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I know this is not really computer related but its retro tech none the less.

 

im a bit into collecting and restoring old vacuum tube radio's, and i love the inside of those radios.

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Those old radios look sweet. Never got to mess around with a tube radio before.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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I have some old stuff but nothing really that interesting. 

 

Lol those side carts on the PCjr.

 

what all do you have hooked up to it? at most I think I've seen a ram module hooked up to a pcjr on the internet, although I didn't look very hard for PCjr stuff.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Lol those side carts on the PCjr.

 

what all do you have hooked up to it? at most I think I've seen a ram module hooked up to a pcjr on the internet, although I didn't look very hard for PCjr stuff.

It currently has a ram cart and a printing cart. It also has the expansion for adding a second drive. It came with the expansions when I bought the little guy around 2 years ago.

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It currently has a ram cart and a printing cart. It also has the expansion for adding a second drive. 

 

geez, they should have made the drive expansion smaller...

 

also is that an altair 8800? what can you even do with those? 

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I have some old stuff but nothing really that interesting. 

Typical, I'm still trying to find my 5.25" FDD so I can re build the first computer I used with the Windows 3.1 floppies (the case got thrown out though so its just not the same, but at least I have the reset switch, the power switch with the beige cap, and all of the LED indicators-which I can switch out for any colour I want). At least I can get it to post I suppose.

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geez, they should have made the drive expansion smaller...

 

also is that an altair 8800? what can you even do with those? 

It is a much smaller version of the altair with modern hardware. It works very similar though and also runs at the 8mhz(emulated albeit from 16mhz). You can hook that little guy up to a screen with a keyboard and some programming that way or just use the switches and led's in the front. This little guy came in a kit and one just solders and puts it together. 

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Cannot wait until i get home and trawl through some old CPUs

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It is a much smaller version of the altair with modern hardware. It works very similar though and also runs at the 8mhz(emulated albeit from 16mhz). You can hook that little guy up to a screen with a keyboard and some programming that way or just use the switches and led's in the front. This little guy came in a kit and one just solders and puts it together. 

 

Nice, I was wondering why it was small. When I first looked up what an altair was, my mind was blown that you have to boot it manually by pretty much programming it with switches and LEDs.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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old CPUs top row intel bottom row AMD

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several old cards from the 90s

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my ram collection the one on the bottom right is 16 MB edo ram.

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my GF 4200 and its original box the box is so tight it still smells like new hardware inside.

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my GF 6600 withe a CPU fan mounted because the original one died

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one of my old boards and most of the stuff that came with it.

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MY GF 8800 and the rediculusly big mostly empty box it came in WTF ASUS

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another old board

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some ancient GPU no idea were i got that

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a couple boards and cards i have on the dresser behind me

 

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Ok just for you. I never did cable management since I built it at a buddy's house and he was getting impatient to play some farming simulator... lol.

 

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That's a really nice case. Is it a mod? Do you have the name of it?

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Oh man, I have a shelf of vintage parts.. but I'm at school right now..

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That's a really nice case. Is it a mod? Do you have the name of it?

It's an Air 540, as far as I can tell.

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Had a WD400B. A 40GB IDE WD Black. Took it apart, have the platter and spindle on my display shelf.

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It's an Air 540, as far as I can tell.

 

Thanks. I want an EVGA Hadron but I'm waiting for the next revision. Too many problems with the current model. If it doesn't get a revision I guess I'll have to buy through liquidation and make do.

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This my ram collection,32mb sd ram up to 1gb DDR.

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Dell Poweredge motherboard and cpu's in a random white case,those are 2ghz single xeon's w/HT

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Last is an ablum of my moms TI-99/4.

 

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I have more but i have to get ready for work,i will try to take more pics after work.

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Just because you're 12, doesn't mean you can't have old computer parts. I have some Core 2 Duo, and a Nvidia 8800 GTS or something like that.

ive got a pentium form like 5 yearws ago with ddr2 ram, hav a gig of it, and the hdds use that ribbon cable instead of sata

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Wow such retro!!

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Does a Core 2 Duo e6550 count...

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Wow, that's really cool!  :o  I would kill for one of those type writers. I most certainly would!

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