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Pentium1 PCs valuable?

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First post, by computergeek92

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I have several Pentium1 laptops and desktops that I struggle to find use for. I mostly like 486 hardware because they play games that even a Pentium 75 would run too fast. It also seems that games that were designed for Pentium 1s work without issue on newer vintage era cpus like Pentium IIs and so forth. And in my experience Windows 98SE slugs on my Pentium 133 laptop. Win98FE is slightly faster on it. Some say Pentium 1s are too slow for many Win9x games in general, but are there any games out around that must be run on a Pentium1 and won't work right with the Pentium IIs, IIIs? I do love vintage hardware, but I don't like carrying around dead weight.

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Reply 1 of 5, by brostenen

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I kind of know what it is that you are saying. Anyway...
Do you want to have people try to figure out the value of the computers you do not use?
Or?

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Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 2 of 5, by ahendricks18

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I love those old pentiums! Are you in the US? I wish I had a old P1 laptop, all the old laptops around here are pentium 3 and up. Perhaps I could somehow pay for shipping on one? 😀

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Reply 3 of 5, by computergeek92

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brostenen wrote:

I kind of know what it is that you are saying. Anyway...
Do you want to have people try to figure out the value of the computers you do not use?
Or?

Both on how they match up in playing vintage PC games when comparing to the other processors of the same era, and also if they are considered to be seen as valuable in $$$ once more years pass.

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Reply 4 of 5, by brostenen

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computergeek92 wrote:

Both how they math up in playing vintage PC games when comparison the other processors of the same era, and also if they are considered to be seen as valuable in $$$ when more years pass.

If in working and fine condition, they will go up in value. Both retro-value and hard cash.
For me, I have one P133 and the rest is faster. If I need to play 1988 to 1992 games, I just plug that P133 in and disable some cache.
That is why the CPU is running on an Epox MVP3-C board, because it is an Baby-AT with an SS7 machine on it.
Translated into an P133, with AGP-slot, PC-66/100 memory, PCI, ISA and best of all. Ps/2 connector for the mouse.
Best of all. I get to keep my AT-Case, wich just suit's P133 well. Gor that authentich feeling, even with an ATX-PSU installed in the case.
(yeahhh, the mobo has both AT and ATX power connectors)

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Reply 5 of 5, by Jorpho

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computergeek92 wrote:

Some say Pentium 1s are too slow for many Win9x games in general, but are there any games out around that must be run on a Pentium1 and won't work right with the Pentium IIs, IIIs?

The first time I saw Runtime Error 200 was on my 266 MHz Pentium II, but it was borderline and sometimes just trying to run a program over and over again would let it run normally. Of course, Runtime Error 200 is easily fixed with a patch, so that's not really worth worrying about.