Went to the thrift store today. They had a 50% off sale if you brought an person over 55. Senior Tuesdays are the 2nd best Tuesday. The first is Taco. Where do you people live that your thrift stores get such awesome stuff? Around me it's either garbage-brand stuff not worth saving (CD players/ …

Macrium Reflect Free is a great tool for making an image of a drive; especially now that they've made viBoot to boot the images you take. It will NOT write an image to CF card if your card has the removeable bit set; it has to show up as an 'internal' drive - queue the search for SiliconDrive cards …

My first PC my dad built/gave to me as a kid was a 386SX-33 with Win 3.1 - you'll be totally fine. I played Command & Conquer on it, but it ran so bad that I had to tell it "no sound card" for the game to run at a decent framerate. Then he gave me a 486SX-25, and it was fast enough to add sound! It …

I've got a DFI P2XBL Rev. D that has SB-Link header (and WOL!) on the board.

Asrock is something like Asus cheaper brand, which something do more experimenting.. i guess that electrical components were often worse.. VRMs arent good for overclocking, but only Asrock made these universal boards, so i some point of view are the best. I similar today HW, im still buying …

Going through old boxes at work yielded this guy:

Probably dual Pentium Pro was the best you could find in 1996. The OS would be Windows NT or OS/2, probably. Maybe you'd have 64 MB of RAM; that would probably be a lot for 1996. A lot of dual Pros had offboard VRM cards like some Xeons; I know that back ages ago when I was a teen and my dad had a …

You also have a tape streamer in there. Being a HP model, media might still be available. Yeah, that old HP Colorado Travan 1000 might work - but it wasn't connected to anything. Looks like it *should* connect to the floppy interface, but I don't have instructions and quick research found "how to …

Free, still white and nice things inside. That's quite some first post. Enjoy it! The first system I remember great detail of was my Celeron 533A on Slotket adapter into I think a P3V4X? Started with a SiS6326 vid card, but later traded a DVD Burner and 64 MB of RAM for a Voodoo5 5500. That was my …

First post - but not first time around Vogons. :) I was given a PC a random the other week, and had to squeal with glee when I opened it. Pentium III 500 Katmai, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, SB Awe64 CT4380! Board is a DFI and I found a BIOS update for large drive support; it's on a 440 chipset but off the top …