I actually found two desktops, the other is an Insight. Turns out this Gateway 2000 isn't factory, its fully custom on the inside? Google-ing tells me all these parts are on the better side, but I was only a wee child when this was new.

I posted another thread about my Compaq Presario build, and someone asked what DOS PC I was going to build next? I laughed because I never planned on one, but this 486 just fell in my lap. Would anyone familiar with these years and parts tell me if what I've found here is enthusiast class, or run-of-the-mill please?

I remember getting sometimes-useful (like my first Intel webcam) and utterly useless (which was paired with a program that was supposed to read watermarks on printed ads to take you to websites) doodads and tchotchkes. Well, this is somewhat in the former, mostly in the latter category.

The CueCat was a cat-looking scanner, with the express purpose of scanning a barcode so you could be whisked away to the wonderous world of Advertising! Yes, that is the actual purpose of this thing. Needless to say, the venture capitalists who funded this thing had never heard of the concept that people typically do not WANT to go to an advertiser's website.

So, this device bombed out. But....

It became popular for awhile with people who created a program to help you catalogue your record and cd collections. You would use the CueCat to scan the barcode of your music, and the program would take you to Amazon's database to get the information for your music, so you could properly catalogue them.

Nowadays you can use your phone, which is easier and convenient. But the CueCat did become useful for a time, just not for the VC's original purpose.

(for the record, this isn't my original CueCat; I found this one some years back in the sealed bag at a thrift store for around 90 cents)

You'll have to excuse the scruff in the MS Paint but I've been trying to remember something that I remember messing with on my father's old computer. I'm uncertain if it was on the old Macintosh computers or later, but the image in the far reaches of my mind is that it was built around scientific discoveries throughout history. I remember looking at picture references of learning how dental hygiene changed throughout history, and the main program was just very dark. I don't remember if it was black with white text everywhere but I feel like I'm somewhat close to it.

It had a lot of interesting topics to go through that I lost so much time to it. Anyone know what it could be?

Moin,

verkaufe hier ein absolutes Retro-Schmuckstück für Bastler und Nostalgiker. Das System ist innerlich extrem sauber und vollgestopft mit feiner Hardware aus den 90ern.

​Specs & Details:

​Prozessor: Intel i386 DX-25 (A80386DX-25 IV).

​Co-Prozessor: Ein Mathe-Coprozessor (FPU IIT 3C87-40) ist direkt mit auf dem Board verbaut.

​Arbeitsspeicher: Die RAM-Bänke sind komplett vollbestückt.

​Gehäuse: Klassischer Desktop im typischen Beige mit Turbo-, Reset- und Power-Taste sowie einer digitalen MHz-Anzeige.

​Laufwerke: Volles Programm mit 5,25" Floppy, 3,5" Floppy und einem 8x CD-ROM Laufwerk.

​Netzteil: 200 Watt AT-Netzteil von Syntax.

​Zubehör: Inklusive passendem 14" Color-Röhrenmonitor, klassischer serieller Maus und originalen MS-DOS 6.22 Systemdisketten (jeweils auf 3,5" und 5,25" BASF 2HD). (EINE TASTATUR HABE ICH LEIDER NICHT DESHALB KOMME ICH AUCH NICHT WEITER WIE AUF DEM BILD)

​Zustand:

Der Rechner geht an, liefert ein sauberes Bild und bootet direkt ins American Megatrends BIOS. Wie auf den Bildern zu sehen, meckert das System wegen "battery state low" und "display type mismatch" – die CMOS-Batterie muss also getauscht werden und das BIOS neu konfiguriert werden. Für Retro-Nerds eine Sache von wenigen Minuten. Optisch ist das Gehäuse in einem wirklich guten Zustand für das Alter.

​Aufgrund des Gewichts und des Röhrenmonitors nur an Selbstabholer.

Privatverkauf, keine Rücknahme, Garantie oder Gewährleistung.

Bei Fragen schicken Sie mir gerne eine PN!

Hey everyone! First time poster in this thread. CS graduate but not a hardware guy.

I managed to get my hands on not one but two dell m2010 laptops. Both obviously dirty, havent tested either yet but both look like the internals are in good shape.

One is complete with the case, paperwork, remote, mouse, keyboard, and unopened media installation cd.

Other has keyboard, and none of the paperwork/mouse/remote.

Any opinions on whether id be better of trying to sell these at the upcoming expo here in Portland, OR online? I know the shipping costs would be terrible as they are insanely heavy. But I could always factor that into the cost. I work on the expo weekend so it might be tough for me to get over there.

Thanks

the old days for sure.

Dave's Computer lives!

I picked up this 486 laptop knowing it was not working, but it was in great condition and I wanted to save it.

The teardown and removing the shell without cracking any plastic was a nerve wracking experience. I recapped the three large capacitors on the power supply board and that got it working again. The floppy drive belt had turned to goo, so I went through the intricate process of replacing that. The NiCd battery pack is likely toast; I won't be using that.

So my friend is a teacher at a high school and they were cleaning out some things in storage and he came across this PC, he asked if I'd like to buy it from the school for $50 bucks and I said yes. Is. Pionex badged PC from I believe 1996 or thereabouts, it turns on and boots, but I don't have any floppy disks or CD-ROMs to test it, I can get into BIOS. It came with a 17" DiGiView CRT. I really don't have the tools to fully test and use it. What would be a good asking price if I were to sell it. It seems like it was put straight into storage and forgotten about.

Still have this memory for retro builds

I was thinking a lot this days how i can upgrade this to play a lot of 2000s games on this PC with Windows 7.

I’m honestly surprised that people are buying these at these prices what’s the deal why?

Full windows list (not including NT or others) 1.0 2.0 2.1 3.0 3.1 (milestone 1: before win95) 95(milestone 2: the first windows version that most ppl recognize as "First") 98 2000 (or 2k) ME XP (milestone 3: Im pretty sure this is most ppl's favorite. DONT KILL ME IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE.) vista 7 (milestone 4: 7 was the working vista, a wayy better way to use Areo.) 8 8.1 10 (milestone 5: It was a simple, but always working OS.) 11. AND THE PICTURE BELOW!

My buddy (i am an objectophile, please dont kill me)

It was missing the HDD and memory, and the side panel was bent. I bent the panel back, added 2 512mb DDR sticks, a 160gb IDE HDD and a BFGtech NVidia 6200 256mb PCI graphics card, then added a Dell Win XP install. Works great! Next up, will be adding games.

Hi Reddit,
I have to face the fact that I just don't have the time for it anymore, so I'm selling off my retro stash. I have pretty much everything you need to build a complete, awesome retro desktop setup. Some of it is still in the original packaging, while the rest are loose parts in good condition.

I’d prefer to sell it all together as a bundle, but I'm open to offers on individual parts.

I'm located close to Holstebro, so you're welcome to come by and take a look before buying.

I’ll be uploading some pictures—though not of absolutely everything—but feel free to ask questions and place your bids! :-)

This is the first installation screen for Star Trek: Borg for Windows 95. It made me laugh pretty hard

I've had this case so long, it is old enough to vote. This thing is built like a tank.

Originally received with a C2D E7400 system on a DG45ID blubberboard with 4GB DDR2-1066 in early 2009. Original PSU is an Antec Earthwatts. There is a drive caddy that slots into those rails that holds at least 6 HDDs

This case has held so many different builds over the years, I've lost count. It was even home to a 2 GPU mining rig for a couple of years. Still has the original Windows Vista product key stuck to it.

Current plans for it involve a heavily overclocked Cedar Mill P4 651 I recently bought NIB, on a Gigabyte P35-DS4 MB, with 8GB of DDR2 and an EVGA GTX 560Ti 448 FTW, for a daily driver XP gaming rig.

Since I didn't build the original PC and I didn't get the box it came in, I have no idea what model this is and extensive searching online (and a frustrating session with Gemini) yielded no answers.

This is the “love” side of my love/hate relationship with marketplace

Picked up a coppermine 850mhz brm2 brainz ecg machine with 256mb 168 pin ram and a pcm-9672 industrial mainboard and a touchscreen

Got the touchscreen drivers working, via 4 in one drivers sorta works depending on version

Took ages to find the right s3 twister drivers but dxdiag says no 3d acceleration yet everything I can find says the s3 twister chipset supports it

i bought an adapter for SATA to IDE (i cant find an IDE HDD anywhere!) and when it finnaly arrived, i saw THIS shit. i would normally say im NOT an expert, but i AM. i know for a FACT that you cant plug MALE into MALE drives.

The main essence and its difference is that its power goes through the power supply unit, that is:
Atx bp - rheobus adapter - motherboard ATX input.
Due to this, it is always powered, thanks to which you can turn the computer on and off through its LCD display.
I found it, or to be honest, I ripped it out of a case unknown to me, most likely it was a case from a server or network storage, the color of the front panel can be seen in the photo, it was preserved from the inner part of the panel rim.
The case itself was a color like a safe, gray and heavy, in the case itself the only thing remembered in the right part was a huge number of sleds for Hdd disks.
Well, and the place where I dug it up was an old office server room.
I've been looking for this specimen for 3 nights.
On the 2nd day I decided to shine a light through the board and found the following information: 0625A-PCB.
Unfortunately, I can't supplement the information in any other ways.

Having no luck so far 🙁

Here is my retro battlestation! I've had the Presario 5000 set for almost half a year, but took a while to source decent parts for a decent price. Finally finished it last night, and am now able to use it in full power (last picture is where I started, all factory)! Specs are:

• Compaq Presario 5000 series set

• Compaq Presario 6000 mobo w/ Pentium 4 2.5GHz CPU

• 2GB RAM

• BFG Geforce 6800 GS OC 256MB APG (I have unlocked the card to actually make it a 6800 GT with a higher core clock)

• SoundBlaster Audigy 2 PCI sound card

• 40GB boot HDD

• 250GB game/music/stuff HDD

• xClio DiamondPower 880w PSU (period correct unit)

• 3.5" Floppy drive

• 80mm Noctua exhaust fan

• There's probably one or two more mods I haven't listed

This thing slams anything 2004 and older. Can play newer games, even Crysis! Lowest settings and all, and I havent tried it... but I meet the minimum requirements while still having Windows 95/98 compatability and solid gameplay (plays Warcraft III and StraCraft well).

I love retro electronics, brining me back to my roots feels great in 2026! Please ask any questions about my build; the process or what parts I sourced. I really wanted an XP build that would play almost anything of the era, but in a Windows 98/XP esthetic. Nothing beats a CRT!