There was also the one's with the funky external connector that I believe were SCSI but the pinout was proprietary and I don't know if you built an adapter if it's somehow locked to the specific drive that was intended to be used with it.
Computer nostalgia - Post your relics!
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I had a ZIP drive.
ZIP drives were engineered to be CHEAP and didn't hold up very well. I do remember seeing BIOS support for those LS120 drives.
This has like 16gb RAMS, 700GB hard drive, 17" screen, DVD, etc
Gosh, we are old.
I've upgraded this one to almost the max, A core2duo T7200 2.13ghz but I run mine at 2ghz because it undervolts a lot more at 2ghz vs 2.13, I put a 480GB SSD in it, and the RAM has been upgraded to 4GB but due to a chipset limitation no more that 3GB can be used even if you install a 64bit OS, I run 32-bit Win 7 on it.
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Couple old laptops:
GRID 286:
Texas Instruments 486 SX/25 (this one works perfectly, has WFWG 3.11 on it):
GRID 286:
Texas Instruments 486 SX/25 (this one works perfectly, has WFWG 3.11 on it):
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Inside my 8088 that no longer works, you can see the smoke residue adjacent to the slot where I've removed the card:
I can’t believe what you guys save!
I’ve probably thrown away a lot of gold so there is that
I’ve probably thrown away a lot of gold so there is that
No idea what any of that means!
I thrown away a Compaq SLT 286 in like 2006 because the power adapter or the port was screwy and I was 11 at the time and didn't have the inclination to fix this like this yet, I really wish I hadn't now but oh well.
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One of the ones I definitely wanted to keep, was thrown out. That was my little Mac Plus. My dad deep-6'd it when they moved
I also had some other older Apple systems, also gone.I also had some old BNC token ring cards, which were 16Mb/s. The token ring technology, at the time, was far superior to ethernet, because token ring access is arbitrated and ethernet was contention based. Token ring handled congestion much better than ethernet, because a busy ethernet transmitter could 'capture' the wire, this wasn't allowed in token ring. It wasn't really allowed in ethernet ether, but the 'capture' phenomena is a CSMA/CD design flaw. In modern times all ethernet is, or at least should be, full duplex, which has no collisions and no need for carrier sense.
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You were 11 in 2006?! ****, now I DO feel old! I was 8 when we got our 8088...
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Only token ring network I ever used was the one that we had at grade school that the Unisys ICON systems were connected to, but that was like grade 4 or something, lol. By the time I was able to get my hands on stuff, Ethernet was the standard.
I have a couple 486 era laptops, a 486SX-25 Gateway Colorbook with 4MB of RAM, and a Contura Aero 4/33c, which I believe has 12MB in it(4MB onboard + 8MB expansion) I'd like to expand the gateway but good look finding the proprietary RAM card these days. I think I put 98LITE Micro(98SE without IE and the Windows 95 shell) on it after experimenting with NT 3.51 and NT4.
Yeah my name is my intials, and February of 95 when I was born.
I will say though, I don't really see much practical use for most pre-Pentium laptops, because unless you get some of the very high end models that sold in small numbers, you have no onboard sound and Dual Scan screens suck, when I see people in retro computing/gaming spaces looking for a recomendation for a laptop to play old dos games on I always say to look for a Pentium era laptop with a SB compatible and an active matrix display.
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Nice! That Gateway is similar to my TI, but the TI is grayscale. I had 95 on it (loaded via floppy), tried 98, but it was a dog. It has 6MB of RAM, which it was expanded to via little individual push-in chips, lol.
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How the heck did you get into all the same old stuff as the rest of us geezers? I feel like this is akin to me liking 1960's cars, even though the pre-date me by 3 decades.
In some pictures of my Contura Aero I found one of this Parrallel port ethernet card, it's quite slow, could only hit about 40KB/s, it can apparently be faster but in the era it was designed it only supports EPP 1.7 which I guess later parallel host controllers that support EPP 1.9 or conform to the 1284-1994 standard don't work properly with some EPP 1.7 devices thus it's forced to run in SPP mode.
