Show off your old and retro computer parts

DANK_AS_gay · April 19, 2022

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Wait did I post that on this thread or did you just manage to find it

I found it. That's why I linked it.

the car paint demo isn't "new" I don't think, but the mobius stripe one might be.

da na · April 19, 2022

1 minute ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

Have you seen the new Boing iPod? I hear it can hold 336 people!

That's what the artist section is. The actual people are inside

da na · April 19, 2022

6 minutes ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

I found it. That's why I linked it.

the car paint demo isn't "new" I don't think, but the mobius stripe one might be.

Ah that's funny. Because that's the one that I uploaded. (My forum account and Archive.org account name is the same)

There are two CarPaint demos, the 1.0 and 1.1, there seems to be no difference other than what GPU it says it's for in the bottom right corner.

Don't try to run CarPaint on an NVIDIA card either... it's a pretty interesting experience

DANK_AS_gay · April 19, 2022

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

pretty interesting experience

Pretty seizure inducing experience

Interesting that ATI didn't lock them out, kudos!

da na · April 19, 2022

2 minutes ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

Pretty seizure inducing experience

Interesting that ATI didn't lock them out, kudos!

Yeah, if you run it on an NVIDIA card the texture for the background of the room does not appear. So it just smears the image across the screen. If you tweak it you can fix the smearing but not the texture issues...

I would've thought it would have been locked to ATI cards too, but other than CarPaint they all run fine on a GTX or Quadro. And that seems to be just because of how Nvidia/ATI handle shaders differently, since it runs fine on any ATI/AMD.

flibberdipper · April 21, 2022

Some recent acquisitions. Mobo's got the Pentium Pro 200MHz and 128MB of RAM, unsure what amount of VRAM the video card has because I forgot to look. Also got it with a 30GB WD HDD from 2001 and it was surprisingly responsive with its very well used install of Windows 98 SE. When I get time I'd love to do a clean install and see what it can really do.

da na · April 21, 2022

Hitachi IDE HDD that I bought. It's a used server drive from an Apple server, indicated by its few start/stops and high hour count as well as this Apple server caddy. I didn't know it would come with this.

I bought the drive bare but it's an interesting addition. It adapts the drive IDE/MOLEX to SCSI, since find me a vintage Mac that doesn't have SCSI. It looks like it would have gone to these from what I can find online. The caddies have a pop out handle which also has a switch on it to power off the drive so it's got a chance to park the heads before being yanked from the server which is nice.

Spoiler

Taking it out of the caddy it's a regular IDE drive, albeit a massive one, AFAIK 500gb was the 2nd largest size they were made in.

Its SMART is very indicative of server use - high hour, few power off events. I'm not worried though, it's a Hitachi, it'll outlive everyone I know anyway.

Spoiler

Hitachi 0A32307 3.5" 500GB 7.2K IDE Hard Drive, Silver (Refurbished) | Wish

Here's where I bought it from, it goes against the typical wish.com stigma. Packaged very well and shipped with Priority Mail - would def recommend these drives if you're in need of an IDE disk

Bitter · April 21, 2022

GF asked me if I could screen record a webinar on veterinary ECG for her, said 'I know QuickTime could screen record on my old Mac'. QuickTime....now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Failed at recording it, the PC I was going to use can't use gamebar to screen record for some reason, and I'm not installing the webinar app on any PC I actually use for like taxes and banking because security.

da na · April 22, 2022

OK, now I want to fix that Pentium 4 motherboard even more

Why would you NOT want a motherboard that talks to you? Perfect!

da na · April 22, 2022

Found an app for my IoT clock that can scroll subreddit posts, it's now set to r/vintagecomputing

Spoiler

If you squint... AGP card, Pentium Pro, some other CPU?

Bitter · April 22, 2022

15 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

OK, now I want to fix that Pentium 4 motherboard even more

Why would you NOT want a motherboard that talks to you? Perfect!

I think the board I gave fakekgb does this, he oughta get a video of it talking.

@FakeKGB

WhitetailAni · April 22, 2022

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I think the board I gave fakekgb does this, he oughta get a video of it talking.

@FakeKGB

It does indeed, scared the crap out of me "CPU FAILURE CPU FAILURE CPU FAILURE" at max volume

da na · April 22, 2022

Repairing my PhysX card at last. The pad had completely torn off unfortunately and could not solder to it. But I scratched off the top layer of the PCB right next to where the pad would have gone, and soldered straight to that.

I will now test to see if this works. If it works but crashes under load, I'll solder leads to this cap, lie it down on the board, and then solder the other side of the wires to the scratches on the board. (These power caps are in series, if one goes the card doesn't power up.)

BondiBlue · April 22, 2022

On 4/21/2022 at 1:24 PM, Mel0nMan said:

Hitachi IDE HDD that I bought. It's a used server drive from an Apple server, indicated by its few start/stops and high hour count as well as this Apple server caddy. I didn't know it would come with this.

I bought the drive bare but it's an interesting addition. It adapts the drive IDE/MOLEX to SCSI, since find me a vintage Mac that doesn't have SCSI.

Yep, that's an old Xserve caddy. It's not SCSI, it's simply a backplane connector that connects the UATA drive (IDE) to the rest of the chassis. Out of curiosity, how long did it take for the drive to arrive from Wish?

da na · April 22, 2022

3 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Yep, that's an old Xserve caddy. It's not SCSI, it's simply a backplane connector that connects the UATA drive (IDE) to the rest of the chassis. Out of curiosity, how long did it take for the drive to arrive from Wish?

4 days. It's a US seller and they shipped it priority.

BondiBlue · April 22, 2022

11 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

4 days. It's a US seller and they shipped it priority.

Interesting. I might pick up a couple of those if I need them for a summer project of mine.

da na · April 22, 2022

Just now, BondiBlue said:

Interesting. I might pick up a couple of those if I need them for a summer project of mine.

Yeah they're pretty well used but again it's a Hitachi, will never break

BondiBlue · April 22, 2022

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

Yeah they're pretty well used but again it's a Hitachi, will never break

At this point in time used is the best you're going to get in most cases with IDE drives. I was lucky enough to find a sealed 160GB WD Blue ATA drive about a year ago at a flea market, but that's the only time in recent history that I've bought an IDE drive that's actually new.

Lukas gurney · April 23, 2022

da na · April 23, 2022

2 minutes ago, Lukas gurney said:

Not quite old/retro, the line for "old/retro" on this thread is Core 2 era and before.

WhitetailAni · April 23, 2022

3 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Not quite old/retro, the line for "old/retro" on this thread is Core 2 era and before.

Maybe some LGA1156 too

Bitter · April 23, 2022

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

Maybe some LGA1156 too

Ehhh maybe. 1st gen Core stuff is getting pretty old but it's not horrible old yet. Though with DDR3 ending production... maybe. Now AMD of that time period has aged like milk.