TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[silentbogo]

Old 33600 fax modem. How many actually remember this?

Jeez, I've actually used 14.4K USRobotics for years. The thing was a present from a friend. It was impossible to find proper drivers for it, so I had to use generic driver under Win98(which didn't completely work) and do ATDPxxxxxxxxxx every time, because it won't dial automatically.

 

[stinger608]

Pentium 4 Prescott 3GHz s478 on a old HP office PC, the motherboard needs to have 5 caps replaced. Of course those failed caps are from C(r)apxon..

Awesome that it worked after changing the caps!
I have added you to the original post bro.


@Apocalypsee: Some awesome ole hardware you found in your dad's shop!

 

[stinger608]

I still have a boxfull of old hardware somewhere around. Everything from x486 and up. The best item in my collection was PowerNote laptop(may the force be with it...) that could only run win98. It runs on P-II 133MHz, has 32MB RAM and 1GB HDD.
My current "old" machine, so to say, is pretty close to my first PC I've built in college:
CPU: AMD Sempron 2500+
MoBo: ECS N2U400
RAM: 512MB DDR400
HDD: 80GB ATA133
VGA: ATI Radeon 9600 (128MB VRAM)

ATM it runs Fedora 20.1, but I have bigger plans for it.
To be honest, as a kid I've always wanted to have a ZX Spectrum.
I had a neighbor who was developing software for this platform, since it was the most popular in Soviet Union. He had a 48k model with 128k homebrew modification, external 5,25" floppy drive and, of course, tape storage running off "Vesna" stereo system(something like a soviet boombox)
Cool stuff. I might buy me one soon.

Shoot some pictures and post them up man!!!

 

[GreiverBlade]

Awesome that it worked after changing the caps!
I have added you to the original post bro.


@Apocalypsee: Some awesome ole hardware you found in your dad's shop!

Shoot some pictures and post them up man!!!

hey boss ... you double posted ... tsk tsk

 

[MaxiPro800]

Well,good news and bad news:

Good:I found a VIA based S478 motherboard,a MSI P4MAM-V
Bad:It doesn't work.(board won't turn on by power button,green and black must be shorted on ATX plug and won't post)

So,here's the specs at this moment:
CPU:Celeron D 2.66GHz
MB:MSI P4MAM-V v2(P4M266A chipset,S3 ProSavage onboard I think)
RAM:2x256 MB DDR400 (Sycron/Hynix)
Video card:ATI Radeon 7000 for AGP,S3 Trio 64 for PCI
Network:Realtek 8139D
HDD:Seagate ST310211A
DVD:TSSTCorp SH-S182D (ain't this a Samsung or LG drive?)
There's also a broken LTN-486S CD-ROM,which is just for show.
Cooler on this system is the stock Intel cooler.

I also have an working board(Gigabyte GA-6WMMC7-E1,Socket 370) but which is OEM,thus useless.

 

[Keullo-e]

Awesome that it worked after changing the caps!
I have added you to the original post bro.

Yeah, that computer runs now like brand new, too bad that motherboard is purely meant for office use, it doesn't even have an AGP slot well, at least a working rig for emergency use

 

[GreiverBlade]

LESS CHATTER MOAR PICZ!!!!!!

 

[broken pixel]

I bet i still have my 800 baud modem I used for my C-64 somewhere? When the internet was all text.

 

[MaxiPro800]

When I can get my P4i45D+to work,I'll post a BIOS screen and a shot of the desktop.This board is funny because while it uses 845D chipset (we all naturally know that a normal 845 board,such as a P4B533 won't work with Prescott CPUs)it can work with Prescott CPUs.

The problem with my board is that it doesn't like my RAM sticks.2 of them make the board produce 3 beeps (AMIBIOS,3 beeps means no RAM detected),1 makes the board turn on a few secs,turn off and on again and the last stick makes the board reboot and doesn't POST.2 sticks are DDR400 and 2 are DDR266.Any help?

 

[GreiverBlade]

you know a pics is ... this:


oh wait not nostalgic ... but you get the idea NOW TO YOUR CAMERA! (phone or true camera!)

 

[typicalintrovert]

My Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.6. Bought it in 2009 and will never get rid of it. Core 2 Duo E7200 4.2Ghz, Core 2 Quad Q9550 4.6Ghz, with lots of punishment including 1.65v on the northbridge alone, and not once did it die, until one fateful day a power surge took its life--was during a monsoon, and i didnt have enough money at the time for a second UPS to run my secondary rig off of, so it died

 

[MaxiPro800]

you know a pics is ... this:
View attachment 54576

oh wait not nostalgic ... but you get the idea NOW TO YOUR CAMERA! (phone or true camera!)

All I have is my USB webcam and my tablet's camera.(which is as bad that even my webcam does pics better)

 

[silentbogo]

Ok. Here we go.
You've asked for some pics, and Thy giveth to you, mortals:

This is my backup workhorse. Sempron 2500+ / 512 MB RAM / Radeon 9600 / 80 GB HDD
Runs Fedora 20.1

 

[stinger608]

My Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.6. Bought it in 2009 and will never get rid of it. Core 2 Duo E7200 4.2Ghz, Core 2 Quad Q9550 4.6Ghz, with lots of punishment including 1.65v on the northbridge alone, and not once did it die, until one fateful day a power surge took its life--was during a monsoon, and i didnt have enough money at the time for a second UPS to run my secondary rig off of, so it died

Ok. Here we go.
You've asked for some pics, and Thy giveth to you, mortals:
View attachment 54579 View attachment 54580 View attachment 54582 View attachment 54583
This is my backup workhorse. Sempron 2500+ / 512 MB RAM / Radeon 9600 / 80 GB HDD
Runs Fedora 20.1

Awesome hardware guys!!! I have added both of you to the original post.

 

[silentbogo]

My Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.6. Bought it in 2009 and will never get rid of it. Core 2 Duo E7200 4.2Ghz, Core 2 Quad Q9550 4.6Ghz, with lots of punishment including 1.65v on the northbridge alone, and not once did it die, until one fateful day a power surge took its life--was during a monsoon, and i didnt have enough money at the time for a second UPS to run my secondary rig off of, so it died

I had a Warrior Motherboard too. GA-P35-DS3 got fried by lightning, but served another 5 years with dead PCI and Ethernet ports. With some parts permanently disabled it was putting out higher overclocks than back when everything worked!!!

 

[TRWOV]

My new retro rig: Scraps!

Build from hw I had lying around no longer in use and an actual scrap: I got the IC7-G at a electronics scrap yard when I went to drop a few things. The guy had it in the front table and I asked if he would sell it and agreed on $5 It actually works if you're wondering.

Specs:

- Abit IC7-G w Enzotech heatsinks applied + new northbridge HSF
- Pentium 4 3.4E Presscott
- 4GB mushkin Redline PC-5000 (DDR500)
- X-Fi XtremeMusic (I loved that card so much)
- 2x Gigabyte iRAM w/4GB each. I plan to run these in RAID 0 and install XP on them
- Sapphire HD3850 AGP. Extremely overkill, I know. I had found an HD2600XT AGP on a flea market and had decided to sell the 3850 and use the 2600XT instead but then I thought that the 3850 would make a more impressive build, if only for the size
- Scythe Ninja 2. I got it wanting to use it on my GreenTea build but it didn't fit inside the case by about 2mm
- Samsung floppy drive. You can't say it's retro if you don't get one... plus I'll need it for setting up the RAID

All this will be filling a Thermal Master case . Will start a log soon

 

[typicalintrovert]

I had a Warrior Motherboard too. GA-P35-DS3 got fried by lightning, but served another 5 years with dead PCI and Ethernet ports. With some parts permanently disabled it was putting out higher overclocks than back when everything worked!!!

Yeah they tend to do that my UD3P was able to wring 1150mhz out of mushkin redlines. and back then in the 775 days giga and mushkin were like oil and water, so 1150 was a struggle to get lol

Thats some cool as hell hardware TRWOV

 

[Norton]

My new retro rig: Scraps!

Build from hw I had lying around no longer in use and an actual scrap: I got the IC7-G at a electronics scrap yard when I went to drop a few things. The guy had it in the front table and I asked if he would sell it and agreed on $5 It actually works if you're wondering.

Specs:

- Abit IC7-G w Enzotech heatsinks applied + new northbridge HSF
- Pentium 4 3.4E Presscott
- 4GB mushkin Redline PC-5000 (DDR500)
- X-Fi XtremeMusic (I loved that card so much)
- 2x Gigabyte iRAM w/4GB each. I plan to run these in RAID 0 and install XP on them
- Sapphire HD3850 AGP. Extremely overkill, I know. I had found an HD2600XT AGP on a flea market and had decided to sell the 3850 and use the 2600XT instead but then I thought that the 3850 would make a more impressive build, if only for the size
- Scythe Ninja 2. I got it wanting to use it on my GreenTea build but it didn't fit inside the case by about 2mm
- Samsung floppy drive. You can't say it's retro if you don't get one... plus I'll need it for setting up the RAID

All this will be filling a Thermal Master case . Will start a log soon

Nice assortment!

I call those rigs SPOT (Spare Parts Over Time)

 

[TRWOV]

That's actually a nicer name.

 

[silentbogo]

Holy crap! Is that iRAM? I've always wanted to have one of those!
All thumbs up for the build. Post some benchmarks, when you're done.

I had 3850 for a while and it was a little monster. Being a first revision stock single-slot card it was OC-ing so good,
I had first place in HWBot single-card stats for like 3 months! It even outperformed my 2900XT.

 

[stinger608]

My new retro rig: Scraps!

Build from hw I had lying around no longer in use and an actual scrap: I got the IC7-G at a electronics scrap yard when I went to drop a few things. The guy had it in the front table and I asked if he would sell it and agreed on $5 It actually works if you're wondering.

Specs:

- Abit IC7-G w Enzotech heatsinks applied + new northbridge HSF
- Pentium 4 3.4E Presscott
- 4GB mushkin Redline PC-5000 (DDR500)
- X-Fi XtremeMusic (I loved that card so much)
- 2x Gigabyte iRAM w/4GB each. I plan to run these in RAID 0 and install XP on them
- Sapphire HD3850 AGP. Extremely overkill, I know. I had found an HD2600XT AGP on a flea market and had decided to sell the 3850 and use the 2600XT instead but then I thought that the 3850 would make a more impressive build, if only for the size
- Scythe Ninja 2. I got it wanting to use it on my GreenTea build but it didn't fit inside the case by about 2mm
- Samsung floppy drive. You can't say it's retro if you don't get one... plus I'll need it for setting up the RAID

All this will be filling a Thermal Master case . Will start a log soon

Wow!!!!!!! That is sooooooo damn awesome bro!!!

I am very interested to see how them Gigabyte iRams work. Will be interesting to see some speed results.

 

[TRWOV]

build done, just a few touches left.

Now to install the OS

 

[GreiverBlade]

i got a good news from DHL, for my future Riowork Rhapsody HDAMA + the 2 Opteron 270, i will not have the custom taxes normally, because the total price is under 62,50chf (damn right 61,45chf is under 62,50chf) delivery under 7days after payment i need to wait around 2 days for the paypal actualization the auction end in 3 days ... i have to decide fast, but whatever i choose at max i should recieve the board around next wednesday or end of the next week... indeed that's a good new

to stay on the pics (on topics ahahahah ) i didn't know Tyan did graphic card ... the quality build seems rather good (obviously since Tyan Server board are among the best if not the best) ladies and gents: the Tyan Tachyon G9000 Pro


i don't own it unfortunately ... too expensive even for a collection ... but i wanted to share this

 

[MaxiPro800]

i got a good news from DHL, for my future Riowork Rhapsody HDAMA + the 2 Opteron 270, i will not have the custom taxes normally, because the total price is under 62,50chf (damn right 61,45chf is under 62,50chf) delivery under 7days after payment i need to wait around 2 days for the paypal actualization the auction end in 3 days ... i have to decide fast, but whatever i choose at max i should recieve the board around next wednesday or end of the next week... indeed that's a good new

to stay on the pics (on topics ahahahah ) i didn't know Tyan did graphic card ... the quality build seems rather good (obviously since Tyan Server board are among the best if not the best) ladies and gents: the Tyan Tachyon G9000 Pro
View attachment 54587 View attachment 54589 View attachment 54588 View attachment 54590

i don't own it unfortunately ... too expensive even for a collection ... but i wanted to share this

Does Tyan still make video cards and/or motherboards?

 

[Random Murderer]

Does Tyan still make video cards and/or motherboards?

Not sure about video cards, but they're still a huge player in the server board industry.