/retro/

No retro thread? Let's change that.

Picked this up today for 25$. Everything works great, even the CD burner.

Let's see what you guys have got lately or what your retro setups look like.

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=nLy_jEbuY-U
imgur.com/a/pguQj
retro.hackaday.com/?
ebay.com/itm/370819657273
jasontaylor.dyndns.org/blog/mac-museum/powerbooks-macbooks/powerbook-through-the-years-the-100-series/
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

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That's a shitload of eclectic data formats

I see Syquest, Magneto Optical Disks, Jazz Disks and Zip

eehh working on building a windows xp shitbox right now for some older software and retro vidya

kek, T420 isn't retro.

I use an IBM Model F keyboard, it's pretty nice. I should haul the rest of the AT out of the closet one of these days and see if its hard drive still spins up.

A few years ago I rustled up an ISA NIC and a DOS TCP stack. I was able to surf the web with Arachne. google.com (with no JS) took 45 seconds to download and render. If it wasn't for the captcha I could probably shitpost in these threads with it.

Try posting with the legacy capcha

Arachne doesn't support JS. At all. My impression was that no-JS posting doesn't work anymore. also I believe it lacks any support for SSL/TLS, idk if Sup Forums still responds to something that refuses to do encryption.

I guess I might as well try. I'll go get a cup of coffee and then haul it out.

20 years

Wow great score!

Also here's the latest pic of my retrostation. I got that 70s RCA TV (upper right corner) at a garage sale recently. I got it along with a '65 New Vista, VGA monitor, misc box of keyboards, and a gravis joystick all for just $12

Okay, lets see if it runs. It's an 8MHz board, not the original (and enormous) 6MHz one. Has an 80287 that I think might even work. Not exactly original, since it has a VGA, not EGA, card, and a third-party monitor.

Did LGR recently do a video on one of those new in box?
beautifully designed machines

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This looks so comfy

Let me give everyone in this thread a simple piece of advice:

Forget about retro tech. Forget about collecting old computers or being fascinated by old operating systems.

I am going to make an assumption here that most of the people who will be posting in this thread will be in their early to mid 20s. Most of you will be living in apartments and rented houses. This will be the first time in your life when you have enough space of your own that you can dedicate a large part of it to your hobbies and interests without interference from outside parties such as your parents.

Does this sound about right? If this description fits you I again implore you: forget about old technology.

It is quite simply a terrible way to spend the best part of your youth. If your idea of fun means looking through craigslist for old keyboards and monitor and hoping to find the occasional piece of old workstation hardware I am begging you to stop and do things for yourself that will benefit your future. Develop a skill that matters. A skill you can make a living from. Talk to a girl. Go to events on the weekends. Do NOT sit around taking photos of old computers to post on the internet and talk about.

I know all this old stuff can seem utterly fascinating and causes you to yearn for an era you were never even a part of, but you have to resist that. Come back to it when you're 40, if you must.

Most functional adults can have a hobby and still do other things, you know. Not -everybody- here is autistic.

Not sure if this retro enough

Board is shot. Case is too small/proprietary to toss my mATX into. What do?

I'll do what I want honestly dude. I also find your needless projecting rather insulting too.

I'm 47 years old, lived the first 28 years of my life in a small third-world village that had collective electricity and running water in just a single building. I moved to America, and struggled for years to finally become a citizen. I will spend my hard earned income on the things that make me happy. There is not much time in life. Happiness is everything.

idk, he a youtuber? I don't follow that stuff.

Anyway it runs, but I need to figure out how to get the mouse driver running again. And the NIC. I think what's going on is that it doesn't understand DHCP and I have to give it a static address.

Its just a hobby user.
i refurb old thinkpads to pass time and enjoy myself
Its cheap, i start with whatever i can get on ebay for 10$
>t42
>r52
>g40
>r30
>x41t
and my 380ed And i bring back to a good cosmetic standard and flawless functionality

Theres nothing wrong with enjoying old tech if its something you find fun and interesting.
And its not like this is all i do, im learning CAD and 3D modeling as a "productive skill" of sorts

Most people here have a life outside of Sup Forums and dont spend their time focusing entirely on old technology and anime tiddies

yeah, he gives very informative and in depth information on old ass hardware, dos era stuff and earlier

On the tree of tech youtubers by hardware age
>Linus Tech Tips for new stuff
>RandomGamingHD for older stuff (core2duo's, budget things)
>LGR for old shit

he recently got his hands on a PC AT brand new in the box, set it up and tested some of the stuff on it
youtube.com/watch?v=nLy_jEbuY-U

That sticker came with the Enter the Matrix game, right? I have the same one on an old picture of a computer I have. Pic related.

>recommending LinusCuckTips
>ever

I'm currently majoring in Computer Engineering junior year, and I can do whatever I damn well please with the money I'm getting from my current sysadmin work.

I think so

>early 200s puters
>retro

>early 200s puters

>1997
>early 2000's

break out the dremel.

Dremel tool, possibly a mini itx system instead to fit in a proper power supply
ECS has a 30$ AM1 itx mobo, then you can pop in something like an athlon 5350 and youve got a golden mitx sleeper

man I wish there was a functioning one, I would love to see it put to work

>forget about something you enjoy that gives you purpose and happiness
doesn't work that way my man

honestly doing this has benefited my future pretty well anyway, by giving me some fun talking points in interviews and an actual reason to continue and value my university education, and keeping my interest in technology going in general, I wouldn't be here today without my beloved shitboxes, nor would I probably survive university if learning more about them and finding new ways to put them to work wasn't motivating me to take interest in my studies and explore new things in my spare time

even if it wasn't the case, devoting the entirety of your life to the pursuit money and pussy is no more fulfilling no matter how much you must personally regret doing so, and I've never met a single person who thinks this way that isn't an empty, boring or otherwise shitty person

these things are so ugly but I've always wanted to cobble together something like it, there's something nice about machines that look like they've had a lot of love (and abuse) over the years

>imgur
>Facebook
Y-YAMERO!?

There's an urge to keep things pristine.
Don't listen to it.
Put any sticker, scratch with a knife, duct tape, whatever, just get the initial imperfection over with. Being able to make hardware stuff helps too.

i miss my micronpc clientpro 325
it was my very fist computer, i dad bought it from his credit union way back in the day as a way to build credit in 2003
so it was a really nice machine at the time
>2ghz pentium 4
>512mb of DDR ram
>two 40gb 5400rpm ATA hard drives
>cd burner and a cd reader
>geforce 4 ti4600
>windows xp professional
And around 2006 or so when they bought a newer lga 775 machine i got it, and it was my runescape machine until around 2010 when it finally died, power surge killed the PSU and took the hard drives with it, no point in repairing an old PC at that time

I was thinking of tracking one down thats been refurbed, or maybe just a case to build a system from the time inside of. Because that machine gave quite a lot to my childhood, thats where i met all my friends on Runescape, Roblox and Habbo Hotel, hell i met my girlfriend on Runescape in 2008.

Pic isnt mine, but its the best pic i could find online of the system

its where i uploaded the gallery since i took the pictures with my sisters nikon, they were like 15mb images and Sup Forums obviously wouldnt take them
imgur.com/a/pguQj

I was saying I just noticed a hyperlink that takes me to where they came from.

i post most of my images that i take to imgur or (forgive me) funnyjunk
since their technology board also likes my old shit
so those ones are usually "Blank+_randomshithere" and ive been called out for those before
(which only exposes that person as another fag who browses funnyjunk)

Well I can ping my AT. Now if only I can manage to tell Arachne to use the right IP address I should be able to have it online.

Ping times are up to 45ms for something on the same switch, hah

ta daaa

what other sites should I try? (I did confirm btw, it won't speak SSL)

One of the first PC's i ever owned was my granddad's old office PC from the 80's, it had windows 3.1 on it too and the old bulky pre-ps2 connections and everything

Looking back i prolly shouldn't have thrown it away

toastytech

um... retro.hackaday.com/?

I timed it on my phone, it took 40 seconds to load and render the page

nah I'll always love pristine shit, experiencing expensive toys as they were as a brand new product fresh off the assembly line is a lot of fun especially for people like me who often had second-hand hardware or low end new hardware, and a fetish for the best of the best we as a species could put forward

but I have a soft spot for beat to shit boxes too, not only do they have a cozy look to them but I can also put them to work and experiment on them more freely without worrying about minor damage or violating autism, pic related's practically rusted through already and now I'm getting it ready to become a workhorse terminal/file server for my oldest stuff, kind of want to find some stickers or something for it too

when I started collecting I really wanted a system like that, I had a micron fetish for sentimental reasons mostly, still have a probably 7 ft stack of earlier 486/pentium models by now but I've never bothered to take stock, always buy them when I see them since I'm waiting to eventually get an absolutely top-spec P90PCI

is that running on the original EGA card too?
I've wanted an AT for fucking ever, but I've never even seen one in the flesh. I've got a decent number of PCs, XTs, PS/2s, even a fucking quad-processor RS/6000, but not even a shitty example of probably one of the most impactful small systems IBM ever built.

He said wait until you're 40, so it doesn't apply to you.

>fuck your hobbies, spend your time and money courting a vaginal jew

Yeah nah.

LGR, get out of Sup Forums and do another Thrift video, please

Anyone have one of these? What kinds of cool things can you do on one? And how do you get one without spending a small fortune on eBay?

Took about a minute. Most of which was spent in downloading the 9.5KB of webpage, by the status bar. I think it can transfer faster than that, but it bangs on the hard drive doing it. Which I suppose in unsurprising considering that the driver, TCP stack, web browser, and command.com are stuffed into 640k. (There's some kind of memory board in the system, but I think everything above conventional memory is EMS, not XMS, which nothing uses. Or maybe not, I forget how I set this thing up)

No, it isn't. I got it with a batch of other old machines (some XT clones), and only CGA and MDA monitors. Wanting something better than CGA, I salvaged a VGA screen from somewhere. It's driven by some random Trident 512k card, which will occasionally forget that it does color and boot up in B&W.

>PS/2
what model? Those were always sexy looking boxes

Currently typing on one of these (RT3200) from 1992.

god danm user im so fucking jealous
thats one of the most beautiful keyboards ive ever seen, and ive always wanted one ever since i first laid fingers on one a friend owns

Model 70, 30/8086 and an L40SX, think I have a PS/2 note somewhere too that's seen better days

$43 plus expensive shipping and a ps/2 to usb adapter from monoprice.
ebay.com/itm/370819657273
Its not mechanical

A 70? I think a 70 was the one I had, one of those suitcase machines. Being a massive loser in my teens I'd bring it to school with me. I'd write shitty little programs on it during my break. One day it's disk and/or controller died, and that was the end of it. I always did want one of the 8086-based machines, just for the novelty of an '86 instead of an 88.

My dad had a PS/2 of some model or another back in the early 90s when they were current hardware. His job issued it to him so that he could dial in remotely and do who knows what. I just played Skifree and Klotski on it, sometimes he'd come downstairs and kick me off because he needed to do work on it.

Anyway for my last picture I had to do this, since we are, after all, on Sup Forums.

Yeah, sounds like you had the P70 which was just a regular desktop 70 like mine but shoved into a luggable enclosure. They're cool machines, and expensive as fuck. The 60MB ESDI drive is a little limiting if you want to do anything fun on it though, OS/2 and AIX are hogs.

The 8086 30s were a really shitty value when they were new but I still like them, the 30 is built into the same slim little desktop case as the 55SX and is pretty much the final iteration of the XT as an IBM product.

Retro technology makes me feel oddly melancholy. I think it's the inherent anachronism of it, that it still exists and works hard at a task that has long since stopped being required.

It isn't that fucking time-consuming to play around with some computers and I often have a damn lot of free time (still being a student on disability welfare money due to some unfortunate illnesses in my late teens). Even when I do develop the skills I hope to make a living with in the future, I can't spend 10 hours straight on that.

All that? $25? Nice!!!

I lucked out once and picked up a bunch of Power Mac stuff at an estate sale for $50. The crown jewel was a Power Mac 9600/350, clean with everything working except one of the SCSI drives. Can't part with that one since it's the pinnacle of the 604e Macs.

>Let me give everyone in this thread a simple piece of advice:
>Forget about shit posting.
>Forget about shitting on people's hobbies or being pissed off that people like what you don't like.
>I am going to make an assumption here that most of the shit posters who will be shitting in this thread are autistic.
>This will be the first time in your life when you have Internet access without your mommy watching over you.
>Does this sound about right? If this description fits you I again implore you: forget about shit posting.
>It is quite simply a terrible way to spend the best part of your youth. If your idea of fun means looking through other people's posts for an opportunity to shit on what they enjoy.
>I am begging you to stop and do things for yourself that will benefit your future.
>Develop a personality that matters.
>Talk to a normie.
>Do NOT sit around talking shit.

Well. You believe that? that is a PowerBook 145c. Not a powerbook 100.

>Talk to a girl.
What are you, straight?

Here is a look at the early lineup:

jasontaylor.dyndns.org/blog/mac-museum/powerbooks-macbooks/powerbook-through-the-years-the-100-series/

>want to build a sleeper pc
>it's literally impossible to find good beige boxes around here
>don't want to gut my old mid 90's pc

Holy shit, what is in that picture is insanely rare, and it boots? OMG, get pictures. Fantastic. just fantastic.

not sure if really retro but it was cheap and i wanted a real cd player. used a dvd player before that and it looked weird because they are so thin but the amp is not.

CD players are definitely retro, I don't think you can even buy them these days, outside of audiophool crap.

I've got like 20 of them. Want one? do you live in Greece by any chance?

wtf is a "sleeper pc"

Finland. There used to be a lot of them available, along with CRTs a few years ago, but now they're all gone.

New components in an old case, basically.

on niitä kierrätyskeskuksissa/kaatopaikoilla mut se on sit eri asia että antaako ne ottaa mitään sieltä.

I can only find black cases in Kierrätyskeskus, and they're expensive as fuck for old tech.

>2011 computer

Justin! Long time no see!

How about a TCP stack that supports DHCP?

Is this the new retro pasta meme?

Dunno, it's pretty old and stale.

>Talk to a girl.
>Go to events on the weekends.
>interaction with the opposite sex
>social interaction
you do know you're on Sup Forums?

>you do know you're on Sup Forums?
Just because it's hard for you doesn't mean it's hard for me.

Normies on my /gee/?!

>your idea of fun does not fit my idea of fun so it's wrong
>you do not fit in my image of the social norm, so it's wrong
my-my

-get a 16-bit pcmcia network card, drivers, mtcp.
-use for irc and telnet-to-router-then-ssh-to-whatever
-run baycom and use as a terminal for aprs/packet radio
-play oldass roguelike releases that only need real mode

>talking to girls
thats fucking disgusting

That's a fantastic little setup.

Here's another thing for you guys. Got this connected and working on dialup of all things a few weeks ago. As expected it was very slow.

get the fuck out

>Picked this up today for 25$. Everything works great, even the CD burner.
I recently got a Power Macintosh for 20 bucks, also came with everything, he originally wanted 50 bucks on craigslist and I would have bought it for it, but when I actually got to it he already lowered the price to 20, all I actually wanted from it was the floppy drive for my Quadra... rest of the stuff is still sitting backed away, guess it's good to have a backup keyboard/mouse and monitor.

cute!

I attempted to be artistic with this photo of my iBook G4 1.33 GHz.... Btw nice setup OP!

Gorgeous setup OP, I'm jealous.

>Talk to a girl.
Where do you think you are?

Nice pasta though.

I want an FM towns so bad but I know I'll never find one for a reasonable price in the US

I got an IBM ThinkPad from 1994. Its a 340. I've also got a 365XD from 1995 I think. The 340 is in amazing condition minus the missing port door on the rear. Running DOS on a monochrome display. Everything works brilliantly.

Ironically, you are the autist. I'm a normal functioning and socially healthy person with a very social career, I'm 24, I buy old computers sometimes, I have a few. I don't scour the internet 24/7 for Model M keyboards. Don't be such a retard.

I'm a medical student, have a nice girlfriend I fuck multiple times a week (I took her virginity), am a hobbyist programmer that knows more than 7 programming languages, know more about programming than most of my contacts in the industry (they call me up for help sometimes, they owe me many favors, can easily get a job if all else fails), have several properties signed under my name producing rent every month with exactly 0 hours of work on my part, have an absurd amount of long-term investments already in place... I'm pretty much guaranteed to become not just rich but also intelligent and successful.

Am I allowed to like old computers now dad?

Dongles: the early years

Why do you guys always fall for shitty bait?