat. 

[Corrupt_Liberty]

1 minute ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

I am not sure what that does. Is it audio equipment or a really really old computer

Really really old computer. 

[XGoodGuyFitz]

1 minute ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Really really old computer. 

oh i see

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Few weeks ago I got some pristine classic PC gaming adverts to decorate my retro PC area.  Finally got some frames for them so they're ready to hang and let me further live in a cloud of nostalgia.

 

 

[da na]

10 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

Few weeks ago I got some pristine classic PC gaming adverts to decorate my retro PC area.  Finally got some frames for them so they're ready to hang and let me further live in a cloud of nostalgia.

 

 

I've got a couple of the old Intel ads that are a bit like this

Vintage/Retro Intel Pentium Overdrive CPU Print Ad Promo 1996 | eBay

I've got Pentium Overdrive, Pentium II "how's my driving" and Pentium II "generic horror game" 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

3 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

I've got a couple of the old Intel ads that are a bit like this

Vintage/Retro Intel Pentium Overdrive CPU Print Ad Promo 1996 | eBay

I've got Pentium Overdrive, Pentium II "how's my driving" and Pentium II "generic horror game" 

Oh neat, I went with a different seller but this is all basically the same thing.  Pristine magazine adverts carefully cut and sold.

I'd have used my own magazines but while my mags are in 'fine' collection, few are 'pristine' and worthy of framing.  They'd def have some edges that are less than 100%.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

Oh neat, I went with a different seller but this is all basically the same thing.  Pristine magazine adverts carefully cut and sold.

I'd have used my own magazines but while my mags are in 'fine' collection, few are 'pristine' and worthy of framing.  They'd def have some edges that are less than 100%.

Sadly don't have magazines from that era. ATI did have a quick era of advertising in magazines but it only lasted like a year. I can't afford frames but I do have 2 of those: HD 4870 x2 Stalker Clear Sky ad, and the back of a FireMV box laminated

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

Sadly don't have magazines from that era. ATI did have a quick era of advertising in magazines but it only lasted like a year. I can't afford frames but I do have 2 of those: HD 4870 x2 Stalker Clear Sky ad, and the back of a FireMV box laminated

CAD $40 for a set of six 8.5x11 snap in frames.

[sub68]

I was cleaning some stuff in my school IT.

(mostly old cisco server gear and other old gear)

First a IBM SLR test tape.

Spoiler

Maxtor 20gb HDD

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Assortment of ECC ram

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A old I think VGA capture card.

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Some laptops

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old Gateway 2 in 1

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a pc tablet running vista (on 1 GB of ram)

( I proably will make it run XP)

That actually only some of it.

[da na]

24 minutes ago, sub68 said:

I was cleaning some stuff in my school IT.

(mostly old cisco server gear and other old gear)

First a IBM SLR test tape.

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Maxtor 20gb HDD

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Assortment of ECC ram

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A old I think VGA capture card.

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Some laptops

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old Gateway 2 in 1

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a pc tablet running vista (on 1 GB of ram)

( I proably will make it run XP)

That actually only some of it.

Bro all this ECC ram out here with nice shiny heatsinks, mine just looks like plain old ddr3

What's the chipset on the AGP card (under the heatsink)? Could just be a generic 2D acceleration card

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

What's the chipset on the AGP card (under the heatsink)? Could just be a generic 2D acceleration card

Its from "diamond media"

and yeah its a AGP

[BrianTheElectrician]

4 hours ago, sub68 said:

I was cleaning some stuff in my school IT.

(mostly old cisco server gear and other old gear)

The Diamond card is definitely just an AGP graphics card. The slot on the end is for expanding the graphics memory, I have a similar card that is a ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo.

 

Your's looks like it's likely a bit newer than mine, it could be NVidia TNT or TNT2 based or perhaps ATI Rage128. Would need a picture of the back to know for sure (at least if there are any model numbers). Whatever it is it likely at least has basic 3D support.

 

I remember Maxtor hard disks... I still have and use a few myself and those laptops should be fun to play/experiment with!

[sub68]

13 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

The Diamond card is definitely just an AGP graphics card. The slot on the end is for expanding the graphics memory, I have a similar card that is a ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo.

Yeah it’s a agp

15 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Would need a picture of the back to know for sure (at least if there are any model numbers). Whatever it is it likely at least has basic 3D support

So I inventoried it for my school so I am pretty sure I can find the spreadsheet with the model on it

16 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

I remember Maxtor hard disks... I still have and use a few myself

Yeah I think it still works 

16 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

those laptops should be fun to play/experiment with!

I am gonna put both of them on xp 

[sub68]

26 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Your's looks like it's likely a bit newer than mine, it could be NVidia TNT or TNT2 based or perhaps ATI Rage128. Would need a picture of the back to know for sure (at least if there are any model numbers). Whatever it is it likely at least has basic 3D support.

diamond media fire gl1k pro AGP NLX 4 + 

but it comes up

[GeorgeMKane]

"How much video memory would you like, sir?"

"All of them."

"Hm... Looks like we only have 8 in stock, right now."

"8 3070's?!"

"No, 8MB of video memory."

[Rachel90123]

I got a trashed pick COMPAQ PORTABLE 1

It weighed a desktop pc even with the name portable but its 1982

[Spotty]

1 hour ago, nicki minaj said:

I got a trashed pick COMPAQ PORTABLE 1

It weighed a desktop pc even with the name portable but its 1982

*Merged with the retro PC thread*

[Dr_badwolf]

Best Phone
Is best.
EDIT: Still Works
You could take the battery out of these things and power them via USB.

This is the first phone i installed [Ubuntu] linux on.

[Kilrah]

3 hours ago, Dr_badwolf said:

This is the first phone i installed [Ubuntu] linux on.

Broken pic

[thekingofmonks]

3 hours ago, Dr_badwolf said:

Best Phone
Is best.
EDIT: Still Works
You could take the battery out of these things and power them via USB.

This is the first phone i installed [Ubuntu] linux on.

nice phone

[X-System]

On 10/5/2021 at 6:51 PM, XGoodGuyFitz said:

oh i see

You can see it in the old movie "WarGames" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames )

 

[da na]

5 minutes ago, X-System said:

You can see it in the old movie "WarGames" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames )

 

Great movie. Somewhat related, Apparently one of the actors kept the WOPR prop in his house for quite a while.

[XGoodGuyFitz]

52 minutes ago, X-System said:

You can see it in the old movie "WarGames" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames )

 

that seems like a good movie