90s Nostalgia Thread

[Fanatical Meat]

Women wearing the 90s little black dress

 

[sdifox]

Pentium 60 with FDIV bug

 

[Vindris]

 

[BurnItDwn]

Oh man I forgot about Packard Bell. I used to always call it Packard Hell. lol.

Some things are best forgotten!

 

[William Gaatjes]

90s curly hair.
https://www.devacurl.com/blog/celebrities-with-curly-hair/

 

[Fanatical Meat]

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Not 90s but close enough and yes I did it all for the nooky

 

[lxskllr]

Oh man I forgot about Packard Bell. I used to always call it Packard Hell. lol.

I have one these a guy at work gave me years ago...

That's an amazing case, and one day it'll be my art deco masterpiece; or not... Just another project waiting to be done :^/

 

[Mayne]

If you didn't love formatting a computer you have no business here in this forum

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have one these a guy at work gave me years ago...

That's an amazing case, and one day it'll be my art deco masterpiece; or not... Just another project waiting to be done :^/

Lol that would make an awesome sleeper PC, especially with all the stickers. Put in a quad socket motherboard with 4 thread rippers or something. I don't even know if that's possible.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Oh man I forgot about Packard Bell. I used to always call it Packard Hell. lol.

My first IBM PC was a Packard Bell that I bought in Caldor probably around 1992 or so. It was a 486 25mhz with 4MB RAM. The motherboard croaked out when I added a sound card and it was still under warranty. They sent a repairman to my house to fix it and he replaced the motherboard with a 33mhz model with 8MB RAM. That was a huge upgrade at the time, I was stoked.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I have one these a guy at work gave me years ago...

That's an amazing case, and one day it'll be my art deco masterpiece; or not... Just another project waiting to be done :^/

Oh baby don't you just love that sexy 3.5" floppy?

I'm calling it - that shit will one-day become art.

For the longest time I had to have a floppy drive for the sole purpose of loading RAID drivers if I recall correctly...

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

If you didn't love formatting a computer you have no business here in this forum

Fuck yeah.

I still did all the way through XP and even a bit with Windows 7. After moving to 10 I haven't seen a reason to though. I know how to detect the fake pr0n trojans now

I used to make custom install discs that would do everything unattended - and on first boot it would run a command prompt that would install and register all the programs I wanted.

That forum I used to love is still around today: https://msfn.org/board/forum/70-unattended-windows-2000xp2003/

 

[WiseUp216]

Jennifer Aniston's permanent pokies...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Jennifer Aniston's permanent pokies...

In the little black dress

 

[BurnItDwn]

Lol that would make an awesome sleeper PC, especially with all the stickers. Put in a quad socket motherboard with 4 thread rippers or something. I don't even know if that's possible.

It's got no intakes, likely just a single case fan exhausting out the back, or possibly even worse, just the CPU fan with no other active cooling at all.
Would have to add some air vents and fans to keep modern hardware cool, but, it would no longer be very stealthy.

Perhaps adding some kind of laptop grade mobo + CPU + GPU setup with a modern low power midrange components would work without too heavily modding it? add intakes to the bottom maybe, make it look vanilla? make the bottom half of the case into a water reservoir, and then use water cooling maybe? I dunno for sure.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

It's got no intakes, likely just a single case fan exhausting out the back, or possibly even worse, just the CPU fan with no other active cooling at all.
Would have to add some air vents and fans to keep modern hardware cool, but, it would no longer be very stealthy.

Perhaps adding some kind of laptop grade mobo + CPU + GPU setup with a modern low power midrange components would work without too heavily modding it? add intakes to the bottom maybe, make it look vanilla? make the bottom half of the case into a water reservoir, and then use water cooling maybe? I dunno for sure.

Some kind of water cooled set up going out the back? Maybe?
Seal the whole case to be water tight and fill the insides with mineral oil?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Some kind of water cooled set up going out the back? Maybe?
Seal the whole case to be water tight and fill the insides with mineral oil?

Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HmwY0YmyQ

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HmwY0YmyQ

I know its an unrealistically huge project however it would be cool and it would be similar to stock regarding noise.

 

[igor_kavinski]

90s song lyrics you've been getting wrong for decades

There’s nothing better than driving down the road on a hot day, windows down, radio blasting, and completely butchering your favorite song at the top of your lungs. Even with our favorite songs, those we’ve heard hundreds of times, there are still those verses where we kind of

www.classicnerd.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Howz this for nostalgia?

MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway — company listed admin job for 30-year-old operating system

Many with the requisite experience might already have retired.

www.tomshardware.com

Who's adventurous enough to do this job till 2030? Or even beyond?

 

[IronWing]

Win 3.11 was the last stable release. I can see why they stuck with it.

 

[Kaido]

Win 3.11 was the last stable release. I can see why they stuck with it.

Have some Javascript!

Microsoft Windows 3.11 (aka Windows for Workgroups)

PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines...

www.pcjs.org

 

[nakedfrog]

90s song lyrics you've been getting wrong for decades

There’s nothing better than driving down the road on a hot day, windows down, radio blasting, and completely butchering your favorite song at the top of your lungs. Even with our favorite songs, those we’ve heard hundreds of times, there are still those verses where we kind of

www.classicnerd.com

Of the songs from that list I know, I did not have any of the lyrics wrong 😎

Win 3.11 was the last stable release. I can see why they stuck with it.

I'm forced to assume this is sarcasm.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm forced to assume this is sarcasm.

I only have experience with 3.1 but maybe 3.11 was really solid and didn't have any bluescreen issues?