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Nice day for the retro fleet! Had a nice dropoff of some 90's era stuff......and what made all this extra nice is that it was all stored in a closet of a clean house. Everything was in fabulous condition and working; to include ~30yr old HDD's!
Here we go!! The pile!
First up to be tested was the unbranded ATX case. It's a soyo board (caps not vented, but definitely questionable) - mendocino celeron 500 - 256mb RAM - 20gb HDD running Win2k.
Next up is this Dell Optiplex GX1. It's a Pentium2 @ 350/100 - 128mb RAM and an 8.4gb HDD, again running win2k.
Last PC is the Packard Bell 'Pack-Mate' 7130 running a pentium classic @ 120MHz - 16mb RAM - 1.2gb HDD..... It was darn near complete....the KB, Mouse, and speakers were present but the original monitor was not....probably went bad....but the guy kept the side-mounted speakers....
Win95....
It has one of those imfamous Modem & Audio combo cards in it.....I remember these back in the day, they were usually a real delight to get working correctly..... No idea if the modem works, but the audio actually did!!
This was the only KB I actually kept....I already have a large collection of good beige keyboards....but I kept this one because it's a clicker.
Now we'll get Momaka all excited.....the Viewsonic E70 17" monitor in 1280x960 @ 75Hz!!
I did not test the smaller 14". It was made in 1991....probably max @ 800x600 and miserable to look at.....it'll probably find its way to the scrapper. The Viewsonic I'll either pair with one of my retro rigs (I tend to run beige flats on them for obvious convenience) or try and rehome it....
The Toshiba laptop was a 300CDS, I have a few of these already.... It's a Tillamook Pentium Classic @ 266MHz. I have not tested it. It probably works but like the rest, the 1.6GB IDE HDD will be trash....but overall, a good day!!
Nice day for the retro fleet! Had a nice dropoff of some 90's era stuff......and what made all this extra nice is that it was all stored in a closet of a clean house. Everything was in fabulous condition and working; to include ~30yr old HDD's!
Here we go!! The pile!
First up to be tested was the unbranded ATX case. It's a soyo board (caps not vented, but definitely questionable) - mendocino celeron 500 - 256mb RAM - 20gb HDD running Win2k.
Next up is this Dell Optiplex GX1. It's a Pentium2 @ 350/100 - 128mb RAM and an 8.4gb HDD, again running win2k.
Last PC is the Packard Bell 'Pack-Mate' 7130 running a pentium classic @ 120MHz - 16mb RAM - 1.2gb HDD..... It was darn near complete....the KB, Mouse, and speakers were present but the original monitor was not....probably went bad....but the guy kept the side-mounted speakers....
Win95....
It has one of those imfamous Modem & Audio combo cards in it.....I remember these back in the day, they were usually a real delight to get working correctly..... No idea if the modem works, but the audio actually did!!
This was the only KB I actually kept....I already have a large collection of good beige keyboards....but I kept this one because it's a clicker.
Now we'll get Momaka all excited.....the Viewsonic E70 17" monitor in 1280x960 @ 75Hz!!
I did not test the smaller 14". It was made in 1991....probably max @ 800x600 and miserable to look at.....it'll probably find its way to the scrapper. The Viewsonic I'll either pair with one of my retro rigs (I tend to run beige flats on them for obvious convenience) or try and rehome it....
The Toshiba laptop was a 300CDS, I have a few of these already.... It's a Tillamook Pentium Classic @ 266MHz. I have not tested it. It probably works but like the rest, the 1.6GB IDE HDD will be trash....but overall, a good day!!
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