TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[stinger608]

none (aka who would use a PCI card ... i mean OK i have a FX5200 PCI but it's just a backup) just sell it cheap and get a DC7900... or a DC7800 DELL ... bah ... the old PIII tower Optiplex where good but once C2D and P4 hit the market DELL became what they are today... : meh...

this is the one you have

mobo: UG982 (seemingly 1x PCI +1x PCI X? )
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and i saw one with a X16 nope ahah
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but since EBAY... might be a seller who do not know what he's selling... indeed he doesn't know what he's selling ... it's a HP motherboard ... pfahahaha
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Dell-Optiplex-GX520-Desktop-Motherboard-PJ479-/381091973622

One thing to note about your pictures in that post. Them are two different form factors. The first, and most likely the one that Knoxx is working with, is a BTX form factor where the second picture is normal ATX

Dang @Knoxx29 , I wish you were on this side of the pond. I actually have an Intel S775 BTX board that is so close to the Dell OEM that it fits without issues and includes a x16 PCI-e slot. Just wouldn't be worth the money and effort to ship the board from the US to Germany.

 

[FireFox]

Just wouldn't be worth the money and effort to ship the board from the US to Germany.

Unfortunately but anyway thanks.
I'll keep it without card, and sell it wouldn't be worth.

 

[GreiverBlade]

sell it wouldn't be worth.

well yes, altho i get 140chf per DC7900 i sell usually, i kept my DC7800 out of sentimental value (since i have a Striker Extreme with a E8400 i thought pointless to keep the 2 DC7900 i had and if they can have a second life in a school room i gladly sell them or gift them out ... if i didn't needed money so badly ... and if they didn't offered me money to begin with...)

One thing to note about your pictures in that post. Them are two different form factors. The first, and most likely the one that Knoxx is working with, is a BTX form factor where the second picture is normal ATX

one thing to note : i checked the board after viewing the seller announce who claim it to be a GX520 mobo while it's clearly not ahaha

 

[TRWOV]

none (aka who would use a PCI card ... i mean OK i have a FX5200 PCI but it's just a backup) just sell it cheap and get a DC7900... or a DC7800 DELL ... bah ... the old PIII tower Optiplex where good but once C2D and P4 hit the market DELL became what they are today... : meh...

this is the one you have

mobo: UG982 (seemingly 1x PCI +1x PCI X? )
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and i saw one with a X16 nope ahah
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but since EBAY... might be a seller who do not know what he's selling... indeed he doesn't know what he's selling ... it's a HP motherboard ... pfahahaha
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Dell-Optiplex-GX520-Desktop-Motherboard-PJ479-/381091973622

And what is that Slot for?

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That's the slot for the Dell dual PCI riser:

You can install regular 5v PCI cards there if you choose to.

 

[FireFox]

That's the slot for the Dell dual PCI riser:

You can install regular 5v PCI cards there if you choose to.

Too expensive, 62€

For 20€ I can get a dell optiplex gx740

 

[GreiverBlade]

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Too expensive, 62€

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For 20€ I can get a dell optiplex gx740

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well for the one you link you need a mobo with already a PCI-e onboard your is a PCI only

That's the slot for the Dell dual PCI riser:

You can install regular 5v PCI cards there if you choose to.

WHAT THE PUG? my ACER Veriton FP (V66LT) used a PCI riser with 2 slot on a normal PCI slot, oh wait 5v ... okay i see now well thanks either way .... you reminded me to seek where i did put that piece ...

 

[FireFox]

I'm resigned to keep it as is, so far i have done enough upgrading the Hard Drive, Ram and Ethernet Card, I wanted to upgrade the DVD writer but i won't because i love the sound of it and when loading a CD/DVD it seems that the computer vibrates

 

[Misaki]

I'm opening PC service with a friend of mine. We decided to use two Dell OptiPlexes GX620 in SFF case, but only after upgrade.

After upgrading BIOS to A11 verion I have installed a Pentium D 930 in SFF case. Works good. 4GB of DDR2 RAM will be ordered (2GB for each machine) and some fast and cheap SATA HDDs. Eventually we will buy two low profile GPUs too, because we ordered four 1080p monitors (2 for these Dells and 2 for repair stations). We still need to build 2 PCs to "service section", Dells will be in the "office" where we will be receiving PCs for repair.
I'm happy that I found usage for these Dells. We will use linux, because there's no multi-pc license of Windows. If we run into a problem with printer we will buy only one Windows 7 Home Premium x86.

Recently I bought IBM Thinkpad T42 for the ~30$. We will be using this laptop for network configurations etc, after battery repair (battery is very easy to disassembly, I already did it) it will work for about 2 hours on battery. More than enough!

Specs:
-Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz
-512MB DDR (I'm planning 1GB)
-ATi Mobility 7200 (or so, I don't remember)
-Hitachi 40GB
-14,1" XGA 1024x768

 

[JunkBear]

I'm opening PC service with a friend of mine. We decided to use two Dell OptiPlexes GX620 in SFF case, but only after upgrade.

After upgrading BIOS to A11 verion I have installed a Pentium D 930 in SFF case. Works good. 4GB of DDR2 RAM will be ordered (2GB for each machine) and some fast and cheap SATA HDDs. Eventually we will buy two low profile GPUs too, because we ordered four 1080p monitors (2 for these Dells and 2 for repair stations). We still need to build 2 PCs to "service section", Dells will be in the "office" where we will be receiving PCs for repair.
I'm happy that I found usage for these Dells. We will use linux, because there's no multi-pc license of Windows. If we run into a problem with printer we will buy only one Windows 7 Home Premium x86.

Recently I bought IBM Thinkpad T42 for the ~30$. We will be using this laptop for network configurations etc, after battery repair (battery is very easy to disassembly, I already did it) it will work for about 2 hours on battery. More than enough!

Specs:
-Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz
-512MB DDR (I'm planning 1GB)
-ATi Mobility 7200 (or so, I don't remember)
-Hitachi 40GB
-14,1" XGA 1024x768

DDR2-800 is so cheap I don't know what is the speed of the ram in oem Optiplex but go for it. 800mhz is a safe speed if you need to do a cheap upgrade after to other system that still use it. You are in a year that DDR2-800 is still cheap and most people get rid of it so go for a set of 2X2gigs DDR2-800.

 

[Compgeke]

Picked up this AST Premium 286 last weekend and got around to making it run today.

Specs:
8 MHz 286
1 MB RAM
45 MB HDD
Hercules Graphics Plus card (actual hercules)
Logitech mouse card
Intel network card (added myself)
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value (added myself)
DOS 3.30

Some pics of the programs on it:
http://imgur.com/a/W5dxp

 

[stinger608]

Ah man, that is bad a$$ @Compgeke !!!!!!!

Nice ole nostalgic system man!

 

[micropage7]

Picked up this AST Premium 286 last weekend and got around to making it run today.

Specs:
8 MHz 286
1 MB RAM
45 MB HDD
Hercules Graphics Plus card (actual hercules)
Logitech mouse card
Intel network card (added myself)
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value (added myself)
DOS 3.30

Some pics of the programs on it:
http://imgur.com/a/W5dxp

reminds me when i was at junior high school, running dos, wordstar and using 5,25 inch floppy disk

btw the pcb looks pretty clean, you clean it?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

My first mobile phone. It weighs 240 grams

SONY " Mars Bar"
CM-H333



I think it was about 1993

 

[FireFox]

My first mobile phone. View attachment 61554 It weighs 240 grams

SONY " Mars Bar"

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I think it was about 1988

My first phone was a 1989 Motorola MicroTAC 9800X, I got it in 1993 that time I was 14/15 year old.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I found this writeup
on a props for hire site

It didnt give the rates but you can hire them for tv or movies




The Sony CM-H333 was known as the 'Mars Bar' phone because of its size and weight approximating the Mars chocolate bar! It was released in 1993, and was a very popular and desirable mobile phone of its time. It proved a worthy advisory to the then dominant Nokia and Motorola mobile phones.

The Sony CM-H333 was a design classic featuring a sliding earpiece which flips up to answer and end calls, an extending aerial and one touch dialing.
The CM H333 sold in 1993 for over £400 when it was first released.

 

[FireFox]

was released in 1993, and was a very popular and desirable mobile phone of its time.

Of course there weren't smaller phones in that time

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Ive also got one of these



Its a pager. I got it before a mobile phone. To leave a message you had to ring the number for the pager say the message which an operator then typed and sent to the pager.

It was epic at the time.


The service finished years ago as far as i know.

I just put a AAA battery in it and it displays fine

 

[FireFox]

Ive also got one of these

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Its a pager. I got it before a mobile phone. To leave a message you had to ring the number for the pager say the message which an operator then typed and sent to the pager.

It was epic at the time.


The service finished years ago as far as i know.

I just put a AAA battery in it and it displays fine

Those or something similar between 1993 and 1998 were used very frequently at the hospitals, it was called Beeper

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

These were run on a different network.

You bought the pager and whoever sent the message paid about 50 pence per message.

The messages wete limited to the number of characters. Its all a long time ago so i cant remember much more about it.

 

[FireFox]

These were run on a different network.


You bought the pager and whoever sent the message paid about 50 pence per message.


The messages wete limited to the number of characters. Its all a long time ago so i cant remember much more about it.

Pager use in the 21st century

Original Motorola "Pageboy II" pager, used in New York in the late 1970s.

A mid-1990s opaque black Avont pager model

A Skyper pager that is in use for ham radio

A dual-frequency Unication pager for use by EMS units

Two way pager with GSM capability

A pager (also known as a beeper)

One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area. Physicians paid $12 per month for the service and carried a 6 oz (200 g) pager that would receive phone messages within 25 mi (40 km) of a single transmitter tower.

technology continued to advance, and pager adoption continued to expand, until the early 1990s. However, by the mid-1990s, as cellular technologies became cheaper and more widely available, advanced services began to displace paging as a commercial product. Today, pagers exist largely as niche products, finding preferential use in applications such as hospitals, public safety, locations where their simplicity, high reliability, and low cost represent significant advantages.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I have probably got the number for it somewhere. I cant be arsed to look for it but if it turns up ill try it.

That would be berserk if it still works after 25 years. It still powers up, displays, beeps and vibrates.

 

[FireFox]

Funny Song.

 

[FireFox]

Super Nintendo (1992)
Super Game Boy (1994)

PlayStation 1 (1999)
Formel 1 (1996)
Rugrats (1998)

I have many Super Nintendo games and PlayStation 1, everything works perfectly.

 

[GreiverBlade]

i still have a motorola pager somewhere ... need to dig ...

my 1st mobile was a Nokia 1610 (day 1 buying xD in 1996 )

 

[FireFox]

i still have a motorola pager somewhere ... need to dig ...

my 1st mobile was a Nokia 1610 (day 1 buying xD in 1996 )

i know that one