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Guess I'll just keep posting my old shit, even though OPs can't bump anymore.

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Wanted to buy this 133MHz beast but the seller was (of course) another one of those fuckups that are insane AND ignorant.
Not paying ~$500 for this.

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1975 vintage

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>>61000968
still working

>>61000956
That is a very comfy case.

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>>61000979

>>61000956
That case looks dope, but the CD drive isn't even period correct. I wouldn't pay more than $20 for it. Maybe $30 because of the case.
>>61000979
Now hook it up to something instead of just using the local echo.

>>61000912
What the media never tells you is that you have to load the paper perfectly straight so that your typings can come out in non retarded straight lines.

>>61000956
I miss case design like this, functional vs all the flashy leds/windows and shit that seem to be all the rage now. Thank god my cases are all of the functional type. I don't see the point of all the "flash" A case is meant to hold your parts, nothing more or less. it don't need "flash" for that. No one's gonna gawk at it or go "oh look at the pretty innards" when the really good stuff is displayed on the monitor/screen.

>>61001038
Funny you mention that. We used to call ourselves the "crooked lines" back when I filmed that. Came out of some book about insane people in a psychiatric ward, which we both were at the time. Edgy teenager stuff.
Also, the paper is perfectly straight.

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>>61001155
>windows 8 came out in 2012, five years ago
Demotivator indeed.

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I remember this kind of Dell being AGGRESSIVELY advertised several times per issue of my favorite PC magazines

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>>61001196

>>61001196
Can i have that background

>>61001212
I know someone would ask, therefore -> >>61001209

>>61001098

sonique - right in the feels... fucking commited suicide they did

>>61001122
>DAT
my man !

Bought a DAT in highschool in '99.

Dubbed MP3 i downloaded to it from napster played with sonique and went mountainbiking with it...

skipless 3hour + internet downloaded music ? i had it pre 2000 :)

>>61001224
>sonique

Not quite, even more niche. It was a not that widely known player called "K-Jöfol" but I guess they were highly inspired by Sonique. I wonder if K-Jöfol was even known outside of Germany.

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I always wanted one of these but they were quite expensive to import and now they're pretty much completely in the hands of collectors or merchants

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>>61001196
kek that image is really old

>>61000956
yeah that's a pretty nice looking system but not $500 nice, more like $50 if it's all together, well taken care of and a really nice configuration, maybe $100 if you're desperate as fuck and just want one system to use for a long time
>>61000998
that actually probably is the right drive, that particular style of mitsumi matches the period perfectly but the bezel is a little off color
>>61001287
they've definitely got a neat look to them, maybe you'll find one some day

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>>61001346
that room looks like you're friends with LGR

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>tfw there was actually a time when motherboards weren't dark and rather looked like carrot salad

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teal is the real deal

>>61001509
half of me wants to be disgusted but honestly that isn't so bad

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>>61001518

>>61001534
well at least teal was a color that was fucking everywhere when that machine was around.
also, certainly looks better than the disgusting yellowing those poor things have to endure over the years.

getting the gray back to it's original state is a pain in the ass, even with retrobright and it will get yellow again.

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rippinpiss

>>61001578
the contrast between the metallic teal and the white keys don't do it for me desu but yeah with what you said in mind it's totally alright

plus I've always had a soft spot for systems like that used in music production that are personalized by their owner, it's just kind of cool and I've thought of doing that to my own stuff

really need to get my 1040 up and running, I've been holding off buying disks for it for so long and I feel kind of guilty since it was a gift that I never made a lot of use of

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>tfw this shitposting was already over a decade ago

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>>61001692

>>61001743

>how far we have come....

>>61001509
>modding console cases
bet this got a ton of upvotes

>>61000912
This girl is beautiful.

>>61001897
fake and gay

stop posting this

>>61001905
>still far higher resolution/dpi than most modern PC displays
>we still live in the age of bezel

>>61001929
STs may have been weak af but they sure as fuck weren't consoles
>implying painting is truly "modding"

>>61001098
fuck yeah birdcage

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>>61000912
found a Selectric Wheelwriter the other day with buckling spring keyboard.
there's a connector hidden behind a plastic cover on the back, looks like a serial data port. no info anywhere on the web.
so I ordered a logic analyzer, now waiting for that to arrive so I can figure out what it is. would make a really cool teletype machine.

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>>61000638
>>61000912
>>61001172


Pic Related, it's my Selectric III

Jelly

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>>61001338
good ole VLB

>>61002125
It's a Parallel port for using the Wheelwriter as a printer.

>>61002135
Meant to say jelly and then explain my selectric

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>>61002173
>i am selectric jelly

>>61002154
hey thanks! that's what I guessed it would be.
It doesn't look like parallel data though. it's only 10-pins and 4 of those are ground/vcc.
also with the scope I found one pin that transmits some data on every keystroke, I'm hoping thats plain ascii but I'd need the analyzer to confirm.

>>61002247
wait show me a picture, I might be thinking of something else

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>>61002297
best pic I have right now. I removed the cover and plugged in those colored wires to connect the scope.

>>61002247
>>61002297

http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&id=SO4998&userlocale=EN_US&segment=SUPPORT

Same guy as paralell. Here's Lexmark's manuals for the wheelwriter. Hope it helps

>>61002338
Ah. Probably a factory connector used to test the machine before sending out. Good luck re purposing it!

>>61002342
thanks again, however I found those already. it's the 6747-2 model, and the manual doesn't mention any connector.

>>61002358
it's accessible with the cover in place though. there's a smaller plastic cover which pops out to reveal it.

>>61002125
also forgot to mention there's an issue: the hammer doesn't strike. I'm seeing a signal on the scope but I'm not sure if that's right (continuous 2V square wave, with brief ~40V spikes on every keystroke).
maybe that's a common problem? hoping someone here knows.

>>61002624
Lubricate the mechanical portions of the system. IBM typewriters rarely break in a way that can't be repaired with proper lubrication.

>>61002104
>af
>doesn't know what what case mods are
get the fuck out reddit

>>61002199
heh

>>61001346
>1970s
I only count a few things from the 70's

>>61000968
>>61000979
>>61000992
that's a big terminal

>>61001897
even if real this would be incredibly stupid because that aspect ratio is fucked

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>>61002973
Well you're right about that, but the overall aesthetic i'm going for is the 1970s.

Plus I'm continuously adding to it, gonna get a swag lamp soon.

>>61003016
For u

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>>61001518
1998, faggot

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>>61003786
1997, retard

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>>61003879
1989, idiot

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Just got my new "XT" online.
The case of the machine is weird though, it's model says XT and badge is XT, but it has a lid and the front is like an ATs.
The original owner replaced the motherboard with a kit Japanese XT clone board, 10 MHz with turbo.

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>>61001518
>>61003786
>>61003879
>>61003899
3500 BC plebs

checkmate

>>61001929
>console
you fucking homo - do you know what an Amiga is kiddo?

>>61005022
>Atari
>do you know what an Amiga is kiddo?
you obviously don't

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>>61001338

>it's expensive because it sucks

>>61005108
I had that

>>61005213
It's only expensive for internet points, I never pay those prices you see on eBay, I just pick shit up if it's cheap to mess around with.

>>61003280
>but the overall aesthetic i'm going for is the 1970s.
Then why the fuck are you filling the room with 80's and 90's?

>>61002142
there was literally nothing good about VLB

>>61005108
Blue board you faggot

>>61005708
this

>>61001692
>>61001708
Red Hat is actually the Mozilla dinosaur?

>>61000587
red pill me on impact printing

>>61005108
w-what do the knobs do?

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Man why 90s GUI is so comfy?

>>61007658
learnèd men of great piety once directed technology

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>>61002125
>>61002154
>>61002358
quick update; I removed the main logic board and found that these pins are labeled.
Any ideas on what BRQ/POR/VRM/PDI might mean would be appreciated.

>>61007652
>knobs
I don't see any knobs, only 3 switches and a key hole

>>61007757
well guess what, someone once had the same idea as me.
https://warosu.org/diy/thread/S504525

>>61005708
>me as kid
>spend birthday building 486 SX/33 4MB RAM w/ ISA video card
>get 5fps in mortal kombat
>save up another $299 to buy S3 VLB card
I have hated Cirrus Logic ever since

>>61008938
I feel you

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Currently streaming some old Computer Chronicles, if you'd care to join for some cozy tech nostalgia:

https://sync-video.com/r/c0mpu73rchr0n1clez

First Up:
>Connectivity (1991)
An interesting glimpse at the state of communication protocols immediately before the internet took hold

>>61009267
This is really nice

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>>61005556
Because i'm only talking about the overall general aesthetic (wood paneling, orange/brown colors, etc...), not the specific items.

I have stuff from the 50s up to the present in there.

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>>61001346
>all that vintage shit
>Pibb Xtra and not Mr. Pibb
Better luck next time.

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

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>>61010322
>completely misses the 60s Dr Pepper bottle

>>61005708
>32bit bus w/MMIO + DMA operating at full FSB clock
>can simultaneously provide ISA interfaces on the same card
>40MHz is in-spec, unlike PCI (33MHz only)
>40MHz operation actually offers more bandwidth than PCI

No it is you that there is literally nothing good about.

>>61001054
model?

>>61001231
NO.

>>61004959
lol

>>61001794
insta-boner

>>61001083
i predict this will be the new a e s t h e t i c around 2019

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>>61014990

E X P E R I E N C E
W I N D O W S X P

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>>61000638

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>>61001287

I feel the same way about this.

>>61000694
Hello Pedro

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>>61016650
Any of those SysV portables are pretty neat, fuck knows if you could find anything useful to run on them though. Can't imagine they were selling the RS/6000 portables as CAD boxes.

>>61000694
computers were so beautiful

>>61000694
CPCs were such shitboxes but damn the badge engineered models still look real nice when taken care of

Babylon-x.com

>>61002104
Well they weren't weak af but people keep comparing the STFM (base model) with the Amiga 1200. Games could have been better written though.

>>61021650
>people keep comparing the STFM (base model) with the Amiga 1200
Nobody did that, the base model ST was always compared to the A500, do you even realize that the ST came out before the Amigas with the same form factor?
It had worse graphics and sound going for itself, even when the CPU ran at slightly less than 1 MHz faster than the Amiga 500 (or 1000 if you compare both when they came out at the same time).

Do you really think people compared a computer that came out in '85 to a computer that came out in '92?

>>61021713
Yes they did. Of course I know when it came out I was alive when it did.

>>61021764
I doubt that, as it was always compared to the 500, after the 500 came out. Way before the 1200.

>>61021800
Doubt all you like. I was there.

>>61021820
I'm not saying you weren't there in the mid 90's when some retard somewhere compared a STfm to a 1200, I'm just saying that it was compared to the 500 in the latter 80's when the 500 came out. Before that the ST was usually just compared to the 1000, as those where the machines that where relevant in the same price range and they came out at the same time. The 500 being a all-in-keyboard and cheaper, it was usually compared to the STfm and vice versa.

>>61021650
>>61021764
>>61021820
topkek

ST = 1000
STFM = 500
Falcon030 = 1200

that's how they were compared
just because you where 3 months old and shit your pants at the time those computers where relevant does not make you a smartass here, I think you never even took part in the Atari VS Amiga wars of the day

>>61001399
PCI, AGP, and SATA ports, that's not even THAT old.

Where can I get a carrot board now? I feel like Gigabutt would make one, they fucking love the color orange.

>>61022122
A few more years and people who are younger than SATA can post here

>>61007635
it had a great impact on printing


..it's also comfy

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>>61014990
It already is.

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>>61004293
I'm >>61004293 anon.

Have been trying to get a 3.5" drive to work, without any success, just hooking it up to the original controller won't give me a 720KB 3.5" drive as it should, driver.sys and DRIVPARM aren't helping (DOS 4.01), tried a 16-bit ISA HD floppy controller with 2M-XBIOS, won't also work as a 1.44MB drive (probably because it's not an original XT BIOS) nor will it work with 2M-XBIOS and DRIVPARM/driver.sys as a 720KB drive, tried it both as drive A: and B: with both controllers, tried several drives also.

Both controllers work fine with the 5.25" drive and 360KB floppies, got several files across that way.
Also, I managed to boot it to DOS 6.22 from a floppy once with the 3.5" drive and 720KB (but maybe it only saw it as a 360KB disk??? Didn't check) floppy (with both controllers).

Anyone got any tips? All the XT clones I've messed around with in the past worked fine with just hooking it up.
But this being a Turbo XT board, probably slightly older than the other clones I've used. Maybe it needs a controller with it's own BIOS? Still, shouldn't all (together with DOS 4+) and 5.25"/360KB controllers work with 3.5" 720KB drives?

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bump


http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html

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>>61000638

>>61000587
redpill me on matrix printers. is it worth buying? i've seen dozens of working OKIs just for 10-15$

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>>61025095
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>61001929

Failing this hard. . .

>>61025168
For everyday use? No. For black and white there's laser nowadays.
For printing out old shit for fun on your old shitbox from packs of endless paper rolls, sure.

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Finally got a nice external SCSI enclosure, time to install A/UX now at last, without messing with my primary MacOS installation.

>>61026087
C-can you post this mac wallpaper please?

>>61026129
Every damn thread.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14214040/

>>61026176
Many thanks.

>>61022122
that isn't AGP, it's PCI-E (16x and 1x slots)

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>>61000587
Is this retro yet?

>>61026482
that looks new

>>61009267
Bumpan. I'm back up!

https://sync-video.com/r/c0mpu73rchr0n1clez

First Up:
>Intel 386: The Fast Lane (1987)

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>>61026087
>time to install A/UX now at last
Done.

>>61027112
what browsers are available for that?

>>61027894
Anything System 7.6 can run, like Netscape.

Else I'd guess you could port something over.

>>61001598
I actually found an OQO Model 02 in a trash heap. Jump started the battery and now it works perfectly. D-did I do good, anon~~?

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>>61001809
my cat used to sit exactly like that on my CRT. I would be doing computer stuff and she'd be purring and smiling at me, and sometimes gently put her paw on my head.

Miss that kitty.

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>>61007692
i miss it so

>>61028528
Those feels

>>61028449
>D-did I do good, anon~~?
That's one dumb question, obviously yes

My machine that I posted a long time ago:

Compaq Armada M700
Pentium II 366 MHz
192 MB SDRAM
ATI Rage Mobility graphics card
Windows 98 SE

I just use it as a machine for playing around with DOS games and old Windows stuff. It does have Sound Blaster emulation now with the WDM drivers. Linux distros also work fine with the built in sound.

>>61029676
That's comfy anon, I used to love the slightly older Armadas, already because of their design

>but fuck Compaq setup utility on a disk

>>61030074
It actually has no floppy drive. It's pretty compact for a laptop of it's time. They made that model line for a couple more years with faster Pentium IIIs in it, I think.

>>61030074
how do you change bios settings if that partition is lost?

>>61016450

XP is NOT retro!

>>61030897
Unless you use a external floppy drive, you don't

That setup utility is annoying as fuck, could have just sticked to normal ROM based setup, no, they wanted to be "easy" and modern, it's annoying as fuck not to mention, mostly buggy

>>61031008
Who are you to say that? People born in 1997 for example that experienced XP as a kid, it's pretty fucking retro to them.

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>>61000587

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>>61031959

>>61031465
>People born in 1997 for example that experienced XP as a kid, it's pretty fucking retro to them.
I was born in 1997 and used XP until 2012

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>>61031970

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>>61032002

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>>61032018

>>61032028
Is that a Libretto in the top right shelf?

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>>61032445

Indeed.

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>>61032462

>>61022122
Technically, PCI is retro.

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>>61016450
My nigga.

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>>61032578
Here's one of the screensavers bundled with it.

>>61000638
Is it a rotating power switch? Oh boy.

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>>61032578
>>61032621
Here's one of the games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujz5YdFOldo

>>61032640
Even better, it's a keyswitch. With an actual key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnUl_im3Vzw&t=576s

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>>61032676
And another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKY4ZKICIV8

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>>61032736
And the last game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ZyozBeUDg

>>61032725
that's sweet.
Sun always had this weird combination of pragmatic and pleasant-to-look hardware. Such a shame they're no longer around.

>>61031982
>born in 1997 and used XP until 2012
that's forgivable

>>61031982
I was born in 1995 and used XP until 2014

>>61033032
This isn't a contest dude

>>61033038
I can cook minute rice in 58 seconds

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r8

>>61033054
bullshit

>>61031465

XP is still in use = not retro.

>>61033871
XP has been unsupported for over 3 years = retro

>>61033936
>what is POSReady

>>61028528
How close was your face to the monitor if the cat could reach your head while laying on top of it?

>>61034154
Don't forget about USP4.

>>61021650
guess it depends on the kind of ST, some of the higher end ones that didn't really make it stateside seemed pretty decent even if they didn't have the best of the best on paper, can't get into GEM though, never liked it
>>61033871
it's still a 16 year old platform that's only barely in use by the same kinds of people who were keeping XT clones alive well into the '90s, if that's your only factor for judging the "retro-ness" of something then you might as well complain about DOS, 9x, the SysVs, pretty much any other old platform that still sees some kind of practical use in the modern era, fuck the retro platforms are probably even less "retro" in that regard because there's way more current developer interest in DOS or old 8-bits than XP shitboxes

autism

>>61000912

It reads in spanish: "I Love you more than anything in the whole world"

Believe me, I speak spanish :3

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>>61035011
I thought it was spanish for
"all work and no plays makes jack a dull boy"

>>61035011
Well she doesn't anymore.
She was kind of fucked up anyway. I'm glad we ended our more-than-friendship. I have a loving gf now :3

>>61005708
the only good thing was it was an industry standard. it was a quick/cheap fix to extend ISA and make it a little faster (EISA was too expensive)

MCA was a 32-bit proprietary bus by IBM that went the way for Rambus DRAM. PCI was made by Intel, and to promote its Pentiums.

it's too bad EISA never took off.

>>61035186
it seems to me more just a matter of VLB being older and more well established than PCI being inaccessible, there were plenty of PCI 486 boards in the later phases of that generation's life cycle and PCI was definitely one of the first widely ubiquitous expansion buses across multiple platforms

as far as EISA goes it seems like it had really shit hardware availability outside of the occasional SCSI controller or NIC, my collection has more EISA systems than actual cards to put in them

>>61035286
>it seems like it had really shit hardware availability
Can confirm.
In almost ten years of collecting PC parts I have never seen a single EISA card IRL. I have seen AMR, CNR, VLB, AGP-Pro, 64-bit PCI (Non-PCI-X), MCA and almost all form factors of PCI and PCIe, including industrial ones.
But still not a single EISA.

>>61032486

lol it must take hours to load a single 4chan thread

>>61001053
You are not alone, anon. Silverstein's budget series still look like this, but they often have 90mm fans. Gaymers ruined computing.