Ain't nothin' but a thing

Ain't nothin' but a thing.
Old hardware appreciation thread. Give me some OC.

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>a 56k modem from 2001
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millennials pls go and stay go

Fuck I had a 2400 baud modem brand new in a box but I can't find it. I hope I didn't throw it away.

Got a couple modem cards, a pci riser, and a tv tuner.

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Oldest thing I have immediate access to.

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it made a p good nightstand

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Compaq Presario 425

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Bitch please!

>my first soundcard

This communist made printer still works with 64-bit GNU/Linux, out of the box.

And OS X

*socialist made printer

It's also built like a tank and probably weighs like 10 kg. Graphics print quality is shit though.
I connected it to a Raspberry Pi a while ago and printed a GNU head

Did my stupid East German printer kill the thread?

Here's one of the coolest early sound cards.
It uses a resistor ladder, exponentially increasing resistors. No logic or timer chip of any kind, all driven with plain LPT commands

The whole circuit

You may recognize the name "Covox Speech Thing" from old MS-DOS sound setup.exe programs

Picked this up at a Goodwill over the weekend, along with an SB16. Need to track down a working machine with an ISA slot to test them.

Right: my ol'reliable SBLive! CT4780 sound card

Left is a dial-up modem

ima moran

Oh, forgot to mention, I also found this monster.
It's a Western Digital 16-bit 256k VGA card from 1988.

bumping for interest