r/retrocomputing

Found this in the trash the other day and I was wondering if it's worth anything to anyone in the used market.

They seem in good condition but I'm no expert, my knowledge on retro hardware is non existent, all i know is that i tried to boot it with multiple ram configurations and it kept giving me ram beeps, and i don't have any spare ram.

I wanted to sell these for very cheap (or even giving them for free if i find a local) because i can't verify if they work, in what condition they are, and besides the cpu i can't identify any part.

Just wanted to know if it's even worth putting these up for sale, since i live in Italy and i don't know if there's any demand for this.

In Iron man 1 while they are booting up the suit for the first time, there’s this laptop and I’m very curious what I could be ? Seems like a Toshiba satellite to me but what does y’all think?

We took our baby to IHOP, and this game was on the kid’s placemat. Like… “old-timey artifact to distract them with!”?

“Old Boring Movie”? Lol. This is a weird game.

I have the opportunity to buy a pallet of retro computers from a e-recycler. Mixed pallet all computer systems from the 90s. I plan on buying it to fully refurbish the systems and sell them at 80% retail online shipped and on FB 50-40%. The price per pound is $1.08. Total weight is 2076LB for the pallet. Total cost $2242. Are these systems worth saving based off the photos? Wondering your thoughts.

Also they are selling two other pallets of retro computers which are lighter in size. I attached photos of them below including higher res photos of the first pallet.

PALLET 1 (2076 LB COST= $2242) - https://imgur.com/a/qG7GRva

PALLET 2 (1625 LB COST= $1755)- https://imgur.com/a/3rxR2H8

PALLET 3 (1382 LB COST= $1492) - https://imgur.com/a/oz0AUTz

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Thank you for the quick replies! This is my first time having the opportunity to buy something like this hence why I needed an opinion on it. As much as I love retro computing and saving old computers, I also have bills to pay so honestly this needs to make financial (taking account for time it will take and initial cost) sense for me to do even if I'm buying it for the sake of my hobby we share.

I found a new old stock copy of CH at a thrift store for $1. Got home to install it and found this! Even back in 2006 this would have been annoying. Good thing the internet could provide me a working key in seconds instead of trying a return at Best Buy or an hour-long phone call with THQ / Relic support.

I visited my old job today to pick up a printer and the staff (whom I’m on great terms with) asked me if I wanted some old computers that a customer had dropped off for donation/disposal. I said “yes please” as soon as I saw the Apple II and it just got better from there. Full original docs for the Apple II, an eMate 300 with original docs and stylus (alas, no power supply), a PowerBook 3400c… Everything’s in excellent condition, and all of it for $0. Gonna see how much of works this weekend.

planning on making this a youtube vid and will update and post here. this is the first time I have ever installed 95 without needing a cpu patch. With these specs I "should" use 98 but am using 95 for its glory and already have a 98pc.

I just thought I’d share my little project I’ve played around with over the past few years. I always wanted to try to access some bulletin board systems on my old TRS-80. After watching a video years ago where someone dialed into a BBS on a TRS80 with a rotary phone and an acoustic modem I was so fascinated. Shortly after I found a nice model 4P on Ebay and played around with it a little before losing interest for several years.

After moving into my new place I decided to have a go at configuring a VOIP landline over my Starlink. I got an Obidata gateway and pulse tone converter and dove down the rabbit hole of trying to get it all working. I was eventually successful and immediately set up my two old rotary dial phones and even bought an old cassette tape answering machine. I was so stoked.

Shortly after I decided to get back into trying to get my old TRS80 online. After many attempts and a fair bit of research I was eventually successful but only while using my internal dial up modem. It was finicky at best but I was beyond stoked. Shortly after I scooped up a few old acoustic coupler modems from Ebay and began further attempts at accessing some BBS’s with Rotary dial phone. I found this to be considerably more finicky and unreliable than the internal modem which was pretty bad to begin with. Also being a 90s kid, this is all a bit before my time so I’m sure I still have much to learn but nevertheless I was able to get it to work on few occasions and was sure get some photos and videos of it all. I thought y’ll might find this to be pretty neat. I know I did!

Running Windows3.0 and PacMan and Frogger on these pictures.

I can take better pictures this weekend.

The laptop turns on, but there's no image or any other signs. Nothing on an external monitor either. the components work normally: the disk spins, the DVD drive ejects, generally the components get warm when they are running for a while. The laptop doesn't respond when I turn it on without RAM, I think it should beep normally then, could it be the motherboard's fault? I would be grateful for any advice!!! The laptop model is Medion MD5400

To make a long story short im now in possession of a 486 PC from about 1992 if my research is correct. Its a Zeos machine that according to the previous owner was used for CAD in the early 90s? I wanna use it to play some DOS and early Windows 95 games but im not exactly sure what im able to upgrade on this system.

Right now it seems to have the following hardware installed

• A Zeos motherboard (This is also a Zeos system if that helps)
• An Intel i486 DX 50MHz
• An unknown amount of ram
• No L2 Cache
• A Diamond Speedstar 24 (Which from what ive been able to gather is a really good ISA 2D video card? So ill probably leave that as is seeing as I dont have PCI or VLB)

I wanna upgrade it to be closer to something around 1994-1995 in hopes that it might be able to play Duke Nukem 3D and possibly Quake? But im not sure what if anything are drop in replacements.

I was thinking about putting in

• A Cyrix 5x86 or Pentium Overdrive (Seems like a drop in replacement for this 486???)
• A Soundblaster Awe-32 or Soundblaster pro 2.0
• Some amount of L2 Cache
• and a Roland Mpu-401 compatible card to use with an MT-32 or something

Not sure how much of this is possible but thats why I figured id ask here since you guys probably have more knowledge about this than I do