Question what antique parts are people hoarding in their cupboards...?

[kickme73]

Going through the cupboard and came across a bit of history

 

[Darkbreeze]

History? LOL. This is my PC work area. Well, one of the areas where I keep stuff and work on it anyhow. Saw your post, so took these pics. BTW, you can enlarge the pics by clicking on them. I have other cabinets with much older stuff but I'd have to dig it out in my shop and since it's like -3°F out there right now without the wind chill, I'll pass. LOL.

 

[klippenwald]

OMG tons. Old AMD Athlon board, complete with memory and CPU. DRAM of all sorts. Old serial and parallel cables. Tons of USB expansion cards. A Zip drive - the kind that took a disk. Still have the disks. Both sizes of floppy drives.
Probably my prize possession from old computing is a SoundBlaster X-Fi board with all the external parts like cable and mixer. Yeah, it’s dated, but it’s still a good card.

 

[kickme73]

History? LOL. This is my PC work area. Well, one of the areas where I keep stuff and work on it anyhow. Saw your post, so took these pics. BTW, you can enlarge the pics by clicking on them. I have other cabinets with much older stuff but I'd have to dig it out in my shop and since it's like -3°F out there right now without the wind chill, I'll pass. LOL.

a great collection... !! i bet that brought back some memories of times past.. 🙂

 

[USAFRet]

@Darkbreeze - I have a couple of variants of that notebook LAN adapter thing in my pile o crap.

Other things? A knee high stack of laptops, going back to '97 or so. Some of them even work.
And a LOT of other crap.

 

[CelicaGT]

CPU list:

An 80286 4Mhz (8 bit bus) from our original family Tandy 1000TX, 80386 from the second PC (Epson or something iirc), 40486 DX 66 from the third, a Pentium 75 that I OC'd to 100Mhz that I bought second hand, a K6-II 400 socket 7 (My first actual build), a small box of Pentium CPUs from 75 to 166Mhz, a Slot 1 Pentium 2 266 (project PC), a slot 1 Celeron A 300Mhz (hehe, overclock much?), Slot 1 Pentium 2 300, Athlon 600 Slot A, Pentium 3 866 socket 370 (Project PC), Duron 800 (OC to 1 Ghz with the ol pencil mod and my second main build), Athlon XP 1500+ (Replaced the Duron), Athlon 1800+ (Replaced the 1500+), AMF FX8350 (Thought AMD was still good after a long hiatus), i5 4690k (Replaced the space heater FX build, 4.8Ghz all core OC and lived to tell the tale), i74790k (Replaced the i5 for MSFS 2020 and OC'd to 4.7Ghz but not one bit further), Ryzen 5 5600X from my current build which now has a 5800X3D. Also have a small box of laptop CPUs both Intel and AMD from the good old days when these things were upgradable.

GPU list:

A box of various Cirrus Logic and S3 PCI and AGP cards I used to use as testers, an OG GeForce 256 (Dead, I got stupid with a vbios flash at a time when that was stupid to attempt), some old ATi cards of various ages, ATi 7870 Ghz edition and an old Starfighter Intel i740 (with free game and insert)

Other crap:

Box of HDDs going back to SCSI and PATA, small box of SIMMs, small box of SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 DIMMS and soDIMM, half dozen old NICs of various brands, stack of random optical drives of varying types. An entire Toshiba Pentium 90 powered laptop with all the goodies and add in cards/modem (Still runs, on win95 iirc, shipped with 3.1). Various Dell laptops and netbooks dating from the last 20 years, and a random 3.5" floppy drive that I use as a paperweight (Might still work idk).

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......Probably some old SoundBlaster clone soundcards somewhere in a box with a few dozen VGA cables.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah. I have so much OLD crap, semi-old crap and 3-5 year old crap that I couldn't possibly take the time to photograph it all or list it out. I too have a bunch of other older stuff like 1st Gen Athlons and Durons, Pentium 4s. Original, the very first I think, Thinkpad laptop, dial up modems, think I even have a Soundblaster 1.0 card here somewhere.

I bet I have about 20 years or more worth of stock coolers in a box too in one of these cabinets. LOL.

 

[punkncat]

Shamefully, I (semi) recently cleared out a bunch of old tech closet history. Had some old network cards, P3 and P4 CPU/cards and memory, an old AMD SOC like board for an old FreeNAS server. I chucked a whole bunch of stuff in the garbage.

Oldest thing I have on hand right now is a Dell i7 3770/GTX 750ti system....

 

[Darkbreeze]

I am actually getting ready to do the same. Between the fact that Microsoft has discontinued the free upgrades (And rescinded the activations for some systems that were already previously activated via the free digital entitlement upgrade) and the fact that all the activation servers for everything older than Windows 8.1 no longer work either, there is not much point in hanging onto any of the "tween" hardware and to be honest, aside from a very small handful of "retro" enthusiasts, there is no use case for any of the pre-Vista stuff at all. So, anything I don't think I can actually use on something as a mod or tweak is hitting the trash by next month. Will be some bare cabinets. Just threw out two old Laser printers, the big bulky, expensive, office type, with fax, scan and laser printing, that used parallel cables, in today's trash. Still worked, but toner cartridges are extremely hard to find for them now and parallel to USB is super flaky on the multi function laser printers and I have other newer laser printers so time to stop "hoarding" them as the thread title suggested.

 

[punkncat]

I kept an old laptop and a desktop FF that had parallel ports on them for years since many access control systems stuck with that connector for years past it's prime. There were/are USB converters but they are similarly flaky.

 

[ClapTrapper]

What don't I hoard? I still have my Timex/Sinclair and Atari Computer stuff (tons of it!)
I just bought an Ethernet that runs on the hose wires. I know I'll never use it-but it was 2 bucks...
I need to stay out of thrift shops.