Ain't nothin' but a thing. Old hardware appreciation

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>>58744411

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>>58744411
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>>58744411
>a 56k modem from 2001
>old
millennials pls go and stay go

Fuck I had a 2400 baud modem brand new in a box but I can't find it. I hope I didn't throw it away.

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Got a couple modem cards, a pci riser, and a tv tuner.

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Oldest thing I have immediate access to.

>>58744445 <----
dude so close

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it made a p good nightstand

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Compaq Presario 425

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>>58746739
Bitch please!

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>my first soundcard

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This communist made printer still works with 64-bit GNU/Linux, out of the box.

>>58748780
And OS X

>>58748780
*socialist made printer

>>58748790
>>58748830
It's also built like a tank and probably weighs like 10 kg. Graphics print quality is shit though.
I connected it to a Raspberry Pi a while ago and printed a GNU head

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Did my stupid East German printer kill the thread?

Here's one of the coolest early sound cards.
It uses a resistor ladder, exponentially increasing resistors. No logic or timer chip of any kind, all driven with plain LPT commands

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>>58750419
The whole circuit

You may recognize the name "Covox Speech Thing" from old MS-DOS sound setup.exe programs

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Picked this up at a Goodwill over the weekend, along with an SB16. Need to track down a working machine with an ISA slot to test them.

>>58744411
Right: my ol'reliable SBLive! CT4780 sound card

Left is a dial-up modem

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>>58750473
ima moran

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>>58750451
Oh, forgot to mention, I also found this monster.
It's a Western Digital 16-bit 256k VGA card from 1988.

bumping for interest