Ones I can hook up and boot up:

• 286/16, 1MB, ET4000 VGA and Sound Blaster 2.0 with C/MS
• 386DX/40, 8MB, Cirrus Logic VGA, Sound Blaster Pro 2
• 386SX/20, 4MB Trident VGA, Pro AudioSpectrum 16
• 486DX/100, 32MB, ET6000 PCI, Sound Blaster 16 (CT1740) & Gravis UltraSound Classic
• Pentium II/350, 256MB, TNT2, Sound Blaster Live
• Pentium 4.... 🤔 can't remember the details of this one... 😆

The only I haven't build yet is my Pentium MMX/233 (box on the right, first image).

comp_ed82 wrote on 2021-04-01, 08:17:

Celeron D2500 (really a souped up Atom) running Proxmox and an X environment locally; kind of a backup Linux workstation

Just out of curiosity: by the X environment, do you mean that you've installed Xorg on the host machine and forward X11 apps (DEs?) from your VMs onto the host's X11-Server?

If that is your setup, how has your experience with it been? Possibly a clever alternative to GPU passthrough.

Known (ordered by age):
- Dell OptiPlex GX1 SFF (350MHz Pentium II, 1999)
- PowerBook G3 (333MHz 750L, 1999)
- Power Mac G4 (450MHz 7400, 2000)
- Power Mac G4 (2x800MHz 7450, 2001)
- iBook G3 (900MHz 750FX, 2003)
- SHARP Mebius Muramasa PC-MM2-5NE (1GHz Efficeon TM8600, 2004)
- iMac G5 (1.67GHz 970FX, 2004)
- iBook G4 (1.42GHz 7447a, 2005)
- PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz 7447a, 2005)
- PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz 7447a, DDR2, 2005)
- Acer Aspire E17 (2.67GHz Pentium N3540, 2014)
- 6600K hand-me-down (800MHz x8-locked i5-6600K, 2016?)
Unconfirmed to work, but did last time I checked:
- Acer Aspire One (1.6GHz Atom N270, 2008?)
- HP Pavilion p7-1155 (3.1GHz i5-2400, 2011)
Power issues:
- Dell Inspiron 2200 (1.6GHz Pentium M, 2005) -- battery dead and barrel jack coming loose from the PCB, works otherwise
- MacBook2,1 (2.16GHz C2D T7400, 2007) -- with new RAM, it can boot up to life when discharged for a while and then plugged back into the wall, but after a while once it's been on the wall power for a bit it shuts off; seems to work just fine though otherwise

I feel the need to downsize every time I list out my computers... at least two of the three 7447as.

Some would say too frickin' many....🤣...

Vintage Desktops
1985 Tandy 1000A - 640K, 100MB HDD, V20, 8087, MS-DOS 6.22, NEC Multisync II, Deluxe Mouse, Orig. Keyboard
1989 GEM 286/12 - 4MB, 320MB HDD, 286/287 12MHz, MS-DOS 6.22, CRT Monitor, AT Keyboard, Dove Bar Mouse
1991 Compaq Deskpro 386s/20 - 10MB, 250MB HDD, IBM BLue Lightning RevTo486 BLX3, MS-DOS 6.22, CRT, Compaq Keyboard and Mouse (PS/2)
1995 Creeping Net 486 - 64MB RAM, multiple HDD, 486 DX4-100, DOS/Win31/95/98SE/FreeDOS, CRT 17", AT Keyboard, Dove Bar Mouse
1995 Moondog 486 - 32MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 486 DX4-100, WIndows 95, LCD 4:3, AT Keyboard, Dove Bar Mouse

Vintage Laptops
1993 BSi NanTan/Kapok FMA3500 - 8MB RAM, 486DX/33, 244MB HDD, MS-DOS 6.22/Win31, rare built in trackball - 9.4" FSTN LCD Color 640p
1994 NEC Versa 40EC - 20MB RAM, 486SL DX2-40, 60GB HDD, MS-DOS 7.01/Win311FW - 9.4" Active Matrix Color 640p
1994 NEC Versa M/75 - 40MB RAM, 486DX4-75, 80GB HDD, Windows 95/Win311FW/DOS 7.01 - 9.4" Active Matrix Color 800p w/Touch - CS4231KQ WSS
1994 DFI Mediabook 9200M - 4MB RAM, 486DX2-66, 244MB HDD, DOS 6.22/Win31 - 9.4" STN B&W Monochrome LCD 640p - ESS488
1995 NEC Versa V/50 - 20MB RAM, 486SL-DX2-50, 60GB, FreeDOS 2.1 - 9.4" Active Matrix Color 640p
1995 NEC Versa P/75 - 40MB RAM, Pentium 75, 80GB HDD, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 - 9.4" Active Matrix Color 800p - ESS688
1995 NanTan Notebook 9200D - 486 Dx2-66, 80GB HDD, FreeDOS 2.1, 9.4" DSTN Color LCD 640p - ESS488

Modern Desktops
2012 "Beige Beast" - Core 2 Duo P8800 3.0GHz, 6GB DDR2, 256GB SSD, 3TB HDD, Intel Graphics 4000, GB LAN - Linux Mint
2014 Dell OptiPLex 7010 - Core i5 2.6Ghz, 16GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, Intel Graphics, GB LAN - Windows 10 64-bit Pro
2014 Dell Precision T3500 - Xeon 2.? GHz, 16GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, 3TB HDD, ATI Graphics, GB Lan X2 - Linux Mint
2014 Dell PowerEdge D610 - Xeon x2, 384GB RAM, 4TB SAN/RAID, Intel Graphics - Server *nix I can't rembmer the name of
2015 Apple 21.5" iMac - Core i5 1.6GHz, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, On-Board Graphics WiFi - Mac OS X Monterey w/ Parallels for Windows 11

Modern Laptops
2012 Lenovo Thinkpad T61 - 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo Centrino, 4GB DDR2, 512GB SSD, Intel/NVIDIA Graphics - Windows 7 64-bit Pro/Linux Mint
2014 Dell Latitue E6520 - 2.6GHz Core i7, 8GB DDR2, 256GB SSD, Intel/NVIDIA Graphics - Windows 10 64-bit
2014 Dell Latitude E6230 - 2.6GHz Core i5, 8GB DDR2, 256GB SSD, Intel Graphics - Linux Mint
2015 HP G6 - 1.6GHz Core i3, 8GB DDR2, 128GB SSD, ATI Graphics - Windows 10 64-bit (wifes)

On the vintage side, I'm trying to decide which 486 I like better, the Moondog has the M912 Motherboard with a REAL Cache and the cool Windows BIOS, but my Creeping Net 486 is still the reigning champion even though it's a tad slower, but it's a lot more stable, probably due to having a quality motherboard. I like the Compaq, but it overlaps the GEM in performance.

In the Laptops, my top two are the NanTan 9200M and the Versa M/75. If the Versa M/75 had FM, that would be my #1 vintage laptop.

Right now I'm using the iMac a lot. Windows infuriates me and I tend to go diving off on too many tech-distractions on Linux (ie making stuff run on Linux from other platforms), so Mac keeps me more focused on things like my music and whatnot. Right now I'm going to try out Windows 11 with it on Parallels. I tried getting Target Display to work tonight, looks like that's not happening with this model with this OSX version.

For the laptops, I'm torn between my Lenovo and my 6230 - the Lenovo is a frickin cricket bat, it just keeps on running, no matter how hard I am on it, by rights it should be burning up the CPU and have 10 minutes of battery life but it just chugs along for 2 hours on a charge with the original battery somehow. It looks like hell, but it runs great. That's quality. But the 6230 has more bells and whistles, looks better, and I have a working dock for it as of tonight (picked up an E-series dock at one of the other places I work at, they were dumping a TON of equipment).

What works:

Windows 10: Ryzen 7, 32gb, GTX560ti
Windows 98: Athlon 2000XP, Voodoo5, CX2,MX300, Santa Cruz, Yamaha 724
Debian: crappy i5, 16gb, some crappy graphics card

Daily driver: Ipad Pro 11" + non-apple keyboard
Phone: Ulefone Armor 3