Re: Vogons IRC?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 22:18
Did this ever happen? Was there ever one set up? It would be kinda neat to IRC on a vintage 'puter. 🤣
What was the first computer you ever purchased?
Posted on 2020-05-18, 03:35
I'm not talking about hobby computers, I mean for doing work. Like what was the first computer you ever purchased just cause you needed a computer. The first computer I ever purchased was an IBM ThinkCentre 8183 sporting a whopping 3ghz hyper threaded Pentium 4 CPU, 2GB of RAM (might have been less …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2020-05-13, 03:03
This is my car, bought it right at the end of last year. I used to drive a 2002 Dodge Dakota but thankfully not anymore. lol This is my 1992 Oldsmobile 98 Recency Elite with only 60k miles on it. It used to belong to an old man who passed away and I bought it from his son. This is the first car I've …
Need help getting a Reveal SC400 soundcard working with matching Reveal CD on an IBM PS/1
Posted on 2020-04-29, 02:24
Hi guys! Rescued this bad boy from the trash heap yesterday and sad to say it worked great when I first got it. I was trying to get Midi working in Windows and I somehow fucked up the CDrom drive. I'm guessing it happened when I used the WinSetup.exe in the soundcard folder. Cause now it just …
It's been a long time but I've finally uploaded a new video! 1982 Zenith Z-120.
Posted on 2020-04-18, 23:14
Like the title says, after a very long hiatus I decided to film a new video and this time it was a quick overview of my latest system which is an Ex-Navy 1982 Zenith Z-120, sadly I don't have any software for it which is partially why I made the video. I'm hoping someone can help me out with that …
Re: Anyone remember a Creative music player for Windows 95/98?
Posted on 2020-04-16, 01:46
Woot I found it! Thanks!
Re: Anyone remember a Creative music player for Windows 95/98?
Posted on 2020-04-16, 00:53
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE That's it! I'm gonna go google it cause I'd looooooove to put that on my Packard Bell but any idea where I can download that just in case I can't find it? 🤣
Anyone remember a Creative music player for Windows 95/98?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 01:39
I remember on one of our old computers we had a Creative sound card but it came also with software that worked like Winamp but it was Creative iirc it was yellow and black and came with music demos for the nomad player and some other things.
Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 01:32
Well I was 9 and I think had just a single Packard Bell designer tower sporting Windows 95, a 200mhz processor and a 1gb hdd. Couldn't say what the ram was but it didn't have the stock soundcard I know that. It was some kind of Creative labs card like a sound blaster PCI128 or something. Came with a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-14, 16:45
Man Jealous of the cassette player! I almost bought a Phillips one like that but I didn't for some dumb reason and now I'm kicking myself cause it's hard to find those top loading 70's units. 🤣
Re: COVID 19 and being pent up
Posted on 2020-04-14, 15:56
Out of curiosity what happened with the other posts? Like I said I've been gone for a long time. What were they about?
Re: COVID 19 and being pent up
Posted on 2020-04-14, 15:37
Been gone for a long time but are we not allowed to talk about current events? Also yeah kinda wishing I hadn't sold all that stuff now but then again what would I really have done with it all anyway. 🤣
Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?
Posted on 2019-12-03, 21:04
As I have already written in the other post (which is more technically oriented) friends have given me a beautiful Olivetti 286. For my experience and for what I read here on the forum it would seem a useless computer on the retrocomputing side. Excluding those who have a sentimental value for the …
Re: Any others given up on the hobby?
Posted on 2019-12-03, 07:32
This stuff keeps your mind busy. Is that a good thing? Maybe it would be better to be bored more often, to read, to think, to walk or talk or just to sit and watch the sky for a little bit. I dunno, I found more often than not that my good days were ones I spent away from my electronics (aka my …
Re: What case do you prefer?
Posted on 2019-10-23, 17:13
Looks really nice. How are inner parts assembled? The PSU is probably the weirdest part honestly as it's a weird L shape to allow room for the CD-ROM (5.25") drive bays on the right there. The middle part just slides off (the grey bit in the middle) and the fronts of each of the corners have to be …
Re: What case do you prefer?
Posted on 2019-10-23, 04:24
I'm a big OEM person but my fav design is the corner computer, it sucks to work on but man does it look cool. lol https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/da306b57-9099-478d-a7d7-7c9109417df0/dckthqb-4762114f-4f1b-48f0-8cbb-1313a7031eef.jpg/v1/fill/w_669,h_1195,q_70,strp/untitled_by …
Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things
Posted on 2019-10-10, 01:19
It is! Also it's 100% compatible with the original carts, in this pic I'm actually using a much cheaper Pokemon yellow clone cart. 🤣 It will even work with the multiplayer cable and communicate with original gameboys. 😁
Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things
Posted on 2019-10-07, 01:46
I have a new thing that looks like it should have come from the early 2000's 😁 (I specifically bought this colour because it reminds me of the cheap toys and stuff from the late 90's 🤣)
Re: Any others given up on the hobby?
Posted on 2019-10-02, 23:04
I was scanning images, printing documents, managing an excel spreadsheet (which actually was fine), taking photographs with a few early digital cameras (which were a bit finnicky to use except the Mavica ones) and the images took FOREVER (well not forever but long enough to where it was annoying) to …
Re: Any others given up on the hobby?
Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:29
everyone should just use windows 95 daily Tbh I think this is what was the beginning of the end for me lol. Tried to use my Packard Bell every day as a daily driver and god it made all my old hatred of how slow and painful it was to use back in the day come welling back up and made me remember why …
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