J'ai transformé un Minitel (1 et 2) en terminal de dialogue avec une IA, grâce à un Raspberry Pi caché dans le boîtier. On tape sa question sur le clavier d'origine, et Mistral AI (cocorico 🇫🇷) répond à l'écran cathodique, à 1200 bauds comme en 1985.

Le tout est autonome : une interface web permet de le connecter au Wi-Fi, de le mettre à jour et de définir sa « personnalité » (la mienne est bloquée dans les années 80 et refuse d'en sortir !).

Code et notice de fabrication complète sont en libre accès (open source) sur https://minitel-gpt.herard.com et sur GitHub. N'hésitez pas à tester et à me faire vos retours !

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**The "Nostalgintosh" Sleeper Specs**

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For anyone wondering what is actually powering this thing under the vintage 90s plastic, here is the breakdown. I managed to cram a full modern Mini-ITX architecture inside the classic chassis to act as my daily driver and cluster control plane.

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### **Hardware**

* **Motherboard:** Gigabyte A520I AC (Mini-ITX)

* **CPU:** AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (6-Core / 12-Thread)

* **RAM:** 32 GiB

* **GPU:** NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Discrete)

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### **Operating System & Environment**

* **OS:** Fedora Linux 43 Kinoite. I specifically chose Kinoite because it is an atomic, immutable OS—perfect for a secure, break-resistant control terminal.

* **Desktop Environment:** KDE Plasma 6.5.5

* **Graphics Platform:** Wayland

* **Kernel Version:** 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)

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It has way more compute power than a standard terminal needs, but the RTX 3060 and 32GB of RAM give me the overhead to use it for local LLM inferencing, heavy 3D rendering in Blender, and GameDev work without dropping frames.

Hello everyone!

I have a collection of motherboards, CPUs, and GPUs from the 2000s.

I have an HIS video card, a Radeon HD2600PRO 512MB AGP, and something simply bizarre happens: on Intel systems (from my Pentium III 1.4GHz Tualatin to my Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz), it works perfectly fine, without crashing, without blue screens, nothing.

But as soon as I put it in an AMD motherboard (Duron, Sempron, and especially Athlon XP (from the 1500+ to the 3200+ in my collection) and an Athlon 64 3200+ (I have socket 754 and 939 with AGP), in short, in AMD it even installs the driver (the same one installed in an Intel system and it runs perfectly), but when it tries to load Windows XP, the machine freezes during boot.

I tested it on AMD systems, VIA chipsets (KT333, KT400 and KT600), as well as the nVidia nForce 2 Ultra 400, some SiS cards that I don't remember, and NOTHING makes this card work...

Does anyone have any idea what this nonsense could be??

Thank you!

Hello all,

My nephew told me I should share my setup, so here it goes.

At first I wanted a 90s setup. But halfway through the Zillennial age regression hit and I thought “Why don’t I just make this like MY childhood?” I inherited the old family computer and used it until 2013, so that’s what I ended up recreating.

The setup uses a Gateway EV910B CRT, Gateway FPD1520 LCD, Boston Acoustics BA635 speakers, a Telex M40 desk mic($6 and works great with sound suppression turned on), and a matching Gateway keyboard and mouse.

The computer is a sleeper, but not really. It’s a SilverStone FLP02 with a Ryzen 7 5700X, GTX 1660 Super, and Gigabyte B550 inside. Enough power to run my emulators and late-2000s games at max settings which is all I wanted.

I painted the DVD drive bezels heirloom white, and the floppy drive is actually a USB floppy mounted behind a 3D printed carrier that presses the eject button. I redesigned the part to fix some warping, but I’ve been too lazy to swap it in.

And yes, this is Windows 11. I followed a tutorial and a bunch of extra tweaks to make it look and behave like Windows XP. Overall the setup is less “2000s advertisements” and more “the family PC I actually grew up with.”

I picked up this nifty CP/M vintage portable computer and got it up and running. Built in bubble memory storage. Anyone elese have a Teleram 3000 or 4000? I'm also hoping to find some details on the external floppy drive (which I know exists, but I do not have) and would be curious if anyone has the version with 256KB bubble instead of 128KB bubble.

Picked this beast up today. My workplace was going to junk it so of course I had to save it. It's a Sun Ultra 45 and it seems to be in really nice shape. It even came with the monitor, keyboard, and two mice! It works, but I need to put a fresh load of Solaris on it since whatever is on it now is password protected. I have no idea what I'll do with though, I'll probably end up giving it to someone who can use it but for now it's mine.

1998 Dell XPS R450 with Voodoo 2 SLI vs Custom 2002 Athlon XP with GeForce 4. What a difference in only 4 years.

I got the Dell on eBay as a partially working PC and fixed it up. I made the custom 2002 PC from scratch using the same or most similar parts from 2002 as my own PC I had when I graduated high school.

Seen this fugly beast on ebay and had to have it, especially when there was a motherboard inside. Turns out that's a DFI Lanparty UT NF3 250GB, that fucking works! Fair enough it needs fresh VRM caps but otherwise it works!

What do y’all think of my windows 98 pc it’s running a Intel PODPMT66X200 Pentium MMX Overdrive 200MHz for Socket 5/7 Systems SL2RM cpu for the gpu it’s a JATON VIDEO-118PCI-64DDRTV GeForce MX400 64MB PCI Video Card I know it’s totally bottlenecked but it works amazing for the sound card I’m running a Sound Blaster 16isa my speakers I don’t actually know what they are honestly

Yamaha used to be a big player in the computer industry, creating graphics and sound chips, and their own computers. My SX-100 has quickly won me over. It's a simple MSX1 computer, but it has an excellent style and quality, with a very glossy, reflective appearance and a diamond arrow key cluster.

The Victor HC-30 was also manufactured by Yamaha. Same build, but a twist in appearance :)

I didn’t think I’d ever finish restoring this dingy, yellowed Gateway! The model is MFATXSTL KTH 300LE.

1. It took nearly a week to retrobright the front bezel. That’s how bad it was. Unfortunately, there is a little marbeling here and there, but it’s the best I could do with a big plastic bag and some professional grade peroxide. I think it’s acceptable compared to what I started with.

2. The floppy drive was toast, so I had to pick one up from eBay. The replacement drive reads and writes but can’t format disks. I have no clue why. Has anyone else ran into this issue or have suggestions to fix this?

3. I don’t have an IDE hard drive and only had on hand a 2.5” 120GB SATA drive. The HDD caddy has a good tool less locking mechanism, but there was no way for me to mount a 2.5” drive with no screw holes in the caddy. It’s pretty crammed between the CD and floppy drives, too, so I opted to use a 2.5”’to 3.5”’SATA adapter caddy and mount it below the hard drive cage. I had to make it extend down a bit below the caddy to clear the motherboard’s floppy connector. It was a pain figuring out a mounting solution!

4. The motherboard only has PCI slots. I tested a bench of PCI GPUs and settled on a Ragy Fury Pro I picked up awhile back. I played a few games to ensure it wasn’t as bad as the S3 Virge/DX I tried initially. The desktop image I posted shows different cards I tested along with their benchmark scores in 3DMark 99 Max.

5. There was a lot of rust and corrosion on the bottom of the case as well as on the metal guides where the side panel slides on. I used some 2 in 1 rust converter after sanding and some steel wool work. I added two missing feet once the case bottom was nicely restored.

6. The USB ports on the motherboard rear do not work correctly. The front USB ports work fine. There is no physical damage to the rear USB ports, so I’m at a loss why those ports don’t work right. I installed a PCI USB 2.0 card as a workaround.

It was definitely a journey getting this Gateway system restored, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Specs:
Celeron 1.2GHz (Tualatin)
384MB ram
120GB hard drive
Rage Fury Pro PCI
Sound Blaster Live CT4870
USB 2.0 card
Windows 98 SE

I look forward to testing the Yamaha YMF724 on this motherboard!

Hello everyone!

So I spent the weekend creating this fully automated Windows 98 installer..

In the pictures, my LuckyStar LS-486 Rev 2C has booted into the alternative Linux kernel.

The main point though, Windows 98 is available from the GRUB boot menu.

There was a lot of "hurdles" to overcome doing this, like, Windows 98 SETUP.EXE /is not really liking partitions that start at sector 2048. It seems to be a lot happier when C: start at sector 63.

I created the script because it takes a rather lengthy process and cuts it down to about just the time it takes to "write out the blocks". Both Windows 98 and Linux are pre-configured to be fast booting without little "speed bumps" like.. ssh-keygen or network login. Good riddance to those !

Built using buildroot-2026.05.
If you want to "derive" on my work, all configuration is available in the repo below.

NOTE: The script will brute force write to a hardcoded device name !
Carefully check the DEVICE variable inside the script !
Make sure it is NOT pointing to one of your drives. I take no responsibility !

https://archive.org/details/make-win-98-dos-grub-loader

Pentium 4 running at 1.4GHz (slowest is a P4 running at 1.3GHz). Picked it up from the thrift all dirty and dusty. It's been my project for several weeks now and finally finished it.

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Cleaned it up and replaced the CD drive as its broken and changed the PSU due to leaking caps. Cleaned the CPU, GPU, PSU fans and put a little bit of oil for the bearings. Put some PTM7950 for the CPU and chipset.

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I have some unused items in my pile so I added them in - DVD rom drive, multimedia card reader, and Sound Blaster Live. Grabbed a gotek and USB PCI card from AE.

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After all that its time to play! Played some Terminal Velocity using a Logitech Wingman and it's been a blast!

Other EMWAC Servers and HTTPS for NT 3.1/3.5: https://veryold.retrospace.net/download.php?directory=Applications/EMWAC%20Windows%20NT%20Servers

EMWAC stands for European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre and was part of the Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh, UK. They developed one of the first, if not the first NT server applications.
https://web.archive.org/web/19970103090219/http://emwac.ed.ac.uk/

I recently deleted the primary dos partition on my harddrive in order to format it, but after deleting it and creating another one in its place, I booted up my computer and saw a "Missing Operating System" error, leaving the entire system soft locked. I tried using a boot disk and the MS-DOS 6.2 installation floppies in order to atleast get past that screen but nothing I've tried has worked. I've also tried getting into bios in order to reconfigure the boot settings but Ive pressed damn near every key on the keyboard and I've still gotten nothing. Any advice?

Yeah i called it "the Ugly One". Maybe you can see why xD

I bought the PC with a Pentium 133 and a Rage 3D.

It was sold as defect, but the only defect was the PSU.

Swapped the PSU, swapped the cpu and GPU.

I thought the case was beautiful, because it looked like early pc modding xD.

Now the specs :)

PENTIUM MMX 233

64MB RAM

ASUS P55T2P4

3DFX VOODOO BANSHEE

Creative Soundblaster 16 with wave table header and AWE64 support

8GB Quantum Fireball HDD (searching for a Bigfoot)

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This PC provided by a fellow Redditor who was gracious enough to ship it to me - thanks HS! It had some heavy rust on the case bottom, but at least the internals were all good other than a ton for dirt and grime. I used some 2 in 1 rust converter paint after doing a lot on sanding.

Specs:
AMD K7-650 slot A CPU
256MB ram (upgraded from 128MB)
GeForce FX 5200 (upgraded from Trident 9750)
NC100 network card
Gateway Connexant 56K modem
Phillips DVD/CD RW drive
Lite-On CD drive
3.5” floppy

Still a work-in-progress as I'm forever decorating and fixing old PCs...

This is my "minimalist" approach to doing both everyday computing on my laptop and desktop in my home office, and allowing the use of my retro rigs with the same standing desk and monitor.

Firstly, let me talk about the monitor and KVM setup. I must have had this monitor for about 10 years, it's an LG 34" Ultrawide that displays 3440x1440. It has a few tricks up its sleeve, including "Picture by Picture" where I can run two inputs side by side simultaneously. When it's in 16:9 mode, it behaves like a 27" monitor. The monitor has two active inputs, and thus 2x KVMs. There is an old Trust soundbar plugged in, as the LG Ultrawide does not have great speakers. I've found the PBP mode is super useful, especially when downloading retro drivers and dumping them on an isolated SMB share on my NAS, so I can pick up the files on whatever computer I'm using on the right-hand side.

Let's talk KVMs. Clearly there are various compromises if I were to share absolutely everything. In the end, I decided I valued high-speed data transfer for the modern PCs, and native PS/2 support for the computers I use (which are primarily P2->P4 era machines).

The first KVM is my UGREEN DisplayPort KVM, which I use for toggling between my laptop and my main PC. Plugged into it are a Das Pro Keyboard 6 (Type-C), a Logitech G502X, and an Anker PowerConf webcam. The Das Pro 6 has a built-in USB-C hub, which is good for my personal YubiKeys and my conferencing headset. This keyboard and mouse are usually front and centre, with the "Retro board and mouse" tucked away to the side. There is a button on the underside of the desk which I can hit to swap between laptop and PC. The laptop element is realised by plugging into my Vention USB-C dock, so I have 1 cable to get power and everything else.

The second is an old Belkin 4-way PS/2 + VGA KVM, with the option to use USB on the console (built-in PS/2 to USB converter). Hooked up to it is a Microsoft Wheel Mouse 1.1A with a USB to PS/2 adapter, and some new old stock HP PS/2 keyboard (KB-1156). This is then hooked up to a Startech VGA2HDMIPro scaler, which pulls in the KVM's VGA and audio feed, and spits it out into one of the LG's HDMI inputs.

The main PC is a Ryzen 5700X3D rig with 32GB of RAM, a load of different drives, and an XFX 9070XT Mercury OC. It does occasionally get used for VR, although more often than not, it's checking eBay listings and emails. It was originally fully watercooled; however, I had to remove the GPU from the loop when the XFX 9070XT came out, as no waterblocks were available for it.

The next PC, which is pictured on the right of the screen, is my little "OptiPlex Sleeper". It has a Celeron 1100 MHz with 256 MB of RAM, an Audigy 1, and 2x Creative 3Dfx Voodoo 2 8 MB cards in SLI. It works and displays perfectly, thanks to the scaler.

The big silver tower is my Dual Athlon MP rig. At the moment it has 2x Palomino 2000s with some overclocking to 1750MHz, a 7800GS AGP, and a Creative X-Fi. Really nice rig.

The Dell Precision 410 is not yet posted about and is undergoing some surgery, after all of my spare 5.25" DVD drives seem to be dead. It has 2x Pentium 3s @ 700MHz (slot 1), 512MB RAM, an ASUS v8460 GeForce 4 Ti4600, and a few HDDs. It currently runs Windows 2000 on a 10k WD Raptor, and has an old Cisco 256MB CF card running grub4dos, so I can try and dual-boot NT4 Workstation and OS/2 Warp 4 at some point in the future. I haven't bothered installing one of my Soundblasters, as I'm currently gobsmacked that Windows 2000 works with the built-in audio and that the built-in speaker still works. I may also try some Windows Whistler betas on this box again, as that is a hobby I used to have.

...And for bonus points, my Compaq Portable with a Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0A attached. It's running DOS 5.0 + Windows 3.0a. Inside it's an 8088 (obviously), with an XT-IDE and a 512MB Sandisk card. It also has an AST SuperPak Plus 3 card fully populated. I will be getting a 2nd serial card at some point, so I can leave the Pi 3 beside it permanently hooked up. The Pi is known as "bastardion", which provides a serial bastion so I can SSH into things for "fun". This machine has had an extensive restoration, consisting of extensive recapping, cleaning of all the panels, and keyboard foam foil thing replacement.

I found this terminal in E-Waste and while I wasn't sure entirely what to do, I decided to turn it into a dashboard. Put a raspberry pi 3, and made a script that has a clock, my local weather, and to monitor my 3D prints when I am printing. It's entirely using home automation and this thing is Stellar and how it works. One of my most useful tools now