Show off your old and retro computer parts

[FoxPro]

1 minute ago, Jonno_75 said:

I have a 2007 white macbook just lying around it is completly ussless

nonsense there's plenty of uses for a C2D mac, just don't use OS X on it that's all

[Normand_Nadon]

5 hours ago, Jonno_75 said:

I have a 2007 white macbook just lying around it is completly ussless

Would make a nice door stop!

[Crunchy Dragon]

I have a fully-legitimate copy of Windows XP in the packaging of Windows 98(by which I mean, it's the type of packaging you'd see on a shelf for Win98 but it's a copy of XP inside).

[8uhbbhu8]

5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I have a fully-legitimate copy of Windows XP in the packaging of Windows 98(by which I mean, it's the type of packaging you'd see on a shelf for Win98 but it's a copy of XP inside).

I have a copy ox XP Home edition that looks like someone took the top layer off of cause the layer is a shiny and brass coloured  

[8uhbbhu8]

OMG I completely forgot I had this gem! Sadly the floppies no longer have good data on them.  I do have the original software though So I could shove it onto the floppies and use it if i can get them working  

 No thats not me on the receipt  

[ProjectBox153]

8 hours ago, Jonno_75 said:

I have a 2007 white macbook just lying around it is completly ussless

No, that's not useless! I'd love to have one of those.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

No, that's not useless! I'd love to have one of those.

I can see the Tech News thread now: "Jamiec1130 overheats and kills a 2007 MacBook by Folding on it"

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I can see the Tech News thread now: "Jamiec1130 overheats and kills a 2007 MacBook by Folding on it"

I wouldn't put it past me to do that. I'd run F@H on my 2008 Original MacBook Air if the thing worked. Although, it does get hot enough to cook on when idle.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I wouldn't put it past me to do that. I'd run F@H on my 2008 Original MacBook Air if the thing worked. Although, it does get hot enough to cook on when idle.

"Managed a pretty good omelet before MacBook fried itself(along with his eggs), better luck next time!"

[Macboi]

2 sticks of 256MB DDR ram

S0rry for the bad pic, I had a shaky hand.

 

a pentium 4 with PGA format (the CPU has pins)

 

bottom of the pentium 4 (see the pins)

 

the CPU socket

 

 

the whole motherboard w/ the CPU & RAM installed

 

This PC sits on my desk as decoration and is used whenever I need to demonstrate the parts of a computer to someone without the risk of damaging something expensive.  It currently has a blazingly fast 8400GS installed as a GPU.

 

I have lots of other old computer parts despite only being in my early teens, if you are interested in any of them I can probably post an image.  Off the top of my head some of these parts are:

 

-An Acer laptop that is probably older than me running a core M (single core) CPU.  Somehow I managed to get this thing dual booting windows 10 32 bit and linux mint 32 bit and actually run ok even though it can't handle flash games.  Also upgraded it to 2GB of ddr2 RAM.

 

- A desktop rocking a Phenom 8400 tripple core CPU with onboard graphics that are probably beat by a rpi (this thing is running win10 64bit and linux mint 64 bit on separate HDDs)

 

- desktop with a couple sticks of 512megs of ddr2 and a Pentium dual core

 

- dell optiplex 420 (blaze it) with a core2quad q9300.  Upgraded the PSU and put in a GTX 950, it actually runs very well.

 

- Another laptop similar to the first one except it has a weird HDD interface that nothing I have matches so i haven't bothered to figure it out.

 

- a laptop with a second gen (i think) core i7

 

- a GPU that is part of the HD 3600 series (probably) that came OEM in that dell

 

Can't think of anything else right now but ask if you would like pictures of any of those and I'll see what I can do!

[ProjectBox153]

21 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I can see the Tech News thread now: "Jamiec1130 overheats and kills a 2007 MacBook by Folding on it"

It's so cold in the room I keep my computers in (about 20 degrees (F) colder), even though the room is served by two heat vents, I could probably use the MacBook Air for F@H in there right now without too much risk of overheating it. The main rig I am Folding on right now is probably able to be passively cooled.

[Alec M]

It bugs me how many people show pictures of Core 2 Duos on this thread, they still are good budget CPUs.

I always will have a kind of fondness for them since my first desktop had a C2D E6550.

I loved upgrading that build, in fact I still have it, with a HD3650 I got for $10 installed as the GPU.

 

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, Alec M said:

It bugs me how many people show pictures of Core 2 Duos on this thread, they still are good budget CPUs.

I always will have a kind of fondness for them since my first desktop had a C2D E6550.

I loved upgrading that build, in fact I still have it, with a HD3650 I got for $10 installed as the GPU.

 

No, C2D's aren't good budget CPUs anymore. C2Q's sure, but the dual cores are horrible for any games past 2014-2015. Though even the Q6600 is really starting to choke on a fat one now.

[CastleCrusher]

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[DOSjockey]

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...

 

Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.

 

To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.

 

The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.

 

A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL

 

Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

No, C2D's aren't good budget CPUs anymore. C2Q's sure, but the dual cores are horrible for any games past 2014-2015. Though even the Q6600 is really starting to choke on a fat one now.

It's me and my army of Core 2 Duos again! Yeah, they actually are. Mine sure still plays games fine. They can be had for free, so I'd consider them amazing.

[8uhbbhu8]

3 hours ago, DOSjockey said:

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...

 

Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.

 

To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.

 

The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.

 

A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL

 

Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

 OMG. That makes me so jealous  

[ProjectBox153]

4 hours ago, DOSjockey said:

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...

 

Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.

 

To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.

 

The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.

 

A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL

 

Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

Make sure you never leak the address of where those computers are stored. I'd love to have a fraction of that stuff.

[flibberdipper]

5 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

It's me and my army of Core 2 Duos again! Yeah, they actually are. Mine sure still plays games fine. They can be had for free, so I'd consider them amazing.

Considering how badly my Q6600 chokes nowadays, I really don't think I'd want to use my E7500. Hell in a lot of more modern games (Fallout 4 and GTA V spring to mind immediately), the Q6600 will bottleneck my GTX 480. The quads are the only Core 2 chips worth giving a damn about for gaming at this point. And even then, considering how cheap i5 2400's are and accompanying boards (albeit OEM ones), 775 really doesn't make a lick of sense for a budget machine, unless it's a retardedly tight budget machine.

[DOSjockey]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Make sure you never leak the address of where those computers are stored. I'd love to have a fraction of that stuff.

I actually don't know the address of the place, now that I think about it.  I jumped in the second it was built, and just now decided to move everything over.

 

Problem is, moving vintage computers with those heavy parts and old, giant solder points in such cold weather is ill-advised.  So, I'm kind of left twiddling my thumbs right now.  LOL

 

I'm more than happy to let people poke around and play with things to their heart's content when they stop by, and never opposed to letting them buy stuff (and usually tossing in some cool extras).  What's the point of vintage computing if I keep it all to myself and never let anyone in to have some fun, right? 

 

With the newly freed space, I'm about to build three identical 486 machines (harder than you might think to find identical CRTs) for Doom over LAN at a moment's notice.

[DOSjockey]

2 hours ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

 OMG. That makes me so jealous  

You're free to come help me move it all in.  LMAO

 

I think my biggest perpetual issue is backing up old floppies.  So much abandonware that needs to be saved, so little time.  I was on a roll a while back until a squirrel managed to lift a roof corner on my warehouse, right above my transfer machine, during a rainstorm, when a 50 foot long gutter was full of water (forgot I installed the gutter... so I never cleared it out).  Yup.  I was standing right there, too.

 

Luckily it only hit the transfer machine, and me, and my bed, and my dresser, and me.  And ME.  Damn it all.  That was one of the most confusing moments of my life.

 

The water just wouldn't stop pouring in.  One doesn't expect a waterfall in one's bedroom, and when one encounters said bedroom waterfall, he doesn't immediately know what to do about it.  LOL

[Dabombinable]

36 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Considering how badly my Q6600 chokes nowadays, I really don't think I'd want to use my E7500. Hell in a lot of more modern games (Fallout 4 and GTA V spring to mind immediately), the Q6600 will bottleneck my GTX 480. The quads are the only Core 2 chips worth giving a damn about for gaming at this point. And even then, considering how cheap i5 2400's are and accompanying boards (albeit OEM ones), 775 really doesn't make a lick of sense for a budget machine, unless it's a retardedly tight budget machine.

$50 Xeon X5450 @ 3.6GHz+$55 motherboard=better performance than a Pentium G4560....

2 minutes ago, DOSjockey said:

You're free to come help me move it all in.  LMAO

 

I think my biggest perpetual issue is backing up old floppies.  So much abandonware that needs to be saved, so little time.  I was on a roll a while back until a squirrel managed to lift a roof corner on my warehouse, right above my transfer machine, during a rainstorm, when a 50 foot long gutter was full of water (forgot I installed the gutter... so I never cleared it out).  Yup.  I was standing right there, too.

 

Luckily it only hit the transfer machine, and me, and my bed, and my dresser, and me.  And ME.  Damn it all.  That was one of the most confusing moments of my life.

 

The water just wouldn't stop pouring in.  One doesn't expect a waterfall in one's bedroom, and when one encounters said bedroom waterfall, he doesn't immediately know what to do about it.  LOL

If only my 5.25" FDD hadn't failed and taken disk 1 of Windows 3.1 with it...they were the disks used to install it on my 386 DX-40 machine originally, which I'd only just repaired.

[DOSjockey]

4 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

$50 Xeon X5450 @ 3.6GHz+$55 motherboard=better performance than a Pentium G4560....

If only my 5.25" FDD hadn't failed and taken disk 1 of Windows 3.1 with it...they were the disks used to install it on my 386 DX-40 machine originally, which I'd only just repaired.

That must have sucked.

 

At least it didn't eat disk 3, though; after you'd already finished 1 and 2.  Ah, the days of piles of floppies to install one program; and that one floppy right in the middle that screws it all up.

[8uhbbhu8]

9 minutes ago, DOSjockey said:

You're free to come help me move it all in.  LMAO

 

I think my biggest perpetual issue is backing up old floppies.  So much abandonware that needs to be saved, so little time.  I was on a roll a while back until a squirrel managed to lift a roof corner on my warehouse, right above my transfer machine, during a rainstorm, when a 50 foot long gutter was full of water (forgot I installed the gutter... so I never cleared it out).  Yup.  I was standing right there, too.

 

Luckily it only hit the transfer machine, and me, and my bed, and my dresser, and me.  And ME.  Damn it all.  That was one of the most confusing moments of my life.

 

The water just wouldn't stop pouring in.  One doesn't expect a waterfall in one's bedroom, and when one encounters said bedroom waterfall, he doesn't immediately know what to do about it.  LOL

Lol that sucks. How much did you lose from that?

[DOSjockey]

28 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Lol that sucks. How much did you lose from that?

Not too much, in the end.

 

One computer with an optical drive, USB, CF, as well as 5.25 and 3.5" floppy drives and ZIP that was rock-steady reliable.

 

One CRT monitor that I'd planned on using with that PS/2 in the other picture.  NEC Multisync, too; with very low hours, that I'd had calibrated (I don't dig inside CRTs anymore, personally.  Better to let someone else blow their socks off, right? LOL).

 

Just a touch of progress, since the HDD was fine, but building another system like that has kind of languished on the back burner.  That one was sweet.  I've got a plan for something cooler, though.  I've just got to build the case from scratch.  Time will tell if I get around to it, as I'm a bit busy with other stuff at the moment.  Worst case, I just nail something together to finish the job and hope it holds up.

 

The only reason it killed the motherboard was I had the case cover removed that night.  It was an AT form factor, so with the cover off, everything was exposed.  Good thing hard drives keep their naughty bits on the bottom.

 

I managed to take the dresser in the storage section and get some heaters on it in time.  Clothes just went in the wash.

 

I myself, however, became a Charlie Brown meme in my own mind.  I still wonder how much of a doofus I looked like standing there, blankly staring at the wall with all that water pouring on my head.  Hey, I'm no stranger to rough situations, but that one really befuddled me, as I'd completely forgotten about that gutter.  

 

Sure did get my butt up on that roof and clear it out the next day, though.  It was a real gully-washer that week, and I wasn't about to wait for the next one for another reminder.  LMAO