Show off your old and retro computer parts

[WeTuLo707]

27 minutes ago, TheLANguy said:

It seems like if the price is right on ebay, it will sell. Sadly that price is rather low and the tech my garage is worthless. 

That was the same way I was feeling.

[robert1]

This was my first pc i will i used to play games on that pc. back in early 2000

[Thomas A. Fine]

So my Atari 800 served as my terminal for logging on to the Internet  in the 1980s, and I wrote my own terminal emulator that gave me an 80 column screen on the 320-pixels-wide monitor (which meant my own hand-designed 4-pixel wide characters).  But if you wanted to plug serial or parallel devices into the Atari computers you needed an Atari 850 interface.

 

It looked like this:

 

 

 

 

[matt francis]

Lolx, got astounded by admiring the old pc parts. wish i could also have any old pc part.

[bouper]

I think i win, PC from ~1975 original intel 8080, processor works fine but recently one of the memory modules got rusty so the video output is messed up. 

[Kilrah]

Beautiful, but yeah that definitely needs some restoration work

[bouper]

12 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Beautiful, but yeah that definitely needs some restoration work

I would clean all of the memory modules but I'm super busy with school i might try and fix it over winter break.

[luckybob77]

nah man.  leave it alone.  its so much better with 50+ years of "providence" on it.

 

its a thing of beauty.

[Dabombinable]

Welp, I now have a smol 1999 PC. Albeit with only the ODD not being year perfect (2004 Liteon) or the Sound card, FDD, NIC being early to mid 90's.

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A bit of jank was required to get my GA-5AA's PS/2 mouse bracket working.

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[da na]

Brand new friend, fresh out of the factory box

[Kilrah]

but have you registered yet

[da na]

Just now, Kilrah said:

but have you registered yet

I'll try to register the card on their website

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, da na said:

Brand new friend, fresh out of the factory box

 

 

I am slightly jealous. I would shit my pants if I were to get some of the cards on my hoarding list BNIB. Straight up.

[Issac Zachary]

Any suggestions on a serial mouse with scroll wheel that will work with Windows 11? My Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0 works fine, but I find that most things jump around too much when using page up and page down or the arrow keys. Has anyone tried a Microsoft Intellimouse over serial on Windows 11? I'm trying to keep my main computer as retro as possible.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Issac Zachary said:

Any suggestions on a serial mouse with scroll wheel that will work with Windows 11? My Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0 works fine, but I find that most things jump around too much when using page up and page down or the arrow keys. Has anyone tried a Microsoft Intellimouse over serial on Windows 11? I'm trying to keep my main computer as retro as possible.

The Microsoft Intellimouse came in a serial flavour.  I'll warn you though they're probably rare as rocking horse poo these days.  Do you have a PS/2 connector on your motherboard?  The PS/2 flavour is much more plentiful.  Another option if it's a modernish sort of motherboard is to use something like this:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TanQY-Adapter-Keyboard-Interface-Support/dp/B07FLD3T8T/ref=asc_df_B07FLD3T8T/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309981988222&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15572070358208111777&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007141&hvtargid=pla-632476719489&th=1

 

That will make any USB socket take a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse

 

I have a Microsoft for Tiny Computers branded intellimouse.  A PS/2 one with a scroll wheel I could sell you if you like the last idea

[Issac Zachary]

59 minutes ago, ChonkerFox said:

The Microsoft Intellimouse came in a serial flavour.  I'll warn you though they're probably rare as rocking horse poo these days.  Do you have a PS/2 connector on your motherboard?  The PS/2 flavour is much more plentiful.  Another option if it's a modernish sort of motherboard is to use something like this:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TanQY-Adapter-Keyboard-Interface-Support/dp/B07FLD3T8T/ref=asc_df_B07FLD3T8T/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309981988222&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15572070358208111777&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007141&hvtargid=pla-632476719489&th=1

 

That will make any USB socket take a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse

 

I have a Microsoft for Tiny Computers branded intellimouse.  A PS/2 one with a scroll wheel I could sell you if you like the last idea

I have a beige erogonomic PS/2 keyboard with a PS/2 integrated trackpad that is taking up the two PS/2 ports. My mother board has two PS/2 ports and one serial header.

 

However, the keyboard has a place to add another mouse. I'd have to solder a PS/2 header or port of some sort to it though, but that wouldn't be hard. Maybe I'll go that route.

 

I do have a PS/2 to USB adapter. But I don't know. I kind of like keeping things plugged into their original ports.

[luckybob77]

serial mice support was removed after XP.

 

also, a serial mouse with a scroll wheel...  you'll have more success in finding a virgin in a whore house.

 

 

[Issac Zachary]

7 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

serial mice support was removed after XP.

 

also, a serial mouse with a scroll wheel...  you'll have more success in finding a virgin in a whore house.

 

 

I plugged in my serial mouse into this 12th gen Intel, core i5 desktop and Windows downloaded the drivers and it has worked perfectly fine ever since. That's all I know.

 

I do have a beige (or white I guess) USB mouse with scroll wheel from Microsoft, but the buttons don't work very well. This serial mouse with ball bottom works better, except no scroll wheel.

[mrGoodWolf]

I'm getting a pdp-7 later. not yet be next year!

[jimodin]

Wow DDR2 .. I remember my first ever system that had same specs.

[Killjoy_NS]

Here something for our little "Museum" here...

[Killjoy_NS]

I believe this is ASUS P5Q board...I used to have Core2 Quad 9550 on that board...but...inside is some Intel Celeron...I don't know which one...it is hard to see....

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, Killjoy_NS said:

I believe this is ASUS P5Q board...I used to have Core2 Quad 9550 on that board...but...inside is some Intel Celeron...I don't know which one...it is hard to see....

And it still has the plastic condom over the Asus silkscreen????? Brother I'm about to bust.

[Killjoy_NS]

2 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

And it still has the plastic condom over the Asus silkscreen????? Brother I'm about to bust.

Condom? Silkscreen?

What?

 

You mean sticker "Asus"?

Yep. It didn't fall off.

[Dabombinable]

18 hours ago, Killjoy_NS said:

I believe this is ASUS P5Q board...I used to have Core2 Quad 9550 on that board...but...inside is some Intel Celeron...I don't know which one...it is hard to see....

With how my P45 boards aged (P5Q Turbo and P5Q Deluxe), mainly in regard to stability with dual channel memory, then later with 1066MHz memory as well as 1600MHz FSB CPU (read - shouldn't have tried daily driving Xeons at that) - definitely take care with how you use it. Chipset can overclock like a champ, but really doesn't hold up well under proper use even at stock voltages.