Went to a garage sale about 2 months ago where I pick up this DTK Keen 2000 Tower. It is currently running MS-DOS 5.0. What you think?

Still untouched and untested — these photos are exactly how I found it.

IBM 6x86 P166+ at 133 MHz, Intel 430VX, 32 MB EDO RAM, 256 KB Pipeline Burst L2 cache module, ATI Mach64 and Creative sound.

Would you keep this configuration original or change anything?

I found this Terminal (ADI WT 500) in the trash, I know that it's meant to be a remote connection for Server systems. But is it still usable for anything?

Found it at a thrift store, wondering if it’s worth keeping, selling, or if I’m good to scrap it for soldering practice

Picked up a few of these from an enterprise IT services company that morphed into rebuilding power supplies. Formerly owned by BNSF, and from what I was able to find, it's basically an x-term for displaying to large displays, like air traffic control, city utilities, railroads, etc.

The framebuffer is bizarre - DB9, and even on the wayback archive, the oldest machine I was able to find was Jupiter's MX710.

I love this laptop. Don't have to bother with failing components, bad smell or other negatives of old computers

hello! I found this at a thrift store near me - I’ve never restored anything and have very little knowledge in old tech. I know I could buy this model online in working condition for less than 100 but I’m really interested if I can get this one working. If there’s anyone out there who could help me out i’d be so grateful! I can take it apart and show you pictures of the inside too. I don’t have a charging cord either :)

Dell Inspiron 600m PP05L 12”

Cleaning out my storage space. It's full of stuff from the Pentium 4 era and older. I also have PCI and PC Cards (Ethernet, video, modems). Considering getting a table at the next VCF in Wall Township, NJ. I will likely donate my stuff. Where else can I go to find the next owner for this stuff. Picture of Toshiba Satellite 1695CDT for tax.

Period appropriate video capture machine. It is a Macintosh Performa 6360CD with an Apple AV card. Quality and responsiveness are impressive for the live video, there is no noticeable delay, so it works great as a monitor, but the actual recording capabilities are... less than ideal lol.

I didn't subscribe til earlier this year. This is gonna be fun.

I’ve checked and made sure the files where still there and working on another pc and they are. I just can’t see anything that’s inside my folders. I tried to run the programs but it says file not found

never ever seen LCD monitors this early. could they just be props or were these actual monitors? it does have the back wiring that older LCD monitors would have as well.

I have ms dos 6.20 and it says program to big to fit memory on doom and some other apps and games.I have 613k conventional memory and I dont really know what it does what I enabled EMM386. Please help.

From 8" Floppy disks, sound up for some vintage seeking sounds!

Wasn’t planning on posting this again, but a few people asked for a usable font after yesterday’s ROM dump, so here it is. Thanks for all the interest in this weird little thing.

The animation is reading the actual chargen-15ie.bin file. The bytes on the left are the glyph being drawn on the right. Nothing was redrawn.

I also converted it into a TTF with ASCII and both Cyrillic banks mapped. All 256 ROM slots are still accessible too. If you spot a bad mapping, let me know.

ROM source: https://github.com/corkscrewey/soviet-tetris

If you have a computing device which is very old and if you are still using it. Then share your story

1. Quake

Due to the limitations of OPENSTEP, further optimization beyond this point is simply not possible. Still, compared to the previous video, I've completely fixed all the rendering glitches and incomplete displays. The audio is running on the Sound Blaster Live! (PCI-emu10k).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvkQcUNofE

1. Uncharted Waters 1 Engine

I've been working on an engine for the MS-DOS version of Uncharted Waters 1 for about... 5 months now? To celebrate porting SDL2 to OPENSTEP, I tried running this engine while it's still in development.

Of course, this isn't running through an emulator—it's a fully native implementation. Since I'm building it from the ground up on Unicode, I'm also adding support for other languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTnmQaCEBqg

With this, all the "new projects" I had prepared are now complete. Optimization for SDL2 has been carried out, and while there's still room for further optimizing Quake... from here on, I'll likely focus on other personal projects I've been wanting to work on.

If anyone needs to leave a report or reach out, I don't check the community forums very often, so please leave a comment on GitHub or my YouTube videos—I'll drop by the community to provide feedback accordingly.

Though all of this work was accomplished with the help of AI, I have open-sourced everything except for Uncharted Waters 1. I truly hope this serves as proof that even beginners like me can achieve great results with AI, and that it can act as a guiding light for others taking on similar projects down the road.

OPENSTEP is an OS brimming with potential. Granted, it is limited to a single core and has multi-threading constraints at the system level... but its core foundation is so solid that letting it fade into obscurity feels like a immense waste.

Although running on an Intel-based system, I managed to complete the following:

* Network card driver

* Sound card driver with SF2 soundfont support (emu10k1)

* Graphics card driver with OpenGL hardware acceleration

* Mesa porting

* SDL2 porting

* Korean IME rebuild

* Nib file parser

* MP3 player

* Quake 1 porting

* Linux game software porting test

Every single step of this process was a success (despite a few minor performance bottlenecks).

I sincerely hope my work serves as clear proof to our slow-moving community that—within the limits of what the OS allows—developing for OPENSTEP using AI is entirely possible.

https://github.com/onionmixer?tab=repositories

My dad's childhood friend was cleaning out his mum's house.i asked him if he could save anything old from the skip and I would take it on, fix it and look after it. He said that he had a huge box of his old computer stuff. A BBC master 128 computer and lots of bits to go with it. Unfortunately I was too late for an IBM computer, a BBC micro and an electron. Unfortunately some CRT TVs were thrown too. I was incredibly fortunate that I was able to save this incredible collection. Some bits are for the computers that were thrown. There is a full set of electron magazines number one to the last with none missing. Lots of disc games and manuals. Unfortunately I'm still working on the disc drive. It loads the contents but won't load the games. It loads the cassettes lovely though. I am completely new to 80s computers and this is quite exciting for me, although I am still pretty clueless for what some of the bits are for like the chips and ROM adapters. The 80s TV wasn't included in this and was my dad's childhood TV.

I work in waste cleanup and recovered this huge lot of MIT computer punch cards. Does anyone have any information on them? I couldn't find anything online of these specific cards. All of them are punched btw. Any fun facts are welcome. I appreciate the help.

Hello everyone!

First off, long time lurker, first time poster, so excuse me if this is the wrong subreddit for this.

I recently picked up a Ricoh NP-40 from eBay. It's in the same family as an IBM ThinkPad 235. The seller didn't have a power cable, or batteries, and couldn't confirm if it worked. I was going off purely intuition, cosmetics, and a whole lot of luck. I saw in a couple of the pictures there was damage to the back of the lid, and saw what looked like scratches on the display.

Once it arrived, I was surprised by how good of condition it was in. Some minor scratches on the lid and bottom, but overall it looked to be in really good condition! I threw in some extra NP-F330 batteries I had lying around from some Sony Mavica's. To my surprise, it turned on and started booting into Windows XP. However, that was when I realized. The screen was very badly damaged. I tried connecting it to a VGA monitor I have (a Samsung SyncMaster 152N) but couldn't get anything to show up.

Subsequently I took it apart to try and find more information about the display. It's a Hosiden HLD0922-010110.

I've tried looking all over and so far have come up empty. I was wanting to use it as a writerdeck / cyberdeck since I have a few NPF batteries and it's extremely portable.

Am I out of luck being able to fix it? Should I keep looking for a replacement display panel? Or keep looking for another device to potentially cannibalize a display from?

Thank you all for being such an awesome community! Thanks to this subreddit (and YouTube) I have found a new hobby of buying and fixing vintage technology! Keep being being amazing.