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I had a tidy up in January and stacked the beige together. Nearly all of them running, the rest are awaiting suitable hardware a […]
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I had a tidy up in January and stacked the beige together. Nearly all of them running, the rest are awaiting suitable hardware and/or time.

One day I'll actually catalog it all and do some better photos. Other stacks not shown contain "the black" and "the rack servers".

Now that is an impressive collection you have there!

My new retro build.

http://i.imgur.com/mjQr0xp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0VvoeJe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8tledOh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rzRHEvn.jpg

Pentium iii 1ghz slot 1 cpu
Gigabyte ga-6cx 820
512 mb Kingston pc800 Rambus Rdram
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 64mb
40gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 ide harddrive
Creative Sound blaster Live 5.1 Platinum
Promise Ultra100
Fsp 300w psu
Lian Li pc-60 usb

themightyinferno wrote:

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My new retro build.

http://i.imgur.com/mjQr0xp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0VvoeJe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8tledOh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rzRHEvn.jpg

Pentium iii 1ghz
Voodoo5 5500

Looks sexy,what king of game you running on it?

rein_ein wrote:

themightyinferno wrote:

My new retro build. […]
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My new retro build.

http://i.imgur.com/mjQr0xp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0VvoeJe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8tledOh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rzRHEvn.jpg

Pentium iii 1ghz
Voodoo5 5500

Looks sexy,what king of game you running on it?

Just the usual suspects, Unreal tournament, quake 3 and the likes.

sgt76 wrote:

Now that is an impressive collection you have there!

Thanks, finding things in Western Australia is a real pain in the neck so I take what I can get. ebay postage quotes from the rest of Australia are normally pretty brutal.

Fun fact, according to wikipedia Perth is one of the most isolated major cities in the world. The nearest city with a population of more than 100,000 is Adelaide, 2,104 kilometres (1,307 mi) away. Only Honolulu (population 953,000), 3,841 kilometres (2,387 mi) from San Francisco, is more isolated.

Combine that with the extremely low population density of Western Australia and I'll start to tell you about my jealousy of those in the 'bought this today' thread. 😀

Here's an update on my windows 95 rig 😊

CPU: Pentium MMX 233Mhz
Motherboard: DFI P5BTX-L Rev.B2
RAM: 256 Mb PC100 Mhz - 2 x Dimm 128mb
HD: 2 x 80gb
Sound: SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold ct4390
VGA: SiS 6326 4Mb + Diamond Monster 3DFX 8Mb
LAN: Realtek RTL8139 10/100 Fast Ethernet
FDD: Samsung 3,5 1,44Mb
TEAC 5,25 1,2Mb
Optical drive: Drive Combo CDRW/DVD Samsung 52x32x52x16x
S.O.: Windows 95 OSR2 PT-PT

I see here few laptops, so decided to post pictures of some 1990's notebooks...

The first one is Compaq Contura 430CX. My vintage pc's collection began with it in 2006.

Another 486 Compaq

P1 Compaq

Compaq Contura 400CX

IBM 543 - 486-75. A good machine for gaming, but cant' display more than 256 colors(

And a few macintosh machines)

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I see here few laptops, so decided to post pictures of some 1990's notebooks... http://i.imgur.com/IcJjoS9.jpg Another 486 Compa […]
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I see here few laptops, so decided to post pictures of some 1990's notebooks...

Another 486 Compaq

Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CXL?

I briefly had one of those. Nice little machine, but couldn't do much with a busted floppy drive. I heard they were notorious for their disintegrating belts, and finding a compatible drive is / was impossible. I've also got the CX version, but the LCD "melted / rippled" and a bad board or power supply. Only good thing is the shell is intact.

Brickpad wrote:

Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CXL?

I briefly had one of those. Nice little machine, but couldn't do much with a busted floppy drive.

I try not to use floppy drives - bought a PCMCIA-CF adapter, which recognise any CF in win95-98. Also have a 2.5-3.5'' IDE adapter for 2.5''HDDs setup... I think such things are cheap and still easy to order...

Hi!
I'm a big fan of Pentium III and Voodoo era, from few years I was thinking about building some PC machine that would have everything I wanted in the past.
I like new computers as well, but this is different, the old PC reminds me how this all have started, how the history was brutal for some compannies like 3Dfx or Abit, but they will never be forgotten, especjaly when I can still use their parts, and they still work so good!

I wouldn't like to have a lot of computer cases arround so I designed my computer desk to my own needs:

On the right - my new Core I7 PC, on the left my old Pentium III PC buid in my desk.

And here it is:

This is:
- ABIT Bx133-RAID motherboard
- Pentium III-S 1.4GHz Tualatin CPU on the s370-2 adapter
- Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
- 3Dfx Voodoo 5500 PCI
- Allied Telesyn LAN adapter
- GeForce FX 5950 ULTRA with Arctic Colling
- Micron CL2 Low density 2x256MB RAM
- Seagate Barracuda 80GB HDD
- Pioneer Combo DVD writer
- NEC 1.44" FDD
- 4 port USB splitter
- Dell 17" DVI & VGA monitor

My Dell Monitor is connected to GeForce by DVI cable and my Voodoo5 is connected to the same monitor by VGA cable.
Underneath the motherboard is HDD, CD-Rom, FDD and two USB ports which are connected to splitter, everything is covered with my own design steel sheet, wchich is wrapped with brushed steel wrap.

I'm using Ms-Dos 7.1 with Norton Commander and Windows 98se, which I can select from boot menu.
My CPU works on full speed so the AGP bus is overclocked, but GeForce card doesn't have any issues with that, all games in DOS or Windows works realy good and very stable, it is the same with Voodoo card.

here's some system pictures:

And I manage to clock my PIII-S CPU to 1.52GHz with this 3DMark result:

And this is my standard 1.4GHz 3DMark result:

That is a thing of beauty!

Thank You

HYRO, very cool! Hats off 😀

Here are some of my retro rigs.

SYS 1 is a Celeron 466 MHz "mendocino", ASUS CUSL2, TRIO 3D/2X 8MB, windows ME.
SYS 2 is a Pentium M 740(1.79 GHz) on MSI Speedster 915GM, Geforce 6800 PCI-E, Windows XP.
SYS 3 is a Cyrix MII 333 (250 MHz), ALi Aladdin 5, RAGE PRO TURBO AGP. Windows 98SE.
SYS 4 is a AMD K6-2 450, SiS 530, Creative DXR-2, Windows ME.
SYS 5 is VIA C7D "esther" 1.5 GHz, Via IDOT PC2500 board, Windows XP.
SYS 5 is AMD K5 PR166, DFI AT intel430TX board, 32 mb ram, diamond S3 trio, SB16, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11

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Here are some of my retro rigs.

SYS 1 is a Celeron 466 MHz "mendocino", ASUS CUSL2, TRIO 3D/2X 8MB, windows ME.
SYS 2 is a Pentium M 740(1.79 GHz) on MSI Speedster 915GM, Geforce 6800 PCI-E, Windows XP.
SYS 3 is a Cyrix MII 333 (250 MHz), ALi Aladdin 5, RAGE PRO TURBO AGP. Windows 98SE.
SYS 4 is a AMD K6-2 450, SiS 530, Creative DXR-2, Windows ME.
SYS 5 is VIA C7D "esther" 1.5 GHz, Via IDOT PC2500 board, Windows XP.
SYS 5 is AMD K5 PR166, DFI AT intel430TX board, 32 mb ram, diamond S3 trio, SB16, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11

Nice rigs you got there and the case for system 1 is looks nice, I got a PM 780 build with the same board (sys2) 😀
8800 Ultra in mine 😎

I now have a much more appropriate case. It took a while to find one locally that I liked. I was told that it is an In-Win case but there is no branding or ID information anywhere on the chassis but it is very well made, all rolled edges and independent top and side panels. It has to be pretty old since there is a bracket for a real PC speaker at the front and it has a hard off power switch. The buttons are so satisfyingly clicky.

Do to some things happening in my life, I decided I wanted a nice, portable MS-DOS laptop to game on when I don't want to/can't break out my desktops. My main stipulations were twofold: I wanted an active-matrix display, and I wanted FM synthesis (so no 486 laptops with only PC speaker). I've always loved older Thinkpads, so naturally I looked in that direction, and ended up buying this Thinkpad 365XD on eBay. The pictures were not great, so I was very happily surprised to discover that it is in virtually PERFECT condition! The only issue is a missing PCMCIA cover, which I've already ordered for a few dollars. It came with a used but fairly clean install of Windows 95, so for now I'm keeping that, and have configured it to boot into pure DOS mode, with help from Phil's excellent guide (here: Phil's MS-DOS Mode Tutorial: Working Memory, Mouse, CD-ROM and Sound Blaster 16/32/64 in Windows 9x MS-DOS Mode)

Specs are as follows:
Pentium (haven't identified the speed yet, but should be between 100 and 133MHz)
40MB RAM (8MB onboard + 32MB)
Trident Cyber 9320 VGA
ESS 1688 Audio
1GB HDD
800x600 64k TFT display (not sure if its the 10.4" or 11.3" version)
CD-ROM drive (no floppy)

I've got it working great in DOS right now with the mouse, cd-rom, and sound all functioning correctly. The ESS 1688 actually sounds very nice to me; miles better than the CQM on my AWE64. Quite close in quality to a real OPL chip in my opinion, and very clean noise level too. Display is excellent; very crisp, nice colors, consistent brightness and contrast all over. Plans for the future may include swapping the hard drive for a CF card, and seeing if the battery can be rebuilt (I haven't tested it with a charge yet; for all I know it may work).

Got given a NEC PowerMate VT not long ago with all it's original software/drivers etc. Loaded Xandros 2.5 on it. I've left the original hdd with Windows 98SE on it in storage just in case the owner needs more stuff off it. It's a very quiet system, inexcellent condition and sports a Celeron 800 at present.

It came wth a Connon MP220 and Brother Deskjet 810C with their associated software.

Just had to convert MS Works files to rtf for the previous owner.

Quick little update on my Thinkpad: Turns out the PCMCIA cover was not missing; I didn't know that it pivots underneath the slots, so to me it looked like it was missing! I removed the CMOS battery today; was not happy with having to peel the shielding sheet back and damage the glue, but it looks fine once it's all back in place, just doesn't stick as well. Does anyone know if the 365XD has a standby battery (keeps the machine running while swapping main batteries)? I don't believe it does, but I'd like to be 100% sure, as those are known for leaking. Also, despite my sadness at disturbing the glue on the shielding, the "hood" feature on this laptop (lifting the hinged keyboard to access the components) may just be the coolest thing ever.

CapnCrunch53 wrote:

Quick little update on my Thinkpad: Turns out the PCMCIA cover was not missing; I didn't know that it pivots underneath the slots, so to me it looked like it was missing! I removed the CMOS battery today; was not happy with having to peel the shielding sheet back and damage the glue, but it looks fine once it's all back in place, just doesn't stick as well. Does anyone know if the 365XD has a standby battery (keeps the machine running while swapping main batteries)? I don't believe it does, but I'd like to be 100% sure, as those are known for leaking. Also, despite my sadness at disturbing the glue on the shielding, the "hood" feature on this laptop (lifting the hinged keyboard to access the components) may just be the coolest thing ever.

The Thinkpad 365XD doesn't have a stand by battery 😀
Got two of those machines myself.