Hello again Sup Forums and retro enthusiasts. This was my thread from the other day: Unfortunately I didn't have the time to take more pictures that day. However, tonight I am starting to organize things in preparation for my move. I'll be taking pictures throughout the evening of some of the legacy/retro stuff I have and posting them.
Pic related are some old ISA sound cards I just packaged up. 1/2
Benjamin Allen
2/2
Mason Myers
we don't need another fucking general for literally trash fuck off
Eli Howard
Electronics recycling general?
Logan Hall
umadbro?
Jonathan Butler
>>>/reddit/
Jordan Carter
Nice buttmad, fuck off to Sup Forums.
Cameron Clark
Is the left orange PCB a modem/sound card hybrid?
You're in the US, aren't you? Damn I need a hardware configurable sound card.
Pic related.
Adam Diaz
Yep. Was a common thing way back when. And yes, I'm in the US.
Pic related is some random ISA NICS.
Colton Walker
Fuck yes!
Nolan Rodriguez
Nice!
I myself finally received the replacement keyboard for my Osborne 1 today. After a whole day of figuring shit out I finally managed to write some bootable floppies for it too!
Michael Wright
Not even sure what this is... old SCSI card I think.
Jacob Bailey
Awesome, those 3Com Etherlink III's are literally worth their weight in gold. Keep onto them. Specially the one with the socket.
Pre-AT, ISA 8-bit floppy controller.
Brody Brooks
Cirrus Logic VLB video card.
Tyler Rivera
Thanks user, learn something new every day!
Misc 30 and 72 pin RAM.
Eli Nelson
Nice nice VESA card!
Bentley Morris
That's the floppy controller out of an original IBM PC or XT. You can tell by the Beckman ceramic DIP resistor network. Almost all IBM cards had one of them.
Luis Wright
Nice, picked them up from the load or had them previously?
Wait, you're the user who posted the CueCat scanner on /retro/ a week or two ago?
Josiah Johnson
These were from a previous load. Yes, I am the one that posted the cuecat.
More pics in a bit.
Cooper Richardson
>More pics in a bit. Comfy.
Cameron Miller
Hello gorgeous.
Gavin Campbell
Tfw my parents sent my retro parts over the years to the Philippines
Jordan Murphy
Hel... Oh, you mean the Osborne 1.
You don't want to know what I had to do to write floppies for it with a HD drive.
Jace Martin
>no heatsink on the Kingston memory got to be fake
Ryder Nelson
Well.. I'm afraid I do wanna know
Colton Perry
hi 8bit guy :D
Carson Turner
Since you liked those you'll probably like these, though they are obviously newer.
Chase Harris
saving the thumbnail
John Mitchell
My HD drive writes much thinner tracks then a DD drive, because I was using DD floppies, those all already had data written on them with thick tracks, so when I wrote my image onto it with the HD drive, it just wrote into the middle of the DD track, obviously the result was corrupted data when the Osborne with it's also thick head tried to read them. But I didn't have a bulk eraser, so I just took two neodymium magnets and wiped the DD disk a few times with them, after that I wrote the image onto the floppy again, and voila! Booted!
The are fine cards with good driver support, but ain't that special compared to the ISA Etherlink III's that work in 8-bit ISA slots and have a working packet driver for 8086/8088 instruction set.
Brayden Thomas
Wait... are you actually the 8 bit guy from youtube?
Pic related is pretty useless, but it was still packaged so I thought what the hell. Just bought it today at a thrift store actually.
Isaiah Wood
Are you 8 bit guy O0O he's the only person on this planet with a working osbone computer
John Rogers
No, I was working on my own Osborne 1 way before 8-Bit guy had hes.
Joshua Walker
8bit guy???
Charles Butler
>Are you 8 bit guy O0O he's the only person on this planet with a working osbone computer >osbone kek
>only person on this planet with a working osborne* computer >he doesn't know who Terry Stewart is
Carson White
this is totally 8bit guy. I luv ya vids :3
Tyler Robinson
Just the case unfortunately, but will be restored someday. This thing is a tank.
Gavin Adams
I wanna fug that case
Luis King
yoooo 8bit guy gets nice dubbs
>my niqqa
Jeremiah Allen
HOL LI FUK its 8-bit guy on Sup Forums
Jordan Torres
>8-bit guy on Sup Forums he actually did browse /vr/
Joshua Rogers
Fairly certain this is a PSU for a PC/AT, though I don't know what model.
Samuel King
How did you write it the second time?
Kevin Bell
Did you leave them out in the rain? The corrosion looks pretty bad.
Grayson Roberts
That's how I got it.
Nathaniel Russell
Looks like an AT PSU to me, yep.
Noah Diaz
>8-bit guy What, Trent Reznor's "8-bit guy"?
Liam Fisher
The same way as the first time. ImageDisk. Just that now the DD floppy was clean(er) after wiping it physically with a magnet.
Dominic Brown
DOO BEE DOO BIT BOY 7
Angel Kelly
Right. Thanks, have a great time with your beauty.
Brandon Clark
I sure will, thanks user.
Tyler Sanders
Yay, I was hoping I'd come across this. It's one of my more interesting pieces (well, to me anyways). It's called a DECTalk. I got it from a blind man - it synthesized speech so blind people could use computers way back in the day. He told me it cost him $3,000 when he bought it.
Looks like something got into the bag and gummed it up. Pisses me off, dammit.
Benjamin Torres
Why not IPA the fuck out of it?
Leo Bennett
Oh! My! God! Coolios!
Quick, contact cleaner and isopropyl alcohol.
William Moore
India pale ale?
Joshua Turner
If you want to drink some before washing the board with isopropyl alcohol, sure. I won't judge.
Zachary Lopez
k, tnx
Anthony Jackson
Here's another pic while I'm cleaning
Jordan Flores
Nifty! I recently got one of those with a laptop I acquired, the port pops out when pushed, delegate as fuck but cool idea.
Charles Russell
I remember those. I found that people were apt to break the damn things off. It became such a problem where I worked we switched everyone to pic related. I don't have any of these, just a stock photo.
Connor Cox
Yeah, I'm amazed this one still works, because the guy I got the laptop from used it for years (shared with his family).
Nolan Gomez
i got a new gpu
Gabriel Gomez
HOLY SHIT Quakes gonna fucking fly with it at 800x600.
Lucas Cooper
Couple AGP cards when clear sides & case modding was starting to be a thing. Personally love the heatsink on the MSI.
Landon Sanchez
Love it.
Jose Campbell
>build a heatsink in the shape of your logo >design it so it's upside down with the fancy angle cut facing the motherboard
Blake Nelson
Late 90s - early 2000's Thinkpad keyboards. Literally have like 30-40 of these.
Carter Young
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Brody Gonzalez
Random p3 IBM.
John Nelson
Oh man, I had that exact model, P5-90, the 90MHz Pentium model. Came with Win 3.11 but I upgraded mine to 95 when that came out. You could probably kill a man with that case. Pre-ATX though so probably a pain to put anything modern in.
Leo Roberts
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Justin James
You guys do realize this is a BLUE BOARD?
Almost got fired for watching bare PCBs are work.
Chase Watson
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Andrew Perez
Looks like you have a spider living in there.
Gabriel Morris
This monster came to me in a lot. I have no idea if it works but it did come with a full array of Linear Tapes which appear to be in perfect shape.
Jose Ward
Various hotswap carriages. I don't think this is really a thing anymore. I never see it.
Evan Bailey
Oh hi.
Logan Hill
Are those SCSI drives, Lucifer?
Joseph Carter
I came. Also hi.
Aaron Evans
So, i found at work a 2 button IBM mouse, i think it's from 1988 as it came with a PS/1, it's just in a box where no one control (except me), should i go full nigger and take it to my home? I have no real use for it (the plug is PS/2) except nostalgia.
Elijah Kelly
Just ask, they probably don't give a fuck?
Dominic Ramirez
Got one for a G40 by any chance?
Only has two screws, and a single brass post. Ive been looking for one to keep around as a backup.
Dylan Johnson
Looks like all the ones I have have 2+ brass posts. Sorry user.
Matthew Bell
MATROX 618-02, circa 1996.
Landon Wood
>MGA >naming your new hip graphics card after (then already) decade old graphics standard
Dylan King
Is it just my bad eyesight, or do a lot of these cards look wet, or have water damage?
Eli Green
it's the high res pictures and flash, rest is normal oxidation
Jeremiah Ross
2 more beige beauties I forgot about with the case everyone had. I *think* these are 1st gen Athlons.
Note: I do clean them when I restore them.
Juan Fisher
>Webp.net-compress-image >compress sure is
Anthony Russell
What are those checkerboard lookking things? Are they functionless?
Jeremiah Smith
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Brandon Miller
Nice big cases. Love the 5.25" floppy drives with the 3.5" drive design and the Laser Disk drives.
Hudson Murphy
whoa I dunno wtf happened with that pic....
Nothing is wet, I'm taking these pics with a Galaxy Note 4. 16 MP. I'm having to compress them to upload them because of 4chans file size limits. But yeah, you will notice some oxidation on some of this stuff. A lot of it comes out of attics and basements, so definitely not the best storage conditions.
Easton Carter
Mostly functionless, could be explained as very specific shielding
Now that's a SCSI controller
Tyler Hall
Looks like a crime scene photo
Owen White
I fixed it.
Jordan Brooks
>Nothing is wet Talk about yourself. I'm moist as fuck, keep posting.
Jaxson Kelly
Someone forcefully ripped out a CD-ROM drive, you can see the blood dripping from the hole.
Connor Collins
In IC manufacture, they're used to keep the proportion of metal coverage approximately equal over the whole chip area, which is probably to assist continuous processing by not exhausting the etchant in any one spot leading to uneven etching. Perhaps their board fab also ran a continuous process.
Dylan Barnes
it's about as much blood if someone got their finger in an old delta fan while it's on.
Dylan Hughes
that's only the marks left where it flew the heaviest, the rest got washed off by the tears