I'd been pondering making something like this for a wee while to collate all my technological nonsense into one area for once.

 

I'll probably make a few posts now and again with me messing about with computers that are definitely obsolete in the eyes of consumer culture. Stay tuned... or don't, whatever takes yer fancy.

58 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'd been pondering making something like this for a wee while to collate all my technological nonsense into one area for once.

 

I'll probably make a few posts now and again with me messing about with computers that are definitely obsolete in the eyes of consumer culture. Stay tuned... or don't, whatever takes yer fancy.

Well, this message is written on a machine old enough to have Windoze 7 as the native OS.

4 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Well, this message is written on a machine old enough to have Windoze 7 as the native OS.

 

That's what I like. However I'm going back towards DOS, 95/98, and at the most modern XP for most of my ramblings.

 

I've currently got a nice Compaq Evo N610 laptop sitting in front of me... roasting my legs.

Let me know if you have, or get, any early model GRiDcase laptops in....!!

3 hours ago, Ttaskmaster said:

Let me know if you have, or get, any early model GRiDcase laptops in....!!

 

I don't know if I will, but I'll let you know if I do!

23 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

That's what I like. However I'm going back towards DOS, 95/98, and at the most modern XP for most of my ramblings.

 

I've currently got a nice Compaq Evo N610 laptop sitting in front of me... roasting my legs.

I think I have a few of them still knocking about myself. I do remember the days of the fan running like mad and the area underneath the machine burning hot. Nothing less than W7/W10 running in our family now. But not on the N610c’s obviously. 

Edited 21 November, 20223 yr by gav_is_con
Missed a bit

53 minutes ago, gav_is_con said:

I think I have a few of them still knocking about myself. I do remember the days of the fan running like mad and the area underneath the machine burning hot. Nothing less than W7/W10 running in our family now. But not on the N610c’s obviously. 

 

I had a Presario 2600 a wee bit back, big chunky thing. Three fans were there to cool what was a S478 Celeron 2400MHz CPU and an ATI 8000 series chip. Still was roasting itself to near death.

 

I've got the N610c mainly for VCDS and the likes, and because why not?

On 20/11/2022 at 22:56, KenONeill said:

Well, this message is written on a machine old enough to have Windoze 7 as the native OS.

My PC is newer than that and on win10, but im using the classic shell plugin/mod so my win10 looks just like windows 2000 (start menu included!)

57 minutes ago, robt100 said:

My PC is newer than that and on win10, but im using the classic shell plugin/mod so my win10 looks just like windows 2000 (start menu included!)

 

Tell me everything about this classic shell mod...

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Tell me everything about this classic shell mod...

Classic Shell

 

I've been using Classic Shell on W7, W8.1, W10 & W11 PCs ever since W7  made an appearance.

Its usualy the first thing I install after turning off all of windows spyware options

Been offered a mint IBM Aptiva in a swap for some more modern parts I don't need. Watch this space.

I may as well show off the Compaq that caused this thread to exist. It's a 2003 Compaq Evo N610c, I've topped the RAM out at 1GB and its running with a 30GB hard disk for now. This is my legacy software machine mostly, and a practical workspace that feels a lot nicer to use for word processing and web development. Plus, it has VCDS-Lite on it, but I've yet to use it with the car.

 

 

 

 

Edited 7 December, 20223 yr by AnnoyingPentium
What does *that* B stand for? Errr that's a typo.

I've lost track of the amount of old kit i've sent for 'recycling' over the years.  Stuff that's still working, but too slow/outdated/unsupported for modern use.

I went through my home office and placed a lot of it on eBay a couple of months ago. Surprisingly I got over £40 for a set of 3 old CPUs (a P60, AMD 486 DX2 equivalent and a Pentium III). I also sold a couple of Matrox Millenium graphics cards which were still working happily and a bunch of original PC games on CD. Trying to install XP  and legacy drivers on modern-ish hardware to check the cards were working was fun 🤔

1 hour ago, unclerichy said:

I went through my home office and placed a lot of it on eBay a couple of months ago. Surprisingly I got over £40 for a set of 3 old CPUs (a P60, AMD 486 DX2 equivalent and a Pentium III). I also sold a couple of Matrox Millenium graphics cards which were still working happily and a bunch of original PC games on CD. Trying to install XP  and legacy drivers on modern-ish hardware to check the cards were working was fun 🤔

 

If you've got anything else kicking about, let me know. I'm always after spares.

Ahh Matrox millenium graphics cards, now theres something I remember from my early PCs!

6 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

If you've got anything else kicking about, let me know. I'm always after spares.

Any and all PC stuff? Even old stuff?

 

42 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

Any and all PC stuff? Even old stuff?

 

 

Mainly old stuff I'm after. Depending on what you define as old, that is.

I don't know if you can do it at your local council tip, Ryan but I used to buy old PCs and other bits and bobs from the ones around Southampton. Got some cracking bits. Surprising what some people leave on old HDDs if they're still in the case.

33 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Mainly old stuff I'm after. Depending on what you define as old, that is.

Well, I'm coming up 70 and have been involved with "small" computers since the early '70s.  Will that do?

 

1 hour ago, @Lee said:

I don't know if you can do it at your local council tip, Ryan but I used to buy old PCs and other bits and bobs from the ones around Southampton. Got some cracking bits. Surprising what some people leave on old HDDs if they're still in the case.

 

Canny do that with EAC... well I've not tried, but the guy at the tip doesn't like me already.

 

43 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

Well, I'm coming up 70 and have been involved with "small" computers since the early '70s.  Will that do?

 

 

Aye that'll do nicely. The stuff I'm after is mainly late 90s/turn of the millennium. Which is old by modern standards, and hard to believe, personally.

There's an IBM Aptiva sitting in front of me. I'm copying the contents of the original 4GB hard drive to my PC, and writing some of the original IBM reset discs to a set of CD-Rs to do a fresh install of Windows 98.

 

I'll report back in a moment.

3 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'll report back in a moment

I take it this will be a moment of subjective time, not of objective time - at least where floppy disks and Win98 are mentioned ...

 

Hopefully you will be able to partake of some seasonal libations whilst you persevere?

 

13 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

I take it this will be a moment of subjective time, not of objective time - at least where floppy disks and Win98 are mentioned ...

 

Hopefully you will be able to partake of some seasonal libations whilst you persevere?

 

 

It's still copying the hard drive to my modern laptop. Many cups of tea have been drank, nothing alcoholic as I will still have to drive back home.