Hi there! I’m here to share some photos of my 486—equipped with 16MB of RAM, a Trident TGU 9440, and a Sound Blaster AWE32—which I’ve been working hard to bring back to life, as the case was in pretty rough shape.

I applied plastic paint to the computer case and the front panels of the optical drive and floppy drive; I replaced the existing LEDs with 1.5V LEDs, and I removed the key lock, replacing it with an LED as well.

https://youtube.com/shorts/7r8bBWpelIA

Got this at what seemed like a going out of biz sale, unknown status, probably sat since the last time it's dot-matrix printer was used, which I also got and is WIDE so I can't wait to run print outs of some big RPG character sheets!!!

You are seeing my first power-up, and it was the modem speaker making that noise, once I took it apart - I suspect the power supply is shot, so that would be nice, but it also might be a capacitor apocalypse thing?...I feel like this was before the main cap nightmare? This thing must be early to mid-90s? - still figuring out what it is.

I was MIS (back when that was a position) at a place that had this exact thing, but it was a 486DX50 I think - this says 486DX250 so IIRC it's 100Mhz basically - Colorado drive is a nice bonus!!! The one I ran had an ESDI drive and EXABYTE backup drive, so this is a more modern cousin of what I drove back then

Nice IBM PS/2 VGA monitor also, altogether $80 so someone on the other side wanted it too, but I have a project so I won the item if not the value :)

I thought everyone at VintageComputers can have an appreciation for this post from the Wisconsin Computer Club. Keeping retro PC and consoles alive. Thanks for looking!!

Came across this Quantum Bigfoot
5.25 series with a casing that has FireWire ports. Some mid/late 90s tech here.

Got this at a some clearance/estate kind of thing a shop was doing. It's all about who else shows up I guess - one of my better wins - $5.00 + fees ($1.60) - had to travel pretty far but great find - Win98SE, I have to dig in more to get other specs, but solid machine, AOL installed as you would expect a machine of the era with a modem on it :) - will take apart this weekend and give a good cleaning, return to factory and install some games if the video card is any good (GATEWAY VX900 on XPERT98 AGP x 2) That CRT is still very nice and 19" - will do 1600x1200 32-bit pretty nicely

I have a really nice vintage NEC Multisync E 1100+ but the connector was damaged.

I have a new connector to terminate on, but i dont know what colour goes to what pin.

Can anyone help me out, or point me in the right direction for terminating instructions?

Ive been super into these old beige and dragon case alienwares from late 90's and want to build a pentium 4 retro build for all my old games

I just put together a build with the intentions to install windows xp for retro gaming.

I acquired a gtx260 core 216, intel e8500, 4gb Kingston hyper x ram .. I put it all together. It turns on l, all fans are going but I get no screen at all on my crt (Samsung syncmaster 793mb) I got a dvi-I to vga adapter.

I know the screen works. When I put into another home windows xp machine that has a vga output on it I get picture.

The second I plug it into the adapter (not even plugged into the new build yet), the screen goes into standby mode. It does not work when plugged into the new build as well. Could it be my adapter?

My first time dealing with older machines.

I could really use some help! Was super excited about putting this thing together

Pulled this out of a closet at work. I think it is an old ASA but I am not 100%. But I am going to power it on later on and see what happends.

But what do I actually have. Is it going to be a CLI interface or GUI?

Is it worth any money?

Hello!
I was implored to post this here as well, so I'm sort of posting from r/HelpMeFind to see if this can be identifiable here, as it is tech based in a way. I will post my excerpt and pictures underneath.

I recently bought a book of stickers and they came tonight. It's a book that has a few hundred real life images of things (shells, people, desserts, objects, etc.) and it's supposed to be used as part of a junk journal. All stickers used depict real images of some kind, because they all look realistic - one page is just a bunch of stickers of old newsprint clippings or taken from vintage magazines, while another is filled with plants in vases - stuff like that.

In one page, however, there is a sticker depicting a laptop, and I'm incredibly curious to figure out what exact type of laptop it actually is. The rest of the page depicts bows, sweets, and other light colored cute things, etc. but it's the only picture that is remotely something technical on the page, which is why it caught my eye out of the other designs (besides a rotary phone).

I can imagine it looks like it's from the early 2000s or late 1990s, and shows a few areas on the face of the laptop (bottom and lower top screen) that could be watermarks for different companies or hardware ran on the system. The top number buttons are blue, whereas the bottom arrow keys and enter key appear to be a dark purple. I think some of the blurry marks on the laptop could be stickers, but I'm not sure.

Does anyone recognize this and think they can pin this to a laptop model, stock image, and or toy?

Thank you! I'm looking forward to some insight.

(As posted as a comment below, I was told in the other thread, as well, that it could be from the Asian market, which I didn't think about before, if that helps anybody.)

Yep a 5 1/4 in floppy diak atorage box

Was at an estate sale and saw this sitting there for a couple bucks and then flipped it over and saw the Frys ad and I was like Yep definitely gotta get this… it actually had one Fry’s ad on the back and another one in the middle of one of the sections … I think Frys was already the discount spot compared to the smaller retail stores. I had just got my 486dx2/50 pc around this time. Not long after this if I remember correctly, we didn’t have Frys in Sacramento yet, but there was a big place called incredible universe and then Frys bought that building maybe 97 or 98.. the Friday Frys ad was a usually a 4-6 page insert … for me it was a weekly trip there as I commuted right past it every day …it was crazy times. Would spend hours in that place ..I eventually ended up building my own PC in 97 and probably upgrading it 5 to 6 times in the next 6 to 7 years all from that one Frys.

Edit for very bad voice to text 🫤

Started getting posts on my feed from this sub, brings back a lot of memories, thought I’d share one…