Show off your old and retro computer parts

[DarrenKC53]

I've got a few old bits about, but this is the oldest computer item still in use (date sticker on the back is from 17th April 1993). Unfortunately not a Model M, but an IBM M2 mechanical keyboard. It still has the buckling spring keys though and the great feel and clicky keys. Its a bit smaller and lightweight compared with a Model M.

 

The associated IBM PS/1 that is came with is in the garage, although I don't have any monitors suitable to use with it at the moment.

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

38 minutes ago, DarrenKC53 said:

I've got a few old bits about, but this is the oldest computer item still in use (date sticker on the back is from 17th April 1993). Unfortunately not a Model M, but an IBM M2 mechanical keyboard. It still has the buckling spring keys though and the great feel and clicky keys. Its a bit smaller and lightweight compared with a Model M.

 

The associated IBM PS/1 that is came with is in the garage, although I don't have any monitors suitable to use with it at the moment.

That's neat, what model PS/1 do you have?

[OopsThatIsMine]

I have a PC with an Athlon 64 3000+ and 1GB of ram in it that I picked up for £10 off Facebook. Also have a HD 5970, a GTX 260, Dell Latitude C840 somewhere (couldn't find it for a pic), and a Core2Quad w/ mobo and  ram.

[DarrenKC53]

1 hour ago, Jamiec1130 said:

That's neat, what model PS/1 do you have?

Its the 2133 model with a 386 proper old skool

Intel 80386SX @ 25 MHz

RAM 2MB

VRAM 256KB

SIMM 2×72 Pin FPM

Hard Drive 59G9567 (85 MB IDE)

 

I've got a source on an IBM monitor locally and a dot matrix printer which would be time relevant to it so hopefully can get it all working again soon.

 

Loving some of these other posts here, especially the beige box PCs from the late 90s when home computing really took off and had started to become affordable and mainstream.

 

I worked in a small computer shop during that era, boy did we sell some crap. Worst at the time I remember was the PC Chips motherboards with on board everything (which in those days was always crap) and needed about a million jumper settings changed to get everything to work paired with the AMD K6 processors. Certainly dont miss the effort it took to get those things working!

[ProjectBox153]

2 hours ago, DarrenKC53 said:

Its the 2133 model with a 386 proper old skool

Intel 80386SX @ 25 MHz

RAM 2MB

VRAM 256KB

SIMM 2×72 Pin FPM

Hard Drive 59G9567 (85 MB IDE)

 

I've got a source on an IBM monitor locally and a dot matrix printer which would be time relevant to it so hopefully can get it all working again soon.

 

Loving some of these other posts here, especially the beige box PCs from the late 90s when home computing really took off and had started to become affordable and mainstream.

 

I worked in a small computer shop during that era, boy did we sell some crap. Worst at the time I remember was the PC Chips motherboards with on board everything (which in those days was always crap) and needed about a million jumper settings changed to get everything to work paired with the AMD K6 processors. Certainly dont miss the effort it took to get those things working!

Not too bad. My PS/1 model 2011 has a 10 MHz (I think) 80286, 1MB RAM (upgraded from 512KB) and a 30MB hard drive. 

[bob345]

Some Mac g5 cpus

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just remembered this, I have a keyboard sitting in my basement that uses an AT connector.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Not sure why I have one. Let alone two.

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Not sure why I have one. Let alone two.

-snip-

Very nice, I've got an MX420 64Mb.

[DarrenKC53]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Not too bad. My PS/1 model 2011 has a 10 MHz (I think) 80286, 1MB RAM (upgraded from 512KB) and a 30MB hard drive. 

Wow, that must make it one of the models with the monitor integrated with the rest of the system? Also DOS on ROM?

 

Any pictures?

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, DarrenKC53 said:

Wow, that must make it one of the models with the monitor integrated with the rest of the system? Also DOS on ROM?

 

Any pictures?

I'll get a picture of it later. It does have DOS in ROM and a monitor with an integrated power supply. It makes the system useless without the matching display. I got it for $15 USD with a Dell AT101 keyboard. Amazing deal if you ask me. 

[Alpinochip]

I found my iphone 3g does that count

[SeanDavis]

What's up guys! missing some ram, but those are 16mb sticks.

[NoCarrier]

On 3/18/2018 at 1:42 PM, Jamiec1130 said:

I'll get a picture of it later. It does have DOS in ROM and a monitor with an integrated power supply. It makes the system useless without the matching display. I got it for $15 USD with a Dell AT101 keyboard. Amazing deal if you ask me. 

I just picked up a 2133 myself, same exact model.  I paid a little more but mine came with the monitor.  Yes, having the psu inside the monitor definitely makes it difficult.  Mine had PC DOS 4.0 (not MS DOS mind you), the IBM launcher, Windows 1.0, AND windows 3.11 for workgroups. 

 

With the exception of the wonky monitor, these are great compared to the PS/2 because 1) they have power for the hard drive  2) they're IDE   3) there's an ISA slot.

 

there is a super rare add on IBM sound card, but i can't seem to find those.  A handful of older sierra titles supported it.  I'll probably use the one free ISA slot for a NIC and then throw an IDE to SD adapter in before the hard drive dies.

 

 

 

[JR88]

There was about 6 or 7 mobos over here dude...most blocked/custom loop on the table/bench. On the Z270 spree, Waiting on the Gigabyte to get back, and just shipped off the FTW K something wrong with it. And I'm waiting on some generic X58 something new suppose to overclock ok, what they said anyways. 

Only thing working and on is Piledriver right now.  I got Linus's Rampage II as well need to send it to him Lol.

[Crunchy Dragon]

12 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I had an old Pentium 3 from my dad's old computer but I was really young at the time and destroyed the chip by trying to pry the silicon off the chip carrier... derp. I have some Athlon 64s, some with bent pins, and a Pentium M. I also used to have a 9600 GSO before I tried to desolder the chip (I'm evil) and 128 MB of DDR RAM. Somewhere in the depths of a 14-year old's room lay an old Matrox card with an AGP interface.

I did something very similar with  an AMD Sempron chip.

[darkendlink]

These are all that remains from my first computer

[Zachary Cartwright]

i have some old ass socket 604 xeons that i will post here later... i have to get to class tho so itll be around 10pm cst

[DarrenKC53]

A couple more from me of the IBM PS/1. Clearly from the era when case design was functional and nothing else!

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

10 minutes ago, DarrenKC53 said:

A couple more from me of the IBM PS/1. Clearly from the era when case design was functional and nothing else!

Ohhh, that's a nice looking system!

[JR88]

little retro mATX is cool. Running well with X5650...on the Ghetto slash make shift Bench Lol.

Pretty cool man, The bootsale Bargain rig.

[Coaxialgamer]

22 minutes ago, JR88 said:

little retro mATX is cool. Running well with X5650...on the Ghetto slash make shift Bench Lol.

Pretty cool man, The bootsale Bargain rig.

 

"retro"

[JR88]

4 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

"retro"

It is Retro level...that chip at only 2.9ghz and CB stuff at like 640....definitely Retro computing. Running 1333mhz and it autos it to a 1T cr too.  Just pissed can't OC...o well.  maybe I'll find a good deal someday on a board that can clock the chip. Do you really want pay 150-200$+ stillll for a x58 board just so you can have one that can run and clock those chips...not really...

 

Like I said z270 is the main rigs right now..but getting rmaed..boot and bios problems something...

[Coaxialgamer]

2 minutes ago, JR88 said:

It is Retro level...that chip at only 2.9ghz and CB stuff at like 640....definitely Retro computing.  

the x5650 is barely pushing 10 years old at this point.. It even still outperforms many current chips .

 

From a performance standpoint , it's still incredibly usable , just like the core 2 chips before it . Retro would be 20+ years , like the pentium 3 and older

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

the x5650 is barely pushing 10 years old at this point.. It even still outperforms many current chips .

 

From a performance standpoint , it's still incredibly usable , just like the core 2 chips before it . Retro would be 20+ years , like the pentium 3 and older

Completely agreed. Core 2 Duos aren't old yet. I still use them. Hell I still use a SpaceHeater, sorry, I mean Pentium 4 laptop.