In the last time I made here and then some retro pics. When I tested something f.e.
Most of them are a bit unsorted, but nethertheless might be interesting for someone 😉

So here we go:

This is a setup to test some older 5.25" SCSI HDDs. The two in the front have 1 GB each and reach upto 1 MB/s, the last one is the famous Seagate ST410800N Elite 9 with 9 GB capacity. You think you can imagine the sound when these beasts startup? What, what did you said... ? 😉

This is a Creative Video Blaster running in a 486SX20 system in Win 3.1. I put some TV signal on screen in the Video Kit application.

This is the card itself. It was running in parallel to a Matrox IP8-AT/2MC in the same PC.

My main keyboard I use since 1996. It is a Microsoft Natural Keyboard first version. Works still well, only some key markings start to vanish.

I put some soundcards on a wall, all are different. At the left there is a GUS PnP, EWS 64S. The other cards are different Soundblaster versions.

This is a Dual P233MMX running on a Tyan Mainboard. I just reused the Seagate Elite 9 as drive. The purpose was to test the performance of software decoded DVD playback with different players in NT4 and Win XP. You may see in the upper right corner the Fraps framerate with 12 fps.
If you think you can put such a setup further with a different software, give me a note 😉.
Though I bought a Creative Encore PC-DVD Dxr2 later.

This is the front of the all-in-one PC Compaq Presario CDS520, powered by a 486SX2-66. I put some more mem, network card and GUS ACE in...

My 386 retro rig running Win95, showing device manager and GUS PnP property page.

Creative Waveblaster Panel application...

Waveblaster Bank Manager, also for MT32 preset...

GUS PnP playing a Screamtracker 3 file directly as MCI device from the Windows Mediaplayer...

Setup with stackered second hdd (Stacker 4.1). Writing is slooow ofcourse...
Though in real world (gaming?) application you never write large amounts of data after the game is once there.

The ET4000AX has a truecolor RAMDAC and runs here in 800x600.
It also runs 1024x768 at 43Hz interlaced with 256 colors, but the TFT...

Surfing Vogons in Opera 5 on this 386DX-40.

Roland MT-32 1st gen. playing on Atari TT030 early model.