My Sega Game Gear because it stopped turning on. 20 years ago I was clueless. Now I know it just needed a recap. FFFFUUUUU....

Those color-coding stickers for the audio jacks on an SB Audigy 2 ZS.

Now I regret recycling anything that was just old but still fully functional (not so if bricked, very defective, or very unstable), including:

• The MB of my first PC: Datatech (DTK) 386, along with its SIPP RAM (an oddball; most contemporary MB used SIMM), 40MB Seagate ST-157A HDD, Super I/O card, monochrome video card, and ET4000/W32 video card. Its 80386DX-20 CPU is still in my collection, though.
• The MB (Biostar) and CPU of a Quantex P2-400, along with an STB Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT).
• Probably the most regrettable: The MB (Asus A7N8X Deluxe) and CPU of an Alienware AthlonXP 2200+ "Thoroughbred" build, along with an eVGA GF4 4200Ti.

All RAM, HDD, ODD are kept unless out of order.

Back then I had no idea of "OS downgrading" i.e. using later hardware to run older OS. The AthlonXP 2200+ build was a bit struggling on WinXP SP3 but would be perfect for Win98SE (sigh).

Everything.

Notably my Packard Bell Legend 386 (first PC) I don't have any idea where it went.

My second PC just a cheapie PC Chips K6-2 500 build, but it was my first PC i used the internet with and played lots of games.

appiah4 wrote on 2021-08-04, 09:27:

My Sega Game Gear because it stopped turning on. 20 years ago I was clueless. Now I know it just needed a recap. FFFFUUUUU....

Thanks for the clue, fairly sure I have a dead one stored away that I intended to rob the screen from or something, if it's a simple recap it might live again.