Crazy Hardware

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 04, 2003 11:52 am

Post the crazyest hardware you've ever owned or seen!

Here's mine. It's an ISA video card. You can fit 3 120mm fans on that thing!

Oh, and it's even expandable! See those empty ram sections? Get that solder ready.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun May 04, 2003 12:07 pm

I think I would have to get a bigger case. As a matter of fact, I think I would have to have a case custom-made!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 04, 2003 12:20 pm

lol probably! I never tried it in any of my 486 cases, and would definatly not fit in my AMD one.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat May 10, 2003 9:47 pm

I saw lots of cool old stuff when I did my internship. Unfortunately I didn't really snag or take pictures of any of it. I should've took that massive 15mb hard drive though

I did snag one pretty intersting thing though. It's a ceramic amd 286 processor. No pins or anything, it just lays in the socket and is held in place by a metal bracket. I snagged a plastic intel 286 as well, but that's not half as interesting

oh and that card, that's a full length ISA. I probably pulled a few of those out of computers at my internship as well. with those suckers, you have to have slots on both sides of the case just to keep it stabilized. obviously you don't see a lot of those post-486.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat May 10, 2003 9:53 pm

stupid image didn't post

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 10, 2003 10:37 pm

LOL!!!
*sees AMD logo*
"© INTEL 1952"

The days where they were not compeeting but rather working together.

I did not know they had microcomputers back in 52! That's quite interesting as to the size of that chip as well, that is small! Of course, it can only push like 7Mhz or something like that

I'd like to run UD on that thing!

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:56 am

actually that's not 1952, it's 1982. I think we were still using vacuum tubes back in the 50's

But yeah, back then AMD, amoung other chip manufacturers, were liscensing the processor designs from intel... all the way up into the 486 days, which is the reason the pentium was created. By that point intel had realized that they were losing a lot of money because people were buying the equivalent chips instead of the genuine intel, so the pentium was a way to get out of the liscensing contracts, crush amd, and corner the market. But yeah, that didn't last for long

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:23 pm

oh yeah, now I see 8 and not 5, it's just a little faded.

Interesting since I never knew about amd and intel. And yeah, it did not last too long, pentium 1.10282764932947

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:38 pm

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:41 pm

manadren wrote: heh yup. If it weren't for that happening you might be running an AMD 886 DX © Intel

yeah that would be funny! Those intel or amd polls would not get as heated anymore.

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