Yep, gotcha covered! Would have imaged the floppy too but it seems to have fallen to bit rot unfortunately.

Those cases were a royal PITA to work with! I figured that out quickly, there isn't much in here that isn't proprietary. Any idea what it was used for? Have no idea, I think the original hard drive is shot but I'll have to pull it out and plug it into the IDE USB adapter to see if there's anything …

Although I prefer them beige I'm a sucker for anything from the optiplex line. I know they're the mass produced enterprise-y Dell stuff but I find the guts so easy to work with and Dell, for all their faults, is amazing at keeping legacy drivers online and easy to get.

Alright! Another rescue from a local municipal recycle pile that I managed to scoop up before the scrappers found it. From looking up the specs, it appears to have a 120MHz Pentium processor and launched with Windows 95. I figured it was about time I learned to work with something earlier than 95 so …

Chanced upon this thread and really liked the long-ago-mentioned case badge so I played around in Gimp and MS Paint with my amateur skills. I'm also colorblind so any shade changes I blame on that. Filename Computer Badge retouch.jpg File size 85.39 KiB Views 2803 views https://drive.google.com/ …

My mom picked me up a few PC World magazines from 1990 while getting a sewer bill sorted out (of all things) from a freebie pile in their office. Its not a 386 but I figured you would find it amusing anyhow. Filename New Doc 2018-11-14 20.56.17_1.jpg File size 548.56 KiB Views 2100 views Filename …

I mostly just do ME as a troll at this point but I also have a legit upgrade disk for it and I like the slightly newer drivers it carries and slightly newer core files. It lets the office compatibility pack partially install with kernelex so I can use XML DOCX files also.

I am not one with the ability to share massive wordy posts so here goes! I stop by a couple of municipal recycle piles on the way to and from classes so once in a while I check whats there. The other day I picked up this unassuming NEC machine with a "Designed for Microsoft Windows 98 Sticker" and …

Today's flea market find, I don't know how retro you all consider it to be but it is certainly an endangered species. Planning to replace the the 30GB toshiba drive with a Kingspec 120GB ZIF SSD.

I have had some good luck using the Ontrack Disk Manager to overcome BIOS size limitations, just used it the other day to put a 30GB HDD into a Toshiba Satellite 2505CDS. Though honestly I didn't check to see if it would accept a larger drive, just went with the assumption it wouldn't. Great little …

nice find! I wish thrift stores near me had optiplexes like that. also dig your Windows Me decals Thanks! I think Millennium Edition needs a little more love, I enjoy using it anyhow. Most of the thrift shops around me seem to just send the stuff right to recycle so this is the first time I've …

Madc0w wrote: Probably because they used the same boards for the other optiplex models, like the mid tower and larger clamshell model. Ahh good point, seems more obvious in retrospect!

I finally have a GX1 for my Optiplex pile! (I got locked out of my old account) This was about $10 at a thrift shop on the way home from classes and I couldn't leave it there so I will add it to my hoard. It has a slot 1 Pentium 3 and the coveted ISA riser card but I've only tested it enough to make …