View Full Version : OMGZ! Oldskool Find!
Moonraker™
08-28-2006, 08:19 AM
Bleedin' hell.
Just been sorting out boxes as my room has finally been decorated and was so shocked to come across these old beauties! - I was so shocked to see them, so I dunno why... but I thought I'd post them on here as someone may appreciate "the way things were back in the day"... and such!
(Sorry for quality - my camera is an old Canon 2.1MP thing)
Only question is what to do with them now?!?!? :confused:
http://www.marcrigby.co.uk/oldskool.jpg
BlackX
08-28-2006, 08:27 AM
Put under the glass. I will go to look for stuff like this in my basement ;)
Sanborn
08-28-2006, 09:48 AM
Raise the aperature level on your digicam (I think mine is around 8.2 for closeups) and you will be able to take a clear pic.
Moonraker™
08-28-2006, 10:50 AM
No chance Sanborn. Can't even find the option in there. There's "exp" and an option for the colour (cloudy, day light, black & white etc.)
*Just seen your sig, and thought "8 fans!?!?" - then I just seen they are 8.9dBA?!?!? WOAH!
Silver Bullet
08-28-2006, 06:35 PM
couple of my old chips ..
Oldest is `77 .. the Pentium is the one with the math error too :) ... also have a first week of production P2 233 and a whole bunch of 486,368, etc
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5651/oldchipsao8.jpg
xenolith
08-28-2006, 07:17 PM
Is that a 1133Mhz Pentium 3 I see there? I wonder if it's one of the faulty ones. ;)
I always thought the P3 was a very clean, handsome looking cpu, lol.
mtl_hed
08-28-2006, 08:00 PM
486 SX. That was my first CPU ever at 12yrs old.
25MHz and no FPU. I remember the days of an FPU socket. lol. I'm starting to feel old.
couple of my old chips ..
Oldest is `77 .. the Pentium is the one with the math error too :) ... also have a first week of production P2 233 and a whole bunch of 486,368, etc
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5651/oldchipsao8.jpg
Silver Bullet
08-29-2006, 07:33 AM
Is that a 1133Mhz Pentium 3 I see there? I wonder if it's one of the faulty ones. ;)
I always thought the P3 was a very clean, handsome looking cpu, lol.
It’s a Pentium 3 Mobile from my brothers old laptop that meet the pavement .. the HD and other components were fine.. the screen though didn't make it .. so we gutted it .. and I kept the cpu :)
Console
08-29-2006, 07:45 AM
couple of my old chips ..
Oldest is `77 .. the Pentium is the one with the math error too :) ... also have a first week of production P2 233 and a whole bunch of 486,368, etc
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5651/oldchipsao8.jpg
LOL does the gold amd chip also say INTEL on it ?
Moonraker, you have the wrong guy in your sig.
You should be having Ron Burgundy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/) in that pic :D
Anyway i have an idea what you could do,
sell them and buy a decent digicam :D
alexio
08-29-2006, 08:49 AM
LOL does the gold amd chip also say INTEL on it ?
AMD techs were part of Intel a very long time ago, but they started for themselves. Maybe they let Intel produce chips for them back then.
HaxR3
08-29-2006, 10:22 AM
Yeah, back then almost ALL the cpu's were licensed intel clones
Moonraker™
08-29-2006, 11:52 AM
Moonraker, you have the wrong guy in your sig.
You should be having Ron Burgundy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/) in that pic :D
It's the Boosh my dear friend. The Mighty Boosh. A show here in England... the funniest thing ever on TV. Of course, only if you've not got a crap generic sense of humour!
Anyway i have an idea what you could do,
sell them and buy a decent digicam :D
Actuallies... my new phone was ordered today. 5MP. So I won't need a digi camera. But if I did, my missus has a really cool one she brought from Japan recently.
[XC] moddolicous
08-29-2006, 03:05 PM
Something you could realistically do is set up a nice smoothwall rig with one of those (preferably the fastest chip). There are always uses for older chips.
Panzer
08-29-2006, 03:26 PM
Southwall?
Soulburner
08-29-2006, 03:48 PM
486 SX. That was my first CPU ever at 12yrs old.
25MHz and no FPU. I remember the days of an FPU socket. lol. I'm starting to feel old.
Small world, the 25mhz 486 SX was also my first CPU...I was 12-13 also.
HaxR3
08-29-2006, 10:51 PM
ive got a 386 SX chip somewhere in a working pc :D
also ive got a 386 laptop :D
mtl_hed
08-29-2006, 11:07 PM
Small world, the 25mhz 486 SX was also my first CPU...I was 12-13 also.
yep.
lets see, the rest of the specs:
-4MB RAM
-118MB HDD
- 5.25 floppy
I remember showing my dad how to install the "multimedia kit", lol
Crappy sound card with an IDE controller for the CDROM, that was 2x. WOW it DIDN'T use cartridges. And a set of speakers, that still work. lol.