RetroBus wrote on Yesterday, 21:30:

Picked up a Pentium MMX from market place for a great price! But it was listed as untested and had quite a roadtrip to go and get it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVo3nd2b2jQ

COOL FIND!, what blast from the past i had the exact same pc case when i was a kid around 6 yrs old, back in 1997 running windows 95, my first experience with a computer. remember the hard drive clicking, when booting up to windows 95, playing windows games like Hover! (the 3d bumber cars capture the flag game), toy story, chasm: the rift, Jedi Knight: Dark forces 2, Captain Claw and lots of DOS games like aladdin, dave, prehistorik, keen, doom, wolf 3d, most of them were demos. i was too young to remember what motherboard it was. i barley knew how to read that point in time. but it was definitely a socket 7 for sure. we had that pc until early 2002. since windows xp was way too demanding for such old system hardware.

sunkindly wrote on Yesterday, 21:52:

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RetroBus wrote on Yesterday, 21:30:

Picked up a Pentium MMX from market place for a great price! But it was listed as untested and had quite a roadtrip to go and get it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVo3nd2b2jQ

Sweet!

I like that you documented the whole journey as opposed to just starting from having it already.

As a casual viewer, I feel like it'd be easy to not realize that retro computing is not just having the computers but the effort and anxieties involved in acquiring them hehe.

Whew, isn't that the truth.

More than once in my life I have found myself (a person that grew up in the woods, 100 miles+ from anything you'd call a city) either driving in ridiculous city traffic to go down some back alley to little recycling center to pick up a pair of as-is EGA monitors, or going to some random person's home in an area even more rural than where I live and then following them down to their dank basement, alone...

Every time, I say to myself "What on earth am I doing?? Is this my life??" 🤣