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Whilst going through a box of old components I stumbled on a 50 pin SCSI hard drive. This drive came out of a machine my dad brought home from work and used for a while, then gave me to fiddle with. I recall that it ran Windows NT 4.0 on some kind of Pentium 1(I think 166MHz but not sure). When...

This auction has been making the rounds at work: https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996 Cheyenne, ranked the 20th fastest computer in the world sometime in 2016, being decommissioned and sold. Kind of interesting since purely-CPU-based top500 systems are a thing of the past. There's...

Does anyone ever do retro-style game development where the objective is to recreate the look and feel of old games?

Long ago in the forgotten time known only as "highschool", departed friends and I often exchanged forbidden burnt disks containing the latest in cutting-edge software of which we were most certainly not supposed to have. I will speak no more on this specific count, save to say that it bridges...

A series of fascinating clicks last night got me reading about the old Lisp machines of the 60s and 70s. I'm curious if its possible to reproduce these machines today using off the shelf components, or if they relied on custom parts that don't exist anymore? Apparently the original machines are...

I know this is a longshot, but is there anyone in the SoCal area with a very large E-ATX case they are looking to part with, hopefully for cheap? Some years back, I stupidly e-wasted all my largest cases(and my smallest ones. I regret everything). Now I've got a fun retro workstation build...

All right, I've finally decided on a course of action for my pet Pentium 4. Its going to be installed in my Coolermaster Elite tower and be configured to triple-boot Windows 2000, IcarOS, and just for fun Windows XP. I have a 1tb hard drive set up for this. The question of the day is: what...

Random headcannon got me reading about IBM TopView, and now I am curious. What hardware would I need to boot this natively? It fascinates me.

Aside from the basics, video, network, and audio; what other kinds of PCI cards do you like to use?

Some kind soul at VCFSoCal left this beautiful dual opteron motherberboard on the free table. Given my love for all things DP, I brought it home, and am presently assembling a system around it. Here's the rub: The fan headers on the motherboard are these impossible 5 pin style I've never...

This article has been making the rounds at work and I thought I would share it here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stuart-parkin-disk-drive-storage About the inventor of Spintronics.

The other day I got my hands on a microATX socket775 motherboard which I'm planning to turn into another XP rig. As is my pattern, I immediately sat down to max the board out with whatever spare parts I had lying around. It came with a 2ghz Core2Duo, and the only faster LGA775 CPU in my...

I have this gigantic 21" NEC monitor that appears to use the exact same stand as the 15" variant. It feels unstable and is too big to move around on the stand for any kind of positioning. I have a much bigger, tougher universal stand, but I cannot get the included stand off the NEC. Anyone else...

Do we discuss retro consoles on here? Or is that better suited to a console gaming forum?

Found this while moving. Very old children's picture book about early computers.

I've been thinking a lot about storage interfaces recently. My retro 98 PC has both a fast CF to IDE and a SD to IDE just as part of the setup. Today o was going through my parts boxes and found a nice u160 SCSI drive and PCI controller card. I've also got some 15k rpm SCSI drives in inventory...

With all the clone PCBs people are building, I'm curious if anyone's ever started a project to clone something like the GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM. That card takes 4 sticks of DDR and turns it into a 4gb hard disk. It even used a FPGA as part of the card so its not like there's any custom chips...

I bought a lovely little pentium II from the consignment area at VCFSoCal which I plan to use as a DOS gaming system. It came with win98 preloaded on a spinning disk which I want to keep. Now I don't know if it was like this on first boot, but at present the USB Root Hub is saying device...

Hi all, I have hear a dual 450mhz PowerMac G4 with 2gb of RAM. At present it runs OSX 10.4.11. I upgraded the graphics card awhile back to a GeForce 4 MX. Over the 20 years I've had this thing I've managed to boot it up often enough that the 120gb IDE hard disk still seems to be working ok...

In relation to discussion I'm having in another thread, I did an eBay search for an esoteric piece of hardware and discovered that these things are presently going for very small amounts of money. The TripleHead2Go Analogue Edition is a device built by Matrox that lets you turn 3 monitors into...