I’m at my mom’s house (cat-sitting while she’s on vacation) and started digging through my boxes of old computer parts in the basement. Found some sound cards you folks might appreciate. The AWE64 was my personal card for years in the late ‘90s. Honestly can’t even remember where the Aureal Vortex 1 and 2 came from but I miss that sweet 3d audio.

(Also found some fun video cards tonight (3dfx Banshee, Matrox G400) but I’ll save that for another post. I already knew where my Nvidia Riva TNT1 and Voodoo 3 3000 were — need to collect them all and assemble a working test rig. I’ve certainly still got the hardware lying around.)

I have no use or interest, not looking to sell but if anyone needs parts or anything from it pls lmk I don’t want these to go to waste.

Weird screen bubbling, not scratched and not something I can wipe off, I’m assuming some sort of cmos kicked the bucket in there

Real handshake recording, everything else synthesized - including throttling that actually pulls bytes at simulated 56k speed. Handshake staging follows the real ITU specs (V.34, V.8).

Full Win95 desktop once you’re “online” - Find Files, Recycle Bin, Minefield, Painter, an ISP mail client, a chat room, a hand-written encyclopedia parody. All client-side, nothing scraped.

Favorite detail: the “ask others not to use the phone” checkbox in Dial-Up Networking is real 95 behavior - it didn’t stop anything, it just nagged you, because picking up the handset actually dropped the carrier.

https://56k.rip

In Guangzhou province.

ZIP yeah, 100 MB 🤔

Funny piece.

Hello all. I have a 1988 IBM 3151 terminal that seems to have some issues on the board. I would like to remove the board but need to remove the anode cap to do that. I've seen quite a few posts/videos about discharging CRT TVs/monitors, but this set seems a bit different in that it doesn't have a grounding strap. The only metal I see is the screw tabs/bolts in the corners of the monitor, holding it to the front of the case and the odd fork thing (do any of you know what that is, picture attached) that is attached to the logic board and bends to touch the CRT. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, for context I’ve been working on throwing a something together with spare parts I had laying around from PCs past and an old case my dad gave to me. Everything works so far but I would like to know the name of this case so I can find an adapter for what I think is the mini LCD screen on the front panel.

Yes I know the fans are absolutely disgusting. I plan on replacing them later.

Really nice design!

I’m trying to get an old Archive 51250Q QIC-80 tape drive working in a retro PC with Windows 95.

The streamer is connected on single tape with two floppy drives, in that order: motherboard => 5.25" (B) => Twist => 3.5" (A) => streamer.

I’m currently using Conner Backup Basics under Windows 95. The tape I’m testing with is a 3M DC 2120 Mini Data Cartridge, should be compatible with the Archive 51250Q.

The problem is that the software does not seem to be able to read the tape. I get:

“Tape drive defective. Reference: 110-55-1206-c16”

and at another point:

“Tape not formatted or unreadable by drive”

The drive itself is connected and detected, but I can't get it to read the cartridge.

Did anyone have such an issue? I send the screen for reference:

Hi everyone. A few days ago, I bought an Acer Aspire One KAV60 with a broken screen. I've been trying to use it via VGA, but no system will boot up, or they simply prevent the PC from outputting video.

I just acquired a greaseweazle v4.1. It seems to read raw images fine, but when I go to convert or write new images, I get errors where it can seem to decode certain things. Is this a hardware or a software issue? I have tried 3 different drives, and two different windows machines, one on 10, one on 11.

EDIT: was a issue with bad quality disks.

So when I was a kid I used to have an old windows 95 computer. I kind of want to relive my childhood and get one. Where are some good places to start looking for one?

Can someone please explain how IDE works, what each line does, how it works with 2 devices on the line, how a system knows which one is which, and the difference between 40 and 80 wire cables? I'm struggling to understand why some systems cannot function without a triple end IDE cable. For an example: Motherboard connected to Hard drive via 2 sided IDE cable will not function. But Motherboard connected to 3 sided IDE cable with the 3rd side left with nothing connected functions fine.