Show off your old and retro computer parts

[BrianTheElectrician]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

I didn't intend to steal their content; I simply thought that it was an informative bit of text that I wanted to share. I even linked back to the original site...

I think your fine, you mentioned it was from redhill. I'm familiar with the site and yes they have tons of good information on lots of old CPUs. They are/were a computer shop in Australia if memory serves.

[SimplyChunk]

4 hours ago, XLer8or said:

 

IS this GDDR(1)?

After 3 minutes on google i found this card to be the first nvidia card to have a model with the GDDR monkier.. Mainly GDDR3

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-pcx-5950.c54

 

Any earlier cards have either DDR or SDR listed as their type of RAM

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, RigPa said:

From my first job...

Love the text at the top of that punch card..

[da na]

Bought a near mint copy of UT 2004 after loving the demo. 

I miss when installers looked like this

It came with the manuals, it's the special edition so it has the bonus dvd. Previous owner was kind enough to leave 2 Atari stickers as well as the 17.5 year out of date warranty card. CD key worked fine, manual is immaculate. Except for one adrenaline combo circled. Guess he used that a lot? It's in pencil though so I erased it

I don't want to wear down the original disk by using it every time I want to play, frequently, so fun trick you can rip it to an ISO and mount it to your DVD drive's location whenever you open the game and it'll work. Or you could burn it to another disk. (Not condoning piracy, just a helpful tip)

[Bitter]

I remember that game, it was OK but I liked the original better since it was just what I was used to.

[XLer8or]

I have a copy of original Unreal by Epic.  It was bought at Electronics Boutique. Voodoo2 I believe.

 

 

Anyone remember the tatty for the Voodoo 1? 

[XLer8or]

Any good sites for stick-on HSF for retro cards?  This is from a retro card.

 

It can do a fan header on MB too.

 

Timing............. FB too. front or back, long enough.

[da na]

1 minute ago, XLer8or said:

Any good sites for stick-on HSF for retro cards?  This is from a retro card.

 

It can do a fan header on MB too.

Can't read anything except for Infineon. 

[a poor scientist]

[LogicalDrm]

13 minutes ago, a poor scientist said:

Merged to "Old & retro" -thread.

[da na]

"Gangsta's Paradise" OPL3 on a 16 bit, 128 voice soundcard

And here's "Never Gonna Give You Up" OPL3, same card

 

[Kilrah]

A 20MB hard drive for a C64. Unfortunately the spindle is stuck...

 

 

[da na]

22 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

A 20MB hard drive for a C64. Unfortunately the spindle is stuck...

 

 

I see it has "GEOS" on the case? Is that for use with GEOS or does it contain GEOS or something? Go on the floppy port? Is the disk itself IDE/SCSI?

[Kilrah]

55 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Pop it in the freezer--that can help any seized bearings. If that doesn't work, you can try going into a relatively clean area, opening the drive, and rotating the spindle by hand. While it may sound extremely crude, these really old drives are actually able to continue functioning as long as the contamination isn't too bad.

 

By the way, is that an ST-157A?

Had already tried the freezer unsuccessfully and you can see on the photo it's got screws removed - yep got it to spin with rather significant help, but once it's running it looks pretty fine. Inits correctly, and I could get to see contents a couple of times although most of the time I get a "drive not ready". Not sure how much is the fault of the drive itself and how much is the controller.

 

It's an ST-138N, SCSI

 

41 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Is that for use with GEOS or does it contain GEOS or something?

I imagine there's a special mode for GEOS...

 

It's got 2 serials, parallel, "auxiliary"? and direct SCSI

[Kilrah]

OK I found a manual, not exactly as simple as I expected, you make multiple "partitions" to either store stuff directly or emulate disks, pretty clever... I could select partition 1 from the front panel which contains the tools for configuring it and it all seems to work fine - 10 partitions on it, selects 5 by default. Visibly some were used as folders by whoever owned this...

 

 

 

Now I don't know if what's most surprising is that the RTC battery still works... or that it was only 35mins late despite this thing probably not being used in 2 decades...

 

[Bitter]

Tom's Hardware: Linux Community Updates 20 Year Old AMD GPU Driver. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ati-radeon-gpus-get-driver-optimizations-linux

 

Better late than never I guess!

[da na]

Yeah case rgb is cool but have you ever had RGB floppies

Sealed box for $10

[Kilrah]

oooo a whole box of translucent ones, cool!

[da na]

8 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

oooo a whole box of translucent ones, cool!

Yeah, I bought them because I needed 2 blank diskettes to install the ATI Rage LT Pro graphics driver on my Presario laptop. My first time using floppies except for the Windows 98/DOS boot disk. Plus they'll help for file transfers between my older PCs. 

 

More about the drivers, I can now run my display in glorious 1024x768. Runs games pretty well. (1 pixel shader/TMU/ROP, 8mb SDR, 64 bit bus)

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 12/14/2021 at 10:57 AM, Mel0nMan said:

Yeah, I bought them because I needed 2 blank diskettes to install the ATI Rage LT Pro graphics driver on my Presario laptop. My first time using floppies except for the Windows 98/DOS boot disk. Plus they'll help for file transfers between my older PCs. 

 

More about the drivers, I can now run my display in glorious 1024x768. Runs games pretty well. (1 pixel shader/TMU/ROP, 8mb SDR, 64 bit bus)

Your display is 1024x768? Id have to double check but I'm pretty sure my panel on the Presario is only 800x600.

 

How have the other drivers worked out for you? Not sure what other old hardware you have but I've collected quite a few drivers over the years. I archive everything lol.

[da na]

5 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Your display is 1024x768? Id have to double check but I'm pretty sure my panel on the Presario is only 800x600.

 

How have the other drivers worked out for you? Not sure what other old hardware you have but I've collected quite a few drivers over the years. I archive everything lol.

For some reason I can only set it to 800x600 in Windows settings but ATI drivers says it's 1024x768? 

Other drivers have worked well, thank you for that! Most of my older hardware is either C64/Apple II stuff or XP machines. 

[BrianTheElectrician]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

For some reason I can only set it to 800x600 in Windows settings but ATI drivers says it's 1024x768? 

Other drivers have worked well, thank you for that! Most of my older hardware is either C64/Apple II stuff or XP machines. 

Ah ok if your presario is like mine the display panel itself is 800x600 but you can run an external display at higher resolutions. You should also be able to set the panel to 1024x768 but you would be scrolling around the desktop, essentially looking at it through a 800x600 window.

 

Ooo I've never had the opportunity to play with Commodore 64 or Apple II stuff, I've had some interest in it but I'm at the point I'm kinda pressed for space The only similar machine I have is an Atari 1040STfm. I'm just starting to get it figured out, and I have 720k disks that I can write software images to for it as well.

 

What are you running for xp machines? I'm glad the other drivers have worked out well for you!

[da na]

9 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Ah ok if your presario is like mine the display panel itself is 800x600 but you can run an external display at higher resolutions. You should also be able to set the panel to 1024x768 but you would be scrolling around the desktop, essentially looking at it through a 800x600 window.

 

Ooo I've never had the opportunity to play with Commodore 64 or Apple II stuff, I've had some interest in it but I'm at the point I'm kinda pressed for space The only similar machine I have is an Atari 1040STfm. I'm just starting to get it figured out, and I have 720k disks that I can write software images to for it as well.

 

What are you running for xp machines? I'm glad the other drivers have worked out well for you!

I tried setting a 1024x768 wallpaper but when I closed windows it would take 2-3 seconds to render the desktop back in line by line.

I have an Athlon 64 3200+, 2gb OCZ DDR2, GeForce 6800. Then I have a Pentium 4 HT 631, 1gb ram, 9300ge. Then I'll be building soon when the parts come in an Athlon XP 3200+ machine as an XP, 2000, 98 machine. My board and boxed Radeon 9200 haven't come in yet but the rest of the parts I found in the ewaste. 

[Bitter]

40 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

I tried setting a 1024x768 wallpaper but when I closed windows it would take 2-3 seconds to render the desktop back in line by line.

I have an Athlon 64 3200+, 2gb OCZ DDR2, GeForce 6800. Then I have a Pentium 4 HT 631, 1gb ram, 9300ge. Then I'll be building soon when the parts come in an Athlon XP 3200+ machine as an XP, 2000, 98 machine. My board and boxed Radeon 9200 haven't come in yet but the rest of the parts I found in the ewaste. 

That doesn't sound right. I ran a 1600x1200 desktop with background on a P4 HT @ 4.0ghz with 3GB DDR400 and a 6800Ultra, no problem.

WinXP 32bit tho, I don't think I ran anything else on that system.

[Frugivore8894]

My new computer science teacher let us help organise her office because the last teacher left it a mess. Anyway found this in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet. I forgot to take a picture of the specs but its 520 wat. If this is not early 2000s pc parts then I don't know what is.

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