Re: Do you think prices will stay high?
Posted on 2024-01-25, 18:46
Sadly I think you are right.
Re: It never ceases to amaze how bad management can be at their job
Posted on 2023-10-18, 18:35
I have to say I agree this place is fairly drama free and the Olbies here older than me are a wealth of information, aside from that one religious zealot with the suicide enemy sprite from Shadow Warrior as his profile pic years ago. He was entertaining. Lol It's kind of a breath of fresh air to …
Re: Do you think prices will stay high?
Posted on 2023-10-18, 18:29
I don't see it that way, not entirely anyways. A couple of months after COVID prices did drop. When the crypto market went bust (again), even the more modern stuff (G80/92 graphics cards) had a huge price drop. Now mostly just the more desirable stuff is more expensive than pre-COVID. It appears to …
Do you think prices will stay high?
Posted on 2023-10-18, 04:21
Do you think prices will stay high? They are absolutely insane right now, I've been out of the game for a while but when I came back post Covid prices were just absurd. Luckily I've managed to get nearly everything I've wanted (at double or triple the price I paid the first time around) but it seems …
Re: phases of vintage computer interest
Posted on 2023-10-18, 03:16
For me there are two phases: 1. Get new hardware, clean and repair it, then tweak and benchmark the hell out of it (the fun part) 2. Force myself to actually use it for more than 10 minutes until I realize that it isn't fun, then stash it away and never use it again. Yeah this is why I generally …
Re: phases of vintage computer interest
Posted on 2023-10-18, 02:52
Personally I was both passionate about vintage computers / retro tech and it was the perfect timing. I got on the internet right in early 2013 and there was already a bit of a nostalgia wave going on with LGR, AVGN etc and I loved it all!! Retrowave was coming up, Kung Fury came out only a few years …
Re: AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
Posted on 2023-07-01, 07:58
Well apparently I'm not the only one who's feeling this way. I was just coming back here to say "anyone feel like the internet these days is just Bad news, sponsored content creators, and filler content on ad revenue pages these days?" Everything feels so stale and dead. I really miss how things …
Re: How's everyone doing these days?
Posted on 2022-11-06, 02:42
I lost interest in games a few years ago, so I haven't actually done much with my old computers recently. I don't have much else to use them for besides games, and I haven't felt like buying better hardware just for games. For now, my "collection" is going to stay two ultra-low-end computers, one …
Re: How's everyone doing these days?
Posted on 2022-11-02, 16:00
Most of the hobby for me is more the games and software more than having actual working old hardware at this point though. This is honestly more what I'm trying to work towards, hopefully I can learn to appreciate the games as much as I loved tinkering with new systems. It became waaay too much …
Re: How's everyone doing these days?
Posted on 2022-11-02, 07:02
Thank you all for the kind greetings. To be honest I've regretted selling my Packard Bell collection since I did it back in 2018. Sometimes more acutely than others but I'm in a better position than I was then despite having less free time and no longer having good places to pick things out of the …
Re: How's everyone doing these days?
Posted on 2022-11-02, 05:00
Sphere478 wrote on 2022-10-31, 16:20: TrashPanda wrote on 2022-10-31, 10:38: Sphere478 wrote on 2022-10-31, 10:30: I may have just scored a pentium 1 366 :p Welcome back! Is it one of them fake Golden Tigers ? Pentium 1 366mhz The Infamous Golden Tiger/Warrior Indeed! Woah I'd never even heard of …
How's everyone doing these days?
Posted on 2022-10-30, 17:57
Hey guys, been a long time since I was active on here. I'm trying to break my facebook / youtube addiction so I may be more active in the future. lol I'll also be buying back my Packard Bell corner computer from a friend who's been holding onto it for me thankfully, and have already ordered a few …
Re: What games will run on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 5830 (8086)?
Posted on 2022-07-07, 15:16
So what I'm hearing is it's not really suitable for anything. Bummer. 😒 I would certainly prefer a 286 model anyway.
What games will run on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 5830 (8086)?
Posted on 2022-07-07, 07:29
Hello all been a long time since I've really dived into vintage computers and especially 80's machines. Might be getting my hands on a pretty mint 8086 IBM PS/2 Model 30 with the original display and I'm thinking about slapping either an 8 bit Sound Blaster card, Snark Blaster or a Radlib (Adlib …
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-19, 16:33
To answer the questions: Yes I think mine is slightly newer than his but same case and power plug, probably the same PSU. I found that all Cybernet computer use the same four pin plug so it should work with any of them as long as they are positive on the top two pins (I think, I'm not sure cause …
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-19, 04:59
Impossible to verify with the PSU not working and the computer basically does not exist.
Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-18, 16:57
Hi guys! I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions where I might either be able to send this teensy PSU off to be fixed or maybe where I can get something that might replace it nicely. It's in a Cybernet computer and without the computer part plugged in I plug in the PSU and the power adapter …
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2021-05-17, 16:10
Rebuilding my computer room! I'm definitely back guys, expect content in the future (also yeah I'm going to probably replace those shelves the big box games are on).
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-25, 07:27
Scored a bunch of junk from the trash yesterday. Just got done cleaning it all. Both computers are 486 machines but I might make the tower a Pentium because I like the way it looks and I have no use for a 486. The desktop however is very interesting and much more complete, although it lacks a HDD ( …
Re: Anyone else into photography?
Posted on 2021-03-22, 07:04
Here's a few Instax shots I took Wednesday night at about 12am during some light rain. I still got soaked but it was a good first test of my new Lomo'Instant Wide. lol https://i.imgur.com/5XqBH1s.jpg Most proud of this one, I can't believe how well it turned out! https://i.imgur.com/nkh30K1.jpg …
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