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21 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:
35 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

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How old is that drive?

I have a conner HD that was built 27 years ago....and still in functional condition

 

how cute ;)   i think those required a special controller?  IIRC it was neither IDE or MFM.  Or was it?

 

 

 

 

 

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This guys, is probably one of the most rare computers ever. This is the only one to still exist (from my knowledge), it's an Austin Rover diagnostics PC from about the 80's/ early 90's and what a beauty she is...

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On 5/24/2018 at 6:04 AM, Tekred said:

I believe this is the oldest part I have laying around, using it to test my diy vertical gpu bracket. Radeon HD5770 1gb, decent card in its day and still works well

 

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Radeon heatsinks from back in the day were kind of weird looking lol.

 

Also, that paint job on the case is great, did you do it yourself?

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1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

How old is that drive?

I have a conner HD that was built 27 years ago....and still in functional condition

Your guess is as good as mine. Came out of an old Sharp laptop with a 7MHz Motorola CPU and maxed out at 640KB of RAM. Can't be bothered to unbury it and see when the BIOS date was to ballpark it.

 

43 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

how cute ;)   i think those required a special controller?  IIRC it was neither IDE or MFM.  Or was it?

I honestly don't know, but I do know that it plugged into a board (assumingly the controller) which then plugged into the laptop's mainboard.

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4 hours ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

This guys, is probably one of the most rare computers ever. This is the only one to still exist (from my knowledge), it's an Austin Rover diagnostics PC from about the 80's/ early 90's and what a beauty she is...

 

Know whats in it? I'm guessing amiga, c64/128. 

 

All those wierd speciality pc's reminds me of the servo I worked at as a kid, pump computers were all c64s

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4 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Radeon heatsinks from back in the day were kind of weird looking lol.

 

Also, that paint job on the case is great, did you do it yourself?

Yeah I did, not sure if I like it though. Just an old case I was tinkering with 

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2 minutes ago, Tekred said:

Yeah I did, not sure if I like it though. Just an old case I was tinkering with 

I like it quite a bit, good job!

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I like it quite a bit, good job!

Thank you, that's what the whole thing looks like 

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6 minutes ago, Tekred said:

Thank you, that's what the whole thing looks like 

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Throw some lighting and a custom waterloop in there, it would look sick.

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2 minutes ago, emosun said:

i got a ton of stuff but while were posting retro harddrives

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Tell me that you have the matching controller cards? Because those drives should still work.....

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i think i have one card that can control these but i've never tried it. i did once power all 10 of them up at the same time for fun and the sound was incredible lol

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46 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Throw some lighting and a custom waterloop in there, it would look sick.

It has red led lighting as well as the front panel being an infinity mirror. Working with InWin on my new 1950x build so this thing will just sit in the closet until I have time to mess with it

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10 hours ago, it_dont_work said:

Know whats in it? I'm guessing amiga, c64/128. 

 

All those wierd speciality pc's reminds me of the servo I worked at as a kid, pump computers were all c64s

Unfortunately because this PC is so rare the specs of it are unknown, I've searched it up on Google and while Crypton does still exist nothing about this machine is listed only one result comes up about it and it's a forum thread from about 2006 asking what this machine was. Apart from that, nothing is relevant so you'd have to do a full strip down of it to see what specs it has.  

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Here is a Kohjinsha SA1FO from 2007 (looks much older).

Here are the specs:

 

Single-Core AMD Geode running at 512MHZ or so with integrated graphics

512MB DDR1 ram (I'm fairly sure it's not DDR2)

60GB Hard drive (I dunno the RPM)

1x USB 1.0 type A port, 1x USB 2.0 type A port, 1x VGA port & 1x Ethernet port.

The keyboard fell out, and I lost it. It didn't work before it fell out anyways.

Running Windows XP.

 

 

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6 hours ago, heavy_weapons_guy said:

Here is a Kohjinsha SA1FO from 2007 (looks much older).

Here are the specs:

 

Single-Core AMD Geode running at 512MHZ or so with integrated graphics

512MB DDR1 ram (I'm fairly sure it's not DDR2)

60GB Hard drive (I dunno the RPM)

1x USB 1.0 type A port, 1x USB 2.0 type A port, 1x VGA port & 1x Ethernet port.

The keyboard fell out, and I lost it. It didn't work before it fell out anyways.

Running Windows XP.

 

 

That's from 2007??? Looks more like something straight out of the early 90's, lol. 

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I found those two things (I have no idea what to call them) on that Dell Socket PGA478 Motherboard from 2000 (at least that's what the northbridge says). I have no idea what they are, so if anyone knows, that would be neat.

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8 hours ago, Ωhmbreon said:

I found those two things (I have no idea what to call them) on that Dell Socket PGA478 Motherboard from 2000 (at least that's what the northbridge says). I have no idea what they are, so if anyone knows, that would be neat.

 

 

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just finished building my 486 last week.  Pretty much maxed out for a mid 90s gaming rig.

 

(build log if you're interested)

 

 

 

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My DOS and Windows installation disks...  Beautiful.

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Xircom Realport cards!  I found them In the same box as my DOS and Windows disks!  These were awesome!  100BaseTX and 56k modem in one!

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nuff said

 

jk, how the hell do i restore the color on this thing? a light brush and some windex got most of the dirt and all that off of it, but the color is still darker than it should be

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1 hour ago, campy said:

nuff said

 

jk, how the hell do i restore the color on this thing? a light brush and some windex got most of the dirt and all that off of it, but the color is still darker than it should be

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holy crap that's one hell of a unicorn you got there! what are the specs on this beast?

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