#pentium ii

[never-obsolete]

Intel Pentium II PC Mag - February 1999

[commodorez]

Vega, my Pentium II / Windows 95 powerhouse in need of some repairs. Namely, a new PSU. Again.

[bak3lite]

when the CPUs stood up straight

[x86girl]

COMPUTERPICS! FINALLY!

3 photos and a buncha text underneath!

heres the tower of power aka my lovely desktop lovers. i dont have my own place so my cumputers are all stacked up in my very small bedroom i rent.

from the bottom up, here we have the black deepcool case from my first gaming pc build. rn it has an older gaming setup board in it that i took from work, and am going to turn into a NAS archive.

right of that is the strikingly handsome Compaq AP550 workstation, a dual Slot One CPU system ive populated with two Pentum IIIs but have yet to start up!

to his right is one of my two gateway G series desktops, a GP7-500, which i believe is sporting a Pentium II i shoved in there mostly for storage, and to use its Pentium III in the compaq, hahah. my second gateway tower is atop him, a G6-350 with a Pentium II.

to her left is another generic build, the newest among my vintage desktop computers, sporting a Pentium 4. i named her Nike after the very coincidentally formed mark on her front which i cant bring myself to wipe away =]

above her, obfuscated by the coyote prayer flags from artist CoyoticTroubles, is my Macintosh SE, Sarah! she was the first vintage computer i ever owned! i got her when i was a teenager from a flea market. she sports dual diskette drives and an ultradrive 80 Si hard disk with some interesting files on it. since i didnt get her from my work, i was able to keep the data on her disk. hopefully it hasnt all been lost, since i havent turned her on since highschool! heres a clear photo of her:

to her right you can see one of my many toughbooks, a projector, and a somewhat busted up tape drive. ill post some more individual photos sometime soon maybe! something more intimate. id also like to do sensual repair or maintenance or upgrade POV videos with them!

the rest of my computers in my room live on top of my dresser, demonstrated in the following photo featuring my partners spidergwen statue and a little playdoh sculpture they made me hahahah. here you can see my Dell Optiplex GXa holding up two generic builds from the 90s, and on the right my HP 700/96 terminal, who matches my HP D-Class 9000 server that i havent photographed yet. on top of the left tower theres a chip programmer box i found at work hahah its super cool looking i had to take it..

you can also see my appleCD drive on the far right!

feel free to let me know what you think about my harem collection of vintage computers in the replies or my dms or reblog or whatevs idk im new here and i just love chatting with folks! thnx for looking!

[techturd]

Looking sharp after a few upgrades:

Pentium II 450 -> Athlon 800 MHz

Asus P2B -> Gateway Select "Kadoka" (capacitor-less!) - not my first choice for a Slot A MoBo, but the cool guy I bought the CPU from threw it in for free! Main downside is I lost my ISA slots, so...

Soundblaster AWE 64 ISA -> Soundblaster Live! 5.1 PCI - fortunately found some great DOS drivers from Philscomputerlab and everything runs and sounds great

My beige Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-ROM bit the dust, so swapped out to an old Lite-On IDE black DVD-RW drive I had lying around in spare parts

Switched the 5.25" bay adapter and the floppy drive to black to match. Think I like this black + beige scheme vs. the mismatched various shades of beige I had with the previous components

Hope to get a VGA video capture device soon so I can start recording / posting some videos here...

[krjpalmer]

PC Magazine June 10, 1997

on Google Books

[frogshunnedshadows]

The 90's were hella rad.

Circa 1997 Intel Pentium II commercial, with the briefly famous 'bunny suits' / 'bunny people'.

[contac]