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#315553 25-Jul-2024 10:24

I'm looking to expand my retro fleet from the Win ME-XP era backwards through time to the heady time of the late 90s.

Back in the day, I had a trusty Compaq Prolinea 4/33 from '95-'00 that was lost to the sands of time... so now I'm looking for something beeeeeeiiiigggggeeeeee to recapture my mis-spent youth have a tinker with...

No real requirements, and ofc since these aren't as common nowadays, anything from the 486 to P-II era of machines is of interest. Parts too, since I may end up having to build my own...

Let me know what have you!

EDIT: Located in Palmy, happy to pay for shipping.

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#3264253 25-Jul-2024 13:25

If you're in Orkland you may want to contact Abilities in Hillside Rd, Glenfield, they recycle a ton of this stuff. They also have a Trademe site, but don't list older PCs due to the (very) limited demand for them.

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#3264257 25-Jul-2024 13:46

I have an old i-opener netpliance if you're interested? Boxed with manuals I believe. Haven't opened it in quite a few years.

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#3264266 25-Jul-2024 14:11

Oldest I have is Core 2 Duo E8400 3ghz 2gb RAM, but that's 2008, so guessing too new.

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#3264269 25-Jul-2024 14:31

neb:

If you're in Orkland you may want to contact Abilities in Hillside Rd, Glenfield, they recycle a ton of this stuff. They also have a Trademe site, but don't list older PCs due to the (very) limited demand for them.

Thanks for the tip Neb! I am not but good to know. I'll flick them an email to see if they can ship etc

Unfortunately I have not had much luck with local e-cyclers and watch TradeMe like a hawk... even tried to hit up the local council e-cycling programme but they were very strict that once it gets dropped off, they send everything to the contracted company.

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#3264276 25-Jul-2024 15:04

tehgerbil:

I have an old i-opener netpliance if you're interested? Boxed with manuals I believe. Haven't opened it in quite a few years.

Interesting, pretty unique piece of kit... PM'd

cshaun:

Oldest I have is Core 2 Duo E8400 3ghz 2gb RAM, but that's 2008, so guessing too new.

I would have been interested a couple of months ago since I actually just built an XP era gaming machine with parts from GZ, so I'm pretty well supplied for the '00-'09 era now. Thanks anyway!

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#3264301 25-Jul-2024 16:03

I have noticed how rare CRT monitors have become now for these retro PCs. I only have one left and kind of regret just throwing others I had in the bin years ago.

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#3264452 25-Jul-2024 21:01

When I have some spare time I will rummage.. I definitely have some old bits floating around still.

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#3264457 25-Jul-2024 22:02

I've got one 16 MB SIM and three funny memory modules that might go in AGP sockets, if thats any use to you.

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#3265192 27-Jul-2024 17:33

ShinyChrome:

I'm looking to expand my retro fleet from the Win ME-XP era backwards through time to the heady time of the late 90s.

Back in the day, I had a trusty Compaq Prolinea 4/33 from '95-'00 that was lost to the sands of time... so now I'm looking for something beeeeeeiiiigggggeeeeee to recapture my mis-spent youth have a tinker with...

No real requirements, and ofc since these aren't as common nowadays, anything from the 486 to P-II era of machines is of interest. Parts too, since I may end up having to build my own...

Let me know what have you!

EDIT: Located in Palmy, happy to pay for shipping.

The oldest machine I've come across in years would be a Compaq with XP installed, the motherboard caps finally blew.

Serious question - have you tried the local tip?

Abilities are great to deal with btw, they supply all my laptops.

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#3265286 27-Jul-2024 20:53

Got some software that might be of use....

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#3265432 28-Jul-2024 09:42

mattwnz:

I have noticed how rare CRT monitors have become now for these retro PCs. I only have one left and kind of regret just throwing others I had in the bin years ago.

You and me both... I've managed to amass a couple again through trademe and the generosity of a GZ member... still looking for the holy grail of a 20"+ monitor though

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#3265435 28-Jul-2024 09:50

elpenguino:

I've got one 16 MB SIM and three funny memory modules that might go in AGP sockets, if thats any use to you.

Lias: <p>When I have some spare time I will rummage.. I definitely have some old bits floating around still.</p>

Thanks for the offers guys!

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#3265437 28-Jul-2024 10:14

K8Toledo:

The oldest machine I've come across in years would be a Compaq with XP installed, the motherboard caps finally blew.

Serious question - have you tried the local tip?

Abilities are great to deal with btw, they supply all my laptops.

I have, but no avail. Same with local e-cycling... and 2nd hand stores haha. I'll give Abilities a try