Where to start? I've got 50 vintage computers right here in the office, ranging from the ZX81 I built from a kit (as Custom PC readers will know) to a tricked-out Amiga 1200. However, for something easy to post, how about this bit-slice micro-mini write-up I found being used as a bookmark in a tome I recently added to the library?
First dual GPU card ever made: http://rog.asus.com/99222012/graphi...st-meet-the-asus-extreme-n6800gt-dual2dt512m/ Still got it in the office somewhere!
Dig deeper, you say? History makers, you say? I give you possibly my most inexplicable drunken eBay purchase: a test program, stored on paper tape, for a GPO teleprinter, which prints out the BabyCham logo when executed. No, I don't own a GPO teleprinter. Although if anyone has one going spare...
Sorry Bindi, but the ATI Rage Fury MAXX was a dual GPU (Rage 128 Pro) and it was available for purchase in 1999 (way before the never released 6800GT ) : On the same subject, here is a site about Retro Hifi : http://itishifi.blogspot.fr/ ... here is an teaser
I wish i would not have thrown out this thing i had in my 286 : Yep, that is Western Digital graphics card (Paradise).
My under modification baby : Modification being applied : Modern connectors to replace DIN2 speakers and DIN5 input / output Moving from CLASS B to Class A working mode Caps replacement, they are from the 60's
From that N6800GT-DUAL retrospective: "That fan uses just a 2-pin connector rather than the modern-day 4-pin with PWM control, which means it’s 100% fan speed, 100% of the time! This is because the 6800 core had no idle frequency/voltage reduction, so it ran at the full 400MHz all day long. Wow, the things we take for granted now!" Too true!
Which is why you never use retro hardware with a modern LCD panel - or, worse, an emulator. Good ol' free-aliasing on CRTs makes things look *way* better than they actually were.
My first computer from around 1982/3, I bough it for its portability and it had a lot of use for a couple of years: It still works!