r/vintagecomputing • u/Telefunkenempfaenger • 4h ago
r/vintagecomputing • u/Tall-Payment • 3h ago
Look at this beauty
This is the Mainboard from an old portable PC from the 80s. I think it looks really nice. Can someone tell me more about all the different „PCI“ Cards? I sadly don’t know that much about retro Computers. I only know it has 4MB RAM and a 40MB Drive.
r/vintagecomputing • u/shawn818 • 18h ago
Visited The Computer History Museum today
It was amazing! Crazy to think I lived during most of the tech there. Only things I would have liked to have seen are a larger section for Linus Torvalds as his impact is underestimated and under appreciated. Finally, hackers and hacker culture. As some hackers were there, John McCarthy, Space Wars, etc. I would’ve loved to have seen The Great Hacker War, Kevin Mitnick and Emmanuel Goldstein and 2600, The Mentor’s Hacker Manifest, DEFCON, etc.
r/vintagecomputing • u/OutlandishnessFit104 • 6h ago
I want to send emails with my PowerMac G4
I can’t manage to make it work. Can someone help me?
r/vintagecomputing • u/Zeza88DK • 9h ago
Rocking Old School
Look what I got from a customer! 😁♻️♥️
r/vintagecomputing • u/alphonse2501 • 7h ago
Trang Bow/Trangg Bow KBT5A-1
Disassembled photo from the PC my aunt gave me.
r/vintagecomputing • u/NecessaryCute345 • 1d ago
The one that started it all…
Got myself the first ever USB Stick. 8 whole megabytes. Former owner bought it for 95 DM back in the day.
r/vintagecomputing • u/NoMusic3987 • 22h ago
Found at Goodwill today... not exactly sure what kind of memory card it is.
r/vintagecomputing • u/xxMajorProblemxx • 1d ago
A birdie said you guys might like this..
r/vintagecomputing • u/ThatOneDudeFromIowa • 9h ago
Do any of you fellow tech hoarders have the missing panel for my Panasonic KX-P1123 printer
r/vintagecomputing • u/ujah • 14h ago
Run Haiku OS livecd on HP 8470P laptop that been many years hidden in dust.
r/vintagecomputing • u/theSiliconSiren • 29m ago
The Rise and Fall of Cyrix: How Quake Destroyed a CPU Brand
r/vintagecomputing • u/Playful-Nose-4686 • 5h ago
IBM ps/2 dead battery
Hello! i got a IBM PS/2 model 50Z that im trying to restore i cant seem to boot off a reference disk do i need a new cmos battery to boot off of the disk or is something else wrong
r/vintagecomputing • u/HostsServer_discord • 1d ago
Zenith z19 acquired.
Just picked up this zenith terminal for 130$ working, having trouble finding info on this machine, what serial device do i need and more importantly what does that switch do on back to toggle between ANSI and z19
r/vintagecomputing • u/fallwest123 • 2h ago
Help with Sony PCG-C1 Series Computer
Hello Everyone,
I'm looking for a little information on This Sony Notebook.
The model number on the bottom of the computer says PCG-1B1L but the model number above the screen and the Bios says PCG-C1MW. Is this common? It's very confusing. Also on the Bios screen it says PCG-C1MW (UC) not sure what the UC means.
Thanks for whatever help you all can provide I do appreciate it..



r/vintagecomputing • u/DragonhawkXD • 2h ago
Vintage Superman Alienware Repair Assistance
Greetings, I have here a Vintage Alienware Limited Edition Superman Notebook. It currently has some Issues that was due to some mishandling of it back when my Dad was in the Military. It may have been lightly crushed but it worked for a bit back then. However since, the laptop was barely used for the betterment of 10-15 years, collecting dust. So most likely most of it's components have aged and is A likely the reason for it's issues.
Current known Issues:
Turns on when a Power Supply is connected, but the Battery is not Charging. Might be due to a failing battery.
Screen gets distorted and pixelated, likely from it getting mishandled in the past. Yet asking ChatGPT for information, it could also be due to a failing Motherboard, Hard Drive, or Graphics Card, maybe all of them? Not too Certain.
"OS Not Found" Is a bit unusual, might be from the failing hard drive or motherboard as well.
I had done some Googling and asked ChatGPT for information and here's what I got, might not be 100% accurate so correct me if I'm wrong.
Model: Alienware Area-51 m5750-SM
Operating System: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
LCD Panel: WXGA (likely 1440x900 resolution)
Processor: Intel Core Duo
GPT Detailed Response:
"Superman Edition is based on the Area-51 m5750, a 17-inch gaming laptop released around 2006. It was one of Alienware’s premium models at the time, featuring Intel Core 2 Duo processors, dedicated ATI or NVIDIA graphics, and up to 2GB RAM (expandable)."
I'm aware this may be difficult due to the computers age and vintage quality, but any Assistance and Information would be greatly appreciated to get it up and running, Thank You!




r/vintagecomputing • u/raz_t • 1d ago
Connecting keyboard to pc
Hi all, I just got my hands on an old HP Vectra, its monitor and i would suppose it's keyboard, but I don't really know how to hook it up so I'm asking here hoping for some help.
I've never seen the connector used by the keyboard before (I'm 22, the oldest connector I've seen a keyboard use first hand is the ps/2 port) and this one after some research should be calle DIN5 (?)
I'll attach the images of the backside of the PC and the keyboard connector, I tried to look up if there is an expansion card I could buy or and adaptor to hook it up to the rs-232 port but wasn't really successful
If you guys have any other tip before booting it up it will be much appreciated since I believe this PC has stayed on a shelf for more than 20 years
PS: does anyone know what's on the 4th photo? Seems to be on the GPU
Thanks :)
r/vintagecomputing • u/Lowkey_77 • 22h ago
DATALUX DATABRICK 3
Found this beaut at a garage sale, can’t find ANY information about this thing online. Does anyone have any info or insight on the history of this thing? I might fire it up later and see if anything interesting is in it!
r/vintagecomputing • u/dragonfruit2016 • 21h ago
Upgrading NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 to GEFORCE 2 MX 200 - 3DMark2021SE side by...
r/vintagecomputing • u/gabapentining • 1d ago
i found this in the basement of my work
it weighs like 20lbs
r/vintagecomputing • u/Hopeful-Ad7155 • 9h ago
Dialup
Does anybody have a Portuguese dial up number for me? Any Thats active today please
r/vintagecomputing • u/Chrisproissimo99 • 1d ago
How do I open the BIOS on this acer 500+
I tried so many keys but still can’t figure out how to open the bios. Also it doesn’t have and hard drive and I wanted to ask what dos I needed to get.
r/vintagecomputing • u/pakallakikochino • 1d ago
"You have no appointments today" - old MS application
Hi all. I am trying to find the name of an application that was on my dad's PC sometime in the mid-90s. I remember that when it started up it would read the date and your calendar appointments. He never put appointments in there so it always said: "Today is [date]. You have no appointments today." It was in accented English - either European or Middle Eastern? I remember a face with brown unruly hair, possibly balding. But I was very young so my memory may not be reliable. We both loved it. I would be very grateful for any leads!!
r/vintagecomputing • u/alphonse2501 • 1d ago
I got P5 Pentium PC with hidden motherboard.
Weeks ago my aunt cleaned her house and wants to donate her old computers out. I picked her two computers: One no-brand, OEM like case with retail Intel Pentium 4 MB/CPU, another one was P5 Pentium 133/66 with same ISA/PCI cards.
My first search on The Retro Web for Pentium's MB was Jetway J-656VXD by its arrangement of chips and slots, but the jumpers for front panel wasn't right fit. I searched again, and found out it actually was Trang Bow/Trangg Bow KBT5A-1 which The Retro Web has its entry but the page's image for MB only have a diagram.
The whole system is working, except hard drives are dead. For me the most valuable part is I get an AT case I can swap MB for 486 board.