Show off your old and retro computer parts

[xriqn]

My parts that I've collected (have more but cba digging round to find them). Some are in a bit of disrepair but they weren't originally mine anyway, they came to me like that.

Pentium IV

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Intel Pentium IV 640 (Prescott) 90nm @ 3.2GHz

NVidia 8800 GTS

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NVidia 8800 GTS

ATI Rage 128 Pro (1999) Working, only one bolt on the i/o shield missing!

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ATI Rage 128 Pro (1999) Working, only one bolt on the i/o shield missing!

20GB IDE HDD (still works, has windows 2000 pro on it)

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20GB IDE HDD

Drive that I'm exactly one year older than (trivial but still cool I guess)

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40GB IDE HDD from 25th January 2003 (I was born on 25th January 2002) Ignore the POWER/DATA labels, I didn't make those.

512mb DDR taken from the same system the 20GB HDD came from

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512mb DDR

Floppy Drive

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Floppy Drive

Would love to put the Rage 128 pro in a retro system that's not the win2k system.

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, xriqn said:

Damn Small Linux would work on it though, painless too.

0/10 not a cool name instant garbage

[xriqn]

34 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

0/10 not a cool name instant garbage

Name's not cool but it gets the job done.

[Guest]

[Sfekke]

18 hours ago, campy said:

Space invaders I see, that never gets old

I'll see if I can boot up my GBA & get some pictures during daytime tomorrow .. I might have space invaders lying around for it somewhere

[SomeTeenThatLovesComputers]

A custom Antec SOHO desktop. Older than me. I don't know much about it because I cant get it to run any old OS (and issue identifying IDE drives because of some RAID Array problem?) What I do know: It has a 750Mhz AMD Processor (either Opteron or Athlon II) with a Thermaltake VOLCANO 6 Cu+. It has a GeForce mx2 graphics card, Turtle Beach audio card, 500MB-1GB of DDR. And I believe I saw these fans in one of Linus's videos. They are extremely powerful and loud. Yet still best all the new modern fans. This PC is pre-PCI era tech. Got it for free as well as a ton of 2004-2008 Gateway and eMachine desktops plus a few old laptops from the 90s. (One being an old Thinkpad I cant get to work )

[Guest]

Just arrived

this shiny lad

[Mattias Edeslatt]

8 hours ago, SomeTeenThatLovesComputers said:

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A custom Antec SOHO desktop. Older than me. I don't know much about it because I cant get it to run any old OS (and issue identifying IDE drives because of some RAID Array problem?) What I do know: It has a 750Mhz AMD Processor (either Opteron or Athlon II) with a Thermaltake VOLCANO 6 Cu+. It has a GeForce mx2 graphics card, Turtle Beach audio card, 500MB-1GB of DDR. And I believe I saw these fans in one of Linus's videos. They are extremely powerful and loud. Yet still best all the new modern fans.

This PC is pre-PCI era tech. Got it for free as well as a ton of 2004-2008 Gateway and eMachine desktops plus a few old laptops from the 90s. (One being an old Thinkpad I cant get to work )

 

 

 

No, that PC is PCI-era. The white card-slots is just that, PCI-slots. The brown with the graphics card is a dedicated graphics port, called AGP-slot.

 

Depending on what OS you are trying to install you would need drivers for the chipset and disc-controller on the motherboard. Windows XP should work out of the box, Windows 98 probably won't without these drivers for the motherboard, sound card, graphics card and USB-card.

[xriqn]

1 hour ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

 

No, that PC is PCI-era. The white card-slots is just that, PCI-slots. The brown with the graphics card is a dedicated graphics port, called AGP-slot.

 

Depending on what OS you are trying to install you would need drivers for the chipset and disc-controller on the motherboard. Windows XP should work out of the box, Windows 98 probably won't without these drivers for the motherboard, sound card, graphics card and USB-card.

I'd say that PC is about as old as me, maybe early 2002 ish?

[mr moose]

On 7/7/2018 at 2:43 PM, campy said:

I'll see your vic 20 and raise you a very poorly looking C64

[NoCarrier]

On 7/6/2018 at 9:43 PM, campy said:

Good job! looks fresh and clean, just like my undies!  is space invaders running off a cartridge or cassette?

[NoCarrier]

 

picked up a TON of atari stuff recently, including an Atari Falcon 030.  The Falcon was the last personal computer atari made before going out of business.

 

[Ryux]

ya i'm old, I actually taught myself basic language back in the good ole days of DOS. Anyone ever play Zork?

 

[Monkeybiz0985]

I wish camera phones existed when I was on High School. I took a “Computer Lab” class where we assembled all the schools PCs. Rummaging through some parts I found a 10KB drive... yes my friends. 10KB. I remember scoffing at it because we were installing 500MB hard drives in the computers we were building, cause we were ballers.

[NoCarrier]

12 hours ago, Monkeybiz0985 said:

I wish camera phones existed when I was on High School. I took a “Computer Lab” class where we assembled all the schools PCs. Rummaging through some parts I found a 10KB drive... yes my friends. 10KB. I remember scoffing at it because we were installing 500MB hard drives in the computers we were building, cause we were ballers.

10KB?   don't you mean 10MB?  even cassette tapes could hold ~54KB of data and single sided low density 5.25" floppies held 180KB.. 

 

my first hard drive was 40MB.  I managed to record one song (ONE SONG, SINGULAR) at 22khz in stereo no less on my original sound blaster from a cassette tape - I believe it was "Hysteria" by Def Leppard that i recorded off FM radio.  

 

The problem was, computers couldn't decode mp3 at the time (which wasn't really a problem because the format didn't exist anyways), so i had 15mb of uncompressed low quality audio so i can hear my favorite song anytime i wanted to without having rewind a cassette tape (and because i didn't own a CD player yet). 

 

Along with the OS (DOS 3.3) and a few games, i had zero space available on what was essentially a fancy pre-iPod.  When i needed space,  i had to backup my favorite song to floppy disk  (11 3.5" 1.44mb high density floppy disks, spanning with PKZIP) and then delete it from the hard drive.  When i was done, if i wanted to hear my favorite song again, i dug out my box of floppy disks, and unzipped the song back onto the hard drive. Because floppies didn't grow on trees, i had to delete my backup so i can use those disks for something else.

 

it got old really quick. nowadays it just BLOWS MY FREAKING MIND when someone hands me a 128gb microSDHC full of crap no one really cares about anyways.

[MorgGRC]

Believe it or not, I have a 32MB stick of ram lying around! I also have two floppy drives and a pentium II lying around. But then there is my prize possession a working 1982 MacPlus - no joke (this machine is older than I am), I know what u guys r gonna say - pics or it didnt happen. I'll take a photo next time I go to my storage and upload.

[Monkeybiz0985]

11 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

10KB?   don't you mean 10MB?  even cassette tapes could hold ~54KB of data and single sided low density 5.25" floppies held 180KB.. 

 

my first hard drive was 40MB.  I managed to record one song (ONE SONG, SINGULAR) at 22khz in stereo no less on my original sound blaster from a cassette tape - I believe it was "Hysteria" by Def Leppard that i recorded off FM radio.  

 

The problem was, computers couldn't decode mp3 at the time (which wasn't really a problem because the format didn't exist anyways), so i had 15mb of uncompressed low quality audio so i can hear my favorite song anytime i wanted to without having rewind a cassette tape (and because i didn't own a CD player yet). 

 

Along with the OS (DOS 3.3) and a few games, i had zero space available on what was essentially a fancy pre-iPod.  When i needed space,  i had to backup my favorite song to floppy disk  (11 3.5" 1.44mb high density floppy disks, spanning with PKZIP) and then delete it from the hard drive.  When i was done, if i wanted to hear my favorite song again, i dug out my box of floppy disks, and unzipped the song back onto the hard drive. Because floppies didn't grow on trees, i had to delete my backup so i can use those disks for something else.

 

it got old really quick. nowadays it just BLOWS MY FREAKING MIND when someone hands me a 128gb microSDHC full of crap no one really cares about anyways.

It may have been 100KB but I very distinctly remember it being less than 1MB.

 

*edited for spelling

[18358414]

Old hardware... Love it!

 

First and foremost, say hello to my pet:

 

 

Regrettably, the keyboard pads are no longer the correct resistance and need to be re-coated.

 

Next up, we have the toothpaste-brand turned video card manufacturer, TRIDENT:

 

 

And then we have a couple of motherboards, one of which no longer has any RAM left for it.

 

 

 

Too bad I don't have any NEW hardware to show off =(＾ω＾)=/"

[Sousuke]

2 hours ago, 7he404guy said:

Old hardware... Love it!

 

First and foremost, say hello to my pet:

 

 

Regrettably, the keyboard pads are no longer the correct resistance and need to be re-coated.

 

Next up, we have the toothpaste-brand turned video card manufacturer, TRIDENT:

 

 

And then we have a couple of motherboards, one of which no longer has any RAM left for it.

 

 

Too bad I don't have any NEW hardware to show off =(＾ω＾)=/"

Got to love the PET! The 8Bit Guy on youtube did a restoration on a PET with the same issue got some inductive paint that worked.

 

Plus clip off the batteries off those motherboards, too many die from those battery's leaking

 

Anyway I have a a few a few new things! 

 

First is a IBM ThinkPad 600e - Pentium II !

 

It's not in the best condition however is a good addition to my vintage stuffs

 

[Sousuke]

Secondly a Late Revision Socket 7 Motherboard! It has a few things which is awesome for a board like this!

 

It has PS/2 for the mouse and a standard AT Connector for the keyboard, it has both ATX and AT Power Connectors, CR-32 Battery, PCI & ISA Slots and came with a Pentium MMX CPU!! 

 

Lastly, some old iPaq PDA's because they cost £2 each, just got to get them working but the cable is stupid and I can't find one at a price I can stomach.

 

Anyway enjoy the pics

 

[RollinLower]

18 minutes ago, Sousuke said:

Lastly, some old iPaq PDA's

damn i used to be so awed by those things back in the day.

you know you where a baller when you had an iPaq with you

[NoCarrier]

52 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

damn i used to be so awed by those things back in the day.

you know you where a baller when you had an iPaq with you

it was a huge pain carrying both an iPaq AND your cellphone.  I remember having to upgrade to a heavier duty belt so i could have two holsters, one on each side, for each device.

 

 

[Firewrath9]

First of all, i have a 250gb caviar se16

2gb of superfast 400mhz ram. I think this was pretty good at the time

a OG 2001 athlon 64 with no bent pins

and a ATI not amd ATI r9600 pro gpu with a 20mm fan?

[GTJninjaboy]

Don't have any old parts lol

[Firewrath9]

3 hours ago, GTJninjaboy said:

Don't have any old parts lol

lol my radeon pro was more expensive MSRP than my 1070. i think it was 500$.