The old computers thread

Zare

Zare

Instead of going off topic in some thread when the good old days are mentioned, let's have a place to bounce stuff here :)

Do you keep some old computers alive, work on them occasionally or even try to keep them up and running through daily routine?

Some consider old computer to be PDP-7, some consider a 64-bit laptop. Let's keep the thread inclusive ;)

I myself am a PC guy, started with an XT which I still have in perfect working condition (40th birthday near), and from there moved on to 486/Pentium so these are my primary 'concerns' about this retro topic. I have a stash of hardware that corresponds to those eras, and also keep a 14" and 17" CRT monitor nearby (would like to acquire a 15" one, 19" I don't have space for). I also sometimes run the 17 inch Syncmaster on the main rig to play some emulator games or just for the fun of it;

Code: 
        crt)
                xrandr --output DP-0 --off
                xrandr --output DP-3 --off
                xrandr --newmode "95Hz"   63.75  800 848 928 1056  600 603 607 637 -hsync +vsync
                xrandr --addmode HDMI-0 "95Hz"
                exec /usr/local/bin/wmaker
                ;;
 
I miss my first computer!! But live in my heart

-pc100 motherboard
-amd k6 micro
-16mb of ram
-dont remember the storage but 80gb more or less
-17crt monitor(still have it and works)

Remember start in the "computer" world with this, upgrade the amdK6 to amdK6-2 was the ultimate challenge..feels like a rocket

And tell my dad(he dont know anything about computers)
"I go to buy some ram to my pc..it will run faster"
 
Hey wolffnx, great that you still have the CRT it is the most important item and hardest to acquire now. Does it still have good picture?

Btw. You probably made a typo, extra zero - 80 GB is hdd from the future for that machine ;)
 
Yes,the monitor still works fine,is amazing

🤣 I say it,my memory is not so good,too many lost sectors in "my main" hard drive
If I remember well was a 80GB IDE of course
Maybe 40GB..that files in my brain was lost
 
Yeah I think they're lost, 40/80 GB drives are from 21st century, they went along Pentium 4 machines :D

I have the 40 GB HDD I had back then still, Maxtor but still looking like Quantum they bought at that point. But to be fair I don't cry over old moving drives, they were always problematic and the bottleneck of the computer, think about how much time you spent just looking at blinking leds listening to the drive noises waiting for OS or something bigger to load :)

One of the attractive things now is to remove the original moving drives from old PCs and put solid state storage in. CF cards can run on any PC, and the fast big ones are very performant even for P4, and up from there is SATA, for SSDs.
 
IBM 5155, PS/2 386, Philips NMS 8280 MSX. Lots of 8-bit consoles. Still have to make a Macintosh SE and Amstrad Joyce work with their broken SCSI disk and 3" floppy replaced with flash storage.
 
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