Anyone know more about this?? It's in tip-top shape, two small cracks on the monitor from age, and one keyboard key who knows where.
Some old keyboard function that is deprecated on modern pcs

Is this a really good find?

Equipped with a 500mhz AMD processor, Voodoo and AWE64 Gold

Hello,

I just found this never opened Windows 95 CDRom, it's the Chinese version for Taiwan. Do you thinks it's valuable or I can trash it?

Hello,

I just found this never opened Windows 95 CDRom, it's the Chinese version for Taiwan. Do you thinks it's valuable or I can trash it?

After cycling through a few computers, I finally settled on this one. It’s an HP Pavilion a1510n with my favorite version of Windows XP (Media Center Edition) I got the Dell speaker set for around $30 and it sounds amazing. I would’ve liked a CRT Monitor to go with the tower but the LCD works good.

I’m not a fan of the overall desk and size of the area, but it’s all I can fit in my 1br apartment.

I need to find out how to configure the jumpers, but I don't know what card this is. The chip is a UMC82C862, but many IO cards have this chip. I don't know what information on the board can help me identify it.

It appears that Infocom was shipping a virtual machine before most people had ever heard of one.

I made a comment about Zork the other day and it put the bug back in me, so I went looking for a version I could actually sit down and play again. Never quite found the one I wanted. What I did do was fall into a rabbit hole about how the thing was built, and I ended up somewhere more interesting than where I started.

They apparently didn't port the games to each machine at all. From what I've read they wrote each game once, for a computer that didn't exist (the Z-machine), and then wrote one small interpreter per real machine. Same game file everywhere. Which is basically the Java pitch, years early, from a text adventure company. As a kid I just knew Zork ran on my //e and, well, seemingly everything else too. It never once occurred to me to wonder how.

The part that actually got me though. My daughter runs text-based RPGs with Gemini now, completely on her own, and they are really good. I hadn't thought about Zork in years and my kid is basically doing the same thing in a different wrapper.

Anyway... anyone here found a good way to run the old Infocom stuff these days?

EDIT: There was a discussion in the comments about using Gemini to build your own RPG, and several people asked for info on how she did it. Rather than it get lost, I have pasted it below.

Below is her comment from a text message, so ignore the typos, I posted it verbatim:

i just prompt it. like:

set up a 1800s-themed regency era RPG game. give me 3 options for each prompted decision that will move the game forward. one option is the bad choice, one is good, one is great. adjust my desirability, propriety, and social class statuses accordingly. for each character i meet, let each decision change the relationship on a scale from 1-10 closeness.

my character is laura kinney, a blonde daughter of a drunken aristocrat. she has one social season to get married, this is it.

that's an example of a bridgerton set up.

Hi, I installed the msdos 6.22 on my old pc, however it lacked the msherc.com driver, which I need for qbasic. Do you know any sites from which I could download it to floppy and copy into dos system?

In '93 I ended up with what looked like a white full size office desk with a section of the desk top obviously made for a terminal complete with hole for cables in the back. Where the typical desk had pull out drawers was a solid door with lots a lights, 8" floppy drive and some switches. Opening it it had an 18" equipment rack. In that I found what looked like an S100 bus card cage, with a Z8000 CPU card, FDC, RS-232, and some others, I think.

Unfortunately I had to move in '94 and much to my dismay I had to jettison the desk before I could attempt to restore it. At that time I didn't have any information on it.

But years later I still wonder what exactly I had. Any information about it would be appreciated. I'd especially like to get some photos.

TIA

I hadn't had a magazine subscription in twenty years or more. I had Star Wars Insider around the time of Episode II, but that was the last physical subscription I had.

Makes going to the mailbox fun once a month.

😄

I believe it's related to the backplane on a vintage IBM but would like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to confirm.

Hello everyone! If this is not the appropriate subreddit for this question, please let me know. I am entirely new to this.

My dad gifted me this Dell Optiplex GX100. I learned from messing with this thing, that older PCs needed sound cards…

I bought a sound card for it that I believe is appropriate (PCI Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster CT5803 AudioPCI 64).

I have put the sound card in what I believe to be the correct slot, but it almost seems like it is not fitting snugly in the slot? It wiggles side to side when I barely touch it. I would understand if it is the incorrect model, but I do not think that is the case from my research.

I guess my question is, if anyone knows, am I just using the wrong part? Or is it possible I am not pushing it down hard enough? (scared of breaking it).

I will include photos of what I see. additionally, if anyone knows if I should be concerned about the brown spot damage in the photos, let me know.

If there is a better sub for this, I’d appreciate anyone who can point me in the right direction. Thanks everyone in advance!

Found an as-is iBook G3, unfortunately sans charger, for $20 at thrift today.

Seems to be a higher spec model, and is in relatively decent shape. Somebody "decked" it out with 384mb of RAM as well, and it has an Airport card, which I doubt will work on my wireless network.

I ordered a charger for it. My current plan is to use it for vintage Macintosh software, since my understanding is that it's one of the last computers that can natively run it.

found this at my local recycling center. hyped to test it once i get it all cleaned up. it is quite tiny for a baby AT board. i cant seem to find any model numbers on it.

I'm sure you've all seen plenty, but I think it turned out pretty well, so I thought I'd share.

Actually, it was $9 + $105 shipping, which was a bit much, but just a reminder that people like to forget important details when it comes to how much of a bargain they got!

Anyway, it's powering on, but obvious battery damage, which I've done a little cleaning on. It'll have to go on the shelf for now though, since I have a backlog of stuff. I'll have some updates soon on my compact Macs (including the flood SE from quite a while ago now and the battery damaged SE/30). The iMac is the blueberry version, btw.

Artifacts have appeared. Since I removed 1 MB chips from another board and inserted them into the sockets, it's likely that there's simply no good contact. Tomorrow I'll try to desolder the sockets and solder the memory chips directly onto the board.

Downloading QuickTake 200 (circa 1994) photos to my Apple IIe (circa 1983) with Colin Leroy-Mira's Quicktake for Apple II software (released in 2025). Such a cool new way to use my Apple IIe -- and now I'm carrying a 30 year old digital camera around with me as I go about my day!

I need your help! I need to figure out if I can remove the memory from any other video card to upgrade it to the S3 ViRGE/DX S3 86C375 ViRGE/DX.

It currently only has 2MB, which isn't enough to set the desired resolution at the desired bit depth. The Reddit system determines either the resolution or the color depth. Anyone with any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. I welcome any comments or suggestions.

My Apple IIe runs fine for about 10 minutes, then develops a strong burnt-paper smell from the power supply. It was unplugged immediately. Looking for someone local who is comfortable replacing X2 safety capacitors / recapping Apple II switching power supplies. (and if they can help me get the W and S keys working on the keyboard as well that would be awesome!)

At one point in time my uncle gave me a very old inkjet printer. I absolutely remember it being Bell + Howell branded.

Looking at inkjets of the same era I would say it seems somewhat like a rebranded Canon or Epson but I am having an amazingly difficult time trying to find ANY historical information about this printer at all.

Does anyone have any memories of this printer from the '80s? It was black and white, fairly low resolution, but I don't remember much else about it. It certainly did not have the weird paper tray like the HP Deskjet style printers, and I'm trying to remember if it was sheet fed or tractor fed.

[no I don't have it anymore, it And almost everything else I owned after being forced out of the house my mother and I rented until she died, was lost in a storage unit auction]

Hey, habt ihr eine Idee was ich mit dem alten Computer machen könnte? Heute habe ich Windows 98 installiert, er ist aber auch kompatibel für Windows XP.

Ich bastle gerne und möchte etwas daraus machen, habt ihr Ideen?

LG

hello! after troubleshooting my 386, i have found that it didnt POST because of a faulty video card. since then, i switched that one with this Trident TVGA8900D.

but, i dont get any video signal, despite the computer booting up properly (counting RAM, POSTing, floppy drives initializing...).

now i did have problems with this card before - it didnt show any video on a Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro C5 until i reverted the jumper configurations to the original ones, that i had found online.

how do i configure it properly for a 386 now? i have no clue.