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Just went to pick up a FREE load of computers, here's the haul

Sadly the most powerful thing I've got is the 133mhz Pentium...

I'd rather just run them in period-accurate states. Put MS-DOS on the two HACH's and keep 95 on the Dell.

Sorry...I'm too nostalgic. Sometimes I dream of having gone through high school with a Macintosh 128k as a word processor. Something about it just beats today's look and feel. Back then they were machines that "mere mortals" only salivated over.
 
I picked up a couple of Macintosh SE's from someone a few years ago. You know, with the 8" black and white screen. They still work, boot up into System 6, they still contain files from whoever owned them back in the 90's. It's like stepping back in time (especially because one of my first computer experiences were on these units, way back when I wa like 8 years old.)

I can't bring myself to throw them away.
 
Ttownbeast said:
Any of those capable of being converted to a low end server using Linux? I hear you don't need much of a CPU to do it. I am thinking about it.
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The latest Ubuntu Server has rather low CPU requirements, but relatively high RAM and hard-drive specs. It'll be hard to find a 133 MHz-class Pentium with that much RAM already installed, and some older Pentium I mobos can't support that much. From their Website:

Ubuntu Server Edition is meant to run on any Intel or AMD x86, AMD_64, EM_64T processors. It requires a minimum of 192Mb of RAM and 1Gb of disk space. Depending on your needs, you might manage with less than this. However, most users risk being frustrated if they ignore these suggestions.
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Source: Ubuntu.com

However, most Pentium II-class used PCs can handle these specs easily.
 
Yeah, I'll just keep them how they are.

I like looking at documents to see what has been going on. When I got my iMac, it had system 9 and the owner thought that once he deleted a file from the Finder, it was gone. I guess he never wondered why there was a trash bin on his desktop.

I found it was used for work as well as by kids. There were notices that there had been infractions at what appears to be some sort of waste center and lists of people to contact for "evaluation". LUL As well as a test of some sort with the answers. YES! I haz t3h infurmashun!

Man, what I would give to stumble upon some free Macs, even some Apple's like the ][ or III! But 1. I never get that lucky 2. I live in Hank Hillville :(
 
I think the very first computer I ever used in school was the TRS80, then Playing Oregon Trail on apple II/e's in middle school then my pop got me a TI/99, followed by SE/30's in each high school classroom at the teachers desks, as a senior the computers were IBM with OS2 in the computer lab and a couple power macs. I did not actually use any machines using Windows once while in school, not until I started going to college 5 years after graduating highschool.
 
Oh man, before I got a computer I used some Apple ][c's in elementary. We played Number Munchers (classic!) and some game that involved NO math and was a sidescroller with a helicopter that had a gun of some sort.

I had no idea, they were just computers to me then. But after thinking back to that rainbow Apple logo that I remembered seeing, the all-in-one keyboard, diskette drive and the display, I know now it was an Apple ][c exactly like this configuration

That was the computer lab. In Gifted and Talented we had THE systems to have XD. HIGH DEFINITION 1024x768 displays with thousands of colors and 16bit audio! I remember that was the first time I saw the flying toasters, and I always wondered what that one toaster was doing to that bagel...NOW I know he was rolling it beneath him but then...well it bugged me. Funny the school spent money just to put those screensavers on the G&T computers =\ As well we played oregon trail in FULL 800x600!

I remember all through school, most of the teachers used Windows. So if there were computers in the same class, they would go to sleep and the Flying Windows or stars screensaver would play. And when they started certain applications (I still don't know what) they would play a short piano riff. I'm thinking it may have been a word processing or other office-like application. As well I now know that they often restarted or SOMETHING because the NT 3.1 "Tada!!" sound played a LOT and Windows NT Workstation 3.5 OR Windows 3.2 and NT Workstation 4.0 as well.

And I do just LOVE the Windows 95 and 2000/me startup sounds, but I guess nobody told Microsoft that to genuinely copy, the sounds would have to play after the system-check, NOT upon OS initiation.

On migh-ty toas-ter wiiiings!
 
Well, I think I figured something out. I said I had no idea what that card above the CPU is in the Dell.

I had a feeling it was a SIMM, probably some sort of ram for a special purpose on a separate bus, but I am almost sure it's a ROM SIMM. Yes? No?
 
MrCheeto said:
Well, I think I figured something out. I said I had no idea what that card above the CPU is in the Dell.

I had a feeling it was a SIMM, probably some sort of ram for a special purpose on a separate bus, but I am almost sure it's a ROM SIMM. Yes? No?
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To quote myself erlier in this thread:

The memoryslot above the pentiumchip is external cachememory for faster computing. Hitech at the time and expensive.

The smaller memoryslots in the 486 is 30-pinn memoryslots. There where both kinds in the change between the two kinds of memory.
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Hope this helps. Mixed feelings seeing your pictures. I have worked as a technican and serviced computers from the early 90´s untill 2003. it was fun, but don´t mix hobbies and work. Now i have macs and don't want to bother with tecnical problems anymore. It´s have to "just work :apple:"... :D
 
Basically, it's a memory cache? Wowza.

I've decided that after all of the computer service I've done, I will NEVER do work with non-macs or macs running non-os x. Windows just causes soooooooo much stress. I get nauseous and sick to my stomach, which also has to do with the god awful ugly interface. I mean, who else gets nauseous playing original NES Tetris? The colors are just puke inducing. Not to mention having to search for and install drivers for a machine.

Working on macs is so fun, I'd almost do it all for FREE!
 
I miss my old Pentium 75. =), 14.4 modem!
Then I got a Pentium 166....
Then a Pentium II 266mhz
Then it was all down hill from there.. a huge mix of
AMD K-6, Cyrix, and Intel.. But those first three.....
=), I miss the big beefy P2 Chip.
ahaha
 
My first computer was a Pentium Packard Bell, just over 100mhz I think from 1995.

My next was in 2000, it was a Compaq Presario 200 with a Pentium II.

My first laptop was the Compaq Presario 2100 with a Pentium III CPU in about 2001. I remember playing Call of Duty in '03.

After a life of Pentiums, I made some awful mistakes. I bought a Compaq AMD desktop! What a load! Then I bought an HP notebook when Vista came out, with AMD. I've never pulled out so much hair from constant fudge ups.

Finally, I went to search for alternatives to Windows. I used all forms of Linux and decided to buy a System 76 notebook, the Pangolin Performance. However, it declined my card. Luckiest day of my computer-using life! The next day I just went to best buy and picked up a MacBook. Best decision ever! My productivity has skyrocketed and computing is finally fun AND stress free!

I've now, so far, owned a White MacBook, an Aluminum MacBook and iMac G3 blueberry and currently own a Power Mac G4 MDD and a 13" MacBook Pro. I can't get enough! I'm trading my Comcrap AMD tower for a G3 Power Mac as I speak!

@cool runnings I was afraid to say CPU cache, I thought they were on a small IC on the board, but I guess nothing was off limits back then :p Thanks! I understand fully!
 
Just one, and it's for a mouse driver. this means I have a scrap floppy diskette that I can do anything with.

Project ideas?
 
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