King_Corduroy wrote:Having built a modern sleeper myself I just couldn't help but share this one. It's just too cool that I stumbled onto someones old sleeper computer. 😁
The original owner probably bought an "upgrade kit" that was popular back in the day.
The idea was that rather than buying a whole new computer, you "save money" by buying a mobo+CPU+RAM kit to retrofit your existing setup (hence the bizarre AT-form Slot-1 board with the non-aligned PS/2 port).
Really you didn't save money, because you soon replaced your crappy old video card, got a bigger HDD, maybe got the newer version of Windows, spent hours of your own time assembling and troubleshooting, and before you knew it, you could have bought a whole system.
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