Show off your old and retro computer parts

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It looks like a Socket 478 or 186(I forget the exact numbers of early Intel sockets), so it would probably be one of the really early if not original Pentiums.

Only 5 years late.

 

Tho it's a Socket 7board and a Pentium MMX, and if I'm not mistaken they list speeds on the underside.

[8uhbbhu8]

Don't remember how much of this is already on here but oh well idk  

top  to bottom left to right:

 

Nvidia Geforce 2 MX, 3Com modem card, CMD USB 1.0 card, IC+ Modem, ATI Radeon 9200 128MB, ATI Radeon 7500 64MB

 

3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, SIIG PCI sound card with optical, ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, MSI Radeon 3000 series 512MB, Radeon 7000 32MB, Nvidia Riva TNT2 Pro 64MB, S3 Virge/DX 4MB, ATI Radeon 9000 64MB, SMC modem, Nvidia TNT based card (cant remember which)

 

MSI Radeon 4890 1GB, Asus Nvidia EN6600 Silencer 256MB, Sound Blaster Live!, ATI Mach64 8MB

[DarkEnergy]

11 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Only 5 years late.

 

Tho it's a Socket 7board and a Pentium MMX, and if I'm not mistaken they list speeds on the underside.

Yeah, someone answered my question earlier this year. My MMX's speed was 166.

[blitzilla]

wheres  my  Geforce  6660 Gt when u need it I think it was  128mb

[Ωhmbreon]

Idunno if heatsinks appear on here often, but I picked up an ASUS Silent Knight II for a project. It's made for LGA 775 And 1366 if I am not mistaken.

[DrRunCMD]

Aww look, brother and sister!

 

Had these for ages. Cant chuck them away.

They are still working as far as I know but unfortunately do not have mobos to go and test with. Anyone kindly donate a motherboard if you have spare?

Would appreciate it.

Then could feature on my channel.

 

I did have an AMD CPU in same format but not sure where that has gone. Probably was blown up or overheated. As was the case for AMD back in the day. No thermal protection ha ha.

Miss the old days and tech tho.

 

Any youngsters here who has never seen these before, raise your hands!

[DrRunCMD]

Lets play, name that card...

 

NVIDIA or AMD I wonder.

 

I don't know what it is either. VGA and DVI no HDMI as a clue for age. And its made by ASUS. And at least is is PCI-E so not that retro.

More retro stuff to come.

[DrRunCMD]

23 hours ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Don't remember how much of this is already on here but oh well idk  

top  to bottom left to right:

 

Nvidia Geforce 2 MX, 3Com modem card, CMD USB 1.0 card, IC+ Modem, ATI Radeon 9200 128MB, ATI Radeon 7500 64MB

 

3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, SIIG PCI sound card with optical, ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, MSI Radeon 3000 series 512MB, Radeon 7000 32MB, Nvidia Riva TNT2 Pro 64MB, S3 Virge/DX 4MB, ATI Radeon 9000 64MB, SMC modem, Nvidia TNT based card (cant remember which)

 

MSI Radeon 4890 1GB, Asus Nvidia EN6600 Silencer 256MB, Sound Blaster Live!, ATI Mach64 8MB

I remember my first ever graphics card. It was a Power VR and it came with graphics demo which was back then, out of this world! Here is a youtube vid of the demo: 

 thinks this was the one. Then I got a 3d Prophet Hercules card with 64Mb VRAM!

 

[RooR]

A gigabyte Radeon x600 

and a nvidia 2mx 

[BlitzThose]

another oldie but a goody

[Ωhmbreon]

Got an IBM Thimkpad T41 from a friend and cleaned it up a bit.

[Guest]

On 4/16/2018 at 5:27 PM, TheRandomness said:

Dude holy shit. How much was it? And I'm not going to snip this, everyone needs to see it again.

im just gonna say a lot

a lot a lot

significantly more than a regular 701c

[TheRandomness]

1 hour ago, campy said:

im just gonna say a lot

a lot a lot

significantly more than a regular 701c

Oh how unfortunate. Specs? And was it worth it?

[Guest]

17 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Oh how unfortunate. Specs? And was it worth it?

Oh, i forgot to mention exactly why it was so expensive, this is a near max 701c with a very special upgrade. Instead of a 50mhz or 75mhz 486 inside, its a 133mhz AMD X5 upgrade, and not some hack job either, its an original IBM upgrade board manufactured in Germany in there.

Along with 40mb of ram and a 3gb hard drive.

The processor and ram upgrade are the only things making it even remotely compatible with Windows 98SE.

 

Note, there is so little documentation on those boards, since less than 300 are presumed to have ever been made, that its more common to basically mod your original board than it is to find an AMD board.

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/21/thinkpad-701c-reverse-engineering-a-retro-processor-upgrade/

 

[TheRandomness]

20 minutes ago, campy said:

Oh, i forgot to mention exactly why it was so expensive, this is a near max 701c with a very special upgrade. Instead of a 50mhz or 75mhz 486 inside, its a 133mhz AMD X5 upgrade, and not some hack job either, its an original IBM upgrade board manufactured in Germany in there.

Along with 40mb of ram and a 3gb hard drive.

The processor and ram upgrade are the only things making it even remotely compatible with Windows 98SE.

 

Note, there is so little documentation on those boards, since less than 300 are presumed to have ever been made, that its more common to basically mod your original board than it is to find an AMD board.

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/21/thinkpad-701c-reverse-engineering-a-retro-processor-upgrade/

Hot fucking damn, nice!
Also @tmcclelland455

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 4/20/2018 at 10:00 PM, DrRunCMD said:

Lets play, name that card...

 

NVIDIA or AMD I wonder.

 

I don't know what it is either. VGA and DVI no HDMI as a clue for age. And its made by ASUS. And at least is is PCI-E so not that retro.

More retro stuff to come.

Most likely AMD, going by the red PCB. Any stickers on the back that would possible help tell what it is?

[8uhbbhu8]

3 hours ago, campy said:

Oh, i forgot to mention exactly why it was so expensive, this is a near max 701c with a very special upgrade. Instead of a 50mhz or 75mhz 486 inside, its a 133mhz AMD X5 upgrade, and not some hack job either, its an original IBM upgrade board manufactured in Germany in there.

Along with 40mb of ram and a 3gb hard drive.

The processor and ram upgrade are the only things making it even remotely compatible with Windows 98SE.

 

Note, there is so little documentation on those boards, since less than 300 are presumed to have ever been made, that its more common to basically mod your original board than it is to find an AMD board.

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/21/thinkpad-701c-reverse-engineering-a-retro-processor-upgrade/

 

Holy Shit... That's insane!!!! Damn you are lucky

[Lodan_SD]

I was gonna make a new topic asking if anyone remembered the RocketBoard. And I didn't want to dig mine out, so I tried to search for a picture of it since I got mine for free new when it came out. But then I realized now that I guess not everyone got a free one cause the company that was making them kinda went a bit crazy or something (didn't get a full story, just a paragraph on a website, didn't do enough research yet). So I grabbed mine from the bin it was in, took it out of it's box (which I saved, unless it was from another keyboard), and got a crappy pic of it from my crappy ZTE Phone. I only thought of it cause I saw a video of Linus wanting a Snipping Tool key, and remembered the shortcut keys I had on my Rocketboard.
 

Edit: If anyone wants a bigger more detailed picture, I can get out my tripod, lighting, and 6MP Camera.

[NoCarrier]

I just tossed one of these in the trash.  I wonder if it's worth anything.  Doubt it.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Lodan_SD said:

I was gonna make a new topic asking if anyone remembered the RocketBoard. And I didn't want to dig mine out, so I tried to search for a picture of it since I got mine for free new when it came out. But then I realized now that I guess not everyone got a free one cause the company that was making them kinda went a bit crazy or something (didn't get a full story, just a paragraph on a website, didn't do enough research yet). So I grabbed mine from the bin it was in, took it out of it's box (which I saved, unless it was from another keyboard), and got a crappy pic of it from my crappy ZTE Phone. I only thought of it cause I saw a video of Linus wanting a Snipping Tool key, and remembered the shortcut keys I had on my Rocketboard.
 

Edit: If anyone wants a bigger more detailed picture, I can get out my tripod, lighting, and 6MP Camera.

 

[asem1123]

Parts from my high end 2005 workstation low end desktop that I still sometimes use until today!

This is my one and only desktop lol

[Bazzz]

this is an old phillips computer, msx based.

 

 

I bought this powerbook for €3 on a yard sale while back 

 

 

Got this powermac G4 from a friend a while back

 

 

and last but not least, my macintosh SE

 

[NoCarrier]

would love to see more pics of the Phillips!

 

 

54 minutes ago, Bazzz said:

this is an old phillips computer, msx based.

 

 

I bought this powerbook for €3 on a yard sale while back 

 

 

Got this powermac G4 from a friend a while back

 

 

and last but not least, my macintosh SE

 

 

[Bazzz]

1 minute ago, NoCarrier said:

would love to see more pics of the Phillips!

I'll take some more pics for you, kinda busy at the moment. 

[Mnpctech]

I have this original Chenming Dragon tower. My plan is to build system with stainless steel hard line when my schedule frees up

 

 

[xXxAdamxXx]

Blue and white G3 that i've had off-and-on since '03 and got me through college, still my favorite PC design just because of the door - wish new computers were this convenient.