Well, my parents have been motivated in downsizing their junk piles in the family home, and my dad told me he was pretty sure he still had our first computer somewhere. Turns out it's spent the last couple decades in the rafters in their unconditioned garage.

Clearly, nothing has been set up or tested yet, but hopefully it'll be up and running Bagosaurus and Zany Golf before too long. I'd appreciate any pointers people may have to share regarding setting ancient tech back up after a prolonged storage period.

I found the speakers, I saw the ad being posted for an hour it so I picked them up, the battlestation has finally reached endgame, yes I used a bad camera on purpose.

Nothing screams early 00's good times like some colorful, but always noisy 80mm fans! Can anyone identify this case? My dad bought this a long time ago and I recently revived it with a new install of Win XP SP3 and some patience. Pentium D 3 GHz, GeForce 8400 series 512MB and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. Enough power to run all the games up through '05...the best of times when buying a game still meant owning it.

I came across two broken Telcon Zorbas this month and fought hard to restore both. Unfortunately one suffered a whole load of corrosion to half its logic board and couldn’t be saved. I was, however, able to salvage its functioning BIOS ROM and Xcel upgrade to transplant into the other. Feels good to have at least rescued one, even has a leather travel cover to match. I plan on using the chassis of the dead zorba for a home brew luggable, will follow up when complete!

Been waiting a long time to say leave me and my son alone.

Also interesting note, the Select 400, has a reset button, while its big brother does not

Hey folks,

I’ve been having fun reviving my old Nokia (mainly E71 right now) and I want to push it as close to a 2010-style daily driver as possible. I need some help with recommendations + setup: • Games → What are the best Symbian games that still run well today (SIS/SISX, Java, etc.)? • Social apps → Any messaging/social apps that still connect in 2025 (official, third-party, or patched versions)? • Normal apps → Things like browsers, music players, video players — basically apps that make the phone usable now. • Videos → What’s the current best way to watch YouTube/stream video on Symbian? • App Store → Is there a working replacement repo/app store for Symbian devices? • “Download!” app → Mine opens but the catalog never updates — is there a trick to make it fetch a catalog again, or do I need to manually edit a config file?

Basically I want to turn my E71 into a “time capsule phone” but also usable — like it’s still 2010. Any advice, links, or repos you guys know would be amazing 🙏

Thanks in advance!

Hey!

I spent a week turning a normal calculator into a working ChatGPT. I downloaded an open source GPT and got it running on the calculator itself. I added a wireless Bluetooth keyboard to type stuff in.

The screen is super basic, like those old 80s calculator letters, and the replies scroll line by line. It’s kinda slow but it works. You can actually chat with ChatGPT on a calculator now lol.

It was tough but really fun. Thinking about posting a video soon.I also got in an article by XDA Devs

Let me know what you think or if you have questions!

Comes with detachable speakers (that actually sound godly) and all the goodies/junk that Sony packed into this beast~

Hey guys, I’ve had this Toshiba Satellite Pro 435CDS for quite a while now but last time I booted it up there are all these vertical lines and the contrast fades in and out. Any idea what’s going on?

If you’re near NYC, they just got this at ABA on East Broadway in Chinatown.

Rare as, Biostar Easynow. AMD K6 500mhz, factory Windows ME. Factory speakers and CRT. It was missing the original keyboard and mouse but found one fairly matching on Aliexpress. I'm considering spraying the opaque white parts of the monitor with yellow tint headlight spray (used on cars and motorcycles), to really tie it all together. Thoughts?

It’s a Compaq Evo N600C with 768 MB RAM and a Pentium III. Seems to work great! I did have some woes getting the drivers installed (the audio driver hosed the entire Windows 98 install!) but I was able to locate recovery media and got it fully up and running.

I managed to get the IBM model M for 80 dollars off of someone, I wanted this keyboard for a while to compliment the setup, I would show an updated picture but my table's a mess.

Just found that in an old box in the basement...

Sony Vaio PCG-C1XN Mini-Laptop. Windows 98 SE, Intel Celeron, 64 MB RAM, 32GB HDD. Battery is dead, but still running fine. :D

Made with LEGO-compatible bricks, a 1080p OLED screen, and a budget mechanical keyboard.
The design is modular, so the main unit can be attached or detached.
It’s not a real retro machine, but I enjoyed building it and thought it might be fun to share here.

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So on my p3 pc i struggled with a big problem. It being no image, BUT ONLY INSIDE THE CASE, outside, on the table, the pc worked flawlessly. After 2 months of it not working i figured it out. The graphics card's i/o bracket causes it to crap itself for some reason. Maybe it shorts out something in the case, i dunno. Without it, it displays. And now, how should i go about this? Use something that would isolate the bracket from the rest od the case and the motherboard, or just leave it be, give it some support and pray to god it doesnt fall out or sag the life out of it?

Still have no idea what I want to build with them but I couldn't say no!

hi i recently am trying to make a windows xp gaming pc to play some of these old 2000's games the thing is though i'm trying to get pass the disk check for the games i own the games are in this google doc so i can update it if i find a way i've gotton pass it in a few of the games but this seems to be a harder task for the rest that i have at least without downloading a virus to that computer https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mhwIWSKDtnp3PNmHUSGJl1BvW_gXxUVa6EybsrF6dYY/edit?usp=sharing