mwdmeyer wrote:

Just picked up about 18 SGI machines from a collection. I now own 15 indys (going to sell some).

One of the Indys is an R4400/200 with XZ video, which should be nice to try. Couple of the o2 are R10K too (only 175MHz though).

I posted this over at OCAU as well 😀

[quote="mwdmeyer"]Just picked up about 18 SGI machines from a collection. I now own 15 indys (going to sell some).

One of the Indys is an R4400/200 with XZ video, which should be nice to try. Couple of the o2 are R10K too (only 175MHz though).

I posted this over at OCAU as well 😀

oooooooooooooooooo... I see an R5000 Indy at the bottom of that stack.

Yeah I ended up with an R5000 the CPU is only the R5000PC/150 but better than nothing 😀

What are you doing with them?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

What are you doing with them?

mwdmeyer wrote:

Yeah I ended up with an R5000 the CPU is only the R5000PC/150 but better than nothing 😀

well, considering that the Indy topped out at the R5000/180 getting a 150 isn't so bad.

I'm torn though. I do want another SGI box, and the Indy would be a treat, but an O2 beckons.

My IBM PS/2 70 is armed with a 386DX-20 and a matching Coprocessor, a 120MB disk, one 1.4mb diskette drive and the 8514/a adapter, and 4.5mb ram. It has dos 5.0 and windows 3.
The one below that is my CompuDyne Am486dx4-100.
16mb ram, an sbpro /w cdrom, a standard 1.4mb diskette drive, and it has a Ether-link 3 isa LAN and a cirrus logic 1mb Svga chip, and is running windows 95 on the 540mb disk.
The one on the right is my socket 7 Pentium 133 /w 32 mb ram, an 8x cdrom with a cmi8330 internal adapter, with a 2mb trident ProVidia card, and a (soon!) voodoo 1 card, a 1.5gb hard drive running 95 osr2, with a LAN adapter(3com) on a baby AT Matsonic ms25(?) board.
What is not photographed is my Packard bell 620 486DX-50 /w 8mb ram, 2 1.4mb diskette drives, aztec sound galaxy, a oak video OAK77 chip with 1mb(?) memory and a 211mb disk running 95.

armankordi wrote:

My IBM PS/2 70 is armed with a 386DX-20 and a matching fpu, a 120MB disk, one 1.4mb diskette drive and the 8514a adapter, and 4. […]
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My IBM PS/2 70 is armed with a 386DX-20 and a matching fpu, a 120MB disk, one 1.4mb diskette drive and the 8514a adapter, and 4.5mb ram. It has dos 5.0 and windows 3.
The one below that is my compudyne am486dx4-100with 16mb ram, an sbpro /w cdrom, a standard 1.4mb diskette drive, and it has a etherlink 3 isa LAN and a cirrus logic 1mb svga chip, and is running windows 95 on the 540mb disk.
The one on the right is my socket 7 pentium 133 /w 32 mb ram, an 8x cdrom with a cmi8330 internal adapter, with a 2mb trident providia card, and a (soon!) voodoo 1 card, a 1.5gb hard drive running 95 osr2, with a LAN adapter(3com) on a baby AT matsonic ms25(?) board.
What is not photographed is my packard bell 620 486DX-50 /w 8mb ram, 2 1.4mb diskette drives, aztec sound galaxy, a oak video OAK77 chip with 1mb(?) memory and a 211mb disk running 95.

Awesome..havent seen a compudyne pc in a long time..the real gem here is the IBM..great finds

swaaye wrote:

Katmai getting some love for a change. 😉

You wanna see Katmai? I got a shit 366MHz Celeron that needs some lovin'

retrofanatic wrote:

armankordi wrote:

My IBM PS/2 70 is armed with a 386DX-20 and a matching fpu, a 120MB disk, one 1.4mb diskette drive and the 8514a adapter, and 4. […]
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My IBM PS/2 70 is armed with a 386DX-20 and a matching fpu, a 120MB disk, one 1.4mb diskette drive and the 8514a adapter, and 4.5mb ram. It has dos 5.0 and windows 3.
The one below that is my compudyne am486dx4-100with 16mb ram, an sbpro /w cdrom, a standard 1.4mb diskette drive, and it has a etherlink 3 isa LAN and a cirrus logic 1mb svga chip, and is running windows 95 on the 540mb disk.
The one on the right is my socket 7 pentium 133 /w 32 mb ram, an 8x cdrom with a cmi8330 internal adapter, with a 2mb trident providia card, and a (soon!) voodoo 1 card, a 1.5gb hard drive running 95 osr2, with a LAN adapter(3com) on a baby AT matsonic ms25(?) board.
What is not photographed is my packard bell 620 486DX-50 /w 8mb ram, 2 1.4mb diskette drives, aztec sound galaxy, a oak video OAK77 chip with 1mb(?) memory and a 211mb disk running 95.

Awesome..havent seen a compudyne pc in a long time..the real gem here is the IBM..great finds

My poor old IBM needs more loving, I don't have the monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

I got some (not very well shot) Photo's of my IBM. Prepare for photospam!

Open system.

Diskette drive.

Hard drive.

Expansion cards. (memory board FTW!)

IBM Branded CPU and the 16MHz Intel CPU's.

Planar board. (with all it's IBM Glory!)

The back.

Microchannel. (IBM Exclusive!)

🤣!

You're the best around, no one's ever gonna put you down.

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Is there anything cool you can try on a 486 with a silly large amount of RAM?

Try Win98 or, if you are brave, 2000.
But if you have a Pentium OverDrive benchmark Windows XP.

armankordi wrote:

SquallStrife wrote:

Is there anything cool you can try on a 486 with a silly large amount of RAM?

Try Win98 or, if you are brave, 2000.
But if you have a Pentium OverDrive benchmark Windows XP.

How do you prevent Windows 98 from hitting cacheable limit?

armankordi wrote:

My poor old IBM needs more loving, I don't have the monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Great looking innards of the IBM! Everything looks to be in great shape and correct. It's worth buying original IBM keyboard and mouse for this. The monitor will be much more of a challenge for sure, but eventually you will find one if you look (maybe 😀 ).

retrofanatic wrote:

armankordi wrote:

My poor old IBM needs more loving, I don't have the monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Great looking innards of the IBM! Everything looks to be in great shape and correct. It's worth buying original IBM keyboard and mouse for this. The monitor will be much more of a challenge for sure, but eventually you will find one if you look (maybe 😀 ).

I know some good friends in south GA and I'm gonna go down there when I get the chance, heard they got some new old hardware!
I hope that a PS/2 keyboard or mouse is in that somewere!

You never know. You have to follow up with every "lead" when it comes to retro hardware! 🤣 Good luck.

Here are my old computers 😜

This is my first computer. Its specs:
Pentium MMX 200mhz
S3 ViRGE
96MB of ram
AWE 64 value

This is a computer I picked up at a thrift store for $10. The CRT you see in these images came with it for $2.
Pentium 75
Some Cirrus Logic PCI video card
ESS AudioDrive 1688 or something like that
32MB of RAM

This is my 486 that my sister found at a thrift store for me. Cost $10. It started with a 486SX 33mhz, but I toasted it when I figured out the CPUs can go in any direction on that socket... duuuuh. The motherboard still worked fine though. Since then I upgraded it to a DX-33 and now a DX2-66.
Intel 486 DX2-66
20MB RAM
Cirrus Logic VLB card
AWE64 Value

This is my oldest computer. It's an AST Premium Exec 386SX/25. It has a 386SX 25mhz. I found it at the same thrift store as the P75 machine for $5. The issue was I had no power supply. I took a full size modular PSU and soldered one of the cables to the battery terminals, so that I could plug it into the PSU whenever I needed to power it on. Its my Franken-386. It does VGA and has very good emulation of CGA. i can play Round42 on it without a glitchy screen. I need to find a smaller power supply for it though...
2MB RAM
no audio
640x480 monochrome LCD

Thats about it for what I'd consider "retro" computers.

@ Tr3vor42532

Those are some very nice rigs you have there 😀

Makes me remind myself I should build a couple, but I just never get around to it anymore 🤣

@ Tr3vor42532

very nice rigs you have and even better 😲 , very nice price you got them for! I am a little green with envy.

Thanks 😜

I just keep going to that thrift store every day on the lookout for old PC stuff. I only find something worthwhile every once a year or so. I got the 486 2 years ago, the P75 sometime august last year and the 386sx last December.Its always good to have a store around that is completely oblivious to old tech, however anything P3 or up is way to expensive, $35 and up... I've yet to find a good PII there however. I saw a few and they were either too big or Dell computers, which I'm not a fan of with their proprietary PSUs and stuff.

I typically only use Ebay for specific parts like hard drives. I don't like using modern SATA or later IDE drives in old computers. I love era correct stuff, especially hard drives with the noises they make. a simple swap of hard drive can almost change the experience with a retro computer.

I also have a Pentium III 500mhz machine, a P4 machine and about 3 other P4 motherboards and a bunch of other not so old computers, but they wouldn't fit the definition "retro" for me. Pentium MMX is about as new as it gets for now to me.