/retro/ - retro, vintage, old computer

>>56190175
It's fun

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>>56190202
Always!

They remind me of the 90s when everyone was playing outside except me and I was in our garage typing code nobody understood, except me while wearing pedo-glasses

good times.

>>56191012
>except me while wearing pedo-glasses
Wat

>>56191012
https://youtu.be/IQ4n9J9nfoM

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weeb pcs the best pcs

>>56191066
The X68000 and it's newer models where only good for arcade conversions, because they had similar hardware and graphics then many arcades of the time.
As a computer and workhorse it was below other popular systems of the time.

>>56191109
>>56191066
They are sexy though.

>>56191129
Id fug a FM Towns

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>>56191132
Who wouldn't!

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BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum!

>>56191170
How much for the C64? I really want one...

>>56191193
Think it was around $50 from eBay

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>>56191001
>imagining the sound that on/off switch makes

>>56191240
Yes, the switch is boner material.

>>56191240
Haven't you seen LGR's video on this particular PC? That switch sounds majestic.
The rest sounds like a muffled vacuum cleaner though

>>56191223
Yeah, in the US, I'd have to pay more for the shipping then the C64 itself is actually worth....
I'm actively looking for one in the EU.

>>56191001
I'm still using that keyboard on my current PC but had to buy an active ps/2 to usb converter to make it work.

>>56191001
>>56191240
>>56191255

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2R6bwxQqs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnTzJfTW-TY

Enjoy.

>>56191267
C64s were sold all over the world. I'm sure you could find someone local who has one.

>>56191274
A lot of people do apparently.

>>56191267
UK has them by th- oh. Right. EU.

>>56191286
Yeah, there ain't any local ad's right now, looking at the history of a local sales site, some lucky dude got one for 3€ last year, on eBay I haven't found anything overpriced that's inside the EU.

>>56191296
Postage from the UK is still the same as before the brexit, I order shit from there all the time.

>>56191291
I'm more surprised over people getting them to work on modern pcs without mods or adapters, since PS/2 voltages have varied over the years.

>>56191303
How about Spain? They were super into Commodore, as was Italy.

>>56191316
It's still 5V, but more modern stuff usually outputs lower amperage, that can be a problem on some systems.

>>56191326
I think I'll try to find some local sites of various EU countries and search there.
I guess retro forums would be overpriced?

>>56191328
Yes, that's what I meant. Nothing some pull up resistors on CLK and DAT can't fix, however.

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http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/5732303316.html

So, anybody picked up some Macs or is going to?

>>56191519
Interesting, I didn't know the Compact Mac could be used as building blocks, looks fairly solid

>>56191519
Too bad I don't live near Denver, or in the US....

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>>56191544
That iMac stack in the fourth photo both impresses and scares me.

>>56191874
That's a fairly good use for those machines, a cluster of Macs that serves as a couch.

>>56191874
Are they broken?! Who would do something like that!?

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>>56190175
I got these two old Travelmates recently, the one on the left need a new cmos battery and the arrow keys seem to be sticking, the one on the right only needs a new battery.

>>56192755
Real cute.

>>56192755
>Jade
That's my fav brand!

>>56191874
Holy shit, at last a use for the machines

>>56192755
>that mid-00s "black with silver, hurr" aesthetics

That's hardly retro though, just old junk noone cares about.

>>56190175
OP's picture looks like it's some exhibition in a museum or something. It has that artificially set up, "don't touch anything" vibe to it.

>>56191274
same, but my motherboard still has ps/2 so i just plug it in directly

i'm going to go to the flea market in 30 minutes, wish me luck guys

>>56193160
The anon this setup belong set it up at his workplace, everybody can play with it. Of course it's set up nicely for a picture.

>>56193237
Good luck! Don't forget to share if you find anything awesome!

>>56193105
that's what people said about beigeboxes

now we're here

>>56193334
That crap won't be retro even in 50 years

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>>56193349
>he doesn't understand the retro cycle

>>56193576
You're way to naive to think that those thing will be retro one day, maybe someone will be slightly nostalgic for them.

My dad's Atari 800XL is sleeping in a box. Awesome times.

>>56193693
Wake it up and let it enjoy retirement by doing it's job.

why are there like 5 of these threads... theres even a few on /vr/

shit people get it together

>>56193621
I tend to agree with you, they are way too much mass produced and don't have enough of unique quirky features to set them apart.

>>56193807
yeah man its taking up space that could be used for another phone thread

>>56193807
What are you talking about? Theres one retro thread on /g/ right now and a gaming related 70's to early 90's computer thread on /vr/.

>>56193869
GPU and Maki threads are far more important.

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Installing Win98 on CF card for this old fucker right now. Man it was a fuzz getting the BIOS to work with a 4GB CF.

>>56193349
He's right though. Even the most objectively god awful micro computers from the 80s now have nostalgic value for people.
Even generic 90s desktops, so I can see early 00s computers being retro and collectible in the 20s

>>56194219
>40 year olds collect 70s tech
>30 year olds collect 80s tech
>20 year olds collect 90s tech

I'm starting to see a trend

>>56192755
did you ever figure what you're gonna do with them?

>>56194219
I have to wonder though at what point does the "magic" of older hardware fall away to be replaced by the "samey-ness" of newer "old" computers? You can replace caps all day on an SE/30 but how many people are going to mess with the smaller less generalized components in junky P4 Dells with the same enthusiasm?

>>56193334
I'd take a nice beige box anytime over the mid-00s black & silver shit. Especially the late-era CRTs with silver bezels, might have been cool and all back then, but it's just kitsch now.

>>56194626
So you're implying one collects tech of one's own age?

>>56194583
Why no love for the Amiga 2000 to the right?

>>56194714
Whatever tries too hard to come off as "modern" in its own era (which those black/silver designs from a decade ago are arguably an example of) tends to end up being looked down at as kitschy in later years. The beige boxes didn't try-hard anything, they were just what they were (and if anything, it was equipments components what counted rather than looks).

>>56194583
The black NeXT stuff was pretty badass though, it looked classy back then and still does, kinda like classic Thinkpads. This is design that stands out done right.

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Holy fuck OP. Stop making this same fucking thread.

>>56193521
OMG. That is beautiful, but that's Nolan Bushnell's isn't it.

>>56195197
man have some soul these retro threads are like the only ones on /g/ where people dont tiredly slapfight over which recent consumer product is the be-all end-all and everything else is for fags

>>56194111
Gotta adjust geometry a bit, that top right corner on the CRT doesn't look quite right.

Btw, where are monitor configuration settings stored, is it some kind of NVRAM backed up by a battery as with motherboards? That'd suck any battery is bound to deplete eventually and may not be easily replacable at all, and the monitor will keep losing settings if unplugged from mains power.

>>56195001
Because there's a far cooler NeXTstation and an O2 right next to it.

>>56194656
Maybe it's because old computers are different, be it because of OS or use case. From Windows 95 onwards everything is kinda the same, except with new bells and whistles.

>>56194626
This is the same as vintage cars. People enjoy driving cars they saw when they were children.

>>56190175

I love these threads.

Can't wait to get started on my collection.

Anyone reading any good books? I'm thinking of picking up 'The Soul of a New Machine' when I finish up my current reading.

>>56199227
Look around. This can be a surprisingly cheap hobby to get into.

>>56199247

I've got a few spotted, my office needs a little moving-around to get the area I'm going to put them in ready. I don't want them just piled up/clutter.

>>56199247
it can be, but only with commodity hardware like c64 and ti99/4a.

unless you get lucky and find someone totally oblivious, the older and rare stuff are just insanely inflated right now.

>>56194111
Windoze fag

>>56194626
I am 18 and collect 80s tech

>>56199735
I'm in my 20s and collect mostly 60s-70s stuff.

>>56199735
>>56199788
I'm 40 and I just kept all my old shit when I upgraded.

>>56199735
>>56199788
>>56199817
10 print"My nigga."
20 goto 10
cls
run

>>56199735
>>56199788
>>56199817
>>56199842
I'm 21 and I collect everything from the 50s to the present

>>56194626
I am 23 and the only old tech I've collected is the c64 which as you probably know is from the 80s. I'm mostly interested in computers, and I don't see much of a difference between 90s computers and modern computers, ignoring computation power. On the other hand, 80s computers actually have unique designs which are interesting, after the 80s computers seem to have become more uniform.

>>56199817
seems to be the case with most people I buy from. I just wish more people had done this over the years instead of tossing 'em out.

>>56200099
Most people I knew back then would sell off the old machine to finance the new one. One of my friends went through a C64, Apple][, GS, and Amiga 500 over about three years.

>>56190175

I bought an XT today. It was 40$ and well that might be too much, these things are more or less non existent here. I've wanted one for years and years now, and this is the first I've found.

Some more photos:

http://imgur.com/a/swE55

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>>56195197
filter it you worthless faggot

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>>56200261

I'm a fucking idiot I forgot the photo.

>>56200261
nah, 40 is good for a working one in that shape. they go for 100+ on ebay these days. or 200 with monitor/XT keyboard.

>>56200261
>>56200282
Where did you find it?

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>>56190175
Reporting in.

>>56200787

Bought something from a guy off Kijiji and it was in his basement.

>>56200274
Filter it at the source.

>>56195197
Kek, nice to see you are still butthurt, too ashamed to call the doctor, uh?

>>56200282
Did the Optiplex GX1 come bundled?

>>56199842
unreachable code detected

>>56200971
wtf I have the same fucking lamp

>>56194111

damn that's nice, what are you going to install on it?

>>56195466
The camera angle makes it seem weird, moved the monitor to the left a little too after the picture, looks good with the naked eye.

No, they use non-volatile memory, they don't have to keep track of time like motherboards.

>>56201521

No. The keyboard and the GX1 were a separate thing. The keyboard's pretty cool, it's got yellow alps and feels great to type on.

>>56200261
>>56200282
40 is a good price dude! Gratz!

>>56201658
Uh, right. But then again, why did console cart SRAM have to be battery-backed?

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>>56201569
It's a cheap 80s globe. Got it from my grandpa long time ago. not sure, but i guess it's from Quelle.

>>56201595
It's a 486DX4, so everything from old DOS games to Quake and Duke 3D, I usually use DOS, only installed Windows so I can use the PCMCIA WiFi card.

>>56201705
>Sowjetunion
I can see it's from the 80's

>>56201693
No clue, price point? Older monitors are mostly mechanical, maybe the first ones used volatile memory too with supercaps? Never seen a battery on a monitor controller though.

>>56201731
What are some good PCMCIA/Cardbus wifi cards that support WPA2 and windows 98

>>56201942
Hopefully you're right. It would be annoying to have a CRT monitor lose the capability to remember its settings (mainly geometry for different display modes). It's already annoying that the memory appears limited, as in if you try to configure too many different display modes then you'll find losing the config of some earlier ones at some point.

>>56202100
Speedtouch 110 and Avaya Wireless Gold is the ones I have, don't know about WPA2 on the last one.
I use WEP daily for compatibility reasons with all the old devices I have, I live in a pretty remote location so I don't really worry that someone's gonna come sit in my front yard and hack my WEP.

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>>56201731
>>56202100
>>56202197
an option is to use ethernet with a small travel router like the wr703n with openwrt running as client. i imagine there isn't pre-xp wifi software that can do anything better than wep. with a desktop, you could probably wire it up inside the case with power direct off the psu. or maybe even an empty bay inside a laptop and find some leads to solder wires to!

>>56202541
That would be a nice hackjob.

>>56202197
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=2gb+ram+64-bit+os

>>56202587
Disregard that, it was pasted wrong place.

>>56202609
You know you can delete your shit

>>56190175
http://www.recycledgoods.com/ Just found this. Not sure if this has been shared, but I had been asking for a resource just like this for old computers.

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>crosley turntable

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>>56195197
*hugs you* you are welcome here friend *giggles*

>>56202835
They are way to expensive if you ask me.

>>56202645
How? The only options are hide and report.

>>56202927
There's a little check box on the left of your name, check it and then scroll all the way down and theres "Delete"

>>56194634
Still not sure, probably just test out different Linux distros on them.

>>56202835
No better than eBay

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retro waifus anyone?

>>56202936
>Error: You cannot delete a post this old.
Gee, I wonder if mods see this message too.

>>56203588
Kek

>>56201731
How much RAM and what graphics? Also, how did you connect the flash card and what did you have to do to get the BIOS to work with it?

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>>56203463

>>56203606
Right now it has 12MB RAM with a small 4MB RAM expansion (proprietary), I will probably change the chips on it if I find any, better it I find a whole expansion and it has some Western Digital SVGA compatible graphics.

Just a normal CF to ATA adapter, had to update the BIOS, set the OS from DOS to Other and set the drive parameters all to 1 and then set BIOS defaults so it recognised the drive size but didn't change other drive parameters, that finally made it work nicely, but that's probably not the CF card fault but the drive size limitations.

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>>56203758

>>56203758
>Western Digital SVGA compatible graphics.
Sounds a bit outlandish, but then again in the 90s and a bit in to the early 00s there was a whole wilderness of manufacturers for virtually any type of PC component. Sadly then almost all competition died out and it became races of very few or just two horses.

>>56203883
>Sounds a bit outlandish
I know right? I didn't even know before that laptop that they made graphics adapters.

Kek, the rulefagging faggot started bitching about the /g/ retro thread on /vr/ computer thread and hes posts got deleted.

>>56204022
those video gamers dont fuck around boy howdy

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>>56200282
nice PC m8 or is that an XT

only way for me to tell if you SHOW DAT ASS

also hi /g/ these threads is all i wanted from you /g/ ww

>>56194626
XP era is never retro to me
generic pentiums machines from the 1990s are meh common and boring to me

486s on the other hand are nice and cool!

but i also love my 286 and XT

>>56190175
especialy if shit goses smoothly and i have the resources

>>56204437
Hey Sparky, I agree with you actually.

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>>56204529
!!
_\hi/

\(^o^)/

>>56204437
Why is she standing on a XT? It's not like she has any use for it, the XT's CPU does not even have the needed instructions for her...

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>>56204700
i know i know ^^; I love them both dearly

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Hi /g/ on my Meeee pc but running debian

i have Meeee still and it is mounted on /dos <3

>>56204995
Do you actually use ME as a daily driver?

>>56204995
>>56204786
>>56204673
>attentionwhoring piece of shit trip ruins another thread
Seriously, just fuck off.

>>56205062
It's just Sparky, you learn to live with it, soon you won't even notice.

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>>56205040
hmmm not so much recently because deving dos game and such and school

but i use it a bunch ^^

>>56205062
listen to >>56205072


Me is my other primary OS

>>56205072
Never heard of sparky and I've been here since 2006. Looks like an obnoxious as fuck /jp/? poster.

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>>56205087
proof?
I been here since 2008

>>56205087
It's always bullshit if someone starts an argument with "I have been here since XXXX"

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>>56205124
yes lets ignore the troll

ah old school image from 2009 ^^ enjoy /g/

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>>56205107
Shit from /g/ before Android was a thing.

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>>56205139
wwww

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>>56205062
>>56205080

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>>56205540
top UNF i have the same adapter

NICE XT 1984/10 would fuck

>>56206021
Is that an 8-bit I/O card with IDE and an ATA-SATA adapter? The card to the left of it is just normal floppy controller?

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<3

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>>56206041
yes your 100% correct!
http://4ch<dot>mooo<dot>com/4/xtssd/

thats an SSD in my XT

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>>56206085
my XT's boards

>>56206085
I noticed!
Is there actually any improvement of using an SSD instead of a CF card on such a machine?

I guess finding an 8-bit IDE card is fucking hard?

>>56206125
Very nice! Care to give us some specs?

>>56206041
multi i/o card works on XT
not the ide part but everything else yes

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>>56206130
it is a new part
n8vem XT ide rev 2 card

>>56206142
16 MHZ NEC V20 @ 10 MHZ
I808087
FUCKING 640KB + 2 MB OF EMS RAM!!
HOLY FUCK 256 GB SSD
FUCKING 720K A: 3.5 AND 720K B: 5.25 FDD
holy shit intel ether express 8/16 ethernet card
fucking OAK TECHNOLOGY vG-7000 VGA CARD HOLY SHIT

FUCKING SOUND BLASTA 2.01B REV 4 FUCKING SOUND CARD WITH OPL2!!! HOLY FUCKING AHIT DICK

FUCKING ROM CARD FOR FLOPPY DICKS!
FUCKINGTHAT MULTI I/O CARD AND THAT XT-IDE CARD


HOLY SHIT THIS THING IS A BEAST

>>56206225
NOT my XT in that image of that post

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>>56206225
Very hot Sparky, I hope I will have a machine like that once day!

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>>56206264
thank <3

this is my XT it is named mary4

>>56205540
nice cards!

>>56206225
Sweet machine, you run benchmarks on it?

>>56206264
you have an XT? ^^

>>56206336
yeah all the time! not recently because summer and meh but i can fire the beast up ^^

my steam id is sparky4

also i want to overclock it to the proper 16 mhz
and not 10

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>>56206338
Sadly not, just a clone, I've only seen very few XT's with my own eyes because they where not very common here.

>>56206346
cool, I'll have to add you on there tomorrow and send some of my dinosaurs

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mary4 is the official test machine of https://github.com/sparky4/16/

>>56206373
oh very nice!
i am using a clone mobo and my actual XT board i upgraded it from 256kb to 640 kb ^^ the lack of easy 16 mhz turbo stuff is why i do not use w

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bumping with my shit
>yfw this thread is just a circlejerk

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>>56206386
sweet here is another of my retro PCs i built
this is tomato4 my am80286 PC with fucking 4 mb of ram!

>>56206403
cool stuff bro!

>>56206394
Thanks!

>>56206403
Hello person who used to use his shitboxes as table building material for other shitboxes, already seen that awesome new pic.

>>56206423
Love the case design and red reset button! Real neat!

>>56206423
TURBO PLUS, the only way to meme in 2016

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>>56206437
thank! <3
>>56206438
GOTTA GO FAST AT 16 MHZ!!! 286 HOLY SHIT!

my tetra4 (fast as fuck 486) has this CPU and 128 mb of ram

>>56206462
Oh yeah, I remember your 486!

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>>56206489
i have 2 of them <3
this is tetra4 showing cube1

>>56206515
Kek, that's epic!

>>56205087
>Never heard of sparky and I've been here since 2006.
i think you meant to write "2016"

>>56206520
you can see the top of the slower 486 the one i had for a long time ^^ works just fine ^^
>>56206423

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>>56206423
thank

>>56206429
c i r c l e j e r k

>>56206593
thats not a cool thing for a computer to say

make it say 420 blaze it fgt

>>56206085
>thats an SSD in my XT
do you find it perverse that the SSD's controller SoC is more powerful/capable than the entire rest of the XT?

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>>56206608
kys namefag weeb

>>56206593
Holy shit, I choked on laughter.

>>56194626
The majority of people get into this shit with some sort of nostalgic element. That said, I'm 22 and really don't give a fuck, I'll lust after '60s and '70s hardware as soon as I'll lust over something from the '90s or '00s, history is history, and good shit is good shit.

I do tend to prefer '90s hardware as far as what I prize and enjoy the most, though. It's a good blend of the power and usability of the modern era with the personality and the excitement of the early(ish) days of computing. It's much easier to put that shit to work without inconveniencing yourself.

>>56206611
Kek

>>56206608
Weeb

>>56206639
>It's much easier to put that shit to work without inconveniencing yourself.
But that's the fun, exciting and challenging part.

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>>56206611
yes i know

my 2 486s ^^

tetra4 and snowy4

>>56206650
wanker
wwww

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tetra4's cpu

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>>56206664
>486
Bump up your game bro, '040 in the house

>>56206670
that's not a 486, it's a 586 (like the pentium)

>>56206677
no m8 is it a very late 486
that is very fast
i can verify it

>>56206676
a non x86 nice

>>56206670
>HEATSINK AND FAN REQD
Where is the heatsink and fan!?

>>56206677
False, it's a drop in replacement for 486 socket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am5x86

>>56206685
yes it is on there

[sparky4@tetra4]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 4
model : 15
model name : Am5x86-WB
stepping : 4
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu
bogomips : 66.04

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>>56206684
are you mexican by chance

>>56206692
Yup, it's still 486 family.

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>>56206685
here it is no worries

>>56206693
nope panamanian

>>56206696
^^

>>56206696
[02:59:36][~]
[sparky4@tetra4]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 127068 kB

>>56206707>>56206707
and yes thats a sata drive too

XT ide universal bios in in that machine too

>>56206677
well, that's an embaresing thing to say in a retro thread

>>56206651
Maybe I should have said "too much", I found it difficult putting my XT to work for anything substantial when taking into account file transfers and dealing with format translation. Even newer PC hardware up to around 1994 isn't really all that fun to work with for a prolonged period of time, Windows 3.x is an unresponsive, braindead eye-assault, and I absolutely hate it.

I don't even really feel you lose out on much of that challenge with '90s hardware either, It's still ultimately slow as shit, there's plenty of software manicuring, hacking, research and consideration you can put into that shit to squeeze as much out of it as possible, it's just a more fluid and familiar experience, and the power of the hardware combined with the more thoroughly archived software base broaden the possibilities that much more.

>>56206850
>slow as shit
Well, then you're doing it wrong, age appropriate software runs very fast.

>more fluid and familiar experience
That's because you're used to X86 hardware?

Where can I find low color (256 color windows palette) wallpapers?

>>56206677
>like the pentium
those things were just a clock-quadrupled 486, fifth-gen in name only with that PR number earned through sheer brute force, not design enhancements

attaching the 5x86 name to the hardware probably just helped low-end customers along by making them feel less daft for buying a 486 new in 1996

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>>56206883
Make them yourself? XnView is probably the best tool for the job.

>>56206907
It's not 5x86, it's Am5x86, nothing to do with 586.

>>56206927
thanks for summarizing my post

>>56206936
Just pointing out, not to confuse anyone.

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>>56206919
256 unique colors means nothing if they are not included in the palette.

>>56206945
A 256 color palette is high enough to slightly shift colors as needed, it's not like with 8 colors that light green becomes light blue if you don't have the same palette.

>>56206945
been looking into how windows handles palettes
it seems what it does is it reserves 20 colors (the 16 VGA ones plus 4 extra greys) that can't be changed, presumably to keep system elements looking correct
the rest are set by the focussed application, so presumably a wallpaper can use whatever so long as those 20 are part of the palette

>>56206945
>>56206958
You can actually edit or load a palette in XnView.

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>>56206958
>>56206966

>>56206875
>Well, then you're doing it wrong, age appropriate software runs very fast.
I don't mean it in the literal sense. It's plenty fast when you run what it's supposed to run, but it's still limited like anything else. Even in the '90s hardware wasn't the virtually limitless canvas it is today.

>That's because you're used to X86 hardware?
I don't really understand what "x86 hardware" has to do with what I said other than the PC focus. I actually find the non-x86 side of things generally much, much nicer when it comes to practical pre-1995 computing, especially Mac OS and the SysVs.

>>56207011
No dithering

>>56207011
There are algorithms that convert a picture way nicer to a given palette, as mentioned, dithering, etc.

>>56207015
That's a good view on things.

What machines do you have or usually play with?

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>>56207056
Lots, mostly PC prosumer/workstation stuff since it's easy to get, 68k/PPC Macs too, and some low-end IRIX/Solaris stuff. Probably my two top DD projects at the moment are the pic related SGI Visual Workstation and my dual PPro HP Vectra.

>>56207172
Very nice dude!

bamp

>>56190175
i recently binned a working amiga 500, 600, add on hdd, well over a hundred disks and several boxes of amiga magazines. fuck workbench

>>56208223
Kek, I too like burning money.

>>56208223
Some people don't like money.

>>56208262
>>56208265
Not mine, and worthless in NZ. Its easier to make money on old sega platforms/games

>>56208331
We know it's bait bro, collectors would easily have overpaid the postage for a set like that.

>>56208367
I still have some psygnosis game pages from the magazines

>>56208262
>>56208265
>>56208367
faggots are mad kek

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So, random tought, what do you think how many C64's are powered on now-a-days at any given time?

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This bad boy- Iskra Delta Triglav

>>56209394
Looks alien

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Who else Doom on 90's calculator?

>>56206664
>warranty void if removed

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>>56210013
Bumping with more retro.

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>>56190175

Pentium II shitbox has arrived, I've given it a bit of a clean up. GPU on the way.

>>56212345
HOT

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>>56209370

>>56206043
You go to Louisiana Tech?

>>56208975
I wonder what the swastika tile does

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>>56212345

IT LIVES!

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Does anyone have a computer case like pic releated or know a source where someone would be able to source it ?

a guy I know desperately needs it, he has all the original internals of it working but is missing the case

its a Philips nms 9100

>>56215198
>not having display set to maintain aspect ratio
Reeeeeeeeeeee

>>56215934
>desperately
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate.

>>56214332
/pol/

>>56190175

Hello folks I'm here with a question question. As I understand the Hercules graphics cards were backwards compatible with MDA.

So Does this mean if I pick up an original IBM monitor for my XT that I can just use the Hercules card? That would be idea, but if I need to pick up a different graphics card I can.

>>56216532
But then I don't get to use my whole screen.

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Not really a computer but it has buckling springs, so somebody here will fap to it.

>>56217386
This is NOT /mkg/

Is there a chance to find a mpd client for dos (xt machine)

>>56217615
What if I told you it had a serial port..?

Just ordered a sd2iec for my C128. Did I do good?

I've read that maybe some non-Intel 486 DX4 CPUs are able to run in a 5v socket even if they're rated at 3v. How true is this? I'd love to be able to use one of those instead of stalking around on ebay until a 100 mhz overdrive pops up for god knows how much $$$

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>>56217693
Yes. Thinking about one too.

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>>56217731
>C128D
>monochrome monitor

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>>56217762
>Muh retro feeling...
Works great.

>>56217916
Not sure what you mean, but you need to find a 1802 or something. Doesn't make any sense to be using a monochrome monitor with that.

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>>56191152
My favorite

>>56210013
Glad to see you finally got the thing!

>you'll never live in a big city instead of living in the woods so you can find a bunch of sweet deals
just end me

>>56216770
Yes, Hercules uses the standard IBM MDA monitor. Hercules was just an advancement of MDA to do more than just text.

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>>56217916
retro brite yo cool shit man

>>56210082
the sticker fell off

i taped it back on

>>56218595
It's really nice. As far as I have seen, there is also a terminal emulator called fterm for this sweet little tool. I need to take a deeper look into it.

>>56217980
>>56217762
>stop liking what I don't like

>>56218687
Maybe... If I find some time.

>>56218726
cool ^^ speaking of witch i should do on some things of mine

>>56191012
>They remind me of the 90s when everyone was playing outside except me and I was in our garage typing up her suicide note about how nobody understood, including her while struggling against the rope and gag
>good times.

Jesus dude get help

>>56218632
Not a problem, we have the internet and cars nowadays.

>>56218775
e-gay is too overpriced though

>>56218710
Topkek

>>56218687
Oh look, it's tetra4

Retr0brighting is an awesome thing, if you do it properly the device feels amazing afterwards, like new.

>>56218787
I use local ad sites

>>56218813
i do that too, but again i live in the middle of nowhere

>>56218789
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


>>56218804
yap ^^

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>>56218821
i am in northern louisiana so i get like all my shit from the university as unwanted old stuff

my 2 486s are from there

YES 2 ENTIRE PCs and MORE

>>56218871
But do you have any non-x86 stuff?

>>56218871
yeah im mostly looking for special snowflake archs

>>56218871
Clean up your mess, Sparky.

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I need some help with this. It's a HxC Rev. F
According to documentation, it should be able to emulate 2 floppy drives. But I can't figure a working configuration. Any ideas?
I use it in my Amstrad PPC512 (XT).

>>56218887
yes i do they are significantly harder to get
C64
Atari VCS 2600
and a fucking powerbook g4 titanium

the rest are my game consoles

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>>56218789

>>56218925
i have a PPC640
i am repairing it and upgrading it

i think the voltage regulators get too hot

>>56218915
it is worse now also i always have a messy desk

>>56217980
Were 128Ds not intended for business use? Plenty of reason to use a nice monochrome display for that kind of work.

>>56218153

looks so nice

>>56212345
Digging that design, real clean and professional.

Not to be one of those annoying autistic types, but I'd throw a nicer optical drive in there that better matches the style when you can, never liked those drives from an aesthetic point of view.

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Those two beauties finally got access to the world wide web today!

Q650 and Contura 430C.

>>56219201
True that. I also use a monochrome display with a EGA card.

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Do those count as retro?

>>56219388
Cool! How did you do it? Are you using that linksys in the background?

>>56220407
Dunno about the Compaq, but 68k Macs are piss easy to get on the net. Quadras and Power Macs ship standard with on-board ethernet, older stuff can get it through NuBus cards or SCSI adapters, and all you need on the software side is usually a control panel and some basic network information.

>>56220407
The Mac is connected to the Linksys with a AAUI Transceiver 10BASE-T, the Contura uses a PCMCIA WiFi card.

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>>56220801
>Quadras and Power Macs ship standard with on-board ethernet
Quadras and early Power Macs use AAUI, Apples variant of AUI, you need a transceiver to use normal ethernet with that.

>>56220919
Indeed, but they aren't too hard to get a hold of though, especially compared to NuBus ethernet adapters.

>>56220934
Try finding one in Yurop without paying 5x the price of the item in postage from the US.

>>56220956
Could see why it would be more of a bitch over there since they didn't sell as well, but is it that bad?

What's the shipping on this one for you?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FARALLON-Ether10-T-AAUI-10baseT-Ethernet-TRANSCEIVER-Apple-MACintosh-PowerMac-/272347930265

>>56220988
$25, but there are cheaper than $18 ones too on eBay.

It's not that bad as more as annoying, usually takes a few weeks to get the stuff.

>>56220107
yes w

>>56220919
Yep, this is plug and play on 8.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKRZQTol1s

I am bruce x

>>56221027
Eugh, that is steep for what it is. And it definitely would take forever.

I wonder why they went that route anyway, I don't think I've ever seen it used on a network without a transceiver of some kind anyway so it kind of eliminates the "user-friendliness" they were going for, I guess RJ-45 wasn't really commonplace until a few years after they had already adopted it.

>>56221159
If you have a local computer recycling plant, go there.

These things are easy to find.

>>56221189
See
>>56220956

>>56221199
What's shipping like for this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Farallon-AAUI-RJ45-Ethernet-Transceiver-6070631-00-01-/191252926653

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>>56221189
I've already got one on my box, I think I pulled out of a shit pile in a pawn shop basement 2 years ago.

>>56221159
Yeah, RJ-45 wasn't the real standard everywhere in the early 90's yet, I agree it should have been at least a normal AUI port then the proprietary Apple AAUI.
I can see the point in a AUI connector, saving space, because some places used 10BASE2, some 10BASE-T, etc.

>>56221220
$37.56 Standard Int'l Shipping

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>>56221232
I found mine in a local ad from 2009, called the guy up and he still had it, only wanted a few bucks. Pure luck.
That was a few days ago.

>>56221232
What are you running on it? Does it have A/UX too?

>>56220919
Anybody know a good email client for system 7?
I have an ancient version of eudora and netscape, but neither can deal with semi modern security, so I can't connect to cock.

>>56221280
I'm not sure if there even exists something with support for newer security?

>>56221235
Yeah, in a way I can't really fault them for pursuing a more compact and headache-free interface, AUI jacks were pretty bulk-ass and annoying to hook up, AAUI allowed them to better integrate ethernet into their systems without stealing valuable NuBus slots or sacrificing other interfaces.

But still, it's annoying as fuck for sure.

>>56221257
Literally the same one I'm using on mine, god-tier taste.

>>56221271
Still has the original factory 7.0.1 installation on it. I wanted to put A/UX on it originally but I figured I'd wait around for a 900/950 and do it right. Plus it's running beautifully, I can't see a reason to touch it.

>>56221280
Not a great answer, but I usually SSH into another host and use Alpine to check my mail, you might even be able to X-forward a graphical client too if you had an X server, but I've never tried it.

Feels like your options are pretty limited for native clients on pre-OS 8.6 boxes.

>>56221341
>Literally the same one I'm using on mine, god-tier taste.
Glad to be part of the club.

>>56221368
Your club is for Gay weebs.
Us members of the Farallon club are busy fucking hot chicks, smoking weed, and rolling in phat stax thanks to our small and practical transceivers.

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>>56221387
>a fucking fish

>>56221387
Farallon is way too mainstream.
We enjoy our small little community, secret mansion orgies, weekend BBQ's, etc.

>>56221414
And it's not even the same color then the Mac is...
Farallon club has not taste at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIPVmPEqjc

>>56221232
Fucking beautiful.

Wish I could source some Mac CRT's for my 950 but have yet to be able to find one.

>>56221235
You'll either need to settle, wait for a local deal, or find a Europe Mac community.

Alternatively you can rig something through serial.

>>56221441
I already got one, I'm the Q650 guy.

>>56221341
I'm gonna try booting A/UX off the CD right now.

NEW THREAD, CONTINUE THERE!

>>56221477
>>56221477
>>56221477

>>56210013
remember when texas instruments calculators were expensive as fuck

oh wait