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First post, by ncmark

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I thought this might make an interesting discussion. List some of the hardware you have junked or retired?

My list is:

386 board - working but junked
486 board - working but junked (although that I regret)
2 tape drives - working but junked (good riddance)
2 Conner 250 Mb drives - working but junked

Conner CFS1275 - died
Maxtor 4-gig drive - died
Creative 4X and 8X CD-ROM rives - died
Memorex 32X CD-ROM drive - died
HP 2X CD writer - died after many many years of use

Epox MVP3G5 super 7 board - retired (sitting in box, likely will never be used again)
Tyan Super 7 board - retired (sitting in box, will likely never be used again)

Reply 1 of 10, by m1919

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Intel P4 Board, Mini-ATX, Socket 478 - Condition unknown, Junked
Asus P4 Board, ATX, Socket 478 - Working, Junked
18GB Hitachi 10K SCSI - Failed, Retired
40GB Maxtor IDE - Failed, Junked

Gigabyte X48-DS4, Working, Sold
Core 2 Quad Q9450, Working, Sold
2x 2GB Corsair Dominator, Working, Sold
ATI 4870X2, Working, Retired
ATI 4870X2, Working, Fan failure, Retired

EVGA 680i SLI Board, Working, Stored.

486-DX2 66mhz, Condition unknown, Stored
Pentium MMX 200mhz, Condition unknown, Stored
Slot-1 P2 300mhz, Working, Stored
Slot-1 P2 350mhz, Working, Stored
2x Slot-1 P3 600mhz, Working, Stored
2x Slot-2 P3 Xeon 700mhz, Working, Stored (For the Asus XG-DLS)
2x Slot-2 P3 Xeon 1Ghz, Working, Stored (Looking for a Supermicro S2DME or S2DM3)

Intel Slot-1 Board, Working, Stored
Tyan S1832D Dual Slot-1 Board, Working, Stored
Asus XG-DLS Dual Slot-2 Board, Working, Stored (Requires CPU brackets which I have yet to build)
MSI K8T-Master2FAR Dual Socket 940 Board, Working, Stored
Supermicro Dual Socket-F Board, Working, Stored

Matrox G200, Working, Stored
Winfast A350, Damaged, Stored (Surface mounted cap needs to be re-soldered)
Nvidia FX5200, Working, Stored
STB 3Dfx Voodoo2, Condition unknown, Stored

There's a ton more stuff I have lying around that I can't remember off the top of my head right now.

Last edited by m1919 on 2012-08-02, 21:43. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 3 of 10, by jmrydholm

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IOmega Zip100 drive
Sound Blaster 16, Vibra ISA version (I forget the actual model number)
NVidia GeForce 3 Ti500
NVidia 5200 FX AGP- I use this as a spare business graphics card in times of ruin or turmoil
numerous floppy disk drives
52x PATA Samsung CD-R/RW burner

Edit: most of this stuff is "retired" but still working, sitting in my closet in anti-static bags, awaiting Ragnarok/Judgement Day/Duke Nukem Forever 2.

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Reply 4 of 10, by nforce4max

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I got too much stuff to bother making a list but there is a lot of modern and vintage hardware in there. Even a evga 8800gtx and two gtx280 would easily make the list.

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 5 of 10, by RacoonRider

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386-DX board - DOA, hanged on a wall
Chaintech 486SPM board - DOA, hidden in the cupboard
Radeon 8500 - working, gifted to a friend.
Gigabyte 8PE800 with 1700Mhz Celeron, 1024Mb RAM and Radeon 9600XT - sold to a boy in the neighborhood, still works
Radeon x1800GTO - worked a lot, now half-dead, hidden in the cupboard

Reply 6 of 10, by MaxWar

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Only thing i ever junked was a working 386 computer years ago, before i started collecting retro computers. Now i bitterly regret it.

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Reply 7 of 10, by nforce4max

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MaxWar wrote:

Only thing i ever junked was a working 386 computer years ago, before i started collecting retro computers. Now i bitterly regret it.

I am glad that I am bit of a hoarder although there isn't enough out there to be a problem collecting wise. But when someone comes along and you don't like it or really want it its best to take it and put it somewhere out of the way. Never know what all there might be or the need for something down the road.

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Reply 9 of 10, by kool kitty89

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Not exclusively "mine", but we still have a ton of our old hardware. My dad throws very little away unless it's totally burned out (we're currently hanging onto a couple questionable Nforce 2 Athlon XP and Dual athon XP boards for that reason). We've still got a large number of our old sound cards, video cards, mobos, cases, monitors, etc going back into the 80s, though mostly stuff from the mid 90s onward. I'm not sure what happened to the old 486 and 386 boards, they may be gone or in storage (he may have traded/sold them back in the 90s or they may have died and gotten recycled), but a fair bit of Socket 7 stuff (a bunch of CPUs and one working FIC 503A system),
Socket 370 boards and CPUs,
several slot 1 CPUs and 1 slot 1 (i820) system,
a bunch of AGP video cards, a couple PCI video cards (Rage Pro, Stealth 3D 2000s, maybe others),
at least 1 ATi 16-bit ISA SVGA card,
a bunch of PCI sound cards and a Pro Audio Spectrum,
and XT clone keyboard and a couple AT keyboards (the nicer of which I gave to Apolloboy for his P200 system . . . ironically an ATX board using an adapter in this case 😉)
An early 90s 14" VGA monitor, a 19" workstation VGA monitor, 20" CRT Mac workstation monitor from the early 2000s (using standard VGA connector), a 17" CRT VGA monitor from late 90s or early 2000s, and a few GEM LCD monitors. (VGA only, 1024x768 native, pretty good picture for their age -and analog to digital nature, and one of those is still in use on our main shared family PC)

We has even more a couple years ago, but we've gradually gotten rid of some of the more definitively non-usable things, like (very) old sever components and some proprietary hardware originally from work. (some stuff from integrated solutions, among other things -we still have some Sun and SGI workstation keyboards) We even had the old 14" grayscale VGA monitor from my original PC up until a few years ago. (that machine was a bit of a contradiction . . . a mix of used and new parts in a used baby AT case with fast 486 with decent RAM, sound and video hardware, CD drive, but a somewhat beaten-up used grayscale monitor until around 1995 -I'd played several multimedia educational games up to that point in B&W . . . including 3D Dinosaur Adventure, where the red/cyan 3D glasses were rendered useless until we upgraded to a color monitor)

Reply 10 of 10, by Pippy P. Poopypants

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Junked: (Actually, I regret junking most of this stuff after I got access to a soldering station)

ABIT KR7A-133 motherboard
ABIT KR7A-RAID motherboard
Intel TC430HX motherboard + integrated S3 ViRGE w/ 2 MB (x2)
Intel AN430TX motherboard + integrated ATI 3D Rage II+DVD w/ 2 MB
Unknown 486 VLB motherboard (SiS chipset)
Intel 486SL/33 CPU
Intel 486DX/66 CPU
Intel Pentium 75 MHz CPU
Intel Pentium 90 MHz CPU
Intel Pentium 166 MHz MMX CPU (Socket 7)
Intel Pentium Pro 180 MHz CPU (Socket 8)
Diamond Speedstar A55 8 MB AGP graphics card (S3 Trio3D/2X)
Diamond Viper II 32 MB graphics card (Worst POS ever)
Number Nine GXE64 Pro 2 MB PCI graphics card (S3 Vision 964)
Realtek 512 KB VLB SVGA graphics card
Toshiba T4600C laptop (bad screen)
Toshiba T4900CT laptop (bad screen + bad floppy drive)
Dell D1028L 17" CRT
Dell V15X 15" CRT (can't turn on)
Philips 17BCM28 17" CRT
HP external CD-ROM drive (connected through either a parallel or SCSI port, can't remember off the top of my head)
Some unknown ISA sound card
Okidata laser printer
Panasonic KX1180 dot matrix printer
Some old Panasonic laser printer

Retired: (Most of this stuff works unless stated otherwise... a lot of it just goes into my retro machine hobby)

ABIT VH6 motherboard (doesn't POST; caps need replacing)
ASUS A7N8X-VM/400 motherboard (nForce2 IGP)
ASUS P2B-VE motherboard (440ZX + integrated ATI Rage Pro Turbo w/ 8 MB)
ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard (i865G)
Biostar K8M800-M7A motherboard (VIA K8M800)
EPoX 8K7A motherboard (AGP slot not working; some components need replacing)
Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard (440BX)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU (Thoroughbred; Socket A)
AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+ CPU (Socket 754)
Intel Celeron 400 MHz CPU (Slot 1)
Intel Celeron 700 MHz CPU (Socket 370)
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E HT CPU (Socket 478)
ASUS V7100 Deluxe 32 MB graphics card (GeForce2 MX + VIVO + analog TV tuner)
Diamond Stealth II G460 8 MB graphics card (i740)
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 32 MB graphics card (TNT2 Ultra)
Gainward GeForce2 Ti 64 MB AGP graphics card
Gainward GeForce3 64 MB AGP graphics card
Leadtek WinFast A170 64 MB graphics card (GeForce4 MX 440; displays only black screen in Windows with drivers installed)
Leadtek WinFast A250 LE TD 64 MB graphics card (GeForce4 Ti 4200; bad memory chips perhaps - displays screen garbage)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB AGP graphics card
XFX GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB AGP graphics card
Diamond SupraMax 56i 56 Kbps PCI winmodem (doesn't seem like Win7 has any drivers for this thing, bummer)
Sierra PnP 28800 28.8 Kbps ISA modem
Various floppy drives and Toshiba CD-ROM drives
Various PCMCIA card readers + ISA adapter cards

Stuff I just keep as spares:

Diamond Stealth II S220 4 MB PCI graphics card (Rendition V2100) - just in case of bad graphics card BIOS flashes
Sapphire Radeon 9550 256 MB AGP graphics card
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256 MB AGP graphics card
Sparkle GeForce 6600 256 MB PCI-E x16 graphics card
MSI MegaBook M677 laptop
Foxconn E-BOT SFF PC (Socket 478; doesn't have CPU or DC power brick) - was given to me for free
Unknown 18" LCD monitor (1280x1024 native res, apparently doesn't have sync-on-green since it doesn't work correctly with my SGI O2 workstation)
Sony Watchman portable color LCD TV (doesn't really have any use anymore in this digital world, but I keep it for sentimental value)

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