First post, by dosquest
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My joke about coming back every two years must have been not so much of a joke.
Though, I am writing this to update you on what I have been doing. I finished High School about five years ago. I went onto doing some general community classes at a local college, then I transferred to a local university.
I am still studying computer science, though I often have little to no time for retro computers. I keep in touch with some vogons members through facebook groups (victor, phil, a few others). I recently picked up a few Pentium III systems, an early slot 1 athlon, and I have about three more on the way. Along with some older Apple performas, a powerbook, and an ibook. My Windows 98 gaming pc has a new home, under my desk. I had had it in storage for the longest time, now it sits underneath an i7 system (funny juxtaposition). I haven't checked on my 486 systems since 2015, I should pull them out and give them a boot. I might mess around with the bios update that I found for my 486 gateway. It was supposedly able to fix the memory mapping error that caused a system hang when using soundblaster cards and digital sound affects.
I tried selling off my extra systems (I had about 40 or so 486 spares systems), I put them on ebay for $200 and sold every last one of them. Then I checked prices and I'm seeing systems sell for $500, $600, $400! Have people lost their minds? What has started this craze in retro pcs? (CNC embroidery retro pc gaming windows 98se) Do people think they are as simple to get working as an old nintendo? I wouldn't drop $700 on an as-is pc that might "break" because of a misconfigured driver. (Windows 95/98 are fiddly), has vogons seen an influx of clueless people buying these systems and asking for help? Also, why are so many people loading Windows 98, without any graphics drivers or sound, on crappy hp slimline pcs and trying to sell them as DOS machines? I mean, I can sorta get the early Pentium 4 systems, they had some Windows 98 drivers. But when you see someone trying to sell a computer that they just stuck Windows 98 on and you can see the color depth is incorrect and there's probably no sound drivers, and they're asking $200 for it...I digress...
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