Spring Cleaning - Ah Nastalgia...

[Major_A]

I had to make some room to store more junk so I had to throw out a motherboard and CPU I've hung on to for at least 14 years. This was the CPU that got me interested in computers. Before it I had a Gateway Pentium 166MHz then a Celeron 350MHz but I never really spent time on a computer or cared that much for it. So in a way I can thank this CPU and MoH:AA for getting me started. Care to venture any guesses to what this bad boy is.

I have a better picture with all the info etched onto the CPU but I'll leave the blurry one up.

[egloeckle]

Edit: Oops, forgot the K7's were slot only. Unless you ripped apart the slot cpu and popped this out it has to be at least Thunderbird.

I should remember this, I had one of the first slot A k7's...

Another edit for explanation: It has to be at least a thunderbird level as it is branded 'athlon' anything before that was am386/am486/k5/k6 and not an athlon IIRC.

[Major_A]

You are correct, T-Bird 1.2GHz! I beat and abused this CPU until I bought my first DIY computer (Northwood). Before I tossed the socket 462 motherboard it was living in earlier I could've powered it up.

[lordvic]

Brings back the good ol' memories...

[bubba]

Did this a couple weeks back in my office.

The crap I held on to

Some RAM



Another TBird chip, have a couple of these


Anyone for some DOS4?


Ok, too old? How about DOS5.. .if not, think I have DOS6 around here somewhere.


How about some office software?? Wordperfect and Lotus123... when was the last time you seen OS2 on some install options LOL



How bout WinNT 4, also have 95 and 98 laying around here too..

[DJ Tucker]

now that is some old school stuff right there lol. floppy's haha classic. the CPU that got me into computers was the celeron d 3.06 from my first gaming pc back in 2005. i had that system for 4 years before i really needed to upgrade to what i have in my sig. this system is 4 years old and still rocking on but really need a cpu upgrade ;)

[Major_A]

http://www.bubbaspad.com/images/spring_clean/1.jpg

Is some of that old school Cache modules?

And your PSA of the day, "Don't copy that floppy!".

[bubba]

http://www.bubbaspad.com/images/spring_clean/1.jpg
Is some of that old school Cache modules?

Nope, all RAM. Left to right 30 pin SIMM (whopping 1mb), 72 pin SIMM (4mb), 168pin PC133 (32mb)... I got a pile of DDR1 and DDR2 as well.

I still have a couple 386's in service, granted they are hooked to CNC machines, but they still work. I'll be a little sad with they crap out finally, mainly I have would have to get modern equipment to talk to some old CNC controllers.


copy that floppy lol

[egloeckle]

Dont have many pictures of old crap I have laying around customers but for some reason have this one.

Next time I head to one of my customers in the city ill snap a pic of the old 5MB hard drive I found sitting on a shelf from the very early 80's. About 7 or 8 years ago one of our customers cleaned out a corner of their warehouse and got rid of an ancient hard drive that was literally the size of a washing machine and used these giant platters that were replaceable. Getting the call of "we dont need this anymore do we?" made my boss cringe a bit.

[bubba]

have some mint in the box 5.25's lol

gave nate an old hard drive while back, still powered up too. he made a video of it lol.

[bubba]

here is the video lol

[XstollieX]

here is the video lol

And we have lift off! I forgot how loud those things are

[MrJohnJohn]

Damn! Thats all really old stuff in here

For me i just wiped out my good old Cherry keyboard after 10 years of usage. It survived 3 PC setups and i really love it