Gateway P4D-66 – Nugget
We found this one ready to be cast aside to the trash heaps of things that time forgets. Of course we had to take a look and grabbed it.
Category: Hardware
Vintage computing and pc retro computing hardware
The Alleycat – Compaq Presario 9232
These machines came with a variety of processors from the Pentium 120 to 200 MHz CPUs. The one I made an effort to acquire has the Intel Pentium 120 MHz CPU, this is as close I can currently find to a Pentium 133 which was the first real Pentium processor machine I owned. The Intel […]
Pimpium 166 – AST Advantage 9310
The Backstory I happened to have been talking to a chap and the subject drifted to what I do for a living, being in IT. We drifted back to the early days of our computers we owned and this chap mentioned an AST computer. He also said he still had it. I was interested to […]
K6-166 AMDroid
AMD K6-166 CPU Build An AMD K6-166 Story by The Maker It was a dark stormy night that one night when it was neither dark nor storming but the mood of a dark and stormy night hung thick in the air. I could feel it touching me like a warm damp napkin. (hmmm […]
The iBorg – Pentium 150 MHZ
.|iNTEL on the iNSiDE|. Part I |. I was out doing not much of anything and picked up a nondescript AT tower with stuff inside. Being an AT case and beige I thought perhaps the worst I’d find is that there might be something I could use in “The Little Bird” build […]
The 486 Half-Top
Awhile ago when I was looking for a pre-pentium project and before I came across what became The Little Bird , I ran across the only 486 I could get my hands on. A Sharp PC3010 laptop that had lived a rough life. Actually, I am not sure how rough because it was suffering […]