Another restoration complete!
Posted by sabbathian@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 39 comments
This time a Pentium 166. Last photo is “before”
Posted by sabbathian@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 39 comments
This time a Pentium 166. Last photo is “before”
gnntech@reddit
Clint, is that you?
DryArgument454@reddit
Mmmm.... woodgrain
Vinylconn@reddit
Was going to say that it has some LGR vibes happening… all on the same page.
Shamanjoe@reddit
Damnit, you stole my comment! 😜
1337C4k3@reddit
Lol, exactly what I thought.
NaoPb@reddit
I don't think the DVD-RW drive is period correct, but whatever floats your boat. It's always nice seeing Philips drives that are still in use. A piece of Dutch pride that is only exists in name these days.
LaundryMan2008@reddit
The disc drive design is cool and fits nonetheless unless you read that it’s a DVD-RW
LoadVisual@reddit
Perfecto
FeistyDay5172@reddit
Back when I built systems for a living, I always liked how those Normal/Turbo numeric displays looked 👍👍 BUT, I absolutely HATED configuring them, because the damned jumpers were always inconveniently placed. 🤬🤬🤬
TxM_2404@reddit
Personally I'd put HI and LO into the display if I had a PC with more than 100MHz and only 2 digits.
yParticle@reddit
That wood paneling is a design choice I never encountered back in the day, but it pairs nicely with the standard beige.
noiseguy76@reddit
It predates the computer by a decade. Wood panel gaming systems are circa 1980, think Atari 2600. That said it looks great.
Lmao at the turbo button. I’d forgotten about those.
sprashoo@reddit
Faux wood was definitely a design faux pas by the 90s… pretty much done by the early 80s. But with retro stuff people mix and match eras and I can’t say it’s wrong or anything.
okaygecko@reddit
Yeah, I think of it as more of a '70s look. You could find some much glossier and nicer-looking faux wood elements in "luxury" consumer cars in the '90s, but I remember that being one of the only vestiges of it. Still, a fun retro look.
c0ldg0ld@reddit
My 2001 GMC Sierra Denali has fake black wood trim. It looked pretty good about 180k miles ago, it's looking a touch worn now!
sprashoo@reddit
If it was in luxury cars it may even have been real polished wood.
jedp@reddit
Woodgrain wrap on old PC cases is kind of a meme in vintage computing circles because of LGR.
DIYnivor@reddit
That's what I was thinking. I've never seen it before, but it somehow looks period-appropriate. I have a Kenmore 5040 "The Blotter" room dehumidifier from the late 1980s (still in use!) that has a faux wood finish. This reminds me of that.
yParticle@reddit
Right, makes me wonder if it was a custom 'wrap'.
DIYnivor@reddit
I think it was, because one of the other photos shows it plain beige.
Bipogram@reddit
Bonus if it was actual wood, rather than a vinyl cover.
Sea-Kaleidoscope-745@reddit
Way back when I was a tech in a computer store, we would get a case with a 2 digit display and upgrade to the latest 3 digit speed pentium, I would reconfigure the display to read HI and LO instead of numbers for turbo on/off. Turbo can also be thought of as full speed and slow speed for the older games. I have some old games that only run properly on my 386sx 20mhz pc.
krabizzwainch@reddit
As a pretty recent acquirer of a working 386sx 20mhz PC, what games? I’m still trying to plan out what my end goal of this flea market PC will be.
1leggeddog@reddit
Fellow lgr enjoyer
hitman0187@reddit
Man, that power switch must feel and sound amazing.
trytreddit@reddit
Absolutely love the DVD drive, never seen that one before. Amazing build.
earthforce_1@reddit
16 MHz! That would be 286/386 era
Vinylconn@reddit
Didn’t they have jumpers so the display could be changed, really challenging my memory now. I remember them being factory set to the most common at the time.
Thekhandoit@reddit
Beautiful job. Its been said already but that faux wood panelling seems so right.
aviewachoo@reddit
I wish I was either good enough to model and print, or could find a reliable source of, 5.25 and 3.5 bay covers for old cases. I have some awesome cases, but the covers were lost to the sands of time.
Nice resto of a beautiful classic!
hilltop_yodeler@reddit
So what OS did you install? Something like an older version of Damn Small Linux, or a period version of Windows?
dogpupkus@reddit
Where are you all finding these cases-- these are the ultimately ideal vintage case look.
DeepDayze@reddit
Love the faux wood look. Well done, but a real wood case would be awesome too.
Guywithasockpuppet@reddit
Fun fact - Turbo button is slower than normal except for some excel type stuff
yParticle@reddit
If so that's hooked up to the math coprocessor chip rather than the clock speed.
kriebz@reddit
I think it depends on the motherboard, but a lot of the time it was used to slow down a computer to match the performance of a PC or AT for software that was clock dependent. Think space invaders that land in about 3 seconds unless you push the button.
computix@reddit
A video by vwestlife.
Most computers went faster with the turbo button pressed. This is also how I remember it.
RebeccaBlue@reddit
My dad had a 1988 Dodge Caravan with that same wood panelling look.
Comrade_Vladimir190@reddit
It's perfect