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cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 02:00:02 I'm looking for information (and possibly to buy) a few crazy old PCs that know exist, but can't find.. 1) Toshiba Infinia, I have info on this, it had a little lcd panel that did stuff for you mounted to the monitor 2)Acer Aspire, nothing too special, had one, but still in the category 3)IBM Aptiva, this is where it gets interesting, this one had a 2 part CPU the bottom part had the PSU the HDD and some more drive bays... connected to the top port with alot of the ports, cdrom and floppy drive. the cdrom andfloppy popped up in this crazy way... I know that there's more of them! I remember one from NEC iThink (a 2 part one) and loads other different kinds of crazy non-beige 'multimedia PCs" from the middle-90s... any infos? or any ones anyone else has or knows about.... this kinda stuff is fun Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Macintrash New Member Australia 68 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 02:38:23 Ive seen that Aptiva you described. They are pretty rare. But apart from that, I havnt heard of any of the others you mentioned. Have you tried the manufacturers sites? Sorry I couldnt be of mre assistance!
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 15:50:03 Darn! And iSaw an Aspire in the thrift store back in Ill-annoy. Sorry, it would be long gone by now. The Lightning Stalker Performa 631CD, 7.5.5 LC III, FPU, 20/80/enet, 7.5.5, Mail Server 6400/180 40/1.6G/512k L2/enet/video-in/TV 7600/120 '604/233, 80/1.2G & 1G/512k L2, 9.2.2 (Main Mac) Lady Smith Apples: Apple IIc 5.25" 2 Apple IIe
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 18:33:59 quote: Ive seen that Aptiva you described. They are pretty rare. I know someone who has one of those Aptivas. Of course this was 3 years ago...I'll ask him sometime if he stil has it... -------------------- master of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ and figure-head of the Peoples' PDS Republic --------------------
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 19:05:04 Thanks... As far as I know IBM was making other Aptivas pretty recently... just not the crazy one... I was at a swap meet when I was in 5th or 6th grade and tried to convince this guy to give me one of 'em for like... $50... :drools: they have like Pentium IIs iThink... (the reason I don't look at the manufacturer's websites for the ones I don't know about is because I don't know who made them Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2003 : 23:23:58 Cory, you'll want to know that i have seen a Compaq (Presario?) that looked a lot like the Performa 5200 a couple of years ago. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2003 : 21:14:26 I've seen a desktop that looks like this Compaq also had an AIO that was kinda like some AIO macs... it was a Prolinea NETstation or something... *(signifying being a network terminal and the like...) that presario desktop had the speakers on it and looked pretty cool... I'd use one if it came free or something like that Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2003 : 23:22:54 Interesting. I thought they only did a Presario like that. Ah well. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 05:02:39 Getting info on old PCs is very hard because they are seldom loved liked old Macs are. I've picked up various old PC laptops over the years and discovering anything about them is impossible. Any attempt to use Google results in a zillion hits from laptop battery makers, etc. At best I might find a manufacturer's tech support pages or distributor's spare parts list. The Wintel world has nothing like all the Apple-related machine spec sites, help sites, museum sites, etc. You can find dozens of useful sites that talk about the Powerbook 140. But there is almost nothing useful on the roughly-equivalent Dell NL20 (a 20 MHz 386 laptop with a small grayscale LCD). Wintel machines have no soul. Nobody cares about them even if they do use them. So nobody creates websites devoted to them. But I do hope you can find the info that you are looking for. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 08:03:27 Getting information on old PC's is heard because alot went out of buisiness, and WAY before pdf's were in use. Apple information is available because apple is still around. There are alot of gaming sites dedicated to DOS era games, a few sites dedicated to PC jr's, original IBM's, some compaqs. Anything after the flood of clones doesnt have much of a following. But quite a few hardware addons have a following (soundblaser cards,gravis ultrasound, roland, northgate keyboards, 3dfx video cards, etc. It probably has to do with PC's becoming so mainstream early, and macs being more rare. If everybody owned a ferrari then a ferrari wouldnt have the same exotic apeal would it (not saying macs are ferraris, just that they are not as common.. and alot goes into their look).
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 20:39:23 but macs ARE ferarris!!!! I think that creating an InfoBASE on old PCs and something like that.... It'd be a great undertaking... and doing it "one manufacturer at a time" would be a great way to do stuff..... Some PCs have personalities and souls... if you give it to them.... My PCs have had heart and soul because I made them that way. Just a thought. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 20:48:48 My Dell has a heart and soul. But anyway.... I think an InfoBASE would be a great idea too. And we could group them by their companies. For example, all the Dells would be in one group, Compaqs in another, HPs in another, etc. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 20:58:46 Yeah.... I'd love to do that... we can plan it and start to collect data now... and when I have the IW working... we can post it or whatever like that.... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 21:05:15 Cool. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2003 : 21:11:22 yeah.... .ME begins now 1) Compaq Prolinea 4/66 486/66 MHz 4 MB of RAM, 3 slots, 72 pin. 3 ISA slots on riser. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"

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