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First post, by hardrivethrutown

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I recently Acquired a set of 1996 Altec Lansing ACS90 computer speakers with sub woofer, brand new in box, for about $10 on eBay, I was surprised to see that they were so cheap, and close to were I lived so I bought them immediately.
I was really happy when I got them, and the first thing I did was to play Daryll-Ann - Surely Justice at a moderate volume, with the Bass and treble set in the middle, I can say that the quality for these 23 year old speakers are quite amazing, which was what I was hoping for, it was actually during a call with Ultrax that I decided that I would go about purchasing them, which I did end up doing, and I can say that they are amazing!
I also use an old Dell Quietkey (RT7D5JTW) with my PC, as thankfully the Motherboard supports a PS/2 connection, which I actually really appreciate having, as most of the keyboards I like and use are PS/2.

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Systems:
- R5 2600, GTX 1070, 16GB
- i7 950, GTX 480, 12GB
- C2Q Q6600, HD3870, 4GB
- Athlon 64 3500+, 6800GT, 2GB
- P4 3.2, FX55008X, 4GB
- P2 400, TNT2, 512MB
- P2 Xeon 400, Elsa PCI Video, 384MB

Reply 1 of 4, by Ultrax

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Can confirm, I even encouraged the purchase 😜

We actually found a set of Roland MA-12Cs on eBay with a $10 starting bid. Seems innocent enough, right? ...
Shot up to $130 within a few days. Shame, I would've bought them if they had stayed below $100.

Surprisingly, I don't use any vintage peripherals with any of my modern PCs. I briefly used my Compaq Presario 425's keyboard with my FX8350 rig, but that was a temporary thing.

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Presario 425|DX2-50|8MB|SB V16S|D622/WFW3.11 😎
Deskpro XE 450|DX2-50|32 MB|NT4.0/95
SR2038X|Athlon 64 X2 3800|2G|GT710 WINXP
Dimension 4400|P4 NW 2 GHz|256M|R128U AGP|WINXP
HPMini311|N270|2G|9400M|WINXP
Libretto50CT|P75|16MB|YMF711|WIN95 😎

Reply 2 of 4, by clueless1

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Nice. I do something similar. My modern system (HP EliteDesk 800 G1 TWR) has a beige KeyTronic Lifetime Series keyboard attached and uses a pair of Gateway 2000 ACS41 bookshelf speakers. The speakers are shared with my Pentium DOS PC right next to it.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks

Reply 4 of 4, by Vynix

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I still use a Apple M2452 keyboard... If that is old enough 🤣 and in doubt, I also use 2000's (they're from roughly the beginning of the 2000's) Sony SRS-A202 speakers, these have quite a bit of a punch of speakers for their size.

Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]

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