Okay, I'm back from Japan. I'm posting this in case anyone else is going and wondering where to buy retro stuff. I had a LOT of spare time; I was there for 2 months, so I visited many stores. - Hard Off: Hard-Off barely has anything related to computers that is worth buying. Forget about Hard-Off in …

I will be traveling to Japan for work soon. I'm curious if anyone has been to shops that sell retro computer hardware there. I'm not referring to video game stores like Super Potato, but rather stores that offer vintage PC hardware and perhaps software. Has anyone who visited Japan gone to such a …

I got a EPoX EP-D3VA Dual Pentium III motherboard today. I always wanted to experiment with dual P3's so why not, I went ahead and bought it for fairly cheap. Sadly, it does not seem to work. It turns on but I get nothing on the screen. I have no speaker so I have no idea if its throwing some error …

These machines along with the HP Compaq ones are the epitome of the typical 2001-2005 Windows XP computer. I remember when my high school bought these: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/U89ada9a7e3d3433999dd98e63fed2f35V/B-u-HP-Compaq-d230mt-pentium-4-2-0GHz.jpg The smell of plastic, the sound the keyboard …

Nice rig! Not too usual to see somebody stick with ME alone on a P3 rig :P. I like ME MEself too! Yay, another ME fan :-D I like ME very much. For me, it always felt more stable than W98SE. I know this sounds really vague, we are talking about a really old W9x OS but never had any issues with it It …

Hello dear Vogoners :-) This is my first post here (despite being a long time lurker. I think I pretty much read every post here :blush: ) so I hope I'm posting in the right forum. English isn't my first language, so please excuse any mistakes. I never had the guts to post anything. However, this …