Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bad5ector]

On 11/2/2021 at 12:29 PM, BrianTheElectrician said:

That keyboard though...

ThinkPads always had pretty decent keyboards IMO.

[da na]

This was sitting in a hallway, after a week I called the IT department and asked if I could have it, they said yes. It is 1280x1024, CCFL backlit, VGA only so by that I'd say about 15 years old. Optiquest is owned by Viewsonic IIRC. Looks like most LCDs from this era - bit of tearing/ghosting and slightly yellow but 4th monitor for free, I can't complain. However, compared to the last 1280x1024 monitor I picked up (a Trinitron) it pales in comparison. 

[LinusSexTipsWasTaken]

Probably my passive nx8600gt with 1gb vram, got it from cashies for 1$, runs gmod at 1080p maxed settings at 35fps when paired with 2gb gddr2 and a celeron e3400

[SimplyChunk]

Not sure if it should go in here or in the latest purchase thread but i just bought a Commodor 64 (non breadbin) for a decent discount from the list price.  I got chatting to the guy in the shop and it's fully functional.  not too discoloured.  he even threw in a 'tempermental' Datasette for nothing.  He had it in the window for £100 but sold it to me for £70.  I'll take some pics and post once i'm home from my sisters

[SimplyChunk]

As promised

 

got a years warranty to boot

[SimplyChunk]

35 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

I'm going to ignore the desk.

I'm at my sister's still so set up on my secondary/lan on the dining table

[da na]

My $15 eBay lot score.

its in near perfect condition. Has the pen and all of its slot covers.

Batteries were left in but it was saved from impending doom by the fact the batteries go in this cartridge that then goes in the handheld, so they just leaked in the plastic and didn’t damage it at all since the batteries themself don’t touch the contacts in the device.

[DANK_AS_gay]

On 12/9/2021 at 8:48 PM, Mel0nMan said:

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 Previous owner was kind enough to leave 2 Atari stickers as well as the 17.5 year out of date warranty card.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)

I have CS:Source if you want it, as well as an MMORPG by Blizzard from 2008 that I forget the name of.

[da na]

That same ebay lot (probably an estate sale) included a bunch of phones - a 3310, one that looked sort of like it, then some Nokia, Samsung, and LG flip phones. They all feature proprietary connectors (it's the usual horrible Samsung one, the Nokias are just 2 pins.) If chargers aren't too expensive I hope I can get one or more of the old Nokias going, would be cool. Also had a cheap, quite old tablet and a portable DVD player. Wall adaptors were included with the lot, I was excited, but none actually fit anything (and are weird values, like wtf takes 3 volts .2 amps?) One of the wall adaptors is for a Casio electronic calculator, the other is from Sanyo and looks to be 1970s-1980s age. 

[da na]

Soaked the whole battery compartment piece in hydrogen peroxide for 15 mins. Got all of the corrosion out. 

Starts up with a message saying to replace the backup CR2032 battery, then goes straight to Windows CE. Surprised it didn't need more work! 

[da na]

7 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Does it have a mechanical hard drive, or does it have flash storage?

8 whole megabytes, imagine that! 

[da na]

So basically I tore the whole thing down (quite easy, only 1 snap, and only 5 screws) to change the backup battery, which I only afterward realized was accessible from the outside under a sliding door. 

Big thing is the CFIO type I slot, this model does not have PC card compatibility. Chip outlined in red is likely the CPU, don't know what the other square chip is (maybe VGA controller?) but the Samsung is RAM, SDR from the look and age of it, and the NEC chips on the riser board are the ROM. Small board on the other cover is the battery (I unscrewed it to change it from the inside) and the metal plate is a heatsink I assume. Something strange is that plastic door over where the ROM is on the back cover. Why is that there? It doesn't open from the outside, it only latches internally. Wonder if there were ROM expansions that needed a larger back cover or something so that could be swapped out? ROM does seem replaceable but given the rarity I didn't try, it seemed pretty firmly stuck down with glue pads and I couldn't see any header under it

[SimplyChunk]

5 hours ago, Schnoz said:

The chip next to the quartz oscillator is the CPU according to its markings. It appears to be the Hitachi SH-3. Though, I'm not sure what the other chip is.

Same chip Sega used a pair of in the Saturn and 32X iirc?

[da na]

8 hours ago, Schnoz said:

The chip next to the quartz oscillator is the CPU according to its markings. It appears to be the Hitachi SH-3. Though, I'm not sure what the other chip is.

Ah interesting. Thought the chip made by Casio would be the CPU. 

[Kilrah]

Most likely that it's a custom chip that includes the IO controller for the CF, the display / keyboard controllers and whatever glue logic is needed

[da na]

I wonder if the quartz oscillator regulates the CPU's clock? It'd be fun to buy one a few mhz higher and push the clocks up. Also, it won't take my CF cards, I only have 4gb and above - I could try buying a 16mb (apparently software for it shipped on an 18mb?) and put Doom on it... thing could probably run Doom. 

[Kilrah]

Looks like there are WinCE Doom ports still around indeed: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/121987-doom-for-windows-ce-pro-50/

 

2 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

I wonder if the quartz oscillator regulates the CPU's clock? 

The one under the red is likely the RTC crystal, the main clock one is on the left of the CPU in your picture.

[Woshmistro]

Hello! I have a Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN laptop from 1999. Surprisingly thin, Pentium II 400MHz, 64MB RAM, 6GB HDD. I got it a few years ago when I worked at an IT refurbishers, also got some accessories with it, the PC card CD-ROM and USB floppy drive. The drive had to be erased for data security but I couldn't find a restore CD image anywhere so it doesn't have the original VAIO software and branding in Windows and is missing some drivers.

[LukeDaGamer]

On 12/20/2013 at 8:25 AM, 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

amd athlon 64 X2

[Snipe440]

Compaq Presario 1800T and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

[poochyena]

Roughly 200 to be more specific. I'll potentially have around 200 more next month if things go well. Just figured you guys would be amused by this

[emosun]

If they're all the same model they would be super useful for maintaining like a few dozen arcade cabinets where you are guaranteed to always have replacement parts for the crts.

[YoungBlade]

When I saw that, at first I thought the ones by the fence were bricks, and now I'm imaging building a house out of the monitors.

 

That isn't your plan, is it?

[poochyena]

7 minutes ago, emosun said:

If they're all the same model they would be super useful for maintaining like a few dozen arcade cabinets where you are guaranteed to always have replacement parts for the crts.

Not too far off from their original use. Gambling is illegal in Alabama, and these are from an illegal gambling operation 15 to 20 years ago.

6 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

When I saw that, at first I thought the ones by the fence were bricks, and now I'm imaging building a house out of the monitors.

 

That isn't your plan, is it?

I probably could, but they will be used to repurpose into wearable monitor heads. Nearly half are completely broken though, damaged very badly, so a friend is gonna take them and scrap them for metal.

[G27Racer_188]

That was a bit painful to watch as those appear to be Samsung SyncMaster 793-s, a monitor very popular in my region. Almost anyone who I spoke about their old / first PC had one of these monitors.

 

Speaking of which, I still have mine and it it still working and being used.