Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Guest]

6 hours ago, RollinLower said:

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

133mhz R4600, 64mb of ram, dual 2.1gb HDD's

not too sure on some of the other specifics, i havent got the cable to get it hooked up to a monitor yet, it does power on though which is a start

[flibberdipper]

3 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I notice that there was a heatsink for the northbridge, based on the mounts for it. If you're planning to use that motherboard, find a NB heatsink or otherwise you'll end up with a weird-smelling motherboard that just exploded.

Let's be honest though, I highly doubt they'll want to once they see how overpriced RDRAM is and how shittily the P4's that used it performed.

[Radium_Angel]

13 hours 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

You will go broke trying to get parts to make this run. If you are *very* lucky, the OS will be intact on the system, otherwise the cost to get the OS will rival that of a used car.

You will also find the world has left them in the dust. You can't get online with it, and your basic Celeron from 2007 will run rings around it.

But it's a very cool find all the same.

 

As to the color, repainting is about the only way. The original paint fades/discolours from the environment and heat and there is little you can do to restore that.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

You will go broke trying to get parts to make this run. If you are *very* lucky, the OS will be intact on the system, otherwise the cost to get the OS will rival that of a used car.

You will also find the world has left them in the dust. You can't get online with it, and your basic Celeron from 2007 will run rings around it.

But it's a very cool find all the same.

 

As to the color, repainting is about the only way. The original paint fades/discolours from the environment and heat and there is little you can do to restore that.

It runs, has an OS, all inside works. This was confirmed when I bought it. I need to get a video cable to run it myself.

And of course it's useless for anything modern, it's a 133mhz MIPS processor, it has networking potential in the same way my Thinkpad 701c does, text only at best.

 

im not repainting it, it's not painted to begin with (a lot of people elsewhere on the web have been claiming it's painted as well)

its speckled blue and black plastic, all the way through, I can't mimic that paint or properly replace the I N D Y myself, I need to find out how to lift the surface staining

 

since it's only on the top, I presume it's oil, I'm gonna guess from the guy who sold this that it was once in a factory

[Guest]

And so far, baking soda and scrubbing has helped a lot. But it's darker than it should be.

[Radium_Angel]

23 minutes ago, campy said:

It runs, has an OS, all inside works.

You are one lucky guy.

There is some orange-based cleaner (or use Simple Green) that *might* work....good luck on that

[VRekz]

Here’s my old girl x

[Radium_Angel]

14 minutes ago, CK1968 said:

Simple Green is good for cleaning weapons

 

 

SG is good for all manner of things.

Cleaning computer stains, food stains, weapons, blood from dead bodies assorted stains, floors, you name it.

[flibberdipper]

4 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

SG is good for all manner of things.

Cleaning computer stains, food stains, weapons, blood from dead bodies assorted stains, floors, you name it.

You forgot smelling. It's good for that too.

[Radium_Angel]

Anyone have one of those old ISA/PCI hard cards? (a 20/40MB hard disk drive on a very long adapter card)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard

 

[NoCarrier]

9 hours ago, campy said:

And so far, baking soda and scrubbing has helped a lot. But it's darker than it should be.

 

 

try a magic eraser. those things work great

[RyokuHasu]

(I'm actually using this card reader in my current machine, it's still useful and I don't need anything else)

(same with this case, it's a case I pulled from the junk pile at my friend's shop, so I got it for free. it's very similar to a certain case from scrapyard wars, just not as shiny)

[aezakmi]

15 hours ago, RyokuHasu said:

a friend had that exact same case but with a solid side panel

 

played LoL at 23 fps.. he kicked it and the blue plastic broke

[RyokuHasu]

8 hours ago, aezakmi said:

a friend had that exact same case but with a solid side panel

 

played LoL at 23 fps.. he kicked it and the blue plastic broke

 well it's just the case and the care reader that are ancient in my build, the insides are nice, it's a bit of a sleeper build.

[TacoSenpai]

On 6/21/2018 at 11:08 PM, RyokuHasu said:

(I'm actually using this card reader in my current machine, it's still useful and I don't need anything else)

(same with this case, it's a case I pulled from the junk pile at my friend's shop, so I got it for free. it's very similar to a certain case from scrapyard wars, just not as shiny)

 

Honestly wish I had one in mine unfortunately I have to use one through a USB cable since my case doesn't have front bays for shit.

[Guest savagepain]

my current monitor falls into this category 

[gecko43]

i have an intel celeron 1Ghz processor from 1999. That one is actually a PGA processor!!

 

[thepanos]

My very first sound card. Adlib clone circa 1991 I believe from memory. I sold it and bought it back again not once but twice in high school and it's the reason why many Sierra game soundtracks, Police Quest 2 especially, are still burnt in my brain. It turned up today as I was rummaging through what was my parents old garage, though I live in that house now.

[steinaro]

60MHz Intel A80501-60 SX948

[aezakmi]

 

C:\> FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:18

or cover the right hole and FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9

[Archaic Dodo 1996]

On 12/19/2013 at 2:29 PM, TheDoubleYGamer said:

Just because you're 12, doesn't mean you can't have old computer parts. I have some Core 2 Duo, and a Nvidia 8800 GTS or something like that.

I know this is late, but don't the terms and conditions require you to be at least 13?

 

[NoCarrier]

On 6/24/2018 at 5:08 AM, thepanos said:

My very first sound card. Adlib clone circa 1991 I believe from memory. I sold it and bought it back again not once but twice in high school and it's the reason why many Sierra game soundtracks, Police Quest 2 especially, are still burnt in my brain. It turned up today as I was rummaging through what was my parents old garage, though I live in that house now.

 

very cool!  You definitely don't see many OPL clones from that era.  You should build a computer around it.

[Guest]

i just posted this elsewhere, but ive got plans for this cooler master jet 4

by far the coolest p4 cooler ever

[MEC-777]

1 hour ago, campy said:

i just posted this elsewhere, but ive got plans for this cooler master jet 4

by far the coolest p4 cooler ever

 

I'm gonna need to see that out of the package.  

[8uhbbhu8]

34 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

I'm gonna need to see that out of the package.  

Strip it