Just added a bunch of vintage/older Borland dev tools to my retro dev collection

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sometimes you need to hack Compuserve on the go...

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My TI-85 scientific calculator circa 1992 (30 years old this year) still going strong! I use this DAILY. Dropped it 50 times or so over the years so hard the batteries all blew out of it, spilled coffee on it, put batteries in backwards once or twice. They don't make things like they used to.

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A little something from my random bag of CPUs

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1993 engineering workstation, taken with a 1999 Sony Mavica, saved directly to a floppy disk. Vintage on vintage...vintception!

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Some of my vintage Mac software collection

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I found this listing for $300 do you think it’s worth it?

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Just in time for New Year’s Eve! My HP Vectra VA 6 restoration is finally complete with the addition of a Best Buy Y2K sticker.

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Green Monochrome Magic

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Kids in the 90's playing PC games.

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Heathkit ET-3400 microcomputer learning system (1978)

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Curious what might have damaged this chip

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Here’s my haul from my first visit to Computer Reset this past weekend. One of the most incredible experiences ever!

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someone was giving these away and i was lucky enough to get them

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As part of an upcoming retro video project, I got this wonderfully cursed error message in Windows ...

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Just found a 12MB Voodoo 2 for $0.69/lb

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Another legend waiting for a recap. ECS K7S5A rev3.1.

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The other socket 370 chip

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Pick up a Osborne 1

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Web browsing like it's 2004 on the go

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Anyone else remember this game? I still have my notes from playing it around 1990.

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Grid compass ii that’s been to space and back

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SGI BigFoot keyboard.

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Found a geforce fx5950 ultra for free!

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Vintage computers in an Abandoned Control Station

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Maybe not as impressive as the PET just posted, but I just picked up this calculator model 797D for 25¢ at a antique mall, thought y’all would appreciate it :))

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DATA GENERAL / DGC Eclipse MV/20000 CPU / Processor Card from 1985

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1970s vintage 200 megabyte disk pack manufactured by Dysan, with the cover removed

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Corel Ventura Publisher 10

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My desk circa December 2001. Stuff: Apple IIgs (was vintagecomputing already!), Gaming PC (Pentium III 600, Voodoo 3), Linux box (Pentium II 233), Sun SparcClassic, lots of UPS power, ISDN modem, Palm III, Lucent WiFi AP, crappy Lexmark printer, Gravis Gamepad (barely visible), Model M... and more!

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Got a late christmas gift yesterday, a complete Sun Microsystems Ultra 10.

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Rescued these two from the trash. The 440CDT even keeps a charge for about 45 minutes

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What do I have here?

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Nao precisa ser este modelo especifico , mas alguem tem algum computador OLIVETTI, Cobra ou IBM parado em casa sem funcionar? Preciso somente do gabinete.

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Connected my ADM-3A terminal to my MythTV server

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Vintage Tandy 1000RL. Had to drive an hour out of town to snag this complete machine

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I thought you guys might appreciate this as much as I do.

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Prototype Dutch computer (Holborn 6500) stolen from a barn in Belgium before it was picked up by the HomeComputerMuseum. A collector died and wanted his collection in a real museum, which we were willing to do. This was one of the top pieces. 2 were known to exist, this is the third and it's gone.

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Authentic CRT TV vs. emulators

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Working on the CAD design of a vintage-looking 3D printable 8-bit computer. What do you think?

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mom isnt home, i can finally bring my electronics to the dining room table

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Latest acquisition. My first CoCo.

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Which pet do you think is needier?

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Celeron Tualatin 1.4ghz with 768mb of PC133 @133mhz

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Garage sale pro tip: always check the boxes with the free stuff in them.

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My desk

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Do you think they put enough paste on this PPGA Pentium 200?

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Good haul of vintage computing today!!

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Commodore Amiga 2000, set, how popular are these?

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A Short Article About the Creation of Streaming Video (From The Kansas City Star, March 28, 1996)

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My find of the weekend

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The inaccuracy of this meme made me cringe

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Plugged in my old CRT, scary moment

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Previous (NeXT emulator) running natively on Apple Silicon

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Went to the landfill to recycle a computer. Heading back home with 3. My wife didn't even try to stop me even though I don't have room for them.

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It's a start!

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Sometimes getting data on and off vintage computers is a real pain.

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Toshiba Keyboard w/Blue ALPS

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Sysadmin retro battle station

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Meet SuperDisk Dude - The Creepy Imation SuperDisk Mascot

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Guy at my work gave me his old 486 that he got back in '94. Took me two days but I finally resurrected it from the dead

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The office is a little quiet currently

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PIII-1.26GHz, GeForce 6200, and Vortex 2 sound card. It runs Windows 2000.

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Commodore Amiga 600

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Casio SF7100SY - I've got one of these, any idea if it can be flashed, hacked or somehow made useful or interesting?

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Just got a working Macintosh SE from Facebook marketplace! What would be my best options to keep it running for a lot longer in the future?

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After a three and half hour round trip, I have this beauty.

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A Tandy 101 with original hardcase. Had it for some time and it still works great.

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MP3 players from 1999 and early 2000s.... Eiger Labs MP-Man and Lexar JumpDrive Sport. Still works!

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Tripple monitor in 1984. This would have cost as much as a car. Ignoring the 1084 display.

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He's here! And he needs help!

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Received this PowerBook 540c for free... but it will not power up or even turn on any lights when plugged in.. any help would be appreciated!

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3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

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In response to IBM (c)AT...

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Miniature vintage PC project (using an old firewall mobo.) Floppy for scale.

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I got this today from an estate sale. Googling reveals more info on the 5ESS system but nothing on the developers. Just a piece of history?

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Old tapes drives at my old workplace

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I did an LGR thrift today! The Goodwill prices can be steep, but hey it's for a good cause.

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New in box 2004 Sony Vaio Rs Desktop!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have Half-Life!

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Finally found a PET locally, looking forward to fixing it up!

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Me playing Aladdin on an IBM Aptiva in 1997

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Choppy Duke 3D, on MMX 233, what’s the bottleneck?

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Does anyone own them old dell laptops?

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My family's HDDs from its 1990s and early 00s PCs. Will see if I can get any data of these

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I've had this thing for years now. Everything works but I hardly ever use it. What would you do with it?

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The (messy) workbench

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Who else loves vi?

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Found this 3030 vintage computer with keyboard and monitor

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I see your Memory Management book and raise you my light reading.. KERMIT A File Transfer Protocol. A 380 page book about the Kermit protocol..

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Majestic Multitude of MHz Displays

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Anyone know what model system (mini-computer, perhaps?) this old Soviet-era monitor/keyboard combo was used with?

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I'm making another shadowbox, so I unpacked all my CPUs. Not sure how many I have now but it was over 350 last time I counted

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The little grey book. Ultrix primer!

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Where the heck do I start?

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I found this IBM ThinkPad 365x buried in a closet at work, and got to take it home! The hard drive is still alive with Win95 and all the bundled IBM software. Any suggestions on how to clone the drive? I want to preserve it in case the inevitable happens to the 24 year old spinning rust.

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All Three Eras of TI-99 Cartridge: 1979-1981's Black-on-Black, 1982's Colour-on-Black, and 1983-1984's Colour-on-Beige

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Commodore Datasettes, one of each

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Got this pin on eBay a couple days ago, I was curious to see if anyone knew anything about it

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ISO CD Emulator

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Just two dudes, hanging out. (Intel Pentium 4 astronauts)

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Got this motherboard/CPU combo from eBay. It was inserted like this; you could see them sticking out from the side of the chip.

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Just acquired: IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer - conditions unknown

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Another thrift store snag, Compaq 2820E! Powers on, enters bios.

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Started collecting for the C64 a couple months ago. Coming along.

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I know it isn’t a computer but it does compute so I hope it is okay to post I was cleaning and found this bad boy from my childhood, 33 years later and it still works.

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Drew this on an old Mac Plus!

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$5.50 Canadian pesos at a salvation army.

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Name that game!

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Abono thermal power plant (80s, Spain) - Joaquin Vaquero Palacios

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Can anyone help identify the cards on this album cover?

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Op-Shop find: E-waste to .. clock?

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Trying to find an old ATX Case. No luck on eBay so far. Found this pic online. Thanks!

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Ordinary household computer.

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I know, I know, but it’s the final touch it needed.

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I have ascended, sorta, I’ve gotten this far in the DOS 3.10 install process but I’m not sure how to get it to boot without the floppy

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A new out of the box Nintendo Famicom Keyboard..

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IBM Color display 85130012

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Is 2003 vintage? Fully functioning G4 iMac

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Never understood the need for these removable drive enclosures in the early 2000’s

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Found this Pentium Mechanical Sample whilst helping clean out a old PC repair shop.

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Got this at an estate sale for $2. The guy said he’d toss whatever didn’t sell so I figured I’d save it from E-waste and have some fun restoring it. It cleaned up really nice and turns out it’s absolutely maxxed for Windows 98: Pentium III 800mhz, 512mb RAM, Nvidia MX200 64mb Quite the nice games PC

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So I lucked out today, I decided to randomly check out some of my old PC hardware in my garage and found a mint condition Yamaha OPL3-SAx ISA Soundcard (Labway LWHA151A00 A151-A00 to be specific):

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Rare leaked imagery of reddit servers

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Found on Facebook. What a blast from the past.

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I didn't have an Atari ST back then, so I played with friends who had one... Now at last I can play Populous on any of my 4 STs that I bought as revenge for long these long years!

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CRTs of yesteryear!

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Has anyone seen IDC floppy drive with this style bezel?

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Found this cool composite monitor on craigslist.

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All this for the price of a visit to an old friend 2 hours away.

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I might sound dumb, but what is this network connector called?

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Now there's an old IBM logo

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my brother was getting his old g4 tower up and running and was looking for OS, so I sent him this picture of my disks.

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I will soon have a wireless connection to my Vendex Headstart... via this ISA WLAN card!

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the good stuff

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Working from home has been a lot more fun since I built a bunch of rs232 Wi-Fi modems.

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what should I do with this

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Apple IIe Platinum with 30mb External harddrive

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Me with my first laptop, circa ~1988(?) I know there's not a lot to go on, but if anyone knows anything about this machine, I'd love to hear it!

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Found this guy in my attic, still works. Anyone want it?

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Is anyone able to help me identify what this monitor may have been used for?

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Libretto 70CT found on Craigslist yesterday

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Genius Serial Mouse - Which protocol?

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Should I Worry About the Corrosion on Pin #1?

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Quake on the go

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I've just found a Voodoo 3 in a PC I was keeping in my attic !

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See that gem in the box there? That's the corner pc LGR did a video on. This load was on it's way to the landfill... another successful rescue!

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Microsoft RAMCard in my Apple II+ - love that logo

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Ah the good ol days

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