TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 3, 2015

3min 25 sec video on a computer from the 40's,

Edsac, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, ran its first programs in May 1949 and through its working life aided many scientists by analysing data generated by many different experiments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31100014

stinger608 · Feb 4, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
3min 25 sec video on a computer from the 40's,

Edsac, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, ran its first programs in May 1949 and through its working life aided many scientists by analysing data generated by many different experiments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31100014

Talk about nostalgia!!! :eek:

debs3759 · Feb 4, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
3min 25 sec video on a computer from the 40's,

Edsac, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, ran its first programs in May 1949 and through its working life aided many scientists by analysing data generated by many different experiments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31100014

The museum is only about 20 miles from me. I really must go their some time, and see if they are looking for volunteers with any of their technical projects

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 4, 2015

Wahey....

Finally my upgrade has arrived.

This is the only phone in our house that doesnt need electricity to work. We keep it for practical reasons and because it is such a gorgeous colour !!

The button in the middle would have to be pressed if you had a party line. On this one there is a blank, normally they had a clear button. That would give you the line.

The dial made a hell of a noise when you dialled, so, when we were kids we used to quickly tap the little black buttons oi the top to correspond with the number to dial.

e.g. one tap would effectively dial 1, tapping 10 times would dial 0.
.

So we could call our mates with impunity, my parents had no idea that we did this.

:clap:

PHONE HACK :clap:

from the 70's :clap:

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peche · Feb 4, 2015

Priceless Treasure my friend!

Misaki · Feb 4, 2015

Today my friend's HD5770 died. So I borrowed him my HD4850.

Funny fact:

In 2010 me and my friend bought a new GPU. People's opinion was:
-Don't buy an HD4850, these cards are hot and dies due to cold soldering joints
-Buy an HD5770, great, cool card

I never heated my HD4850 and it works, tried heating my friend's HD5770 - still dead :rockout:

Trekkie4 · Feb 5, 2015

Another day, another machine!

This time working on amazing CUSL2-C build, running PIII 866 & 256mb of RAM. Graphics will once again be nVidia/3dfx combo, just because I wanted to take the advantage of both ... and also because I only had single 8mb Voodoo2 card laying around, which is not all that powerful by itself

It originally started as DFI CA61, but I've been having some random (and weird) problems with it, so I assumed that it's the mobo itself and not something else. I was wrong though, SB Live! 5.1 card was either damaged or has blown component(s) and immediately calls for BSOD upon driver installation

Oh well... I've downgraded the sound card to SB128 and also swapped noisy Radeon 8500 for GeForce4 MX440 which is older & slower I know, but Radeon 8500 would have been an overkill for this particular system, anyway. Also, I'm quite happy with the mobo choice, as CUSL2-C has good reputation ... almost like P3B-F from what I understood, except different era.

Overall, seems to be working perfectly fine now, ready to receive the software!

Misaki · Feb 5, 2015

And well, it's not hardware but try to guess the OS and a date of this screenshot

Trekkie4 · Feb 5, 2015

Windows 95, around 2001, 2002?

kazz · Feb 5, 2015

or maybe 2015?

btw on my workplace, last windows 2000 computers was sent to retirement on very end of 2014, they was regular everyday office PCs

however some PII-s are still left running with XP.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 5, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Windows 95, around 2001, 2002?

I will say you are very close due to mirc and winamp. Very popular back in the day to use both together in chat rooms.

Arjai · Feb 5, 2015

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
I will say you are very close due to mirc and winamp. Very popular back in the day to use both together in chat rooms.

Got that right! I used have a couple irc's going for hours, every day!!

Not so much, anymore.

TRWOV · Feb 5, 2015

Misaki said:
And well, it's not hardware but try to guess the OS and a date of this screenshot

Lain being on your wallpaper tells me it's >1998 and 3dfx went under at the end of 2000 so.... early 2001???

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 5, 2015

Arjai said:
Got that right! I used have a couple irc's going for hours, every day!!

Not so much, anymore.

on second though I am going to guess it's between win 98 or win 2000, But time frame would be like with in the last week or so.

Trekkie4 · Feb 5, 2015

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
on second though I am going to guess it's between win 98 or win 2000, But time frame would be like with in the last week or so.

Definitely not 98 or 2000. Look at the icons & shadow behind the folder icon... Also, note the recycle bin icon design, this has to be Win95

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 5, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
this has to be Win95

agreed.

Misaki · Feb 5, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Windows 95, around 2001, 2002?

TRWOV said:
Lain being on your wallpaper tells me it's >1998 and 3dfx went under at the end of 2000 so.... early 2001???

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
on second though I am going to guess it's between win 98 or win 2000, But time frame would be like with in the last week or so.

Trekkie4 said:
Definitely not 98 or 2000. Look at the icons & shadow behind the folder icon... Also, note the recycle bin icon design, this has to be Win95

All of you failed

peche · Feb 5, 2015

Misaki · Feb 5, 2015

peche said:
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Vista after SP2 is a really good OS

peche · Feb 5, 2015

Misaki said:
Vista after SP2 is a really good OS

i dont think so sir....
worst windows ever

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 5, 2015

My first Graphics processing Unit

I know its a projector but you must admit its cooool, and it works. Sorry about the quality of the pics.

The hole is in the middle of the film. And i know i've got a dirty finger.

I am no expert but i think they moved the holes to the outside of the film.

Can easily achieve 24 FPS and if you turn the black knob really really quickly maybe even more. Only one driver needed.....a screw driver.

The can of excellent lager is for scale only,

peche · Feb 5, 2015

nice unit dude :eek:

...Still works??
Nice lager too

Regards,

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 5, 2015

peche said:
nice unit dude ...Still works??
Nice lager too

Regards,

Yep still works as do the movies, and i am proud to be its owner.

I use it to demonstrate to my kids what home entertainment could be like if i remove their pcs and phones.

peche · Feb 5, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
Yep still works as do the movies, and i am proud to be its owner.
I use it to demonstrate to my kids what home entertainment could be like if i remove their pcs and phones.

Well that's an artifact that we don't see so often now days, and also the fact that it still works make it more attractive!
enjoy the treasure you have there dude!

Regards,

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 5, 2015

peche said:
Well that's an artifact that we don't see so often now days, and also the fact that it still works make it more attractive!
enjoy the treasure you have there dude!

Regards,

Well i'm hoping that by taking the time to dig it out and take a few pics other members can appreciate it too.

Something like this might have been part of your parents' home entertainment, or even your grandparents.

I doubt if you would find one of these in Costa Rica.

System Name	Party On
Processor	Xeon w 3520
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty
Cooling	Big tower thing
Memory	6 gb Ballistix Tracer
Video Card(s)	HD 7970
Case	a plank of wood
Audio Device(s)	seperate amp and 6 big speakers
Power Supply	Corsair
Mouse	cheap
Keyboard	under going restoration

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 3700X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B550
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/16 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/Gigabyte GTX 1660
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Party On
Processor	Xeon w 3520
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty
Cooling	Big tower thing
Memory	6 gb Ballistix Tracer
Video Card(s)	HD 7970
Case	a plank of wood
Audio Device(s)	seperate amp and 6 big speakers
Power Supply	Corsair
Mouse	cheap
Keyboard	under going restoration

System Name	Athenna
Processor	intel i7 3770 Dellided
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev. 1.1
Cooling	Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro + Tt Riing12 x2 / Tt ThunderBlade / Gelid Slim 120UV fans
Memory	16GB DRR3 Kingoston with Custom Tt spreaders + HyperX Fan
Video Card(s)	GeForce GTX 980 4GB Nvidia Sample
Storage	Crucial M4 SSD 64GB's / Seagate Barracuda 2TB / Seagate Barracuda 320GB's
Display(s)	22" LG FLATRON 1920 x 1280p
Case	Thermaltake Commander G42 Window
Audio Device(s)	On-board Dolby 5.1+ Kingston HyperX Cloud 1
Power Supply	Themaltake TR2 700W 80plus bronce & APC Pro backup 1000Va
Mouse	Tt eSports Level 10M Rev 1.0 Diamond Black & Tt Conkor "L" mouse pad
Keyboard	Tt eSports KNUCKER
Software	windows 10x64Pro
Benchmark Scores	well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
Processor	Intel Pentium II, 350MHz
Motherboard	Chaintech 6BTM, Slot 1
Cooling	SECC Cartridge
Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
Video Card(s)	ATI Rage IIc AGP, Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB
Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
Display(s)	LG StudioWorks 57M
Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster 128
Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Keyboard	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Software	Microsoft Windows 98

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

debs3759

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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peche

Thermaltake fanboy

Misaki

Trekkie4

Misaki

Trekkie4

kazz

ThE_MaD_ShOt

Arjai

TRWOV

ThE_MaD_ShOt

Trekkie4

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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Misaki

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

Misaki

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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peche

Thermaltake fanboy

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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peche

Thermaltake fanboy

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

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System Name	K7
Processor	AMD Athlon XP 3200+ @ ~2,4GHz /socekt A
Motherboard	Asus A7V880 /KT880
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper series with 2x 80x80mm Arctic FANS
Memory	2x1GB Corsair XMS PC4000 dual @ ~440MHz
Video Card(s)	HIS Radeon HD4670 1GB AGP
Storage	STEC Mach8 SSD 50GB SATA
Display(s)	23" LG Flatron IPS231
Audio Device(s)	Creative SB Live! CT4830
Power Supply	350W Enermax

System Name	Selene / Yoda
Processor	Fx 8350 @ 4.4 / Phenom II x6 1090t @ 3.6
Motherboard	Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 r4.0 / Gigabyte 890XA-UD3
Cooling	H100i / Xig Dark Knight
Memory	4x 8gb G.Skill Snipers / 4x 4gb G.Skill Ares
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte R9 290x / XfX DD & VisionTek HD6850's C'fired
Storage	256gb ssd, 2x 2tb Wd Blacks & 1x 1tb Wd black / 1x 1tb
Display(s)	Dell Ultra Sharp 2408 WFp / Hp w2207
Case	Raidmax Vampire / Chieftec Alum. Dragon Blue
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX 850 watt / Corsair TX 750 watt
Mouse	Logitech G500s
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe
Software	Win 10 pro / Win Vista Home prem. 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	What are benchmarks anyway?

System Name	Bay2- Lowerbay/ HP 3770/T3500-2+T3500-3+T3500-4/ Opti-Con/Orange/White/Grey
Processor	i3 2120's/ i7 3770/ x5670's/ i5 2400/Ryzen 2700/Ryzen 2700/R7 3700x
Motherboard	HP UltraSlim's/ HP mid size/ Dell T3500 workstation's/ Dell 390/B450 AorusM/B450 AorusM/B550 AorusM
Cooling	All stock coolers/Grey has an H-60
Memory	2GB/ 4GB/ 12 GB 3 chan/ 4GB sammy/T-Force 16GB 3200/XPG 16GB 3000/Ballistic 3600 16GB
Video Card(s)	HD2000's/ HD 2000/ 1 MSI GT710,2x MSI R7 240's/ HD4000/ Red Dragon 580/Sapphire 580/Sapphire 580
Storage	?HDD's/ 500 GB-er's/ 500 GB/2.5 Samsung 500GB HDD+WD Black 1TB/ WD Black 500GB M.2/Corsair MP600 M.2
Display(s)	1920x1080/ ViewSonic VX24568 between the rest/1080p TV-Grey
Case	HP 8200 UltraSlim's/ HP 8200 mid tower/Dell T3500's/ Dell 390/SilverStone Kublai KL06/NZXT H510 W x2
Audio Device(s)	Sonic Master/ onboard's/ Beeper's!
Power Supply	19.5 volt bricks/ Dell PSU/ 525W sumptin/ same/Seasonic 750 80+Gold/EVGA 500 80+/Antec 650 80+Gold
Mouse	cheap GigaWire930, CMStorm Havoc + Logitech M510 wireless/iGear usb x2/MX 900 wireless kit 4 Grey
Keyboard	Dynex, 2 no name, SYX and a Logitech. All full sized and USB. MX900 kit for Grey
Software	Mint 18 Sylvia/ Opti-Con Mint KDE/ T3500's on Kubuntu/HP 3770 is Win 10/Win 10 Pro/Win 10 Pro/Win10
Benchmark Scores	World Community Grid is my benchmark!!

System Name	Dell-y Driver
Processor	Core i5-10400
Motherboard	Asrock H410M-HVS
Cooling	Intel 95w stock cooler
Memory	2x8 A-DATA 2999Mhz DDR4
Video Card(s)	UHD 630
Storage	1TB WD Green M.2 - 4TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Asus PA248 1920x1200 IPS
Case	Dell Vostro 270S case
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Dell 220w
Software	Windows 10 64bit