Your '08 haul

[Dead_reckon]

Uh.. Bit of cash, bunch of random crap, wallet, some socks, uh.. Other random stuff I can't remember, my lil bro is getting me GTA IV for a late Christmas present after his next paycheck. I plan to get a road bicycle and strap a 49CC moped motor to it soon as I get another $50 or so for the motor, and about $75-125 for the road bike. Might get an 80CC motor 'cause the cops here are too stupid to tell the difference or question me.

[patio]

Oh Joy what the Holiday's mean now...

[Aegis]

I received some money from my aunt.  My spouse and I could afford nothing for each other.  The small project on which I wanted to work is delayed since two desktop systems crashed, and I'm reconfiguring between a desktop and a laptop.

I am struggling to keep Christmas in my heart past the date, and the season.  I stopped for a stranded motorist the other day.  He'd already made arrangements on his cell phone.  He thanked me, because I was the only one who stopped to check on him.  I didn't stop because I'm this great person.  I stopped because I'd want someone to stop for me.

[BC_Programmer]

I say; you've returned! I don't know about anybody else, but I surely felt your absence from the forums for the last while...

[Broni]

Me too

[Aegis]

Oh, you fine gentlemen have missed the pain in your posteriors? 

[Computer Hope Admin]

Our family doesn't exchange gifts among adults. But for myself I decided this year to make me something so ended up scrapping a bunch of older computers and created myself this art piece for my lab walls. 

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[Calum]

Hey, that's pretty cool.
We have some displays like that at our college, but smaller.

[BC_Programmer]

that bottom left corner card; am I right to say that it is a 16-Bit, ISA, Sound Blaster AWE32? with Wavetable memory SIMM slots?

[Dead_reckon]

It looks like it, if it is, that card deserves its own private case. Those things are rare anymore, vintage hardware. Oh how I don't miss those days...

[computeruler]

woa! you should be an artist!

[Computer Hope Admin]

that bottom left corner card; am I right to say that it is a 16-Bit, ISA, Sound Blaster AWE32? with Wavetable memory SIMM slots?

You'd be correct, I'm very *impressed*. Came from my first PC computer a Tandy Sensation.

[BC_Programmer]

So... you think one day they might actually be worth something, if maintained in working order?

Because I have one myself. haven't exactly taken good care of it, but it still works great.

Actually, the fact that I have the same card probably made it a bit easier for me to recognize.

the card above and on the left of it appears to be a PCI sound card, and the video card to the right of that I would guess to be an AGP card, likely "STB systems" (purely a guess based on what I've seen myself, heatsink positions, chip locations, etc).



a bit off topic, but here's an image I made some time ago with most (not all, I found another box after this shot with more old hardware)



even a 5 1/4" floppy. works too, which is pretty amazing, considering how I've neglected it since removing it from my 286 

[Calum]

Is that all unused hardware BC?  As in, not pulled from a machine that's now in use?
I'll grab a snap of mine soon and compare, in fact I may start a thread on that.
I may need to find a bigger room first though, to spread it out.

[BC_Programmer]

almost all of it, it doesn't include anything I was using at the time.

I'm thinking of rebuilding my old PC (the one in the background, actually) using some of those parts.

two of those WD drives in the foreground are in my modified USB enclosure that I modded so as to allow using two IDE drives with the circuit board from the enclosure.

there were a few CD-ROM drives and other stuff I found afterwards too, but I was far to lazy to take another shot.