TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

Ha-ha This one has so called APU - quad core AMD CPU with Radeon graphics integrated into the CPU... Was just curious because I got my hands on one of these earlier today, it's running Windows 10 & has 8GB of RAM. And agreed, this one is definitely not gaming laptop... But I'm not surprised or disappointed, I was just hoping to hear general opinion, user feedback & experience

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

@stinger608 you have Socket 7 board, you ship to me, you ship to me now. LOL

 

[stinger608]

@stinger608 you have Socket 7 board, you ship to me, you ship to me now. LOL

Yea, that was the real first "gaming" motherboard I ever purchased and built a system. I would be pretty hard pressed to ever part with that board.

 

[Retrorockit]

In response to a few questions on other forums I took a Dell Optiplex 745 I got for free and stuck a QX6800 in it with an old PentiumD heatpipe cooler and got 3.45Ghz with no other mods. They were lapped because I'd O/Ced with them before. Cheap thrills with an old BTX.
Throttlestop 6.00 software O/C method.

 

[JATownes]

I was told you guys would enjoy these. My son found it in his Grandfather's closet, and was told he could have it. It has been in there for over 25 YEARS!!!! Still has the Warranty Card with it. Haven't hooked it up yet, so we will see this
weekend if it still functions correctly.

 

[JunkBear]

Basically you are telling us that your son "came out of the closet"..... as a computer geek. Congrats!!

I was told you guys would enjoy these. My son found it in his Grandfather's closet, and was told he could have it. It has been in there for over 25 YEARS!!!! Still has the Warranty Card with it. Haven't hooked it up yet, so we will see this
weekend if it still functions correctly.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I cant find a date anywhere

 

[Red_Machine]

I see no DeHavilland Comet. Box lies!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I see no DeHavilland Comet. Box lies!

I know.......but as my consolation prize i have 2 x Airspeed Envoy GA - CMT

The complete set with box is worth a lot of money...........The price on the box (written in pencil) is 8/6......8 shillings and sixpence, which is 42.5 pence.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Today I went to the ITSHOW which is as event held yearly in my area. This is an event where laptops, notebooks, tv and those tech related stuff are having a huge sale. I put on my earplug to head to the venue, the place I know would be loud. I got to protect my remaining hearing that is damage over the years already. I thought I wanted to buy a cheap Creative speaker but I went sight seeing instead and pacing back and forth deciding whether to buy or not. Can't stand the crowds giving me alot of stress and I got to hold what little money I have. Went back home empty handed but I suddenly recall the box at home with old PC parts with an old speaker. So I digged it out.

This is the speaker. Altec Lansing speaker. It had been a long time since I heard that name! This speaker is already 15 year old already. The 3.5mm jack is damaged but I got a new one. And the some speaker pin connector and bent but I manged to bent it back making it able to connect. It is alive! How this thing survive so long in storage!?

I also found this in the old box. Not sure if this thing is old but I had not used it since internet broadband move on from phone wires. This is a DSL filter. What this thing does is it allow the phone and the modem to connected without them interfering which each other. Remember those days when you use the internet and the phone rang or someone pick up the phone and your internet connection would be broken? This thing prevent that by filtering your phone lines and modem lines to split it up. When someone in the house use the internet without this device you would only hear buzzes on the phone, those buzzes are the modem sending data through the phone lines. This device is such a life-saver from those anger in the house hogging the phone lines. With the filter your phone have no buzzes.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I also found this in the old box. Not sure if this thing is old but I had not used it since internet broadband move on from phone wires. This is a DSL filter. What this thing does is it allow the phone and the modem to connected without them interfering which each other. Remember those days when you use the internet and the phone rang or someone pick up the phone and your internet connection would be broken? This thing prevent that by filtering your phone lines and modem lines to split it up. When someone in the house use the internet without this device you would only hear buzzes on the phone, those buzzes are the modem sending data through the phone lines. This device is such a life-saver from those anger in the house hogging the phone lines. With the filter your phone have no buzzes.

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I have a dozen of those. lol

 

[JunkBear]

Altec Lansing is now CA. Cyber Accoustics

Today I went to the ITSHOW which is as event held yearly in my area. This is an event where laptops, notebooks, tv and those tech related stuff are having a huge sale. I put on my earplug to head to the venue, the place I know would be loud. I got to protect my remaining hearing that is damage over the years already. I thought I wanted to buy a cheap Creative speaker but I went sight seeing instead and pacing back and forth deciding whether to buy or not. Can't stand the crowds giving me alot of stress and I got to hold what little money I have. Went back home empty handed but I suddenly recall the box at home with old PC parts with an old speaker. So I digged it out.

This is the speaker. Altec Lansing speaker. It had been a long time since I heard that name! This speaker is already 15 year old already. The 3.5mm jack is damaged but I got a new one. And the some speaker pin connector and bent but I manged to bent it back making it able to connect. It is alive! How this thing survive so long in storage!?
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I also found this in the old box. Not sure if this thing is old but I had not used it since internet broadband move on from phone wires. This is a DSL filter. What this thing does is it allow the phone and the modem to connected without them interfering which each other. Remember those days when you use the internet and the phone rang or someone pick up the phone and your internet connection would be broken? This thing prevent that by filtering your phone lines and modem lines to split it up. When someone in the house use the internet without this device you would only hear buzzes on the phone, those buzzes are the modem sending data through the phone lines. This device is such a life-saver from those anger in the house hogging the phone lines. With the filter your phone have no buzzes.

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[dorsetknob]

I cant find a date anywhere

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pre war set
http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...0003/lot-58999cf9-1d53-4826-8452-a3f6010d1a35

Estimate: 200 GBP - 400 GBP

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Thanks for that. I didnt know they had been painted. I will get my lens out later and check for any residue.

 

[R-T-B]

I know.......but as my consolation prize i have 2 x Airspeed Envoy GA - CMT


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I think one of those planes might have encountered some enemy AA...

 

[Fouquin]

Cannot believe I'm only now finding this thread. Well, I'm not in a position to post any pics of my mediocre collection due to being on the road and a bit removed from my resources, but I've got one of my favourite pics of a cool little tech bit on this laptop:

Pentium Pro Fiber ENG Sample sitting upon a bed of 256kb/512kb Pentium Pros.

I know I own very few things that have yet to already be showcased in this thread, but when I get back home I may get some good pics of the rather paltry collection and throw it up here.

Quick Edit! I do have this pic of my Pentium II 450 ENG Sample as well!

Sorry for the bandwidth wrecking resolutions, I'll re upload later as expandable thumbnails.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Cannot believe I'm only now finding this thread. Well, I'm not in a position to post any pics of my mediocre collection due to being on the road and a bit removed from my resources, but I've got one of my favourite pics of a cool little tech bit on this laptop:

Pentium Pro Fiber ENG Sample sitting upon a bed of 256kb/512kb Pentium Pros.

I know I own very few things that have yet to already be showcased in this thread, but when I get back home I may get some good pics of the rather paltry collection and throw it up here.

HELL YEAH and welcome on Nostalgia hideout

me want some PPro for my CPU collection ... need to search harder!

 

[Fouquin]

HELL YEAH and welcome on Nostalgia hideout

me want some PPro for my CPU collection ... need to search harder!

I had the luck and privilege of working at a recycler that had a Toshiba 8U P-Pro server come through. 4 CPU cards, two CPUs per card. I managed to get away with them, and traded two for the ENG Sample a few weeks later. ( I may have peeled the "Pentium Pro Inside" case badge off the chassis too. )

 

[GreiverBlade]

I had the luck and privilege of working at a recycler that had a Toshiba 8U P-Pro server come through. 4 CPU cards, two CPUs per card. I managed to get away with them, and traded two for the ENG Sample a few weeks later. ( I may have peeled the "Pentium Pro Inside" case badge off the chassis too. )

nice... all i had for luck was to find in my local dump some P4 and specially a good ol' Cyrix MII 300GP

i have some PII mobile, non mobile, PIII and most important for me a Slot A Athlon which is the "masterpiece" of my CPU collection in term of "legend material" CPU (oh and 2 PIII Xeon also )

 

[Fouquin]

nice... all i had for luck was to find in my local dump some P4 and specially a good ol' Cyrix MII 300GP

Love the MIIs. I run the Win98 machine with this guy:

I love the metal flake on the IHS, and that it appears to free-float above the package. Such style and grace in the design.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Love the MIIs. I run the Win98 machine with this guy:

I love the metal flake on the IHS, and that it appears to free-float above the package. Such style and grace in the design.

interesting ... mine is

with golden IHS and ... also need to clean it a bit xD

 

[Ruru]

Finally a GPU to my server

Changed the ~10yr old bubblebum on the GPU to MX-4 instantly.

 

[Fouquin]

interesting ... mine is
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with golden IHS and ... also need to clean it a bit xD

Those seem more common funny enough. I snagged this one mainly for the looks, but also because I'd not seen the IHS version before. That said, I've not seen many MIIs in person.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Those seem more common funny enough. I snagged this one mainly for the looks, but also because I'd not seen the IHS version before. That said, I've not seen many MIIs in person.

indeed that's why i wrote "interesting" since it's a less seen IHS type

 

[Ruru]

interesting ... mine is
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with golden IHS and ... also need to clean it a bit xD

Damn, looks like the first gen Pentiums (60 & 66MHz)