First post, by SilverHawk
Hello all,
Been lurking here for a little while. That and speaking with friends and family about the good ole days of LAN parties has sparked the fire. I started by taking inventory of parts I had tucked away years ago. Sadly, I parted with some of my earliest equipment, but still had plenty to put together something fun. I started with a SOYO SY-6VBA 133, 256MB of PC133, a Pentium 3 933(thought it was a 733, eyes aren't as good as they once were), an AGP Voodoo 3 3000, a 3GB Quantum Fireball, an Iomega zipCD, an unbranded 1.44 3.5" floppy drive, and an AWE64 gold connected to my Sony SRS-PC300D speakers. Everything, excluding speakers, is tucked into my Koolance PC2-C. It is running air cooled, as the original reservoir was discarded years ago. I had considered running a number of Creative PCI sound cards I had available, but I longed for direct RCA input for my Sony speakers. I went with Win98SE with unofficial SP.
Thus far it has been a great change of pace and allowed me to sharpen the saw a bit. Now to select a few good Win98 and DOS games for some retro fun. After that, I am considering a Pentium 200 Win 3.1 system, or a rebuild of my custom Innovatek water cooled Socket A monster! Thanks to the Vogons community for the inspiration and knowledge to get this going!
