Retro Hardware Database Retro Hardware Database
things in the register — 30 machines and 392 parts, 895 photographs between them

6 of them have no portrait yet — 1% of the register, waiting for a camera. A photograph on a history entry does not count: it says what happened to a thing, not which thing this is.

Eight things about it

8 of 121, drawn fresh each time you look — shuffle
Most photographed
Intel Xpress System Deskside LX Base 8TE16F
11 pictures of it
The newest thing here
2026
FreddyV PicoMEM 1 — the latest year on anything
Drives fitted
27
5 of them a Gotek
Machines with nothing in them
12
of 30: nothing tagged is fitted to them
The usual board shape
Baby-AT
17 boards, the commonest of the 7 named shapes here
Cards whose chip nobody has written down
49
of 170: mostly the serial and network cards, where nobody thinks to look
Made here rather than bought
5
built on the bench it sits on
The biggest anachronism
40 years
FreddyV PicoMEM 1 of 2024, fitted to a machine from 1984

Makers, by how much of it still works

share recorded as Working, makers with 5+ parts still here

3Com
100%
Creative Labs
100%
Trident
100%
ATI
100%
Pine Technology
100%
Polpo
100%
S3
100%
Sony
100%
Western Digital
90%
Tandon
86%
Intel
75%
Compaq
71%
Teac
70%
Seagate
67%
Mitsubishi
57%
Amstrad
50%
IBM
44%
Panasonic / Matsushita
43%
Mitsumi / Newtronics
38%

Makers, by parts held

the eight best represented

IBM
27
Amstrad
12
Western Digital
11
Teac
10
3Com
9
Creative Labs
9
Seagate
9
Trident
9

What the parts are

every category in the register

Storage
119
Motherboard
72
Video
63
I/O
48
Sound
38
Network
21
Memory
10
Other
9
Display
6
Peripheral
4
Power supply
2

Expansion buses

slots counted across every board

16-bit ISA
138
8-bit ISA
81
PCI
70
MCA
19
VLB
17
EISA
16

Ports

counted across every card and board

Serial
51
IDE
34
Floppy
33
Parallel
26
USB
12
Game
10

Condition

as recorded, parts only

Working
307
Faulty
30
Untested
26
Partially working
16
Restored
3
For parts/repair
2

Disposed items are left out of every figure but the count of disposals. Every number leads to what it counted.

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