Plopped the retention brackets from my SGI M29A on the XG-DLS. Gotta modify the old ghetto'd brackets I was using before for the SGI board now.

Also need a bigger case for this beast. If only I could find a TJ06 for this... and 900/2MB Xeons.

Here's 4 of my 5 machines, I'll post the Compaq Portable 486 later as I just took some pictures of it. The monitor is long gone, I'm stocking up on CRTs for them now. When we move into our new house, I'm planning to set them up with a few "period correct" items around them to create a certain retro computer-room/office atmosphere.

1989 GEM Computer Products 286

SPECS
CHASSIS: SongCheer AT Chassis, 3x external 5.25", 2X internal 5.25"
PSU: Home-Built Franken-PSU, Baby AT Guts, AT Casing, 250 Watts
MoBo: Octek Fox II 286 Board
CPU: INtel 80286 SX-10 (overclocked to 12MHz because the Co-Pro is 12MHz)
MCP: ITT 802C86 - 12
RAM: 6144K (4MB on 30 pin SIMMS, 2MB on RAMpAT Expansion Card)
BIOS: American Megatrends w/ Built In Diganostics
FDD: 1.44MB Mitsubishi, 1.2MB Mitsubishi
HDD: Seagate 540MB PATA
ODD: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
VID: TSENG ET4000 1MB SVGA ISA
SND: SoundBlaster Vibra 16
NIC: LinkSys Etherfast PnP 10mbps
O/S: MS-DOS 6.22 with DOSSHELL, Windows 1.01/2.03/3.0/3.1

2012 Home-Brew 486 in an XT Chassis

SPECS
CHASSIS: SOngCheer XT Chassis
PSU: 150 Watt XT Form Factor
MoBo: FIC 486-PVT w/VLB Local Bus
CPU: Intel 80486 DX2/66
RAM: 64MB on 72pin Fast Page SIMMS
BIOS: Award
FDD: 1.44MB, 1.2MB TEAC
HDD: 8GB Seagate
ODD: 52X CD-RW Burner
VID: S3 805 1MB SVGA VLB Video
SND: SOundBlaster Pro II
NIC: LinkSys EtherFast PnP 10mbps
O/S: MS-DOS 6.22/Windows For Workgroups 3.11

1985 Tandy 1000A

SPECS
CPU: i8088 @ 4.77 MHz
RAM: 640K
FDD: 360K TEAC 5.25"
HDD: 540MB on VCF XT-IDE Controller
GFX: Tandy 16-color Enhanced CGA (TGA)
SND: Tandy 3-voice
NIC: INtel EtherExpress 16
O/S: MS-DOS 6.22

1988 Apple Macintosh SE FDHD

SPECS = http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_cla … ac_se_fdhd.html
PERIPHERALS = 2 Mac Mice, Trackball, Regular Keyboard, Enhanced Keyboard, External 800K Floppy Drive, + Manual

My proud 9xBEAST

MTB: ASUS P3B-F, Intel 440BX, BIOS: 1006
CPU: Intel Pentium!!! 500MHz (Katmai), 100MHz FSB, 512kb Cache@600MHz (5x120), 40MHz PCI
RAM: Kingston KTH7155 512MB(2x256MB) SD-RAM 100MHz@120MHz CL2 Fast
VGA: ATi Rage Fury PRO 32MB AGP2x
3DA: Procomp G111 Voodoo 2 12MB SLi 100MHz PCI
SND: Creative SB Live! X-Gamer CT4760, EAX2.0 16Bit PCI
LAN: 3Com 3C905B-TX-M PCI 10/100Mbps
HDD: 2xSeagate Barracuda ATAIV ST340016A 40GB@32GB FAT32 7200rpmn UATA/33
ROM:Teac DVDR, CDRW, FDD1.44Mb
BOX: DTK WT-PT074
PSU: SkyHawk CTX-230WCE 230W ATX
COOL: cpu: CoolerMaster Heatsink+AKASA 5cm fan; case+psu: 3xAKASA AK-182-L2B Amber 8cm
CRT: EIZO FlexScan T68 19"CRT 1280x1024x32@85Hz
DSK: Benq 6511 HK keyboard, PS/2 W9x logo + Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse M-RK45 PS/2
REPRO: Creative Cambridge SoundWorks FPS1000 4.1 EAX
SW: MS Windows 98SE (DX7.0, WMP6.4, IE5, Office 2000 Pro, +some updates from UnofficialSP3_W98)
DRV: Intel chipset V2.60, Voodoo 2 V3.02.02, ATI MER128 4.13.7192

Photos:
http://postimg.org/image/p4up6gein/
http://postimg.org/image/5tdqtlqpr/
http://postimg.org/image/b9wenzk3j/
http://postimg.org/image/7g7jsks5b/

Can't get work any UATA RAID PCI card under Win98SE
Can't get TNT2ULTRA or GF256 anywhere 🙁

Fantastic build eFatal2ty 😀 Great work. The Creative speakers really finish it off.

Currently there is a Geforce 256 on ebay.co.uk, but will only ship to the UK 🙁 TNT2 Ultras seem to be hard to find as well.

Here is one of my in progress systems. I will keep it updated and have better pictures as it comes along. Here are the specs:
HP xw4400 motherboard.
3.8ghz p4 670
4gb crucial ballistix DDR2-667
Cooler Master Hyper T2 HSF
WD raptor 10k 80gb
Soundblaster Audigy4
Windows xp pro sp3
Currently a 450watt Antec VP (replaced with a 650 or higher once SLI is in the picture)
EVGA single slot 512mb Geforce 8800GT (SLI at some point)
Quad 80mm intake, dual 80mm exhaust.
Thoughts, suggestions, advice? Give me some feedback please

foey wrote:

Fantastic build eFatal2ty 😀 Great work. The Creative speakers really finish it off.

Currently there is a Geforce 256 on ebay.co.uk, but will only ship to the UK 🙁 TNT2 Ultras seem to be hard to find as well.

I found this TNT2 Ultra, says it ships worldwide:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181399929422

GF256s seem a bit easier to find:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191252321759
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121391648021

eFatal2ty - Very nice build - looks very nice all together. Out of curiosity - what's the "box" next to the monitor on the right-hand side?

m1919 wrote:

Plopped the retention brackets from my SGI M29A on the XG-DLS. Gotta modify the old ghetto'd brackets I was using before for the SGI board now.

Also need a bigger case for this beast. If only I could find a TJ06 for this... and 900/2MB Xeons.

Damn those CPUs are mad! Those are the best looking innards I've ever seen! Those cartridge CPUs are completely fanless. That silver look with no fans visible in that neat-tidy case is just stupendous. Honestly, I don't understand why there's no such thing as multiple cpus on cartridges like that. Could you imagine a machine with 16 cores on two cartridges (or even one) and quad SLI with no fans? It's an utter joke to still use cpu sockets. Sockets were used in the 1980s and I'd think there should be some advancements with that. Actually, it certainly wouldn't necessitate retention clips against the mobo, causing warpage and stress, with a slot based cartridge cpu.

@m1919: You literally made really old hardware look cutting edge along with the look of that chassis. Looks deadly. Mad props.

Here's my sexy retro rig. 😜

Model : Packard Bell Platinum 55
CPU : Pentium 1 @ 133mhz
RAM : 16 MB 72 pin SIMM
Video Ram : 2 MB EDO Video DRAM
HDD size : 3GB
CD-ROM : 48x
Floppy A : 3.5" 1.44 MB
Floppy B : 5.25" Mitsumi 1.2 MB
Sound Card : PCI Sound Blaster Live! 5.0 (Because I couldn't get the PCI Yamaha DX card working in DOS)
OS : Windows 98 SE

Do non PC compatibles count? If so...

And the computer I hate / love the most... My IBM PCjr. 🤣

And to prove I have them all running and set up in one tiny room... here is a panoramic shot. 🤣

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I found this TNT2 Ultra, says it ships worldwide: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181399929422 […]
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foey wrote:

Fantastic build eFatal2ty 😀

I found this TNT2 Ultra, says it ships worldwide:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181399929422

eFatal2ty - Very nice build - looks very nice all together. Out of curiosity - what's the "box" next to the monitor on the right-hand side?

It is wireless PS/2 receiver for mouse. And that TNT2 look like shitty Manli 64Bit "do-not-want" 😁

🤣 - exactly what I thought of the TNT2 Ultra. Looks like a TNT2 Vanta with a fan! 😀

eFatal2ty wrote:

It is wireless PS/2 receiver for mouse.

Does it at least get decent range being that huge, or does it blink out if you get a few feet away? 😵

And that TNT2 look like shitty Manli 64Bit "do-not-want" 😁

It's what came up quickly; honestly I wouldn't buy anything TNT2 related these days, as most of them *are* M64s (that card is kind of a curiosity - it says TNT2 Ultra on it, but who knows). I did link some GF256s though... 😊

I'd buy a TNT2, but I would be very careful. I did buy a card listed as TNT2 and ended up with a TNT2 Pro. The seller I bought it from posted screenshots of cpu-z/gpu-z in all his listings, so it was easier to see which of his TNT2 cards had a 128-bit bus (he had only one).

Never mind, ATi RageFury PRO is quite solid card I will stay with it.

so while Im trying to fix the problems my Athlon64 build has, here is my "turn of the century" machine.

reused my Lian LI PC60
Enermax 350W PSU
GA-7ZXR socket A motherboard (with a useful ISA slot and on board ATA100 support, the board looked almost new too)
Athlon 1000 , with a Zalman CNPS6000Cu copper heatsink , the fan is odd in that its not mounted on the heatsink , but suspended above it by a metal handle of sorts (a bit hard to see in the picture)
512MB CL2 PC133 SDRAM
AGP Voodoo 5500
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
AWE64G (in the ISA slot of course)

20 GB WD hard drive (used for Windows 98SE and some system utilities
120GB WD hard drive (for Windows 2000 SP4 , along with most of the games)
Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD drive (the warranty sticker is dated September 99)
Sony Floppy drive

excuse the poor image quality

after I took this picture, I did some additional cable management with cable ties , especially at the top, that mass of cables is out of the way

because I was cruel , I decided to run Max Payne on this thing, at medium/high detail (any texture, RAM or sound options on high , geometry on medium due to the lack of T&L) , at 800X600X32

the camera gave the picture an odd blurry blue hue, but that 60fps is not half bad for the 5500

system temps are also pretty good, in the low 40s after a few hours of gameplay.

This is the computer I've been talking about in other threads. The point behind this computer is to have a higher end computer using parts from around 99/00 for games from the Win9x era. Most parts are period correct, but the case and drives are all from around 03/04. I got a new case yesterday, and today I moved all of my parts over. This case will be the permanent home of this build.

Case: Lian Li PC-6077
PSU: Chieftec HPC-360-202

Motherboard: Asus CUSL2
CPU: Pentium III 933 (Coppermine)
RAM: 512 MB PC133 (256+128+128). Kingston branded
Graphics card: Asus AGP-V6800 Deluxe (GeForce 256 DDR)
3D accelerator: Creative (CT6670) Voodoo2 12MB
Sound card: SB Live (CT4620)

HDD: Some random 80 GB IDE drive by Seagate
DVD drive: NEC ND-3520A

It currently runs Windows Me, and I'm considering dualbooting with Slackware for current software.

I love this computer, but I have had some problems with instability. I suspect it is caused by the SB Live or its drivers as Windows locked up when I installed liveware 3.0. I had a couple of bluescreens while shutting down too. The computer does boot reliably, and games run well with great sound and no stuttering. At this point the crashes and bluescreens are very rare. The only real issue left is that I get nothing but white noise when I move close to torches in Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi. There are no issues with sounds in that game when I turn off hardware acceleration in dxdiag.

This case was pretty easy to work with. Lots of room, and the removable motherboard tray is pretty convenient. This case has a lot of clips and thumb screws too, but it isn't completely tool-less. I still need my phillips screw driver nearby when I work on this computer.

I removed the top and rear mounted exhaust fans because the computer was far too loud with all of its fans installed. Right now this case only have the three (2x80mm + 1x120mm) frontal intake fans.

Lots of room for 3.5" drives as well, but so far I only need room for one. 😀

I forgot the make of the CPU cooler. It is something I originally bought for my Athlon XP 2500+ 10 years ago, but it clip fits the socket, and it is a lot quieter than the stock Pentium III heatsink and fan. It keeps the CPU cool enough.

I have a thing about filling out every single slot on motherboards, so I chose to use one double-sided DIMM and two single-sided ones for a total of 512 MB PC133 RAM.

Also in this picture is 95% of my cable management effort. A single cable tie to manage the ATX power and PSU fan cable. 😀

No ISA slots, but that doesn't really bother me with this build. I don't think I'll need ISA cards in this computer.

The fan on my GeForce256 is loud, but it was a lot noisier before I oiled its bearings. I wouldn't mind if it had a bigger and quieter cooler.

Here's the rest of my cable management. I just stuffed the remaining cables in a spare 5.25" bay.

This computer is pretty big when compared to my current mATX computer. It is also a lot lighter thanks to being made out of aluminium (the case for my current computer is made out of steel).

The cover for the front I/O ports is gone. I don't know where it is.

I have no floppy drive in this build yet, but I will install a permanent one when I have a bay adaptor and aluminium faceplate. I might use an LS120 drive instead of a floppy drive. I hear they can read floppies, and it would be nice to have something other than a flash drive for moving files between my main desktop and 99/00 build.

I would also like a matching Voodoo2 12MB for SLI.

A high end case from around 99/00 would be nice too, but I'm not going to bother with importing one now that I have this new case.

Wallpaper from digital blasphemy ofc. 😀

Hey everybody. First post here on Vogons after deactivating eternal lurker mode. Thought I'd share one of my many vintage laptops, and my main DOS gaming rig, my Toshiba Satellite Pro T2150CDT:

Specs:
CPU: Intel 486 DX4-75
RAM: 16 MB
Video: C&T 65545, 1 MB (VESA)
Sound: ESS AudioDrive 688 with genuine OPL3 (the hardware manual I have for this mentions that this is SB Pro compatible)
520MB IBM HDD
and a 2X internal CD-ROM drive.

Currently running Windows 95, but I eventually plan on putting Windows 3.1/DOS 6.2 on this once I get an external floppy drive. Also, this has some very noticeable cosmetic blemishes, namely some cracks near the hinges which explains the tape. No amount of cracks are going to stop this thing from keeping on ticking, though. Games-wise, I can play pretty much everything up to Duke Nukem 3D (in 320x200) on this. It's also great for older DOS games since it has options in the BIOS to slow down the CPU speed and turn off the internal cache. I'd also kinda like to get the main Ni-MH battery rebuilt at some point, so I can have DOS gaming fun on the go. 😀

Sutekh94 wrote:

Hey everybody. First post here on Vogons after deactivating eternal lurker mode. Thought I'd share one of my many vintage lapt […]
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Hey everybody. First post here on Vogons after deactivating eternal lurker mode. Thought I'd share one of my many vintage laptops, and my main DOS gaming rig, my Toshiba Satellite Pro T2150CDT:

Specs:
CPU: Intel 486 DX4-75
RAM: 16 MB
Video: C&T 65545, 1 MB (VESA)
Sound: ESS AudioDrive 688 with genuine OPL3 (the hardware manual I have for this mentions that this is SB Pro compatible)
520MB IBM HDD
and a 2X internal CD-ROM drive.

Currently running Windows 95, but I eventually plan on putting Windows 3.1/DOS 6.2 on this once I get an external floppy drive. Also, this has some very noticeable cosmetic blemishes, namely some cracks near the hinges which explains the tape. No amount of cracks are going to stop this thing from keeping on ticking, though. Games-wise, I can play pretty much everything up to Duke Nukem 3D (in 320x200) on this. It's also great for older DOS games since it has options in the BIOS to slow down the CPU speed and turn off the internal cache. I'd also kinda like to get the main Ni-MH battery rebuilt at some point, so I can have DOS gaming fun on the go. 😀

That sure is old!

In fact,it makes me wonder how you've got that wallpaper in there,seeing there's no internet on it whatsoever.

PcBytes wrote:

That sure is old!

In fact,it makes me wonder how you've got that wallpaper in there,seeing there's no internet on it whatsoever.

Burned a CD on another system??

I used my PCMCIA CF adapter with a 2GB CF card to get that wallpaper on there. I don't think the internal CD drive can read burned CDs, and, like I mentioned earlier, I don't have an external floppy drive for this laptop (yet), so my trusty CF adapter is really my only option to transfer stuff to and from this system right now.

This abomination is my 3DO Blaster system. (Shown here running Starblade)

1 x Cooler Master Lab chassis
1 x Creative Labs 3DO Blaster
1 x Creative Labs Sound Blaster
1 x Creative Labs CDROM CR-563-b
1 x SuperMicro P6SBA Motherboard
1 x 256Mb RAM
1 x 500Gb HDD cut into teeny-weeny little partitions
1 x Floppy Disk Drive
1 x Pentium III 450Mhz CPU
1 x ATI Mach64 (1Mb) which QEMM has just beaten up
Windows 3.11 / DOS 6.22