TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ahhzz]

Gotta see if there's anything useful to be done with this...

Poor Toshiba couldn't stand the heat upstairs....

 

[Ahhzz]

And some full blown Nostalgia....

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[dorsetknob]

Usefull kit could save you £140+ in the UK

Digital TV card ( they cannot detect this kit when looking for unlicenced TV's to £fine you )
Ps you have to block internet access for the software or it snitches ON you )

 

[Jetster]

Gotta see if there's anything useful to be done with this...

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Analog tuner and QAM digital cable, I don't think there is any analog stations left and the digital will be slow

 

[Trekkie4]

Here's an idea... Those analog TV tuners are VERY useful for capturing video signal off the VCRs and old(er) camcorders.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Here's an idea... Those analog TV tuners are VERY useful for capturing video signal off the VCRs and old(er) camcorders.

That WinTV is new enough to even have x64 chipset. I have a Winfast TV2000XP Expert with the same chipset.

 

[R-T-B]

View attachment 84116 This is what I find when I start going through the stuff at the bottom of the closet.

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire?

 

[Robert B]

FRESH MEAT!!!

In very good working condition.

It needs a full teardown and cleanup

gallery: https://postimg.org/gallery/ncu8m76e/

 

[Trekkie4]

So... While I didn't get any new retro machines lately (I'm referring to that previously-mentioned Intel system in particular), I DO have something big coming up soon. Over the last couple of months (more like a year actually) I've had a serious moisture, condensation issue on one of my walls here, which resulted with whole bunch of other & serious problems.

Long story short, this now FINALLY seems to be under control & will therefore finally start putting things back together again. Which is a perfect opportunity to test each & every retro machine I have, to make sure it's working OK & maybe take couple of pics here & there if any of you guys here are interested?

 

[deflipe]

 

[Trekkie4]

Hmm... Is that brand new, sealed-up copy of Windows 98 on your shelf?

 

[deflipe]

Hmm... Is that brand new, sealed-up copy of Windows 98 on your shelf?

Yes, but is the update....

Still sealed

 

[Trekkie4]

That's pretty awesome, I love Windows 98 in all shapes & forms!

 

[deflipe]

That's pretty awesome, I love Windows 98 in all shapes & forms!

 

[Trekkie4]

Certainly does work (and plays) better than 3.11 and 95 together!! I also have W98, both 1st and 2nd edition but without the original box... Therefore just the CD, manual & "W98 starts here" promotional & training CD

 

[stinger608]

Now that is just bad a$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very awesome!!

 

[deflipe]

I am happy!!

 

[DR4G00N]

Found somethig cool today, though it's probably not quite old enough to be called nostalgic yet.

ATI HD 3850(?) GDDR3 256MB engineering sample.


At least this is what I think it is. In windows it's detected as an hd 3800 series gpu but the physical core is branded as a FireGL gpu. It runs at the stock 3850 frequencies and has no crossfire connectors or s-video outputs and only supports DX10.0 not 10.1

It could be something else entierly though as it was made late 2008

Edit: Here are a couple more pictures;

 

[GreiverBlade]

though it's probably not quite old enough to be called nostalgic yet.

people really have an issue with that ... OH COME'ON! you can be nostalgic about yesterday! .... and for computer ... well i wouldn't call nostalgic a haswell or a GTX600 series ... but errr i meant Nehalems GTX500 ... yep
yep ... it did bug me ... since i saw that sentence quite a lot here and every single time someone stated that ... most other user did write "nah nope it's alright"... for me 2008 is old enough, heck even 2013

nice engineering sample nonetheless ...

 

[toastem2004]

@illli
Might be interested in those 256mb sticks of PC133, got to get back and fire up my K6-2 system this weekend.

Got my replacement Ati Radeon 8500 in, so hopefully this one works. Last one had a non working fan and had suffered heat damage.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Found somethig cool today, though it's probably not quite old enough to be called nostalgic yet.

ATI HD 3850(?) GDDR3 256MB engineering sample.
View attachment 85382 View attachment 85383

At least this is what I think it is. In windows it's detected as an hd 3800 series gpu but the physical core is branded as a FireGL gpu. It runs at the stock 3850 frequencies and has no crossfire connectors or s-video outputs and only supports DX10.0 not 10.1

It could be something else entierly though as it was made late 2008

Edit: Here are a couple more pictures;
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It is a FireGL ES that has had the bios flashed to a 3850.

 

[DR4G00N]

It is a FireGL ES that has had the bios flashed to a 3850.

Thanks, that's what I was kind of thinking. Though now I wonder what model of FireGL it actually is...

 

[Mr.Scott]

FireGL V7700 or FireStream 9170

One ore the other.
They're the only ones that used RV670.

 

[deflipe]

New friends...

 

[Trekkie4]

Finally started with my room, putting everything back together again! And while I didn't have the time to see (and test) each & every system yet, I DID take them apart, just to make sure there's no "wild life" hidden inside, since these had been stored for quite some time now, away from everyone & public view.

Starting with Pentium III, 733MHz running 256MB of RAM & Voodoo3 3000AGP card. The mobo inside is Asus P3B-F, the one and only in my entire collection.


Followed by a very special system, you've probably seen this one before... It's my own, "genuine" Pentium II machine which I had back in a day. That Chaintech 6BTM inside is in desperate need of capacitor replacement and yes, that cable management is a total mess. So really, one way or another I WILL have to address this one some time in the future. It'll be a project for some other day & time


This 3rd one is Dell Optiplex GX110, tower design. The reason I'm pointing out case design is because I also have yet another GX110 which is slim desktop, aka "pizza box" design. And yes, that is a Voodoo2 inside lol, I wanted to boost up graphic performance of this thing (so that it would serve a purpose for something, as on-board solution is just terrible) Although to be perfectly honest, that's not how I originally visualized it... I wanted it to have a TNT2 Pro card inside, or even something better but couldn't find a single PCI video card out there. So really, it was easier & cheaper to go with 3dfx, can you believe that?!


More systems coming tomorrow , and over the next couple of days as I will have to open EACH and EVERY single system I have. So yeah, this could take a while, but I'll get there eventually!