Which computer legacy bits do you still hang on to?

[ElectroBlaster]

I found some voodoo's aswell, the type that sat alongside a basic 2d card with a passthru for the vga, is there any use for these nowadays? Maybe a retro machine running things from that era

 

[darael]

Got a 24-pin dot matrix. It must go back to 1995.

Edit: Seems to go back to 1992.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

I had one of them on my amiga, star lc24 if I remember correctly!
the noise that thing made lol

 

[PU7E]

I've just recently replaced my 11 year old speakers, they did well.

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I still use my set of those and even though two of the speakers have failed, they still work great!

 

[meghatronic]

I have and occasionally use a zip drive

(not counting floppy as it's common as)

 

[Freddie589]

Floppy drive, a load of DDR/sd ram, 10gb hard drive from dads old pc managed to boot it not to long ago into windows and see my folders from when i was like 5

 

[HangTime]

Most of my (copius) legacy hardware isn't used, although my current system does have:

-9 year old case
-10(?) year old floppy drive
-IDE hd
-10 year old mousemat (cloth pad that has been smoothed in the centre by years of use)
-12 year old 20m CAT5 network cable
-9 year old microphone

 

[Reality|Bites]

I still use my set of those and even though two of the speakers have failed, they still work great!

I had the 2.1 version lol, My mum uses them now.

 

[shine]

I still have my old 386, it's used as a stand for a wonky table.

 

[Werewolf]

I still use my set of those and even though two of the speakers have failed, they still work great!

I'm still using the next model up (came out a year later iirc as the direct replacement), for my main PC speakers

 

[pingwing]

Nothing I has mac...


In reality iv still got far too much stuff, there's a dual pentium box that looks amazing (big grey box from 93) only have it as a mouse peed into it about 15 years ago and instead of getting a new pc my dad got a new motherboard...

Also have a 15" original lcd with an original 1mb S3 video card that's sometimes fun to wip out (back from the day before dvi).

Still hoard mountains of Cat5 too

Everything else is slowly getting binned (really dont need an amd athlon system any more or all the broken 939 stuff from being 16)

 

[ThePirateHulk]

I've gor a 3.2GB IDE HD sitting on my desk at work. No idea where it came from

 

[memyselfandi]

I've just recently replaced my 11 year old speakers, they did well.

Ha! My Dad is still using my old set of those ... I have the next gen DTT3500 hooked up to my TV/BD player as a temporary surround sound solution.

I don't tend to get rid of much so I have boxes of old kit around which will probably never be used again and I should get rid of. Some things you just wonder what to do with, like many old 128GB IDE disks where even external enclosures would end up costing more than just buying a modern larger disk.

 

[B@Th*nG]

Voodoo5 5500 graphics card.

Ditto

B@

 

[paradigm]

I've still got an 8088 based Olivetti M15 laptop, no HDD, has two "3 1/4" floppies (720KB! Not HD), and a monochrome screen

That's circa 1988.

EDIT: looks like this one. The keyboard comes out on a flexi-cord

 

[Fonz-Valo]

I found an old ISA network card in the draw of random bits in the office a couple of months back if that counts

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Non, all gone.

 

[mejinks]

I have an IBM 5150 from 1981 running pc-dos 1. I win.

 

[camelopardis]

I had one of them on my amiga, star lc24 if I remember correctly!
the noise that thing made lol

24-pin? Luxury! I had a 9-pin Star LC10 for my Atari ST. My first ever printer and I loved it

 

[Jimz]

My Voodoo2 graphic cards, they changed the future