I remember at one of those traveling computer shows in the late 90s just before they fell out of fashion seeing a vender with a huge wooden box full...
For some reason I was under the impression the old towers had external floppy ports, must just be serial and parallel. Anyway I have an external IBM...
A quick google shows no SATA so I assume it is using IDE hard drives. If so are you using 80 pin IDE cables or the older 40 pin variety? Is the BIOS...
I do have one socket 603 server board in my collection that I got super cheap but its not being used at the moment. I prefer old dual Opteron boards...
I had purchased the 686 166+ I think it was with a new motherboard and it gave me overheating issues and sucked in Quake so I downgraded to an Intel...
Cyrix Pentium era CPUs get a bad rap because the early ones (686) ran very hot and while they killed in running Windows apps the FPU was so slow that...
What I collect: 68K/Early PPC Mac, DOS/Win 3.1 era machines, Amiga/ST, C64/128
Nubus/ISA/VLB/MCA/EISA cards of all types
Boxed apps and games for the above systems
Analog video capture cards/software and complete systems
mostly cash, I ocassionally flip stuff if I already have it or its not in my main intrest area though I've been getting rid of alot more stuff latly, as was mentioned before though shipping is killer
about freecycle, maybe some of it has to do with area. when I lived in Pittsburgh I found lots of stuff on freecycle. Apple IIGS, Tandy 2000, Apple IIc, At@t computer....just lots of free nice stuff then I moved to pheonix and I assumed with it being a much bigger city there would more
mostly cash, I ocassionally flip stuff if I already have it or its not in my main intrest area though I've been getting rid of alot more stuff latly, as was mentioned before though shipping is killer
about freecycle, maybe some of it has to do with area. when I lived in Pittsburgh I found lots of stuff on freecycle. Apple IIGS, Tandy 2000, Apple IIc, At@t computer....just lots of free nice stuff then I moved to pheonix and I assumed with it being a much bigger city there would more
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