Your vintage hardware

ohnonot · 2015-11-12 20:12:19

KrunchTime wrote:

I purchased the anniversary edition tower with a 17-inch monitor.

that was long before lcd monitors... my god, it must have been a huge cannon!

KrunchTime · 2015-11-13 09:15:41

ohnonot wrote:

KrunchTime wrote:
I purchased the anniversary edition tower with a 17-inch monitor.
that was long before lcd monitors... my god, it must have been a huge cannon!

Yes, the monitor was a beast. I'm so glad for technological progress.

jalexander9 · 2015-11-15 22:29:12

First use of computer in 1973 high school mathematics lab. A Westinghouse teletype using rotory dial-up modem to a bulletin-board time-sharing system. You had to put your name on a piece of paper on the high school bulletin board for openings at lunch or after school. Basic and Fortran were the only programming languages allowed back then. Those were the days!....or maybe not....didn't really own it...

saneks · 2015-11-16 00:17:11

still have my first c64 with orange F-keys. should be from 1982 or 1983. works!

also I still have tons of 5,25" discs in the attic. Before the internet, we used to send them by mail to get the latest demos and shit. nothing illegal, since the c64 was commercially dead by then already and consoles were the better game platforms. but there still was a thriving demo-scene back then (probably still is afaik) which I enjoyed a lot. - When the Iron Curtain fell, lots of eastern european guys started getting hold of those machines and started coding really great demo stuff. I had lots of friends all over europe in the early 90s. we were swapping demos and sending elaborate "disk-notes"/letters to each other.. like email, but slower ("snailmail") and with custom fonts, effects and MUSIC. good times for a young teenager.

imagine you get an email with a foreign postage-stamp, self-made font and music today. this was awesome back then!

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ohnonot · 2015-11-16 08:37:41

saneks wrote:

still works!

that's the main thing!

i remember playing on my cousin's C64 around the same time.
it was kinda magical how i had no clue of the OS's language, yet managed to load games with some cryptic words...
i was mesmerized.

Panda · 2015-11-16 17:23:24

@jalexander9,

That was back in the day!

People would say.. "you know, these damn things will never catch on".

Muttley Black · 2015-12-12 08:04:02

Very nice thread!

I have a Sun Ultra Enterprice 2 Server with 2X 200-MHz CPU module (UltraSPARC-I), 1 MB external cache, and Solaris 9 OS.

For the story:

By the end of 1996, Sun released its Sun Ultra 1 and Sun Ultra 2 workstations, which had a 200MHz 64-bit UltraSPARC-I CPU with 1MB of cache that could easily blow away the TurboSPARC (the Ultra 1 had one CPU, while the Ultra 2 had two CPUs). The Ultra 2 was used by Sergey Brin and Larry Page used to run BackRub (the search engine that was later renamed to Google). Ultra 2 workstation, with 2GB of RAM, it came with a steep price of $42,000 back in 1996.

Photos:

Just yesterday i change motherboard's broken smd led with a new one.

But i saw a broken tantalum capacitor that i want to replace to.

At the end, my Sun Ultra have a dead NVRAM, so i am going to do this Hack

My goal is to get this machine to max upgrade!

Thats mean that i need only ( ) 16X 128-Mbyte DSIMM, SIMM 72-pin 60-ns & 2X 400-ΜΗz Cpu's

More info's you can read here.

Thank you!

ps: I come back with one more retro machine.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-12 10:18:14

@Muttley Black -- amazing, thank you for sharing!

I ♥ Sun

deleted0 · 2015-12-12 11:15:40

My old Commodore Collection

http://alanger.net/comm/index.html

Edit:
Forgive the crudeness of my website.
I wrote it back in the 90's when I was just getting into HTML.

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Muttley Black · 2015-12-12 11:21:29

wow! Keep up the good work!!!

I am sure that are more from you guys! Post your guns! ]:D

Panda · 2015-12-12 13:47:29

@ eight.bit.al,

You've got to be an engineer

An amazing site and I really liked that I/O Switchbox, can't remember anything like that back in the day.

Panda · 2015-12-12 13:54:35

Really interesting Muttley Black,

I know 64 bit CPU's have been around forever but didn't realize they were commercially available in the 90's.. Even in servers. Though thinking about it, I suppose It makes sense.

I love this old stuff! 8)

deleted0 · 2015-12-12 20:52:24

Panda wrote:

@ eight.bit.al, An amazing site.

Thanks, you're too kind.

8bit

Muttley Black · 2015-12-13 06:20:48

@Head_on_a_Stick & Panda

Thank you very much. I really like old harware, more than new to be honest. I never had a retro pc, not even back in old days that was fresh. Now i am trying to collect some of those.

eight.bit.al wrote:

Forgive the crudeness of my website.
I wrote it back in the 90's when I was just getting into HTML.

Old hardware need an old and simple HTML coding to look beautiful. So your site is 100% suitable for your collection!

I like it very much!

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Muttley Black · 2015-12-13 11:30:02

OH BROTHER:
Look what they've done to the typewriter!

Way back in 1984, "Brother EP44" was born! This lovely typewriter, was much more than a typewritter! I got it in my hands this year in perfect condition and i am so happy for that.

For those they want to read, what this little miracle does the good old days, read HERE.

Enjoy:

Thank you!

deleted0 · 2015-12-13 12:58:58

Muttley Black wrote:

Old hardware need an old and simple HTML coding to look beautiful. So your site is 100% suitable for your collection!
I like it very much!

The perfect rational, yeah, I'm going with what you said

Check out Retr0bright:
http://www.retr0bright.com/
To remove the yellowing. Usually caused by fire retardants coming out of the plastic.

8bit

Muttley Black · 2015-12-14 08:00:11

eight.bit.al wrote:

Check out Retr0bright:
http://www.retr0bright.com/
To remove the yellowing. Usually caused by fire retardants coming out of the plastic.
8bit

To be honest, i dont want since i read this one day:

I hate to be the guy that brings bad news, but I stumbled across something I thought I had to share with you guys.
http://aktuelbevaring.natmus.dk/afrensn … right.html
It is from the National Museum in Denmark, they have tested RetroBright and will not recommend it because of structural changes in the plastic. I wrote them an e-mail aksing for further information about the test they performed. Obviously, since RetroBright consist of peroxid it will make structural changes to any plastic. They will not use it to preservation since it has a non-reversible effect.

And i have my own philosophy. People change when they grow. They get grey hair and stuff like that. Why not hardware? This is the magic.

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pvsage · 2015-12-14 08:23:47

eight.bit.al wrote:

Check out Retr0bright:
http://www.retr0bright.com/
To remove the yellowing. Usually caused by fire retardants coming out of the plastic.
8bit

Interesting. I always thought the color change was due to offgassing of plasticizers (BPAs etc) used to make the plastic less brittle.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-14 08:25:39

Muttley Black wrote:

People change when they grow. They get grey hair and stuff like that. Why not hardware? This is the magic.

+1 with bells on.

It's a patina

deleted0 · 2015-12-14 10:57:03

Muttley Black wrote:

Why not hardware? This is the magic.

I can get behind that.

8bit

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OH BROTHER:
Look what they've done to the typewriter!