HanJammer wrote on 2022-06-03, 23:35:
Miphee wrote on 2022-06-03, 18:02:
Bought a few 775s for the collection from a junkyard salesman and there was a little surprise disguising itself as a regular Pentium D.
I'm lucky Intel didn't stamp "Extreme" on every EE CPU or this would've been expensive.
Beyond happy!
Are they really "a thing" already to be "expensive"? For me they are just obsolete largely uninteresting CPUs with no real application......
Didn't the world once hold that same sentiment, about most things which eventually became a rare or desirable antiquity, years or decades later? I think that people who are collecting P4 now, are doing so in the "down cycle", while they are indeed seen as cheap and not desirable. Which, in the longer term scheme of things (for traders and collectors), may not be the silliest strategy.
But personally! (on the other hand!) - P4s and similar generations aren't going to ever hold interest for me, because I don't have important personal nostalgia to them or the software they run, and never will. I didn't even bother to use them much when they were popular, so I'm certainly not going to yearn to do so later in life!
But I guess the point is, that those who were kids and teens growing up with P4s, will in time come to see them exactly as WE (the older generation) look at 486s - important personal nostalgia made rare by the attrition of decades.
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