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04-10-2013, 02:08 PM
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Vintage PC's
In PCMech #495, it is stated that "there is a going interest in vintage mid-to-late 1990's PC's going on". I have an old Pentium 1 with a 200MMX motherboard, 3GIG Hard Drive, CD Rom, 62 GB RAM, 15" CRT monitor, keyboard and mouse, all in newish condition. Can this machine be deemed a vintage?
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04-10-2013, 02:17 PM
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The Preacher Man
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I gave away my old Packard Hell
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04-10-2013, 03:20 PM
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I'd say thats vintage to me
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04-10-2013, 03:34 PM
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I bet my 2½ foot tall Compaq with a 486 processor is worth more...or less... Or I'll have to pay someone to remove it.
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04-10-2013, 08:48 PM
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I have two vintage CPUs, a 1Ghz Duron and a 1.47 Ghz XP1700.
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04-10-2013, 10:51 PM
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I probably have a fully working 486 down in the basement somewhere.
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04-11-2013, 07:43 AM
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I have several and they all work. I have a couple of IBM's that are worth some money according to eBay, Heathkit, Amiga's, Atari, SGI O2, to name a few. Out of all of them, I like my old IBM Intellistation with OS/2. I occasionally fire up the SGI, I love the software on it. I also have a few vintage custom builds I got back from customers. I also have a nice collection of IBM Thinkpads. I am planning on getting rid of most of them this year. I had a lot of vintage parts that I sold on eBay and Craigslist as well. The stuff just accumulates and I am not as into it these days.
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04-11-2013, 09:33 AM
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Last year, I ended up recycling pretty much everything older than 10 years old.
The oldest stuff I have now is some AMD socket A Athlon XP hardware, which still runs XP-based surfing machines adequately.
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04-11-2013, 09:37 AM
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I could probably rebuild some 386 or 486 stuff from M/Bs and PSs floating around. But not more than 2 or 3 because most cases went to metal recycling. Maybe even 286 if I were to dig deep enough into the basement.
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04-11-2013, 09:58 AM
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Sell your old computers for whatever inflated price you can get right now, because like all trends, it won't be around for long.
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04-11-2013, 10:24 AM
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I have 6 PC's that are connected at home. My Slackware rig (socket 939 Titan, Opteron, V series GPU, 4gb of ram), IBM S20 Thinkstation (X58, Xeon, 24gb RAM, FX GPU, Vista), Wife's office (P45 Asus, E8400, 4GB of ram, Vista), File Server (thrown together, I think socket Adventech 1156, 4gb of ram, adaptech controller, at least 4 hard drives, CentOS), kids room and they love the Sugar OS, it comes freaky, natural to them (asus itx 220, 2GB ram, Sugar installed on hard drive). Media Center PC, (thrown together socket 775 (Asus I think), 4GB of ram with HDMI video card (Mint XMBC).
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04-11-2013, 11:32 AM
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The oldest thing i think i have now is a 1ghz Duron on a Via kt266 chipset Biostar board...
I think a 2400-Athlon-XP chip as well.... got too many PCs at home but they are all in use... kids have their own LAN in the dungeon.... |
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