I like old stuff.
This computer is my main pc, it cost £2000 When i built it. I use it for everything, including the programming of this site!
This used to be our family PC, but i now have it as the server hosting this very site! It also used to be my study PC in 2021-ish.
Despite the irish flag, this computer has nothing to do with ireland. It is a custom-built Windows 98/XP PC, I use for retro gaming and testing web browsing.
This is a Compaq LTE 5000, I got it 2nd hand, with old military files built in! Seemed like it was in use from 1996 - 1998. Now it lives as one of my cool asthetically looking retro machines.
This is a Compaq Armada 4120T, Meant as a replacement to the LTE lineup. Mine has a tackball, not a trackpad and a non-functional keyboard.
This is my Compaq Deskpro EXD, I got it for £30 from a computer market, It runs Windows 2000 and plays early DOS games, also i like how it looks.
This computer is built from glu tac, rope, Masking tape, parts from dumpsters and a case from a garden sale. The CPU cooler doenst work, so fan is taped to it. Surprisingly good at games tho.
A toshiba satellite L650D, this laptop made its claim to fame after my main laptop, a modern thinkpad, died. This lasted me a whole week, working surprisngly well for college work.
This computer i got for £10 from a computer market, it is used for testing OSES, hardware and generall used as a machine to make sure parts work.
Theese laptops i got in a pair for £30, one of them has missing keys and a broken speaker, the other one seems to have a dying HDD. Both have case damage and dents. Neither have their Wifi chips anymore. Only 1 has a working battery.
I got this from a ceX for pretty cheap IIRC, it was my tablet for a while, but as time moved on it became obsolete. It lags doing pretty much anything, and cant even run Windows 10, the OS it was made for, anymore because of updates.
My Sony Trinitron Multiscan SX-100, This is the monitor attached to all my retro PCS via a PS/2+VGA Splitter, this minitor is one of my favourite things I own, sadly it is slightly discoloured however, hopefully i can fix it one day! I got it for free from an old factory.
This is my PYE midi system, it is connected to my Beast-PC, providing an absolutley stellar sound quality! The 2 giant samsung speakers attached probably help that too.
This boombox was my mums, a Toshiba RT-80S, It was hit by a hurricaine in 1987, had a house collapses on it, was rained on for a week, then was left in a damp, slightly flooded factory for about 20 years. When i adopted it, the tape drive was completley broken, left speaker was broken, and the power connector needed to be held in manually. I have since re-soldered the power connectors, so now the power is more stable, i replaced the tape drive belt and heads, which fixed the tape player and then cleaned out the resistors for the tone knob and volume, this has made the boombox fully functional again!
This boombox, a Sony CFD-370, i found in a random charity shop going for £30, this is the most reliable peice of electronic i have ever used, the tape drive still sounds like new, never needing new belts or cleaning. The CD-Drive works great, and doesnt skip no matter how much i wiggle it about, the batteries even stil hold charge! It also has the best cassette recorder out of the lot, making cassettes with almost CD level of quality!
My sony Walkman AVLS, providing me with up to month long battery life from 2 AA, this tape player is a trooper, surviving everything daily life has to throw at it. The sound out of it is amazing as well, considering its a tape.
This is a SHARP-RD620E, It is a flat tape recorder, powered by 4 C-Type batteries, it has a stereo Mic in, stereo 3.55mm output, and a Mono built in speaker. It records tapes. It looks cool.
This is a Sony handycam CCD-TR620E, I got it as a requested christmas present, and I love it! It uses Video 8 tapes, and lets you put custom text over the videos! Its got tonnes of bells and whistles, even i dont know what half of them do!
