What ancient tech have YOU found today?

[DavidM]

If I remember the SuperFX was a dac chip - or something similar - to help with 3d graphical processing (as the tweaked 6502 used in the SNES wasn't very good at this otherwise)

[Taz]

I've still got my Sinclair Cambridge programmable calculator from the mid-70's! Still in its original box, with leather case and manual.

[DavidM]

Taz: now that is a real collectors piece... look after that properly!

[Taz]

Taz: now that is a real collectors piece... look after that properly!

I know. I only accidentally discovered it a few months ago. It was at my mums house in a cupboard in my old room! It's still in mint condition. I've removed th 9V battery and it doesn't appear to have leaked. It still works after I put a fresh battery in it!

[SourceQuench]

and Intel Pentium 4 laptop, man thouse old hat technology peices where a joke!

an Acorn 5000 vintage 1992 i belive, with the 4 meg ram upgrade (that involves soldering the extra memory on).

A5000 here too - they rock I "upgraded" mine with a 512Mb HD that I found at a car-boot, amazingly it was one the orginal drives that were listed as being compatible with the A5000s...

As to what i found... a VIC 20 on the scrap-heap at my local farm (I used to work there) which works, plus a load of catridges for it (no, not just your average tapes - cartrdiges). I can't believe this thing is as old as I am!

[DavidM]

At worse - a good possible ebay buy (but probably more so if it has the external modulator ....)

[BlackDwarf]

I shall pawnz all of you. When i get home and get the pics off my camera

[GDVS]

RM CC3 network would make of them

We had an RM 380Z that would have made good use of them. Only machine I've ever programmed with a front panel

[GDVS]

I think the oldest thing I have lying around here, is an old 186

Am I right in thinking the only PC maker ever to use that chip was RM?

[Funkstar]

was it not the 8086 and 8088 then the 80286, can't think of reading about a 186.

but then i could easily be wrong, it maybe just wasn't very popular.

[BlackDwarf]

Here we go!

Found this beauty lying about (fair enough, we never used it (i work in a school), but it certainly dates everything else people have shown by a good 15 years!





From what i can tell, its a 4-platter 'HDD', which apparantly can hold from between 300 and 500K

Edit: Oh, and forgot to mention it's sodding heavy. Weighs a metric tonne easily.

[GDVS]

was it not the 8086 and 8088 then the 80286, can't think of reading about a 186.

but then i could easily be wrong, it maybe just wasn't very popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186

Apparently I was wrong as well, there were a few other companies that used them but they were mostly found in school machines.

[Butuz]

Few old Skool bits and bobs we keep to show the kids.

Course. We've moved on a bit since I joined the ranks. (much to the annoyment of the bursar!)





I have a hidden cuboard in the dungeons where all sorts of old stuff is kept. I think if I can get in there, I might have a winner

Butuz

[Clunk]

brilliant!, is that a dragon32 top right?

this had me thinking back to my atari 400 with the erm wipe clean keyboard. them were the days.

[Butuz]

Yeh Dragon 32. Old Skool Cool.

Used to love playing on me dads dragon 64

Butuz