Older hardware

"Nibby" (nibby68) 07/16/2016 at 12:16 • Filed to: None

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Just some stuff I have lying around

Pentium 200MHz i200 Socket 7

ASUS P/I P55TVP4 AT motherboard

128mb RAM (4x32mb SIMMs)

300W AT PSU

dat closeup

STB Velocity 128 AGP 4mb graphics card. Practically useless.

A much more interesting Matrox Millennium 4mb PCI graphics card + daughter card

Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA sound card

Creative Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card

I have some 56K PCI modem too. I put it in my main desktop and funny, Windows 10 picked it up without a hitch.

Adaptec 2940UW PCI SCSI card + cables.

24X CD ROM

2xSeagate Barracuda ST32550N SCSI 50 pin 2GB 7200RPM (sold those)

Seagate Barracuda ST32171W SCSI 68 pin 2.16GB 7200RPM (in use)

Western Digital WD Caviar 26400 IDE 6GB 5400RPM (in use)

dat retro BIOS

Seagate ST43400N 2.9GB SCSI drive (5.25!) sitting in a box cause it is slow and noisy

the case that houses most of those parts [the larger one]

This stuff is on its way.

Gigabyte GA-486VM AT motherboard

Intel 486DX2 66MHz

Not sure how much RAM

Multi I/O card

14.4 ISA modem (lol)

closeup of mobo

Genoa 8500VL VLB (VESA Local Bus) gfx card. I think it is 1MB

other stuff not pictured

various ribbon cables + wires (IDE, floppy etc)

3COM 3C905B-TX PCI network cards (2x)

a 3COM 3C509B-TPO ISA network card.

various adapters (eg. VGA to DVI, etc.)

other things here and there

What about you folks?

facw > Nibby 07/16/2016 at 13:26

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128MB is a lot for 200Mhz Pentium. Don’t have any ancient hardware stuff here, but I have a good supply at my parent’s house.

Nibby > facw 07/16/2016 at 13:44

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aww ye

boredalways > Nibby 07/16/2016 at 14:37

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you wouldn’t happen to have an AM2 microATX motherboard laying around, would you?

Nibby > boredalways 07/16/2016 at 15:03

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I don’t sorry

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nibby 07/16/2016 at 15:28

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My first PC was a 486DX/33. My HDD died at one point and the replacement drive was 240 MB and cost $300. My mobo had 8 RAM slots and 1 MB in each slot. Windows 3.1. That HDD purchase would have been 1991 or 1992.

Separately: remember the exchange we had a few weeks ago about a computer upgrade? I inherited a Core i3 computer that supports lots of RAM, like 32 GB, DDR3. Do you think that would be a worthwhile upgrade, given the work involved in swapping out my daily driver PC?

boredalways > Nibby 07/16/2016 at 16:07

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no worries

Nibby > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/16/2016 at 20:45

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16gb is more than plenty and if it has an SSD you should be good

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Nibby 07/21/2016 at 14:07

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Turbo button!