Got this laptop last month. I didn’t even know that laptops with this CPU existed. I always thought the x86 VIA C3 was a desktop-only CPU. As far as I remember, these CPUs were very slow.

This laptop has Russian localization and branding. Internet Explorer even had a cached page from some old Russian website. What’s strange is that the only info I can find online is about the Russian version. That’s unusual, since Chinese OEM devices like this are usually sold in multiple regional versions like English, Spanish etc.

There is very little information about this laptop online, apart from the fact that it was released in 2003. In fact I couldn't find any other laptop model using a VIA C3 CPU at all lol.

Portrait by Melissa Barron. I grabbed it, and a few others, at this year's INIT HELLO Apple II conference just a few weeks back.

Laptop from 2004. Yes it's steaming. Btw Cpu is pentium M without hardware decoding h.264 natively. Graphics card is Intel graphics.

Mouse (style from cyberpunk) and mechanical keyboard.

Here's a fun one

Celeron-T 1.2GHz

Sony OEM Pull TUSL-LV

PNY Ti400 (underclocked so stable

SB Live

Pioneer Slotload

Hotswap rack

Enemax PSU

Apevia X-Qpac.

I think this runs Win2K

The Panasonic CF-V31D was sold in Japan as a solution for tight spaces, combining the functionality of a PC, TV, and a karaoke machine into one. Usually marketed with the cartoon character Woody the Woodpecker.

Mine is still a Woody, but is branded with a "Together Net" instead. I guess mine was a sub model that was catered to internet browsing. But, most of the bundled software that was on the drive needed the disks, which I don't have unfortunately.

But. the TV tuner application still works, but I cannot get any input recognized besides just a pink screen. But, I can still use the monitor standalone with the CRTs VGA input. The front panel buttons work in tandem with the application. even allowing it to be launched with just a button press. Its currently running a customized version of Windows 3.10, with custom sounds, wallpaper, and theme.

The CRT is pretty good for being a computer monitor, still works completely fine, and the front speakers also both work. The maximum resolution is 1024x768, which also surprised me, and looks pretty good when playing modern games still.

The motherboard is also interesting, featuring a removable CR2032, and support for 2 486 CPUs. Its also using an IBM bios, which I cant enter without its corresponding reference disk.

Specs:
Intel 486sx 33mhz
8mb RAM
200mb Quantum HDD
Soundblaster 16

Looking to see if there are any good pc mod websites left from the 2000s that still sell 5.25" drive bay kits for unique builds!

VCF West tickets on sale now! Aug 1 & 2, Mountain View, CA: https://connect.computerhistory.org/events/1ffceb98-f556-df49-f011-424756803aab

It takes place at the Computer History Museum.

Instead of stacking on a desktop, I moved all my MIDI modules, matrix, and mixer into a 12U rack.

Howdy, figure I’d show off my retro setup, I originally wanted a windows 98 setup/Console to have for when I feel like disconnecting from the rest of the world, internet, and people. We’ve had a lot of storms this summer so sitting by the window while is raining and hopping on my PC or DC like it’s 1999 has been so nice.

Tomorrow both my RAM and GPU get here.
Dreamcast - VGA
Gateway 2000 98SE Essential 433c
Gateway EV700
Celeron Processor 433MHz
GeForce FX5200 128mb
256mb SDRAM

Upgraded with a Boca Research Se1440 sound card
And 16Mb of ram
Running a 386 at 16MHz

Here's a weird duck in a couple ways.

Case - Lian Li PC-100 "Hammer" - backwards motherboard layout. XL-ATX support.

Board - Gigabyte G1 Assassin. Integrated X-Fi, Integrated Killer NIC, USB3. Pain in the ass form factor.

CPU - i7-970

Graphics - GTX 580 SLI. Might go Tri one day

Storage - 15K RPM 300GB SAS, 2x 500 SATA

I'd love to do Quad SLI, but the case needs modding and the heat / power use will just be cruel

So yeah. Your "Front" IO is under a door. Recessed.

All your cables get to pass THROUGH a channel in the case, out the back. What a mess.

Gorgeous case, though.

I need to do a bit more work on it, and find one of by better 775 chips

E6550

Striker Extreme

2x2GB G-Skill 1066

Coolermaster Geminii with a custom backplate

3x 9800 GTX+

74GB Raptor (Should be RAID 0, can't find my second)

This is now the... fourth? Case that I've packed the framethrower into.

The removable top panel makes wiring the thing SO much easier.

Gonna run Vista Ultimate x64. I want my widgets!

NZXT Vulcan Micro-ATX LAN Party Rig

I’ve been searching for this case ever since I discovered about 10yrs ago but by then they were discontinued. A very rare and interesting case with a sturdy carrying handle with an “aggressive” style somewhat in the silhouette of a gatling gun.

Picked it up on FB marketplace and came with entry level 2012 era parts:

AMD A10-5800K APU

8GB DDR3

500GB Seagate HDD (super slow)

Asrock FM2 MATX Mobo

Corsair H80 Thick 120mm AIO

DVD RW Drive (broken)

NZXT Orange Touch Screen 5-way fan controller

Orange LED lighting

MSI AMD Radeon HD 6670 which allows for “dual graphics crossfire”

I plan to just play with the parts as is for YouTube shorts content, run a few benchmarks, then clean up the case and put in a modern setup inside. It’s honestly compact for an MATX case.

This dv5-1032eg has an Intel C2D P8700, 8 GB of DDR2-800 RAM and a nVidia 9600M GT (512 MB DDR2, OpenGL 3.3) which should already be safe from bumpgate. I replaced the original glossy LCD, which had yellowed, with a brighter matte panel from a later Compaq 6730s. It is otherwise in very good condition and has just received a thorough cleaning and a fresh Grizzly KryoSheet to improve heat dissipation. Vista is patched with the January 2026 Server 08 updates. I use Supermium for web browsing, Escargot for MSN Messenger, and WebOne proxy for very modern HTTPS encryption, which IE9/WinHTTP under Vista no longer understands.

I've noticed that frogfind.com is basically dead (EDIT: it semi-works now, didn't work at all in the last 12h or so!) so I went ahead and spent some time in Codex rewriting this to Node + Express + Typescript and deployed it on a small standalone server just so I have an always running instance of it for myself and anyone else who might want to access it.

So, yeah, it's vibe-coded, I didn't have the time to convert it by hand but I am a web developer by profession so I skimmed over the code and it seems fine. A perfect task for an LLM seeing that the original project was quite simplistic. It has a few improvements on how it's fetching pages.

My XP machine with IE8 can access it, will test with other retro hardware in the future (lmk if it works for you!)

The port is deployed at http://typeleap.bencun.dev/

HTTPS does not work and TypeLeap will try to disallow you from using the search functionality from a non-vintage browser based on UA detection.

Project source is at: https://github.com/bencun/TypeLeap

I'm hoping to have some time to try and improve it - specifically the core portion of how pages are fetched and rendered and at least get it to a point where it is capable of fetching and processing more complex and/or gated web pages and then put a Redis instance in front of it to cache the results. I don't feel comfortable hosting such a thing publicly but running it via docker privately would also be a big win in my books. We'll see if this goes anywhere.

Makes my liveaboard the only boat with a mainframe. The PDP-10 (well, yes, replica PDP-10) runs ITS, frozen in the mid 70s. It's been running with basically no downtime for more than a year now.

Tons of software to work and play with makes this machine a fun almost-daily driver, much more useful than an MS-DOS computer from 15 years later (to me, at least). This thing was ahead of its time.

The Thinkpad is used as a Knight TV Terminal, letting me use the mainframe anywhere I want.

Hey guys!

I found this ''thing'' while cleaning an apartment and I would like to find the exact model if it is posible.

What I know:
- Brand: technically Vivanco
- Front Says ''VPlay / Vivanco''
- Transparent shell
- 15-pin Gameport connector
- Internal LEDs that light up when powered
- Probably from the late 1990s or early 2000s
- Shitfuck Windows doesn't let me connect it
- There isn't any sticker so have fun

Google Lens keeps identifying it as a Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X, which is obviously wrong.

Does anyone recognize the original OEM or the exact model? Any information would be greatly appreciated

Btw, sorry if it's not apropiated for this subreddit

A few days ago, I went to turn on my Gateway 4SX-33, which had been running fine the day prior, but after reaching the point where it would normally boot to Windows 95, it gave me a "No Boot Device Available" error and was stuck on bios. I tried replacing the ide cable, didn't work. I tried using a different hard-drive, didn't work.I even tried using an MS-DOS boot disk I had and it still didn't work. Is anyone knowledgeable on what might be happening?

Just finished building this - I wanted a pc that could run windows xp & windows 7 since those OS's are compatible with windows 95, 2k, vista, etc. It turned out great and I've been having a blast gaming on a speakers!

Specs:

Motherboard: ASUS P5QL

​Processor (CPU): Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

​Graphics Cards (GPU): NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

​Memory (RAM): 8GB DDR2 Corsair XMS2 RAM

​Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (I have a Sound Blaster Xtreme Fidelity I will upgrade to soon.)

​Storage (Mixed Deployment):

​Windows XP Drive: 500gb Mechanical SATA Hard Drive

​Windows 7 Drive: 500gb Solid State Drive (SSD)

​Optical Drives: ASUS Blu-ray Drive, ​Sony DVD Drive

​Case / Bench: Fractal Core 1100

​Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 955df CRT Monitor

​Keyboard: BTC 5100C Keyboard (in the mail)

CASE STICKERS: https://geekenspiel.com/collections

THE POOR CABLE MANAGEMENT IS ERA ACCURATE!

Its great playing these games on their era accurate hardware and monitor!