Yesterday I decided to power up the second 386 i bought this weekend and I was greeted with an exploding tantalum cap. Now I need to find someone who can fix this for me :angry: First time this happened to me so I thought like WTF was that!!!! Ha! I have two of those, an SX and a DX. I can do it, I …

Believe it or not this floppy: 711Floppy.jpg is now working and clean, and I didn't break anything. That was another drive. Obligatory PC content: 711dualdrive.jpg Wasn't working when I got it, the 3.5" lights up and spins up at start, but doesn't respond otherwise. Sadly, because I always wanted …

A little more cleaning. Kind of had to limit myself because I had rehab today and if I do too much I crash. 711Case2.jpg The prior owners didn't know the meaning of the word "clean." 711Case1.jpg The drive is interesting (for me, because I never used to work with SCSI). It's kind of a 3/4 height …

Sweet ride. I had one of the 83 Compaq Portables. Man, was it a tank. Made the Kaypro seem svelte.

PTherapist wrote: That's one of the reasons I avoided those liquid cooled G5s back in the day, never trusted the stuff not to leak and destroy the whole computer. Ironically, the consensus now is that it was unnecessary, and it's perfectly safe to replace the liquid cooler with stock air heat sinks …

I have a ton of old hardware (nowhere near a record, mind you). My XP gaming era machine is a USFF Dell Optiplex 790 with an i3 2120 and integrated video. Plays everything from midyear adventure games to OpenGL games like Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3 to to FEAR perfectly. It is inauthentic, but also tiny …

I got 5 of 6 old Macs running today, though the oldest, an original LC, has a dead HD. LC1.jpg 3 of them are Power Computing clones from the late 90s, two 180s and a 225, though the 225 has a 333MHz upgrade. One of those doesn't boot, though it does power up, and I haven't pulled the RAM or PRAM …

I *literally* just set up my XP era gaming machine, and installed Steam on it. *TIMING*