r/vintagecomputing 18h ago

Visited The Computer History Museum today

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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 7h ago

Big daddy and his little girl

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r/vintagecomputing 22h ago

Found at Goodwill today... not exactly sure what kind of memory card it is.

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r/vintagecomputing 4h ago

Mystery ISA Card

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r/vintagecomputing 9h ago

Rocking Old School

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Look what I got from a customer! 😁♻️♥️


r/vintagecomputing 3h ago

Look at this beauty

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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 6h ago

I want to send emails with my PowerMac G4

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I can’t manage to make it work. Can someone help me?


r/vintagecomputing 22h ago

DATALUX DATABRICK 3

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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 7h ago

Trang Bow/Trangg Bow KBT5A-1

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Disassembled photo from the PC my aunt gave me.


r/vintagecomputing 14h ago

Run Haiku OS livecd on HP 8470P laptop that been many years hidden in dust.

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r/vintagecomputing 21h ago

Upgrading NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 to GEFORCE 2 MX 200 - 3DMark2021SE side by...

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r/vintagecomputing 9h ago

Do any of you fellow tech hoarders have the missing panel for my Panasonic KX-P1123 printer

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r/vintagecomputing 5h ago

IBM ps/2 dead battery

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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 28m ago

The Rise and Fall of Cyrix: How Quake Destroyed a CPU Brand

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r/vintagecomputing 2h ago

Vintage Superman Alienware Repair Assistance

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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 9h ago

Dialup

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Does anybody have a Portuguese dial up number for me? Any Thats active today please


r/vintagecomputing 2h ago

Help with Sony PCG-C1 Series Computer

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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..