retro vintage computer thread !
Also Is this worth picking up at around 70$, it is functional has some games/software on it also it includes everything on piucture
>>55265999
those trips
what is it a 386 , 286 ??
>>55266093
its a 286 AST research
Get an Atari Falcon or Amiga, mate.
Now that's computing.
>>55265999
Managed to get some life into my 380ED, but I think I have a few caps on their way out on the power supply daughterboard.
>>55265999
I gotchu sempai
>>55267787
that is just junk
Plastic with dead electronics in it circlejerk general!
Where's Ebenezer?
>$70
it isn't "worth" $3, but you could get $200 if you sell it to a retarded hipster on ebay. VINTAGE RETRO COOL!
>>55268016
How can you tell the difference anymore?
>>55267787
>380ED
Mah niggah
380Z best tho
>>55266725
>>55268353
fugme
![IMG_20160626_170422[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dYsG7fd.jpg "IMG_20160626_170422[1].jpg")
>>55268183
dont be mean
some SCSI vintage stuff
>>55265999
I finally got the macintosh plus to boot properly.
Hoping there's an older mac expert buzzing around…
I'm looking to pick up one of the later OS 9 booting Mac laptops. Right now I'm looking at the last-gen PowerBook G3, one of the white (non clamshell) iBook G3s, or a TiBook G4.
Out of these options, which is best? I've heard the TiBooks have a lot of hardware issues. I wouldn't be against a clamshell iBook, but the 800x600 resolution is hard to come to terms with and most for sale now are stupidly expensive due to their unique design.
>>55266235
that's not an AST box, looks like a USSR clone
>>55270876
they guy told me it has a AST research motherboard
Gonna check before purchasing if its really, its got loads of software with it too, picking-it up on tuesday morning at 70 $ gonna try knocking it down even more
>>55265999
I went to a computer fair today, hoping to find something old.
It was all shit/"new" stuff and pirated copies of freeware.
I'm in a good mind to report him to the police.
>>55268183
I wish hiro would just ban you with that maki spamming turbo shitter, I bet you're probably the same lonely, empty, bitter person
do us all a favor go back to jerking off about your shit '90s kid games on >>>/vr/ with the rest of the hipsters
>>55270852
it depends on what you want to do with it, think I would lean towards a high-end PBG3 personally, quite partial to the Lombard since it supports both USB and SCSI peripherals along with onboard ethernet and (potentially) 800k floppy drives making the top-of-the-line 400 MHz model a bitchin' bridge system, would still be dailying my 333 if I hadn't dinged up the corner on it, it wasn't too bad on the JS-less net either
on top of that, they look very nice, better in my opinion than the consumer-y iBooks or the later TiBooks that look kind of thrown together prototypes of the later aluminum models
>>55270990
you're that slovenian guy right? it's probably still a yugo clone, that case style and the design of the hard disk faceplate are very similar to other commie clone systems, but you guys probably didn't get fucked as much on trade deals so you didn't have to actually clone the hardware like the soviets did
>>55271129
>it depends on what you want to do with it
Mainly play old OS 9 games that don't run in SheepShaver and don't run correctly under Classic. I may also use it as a low-distraction environment and may play around with developing Classic Mac OS applications with the Macintosh Toolbox and Carbon.
On that note, here are a couple extremely interesting articles on Toolbox and Carbon. Mindblowing that it's possible to write code that runs on everything from the original Mac all the way up to a modern Mac running Sierra (second link).
https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-01-13-the-mac-toolbox.html
http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/109040361205/mpw-carbon-and-building-classic-mac-os-apps-in-os
>>55271298
that was a pretty cool read, I want to try my hand at development myself later down the road, probably a better use for this dual 1 GHz Quicksilver than shitposting on /g/
since I don't play a ton of games on my systems I don't really know whether the G3's ATI chipset is going to fulfill your needs as far as games go, though I can't imagine it would be terrible, for development and "productivity" stuff though I really like the keyboards on the lombard+, wallstreet is probably okay too if I remember correctly
My first.
The graphics and sound sucked compared to the c64 I got later, but the Motorola 6809E was a good processor.
I learned BASIC on this little guy.
>>55271508
Yeah I think I'm going to shoot for a Lombard or Pismo if I go down that route.
I used to own an iMac G3 with ATI Rage 128 Pro 8MB graphics and it was fine for most classic Mac OS games but I don't think I'd want to drop down much further than that. Pismos look to use the same Rage 128 chipset and Lombards use a similar but older one so either should be OK but Wallstreets are a touch too old.
>>55271687
yeah, they also don't have USB either, really one of the only reasons I would snag one other than looks/collectors' autism would be the serial port for phoneNET transfers between ancient systems
>>55271129
even if its a clone it works just as fine
>>55272058
Not true, if you don't have the *original*, you can't join our club. GENUINE VINTAGE ORIGINAL OEM.
emulating is no good, because it's too good. Here's a list of games I've never heard of or cared about before this time that I just googled that won't work on emulators, and will then insist I need.
>>55266725
I have that same background :)
Very comfy
Have some vintage software browsing 4chan
>>55270765
That was my first computer
>>55272058
you're misunderstanding me, the fact that it's a clone makes it cool as fuck, eastern bloc engineering and aesthetics were fascinating
>>55272118
have you tried classilla out yet? I find it a little nicer than iCab desu
>>55272084
youre just like those fags who fell for the 16GB meme or the CS meme
Can I watch youtube and browse webz on a 386 computer ??
>>55272298
>there are plebs ITT who don't route a streaming set-top box into an ISA TV tuner in their shitboxes
>>55272118
I can top this.
>>55272358
FSF have one of the best built websites around, very nice markup.
>>55270876
Not this meme again
>>55272358
>>55272380
Nice
I want to see someone browsing 4chan on a PDP 11
I visited the Cambridge Computer Museum a few weeks back. If anyone's around there, or goes to visit the UK at any time, I really, really recommend it! They have loads of old machines, up and running, ready to be played with. I could have stayed there all day.
>>55272404
??? it looks nothing like the AST monitor or keyboard, nor any actual AST 286 systems
http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/ast/AST286.pdf
>>55265999
these things are collectible and hard to find these days, go for it
>>55272516
the monitor looks exactly the same
https://classictech.wordpress.com/computer-companies/ast-research-inc-irvine-calif/
>>55272552
no shit it's got an AST logo on it, I'm talking about the system it's attached to
>>55272578
get out butthurt faggot
go back to /vr/
>>55272578
im still taking it cause of the MFM hard drive which are very rare specially if still wprking
>>55272516
It looks like a really generic clone, probably made in taiwan
Imported computers were not uncommon in some eastern bloc countries in the 1980s
>>55272332
not the guy you're replying to and I know this is a joke, but I've often wondered how feasible it'd be to build a specialized card/box that handles some of the more strenuous parts of the modern digital world and makes them more readily consumable for older computers.
Really that mostly means the web, video, and depending on the machine high-bitrate audio. Basically everything people use computers for today has remained virtually unchanged since graphical UIs became mainstream.
>>55272660
pretty much 80% of computers from Europe were imports, benn collecting them for a bit now here IN EUROPE AND NEVER SEEN A IBM or very rarely
>>55272705
Well yeah, the IBM was almost always the most expensive option
>>55265999
For 70, buy a tablet. Faster processor, better graphics, lower power consumption
But I did once install win95 on an old 386 for laughs. Was slow as balls. Took about 10 min to boot>>55265999
I recently received this in the mail after I sent an iPhone 5C to a man who scammed me and i have no idea what this is. I have 10 of these and just looking to see if anyone knows what they are, what they're called, and if they're worth anything. Thanks
>>55272826
You might consider going back to /v/
>>55272842
Think the cable is to power a hard drive. Dunno what the chip goes to. But I'd say it's all junk
>>55272842
Looks like some kind of LED segment display and a controller for it
Worth absolutely nothing
>>55272903
Why are you even in this thread
Its a technology thread and this is technology so rethink that question
lets keep this thread alive till Tuesday, to see wat OP gets
>>55272842
is that what I think it is?
>>55272612
why are you so upset?
>>55272630
do it, it sounds like a nice piece of kit
>>55272660
it looks too weird to be taiwanese though, never seen anything like it stateside
>>55272688
it can totally be done, the most straightforward way would be to glue an SBC to a card that acts as a fake ethernet controller/bridge and have it run as a webrender proxy, outputting web pages to clickable GIF image maps meaning you can actually use browsers that were available at the time, there were also tons of coprocessor boards for video playback in Pentium/Pentium II era
>>55272826
>But I did once install win95 on an old 386 for laughs. Was slow as balls. Took about 10 min to boot
the fuck were you expecting, retard? you couldn't even buy a 386 in the entry level when Win95 started shipping
>>55272688
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update/
i dont really take photos of my things.. its hard to get good images with my shitty phone
>>55272298
You can't do *anything* with this garbage, besides take pictures of it and jack off. If it turns on, you still can't do anything with it. So it might as well not work anyway.
>>55273171
you can play dos games on it.. maybe use some linux too
>>55273190
but you can watch youtube on it right at very low quality
>>55273190
if everyone stopped replying to that butthurt >>>/vr/gin the world would be a better place
>>55265999
Would it still be possible to use a Wndows 98 computer to connect to the modern Internet? I've heard of kernel extenders that let them get more modern browsers. Anyone have experience with this?
>>55273416
I pretty regularly shitpost here from '90s hardware and software, if by "modern" internet you mean Javascript and all, though, it's not going to be a stellar experience with slow PC100/133 SDRAM, a system with RDRAM or DDR is a minimum for a somewhat smooth experience.
old days of AOL
>>55273489
your monitor is leaking
>>55273525
it was a free lcd monitor that i found by a dumpster. i use it when I need to set up a system quick without lugging a CRT around.
>>55273480
Cool, I appreciate the heads up
>>55273416
Managed to get here on plain old 98SE and its last compatible version of Opera. YouTube is a no-go.
>>55273615
Can't imagine those Dixon PIIs, as based as they are, are really up to the task.
How does it handle JavaScript? If at all? I mostly run NT4 on that kind of hardware that has fuck all browser support.
i should buy a cpu fan for this thing.. its only useful when its winter
>>55273615
God tier wireless card, still have one that's working and in use.
>>55265999
Looky looky what I got today!
>>55273912
Just finished modding a ATX PSU for it, the original one is so weak I didn't want to run it with it and my old A500 PSU was making noises.
Tomorrow I'll retrobright the PSU case and then I scan put it on.
>>55273926
pic related
>>55273912
noice
the software is the best part
>>55273952
All of it is good if you ask me
can i play prince of persia on a 286 computer ?
>>55273713
It has a rough time existing. It can browse wikipedia all day, and that's about the most stable it gets. Trying to even launch IE guarantees failure. Recently miraculously got that machine running XP, and that's running a little more smoothly. That things got demons that I can't really sort out.
>>55273809
It just werks. Even still have the manual, box, and CD.
>>55274013
Yup
>>55273912
its so fucking cute
>>55265999
Monochrome 4chan
>>55273912 (me)
It even had the warranty seal still in tact, it was so sad breaking it when unscrewing the screws.
>>55274193
Why did you break it, was it for the PSU mod?
>>55274040
Eugh, XP on one of those sounds like suffering. I guess if you throw enough RAM in it, it can be bearable, however.
I pretty much do the same thing with my ThinkPad 600E, shitpost here, surf wikipedia, maybe a forum or two. Not good for much else, but that's fine, most of what I do is on those sites anyway, or through SSH or offline applications.
>>55274193
Hate that shit, had to deal with that recently with a Compaq box.
>>55274357
No, it was on the computer itself.
The guy I bought it from didn't give me much information, I had to check how the caps were doing (they are looking good, probably won't need a change right away) and clean it inside.
I'm going to add quite a few expansions to it anyways, what all require me to open it.
>>55274442
Okay
>>55273912
Nice!
I've got a A1200 back home in storage. I've got no room for all my retro stuff in my apartment sad to say.
https://my.mixtape.moe/cqfxdj.ogg
I will never forget these noises
>>55274387
320MB RAM makes it bearable. I need to learn the ways of old better on the other drive I have built for it with just DOS 6.22. But yeah, minimal browsing on old machines is always a mark of achievement. Rebuilding the battery for this thing was a nightmare.
>>55274638
Awesome!
My 600 is gonna fly once I'm done with it!
>>55273912
Hello tiny.
>>55274721
Heh indeed.
I don't regret ditching CRTs tho. Other hardware of old I remember fondly, but not CRTs. Thank God for the affordable large-diagonal LCDs of today. I won't be really happy until they are replaced by something without the response problem (OLEDs? I hoped for something that doesn't fucking age!), but still, the comfy and static image quality of even a cheap AOC i2757fm I have is a great step up.
Pic: case of my second compy - 486SX @ 50 MHz, 4 MB RAM. I regret not preserving it, but at least it served other people for some time.
>want an old machine to dick around with
>look on ebay
>everything's being sold as "vintage" or "collector's item" for hundreds of bucks
>Pentium Pros only being sold in huge piles for gold scrap
>can't even find an okay slot 1 mobo/CPU for a decent price, let alone a 486 or anything
fucking hell, when did this shit happen
>>55275098
I don't buy whole computers from ebay, only parts, on local ad's old shit is cheap and actually quite common.
>>55275124
my city's craigslist didn't even have anything older than P4s. most were C2Ds or newer. everything was just as overpriced
>>55275088
Hey big bro!
>>55275143
this is my experience with local craigslist too. I'm hunting for old macs and the pickings are slim. if you don't want a G5 tower or an alu powerbook G4 you're out of luck. only option is ebay
>>55275143
>>55275161
I live in Europe and have a local ad site, like eBay but just local shit and everybody can post.
It's like a goldmine.
>>55275088
What accelerator and expansions did you have again?
>>55275098
Try finding dual/quad CPU boards.
>>55275098
Lots of that shit got shoah'd around 2009-2011 I reckon. Even Pentium IIIs are starting to get harder to find at my local recyclers.
I hoard every Pentium Pro-related thing I can get my hands on now, I've got about 10 chips, 6 of them in working systems, plus two or three loose boards.
>>55275199
Blizzard 1230 IV 128MB
Two 4GB CF cards on master & slave
Lucient Technologies 802.11b WiFi card.
>>55266617
would spend all day, every day fucking around with OctaMED and AHX if I had an Amiga
>>55272213
classilla needs OS8.6 or better (and a PPC)
>>55275098
>fucking hell, when did this shit happen
sometime after 2008
>>55275274
didn't notice you were running 7 until I went back and looked at the window decorations
>>55275261
it kills me because years ago I got a Supermicro P6DNH for like $20. Monster full-AT dual Socket 8 board. One of those crazy ones with four extra PCI slots above the keyboard port. Had a case that it fit in too. Got tossed in a cleanout and now I'll never find that shit ever again.
>you will never get an integraph realizm
>>55275311
Never say never, there's still bound to be a few floating around somewhere, whether in some company's warehouse, a computer repair shop or another collection.
I somehow got two of these, probably the fastest Pentium Pro workstations ever built (if PC Mag benchmarks are to be believed) while the Pro was the best of the best, for $5 and $10 each from thrift store back rooms that get most of their donations from soccer moms and yuppies. That shit's still out there, and it turns up in the weirdest of places.
>>55275345
I want an old high-end workstation card so damn bad, but what the hell can you even run on them anymore? Old CAD software for NT/2K especially is a bitch to find.
>>55275490
>but what the hell can you even run on them anymore?
Depends entirely on what APIs the card supports. I have pic related which supports directX on win9x and OpenGL on NT. I guess you're limited to really basic OpenGL stuff on the really high-end cards
>>55275261
>I've got about 10 chips
put them in a picture frame
>>55275535
>>55275267
Nice, I'mma shove a Vampire V2 up it's butt.
>>55275525
>bestdadever.jpg
>>55276065
Good choice, that thing should wipe the floor with my Accelerator.
>>55265999
got pic related recently, r8
>>55270765
>even in the 80s macs wont boot
TOPKEK
still trying to find the vertical monitor for this bb
'73 decision data keypunch
>>55277114
Sexy
>>55277256
>gateway
noice
I have returned with more stuff. Storing Apple IIes is kind of a pain, they don't stack well at all. Sorry for the shit lighting
>>55277114
what is 0-8-2?
>>55277389
Hotkey for porn hotline
>>55277374
my dick is hard looking at your collection
>>55270852
Ay, I have the wallstreet and the pismo.
Get the pismo, there's a metric fuckton of mods for it, and you can easily run 8, 9, or X. It's the best laptop apple made hands down.
>>55277425
Thats not all of it, neither is this. I was posting in a thread a week or so ago when I was first picking up all this stuff.
Haul from the past few months:
Cobalt Qube
G4 Mini
G4 MDD
G3 Imac snow
Parts for some of my backup laptops
Motorola HT1000s.
>>55277461
>all that IBM glorious-ness
>>55277476
*Qube 3
Fuck getting an OS on this, it's a pain.
>>55277476
Nearly forgot, Makita 8390D, mostly for testing battery builds on.
>>55277461
>>55277374
what do you plan on doing with all of that, besides basking in its glory
>>55277461
Where are you picking it up in such quantities?
Not mine.
>>55275490
nakamichi cdrom changer must have cost a fortune
>>55277524
I am cleaning them up individually, testing them to see if they work, and if i'm not that attached to it I will sell them for a reasonable price.
>>55277542
Found a Kijiji listing for old computers, gave them a call and bought all of it. Check the archive for thread 55030672 for more pictures of where some of this stuff was being stored. Even though some was very dirty it still cleaned up very nice.
>>55277665
Fucking awesome, yeah, I remember that thread now, my damn memory playing trick on me.
>the joy of restoring old computers
>>55277554
Around $500 list price if I remember right, definitely cheap, especially when you factor in the $300-$500 SCSI card with it.
>>55277374
>>55277665
Hot damn, you got even more tower PS/2s?
Looks like there's some more IBM gear in that second lot, too.
>>55277861
>definitely cheap
definitely not cheap
>>55277861
Yes, the ones pictured are model 80s, the other 2 i have are model 60s. Grabbed all the IBM stuff from that picture, whats mostly left there are Apple IIes with broken keys and some Apple monitor IIIs
>>55265999
damn son gottta clean that shit up
>>55277918
Also grabbed 3 model 25s.
>>55277918
>>55277972
That's some shit. If my erection lasts longer than four hours, I'm suing you.
80s are fucking sweet OS/2, or better yet, AIX boxes.
really need to clean up my battlestation but I'll post it anyway
if anyone is wondering what the figma that is partially off-screen is,
it's Kuroneko (best girl)
There were about 3 external tape drives that were the same model as this one, and 2 that fit into a 5.25in bay.
Here's the back of the Gandalf box, looks like its a multiplexer.
Terminal typewriter thing that works through acoustic coupling.
I've been gradually adding to my setup for a long time.
>>55275088
>>55275267
I've got a question. My Amiga 1200 has a dying hard drive, and I was wondering if getting Amiga Forever (since I have no original disks) and a IDE-CF adapter would be the best route.
Also, what's the easiest way to transfer software? Serial? PCMCIA-CF?
I swear if I have to split up an lha file one more time and copy each piece individually on PC-formatted floppies, I'm going to loose it.
>>55279161
>Also, what's the easiest way to transfer software? Serial? PCMCIA-CF?
Probably CF, or a floppy emulator. RS232 is just too slow and clunky.
>>55279161
>x-files poster
>that wood panel wall
>mr. pibb
>rotary telephone
>is that an apple iic?
jesus christ
>>55278894
Neat, it looks really simple. If you find a demux box you can probably wire it right up and run 4 systems on a single serial line. Pretty cool.
>>55279054
These were pretty popular IIRC, some day I'd like to build myself a phone line emulator and play around with this stuff.
>>55279209
Man, the contrast of those things from the hardware they're in give me extreme autism, as nifty as they are.
>>55279214
>that wood panel wall
I've kept my parents from renovating that room. It's the only room in the house that stayed in the 70s. Everything else was renovated.
>mr. pibb
I also got Surge
>rotary telephone
and it's hooked up to vonage, along with the 9600 baud modem under it.
>is that an apple iic?
Yep, complete with ADTPro, 50 transferred disks, and a VirtualHDD server interface.
I also rock a mullet.
>>55279161
Use a CF card and adapter and WinUAE, you can mount the CF card under WinUAE and transver stuff and replace your hard drive with the card.
Also, get a wifi PCMCIA card and then you can just use Samba.
>>55279209
A floppy emulator on an Amiga 1200 is just stupid when you can have all (yes all) the games with WHDLoad on a 4GB CF card.
>>55279664
>Use a CF card and adapter and WinUAE
I'm probably going to get the Amiga Forever kit because it comes with WinUAE pre-configured. I've managed to screw something up every time I've tried installing WinUAE from scratch.
>get a wifi PCMCIA card and then you can just use Samba.
That's interesting, I haven't thought of that. Personally, I'd probably use an Ethernet card instead in my setup because the WiFi signal is really weak.
>>55278456
>filename
You're not alone.
>>55279161
Floppy emulator with FlashAir sd card.
itt: trash collectors
>>55278842
Aren't magnetic tape drives pretty expensive?
>>55280490
Same guy as >>55280035
That's pretty much me.
>>55277494
>Qube 3
>x86
Any *BSD(except DragonflyBSD, PC-BSD) or lightweight linux distro, MenuetOS, KolibriOS, HelenOS etc. .
>>55279303
>contrast
There is a beige model.
>>55279675
>WHDLoad
Where do I get a registered version?
>>55270765
nice
No mention of Living Computer Museum?
/g/entoomen, if you're in Puget Sound region and want to enjoy (hands on!) vintage machines, this is the place for you: http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
Aside from MorphOS, is there any Amiga-like OS that runs on a PowerMac G5?
I mean, without running emulation inside another OS, that is.
I wouldn't be so opposed to MorphOS if it wasn't for the fact that the license isn't worth it for what would be a screw-around hobby machine.
>>55288114
I think there's a PPC version of AROS but I haven't looked into it. I have an eMac and so far the half-hour of demo time on the MorphOS cd has been enough for me to get bored and move on to some other project.
>>55282939
It's freeware for a few months already.
http://www.whdload.de/
I have have any vintage equipment of my own, but I like Jason Scott and his presentations at DefCon.
Getlamp and the BBS Documentary are pretty great watches too.
Really interesting stuff.
browsin' from my iMac g3
OP here
Im checking it out tomorrow is there anything I should be aware of, any tips ?
>>55273539
i just bought a dell 1440x900 LCD from a thrift store for $12. I can not find any scratch or dead pixel on it.
The GoodWill in the next town over has about 30 LCDs for sale, all for $10-$25, all in better condition than that shit you have
>>55273718
you should buy a cpu fan for you camera, fagget
I wanna build a PC to run 1992-2000 games, so what is the best build I can get? Should I install 98SE or ME? I already have a Pentium 4 and it's motherboard if it matters
>>55280603
>>55280035
Were these pictures taken with a 500 year old camera?
I have a Commodore 128. I know you can replace the floppy drive with a SD card reader, but is there any way to actually speed up the load times of programs?
>>55290033
The hard drive in it is a ticking time bomb. If it's not dying already, it _will_ die quite soon. Get a CF replacement like the XT-CF-Lite.
I once went to check out a Craigslist ad for an IBM PS/2 model 30. The seller said it was fully functional. I arrived to a warehouse that was hotter than the surface of the sun, and more humid than a flooded rain forest. I plugged in the machine, and it didn't show any signs of life. He wanted $200 and wouldn't budge, so I left.
>>55290617
the sound of it might tell alot if the bearings are loud then its on its way out if not its still good, and low hours on it
>>55290639
The hard drive in my old IBM PC/AT died suddenly without any prior sounds that it was going to.
>https://fortmyers.craigslist.org/col/sys/5649761854.html
>$900
FFS I WANT SELLERS TO STOP CONTRIBUTING TO THE VINTAGE TECH BUBBLE
SHIT LIKE THIS USED TO GO FOR $20 LESS THAN 3 YEARS AGO
THE CIRCLEJERKING INFLATION OF PRICES ON EBAY HAS TO STOP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
>>55290833
It is a hard to find piece, especially in good condition, but 900?! That's ridiculous.
Btw, don't worry, most of it will be sold for far less, after a few months nobody buying it he will drop the price, 90% of the time the "bubble" is just delusion.
And $20 3 years ago? No way!
>>55290530
Install Windows 98se and get a Nvidia GeForce 256
>>55291149
GeForce? GTFO, Voodoo btich.
>>55290568
Webcam. I'm a poorfag.
