What is the least desirable or most useless vintage computer hardware component still in your possession.
For me, it is dial-up modems. One ore two may even be winmodems.
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
Modems indeed... I also don't have any use for network cards
Requests are also possible... /msg kixs
I guess printers also rank high... Printers that require special proprietary interfaces to the computer, or printers that need special paper (eg inkjet, thermal or tractorfeed) that is no longer available. Or the ink cartridges are no longer available.
I think modems are going to get a lot of votes here 🤣!
And I don't like printers either.
Some stock heatsink fans and those old and LOUD SCSI harddrives I'm probably never gonna use
Perhaps TV-tuner cards next?
NICs are fine with me, since I regularly network here.
Probably never gonna use that sole Floptical drive either, don't even have any of its disks 😵
Also got a couple of those very old MO and Seaquest disks but no drives and have maybe 1 or 2 tape drives but none of its media.
Covers anything you have too many of. Optical drives, IDE cables, floppy drives, bad cases. But then what is 'too many'? 5? 15?
Personally, any post-Tualatin Celeron is wholly pointless. And a loud SCSI hard disk is better than none. Non DVB TV tuners are definitely pointless.
EDIT: fixed blasphemy.
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Celerons with Willamette and Northwood core, they are very very slow compared even to P4`s, and they`re completely useless. Old CD drives because is easy to use newer ones in vintage PC.
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wrote:Old CD drives because is easy to use newer ones in vintage PC.
I believed this until I had to burn an ISO at 2x speed for it to be read correctly by my Sun workstation. Newer drives don't support slower write speeds.
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wrote:Personally, any post-PII Celeron is wholly pointless.
Blasphemy! 🤣
Tualeron is kinda fantastic! 😁
wrote:wrote:Personally, any post-PII Celeron is wholly pointless.
Blasphemy! 🤣
Tualeron is kinda fantastic! 😁
Fixed - I even own one! Totally forgot!
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Modems(Absolutely useless!), CD-ROM(Even my 486DX33 has an IDE DVD Writer) drives, radio cards(Why??), TV tuner cards(Mainly analog...), PCI sound cards(Well i may get different opinions here 😁)
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
I had to sit down and actually think of something that can beat modems
P1 Era Proprietary motherboards that dont fit in a normal AT/ATX case and uses a propriety power connector
14" CRT VGA screens that cant go any higher than 640x480
AGP Sis6326
PS Before anyone starts shooting me, the reason is simple all of us allready have enough CRTs and they are becoming harder and harder to get rid of....
External serial modems are useful. I won't put them on this list.
Hardware I have that I'm never going to use? TV tuners. PCI modems. Mwave sound card (ISA). SB Audigy (original one -has huge compatibility problems). Pretty much any of the huge stack of SCSI cards I have, with the possible exception of the AHA1542CF. And I'm sure I've missed some.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:P1 Era Proprietary motherboards that dont fit in a normal AT/ATX case and uses a propriety power connector
I already threw almost all of this stuff out, but typically I'd never even bother bringing this in in the first place.
I actually prefer non-x86 AT/ATX motherboards to x86 non-AT/ATX motherboards, even though the non-x86 stuff is quite useless to me anyway.
Tape drives. I have a stack of these I don't know what to do with. Worthless, useless.
In defense of modems, they're still useful for emergency internet access. I keep two around for that reason. V90 Sitecoms IIRC. Serial of course. PCI/ISA modems are a waste of space. (Though if I still had an XT I'd put a 14 kbps 8-bit ISA modem in it just for nostalgia reasons)
Is this too much voodoo?
Proprietary ISA/MCA/PCI PCBs: I have thrown out many over the years. They were usually single purpose engineered: industrial / medical applications.
Modems / token ring / BNC only NICs.
Anything broken. CRTs that do not work well / are low quality.
token ring cards
*hides*
wrote:token ring cards
*hides*
Omg forgot about those 😵
Modems are my top. i have a bag full with like +30 modems
Propietary hardware, although i have propietary PCs like some Dells, it can be a pain if you don't have the right spares, although i know some hacks to install standard fans in some old Dells
older 486 motherboards with fake cache chips
non DVB TV Tunners
Broken/dead/damaged parts
Non Ethernet NICs
Oh yes, anything related to pre-RJ45 networking.
Is this too much voodoo?
