Old-ass hardware (+Pictures)

[Kulverstukas]

Herro. I have few questions for ya smart people.
Few days ago I was at the whatchamacallit... flee market? where there are tons of stuff, mostly broken but they work up to some point. Anyway, there I saw these two weird things. A keyboard with a plug that I have never seen before and a bad-ass looking computer tower box.

So my questions are: wtf is the plug for the keyboard and wtf are those boxes for?
I assume those boxes are for servers or something - they have a damn "Turbo" button and a screen to measure CPU load.

Though the boxes did not have anything in them but a power supply they were still cool.

EDIT: found some info on the keyboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector

Keyboard:


Tower:

[ande]

Its simply damn old hardware I have seen such plugs before, pretty old.

Anywya, looks cool xD

[Stackprotector]

upper side is a hdd/cd/floppy drive block, and lower side is the motherboard area?

[Kulverstukas]

Its simply damn old hardware I have seen such plugs before, pretty old.

yeah old I know. But what are those towers used for ? some old servers? looks like it...

[Kulverstukas]

upper side is a hdd/cd/floppy drive block, and lower side is the motherboard area?

No idea. But at the back it has, 10 probably sockets for network cards

Also I wonder what was the Turbo button used for Instant overclock?

[petermlm]

Also I wonder what was the Turbo button used for Instant overclock?

According to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
It is, lolol.

[Mellow]

Says their its more like a switch to have on not just press it when you need a speed "boost".

[puddi]

we have lots like these @ school. they weight tons.

[gh0st]

lol that should be on a museum

[Kulverstukas]

lol that should be on a museum

I should buy them, but I don't really have any use for them

And tonight I dreamed that I had bought another antique laptop, which had WinXP and 10 partitions. I can clearly remember it had 30MB RAM and 50MHz CPU. But I cannot remember the name.
This is so weird

[FuyuKitsune]

Oh wow, the clock speed indicator has 2 digits. And sweet Turbo button.
I really like that tower. The tower design is nice and that front panel is sweet. I wonder if my local flea market would have anything like that.

[xor]

Don't get misled, the Turbo Button was actually designed to slow down your computer to play older video games that used processor speed for their timing.

[chernabog]

lol ... my first pc was like that .... i've gor turbo between 266 mhz and 133 mhz .... 1.7 Go hdd 16 mo ram  .......

that was my jewel palyed on MK and keen nd wolf 3d games .... xD

[WarFox]

At the computer shop I worked at, we had a lot of people coming in with computer with part that old. They wanted us to take out old floppy disk drives and replace them with CD R&W.

[Kulverstukas]

At the computer shop I worked at, we had a lot of people coming in with computer with part that old. They wanted us to take out old floppy disk drives and replace them with CD R&W.

lolz... I really really regret that my Desktop didn't have a floppy drive... needed it for other computers