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.
Cool. You can never have too many PCI modems.
Is this too much voodoo?
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.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:Cool. You can never have too many PCI modems.
Lol? 🤣
Be sure to check all of the coin batteries for leakage.
winmodems ftw! ones with no linux drivers, even better.
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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. 😁
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!
What? No mention of those M64's and loads of PC-66 32MB DIMMs and 8MB SIMMs which come with 2x2 of those very large memory chips per side?
This thread is great. 😁
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
Congrats! Can't wait to hear what surprises await!
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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.
wrote:.. with proprietary components.
LOTS of proprietary components, you mean.
Every component is going to be proprietary CONFIRMED!
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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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
yea wrong on the age of the systems, all early 2000's emachines, I didn't take them
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 😁
Are PCI winmodems the most useless vintage hardware out there? ISA winmodems? Sounds like a good topic for a new thread 😀
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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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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 🤣
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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