r/vintagecomputing

In Guangzhou province.

I’m at my mom’s house (cat-sitting while she’s on vacation) and started digging through my boxes of old computer parts in the basement. Found some sound cards you folks might appreciate. The AWE64 was my personal card for years in the late ‘90s. Honestly can’t even remember where the Aureal Vortex 1 and 2 came from but I miss that sweet 3d audio.

(Also found some fun video cards tonight (3dfx Banshee, Matrox G400) but I’ll save that for another post. I already knew where my Nvidia Riva TNT1 and Voodoo 3 3000 were — need to collect them all and assemble a working test rig. I’ve certainly still got the hardware lying around.)

I have no use or interest, not looking to sell but if anyone needs parts or anything from it pls lmk I don’t want these to go to waste.

Weird screen bubbling, not scratched and not something I can wipe off, I’m assuming some sort of cmos kicked the bucket in there

Real handshake recording, everything else synthesized - including throttling that actually pulls bytes at simulated 56k speed. Handshake staging follows the real ITU specs (V.34, V.8).

Full Win95 desktop once you’re “online” - Find Files, Recycle Bin, Minefield, Painter, an ISP mail client, a chat room, a hand-written encyclopedia parody. All client-side, nothing scraped.

Favorite detail: the “ask others not to use the phone” checkbox in Dial-Up Networking is real 95 behavior - it didn’t stop anything, it just nagged you, because picking up the handset actually dropped the carrier.

https://56k.rip

Hello all. I have a 1988 IBM 3151 terminal that seems to have some issues on the board. I would like to remove the board but need to remove the anode cap to do that. I've seen quite a few posts/videos about discharging CRT TVs/monitors, but this set seems a bit different in that it doesn't have a grounding strap. The only metal I see is the screw tabs/bolts in the corners of the monitor, holding it to the front of the case and the odd fork thing (do any of you know what that is, picture attached) that is attached to the logic board and bends to touch the CRT. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Got this dimension saved from a Recycling Tip in the UK, sadly while it survived being thrown around by the Dump Staff, the finishing blow was DPD mailing it to me, the back quadrant is damaged but not completely destroyed,

Unfortunately the fan mounting bracket has been completely destroyed, and no longer mounts to the case and might not even be fixable, is there any way around this?

Funny piece.

As the title says, I just dug this computer deep inside my house.I'm a 21-year-old young man, and my dad told me that if that computer can still be run, I can give it a try.

Actually, that's pretty crazy; he has a Pentium CPU, two 8Mb cables.And IT STILL WORKS!

Now all he needs is a working keyboard. I wanted to share this story and ask everyone where I can find a keyboard or even just its name. Thank you!

And i in Taiwan,so Mabey Finding that keyboard will be a bit difficult.😅 GOOD luck to me

Edit:Thank you all for your support! I'll try to find the keyboard in the next few days, and as I forgot to mention in a previous post, it has a 2.5 or 1.0+ GB hard drive!

I’m trying to get an old Archive 51250Q QIC-80 tape drive working in a retro PC with Windows 95.

The streamer is connected on single tape with two floppy drives, in that order: motherboard => 5.25" (B) => Twist => 3.5" (A) => streamer.

I’m currently using Conner Backup Basics under Windows 95. The tape I’m testing with is a 3M DC 2120 Mini Data Cartridge, should be compatible with the Archive 51250Q.

The problem is that the software does not seem to be able to read the tape. I get:

“Tape drive defective. Reference: 110-55-1206-c16”

and at another point:

“Tape not formatted or unreadable by drive”

The drive itself is connected and detected, but I can't get it to read the cartridge.

Did anyone have such an issue? I send the screen for reference:

Family had a computer store and we went to many swap meets between 199x-2004, we moved house a decade or so ago and I thought all of our vintage stuff was gone to the bin.

ZIP yeah, 100 MB 🤔

Im trying to find a price for this IDEX 400.

I found it in a 2013 based pc but it looks like an older board to me. Would anybody be able to tell me what one of these things are worth? I dont need it and want to see if i could make up for the money spent on the junkbox it came with. All ive found was a manual for a black version of this.

It's got buttons for everything! From when the world was a simpler place.