An intro from oz. Hope I qualify.

Hi there ye olde computer folk. I live in Brisbane and although I am not a collector of computers for myself, I have been given some very old stuff in the last couple of years. Since November 2006 I have decided to rebuild computers to send to the Philippines, where I have contacts and a means of shipping them there. I asked the community for their old pcs which they would otherwise throw out, especially if it could run Windows 98SE. It is amazing what people deem as charitable. I received some really old stuff that quite frankly, I thought was just worthless, and so was dumped.
However I have kept an IBM P90 with 8M RAM and a 40Mb HDD. Is that old enough to be vintage? It sure is old anyway. Still works, and runs Windows 3.11. I am loath to give it away to the Philippines, as they might toss it out. I might sell it though, if it fetched a good price. Perhaps I could put a 5 1/4" drive in it, that somebody gave me. Currently it has a 3 1/2". I've been thinking about testing it out on those good old DOS games. I still love those old games. Amoung the collection of pcs, I have xt parts, but no xt pc. A collector in Australia may benifit from that lot.
So far there have been over a dozen pcs sent to the Philippines and twenty sent to East Timor.

Hello, welcome. Is it a 486? Not so sure thats vintage, normally we say 20 or older is vintage.

Welcome to the forums. Maybe you'll get some cool vintage gear to play with from this. Either way glad you have an interest in the older systems. A popular reuse is for simple development boxes for students, or to learn linux or have a linux gateway/firewall for your home network.

I'm assuming that's a Pentium 90Mhz which probably isn't considered vintage here, but hey everyone starts somewhere I'm certainly surprised at the small drive and ram on the system though, that's interesting. Yes it'd make a pretty good dos machine though some vintage games that don't use the clock to determine speed will probably run too fast on it.

they like their machines much older on this website, as for donating computers I do recall a few years ago oxfam wanting no donated machines older than p166's, it must have been about 4 years ago I saw that, no doubt they ended up putting things in the trash as a lot of charity organisations tend to do in this country with any electrical goods, actually oxfam refused to sell me something once because it was mains powered :/

anyway welcome to the forums :D

Welcome to the forums!

Enjoy!