Sad day...

[JC]

Yes, finally decided to 'recycle' some parts my geeky side didn't want to part with

Including:

[*]my last AT computer cases
[*]my last VL-bus motherboard
[*]Pentium Pro system
[*]Dual Pentium Pro system
[*]all but one of my AT keyboards (just in case!)

How many of you are even old enough to know what a VL-bus mobo is?

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You "threw away" old computer parts JC? :Q

I should permaban you ASAP!

Zim Hosein

Off Topic Moderator.

 

[KLin]

What's a "pentium pro"?

 

[Eli]

I still have all my old computer stuff, including a 386-40MHz server board with sixteen 30-pin SIMM slots, some 486 and original Pentium boards, a dual PPro board that I had been wanting to buy a matched pair of CPUs for, and other junk.. lol

 

[RaistlinZ]

Meh. If it had been one of these that you threw away then, yes, I would have offered my condolences.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I think the oldest components we have at our house is an 8mb HDD (don't know if it works) and a Pentium II machine with a 32mb gfx card.

 

[JC]

Oops! Sorry, Eli....had a pair of 512k cache PPros....

 

[nakedfrog]

I remember what a nightmare it was to get a 1X CD-ROM working in Windows 3.1

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Meh. If it had been one of these that you threw away then, yes, I would have offered my condolences.

Lemme look around....might have one of those

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: JC
Oops! Sorry, Eli....had a pair of 512k cache PPros....

You do realize that those were probably worth about 7$/ea in gold content alone? lol

 

[Sphexi]

I still have a microchannel based system around somewhere.

 

[Loreena]

VLB? Diamond Stealth64 w/2MB DRAM cost $399 in 1994. Ran in AMD 486DX4/120.

I had a 286/25 with a CSC fastcache (ISA) SCSI board with 8MB and a pair of Hitachi SCSI drives (155MB) and it loaded WP 5.1 for DOS faster than the 486/33 with 8MB RAM running PC Kwik and a Maxtor 7213AT IDE drive.

I think I still have an ISA Turtle Beach Maui somewhere. Sam and Max GM music never sounded better. It was better than sound canvas and XG except for the percussion. The standard snare drum sounded as lively as a mushroom.

My question is why not toss it sooner?

Was the nicd rtc battery all frosted up? My 386/486 boards rtc batteries leaked many moons ago. The 386 from a Zeos PC would reset the clock to 01/01/1980!

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: JC
Yes, finally decided to 'recycle' some parts my geeky side didn't want to part with

Including:

[*]my last AT computer cases
[*]my last VL-bus motherboard
[*]Pentium Pro system
[*]Dual Pentium Pro system
[*]all but one of my AT keyboards (just in case!)

How many of you are even old enough to know what a VL-bus mobo is?

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You "threw away" old computer parts JC? :Q

I should permaban you ASAP!

Zim Hosein

Off Topic Moderator.

vesa local bus... ahh yes. short-lived.

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Meh. If it had been one of these that you threw away then, yes, I would have offered my condolences.

Sorry, got a Stealth 220...Viper 550...Fire 1000 Pro..maybe a generic TNT2 card, but no Viper 770

How about a Voodoo2...Voodoo3....Matrox Millenium? Trident 64?

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Eli
I still have all my old computer stuff, including a 386-40MHz server board with sixteen 30-pin SIMM slots, some 486 and original Pentium boards, a dual PPro board that I had been wanting to buy a matched pair of CPUs for, and other junk.. lol

< Still has a Pentium 450 MHZ running Win 2K , running and connected.

 

[IronWing]

I got rid of the old stuff. The oldest hardware left is a Umax scanner, circa 1998, that is hooked to my PC and runs fine. I had to shell out a few bucks to get the XP driver for it though.

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Eli
I still have all my old computer stuff, including a 386-40MHz server board with sixteen 30-pin SIMM slots, some 486 and original Pentium boards, a dual PPro board that I had been wanting to buy a matched pair of CPUs for, and other junk.. lol

Oh, I do have some 30-pin SIMMS around...they don't take up much room, therefore they get to stay around longer

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
I think the oldest components we have at our house is an 8mb HDD (don't know if it works) and a Pentium II machine with a 32mb gfx card.

At my parents we have stashed away in the basement a PII 450 mhz, 128 mb RAM, 16 mb TNT gfx card.

man, that thing was screaming when we bought it.

I'm pretty sure my currect desktop still uses that soundcard, actually.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: ironwing
I got rid of the old stuff. The oldest hardware left is a Umax scanner, circa 1998, that is hooked to my PC and runs fine. I had to shell out a few bucks to get the XP driver for it though.

let me guess which model: 1220P?

 

[Newbian]

So many good paperweights.

 

[Away]

I have a Gateway Solo with a 366 Celeron, 64mb Ram, and a 6gb hard drive. I still use it for word processing duties and the occasional old game (runs Baldurs Gate quite well).

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Meh. If it had been one of these that you threw away then, yes, I would have offered my condolences.

haha..i still have one of those in a box at home, along with my trusty geforce 2 ultra, and a 386 laptop with an 80mb hard drive/monochrome lcd

 

[dawp]

I still have a c64 somewhere around the house. that's the oldest thing i still have.

Used to build servers with the PPro servers for AST Computers back in the day.

 

[Linflas]

I would have to get rid of this that I still have sitting around before I get rid of my 486 EISA and VLB boards.

 

[Throckmorton]

Recycle them. Computer hardware contains heavy metals that need to be disposed of properly.

And also, why would you not jut sell the AT keyboards?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: ironwing
I got rid of the old stuff. The oldest hardware left is a Umax scanner, circa 1998, that is hooked to my PC and runs fine. I had to shell out a few bucks to get the XP driver for it though.

let me guess which model: 1220P?

Close, 1220U. I was at the bleeding edge of tech.