Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Kilrah]

Cool... would just add either some ken burns or even better some slider moves on the static shots.

 

[da na]

10 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Cool... would just add either some ken burns or even better some slider moves on the static shots.

 

I tried that at first, but it just made it more obvious that I had only rendered one frame for that shot since the motion looked rather unnatural compared to the slightly moving things in other shots that used multiple frames. Still learning how to do a moving camera in Cinema 4D, it's incredibly complicated so I might redo it at some point in the future when I have 4 hours to just sit down and watch some tutorials. 

[Bitter]

4 minutes ago, System51 said:

What's your kitchen setup? 
Mine is a P4 with 512mb of RAM a GeForce2 and W2k. 
TBF I just found that PC in my closet and had W2k around would have gone with 98SE or so. 

@FakeKGB

Isn't that the same case as the P4 system I gave you?

[WhitetailAni]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

@FakeKGB

Isn't that the same case as the P4 system I gave you?

Yep, that's it. Doubt it has the same bursty caps though.

[da na]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

Yep, that's it. Doubt it has the same bursty caps though.

Wow, case caps?
/s

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Yep, that's it. Doubt it has the same bursty caps though.

It's probably the same motherboard inside and so it might, those were leaked/leaking but it still booted I just didn't trust it to be reliable for you for checking stuff with so I recapped it to make sure I wasn't giving you junk.

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, System51 said:

I mean I have like 6 of em. 

All with bad caps

[da na]

38 minutes ago, System51 said:

Probs. If I had a clue how to fix em I would but my only tool is a screwdriver

Getting into soldering isn't too difficult, there are those little radio kits etc you can buy. That's how I started. If the board is just single layer through hole replacing caps isn't too difficult at all. Solder wick often isn't the most effective on those though; you may need a desoldering gun. 

Or just snap the old cap off and solder the new to the back of the board like I did once. 

[Bitter]

Yeah I'm pretty noob at this stuff and I was able to do it pretty easily by myself, would have been A LOT easier with a helper. Caps were fairly cheap from Amazon, I already had the soldering stuff tho so a bit of a cheat.

[8tg]

Thinkpad S30

Specifically one of the more rare ones with the blued metal lid.

it is such a beautifully tiny machine

sometime over the weekend when I have some free time to have fun with it I’ll post to the forums from this 21 year old thinkpad 

 

and yes, the battery does have a little lever which flips down to put the machine at an angle 

[Rex Hite]

AT keyboard adapted to PS/2 adapted  to USB.

 

[BrianTheElectrician]

5 hours ago, 8tg said:

Thinkpad S30

Specifically one of the more rare ones with the blued metal lid.

Dang that looks like it's in great shape! What are your plans for it? I imagine Windows 98 drivers would be available for it, so should make a good Win98, 2000 or XP machine. The 40 series I know you can still get brand new batteries off Amazon too for pretty cheap, I wonder if that's true for the 30 series as well...

[8tg]

1 hour ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Dang that looks like it's in great shape! What are your plans for it? I imagine Windows 98 drivers would be available for it, so should make a good Win98, 2000 or XP machine. The 40 series I know you can still get brand new batteries off Amazon too for pretty cheap, I wonder if that's true for the 30 series as well...

Gonna load it up with the very general assortment of XP stuff, Microsoft office, some music, a few movies over VLC, a few games it can handle, Firefox 52 ESR, etc 

 

This one has wifi and an 32gb ssd, maxed out at 256mb of ram, supposedly that battery still gets about 2 hours of battery life according to the previous owner.

 

[8tg]

Here it is alongside my thinkpad X1 nano for a size comparison 

20 years of difference between them 

[SiRcivic27]

So I shocked myself doing some cleaning when I found two boxes I don’t even recall having. First was the box for my 2010 i7-970 with the stock (never used) tower cooler. Second is the box for my first solid state drive that I got with the i7, this still has the hardware and bracket to put into a 3.5” bay. Finally is a thermal take 3.5” HDD fan that’s never been opened. Just figured I’d share before this stuff goes to an electrics/ metal recycling center. 
 

Both intel pieces are still running strong in my soon to be server/nas.
 

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Theyre good collector items considering theyre over a decade old and look prestine, maybe you could sell em to a collector and make some money

[da na]

Nice, love that VGA cooler!

 

[emosun]

when someone says stoneage I expected 1970s pc parts not 2010s

[Middcore]

Inb4 obligatory "I'm still using parts as old/older than this" post.

[da na]

Disassembled a CF form factor microdrive. Its whole platter assembly is smaller than the spindle clamp on a 3.5" Barracuda.

It only has a head on one side of the platter. I wonder if this was totally needed because the tiny head would get too heavy double sided, or if there was a model with 2x the capacity of this one that used both sides.

I see what broke on it, part of the wiring on the head was torn up. I used a pair of tweezers to remove the rest so it would look a bit nicer for decoration. I also removed part of the parking mechanism that was in this part of the drive (by about where the head is now) since it was loose and was probably what broke it in the first place.

Its controller board. There's an Atmel chip, probably the controller, the cache and something else are under the black epoxy stuff so I can't read markings.

Here is the top of the drive, with the head magnet, noise dampening/shock protection material, and part of the parking mechanism. 

 

 

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 2/23/2022 at 1:21 PM, 8tg said:

Gonna load it up with the very general assortment of XP stuff, Microsoft office, some music, a few movies over VLC, a few games it can handle, Firefox 52 ESR, etc 

 

This one has wifi and an 32gb ssd, maxed out at 256mb of ram, supposedly that battery still gets about 2 hours of battery life according to the previous owner.

Should be a great machine for that, though I think you'll want to upgrade the ram. XP I've found really likes 512mb or more. The ssd will be nice though, and 32gb should be adequate for what you can run on that machine. That's pretty cool that the battery is still decent too! That's rare with the older machines. I had to buy new batteries for my 40 series machines, surprisingly amazon has them new still, and cheap, I paid about $30cad each for mine. GOG is a good source for games, and their installers work on XP. Some even run on Windows 2000 but that's a bit hit and miss I've found. Maybe the unofficial sp5 for win2k would rectify that... hmm...

[8tg]

5 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Should be a great machine for that, though I think you'll want to upgrade the ram

256mb is all it takes sadly

 

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 2/25/2022 at 11:59 PM, 8tg said:

256mb is all it takes sadly

 

According to IBM's website documentation it should support up to 1gb, it takes pc133 sdram sodimms. I know for sure there are 512mb modules available.

 

https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=897/ENUS101-353&language=enus&appname=skmwww&mhq=db2 olap function reference&mhsrc=ibmsearch_a

 

Perhaps Windows 2000 would be a better option to run on it with only 256mb? Installing the unofficial service pack 5 and the extended kernal should provide most of the functionality of XP, and knowing IBM drivers shouldnt be an issue. Or if your set on XP perhaps run the rtm release or sp1/2 and avoid sp3?

 

Edit: I realized I did the search for an A30 not an S30. The S30 does indeed have a maximum of 256mb, which looks like it's a chipset limitation.

[Bitter]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-mod-doubles-l2-cache-amd-k6-2-cpu-from-2000

Only 22 years late but better than never I guess.

[da na]

4 minutes ago, Bitter said:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-mod-doubles-l2-cache-amd-k6-2-cpu-from-2000

Only 22 years late but better than never I guess.

Ooh, might get one and try!

Reminds me of the Linux drivers being made, what was that, like last year? for the ATI Radeons. (7000 series?)