The Final Boss of the IBM 8525 lineage.

I recently picked up this gpu and only realized now that there appears to be this soldered-on green wire that does not appear to be on the back of other cards of the same kind. Anyone know what this is?

Released in August 1999, it pushed the aging 0.25µm Katmai core to its limits, requiring a factory voltage bump to 2.05V. The last native Slot 1 Katmai for the legendary 440BX chipset.

all these computers are the ones I used in the past.

damn i'm old!

Cross platform compliance neat

i have had this pc case restored by my uncle and ive owned it for years. all ik is that it is a goldship pc case, all other info on it are unknown. and yes it does light up.

I've been playing around with this Pentium 1/Windows 95 machine. When I start it up there's a strange whining noise that sounds like it's coming from the internal speaker just before the POST beep (happens about 10 seconds in). Thoughts? Everything seems to be working fine otherwise.

In addition to the diskettes, i later found a working IBM 5153 color monitor at a different estate sale. At the third estate sale i found a working IBM 5150 PC. I only purchased the book of doskettes and unfortunately let the rest fall through my fingers.

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There are many images of the AX2, but none of the AX3. These are the remnants from that PC that I’ve kept in my archive.

VCF Ontario has been postponed until the summer of 2028. As a new event, we’re giving ourselves more time to plan and put together a great show for the vintage computing community. The exact dates will be announced once confirmed.

In the meantime, get your retro computing fix at VCF Montréal 2.0 on November 7–8, 2026, at Champlain College Saint-Lambert!   Come celebrate vintage computers and connect with fellow enthusiasts.

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I've brung this thing back to life since Mid-April of this year (It wasn't dead it was abandoned long ago). This was my dad's very old laptop. In late 2024, I tried to bring it back. When I powered it on, It showed an HDD password, which had my dad's sensitive data on it, and which my dad forgot the password a long time ago. I told my dad about it and disagreed because he could risk losing his sensitive files If I mess around with it. So I gave up reviving it and put it back in its place. I was planning on Installing Windows 7 on it once we settled with the password, but I couldn't... But somewhere in 2025, I tried again but failed miserably.

In Early 2026, I started knowing more about computer stuff like drivers, IDE/SATA ports, how BIOS and UEFI differ, RAM generation, CPU sockets and FSB, partitioning, etc... In April 11-17th, 2026, I was trying to bring it back again but decided to quit, because I thought that thing has IDE and I don't have any IDE drives. That is... until I unscrewed the drive bay, and when I saw that the port is SATA, I am overjoyed. Because it has SATA, I can take Advantage of my SATA drives. I took out my 320 GB HDD from my Samsung RC520 (It's broken), put it in, and it boots, bypassing the password completely! It has Windows 10 1511, but that's when I realized - I thought this was a Satellite A30 (LOL its not even close to looking like an A30), having 512 MB of RAM and a Pentium 4, but it turns out after I looked at the specs in the computer properties in the Control Panel, It was actually rocking a Core 2 Duo T7200 and 2 GB RAM (Normally Laptops in this Era come with 512 MB/ 1 GB and Core Duo CPUs), which is actually surprising, because having 2 GB RAM and Core 2 Duo back in 2006/2007 was a luxury. Windows 10 1511 was surprisingly usable, despite the slow HDD holding it back.

In April 19th, 2026, I took a 500 GB SSD from my Mom's old ASUS EEE PC 1025C (which is broken due to fan issues) and decided to Install Windows XP on it, but decided to go for Vista instead because I thought the Windows XP Reinstallation CD from Dell won't work (It actually does LOL, later in the story). After Installing Vista, the experience was actually good. I installed Supermium, VLC, LibreOffice 5.4.7.2, etc... and made Windows Vista usable. However, while I was browsing the web in Supermium, Windows says that Supermium isn't responding even though it works properly, It's probably because I only have 2 GB of RAM, and in April 25th, I got a BSOD which says: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval". The next day (April 26th), I did an In-place upgrade to Windows 7, and the installation went smoothly with no issues. Every program works properly, no "Not responding" warnings from supermium, and I have access to more programs and games. In May 1st, I decided to Install XP on my 320 GB HDD on a random partition my dad made years ago (which had no files anyway), and Installed it there. The eXPerience was good, but I had trouble installing the display driver (I actually installed it later on).

In late May, I tested Windows 8.1, it ran very well with no issues and even used it because of flashpoint (Flashpoint requires Windows 8.1 and above.). However, just as I was about to format the other partition to test out Windows 10, I couldn't. I knew that the Partition that I installed 8.1 on it previously had Windows 7 Home Basic, which failed to boot because of mismatched hardware. I realized that I now have to reinstall Windows 7 on the Main partition and do the In-place upgrade to Windows 10 in the secondary partition (where I mained win7 before). I tried Stock Windows 10 22H2, It ran Okay-ish but still pretty sluggish. (The rest of the Story will continue in Part 2)

This Laptop was given to my dad by a company. However, the same company that gave my dad a laptop had shut down, leaving the laptop in my dad's property, making me able to use it as a usable retro machine today.