Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Dabombinable]

Its similar for me, I helped my Aunt clean her garage out, and I got given enough parts to make working:

1982  286

1992 386 (amd dk-40, was the best until the 486 66mhz, and in some ways still is)

486 (date isn't on the mobo, 486 is one of the slow ones)

amd k6-2 based pc

intel slot 1 celeron/ pga370 celeron pc

pentium 3 based pc

 

 

I've built and power them up, but getting past the bios screens on the 286-486 is impossible because I don't have a serial keyboard.

[Tiby]

Sort of ontopic 

http://www.computerhope.com/history/1997.htm

 

Many good things happened in 1997. 

Now, mostly because of free internet, more pc users became more educated. I don't remember back then a single person who would complain about the sh*ty power supplies units that were installed in OEM PCs, but then again I don't recall many of them fail either.

Gold contacts on most of the components was also a good thing (but of course it raised the price of a PC by thousand of dollars)..

 

From evolution point of view, PC's have followed the same trend some of us somehow don't want to acknowledge: they've become smaller, more powerful and more accesible to average joe.

[renesdk]

Ah, 1997... the year I turned 18, and bought my first own computer with my own money.

[Gloxxy]

 

Some sort of internet expansion card. It has a line in and telephone port(?).

 

 

 

Haha. This is a 56k modem. 

[Jack.EXE]

Ah 97... the year I was born, and the year I got into tech...

[LukaP]

Ah, '97... the year i was throwing balls and legos around the place, shitting into a pot #goodtimes 

[OneDoller]

Be happy there still any IBM processor things out today...---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors

[PotatOS - Andrew]

Ah, the time when AMD processors were still good...

since when were AMD processors "bad"?

[LukaP]

since when were AMD processors "bad"?

lets just say they are not competitive for the price anymore

[Dabombinable]

the 386 dk-40 was one of the best amd cpus ever made, and it was able to beat newer intel 486 until a 66MHz version was made.

[WinNut]

My computer teacher had a similar system that I was able to freely screw around with. Sadly, over the summer, during renovations, it was thrown out.

[mr moose]

saying a core company like amd has made bad products with a time constraint instead of a product line constraint is pretty biased.

 

 

Not really,  You have to remember that majority of users on this forums are specifically gamers and enthusiast overclockers, and on that score there where periods of time when both Intel and AMD had CPU's that just sucked compared to the other.  I don't know if you're old enough to have played with the AMD 3200 and 3500's, they trolloped the p4 in most games and were significant'y cheaper.  Prior to that the p3 was the king, these where quite specific periods of time just as much as they were product lines.

 

The important thing is to compare like for like, you either compare CPU's from a given time or from a given price point or from a given end use, they are all valid constraints.

[NumLock21]

Some info from the pics

The black slots on the motherboard is call ISA

Those rams using the white slots are EDO rams. They must run in pairs, just like RD-RAM. Running in pairs is not for dual channel, since dual channel didn't exist back then.

RD-RAMs also need terminators (dummy rams) for the slots that's not being used otherwise the system won't POST.

The AMD processor runs on socket 462.

The ISA card with the line jack might be a modem, but I never saw one with a camera type connector in it. Probably it's ot a modem, but something else. Maybe a very old door system controller card?

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

150MHz was quite fast BITD. 10 years before that we were still rocking between 5 and 8MHz

[Octavialicious]

that's a cool looking amd chip

[watts300]

Be grateful for what you now have you  little shits.

Haha.  Yeah, no kidding.  

 

 

This may not be exactly what you were expecting in a topic with this title, but:....

 

 

Take this as a rare chance to compare the computers of the last century with the computers of today. 

 

 

 

I remember all that stuff coming out.  I wasn't big into computers, but I used them.  I some how managed to be both an indoor and outdoor kid.  Too bad I couldn't keep that up.       Our first computer was a Zenith with an 8088 processor.   It didn't have Windows.  It didn't even have a mouse.  But I still played games on it sometimes.  Apochee was a popular game developer if I remember right.    I played Zaxxon and Hart Hat Mac on it.  

 

The computer is long gone, but coincidentally, a few weeks ago I asked my dad about it.  He didn't have any of the original documentation any more, but he did find the exact one on the internet.  It's the brochure.  Your pictures are more fun to look at.  They're creative with the focus or filter that was used. 

 

Do you think you'll try to keep some of "today's" technology around just for the sake of having it 20 years from now? 

[mr moose]

The ISA card with the line jack might be a modem, but I never saw one with a camera type connector in it. Probably it's ot a modem, but something else. Maybe a very old door system controller card?

 

I think It's a video modem, quite rare to see them with the camera port.  The white box above the line socket is more than likely micro switches to adjust the IRQ.

[siaran]

Back in my day we had to drag our hdds uphill...in the snow..to write to them...or something...*waves cane*

 

Nothing quite like the knocking sound of the Seagate ST-251s, you kids today and your fancy silent solid states. This old 43 megabyte drive transferred at 5 mb/s. (I was surprised to actually find a video with the noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTu-1dLegzI )

 

 

 

[Dabombinable]

The one thing I've noticed about the early HDD is that they last a lot longer than newer ones, with my old WD all it needs is a few blocks of dry ice on it every now and then and it runs at an acceptable noise level (without dry Ice it starts screeching, measured it at 69 decibels at one point), I even have the original install of win 3.1 and booting.

[NumLock21]

I always like the sound of them Seagate Cheetah 15K SCSI drive.

This is the closest sound I managed to find, but this one is a Seagate Cheetah 10K

[Tr3vor]

It's revival time!

 

Say hello to the Compaq Deskpro 4/25is. 

 

This computer originally sported a 486SX 25mhz CPU and 4MB of RAM and ran DOS. However, it has been upgraded to a 486DX2 66MHz and 12MB of ram and runs Windows 95.

 

Since I already have a 66MHz 486, I plan on downgrading it back to a 25mhz SX processor, and put DOS back on it. Might also get a Sound Blaster Pro or 2.0 or something. Until then, I'll just let it run win95, since my other 486 doesn't like win95... at all...

 

When I first got this computer, it looked like this inside:

 

It was a fuzzy computer. It also has a full height 3.5" drive, which is pretty huge looking.

[Dabombinable]

 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:

 

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Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

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Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

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Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

of those, I've got an identical stick of ram in my media pc, and a core 2 duo e8500. Though if you really want retro just look at a 386/486 cpu.

[IdeaStormer]

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You are the official LTT computer junk hoarder, wear it with pride

[flibberdipper]

It's revival time!

 

Say hello to the Compaq Deskpro 4/25is. 

 

 

This computer originally sported a 486SX 25mhz CPU and 4MB of RAM and ran DOS. However, it has been upgraded to a 486DX2 66MHz and 12MB of ram and runs Windows 95.

 

Since I already have a 66MHz 486, I plan on downgrading it back to a 25mhz SX processor, and put DOS back on it. Might also get a Sound Blaster Pro or 2.0 or something. Until then, I'll just let it run win95, since my other 486 doesn't like win95... at all...

 

When I first got this computer, it looked like this inside:

 

 

It was a fuzzy computer. It also has a full height 3.5" drive, which is pretty huge looking.

UNGH SO NICE.

 

I miss my old Deskpro (desktop form factor) that ran Windows 98. I've forgotten all of the specs, sadly.

 

You are the official LTT computer junk hoarder, wear it with pride

You sure?

[SeriouslyMikey]

Ohh, I forgot I could add another piece of tech to this. 

 

Sadly, it has actually died on me. After owning it second hand for about 4-5 months.