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Older Pcs

mel the bellmel the bell
edited September 2015 in Chit chat
Does anybody collect older pcs?
whats the oldest you have?

personally im not as such, i have an older one mi mate gave me, but its only maybe 10 years old.

BUT
at work they got given a machine for parts, an oven, which makes the soldered on componants dry i suppose? it comes with a pc, an IBM 340 so just been googling

IBM_PERSONNAL_COMPUTER_340_PERSPECTIVE_HD.jpg
The PC 340 was a budget model. It used the Pentium processor clocked at 100, 133 or 166 MHz. It had 4 ISA and 3 PCI expansion slots and four (2 external 5.25 inch, 1 external and 1 internal 3.5 inch) drive bays. It also had 4 SIMM-72 RAM slots, and featured an IBM SurePath BIOS. The submodels were:

PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-1xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-4xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-5xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-6xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-7xx)
from wiki

from 94/95 i think?

I mentioned it was interesting to the maintenence guy who was taking the oven to bits to save the parts and he said he'd ask the guy in charge of assembly if they dont need / want it, can i have it, the only issue may be the hard drive, they may have to remove it for data protection reasons but as theyve never even fired it up since being given it, its not got any data on it to concern them lol, i have a few spare Hdds anyway
Mine doesnt come with a cd drive like in the pic just two spare bays, but i have a few spare old cd drives too

i wanna get mi self a 5 and a quarter inch floppy drive as i have loads of discs but dont have one :(
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    I did have an old 286 for a while, just got the case now.
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  • 1024MAK1024MAK
    I have an Amstrad PC 1512 PC
    http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=183&st=1

    I have another old PC, based I think on a Intel 8086 or 8088 CPU with a single 3.5" floppy. I forget the name/make. It runs MSDOS.

    I do have some later ones, including a Dan PC with a Pentium CPU.

    I don't collect them as such, I just fail to get rid of them :D

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  • ewgfewgf
    The Vogons (Very Old Games On New Systems) forum is great for discussions about old PCs - despite their name, they also deal with collecting/building/fixing old PCs, and getting contemporary and modern programs running on those PCs.

    http://www.vogons.org/
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    ewgf wrote: »
    The Vogons (Very Old Games On New Systems) forum is great for discussions about old PCs - despite their name, they also deal with collecting/building/fixing old PCs, and getting contemporary and modern programs running on those PCs.

    http://www.vogons.org/

    cheers
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  • John ElliottJohn Elliott
    I've got quite a number, including an IBM 5150 (the original PC, the one with the cassette port and BASIC in ROM) and a Sinclair PC200 (which is basically a PPC512 laptop in a black Atari ST-style case).
  • fogfog
    1024MAK wrote: »
    I do have some later ones, including a Dan PC with a Pentium CPU.

    they used to be in wembley , then they moved to next door to work. Long gone from that business park now in "sunny" neasden. Still pass it at least once a week. I remember they did a thing with folding IDE cables, made em really neat / tidy.

    I have a few old pentiums around, they are handy for porting software for 8 bits where it's dos based etc. that stopped working with newer OS and PC's .. freedos has usb support, so it's easy to just send the files to that.

    I remember fixing a toshiba libretto for a friend, they were really nice machines.. obv. helped if you have small hands to type on it.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    I've got an old PC.....I really should take the Hard drive out of it sometime...
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  • RetroTechieRetroTechie
    For me, old PC's are not interesting enough to justify the space / weight they occupy...

    Do have a few though. Oldest might be a Cyrix MediaGXm based thin client, 100~300 MHz Pentium MMX class. Nothing dating much before the turn of the century, a few things older than that come as selected parts like CPU's, RAM modules or mainboards. Original Pentium at ~60 MHz is about the oldest/slowest I can get running (or I'd have to slap a 8086 CPU + RAM + peripherals on a breadboard :-B).
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    RetroTechie wrote: »
    For me, old PC's are not interesting enough to justify the space / weight they occupy...

    Do have a few though. Oldest might be a Cyrix MediaGXm based thin client, 100~300 MHz Pentium MMX class. Nothing dating much before the turn of the century, a few things older than that come as selected parts like CPU's, RAM modules or mainboards. Original Pentium at ~60 MHz is about the oldest/slowest I can get running (or I'd have to slap a 8086 CPU + RAM + peripherals on a breadboard :-B).

    they dont interest me enough too tbh, just got one offered so got slightly excited, generally tho
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    saw this vid on youtube about the pc i may be getting from work, switching it on after being buried for 2 years LOL
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  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    I get the same feeling when offered 'the old PC' from friends and family. Do I keep it, decline it or take it and take the bits that I need then get rid of the remaining shell.
    Most of the time they are now declined, even those with high-end Pentium 4 processor and 80/160gb hard drives. The bits I might keep is a DVD writer or a graphic card if it is PCI express based.
    It is a shame not to keep the computer, but I need to keep decluttered.

    Good luck with your machine and I hope that you get somewhere with it.
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  • Your Spec-chumYour Spec-chum
    I have a few not so old Pentium 4 PC's. One is a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop PC that I brought new in 2005 I think, runs WinXP pro. Very rarely use it now, but it still works fine. Another I have was built with old parts I had lying around. Clear custom case, Intel P4 board, and filled it with lots of blue light up fans. Looks good, but when running it sounds like an aircraft flying by. %-(
  • VampyreVampyre
    I don't collect old pcs but I still have a couple of my old components that I can't bring myself to get rid off. My first CPU a 486 25MHz and my first 3D gfx card - a Voodoo 3DFX.

    I did trade in some old hard drives at CEX yesterday. About a Tb's worth across 5 drives. Got 20 quid for 'em which was twice I was expecting. Only SATAs though.
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