Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Guest trucker2]

Here the MCA bus....daddy to the PCI bus I believe. IBM model 70 386. Wife wanted my old PC collection gone so I kept the PS/2's cause they are my fav. Mice pee killed all but a PS/1 Valuepoint and a model 30/286. Models 25.30,50z.56,70 and a model 80 tower

[Guest trucker2]

Old eprom chip, light sensitive, little window on the cover and a label to keeplight out, next to that is an old fuse

[Guest]

Old eprom chip, light sensitive, little window on the cover and a label to keeplight out, next to that is an old fuse

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For those that don't know the window was for erasing the chip. You would shine a UV light through the window and boom you had a fresh, ready to be programmed eprom. these have been replaced by EEPROMs that are electronically erasable, rather than using UV light.

[Guest trucker2]

Dead model 30 next to model 70 base. I wanted to build my sub 200 A10 7870 build using the model 30 but the emachines PSU is too tall so I am going with the 70 case. 

Although the 30 was part of the PS/2 line like the model 25 it used an ISA 8 bit bus. Odd to me considering it uses an 8086 instead of the 8088 used the the original IBM PC. As far as I know the 8086 should handle EISA since it is a true 16bit chip and not a 16 bit core with an 8 bit bus like the 8088

[Nowak]

256MB PC2100 DDR RAM, pulled from my IBM Thinkpad T40.

 

[flibberdipper]

Soon to be TMC's Mobo

 

I can't wait! My 300R sits empty right now.

 

Ya the bottom one confuses me...

It's a different voltage.

[escape093]

 

A Northwood Pentium 4 CPU, pulled from an old eMachines PC.

[Dabombinable]

 

 

 

A Prescott Pentium 4 CPU, pulled from an old eMachines PC.

 

That does not look look at all like the Pentium 630 (Presott) that I tried to delid. Heck, it doesn't even look like the Northwood in my old laptop. Perhaps you mean Pentium 4 Willamette? (The IHS is similar to the Tulatin Pentium III).

[flibberdipper]

That does not look look at all like the Pentium 630 (Presott) that I tried to delid. Heck, it doesn't even look like the Northwood in my old laptop. Perhaps you mean Pentium 4 Willamette? (The IHS is similar to the Tulatin Pentium III).

Nope. That is the proper IHS for Northwood and Prescott. I would know, since I have a 2.4GHz Northwood with HT in my old Dell and it looks exactly like that. And I love old Pentium 4's.

 

And a little side note, that's the same "shape" as the early 1.5GHz+ ones that were on 478 too.

[Dabombinable]

Nope. That is the proper IHS for Northwood and Prescott. I would know, since I have a 2.4GHz Northwood with HT in my old Dell and it looks exactly like that. And I love old Pentium 4's.

 

And a little side note, that's the same "shape" as the early 1.5GHz+ ones that were on 478 too.

The IHS on my Prescott P4 was different

[bob345]

from before transistors where a thing

 

[Dabombinable]

from before transistors where a thing

 

And when computers filled a room or 2.

[iamdarkyoshi]

I have an old gateway machine running windows 95 I found on the side of the road, I shit you not, it still boots.

[GoldSrc]

I found this in an old box.

[Dabombinable]

I found this in an old box.

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*sniffs* CyriX, I will miss you. but not your 25MHz 486 that was slower than my AMD 386 DX 40 (both are still around-but seriously, f*** the barrel batteries that killed my first and third IBM compatible PC)

[GoldSrc]

*sniffs* CyriX, I will miss you. but not your 25MHz 486 that was slower than my AMD 386 DX 40 (both are still around-but seriously, f*** the barrel batteries that killed my first and third IBM compatible PC)

I think I have a few more old CPUs somewhere, but they are mostly boring Pentium 1 and MMX, that Cyrix looks pretty.

[Dabombinable]

I think I have a few more old CPUs somewhere, but they are mostly boring Pentium 1 and MMX, that Cyrix looks pretty.

Pentium MMX? That would be fun to bench against my K6-2 500. But then again, 1 of the motherboard's caps has failed so I need to replace it. (I should probably install a socket each time a cap fails, that way if it fails again, just plug and play)

[GoldSrc]

Pentium MMX? That would be fun to bench against my K6-2 500. But then again, 1 of the motherboard's caps has failed so I need to replace it. (I should probably install a socket each time a cap fails, that way if it fails again, just plug and play)

You should get good low ESR solid caps. 

[Dabombinable]

You should get good low ESR solid caps. 

I was thinking of doing that. My Abit VP6 actually has those in the VRM power circuitry-and its the only legacy motherboard that I own with them. (All of the capacitors look like they have been replaced-and it did come with 2x PIII EB 1000, the stock Intel coolers and 2GB 133MHz, 150MHz stable with heatspreader SDRAM (unknown manufacturer, but all 4 sticks are from the same-2 have sequential serial numbers, and the others are extremely close).

[Dabombinable]

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Not sure if this counts, but a 70's pachinko from Japan.

 

I also got a zipdisk, DDR1-2, and some really ol' stuff laying around somewhere.   Who wants to see a SEGA CDX?  NES?  SNES?  Game Gear? Neo Geo Pocket?

I'd take the Zipdisk, but I've got no disks for it. 5.25" FDD FTW.

[GigaSnow]

This is a photo representation,l not my personal ones. I own 2, and I'm proud of it.

 

 

 

[Dabombinable]

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Alienware Respawn disk before they were bought by Dell, a zip disk, DDR1, game gear, an IDE drive, sega CDX, neo geo pocket color, ps1 original controller without sticks, sonic screwdriver, gameboy pocket, and rare space invaders keychain, and a Doom II survival guide.  Technically all computer stuff.

I take it that the Maxtor HDD is dead just like mine (which is a similar if not identical model-the control board is the part that normally fails first on them-even if the heads are knocking).

[Dabombinable]

All the Maxtor drives in my desk are.  

Same here. I had a 420MB drive working a few months ago, but the PCB died, and when I tried to recover the 80MB Maxtor: 'knock knock', well this is just f***ing great, a Maxtor HDD out lasted by an WD AC280

[astranger200]

Old things:

semperon 2600+ 1999

ddr sticks

p4s

pentium ds

Found at the tip:

pentium ds

200gb wd black

p4

ddr2

ddr400

old gpus

other things...

[escape093]

The IHS on my Prescott P4 was different

 

I made a mistake. It is a Northwood after all!  :blink: