Reply 60 of 74, by KT7AGuy
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wrote:My nostalgia suffers from severe OCD, which demands that the recreation be as close as I can humanly get to the original system.
I find that very interesting. I was already 23 years old when I got my first computer, a used AST 486SX/25. I'm pretty sure I gave it away to a friend, but I really can't remember what I did with it. Anyway, I wouldn't want to recreate it. It struggled with games even then.
My 2nd PC was an AMD 486DX4/120 that I built when I was 24. I know I gave that one away to a friend, but in hindsight I wish I had kept it. Still, I have no desire to rebuild or recreate that one either. I can't even remember what make/model motherboard I used in it. Anything that PC might still do for me today is covered by either DOSBox or my 3rd PC, which I still have.
My 3rd PC was a P200 non-MMX that I built when I was 25. Although, I have been steadily modifying and upgrading it over the years. Just last year while playing around with the CPU jumpers, I accidentally discovered that the Tyan S1563S motherboard can support a P233 MMX; something that the specs and documentation say it can't do. So, I had to upgrade it to a P233 MMX! 😲
Back around the time I was doing all this stuff, I was heavily nostalgic about the game system I grew up with: the Atari 2600. I was on a mission to get all the old games I had when I was a kid. I was hitting thrift stores and garage sales all over the place trying to find cartridges. So, this makes me wonder if that drive towards nostalgic preservation is caused by positive early childhood excitement. Like I said before, I really have no desire to rebuild the PCs I started with in my 20s. Even my 3rd PC isn't safe from tinkering; it's only got about half of the original parts I used to to build it initially. It's a far better PC now than when it was my daily driver.
How do you feel about the PCs you've used in your 20s? Do you feel any need to preserve those systems?