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Anyone into Vintage Computing?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussion' started by Speedytech7, Nov 5, 2020.

  1. Nov 5, 2020 at 1:36 PM
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    Speedytech7

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    I'll start off by saying I'm not the biggest nerd in the world, but I collect older computers (within reason) and use them from time to time. Just wondering if anyone else shares my weird side hobby. A lot of my machines are from the mid to late 90s (90s kid) but I have some 80s machines too.

    I'll update this later with pictures of all of them but here's my list.

    • Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
    • Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT
    • Toshiba Libretto 50CT
    • Toshiba Libretto 110CT
      Libretto-2.jpg
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    • Commodore 64 Breadbox with matching monitor, disk drive, printer, and cassette tape reader plus tons of magazine and software from the period
    • Apple IIc with original color display and green monochrome display
    • Apple iMac v1 in Strawberry
    • Apple iMac v2 in Blueberry
    • Apple eMac G4 1.25Ghz (literally only purchased for Halo for the Mac)
    • Leading Edge 486DX (never really tested this)
    • Generic White Box Pentium Pro full ATX
    • IBM PS/2 Model 25 Color with MFM Hard drive and 720k Floppy
    • Sony Vaio PCV-E203 (Windows 98 era Media Center PC)
    There's probably more I'm missing, my spare room is just filled with retro technology, I have other oddball stuff too like retro software and peripherals. One of these day's I might start selling it off, 90% of my time is spent in the garage now making things.

    What do y'all have?
     
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    I’ve got about five Macintoshes, a few Classics and some SE. The one on the bottom right was gutted and used to be an aquarium.

    On top is an Apple II+, Apple IIe, and a Magnavox Odyssey II.

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    On the middle left cubby is a IIGS and some disk drives. One of them I believe to be a prototype as I’ve been told by the previous owner. It still has the internal Apple inventory tag.

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    This is my old II+ board, video port was dead so I tried repairing it. No bueno so I just replaced the main board. Didn’t have the heart to throw it away.

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    I used to have a Macintosh Classic, unfortunately the CMOS battery corroded a lot of the traces on the motherboard. I think I parted it out after that.
     
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    :typing: i vaguely recall when they first put one of these in my elementary school in '82 or '83, the school had one on a cart and each classroom had to reserve it and wheel it down the hall hahah
    stupid black and white monitor doing some educational games
    Oregon Trail maybe?
     
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    Oh yes! I'm in! @Speedytech7 I'll help you keep this sucker alive!
     
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    I'll have to share the rest of my collection later, going to a baseball game this evening but I've got a basement filled with vintage Macs, 8086/486/Pentium I & II era machines though.
     
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    The ol P1 166 with 64mb of ram, sound blaster AWE32, and a Matrox video card I forgot the model of
     
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    Curious on what old OS you’re using. I was quite the Assembler programmer decades ago. I could make DOS do anything including direct access to super low level HD and video memory.
     
  11. Aug 9, 2023 at 12:42 PM
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    Depends on the machine. This one is just using Windows 98, but I've got some running DOS 3.11 and another using old Mandrake Linux
     
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    I never could do that but I was a proficient with DOS commands and edlin. I liked WordStar, Lotus 123 and was merely adequate with dBase. I avoided Windows until Windows 2000; a research program I had to have quit supporting DOS. It has been no fun and basically an increasing pain ever since.
     

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