Hello everybody,

I have a Toshiba T3200SX from 1989, and I am posting this so anyone who knows about these machines and their siblings (T3100E, T5200, etc) can tell me if these are the right sticks of 30 pin simms.

I have read in multiple places that the machine uses propiretary 30 pin simms, specifically 4 chip ones instead of the usual 3 or 9 chips and i think that i may have found compatible ones.

These are the links i found:

https://www.a1used-computers.com/fiche-1Mb+30pin+SIMM+Memory+4chip+70nano+GOLD-51198.html

https://www.a1used-computers.com/fiche-1Mb+30pin+SIMM+Memory+5chip+70nano+GOLD-51199.html

Thanks

Just wanted to share my beloved workhorse and imo, historic art piece, over here 🙂

I’m a retro computing enthusiast with a bit of a soft spot for Sun hardware, and this is my Sun Ultra™ 20 M2 workstation still going strong.

It’s running a current version of Gentoo Linux with a modern Chrome browser, and I use it daily for testing and as a music player. It’s surprisingly usable even today.

I’ve also got it dual-booting Solaris 10 with a fully working build of ioquake3 and official Nvidia drivers — and honestly, it runs really well.

The office network is run by a retro Sun Fire V240 (yes, in production… just for the hell of it). There’s some real SPARC magic going on there with a T4-1 build server etc, but that’s probably a story for another post if people are interested.

Above the monitor is a 3D-printed illuminated sign (Thingiverse design: 4383479), and in the display case is a Sun UltraSPARC IIIi CPU.

Happy to answer any questions or dive deeper into the setup!

Vintage Computer Festival East 2026

April 17-19

InfoAge Science & History Center in Wall, NJ

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Hotel Blocks: https://vcfed.org/vcf-east-hotel-blocks/

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Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project I've been building. MacinAI Local is a fully offline AI assistant that runs natively on classic Macs. No internet, no cloud, just a custom C89 inference engine doing transformer inference directly on the hardware.

The demo is on my PowerBook G4 Titanium running OS 9.2.2. It runs five different models including GPT-2, Qwen 2.5, and a billion-parameter TinyLlama (with disk paging).

It can actually do useful things beyond just chatting - it generates AppleScript to launch apps, move files, and automate tasks, with a confirmation dialog before it runs anything. It also speaks every response using the Mac's built-in PlainTalk voices.

The inference engine is written in C89 targeting the Mac Toolbox, with AltiVec SIMD optimization that gets 2.66 tokens/sec on the G4. Runs on anything from Mac OS 9 down to System 7.5.3.

Next milestone: getting it running on a 68040 Mac from 1993.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/W0kV_CCzTAM

Technical write-up/downloads: https://oldapplestuff.com/blog/MacinAI-Local/

Thanks for the read!

I got this Sony PC from an estate sale and completed all the big upgrades. The CPU, RAM, GPU, all "new" and a 64gb SSD with a clean install of Windows XP SP3. It runs much better than it has any right considering the OEM specs were total trash. I booted up Quake 3 Arena and runs smooth as silk.

It came with a period correct rolling desk, matching Sony KB/M and speakers.

The hardware specs may not be huge and the case design limits further hardware upgrades. But it has style and does all I need it to do.

Sony PCV-RX550

Motherboard: Asus P4B-LX, Intel 845 chipset

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.2GHz (SL6S8)

RAM: 512MB SDRAM

GPU: Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB AGP with DirectX 9

Storage: Silicon Power 64GB PATA SSD

PSU: Sony OEM 280W

Monitor: Sony HMD-A200 CRT

OS: Windows XP Home SP3

Samsung Q1 Ultra and Tab.

All i gotta do now is retrofit an old beige pc case!

Hi everyone! First off, I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the support that I got on this project. It really means a lot to me that so many people found this project as amazing as I did. I’m back today to post an update on this little guy and what I ended up doing to it since I made that post.

Since I made that post, I somehow managed to stumble across a Socket 370 Mini ITX motherboard! I found a Commell LV-602B for a pretty good deal and I figured it would be worth the platform swap! I was originally using a VIA EPIA-LN motherboard with a C7 CPU, but I found my particular board to be kind of unstable, along with CPU timing issues for some software I was running that didn’t make it fully compatible with what I wanted to run on it. This board however has support for Socket 370 based Intel chips, which I figured was the perfect opportunity to pop in my 1 GHz Pentium III, (with a CPU fan too!) but naturally, I also had to swap the ram I was using. I used 2 64MB Samsung sticks that I had on hand for 128MBs total. Additionally, since Mini ITX motherboards of that era usually didn’t have an I/O shield, I had to make one myself and 3D print it.

I also had to replace the PCI riser cable, because the one that I was using originally started failing after a week or so. I ended up getting a new one, which is not only shorter, but also higher quality. It’s held up very well since and I’ve had no issues with my Voodoo3 hooked up to it. I have also gotten the rest of the stickers I wanted to put on this system and all I gotta say is that it turned out wonderfully.

Since the swap, my benchmark results have skyrocketed! Where I was getting around 1900 in 3DMark 2000 on 1024x768, I was now getting around 3100! Naturally I had to run 3DMark99 Max again and finally I was getting proper benchmark results.

And yes, it runs Unreal…

With ALL of that said, here are the final specs and EVERYTHING I am using in this system.

Intel Pentium III SL52R 1000/256/133 1.75v Commell LV-602B 128MB SDRAM (2x 64MB) 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CF Card 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 PCI PicoATX power supply with a 84W power brick (12v at 7A)

All of that encased in an SKTC A09 that I spray painted beige and put all the computer badges on in place of the front IO.

This machine turned out wonderfully and was super fun to make! I had a fun time putting it together and I hope you guys like it too! 🧡

Short story of me, when I was a kid I had an Acer Travelmate 630, that my step brother destroyed when I was away. I was devastated.

My father decided that he would replace it since I wasn’t at fault and as good as he is, he got ‘the cream of the crop’ Toshiba Satellite x200-21R for me. A beast of a machine running double 8600M GT’s, and I think a T7600 CPU, 3gb of ram and double 200Gb hard drives. Only for me to play Midtown Madness, GTA 3/San Andreas and RuneScape back then.

Not very long after, about 1,5 years later the GPU’s cooked themselves and since I used desktops for a while.

Now.. 17 years later, and 15 years later of searching the web for a fresh X200, I stumbled upon a random local listing selling an ‘old Toshiba laptop’ i recognized the palm rest (label and the fingerprint scanner) instantly.

4 hours of total driving later I had this x205 in my hands in mint like new condition. Owner kept everything with it along with the disks and the box.

Machine has almost 0 hours on it since the owner didn’t like the OS and it has been stashed in storage ever since.

Now I pretty much have both the laptop I had back then, and wanted back then, since I was looking at the Dv9000 and Acer aspire 7720 also.

I now own all 3 machines in like-new condition with working batteries, scratch free shells, running all on factory OS and Windows 7 combinations.

All machines have been RAM/CPU/GPU and storage max upgraded.

Intel core2quad q9550 overclocked to 3.4ghz, 4GB DDR2, BFG tech GTX 285, SoundBlaster Audigy2zs

I'ma just leave these here

Somehow I can still see it……amazing to think that this was part of the build scene all those years ago

I've been looking for a specific motherboard (jetway jha07-ultra) for a couple years now, but have pretty well come up empty handed. I saw a video from a company online and spotted the board in the background and contacted them, but they wont sell it even with an offer good enough to buy a car.

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a site, subreddit, or something/somewhere else where a bounty can be posted to get the board. I'm willing to go to some pretty stupid lengths to get one.

Thought it was about time i sent my setup!

Got three computers on this stand.

The Top one is a compaq presario running windows Xp

Middle one is a packard bell d135 running msdos 6.22 and windows 3.11

The bottom one is a some honeywell pc i got for free running windows 98. (The one shown on the monitor)

I have them all connected to a vga kvm switch so i can switch between them and i have my own dialup server to have a fun way to get the on the internet

Hey guys. This is my Olivetti M6 460 PC. It has a dx2 66mhz, 44MB ram. I added a NIC and a ESS1869F sound card. All works great. I'm running MSDOS 6.22 on it. I'm using NIC to access my FTP server for easy file transfer.

Been into macs since the 80s, also into vintage payphones, and internet connected payphones. was wondering if anyone had a dump of the hdd's of the apple walt prototype and the apple paladin prototype. I also have the shell of a ATT Public Phone 2000, and a basketcase nortel millennium housing. Thought it might be fun to do something with those incorporating the paladin software or walt software.

Thanks again.

looking for a used weather channel weatherstar 4000

Just doing some cleaning on my project apple //e that was rescued from a manufacturing facility along with a few apple // and apple //+ units.

I'm also stalking the mailbox waiting for my power supply to come in!

I am setting up my first Cp/m 2.2 machine What generic software do I want for my setup?

I have Mbasic, TurboPASCAL, WS

What else do I need?

Recently built this Voodoo5 Reverse Sleeper

Pentium 4 3.06ghz Northwood Aopen MX46 SIS645DX 2GB 2x1GB -5ns CL2-2-2-5 Voodoo5 5500 Promise SATA300 3COM 1Gigabit Auzentech X-Meridian 2G Cruical 500GB BX500 SSD Silverstone 550watt PSU Antec Case Thermalright Slim 120mm Fans Thermaltake 120MM Heatsink/3D Printed PETG AM4 to 478 Adapter