First post, by appiah4
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OK so I found a case and impulsively purchased it..
Why? Well I do have a lot of retro PCs, some of which are in my signature, but they are all in older cases that more or less reflect or match the age of the hardware in them.. which is a problem because due to our current living arrangements the babysitter lives in my mancave and I will not have a hobby room to myself for a few more years at the very least. As a result, my work desk is currently located in the living room and I need to keep it looking clean and neat to keep my wife happy, which means I can't really have a 20-30 year old PC case around, so they are all locked away in storage.
Long story short, I need to build a new looking retro PC to do my regular retrocomputing stuff with. I was initially going to use a NOS AT mid-tower to build a 486 DX4 with, but I realized it does not really do everything I want to be able to do with it:
- Play DOS games
- Play Win9x games
- Mess around with OS/2 Warp (3 or 4)
- Mess around with Windows 2000
- Mess around with old Linux distros
I bought this case because I thought it had a retro feel without looking like I forgot a piece of junk under my work desk, so I want to build something in it. But I don't know what to build in it.
I have two ideas I'm bouncing around in my head, but I am completely open to others as well. Hardware was chosen with compatibility with multiple vintage OSes in mind as well as decent Video-Out for capturing DOS gaming footage..
Option A: The Eccentric Socket 7
As I already have a Super Socket 7 and an early Socket 7 PC, I thought this would be an easy build I could do with an eccentric, mid-range Socket 7 CPU..
Option B: The Overkill Slot A
Slot-A is the only CPU architecture I never messed around with, I have a board with Universal AGP and ISA, so why not give it a go?
Feel free to persuade me to build something else entirely or use a different kind of hardware for either build, but please help me decide!
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