My PicoGUS arrived in today's mail. I had to snap a photo of it next to my original GUS.

Thrift store purchase for 8 $US. Appears to be complete and unused.

Just looked, and I still have my original Re-Volt CD. Didn't see a manual though. The Traxxas Free Wheel definitely qualified as an obscure PC gaming controller. I'd be surprised if Traxxas sold many of them. They weren't on the market for very long. I can't find any mention of them on the Traxxas …

I definitely remember playing Re-Volt. At the time, I worked at a hobby store and sold radio control vehicles. As a result, I bought what might have been the perfect controller for Re-Volt, the "Traxxas Free Wheel Racing Controller". This was basically the TQ3 radio transmitter that Traxxas used …

Yesterday's retro fun was to check out this Socket A system that I purchased for $20US at a local thrift store. Enlight mid-tower case, DVD and CD burners, 3.5-inch floppy drive Asus A7V333 mb (caps all look good), GeForce2 MX400 AGP, 512Mb DDR, Athlon XP 1800+, WD 120Gb hd, 3com network card. After …

Told myself that I wouldn't bring home any more old computers, and then I saw this (yellowed) beige Enlight case at a thrift store. .. Socket A Asus A7V333 motherboard, unknown CPU, what I think is a GeForce 2MX video card. Now to see if any of it works!

Spotted the (incomplete) remains of a Dell Pentium 90 tower in the recycling bin at work, so I scavenged it for useful parts. SIMMs, CD and floppy drives, cables, Number 9 S3 Trio64 PCI video card, ISA 3Com Etherlink III card and an ISA parallel/serial card.

Purchased for a few dollars at a local thrift store. I don't need another mediocre keyboard, but this one is in new / never used condition and has the 5-pin AT connector. "Micro innovations" brand.

Model M rescued from the recycling bin at my workplace. Now to source the six missing keycaps and give it a good cleaning.

devius wrote on 2021-10-29, 10:27: I like the detail of the scanner underneath the speaker where you can't open the lid 😆 When I used it, I'd slide it forward to the front of the desk. When I didn't need it (which was most of the time), it tucked away nicely underneath the speaker shelf.

A month ago, I posted a vintage photo of my first PC (386/33) back in the early 1990s. My 2nd PC was a 486DX2/80 (1995 - 1997) that I assembled from parts, but I haven't found a photo of it. My 3rd PC, also assembled from parts, was a Pentium 200MMX system (1997 - 2000). This "vintage" photo (taken …

What stands out to me is that you've upgraded to a fairly advanced sound solution (SB Pro 2 + GUS would realistically be as good as it gets in 1993) but kept 386DX33. I assume that before Doom came out at the end of that year, so a 386 would be enough for most games. But I don't think it was enough …

How about an actual vintage system photo? This photo is of my first PC, taken in my college apartment sometime between September 1991 and August 1993. In the summer of 1991, I sold my car and used most of that money to purchase my first PC. It was a Comtrade brand 80386DX/33 system for ~$US 2,000. I …

Yesterday's $26 acquisition from a local online business liquidation auction was an untested Twinhead Slimnote 5100t laptop. (486 DX4/100, 32Mb RAM, ~800Mb hard drive). Haven't found much info on it other than some mentions in PC Magazine back in the mid 90s. Came with bag and 2 extra batteries, but …