r/VintageComputers

Haven't opened it yet, saving the anticipation moment. It might work or might have CPU, RAM and HDD pulled (have spare RAM if that's the case).

Some of the front enclosures and ports perplex me. Photos attached. The bottom front might be dual PCMCIA port; not sure. Enclosure above the FDD might be a removable HDD (no drive present).

Guessing it's a Pentium 4 by the front sticker. If the CPU is in. A prebuilt as the windows key sticker is on the case.

Expansion cards are many, with network and modem and TV and video. This might have been a video edit PC. Not sure if the graphics card is PCI or AGP or PCIe - these coexisted around that time.

I don't have a monitor at the moment so will take a few days to see if it runs.

If you'd like to venture a guess at any of the parts from the photos please post.

I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 inch laptop, model # M1012-20440BK in Obsidian Black which is still sealed in the factory box.

My sister bought two of them brand new back in the day and this one was supposed to be a present for her boyfriend but they broke up so he never got it and it was never opened.

Specs from the box:

• 10.1" widescreen display
• Intel Atom N450 Processor (1.66GHz, 667 FSB, 512k cache)
• 1GB memory
• 250GB Hard Drive
• Intel Centrino Advanced-N Wireless Card + WiMAX 6250
• Integrated Intel 3150 Graphics Media Accelerator
• Integrated Webcam
• 6 Cell Battery
• Windows 7 Starter
• Microsoft Works 9.0

Any idea what it is worth and suggestions where I can sell it?

Somewhere I've also got a Mini 9 and have her Mini 10. What are they good for these days?

Thanks!

I purchased this 1979 TI 99/4 (not the more common 99/4A) from a VCF, and when I got home I noticed a sticker declaring it was an engineering prototype, not to be sold, and then the words "SOLD AS IS" factory etched into the case.

I opened up the computer and got to the motherboard today and didn't really see anything out of the ordinary, but I wouldn't know. I'm losing confidence this really is some kind of engineering prototype.

Does anyone have elite TI knowledge they can impart that may answer why this computer was labelled this way? I can't get to the bottom of it. Mostly curious if it really is unique in any way. Any information is appreciated.

When a computer occupied a room

From someone who set out with his 40-year-old SX-64 to visit an equally ancient Commodore 64 BBS - not old-school with a modem, but through a DIY null-modem cable hooked up over the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3csC9z7oPSY

It turned out to be much more difficult than expected, with all sorts of cable shenanigans that of course refused to work - and ultimately even resulted in the SX‑64 needing repairs.

Trying to figure out this old case I used to have back in the day. Curious if any of you can figure out its model. Would love to get another one for a retro gaming pc case.
Edit: Solved now I found out it’s a case not a prebuilt pc. It’s a ks 299 case from the early 2000s. It was an only pic I had from back in 2017 lol. I had modern parts in that case back then and my buddy’s mom was cleaning her house out and trashed it thinking it was just a junk pc sadly. Just got curious one day lol

This is one I picked up on a scrapping run over a month ago. Just dug into it a bit. Had to replace the CMOS battery and clear some other hardware errors, but once I got it to boot, was able to do a full factory reset and get it back to working condition. Cleaned up pretty well.

Full Video: https://youtu.be/8GZDOpV2OXk

Hi All, i have this pretty cool system, it seems to be in very good shape but can't get as I have no power supply. I am going to list on Ebay but am not really sure where to start or what to realistically expect for its value, hoping to get some insight. I hens seen the motherboards out there but not with these other components. There's a KIMSI board from Forethought Products, a micro calculator board as well? Any info is appreciated!

Recently came into possession of an IBM poster from what I believe to be the 80’s. Having an issue researching it/image searching it.

Does anyone know anything/recognize it?

Just have to replace the batteries

Any idea what these could be worth as is?

Rough part list:

- Apple II

- Apple IIe

- Monitor III

- 2 Disk II drives

- Dual disk drive

- Monitor stand

- Dot matrix printer

- Misc items such as power supply and num pad

- Tons of documentation, etc.

I brought back this lovely print of an acrylic work by Melissa Barron from last week's INIT HELLO Apple II conference in the Baltimore, MD area. She had quite a few other prints (and several original acrylics and oils) on offer at the event.

Whenever i boot up my Hewlett Packard 486s/20 computer, I can hear the hard drive and all of it working, but it still gives me 0240, 0250, and 0130 bios error codes. I've made a makeshift external CMOS battery because that's what it takes, but it still doesn't seem to work. it says I need a Vectra #1 diskette. I have a floppy disk drive on my main computer, but I just can't find an image of it. I need a way to access the bios so I can edit the time and set up the bios. Does anyone know what I do and how I can fix/do this?

SONY VAIO PCV-RZ10CG the original owner made me remove the hard drive because it had been a business computer. Installed new hdd, installed Windows XP sp3. Many drivers are missing but right now I just want the audio to function. I'm embarrassingly 10 hours deep on this project. I've installed Realtec AC'97, Yamaha AC-Xg, and SIS sound a12112d. Hardware ID points to it being an SIS chip, included a photo. I've removed instances of the failed drivers from the registry, extracted the .inf files from the EXEs and tried to direct windows to those INF files. I always end up with one of two errors: Code 10: device failed to start or the wizard tells me that something under that driver name already exists. Even when I've deleted it from the registry. Unable to find correct recovery media in online archives, I've tried. Please help. This PC is a piece of history and I don't want to trash it.