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First post, by candle_86

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Some friends from my church are bringing me old pre 2000's computers and parts. Not sure what I'm getting but I'm quite excited. Hoping for some cool stuff.

Last edited by candle_86 on 2016-06-13, 17:05. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 21, by Errius

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Cool. You can never have too many PCI modems.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 2 of 21, by stamasd

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Errius wrote:

Cool. You can never have too many PCI modems.

Yup. The most useful item in the galaxy, probably. Those Lucent chipsets really kick ass at dialing.

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Reply 3 of 21, by Kahenraz

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Errius wrote:

Cool. You can never have too many PCI modems.

Lol? 🤣

Be sure to check all of the coin batteries for leakage.

Reply 4 of 21, by BloodyCactus

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winmodems ftw! ones with no linux drivers, even better.

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Reply 5 of 21, by leileilol

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In the end be sure to also count how many SBPCI128's and S3Trio64/ViRGE's you've ended up with. 😁

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Reply 6 of 21, by Kahenraz

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leileilol wrote:

In the end be sure to also count how many SBPCI128's and S3Trio64/ViRGE's you've ended up with. 😁

Don't forget the Ensoniqs!

Reply 8 of 21, by Ozzuneoj

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This thread is great. 😁

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 9 of 21, by Artex

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Congrats! Can't wait to hear what surprises await!

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Reply 10 of 21, by firage

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Sounds pretty promising. Could be a nice looking case in there, maybe a whole system with decent core components for some particular period. Or a weird mini-tower form-factor thing with proprietary components.

My big-red-switch 486

Reply 11 of 21, by Kahenraz

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firage wrote:

.. with proprietary components.

LOTS of proprietary components, you mean.

Every component is going to be proprietary CONFIRMED!

Reply 12 of 21, by nforce4max

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Good luck and hope you get a few nice goodies, I am sure some here have drowned on isa modems before 😈

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Reply 13 of 21, by FaSMaN

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My last find was literally that, a friend phoned me up that he has some stuff, when I got there it was a Commodor Pet, two Spectravision computers a Apple IIe and a box filled with 386 and 486 motherboards another with isa cards...

So it might be a good find

Reply 14 of 21, by candle_86

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yea wrong on the age of the systems, all early 2000's emachines, I didn't take them

Reply 15 of 21, by Tetrium

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candle_86 wrote:

yea wrong on the age of the systems, all early 2000's emachines, I didn't take them

What? Why not? Nothing wrong with a box of spare MX's, s478 Celerons and OEM SB Lives 😁

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Reply 16 of 21, by feipoa

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Are PCI winmodems the most useless vintage hardware out there? ISA winmodems? Sounds like a good topic for a new thread 😀
Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

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Reply 17 of 21, by brassicGamer

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candle_86 wrote:

yea wrong on the age of the systems, all early 2000's emachines, I didn't take them

It's a bit snobbish but I do tend to turn my nose up at anything post-Pentium. Most disappointing recent gets were a Dell Dimension 2400 (P4 Celeron) and a Packard Bell iMedia (PIII Celeron). But I always go through these things with a fine toothcomb as there is often a silver lining e.g. the Dell came with a 17" CRT and the motherboard in the PB supports Tualatins! You can never have enough hard disks.

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Reply 18 of 21, by candle_86

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its not snobbish, these are emachines with pcchips boards and Celeron cpu's. No use for it. Heck they all had 128mb of PC1600 DDR 🤣

Reply 19 of 21, by nforce4max

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One thing that I have learned is not to be rude when people take the time to offer up old or broken machines as gifts even if the hardware is useless. I often strip such machines and keep what I can until they are scarce like 486 and socket5/7 machines are now. If the case is in good shape I will keep the whole machine and put it somewhere out of the way.

Most of the retro machines posted here was at one time regarded as throw away junk and look at them know, p4/athlon xp era will have its chance of becoming something of significant interest someday.

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