Old computer parts? How old? IBM? ICL? 70s? 80s 90s? images available.

Hi, I have recently been clearing out the loft in my house. I came across some old computer parts.

I have no idea what computer they are from, or how old they are.
I think they was from my grandads house when he died.

Does anyone know what computer they are from? :confused

Any history on the parts?

Are they junk? or worth anything?


Tape Drive:
http://www.cash.karoo.net/external/pc/SAM_0000.JPG

RAM:
http://www.cash.karoo.net/external/pc/SAM_0001.JPG

RAM:
http://www.cash.karoo.net/external/pc/SAM_0002.JPG

PCI?:
http://www.cash.karoo.net/external/pc/SAM_0003.JPG

HardDrive:
http://www.cash.karoo.net/external/pc/SAM_0004.JPG



Many Thanks as always, Chris. :wave

 

Now, that's some old stuff. The RAM is EDO 72 pin SIMM memory, that came in 8, 16, 32, and 64MB sizes . . . maybe 128MB also, but I'm not positive about that. My first computer came with 32Mb of this RAM, which I upgraded to the board's MAX of 64Mb. I was king of the world then :-D this RAM was in use in the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

(If you were wondering, EDO stands for Extended data-out, and SIMM stands for Single In-line Memory Module).

Hard drive looks to be less than one GB in size, probably just +/- 400 megabytes. The thing that looks like a reel to reel tape recorder is probably just that. A tape drive used to back up a computer, maybe? Never had one, so I'm not sure. All expensive stuff in their day . . . but now? Not really worth much, except to a collector of such items, I guess. I could be wrong . . .

Now, get off my lawn!

 

Forgot about the add on card!

It's a Diamond Mulitmedia sound card, that uses an ISA slot. ISA stands for Industry Standard Architecture. It's a 16 bit bus created by IBM and used on 80286 based motherboards, that was backward compatable with the older 8 bit bus used on the 8088 based boards. ISA was replaced by the PCI slot in the early 1990's.

Last motherboard I saw with an ISA slot was a PII based board . . . It had one ISA slot. I probably have that exact sound card laying around in my parts graveyard, lol

Makes me want to grub around in my old parts and toss together a PII PC and put windows 95 on it. Well, maybe not :-D

 

Gee , the motherboard looks like the one I am currently using. I love my old computer, have never hooked up the "new" one. lol

 

I stand corrected . . . it's a PIII based board. I went and dug it out and looked . . . :-D

 

Thought this was funny...

:-D:-D:-D:-D

 

I suppose if you've got a few years...LOL

Did Micro$oft actually put out floppies?

 

I'm 61. I meant floppies for Windows 8. I used to work with 5¼" floppies on Omnicron Micro Achievers, Apple 2Es and Cs. The Mac SEs and Classics had dual 3½" floppies.

 

I'm not that old, but 20 years close, remembering having to re-install NT4 which was I think 6 disks for the setup.

Also, remember having to re-install SP6a a few time in the past. Oh the old days.

 

95a came on floppies as well.

 

Yep. I think I still have a set of those somewhere . . .

I really need to weed out my old software and hardware graveyard/s . . . :-D