Pretty much all of my PCs & Macs are old or retro, as they are all 9+ years old. Only 1 laptop & 1 Intel Atom Windows tablet th […]
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Pretty much all of my PCs & Macs are old or retro, as they are all 9+ years old. Only 1 laptop & 1 Intel Atom Windows tablet that are only a couple of years old.
I currently have 56 systems in my collection, 47 of them built & ready to use.
Which includes 10 systems in active usage each day. 9 are unbuilt, existing only as a collection of parts and may need 1 or 2 things to get going properly.
Not sure how much of this people would consider "retro" but nonetheless, my collection is as follows -
The Old/Retro PC Build specs:
PC 1: Intel Celeron 1.2GHz (Tualatin), 512MB RAM, GeForce FX5500 256MB PCI, Opti 82C931 ISA Sound, Sound Blaster Live! PCI Sound. OS: Windows 98SE & Windows XP
PC 2: AMD Sempron 3500+, 2GB RAM, GeForce 7300LE 128MB PCIe. OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
PC 3: Intel Pentium III 650MHz, 512MB RAM, TNT2 32MB AGP, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound. OS: Zeta 1.21, Windows XP, Windows 98SE
PC 4: AMD K6-2 500 @ 300MHz, 128MB RAM, Voodoo3 16MB PCI, Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA Sound. OS: Windows 98SE
PC 5: IDT Winchip C6 200MHz, 72MB RAM, Virge 2MB PCI Graphics, ESS 1868 ISA Sound. OS: Windows 95
PC 6: AMD Am486 DX-40 @ 33MHz, 28MB RAM, Tseng Labs ET 4000 1MB ISA, ISA Sound (need to check). OS: Windows 95
PC 7: Intel 80386SX 16MHz, 10MB RAM, Western Digital Onboard Graphics. OS: MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11
PC 8: AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1GB RAM, AGP Graphics (need to check), Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7
PC 9: Intel Celeron 400MHz (PII era, Mendocino), 64MB RAM, 3D Rage Pro 8MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Solaris 10
PC 10: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (Prescott, Socket 478), 1GB RAM, GeForce FX 5700VE 256MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7
PC 11: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 3450 512MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7
PC 12: AMD K6-2 450MHz, 128MB RAM, TNT Vanta 16MB AGP, Aureal Vortex 2 PCI Sound. OS: Windows XP & Windows 98SE
PC 13: Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz (Coppermine), 768MB RAM, GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: eComStation 2.1
PC 14: Intel Celeron D 320 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM, Intel 82845G Onboard Graphics, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7
PC 15: AMD Duron 892MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9200SE 128MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows XP
PC 16: AMD K6-2 400MHz, 160MB RAM, Voodoo3 16MB PCI, ESS Solo-1 Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 98SE
PC 17: Intel Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB RAM, Rage 3D Pro 4MB Onboard Graphics, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 98SE
PC 18: AMD Sempron 3000+, 1GB RAM, Radeon HD 3450 512MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7
PC 19: Intel Pentium II 266MHz, 160MB RAM, Riva 128 4MB AGP. OS: Windows XP (will remove soon)
PC 20: AMD Athlon XP 1900+, 1.2GB RAM, GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB AGP, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows XP
PC 21: Intel Celeron 700MHz (Coppermine), 192MB RAM, Onboard Graphics (need to check), Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 2000
PC 22: Intel 80286 12MHz, 1MB RAM, Trident TVGA 8900C 1MB ISA, Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics. OS: IBM PC DOS 7.0, with GEM/3 Desktop 3.13 & Windows 3.1
The unbuilt specs:
PC 1: Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz, 128MB RAM.
PC 2: AMD Duron 800MHz.
PC 3: Intel Celeron D 335 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, Intel 865G Onboard Graphics, Onboard Sound.
PC 4: Intel Celeron 1.2GHz (Tualatin), 128MB RAM, Trident Blade 3D Onboard Graphics, Onboard Sound.
PC 5: AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 256MB RAM, SIS Mirage 64MB Onboard Graphics, Onboard Sound.
PC 6: AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 512MB RAM, Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB AGP, Onboard Sound.
PC 7: Intel Pentium III 450MHz, 128MB RAM.
PC 8: AMD Duron 800MHz, 64MB RAM, Rage XL AGP Graphics, Sound Blaster 128 CT4810 PCI Sound. (this system presently has a case, but will soon be reused for another build)
PC 9: Intel 8088 4.77MHz, 256KB RAM.
The Active/More Modern Built PCs:
PC 1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 4GB RAM, GeForce Quadro FX1700 512MB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 10
PC 2: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB RAM, GeForce GT 430 1GB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 10
PC 3: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 3450 256MB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
PC 4: AMD Athlon II X2 4450E 2.8GHz (unlocked Sepmron 145), 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 5450 512MB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 8.1
PC 5: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 5450 512MB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 7 (getting Windows 10 soon)
PC 6: Intel Pentium D 830 Dual Core 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 5450 PCIe, Sound Blaster (need to check model) 5.1 PCI Sound. OS: Windows 8.1
PC 7: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 5450 512MB PCIe, Onboard Sound. OS: Windows 8.1
Laptops & Tablets:
Laptop 1: Intel Core 2 Duo T5300, 2GB RAM, Intel 945 Graphics. OS: Windows 10 (7 to be reinstalled soon).
Laptop 2: Intel Core i3-6100U, 8GB RAM, Intel HD 520 Graphics. OS: Windows 10
Laptop 3: AMD Turion 64 MK-36 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM, Radeon Xpress 1100 Graphics. OS: Windows 10
Laptop 4: Intel Pentium III 897MHz, 512MB RAM, Intel 82815 Graphics. OS: Windows XP & Windows 98SE
Tablet 1: Intel Atom Z3735G Quad Core 1.83GHz, 1GB RAM. OS: Windows 8.1
Plus I have 3 ARM-based Android tablets & a Blackberry Playbook.
Macs:
Mac 1: Mac mini, PowerPC G4 1.25GHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9200 32MB Onboard Graphics. OS: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Mac 2: Power Macintosh G3 Beige Desktop, PowerPC G3 300MHz, 448MB RAM, Rage 128 16MB PCI, 3D Rage Pro 2MB Onboard Graphics (disabled). OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Mac OS 9.2.2
Mac 3: PowerMac G5, PowerPC G5 Dual 2.0GHz, 3GB RAM, GeForce 6200 256MB AGP. OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Lubuntu 16.04 LTS
Mac 4: iMac DV Summer 2000, PowerPC G3 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Rage 128 Pro 8MB Onboard Graphics. OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Mac OS 9.1
Mac 5: iMac DV Summer 2000, PowerPC G3 400MHz, 128MB RAM, Rage 128 Pro 8MB Onboard Graphics. OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Mac OS 9.1
Mac 6: iMac Rev. D, PowerPC G3 333MHz, 320MB RAM, Rage Pro 6MB Onboard Graphics. OS: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther & Mac OS 9.1.
Mac 7: Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White, PowerPC G3 350MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon 7000 64MB PCI Graphics. OS: Mac OS 9.2.2
Other Vintage Computers:
System 1: Commodore 64C
System 2: Sinclair (Amstrad) ZX Spectrum +2A
As for what I do with all this lot, mostly just tinker with it from time to time. 🤣
Most of my gaming is done via emulation on 1 of my more modern active systems. I keep planning to set up a dedicated retro gaming rig. The working Tualatin system is great for a retro gaming system, but severely hindered by lacking a CD-ROM drive for those CD based games (it's a non-standard ePoS case). For Windows games I could get by with patching/cracking the games not to need the disc and/or use ISO images.
But I love both my 386 & 286 systems for the older DOS games. The 486 would be good too, but it's PC Speaker is dead and I'm not brave enough to start soldering on it yet - though the motherboards for this particular system are quite reasonable on eBay. Additionally I also love my K6-2 500/300 system, mostly for nostalgia reasons as I've owned it the longest and it's the most powerful "AT only" computer that I own.