Image Source: Ruben de Rijcke - http://dendmedia.com/vintage/ [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Wow! That is pretty neat looking! Nothing like building something yourself. Gives one a sense of satisfaction.
I remember my first desktop I bought to use in college, an old i386 which ran over $ 1,000 USD back in the day (1992). I don't remember exactly how much I paid, but it was expensive!
I know just enough about computer hardware to blow myself up.
Nice keyboard! I still have an IBM model M. I have it connected to my main machine and in fact I am using it right now.
My sister's husband passed away some months ago and I have been helping clean out her garage. Wires, peripherals, old printers, ancient computers... can't give the stuff away. We have been making headway though.
I did buy one of the computers from her. It is a Dell XPS with 32 GB RAM, 2TB HD, and one of them fancy GPUs. Her husband did a great deal of Computer Aided Design (CAD). Sister wanted to give it to me, but I would not have felt right. It is a very nice computer.
I am going to try to sell some modern RAM modules for her, maybe I can use one of the STEEM selling DAPPS. Craigslist here is a waste of time.
Wow, sounds like quite the haul. If you find an IBM model M hold onto it. They are pretty vintage and people love them because of the mechanical keys. There is a decent business in refurbishing them and reselling them. The only downside is most of them are PS/2 or the older style connector and they weigh like 30 lbs.
One of the guys from my Legion post who is a scrapper came and took all the older stuff. Trying to get the house on the market by March and just trying to clean it out.
Some of the newer stuff I have put to the side (e.g., modern ram modules, ethernet cables, hubs, cams, etc.). Just didn't have the time or knowledge to rehab some of the older stuff, but thank you so much for the advice!
lol i had a Comodore which looks similar to this picture you send :D
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i would happy to catch such an old Stuff... i love it to plant new stuff in this old looking PC´s to make some special UPGRADES ... its so crazy when you build this way... it dont need always BLING ( RGB ) its much more fun to build a actual hardware in such an old case and run nice games on it :)=
Sounds like that would be a great project!
I do often such crazy projects... smile
Last year i took an old TV CHAIR
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( something like this
(C) pic CASAMIA living rooms
and paced a Subwoofersystem into it so my mate had a big supriose when he started to play on it ;) smiles...
A lot of old stuff can be get biug surprioses when you take some time to upgrade em.. we need to gop back to upgrade stuff and stop to throw em all away... often filling stuff and some fabric and glue helps to refurbish a old thingy and create a whole new thing out of it...
Maybe im really too old school for this actual life... but maybe my grandparents made an awesome job to show me how to drive with less a huge thing!!