What retro things have you done today?

LewisRaz said:
Paid £19.99 for this:



There is a system inside it too... Although not what most would expect :D
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This arrived today, Not had too long to poke about with it. It clearly had a very old system in it before having the slot 1 system shoehorned in. The person who built it did not seem very experienced with older hardware judging from a few bits that are wrong/silly.

The floppy drive didnt survive delivery but thats not a big deal.

Someone has cut the power cables to the LCD display so it will need some attention before I can test it. The actual turbo button cable is intact tho!

Its going to require a full tear down and clean up. The case is physically good but has a lot of rust and marks. Besides the yellowing plastics.

The hardware inside is:
Slot1 AT motherboard. Unidentified so far.
Celeron 333mhz
128mb ram
AGP S3 trio VGA card
ESS Soundcard
...ISA modem...
2.1gb HDD thats pretty much dead.

Quite tempted to try and sell the insides and put that money towards a 386/486 to match the case.

Will do a restoration as it is with the current internals first.
 
Bought a 386 that matches my Olivetti 14" CRT. I've also got the matching keyboard and a mouse in en-route. It's only a lowly 386 SX 25, but it's got a 387 math coprocessor and two unused (ever used) 16-bit ISA slots that I'll have to populate with something! Given the onboard VGA as well as serial, AND PS/2 I guess logically I should throw in a sound card, but what else? There's already a 40MB HDD in there that I need to get a backup image of!

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paradigm said:
Bought a 386 that matches my Olivetti 14" CRT. I've also got the matching keyboard and a mouse in en-route. It's only a lowly 386 SX 25, but it's got a 387 math coprocessor and two unused (ever used) 16-bit ISA slots that I'll have to populate with something! Given the onboard VGA as well as serial, AND PS/2 I guess logically I should throw in a sound card, but what else? There's already a 40MB HDD in there that I need to get a backup image of!
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Awesome find - I remember my secondary school had a load of these PCs back in the day :)

5.25" Drive bay bottom right corner?
 
Armageus said:
Awesome find - I remember my secondary school had a load of these PCs back in the day :)

5.25" Drive bay bottom right corner?
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Yep, that's a 5.25" bay. The smaller variant of this (the PCS 11) was my first desktop PC. My father worked for Olivetti when I was growing up so I always had free upgrades as and when PCs were retired from the office.
 
kinger8938 said:
Indeed, thanks! Just a mess about across a few lunch breaks.

I can take a look man by all means let me know what it is you are after and will see if I can help.
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I might.. you must have a decent workshop or tools I guess. I was a total failure at woodwork and metalwork at school... :D
 
On board VGA only has 256KB of RAM, which made it a little bit incompatible with the games I wanted to play (such as Commander Keen). So I’ve thrown my Tseng ET4000AX 1MB into the PC, along with an Opti sound card (it was that or a Vibra, and I dislike the Vibra!).

Upgraded the DOS 5.00 install to DOS 6.22, installed Win 3.11 as well, and connected up a parallel external Zip100 disk (2.5x the capacity of the HDD no less!).

Lovely little machine, shame it’s not a 386DX-40 that’d make it fly (as would swapping out the 2x2MB SIMMS for 4MB SIMMS).
 
Saturday Windows 95 Retro on the P200 MMX, 64 MB RAM.

FTP Client is working:

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Midi on the Ensoniq Soundscape sounds great in the background with a bit of Netscape Navigator for surfing the information super highway:

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And a bit of Weezer:
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