hey guys

if you have old computer stuff laying around, I could sure use it.

first, I would like to find a cheap amiga computer. If you have one, pm me.

second, If you have these parts and would like to sell them or "donate" them:

*memory--EDO DIMM and SDRAM (PC100-PC133)

Ok, I have to ask, what do you need an Amiga computer for?

Especially since they were made before you were born?

kicks and giggles.

they are awesome, real efficient for 20mhz.

I have a Gateway DX33 w/ 8mg ram and 512mg hard drive in original boxes with 3 ring manuals and all software on 51/2" floppies. Don't know why I still have it except it works and I hate to throw out anything that works.

Amigas are cool, but you have no idea how primitive they are until you go back to using one. I still have my A3000 in my parent's garage and it still works (I think). I think it ran in 320x200 or 640x200 native res? Ouch...

You can get very good Amiga emulators for the PC, one of them is called UAE. It's been around for 10+ years. Saves a lot of desk space and no pesky floppy disks...

On a similar topic there are also very good C64 emulators for the PC.

I am thinking about turning a 6851 SID chip (the C64 audio chip) into a laser display controller, so I have been looking into this stuff recently.

im prepared.

ive played around with a A4000T. It had that video toaster on it. It was cool.

Basically I need old SDRAM memory.

I have dozens of 64 and 128 MB PC100 and PC133 SDRAM

I just got a Color Classic, not sure what i'm going to do with it, I understand the old computer collection thing though, they are just cool pieces to have around.

Hmm, I might sell my A4000/040 with video toaster 4000, but only if I can get my old A3000 back from jkeyzer

(I figure it's worth around $500, I have the VT install disks and binder, and a big stack of software, including morph plus (very cool and pretty easy to use morphing program)

I have a couple celeron processors, a 400 and a 466. Those are free if you want them. I also have some bad floppy disks.

oldest mac I have is my Quadra 660AV. 40Mhz 68040...

did video recording....in 1992!

also have a performa i pimped out. kinda slow still though.

oh and on a completly different topic,

i was wondering how reliable the pentium pro systems are--in long term...

I have good parts. Antec power supply, good power...good intel board. dual 333mhz overdrive chips.


although my dad had a athlon machine next to where my machine resides, he had around 12 caps break open and ooze...

i'm thinking about getting a UPS....just so I can be sure the power is clean.

I also have a Fujitsu Stylistic pen tablet computer with aging monochrome display that I'd sell for $100. It's a dx4/100 that runs win95. It's slow but it works. Some people run unix on them. I had it working on the wireless network until my wireless card died. External floppy drive included.

LOL!!! I have one too....mine is a pentium 120....

that is too funny....i'll have to see what I can do with mine, then we'll talk....

Why not get one of these.

That would be so cool to have tucked away in a closet. Wonder if you could make it a server?:0
Eric

heh. I'd have to live inside of it.

i should go liquid cool my 486...

that fujitsu isnt going anywhere is it?

I might need an extra apache server for when my DSL link goes down.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 09:55 PM)

heh. I'd have to live inside of it. i should go liquid cool my 486...

Lol- Man I'm getting Old I'm meeting new nerds who don't even know what a 486 Is. I remember when that wasn't so bad. Or even better, what an ISA is. This kid at work the other day looked at this "long black thing" and asked what it is. Wow- I used to install ISA cards because PCI was to expensive lol.
Eric

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 09:56 PM)

that fujitsu isnt going anywhere is it? I might need an extra apache server for when my DSL link goes down.

Only if you buy it.

(I'm open to trades of 914 stuff I need of course)

If you want cheap boxes to throw around and don't cost you $$$$$ in energy bills (and are loud) go check out the Linksys nslu2. It's a network storage adapter that you can load linux on and use for all sorts of stuff.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 11:48 PM)

if you have old computer stuff laying around, I could sure use it. *memory--EDO DIMM and SDRAM (PC100-PC133)

i thought you wanted *old* computer parts.

i used to have some memory cores, but they got lost in a move.
i still have a few 8" floppsy disks. you want a couple of those?
i think one still has some line-printer porn on it - must be viewed on 132-column blue bar paper for best effect.

i think i've still got an Intel 8008, and a 2102 256-byte UVEPROM.

i did finally pitch the vacuum tubes tho.

I have lots and lots of 64 and 128 mb memory. 100-133mhz.

Let me know if you are still in need.


If I'm not mistaken, there was a Debian port for the Amiga..

QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Aug 10 2005, 05:08 AM)

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 11:48 PM) if you have old computer stuff laying around, I could sure use it. *memory--EDO DIMM and SDRAM (PC100-PC133) i thought you wanted *old* computer parts.

Me too...

I have a functional IBM System 23 complete with 8" floppies full of software, all of the manuals, 10Mb DASD (it's bigger and heavier than the console) and 132 column line printer.

QUOTE (Eric Taylor @ Aug 9 2005, 10:59 PM)

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 09:55 PM) heh. I'd have to live inside of it. i should go liquid cool my 486... Lol- Man I'm getting Old I'm meeting new nerds who don't even know what a 486 Is. I remember when that wasn't so bad. Or even better, what an ISA is. This kid at work the other day looked at this "long black thing" and asked what it is. Wow- I used to install ISA cards because PCI was to expensive lol. Eric

i'm a old-school nerd. Always have been. My favorite system was a 486/80....It was awesome. Windows 95 and everything.

next best system was a 386/40. Windows 3.11.....CD-ROM!!!

I built a 486/100 from a new SOYO motherboard and chip, and I was lucky enough to get some cool cards (Vesa Logic, ya know the ISA+PCI slot) like video and I think I even got a controller card. but I only have one VL slot.

Now that's super-old geekin'

QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Aug 10 2005, 05:08 AM)

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 9 2005, 11:48 PM) if you have old computer stuff laying around, I could sure use it. *memory--EDO DIMM and SDRAM (PC100-PC133) i thought you wanted *old* computer parts. i used to have some memory cores, but they got lost in a move. i still have a few 8" floppsy disks. you want a couple of those? i think one still has some line-printer porn on it - must be viewed on 132-column blue bar paper for best effect. i think i've still got an Intel 8008, and a 2102 256-byte UVEPROM. i did finally pitch the vacuum tubes tho.

memory cores!!! I've seen one on TV before....on TechTV. That was before they merged and ruined my life.

I used to watch that ALL the time. I started watching it when it was ZDTV. Good stuff.

QUOTE (bondo @ Aug 9 2005, 10:39 PM)

Hmm, I might sell my A4000/040 with video toaster 4000, but only if I can get my old A3000 back from jkeyzer (I figure it's worth around $500, I have the VT install disks and binder, and a big stack of software, including morph plus (very cool and pretty easy to use morphing program) I have a couple celeron processors, a 400 and a 466. Those are free if you want them. I also have some bad floppy disks.

If you sell that, lemme know. The day you sell that is the day I sell my kidneys on ebay.

QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Aug 10 2005, 03:08 AM)

......................i think one still has some line-printer porn on it - must be viewed on 132-column blue bar paper for best effect. i....................................

Line printer porn? Haven't heard of that before.

Have any of you heard chain printer music? In high school, an instructor loaded a stack of cards (yes, it was that old) that were punched to print the right combinations and timing of symbols such that the sound of the strikers hitting the paper played the tune "She'll be comin' around the mountain". It was hilarious.


Andrew

some guy make TI-83 porn in my high-school math class. didn't last long, the teacher saw it and he got in huge trouble. I didn't get it...looked like just a jumble of pixels....

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 10 2005, 07:57 AM)

memory cores!!! I've seen one on TV before....on TechTV. That was before they merged and ruined my life. I used to watch that ALL the time. I started watching it when it was ZDTV. Good stuff.

zdtv was great, Leo Laporte's voice drove my wife nuts, the that is on there now just blows. The screen savers was cool but they replaced it with attack of the show

Now I have to suffer through all the NASCAR stuff on Speed.

You know TV just really sucks these days....

I think I have a 1st gen Athlon 500 and an FIC mobo... and maybe the RAM that was on it... (PC133 IIRC)

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Aug 10 2005, 10:44 AM)

I think I have a 1st gen Athlon 500 and an FIC mobo... and maybe the RAM that was on it... (PC133 IIRC)

We are using my old Athlon 800 at my wife's Quiznos shop, running on a old Abit board, so old it has an ISA slot.

Latest toy is a Athlon 3200 1gig ram, almost a terabyte of HD space, yadda yadda yadda...

QUOTE (johnmhudson111 @ Aug 10 2005, 10:52 AM)

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Aug 10 2005, 10:44 AM) I think I have a 1st gen Athlon 500 and an FIC mobo... and maybe the RAM that was on it... (PC133 IIRC) We are using my old Athlon 800 at my wife's Quiznos shop, running on a old Abit board, so old it has an ISA slot. Latest toy is a Athlon 3200 1gig ram, almost a terabyte of HD space, yadda yadda yadda...

yea, my home rig is a 2200... I'm waiting for a game or anything it can't run, so I can upgrade... but that hasn't happened yet! 1GB dual channell DDR, and 256 MB on the video card helps.

I liked Leo Laporte....he was cool and brought a sense of calm to frustrating computer times.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 10 2005, 11:13 AM)

I liked Leo Laporte....he was cool and brought a sense of calm to frustrating computer times.

He is actually still on the air, in Canada, doing call for help, there was a petition to bring him and the show back to the US.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 10 2005, 05:00 AM)

[QUOTE=bondo,Aug 9 2005, 10:39 PM] Hmm, I might sell my A4000/040 with video toaster 4000, but only if I can get my old A3000 back from jkeyzer If you sell that, lemme know. The day you sell that is the day I sell my kidneys on ebay.

Don't hold your breath, I am never giving away my A3000. WAY too collectible. Perhaps one of the greatest computers ever made.

where, i'd like to sign it. I think G4TV did a very bad thing by taking away what was TechTV...I boycotted that channel. I liked Leo Laporte and would like to see him come back. G4TV lost a very loyal fan by destroying TechTV....

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 10 2005, 11:46 AM)

where, i'd like to sign it. I think G4TV did a very bad thing by taking away what was TechTV...I boycotted that channel. I liked Leo Laporte and would like to see him come back. G4TV lost a very loyal fan by destroying TechTV....

Call for Help in the USA here you go.

Hey, if you want another time/money hole of a hobby, get yourself an amiga 500, and put together a pangolin laser scanning setup.

well my server is put together, and i'm now enjoying streaming tunes.

a mobo is coming after some $$ is paid off....

right now i've gutted two computers in prep for tossing.

i need to do some cleaning.

ARGH G4tv blows! It's just a bunch of gamer crap. I really like the screen savers. I used to download episodes when I was a kid of the show. Leo was the only one who truly understood me , Plus in the last couple years of the show their were the hot nerd chicks, that was nice . I do miss leo though and his first co-host , that girlthose were the good old days.....
Eric

i remember her....forgot her name. something short though.


KATE!

or maybe i just made a fool of myself.

oh well.

anybody wanna trade a Athlon processor for a P3 socket 370 CPU....
and some SDRAM. I would liek to see 256MB of ram in my server for trading parts.

bump.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 10 2005, 10:39 PM)

i remember her....forgot her name. something short though. KATE! or maybe i just made a fool of myself. oh well.

I think your right on her name, she never did anything for me, the girl on x-play on the otherhand ....

I like the Leo and Patrick Screen Savers the best, except when Patrick wore the kilts, that was a bit creepy.....

nobody has a p3 spcket cpu....and maybe 256MB PC133 sdram?

i'll trade ya an athlon cpu....

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 11 2005, 10:29 AM)

nobody has a p3 spcket cpu....and maybe 256MB PC133 sdram? i'll trade ya an athlon cpu....

haven't owned an intel chip since the celeron 400 I had before the athlon came out... I *think* I still have it laying around... intel sux!

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 11 2005, 11:29 AM)

...I would liek to see 256MB of ram... nobody has a p3 spcket cpu...

i have a spellchecker that runs on CP/m ...

I had boxes of that crap that I just threw out about 2 weeks ago. I'll check my basement I may have some PC 133 RAM kickin around.


-Rob

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Aug 11 2005, 09:35 AM)

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Aug 11 2005, 10:29 AM) nobody has a p3 spcket cpu....and maybe 256MB PC133 sdram? i'll trade ya an athlon cpu.... haven't owned an intel chip since the celeron 400 I had before the athlon came out... I *think* I still have it laying around... intel sux!

well i was given a freebie old dell mobo...which was microATX....had a celeron in it. I *HATE* celeron's . beggers cant be choosers though.

all in the combo.

now that I got terminal services working, my celeron 533 is biting the dust....the 96MB of ram never performed well either.

I found some 64MB PC100 and 1 PC66(64mb)

the old cererons were great, you could overclock the SHIT out of them... I had my 400 running 600 for a long time with the OEM fan! it still works fine, I pulled it out and put it in a computer when I put in my Athlon500(faster at stock speed than the celeron overclocked)