Show off your old and retro computer parts

[da na]

He lives!

I looked through this

and the right charger was at the bottom of the last box i checked. Turns out 12v 3a of that hole size isn’t common.

It has an Intel Atom, 1gb ram and 32gb ssd. Perhaps Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit or an earlier Debian. It’s about as powerful as my Android tablet but cooler.

[XGoodGuyFitz]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

He lives!

I looked through this

and the right charger was at the bottom of the last box i checked. Turns out 12v 3a of that hole size isn’t common.

It has an Intel Atom, 1gb ram and 32gb ssd. Perhaps Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit or an earlier Debian. It’s about as powerful as my Android tablet but cooler.

Ive never even heard of a freaking intel atom jeez bro 

[WhitetailAni]

3 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Ive never even heard of a freaking intel atom jeez bro 

Imagine a Celeron, but worse.

[XGoodGuyFitz]

3 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Imagine a Celeron, but worse.

ouch that hurts ;-; my mac is like a celeron but worse by like 1000000x

[NoCarrier]

Who likes 486s???

 

 

[da na]

34 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Ive never even heard of a freaking intel atom jeez bro 

They were low power processors designed for small laptops and thin clients, for example this one consumes about 7w

[da na]

OK final update on the netbook.

It works about as well as an underpowered 15 year old PC full of bloatware could be expected to, but like 5/6 of the keyboard is dead, only the middle few keys work at all and the rest won't. Works fine with an external board or touch typing with the little stylus. I assume this could just be an unseated keyboard connector and/or dust in that region so I'll open it up to check. I'll also try upgrading the ram to 2 gb as it looks like just a regular old DDR2 module and I've got too many of those around. Speakers are surprisingly good and it's fanless and very quiet. It's got a 'tablet mode' where it works without mouse and keyboard and the screen can be folded to be a super thick tablet. If it doesn't handle Ubuntu well driver wise I'll reset the Windows 7 install. 

[da na]

26 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

Who likes 486s???

 

 

 

 

How big is that cache module and the RAM? 2mb for cache is my guess. Also nice board, looks in great shape

[SimplyChunk]

Funny you should post a netbook @Mel0nMan I took a few snaps of this while at my mother's the other day..

 

It was once my Stepfather's pride and joy..

 

I'm sure once he's over the nostalgia of it (He only dug it out of storage recently)  He'll let me crack her open to reveal the juicy contents...and no, it's not a netbook.  It was a full blown laptop only very small.  It came with Linux originally when he bought it new in singapore.  but installed XP for more functionality

[Bitter]

I've got a couple Atom netbooks and a couple Atom desktops. At the time the performance wasn't terrible but they have aged horribly.

[Kilrah]

Just got these 2 guys, another powerbook 150 that's not for me but will hopefully become a gift for someone if I can restore it nicely, and a Compaq armada 1750 P2 366

 

Both HDDs are dead, the powerbook needs some repairs on the right screen hinge, and it seems the CD drive on the armada is faulty too... hopefully it's not proprietary and I can replace that as the goal was kinda to have another ready to go machine with all drives and ports usually needed...

 

[Corrupt_Liberty]

Ahh, we're posting netbooks now?  What terrible little computers those were.  Might as well show off mine.  I have this HP Mini sitting around.  Upgraded to 2Gb RAM and a 128Gb SSD I had lying around.  With Bhodi Linux it actually runs pretty good.  The keyboard and touchpad are still almost unusable though.  The batteries even still hold a charge. 

 

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Ahh, we're posting netbooks now?  What terrible little computers those were.  Might as well show off mine.  I have this HP Mini sitting around.  Upgraded to 2Gb RAM and a 128Gb SSD I had lying around.  With Bhodi Linux it actually runs pretty good.  The keyboard and touchpad are still almost unusable though.  The batteries even still hold a charge.

This was my biggest problem with mine, I intended it to be a light travel laptop for things that were difficult to do on my phone. Nah, that keyboard and track pad are utterly useless.

[BondiBlue]

On 10/29/2021 at 12:37 PM, Mel0nMan said:

It has an Intel Atom, 1gb ram and 32gb ssd. Perhaps Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit or an earlier Debian. It’s about as powerful as my Android tablet but cooler.

That's a very old and slow CPU, not to mention the fact that it's only got a single core. The TDP is literally only 2 watts, so that can tell you a lot about the performance. Unless you have an absolute junker of a tablet I can almost guarantee you this netbook isn't more powerful. Still a neat find though, mainly for the display. 

[da na]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

That's a very old and slow CPU, not to mention the fact that it's only got a single core. The TDP is literally only 2 watts, so that can tell you a lot about the performance. Unless you have an absolute junker of a tablet I can almost guarantee you this netbook isn't more powerful. Still a neat find though, mainly for the display. 

Yeah, it's pretty terrible. It takes 7 seconds to open File Explorer. 

Sadly a few areas of the touch do not work due to the humid area it was left in, there's moisture under the screen that seems to be interfering with the (resistive) touch. It works a bit better without the stylus. 

[8tg]

T43P

new keyboard and SSD installed

working on getting XP on it now

[8tg]

Currently said T43p isn’t screwed together so getting to my windows xp key under the laptop was a test of my one handed skill to hold both a laptop loosely held together by hopes and dreams, and taking photos mostly in the blind

but it is now past the “enter a key” stage and onto spending half an hour installing basic drivers 

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 10/31/2021 at 12:55 AM, 8tg said:

Currently said T43p isn’t screwed together so getting to my windows xp key under the laptop was a test of my one handed skill to hold both a laptop loosely held together by hopes and dreams, and taking photos mostly in the blind

but it is now past the “enter a key” stage and onto spending half an hour installing basic drivers 

Hmm maybe I'll have to post up my T43p as well... I don't have an ssd in mine though. I'd have to double check but I think I've got a 120 or 160gb HDD in it, also running windows xp pro. 2gb of ram too...

 

Yours looks like it's in fantastic shape! What are you planning to run on it?

[BrianTheElectrician]

 

Just a few Thinkpads. Left to right, 380D, 560X, iSeries Type 1161, T22, T40, T42p and T43p. I also have two T500s and a 600X that are not pictured. The 600x is going to be traded to Disappearing Inc among other things and I'll be receiving a T22 parts laptop and I believe an X21.

 

The 380D was a literal shed rescue. I got two of them in the lot and both worked fine. I gave the other one to Anthony back when we did the Tech Hoarders video.

 

The 560X is the one that LMG used in their Thinkpad Anniversary Edition video a few years back. I'm in the process of finding a power supple for the external disc drive that I picked up for it (A 20x Panasonic that is similar if not the same that these shipped with). I also have an IBM external floppy drive for it and will likely be converting it to a 8Gb CF card for the hard disk.

 

The rest were all electronics recycler rescues. The T22 is a project, The T40 I'm running Windows ME partly just because but it also has 1Gb of ram so 98se may have issues without downgrading it. The T42p and T43p are both on XP pro. The T43 I upgraded to a 160Gb hard disk so lots of room for old games...

 

 

[8tg]

8 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Hmm maybe I'll have to post up my T43p as well... I don't have an ssd in mine though. I'd have to double check but I think I've got a 120 or 160gb HDD in it, also running windows xp pro. 2gb of ram too...

 

Yours looks like it's in fantastic shape! What are you planning to run on it?

UT99, GTA Vice City, Oldschool RuneScape, the Sims 2, Halo CE, along with some cad and drawing programs, and with the sound card I got it can play 192khz 24 bit flacs, so music playback.

i actually had to activate this via the phone call method in 2021, you can still activate windows XP if you have your original key 

i know there are ways to get around that but something was super fun about being on the phone with voice menus for 30 minutes typing in a 48 character code, and then writing down another 48 character code

gonna try and find old versions of new moon to get decent internet usage out of it, opera 36 works, barely 

something like new moon runs a lot better but it’s super hard to find it these days

 

[SimplyChunk]

2 minutes ago, 8tg said:

i actually had to activate this via the phone call method in 2021, you can still activate windows XP if you have your original key 

i know there are ways to get around that but something was super fun about being on the phone with voice menus for 30 minutes typing in a 48 character code, and then writing down another 48 character code

I did this to transfer my old windows 7 retail key to an all in one in 2019 i think 

[da na]

8 minutes ago, 8tg said:

UT99, GTA Vice City, Oldschool RuneScape, the Sims 2, Halo CE, along with some cad and drawing programs, and with the sound card I got it can play 192khz 24 bit flacs, so music playback.

i actually had to activate this via the phone call method in 2021, you can still activate windows XP if you have your original key 

i know there are ways to get around that but something was super fun about being on the phone with voice menus for 30 minutes typing in a 48 character code, and then writing down another 48 character code

gonna try and find old versions of new moon to get decent internet usage out of it, opera 36 works, barely 

something like new moon runs a lot better but it’s super hard to find it these days

 

The phone call method is fine but when they say are you calling from a smartphone, would you like us to send a text instead say yes. It takes literally half as long because instead of having to hear the numbers you can just read them on your phone. 

[SimplyChunk]

55 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

The phone call method is fine but when they say are you calling from a smartphone, would you like us to send a text instead say yes. It takes literally half as long because instead of having to hear the numbers you can just read them on your phone. 

Anyone would think you do this a lot 

[da na]

31 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Anyone would think you do this a lot 

I activated 6 XP machines and 3 7 machines last week. 

[BrianTheElectrician]

2 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

The phone call method is fine but when they say are you calling from a smartphone, would you like us to send a text instead say yes. It takes literally half as long because instead of having to hear the numbers you can just read them on your phone. 

Yes, this is how I normally activate xp and windows 7 machines. Once it sends you the text, you can go back and use the link many times as well so you don't have to call in every time. It is definitely faster than the phone...

 

Another tidbit, windows 7 keys still work to activate windows 10