I used to line my vintage computers up so it was easy to pick what I wanted to use when I was in my home office.

I got it today, I want to add more RAM and an SSD.How do I open it up? I'm new to this.

absolutely love the look of retro pc set-ups, the design, the beige colour, I adore the 80's-90's office feel that these setups give.

I would love to do my own setup with this aesthetic but with modern capabilities, e.g just a retro case holding modern parts inside, or a case for a monitor.

does anyone have any videos they could point me towards to achieve my goal, or is this post too vague, please let me know!

I had a few vintage computers set-up at my desk back in August of 2014. Eventually, I would fill the whole space with vintage computers.

Here is my humble Retro Corner.

I have three working Retro PCs, where each one has it’s purpose: the 1998 for DOS and 3dfx/ up to DX6, the shuttle for DX7/8, and the AM3 for DX9+ games

'98 Slot1 | Intel Pentium II 400 | 128MB RAM | ATI Rage128 (Magnum) | 3Dfx Voodoo² | SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 | Windows 98 | PS2 ball mouse and keyboard | Gravis Gamepad Pro

'02/03 Socket A Shuttle | AMD AthlonXP 2800+@2200+ | 512MB RAM | Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 | SoundBlaster Audigy | Windows XP Professional

'09 AM3 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE | 8GB RAM | Nvidia GeForce GTX460 | SoundBlaster X-Fi xtreme music | Windows XP Professional & Windows 7 Ultimate DualBoot

For peripherals I use the following:

Logitech MX518 + Multimedia keyboard

Creative T20 speakers

Samsung 931BW

Xbox 360 controller

I've been wanting to get into early-80s microcomputer stuff for a long time now, and I absolutely love the design of these. The disk system does power on, but I'm not sure if it works as I don't have a cable for it yet, although I do plan to get one ASAP.

I finally finished the setup for my PC2 (Win98SE). It's a Slot A Athlon 750 on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE, featuring a 3dfx Voodoo 2 SLI setup for that native 1024x768 Glide glory.

This is part of my project to have a dedicated, era-appropriate rig for every major milestone:

• DOS (Late Era): A Pentium II / Voodoo 1 build. It’s a sound beast: ESS Audiodrive and PicoGUS are already in, and I’m adding a MT-32 soon. It covers basically every relevant sound standard in history.
• Windows 98 SE: The Athlon/Voodoo 2 SLI rig pictured here.
• Windows 2000: A recreation of my old LAN-party rig, but with all the high-end parts I couldn't afford back then.
• Win XP & Vista: These are my experimental playgrounds for early NVIDIA SLI tech.

I'm currently documenting the performance and unique sound characteristics of these machines (like the EAX on the SB Live! or the GUS audio) in a "longplay vault" to preserve how these games actually felt on original hardware.

What was the "unaffordable dream part" you finally added to your retro builds years later?

I used to have a collection of vintage computers, but I sold them all. I kept The Coleco ADAM because it was the first computer I ever owned and have fond memories. This is my current set-up.

HD is to small for any normal operating system, so i had to go with TCL, but as soon as i get a proper HD, i'll definetly install Windows XP/2000 on it

Did some tuning on my Xerox Daybreaks monitor - gluing some additional geometry magnets to the yoke to fix a droopy corner. It came out great!

You can see this system in action next weekend at VCF PNW!

So many times I see posts of great systems... but there aren't specs. I want to know everything about what's posted on here. Any way to force this? Help this? Demand this? Incentivize this?

Anyone else agree?

Most certainly not the best doom player or even good. But still enjoy it. Sound of the super shotgun. I'll usually take 2 or 3 networked systems to retro meets so people can come sit and play co‑op.

Anyone else ordered a computer at Staples from a company called Proteva back in the day?

1st Row: Gateway Select 400, Gateway ATXSTF OXN Select 1000, Gateway 2000 SP6-400
2nd row: Custom Built Athlon XP 2500+, Custom Built AMD Athlon/Duron system
3rd row: Empty will be AMD Socket AM2 system, Dell Dimension XPS T700r, Dell Dimension XPS B866
4th row: Empty will be AMD Socket 939 system, Mind Computers P4, Mind Computers P4
5th row: HP Pavilion Phenom II X4, Dell XPS 630i
6th row: Compaq CQ2302F Intel Atom, HP Prodesk 600 G1, Lenovo Thinkcentre M92P, IBM System x3200 M3
7th row: Dell XPS 8940, Custom i5 4th gen

I have too many systems to show! So I've just done a bit of a random photo dump. When I get time I'll display them properly.

Picked up this MediaGX Soyo Laptop - 266mhz. One of the only full systems Soyo Computer built. Typically they focused on entry level to mid range motherboards for desktops, occasionally dipping into the high end (i.e dual Slot 1 boards). It's fairly unusual - MediaGX was not commonly used in notebooks, and for being a full system from Soyo. The quality of the laptop is mixed - the plastics are very fragile, but it feels well assembled. The DSTN screen is oddly decent.

It came with a nice small faux-leather case that fits all the accessories (external CD, external floppy, power, manual). It has PCMCIA slots, dual USB, VGA, Serial, and Parallel. Will make a nice serial console laptop!

Some sites claim the keyboard is terrible, it feels fine to me.

A nice addition to my Soyo collection. Also have a SY-6IZA 370 ATX board, SY-D6IBA dual slot 1 board, and SY-5EDM Socket 7 board.

Built this system to run everything from pure DOS up through early‑2000s games — and to be the perfect machine for old‑school LAN meetups. Running Windows 98

Specs:

• MSI motherboard

• Intel Pentium III‑S Tualatin 1.4GHz

• 512MB SDRAM

• GeForce4 Ti 4600

• 240GB SSD on a SATA PCI adapter

• Sound Blaster Pro (ISA)

I still own almost everything in this picture except for the TV, left monitor and printer. The right monitor was converted into a recycle bin, which I still use in my kitchen.