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Reply 160 of 202, by Windows9566

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I have some retro computers

- Apple IIe Platinum, 5.25 Floppy Controller Card, Apple Super Serial Card (1987)

- Macintosh LC 630, 68LC040 33 MHz, 36 MB RAM (Single 32 MB SIMM with 4 MB onboard), TV Tuner/Capture Card, 6GB Seagate HDD, System 7.5.5 (1995)

- Power Macintosh 6100/66, PowerPC 601 66 MHz, 72 MB RAM (64 MB SIMMs with 8 MB onboard), 4GB IBM HDD, System 7.5.5 (1995)

- Pentium 100, Intel Advanced/ML, 32 MB RAM, Cirrus Logic GD5446 2MB, Sound Blaster 16, 20GB Maxtor HDD, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and DOS 6.22 (1996)

- Pentium 133, ASUS VX97, 32 MB RAM, S3 Trio 64v+ 2MB, Sound Blaster 16, 40GB Maxtor HDD, Windows 95 (1997)

- iMac G3, PowerPC G3 333 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40GB Quantum HDD, Mac OS 9.2.2 (1999)

- AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+, ASUS M2N68-AM Plus, 2 GB RAM, nVidia Geforce GTS 450 1GB, 500GB Seagate HDD, Windows XP (2009)

R5 5600X, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3060 TI, Win11
P3 600, 256 MB RAM, nVidia Riva TNT2 M64, SB Vibra 16S, Win98
PMMX 200, 128 MB RAM, S3 Virge DX, Yamaha YMF719, Win95
486DX2 66, 32 MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440, ESS ES688F, DOS

Reply 162 of 202, by Duouk2000

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I only have two, plus some parts (a few slot 1 CPUs, RAM, HDDs, GPUs...etc). I do find myself having to resist the urge to buy a C64 & monitor even though I really want one (I don't have enough time to play everything I have as it is!)

Main Retro PC
XP2100+, Abit KTA7, 512MB SDRAM, x2 Voodoo 2 12MB PCI, FX5200 AGP, Soundblaster Pro, Cobra Aopen AW744, 120GB SSD.

Dust Collector
Amstrad PC2086 with NEC V70, Soundblaster and XT-IDE adapter.

I should sell the Amstrad tbh, it's a nice little computer but it gets ignored in favour of the Main Retro PC. Better to have it go to someone that will use it.

Reply 163 of 202, by Caluser2000

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A few.

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 164 of 202, by Vipersan

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Not often I get to list my collection ...and I'm assuming -not just PCs-
gonna enjoy this ..
Commodore :-
1x CBM PET 4032 with 8050 floppy drive
4 x VIC20
4 x C64
2 x Plus4
1 x C16
4 x 1541 floppy drives
2 x Amiga A600
1x Amiga A500+
1x Amiga 1200

Apple
1x Apple ][ Europlus
1x Apple IIe
4x Apple 2 - 5 1/4 drives

Toshiba luggable Laptops
1x highly modded Toshiba T5200/100 (thanx for the help with this one Ian ..if you are still around buddy)
1x LCD colour screen T3200sx (had to LCD this one as it came with a smashed screen)

2 x Spectrum 48K (one is fitted in a proper keyboard enclosure)

1 x BBC B with 2 floppy drives

PC builds

1x socket 370 with switched internal multiple OS ..win 3.11 ,95B ,98SE,Win2000,XP
1x Socket 7 98se
1x Super Socket 7 98se
1x Socket A XPpro
1x socket A with pull out Os's

Various retro laptops which I try to fit with relevant period correct operating systems from dos through to XP (lost count but around 10 at least)

Sometimes I can actually get in bed ..assuming I've tidied up a bit first..
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Reply 165 of 202, by Lazar81

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1x 486
2x 386
1x Supersocket 7
3x Socket 370
1x Socket 775
Main Machine: Socket 1151
Media Center: Intel NUC

Ryzen 5 2600X - ASUS ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming - 32GB RAM - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Reply 166 of 202, by Murugan

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HanJammer wrote:

The true question is: how many of these PCs do you actually use? ;D

Actually only 1 is set up, next to my daily driver.
My awesome 386DX-40 build :p

My retro collection: too much...

Reply 167 of 202, by blurks

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Currently four retro machines:
- HP Vectra N2 (486 DX2/66)
- Compaq Deskpro 486s/25m (486 SX/25)
- Apple Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (single 933)
- Apple Power Mac G4 MDD (dual 1.25)

Thinking about letting the Quicksilver G4 go as two of the same kind seems more or less pointless and redundant. Otherwise pretty happy as these pizzabox 486's don't occupy much space and cover all my ISA and EISA needs.

Reply 168 of 202, by cyclone3d

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Heh.. if I had enough cases, I would probably have about 50.

As it is, I have about 3-4 that are mostly finalized and about 7-8 that are in a ... what am I doing here? stage. And even the ones I say are mostly complete I think I am for sure going to make some changes.

Once I figure out the exact hardware I am going to put in all of them, I will be figuring out what spare hardware I am going to save and then sell everything else I am not keeping for my collection.

I'll probably sell quite a bit of stuff before then though.

You people with your massive number of cases... so much harder for me to find old cases than it is to find the hardware to go into those cases.

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
YMF7x4 Guide
Aopen AW744L II SB-LINK

Reply 169 of 202, by FAMICOMASTER

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In my current house? I have 2 vintage desktops and 3 vintage laptops.

"PC Craft" turbo XT, using the DTK "Turbo 640" board here: https://th99.infania.net/m/C-D/30501.htm
The board blew up. An RTC battery on an expansion card leaked and destroyed it. The case is nice and I have another replacement board in storage. It *had* 256K, a 10MHz NEC V20 (running at just 8MHz for now), an 8087-2, and an ATI EGA Wonder 800 series 2. Also, a DTC 5150XL with a Seagate ST-251-MLC-2. It's got two 360K floppy drives, but I'm looking for a way to get a 1.44M / 1.2M diskette drive to work with it.
Here's a picture of it and it's original motherboard, which is completely dead. I quite like the look of this case, but it's just about 2cm too short for a full height ISA card to fit in. Makes a great turbo XT case, though, better than the turbo Beltron where I'm sourcing the replacement motherboard from.
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"Informate desktop Business Computer" turbo AT clone, using the Informtech "286/Supra model C" board here: https://th99.infania.net/m/I-L/31260.htm
It's had some trouble, but it's mostly fine now. It's going into an actual AT case when I get the chance to get it out of storage, along with the other DTK board. The Informate case is dusty, cracked, and yellow. And the front panel wiring is messed up and unlabeled.
It's got 1MB onboard (only sees 512K unfortunately), an AST Advantage 128 maxed with 1.5MB, a 20MHz 286, a 12MHz 287 on the way, a Trident TVGA8900C with 1MB vRAM, a DTC7287 RLL controller attached to an IBM type 0665-53 hard disk, and two floppy drives. One 1.2MB and one 1.44MB.
Here's a picture of the front of the Informate in it's original case
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And a labeled image showing all the expansion cards installed currently
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And then my laptops are less interesting:
Compudyne 3SL/25
386SL (low power SX) at 25MHz, grayscale VGA graphics, 6MB RAM, a 1.44MB diskette drive, and the original 80MB hard disk. I'm looking for a rebuilt / replacement NiCd / NiMH battery for it. Runs DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. I want a 387 and an OPL2LPT for it, but that will have to wait.
This is actually my favorite vintage computer, it's quite a nice little laptop and I got it on eBay a few months ago brand new in box for $80. Came with manuals, diskettes, charger, even the plastic wrap the computer was sitting in and the styrofoam from the factory!
Here it is running Lotus III - The Ultimate Challenge, one of my favorite DOS games.
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Twinhead ColorNote DX2
486DX2 at 66MHz, full color VGA display with Cirrus Logic adapter. It's got 4MB on the board and a 16MB memory module, but the BIOS battery is junk and it won't go over that. 1.44MB diskette drive, and a replacement hard disk that's 4GB. The BIOS recognizes it, but the drive itself is beyond repair. Uses the same battery and charger as the 3SL/25. Even the same case. It has a full on desktop 486 in a socket and everything. If I wasn't worried about burning my house down, I'd drop something fast in and replace the BIOS battery and hard disk while I'm at it.
Here's a picture of that running David Murray's Planet X3 from floppy diskette
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Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Pentium at some speed, full color SVGA display at 800x600. It's got a Chips & Tech video card, I think? It's got an ESS Audiodrive of some sort, I think E688. It emulates AdLib and SoundBlaster 1.0, that's as far as I've gone with it. 16MB onboard and a slot for up to 48MB more. It's got a 10X CD-ROM drive and a 1.27GB hard disk. The charger is built in and the trackpoint sucks. The tiny mono speaker can be pretty loud if needed. A friend of mine wanted to get into vintage computers, and this is the laptop she decided on.
I'm too lazy and uninterested in this machine to power it on. You get the idea.
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I have dozens more in storage and at my parent's house. I have a thing for the desktop style machines rather than towers. IBM PC340, HP Vectra VE series 3 5/120, and a Packard Bell I recently bought that needs a new hard disk drive. The IBM quit on me for some reason, the HP has BIOS issues, and the PB is just sitting there for now.
One tower I do have is a machine I call "The Monster."
It's an unbranded full size AT case with two power supplies. It's got a Raite RTR 8x DVD-ROM drive, an Acer 24X CD-RW drive, a 1.2M diskette drive, a 1.44M diskette drive, and I'm planning to add a ZIP cassette or LS120 drive. I have both already, but I need a 5.25 to 3.5 adapter.
It's got 2 USB 1.1 ports on an OPTi PCI USB controller, it's a Pentium-S 100MHz with 128MB of RAM and 256K of onboard cache memory. I have a 2.1GB Seagate boot drive and an 8GB Seagate U4 secondary drive. It's got an ATI Mach 64GT board with 2MB, a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 with SCSI, a secondary PCI ATA controller, an HP 10mbps Ethernet card, and a 56K modem built in. It's dual booting DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE. It's quite fast, even running Windows 2000!

Reply 171 of 202, by bjwil1991

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I'm wondering that myself.

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 174 of 202, by foil_fresh

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4, and thinking about a 5th.

got myself a socket 7 p166mmx/voodoo banshee with win98se for dos and early windows 3d games. still thinking about win95 but only so i can install my Seinfeld screensaver CD from archive.org 🤣

then i got a p3 667 / voodoo 3 (win98se again) to cover 98/99 as well as the glide titles from that time.

athlon xp 2200+ & Radeon 9600 xt (win98se) i just wanted a win98 machine that was almost too good for 98. part meme, part overkill. very similar to a pc I had growing up. to play games from 00/01/02. the geek in me wants to max out the cpu to a 3200+ and the video card to a 9800 (doubt i'll find a deal as good as the 9600xt was - 10 bucks aud 😮)

finally i got my winxp machine which is a p4 3.2ghz s478, 6800GT agp to play games from 03/04.

i got an AM2 board as well as an older 2500k/1155 motherboard that might end up being a win7 or another XP pc for the hell of it.

Reply 175 of 202, by FAMICOMASTER

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Does the screensaver not work in 98SE? I would think it would be compatible between 9x. I've got 9x screensavers that still work in Windows 10.

Reply 177 of 202, by FAMICOMASTER

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SpectriaForce wrote:

That enclosure is a beauty! 😀

It's in acceptable shape I suppose, the case is bent in several places (presumably from shipping, it was not packed well and shipped via UPS... Wonderful!)

It's not easily visible, but the front grille is very dusty and all of the plastic is heavily yellowed. The badges are all falling off, and underneath the case plastic is a bright white.

I want to restore it, but I also want to stuff the guts into a real AT case that I have. I rather like the styling of the original IBM over this clone. The case will stick around either way, probably in storage.

Oh yeah, and the speed display is dead, too.

Reply 178 of 202, by gex85

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Currently 8 complete Retro PCs ranging from 486 to Xeon E5450 (S775). Plus a dual Tualatin build at my parents' house, plus half a dozen boxes full of parts. Besides that, two fairly modern S1151 systems and one Mac Pro 5.1 with dual X5680s. Ah, and some 1st-gen Atom industrial PC running Win2k Adv. Server. And various laptops, of course.

I want to reduce my retro collection to four machines because I'm running out of space, but I just can't decide which systems are allowed to stay and which ones have to go 😐
Probalby I'll setlle with something like one Pentium MMX, one Pentium II or K6-2, one Pentium III and one Socket A machine.

My retro computers

Reply 179 of 202, by deleted_nk

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At the moment I only have my Athlon XP build in my games room, since I recently installed an old canopus capture card into it. Does a much better job at capturing composite and S-video than modern USB cards.

In storage, on last count I had around 6 in there, mainly comprising of Core2 era machines but also has my 486 and P166 builds. Used to be much more until I sold most of the duplicate parts.