First post, by maximus
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If you're like me, you've done this many times. You think you're done with some piece of hardware, so you give it away, or worse yet - you throw it in the trash. Then you realize it was rare, valuable, or special, and you never stop kicking yourself.
Case in point: I was once given a Gateway 4DX2-66V full tower (like the one shown here). The thing was massive, and totally maxed out. The specs as I recall:
Pentium Overdrive 200 MHz
96 MB RAM
8 GB HDD
Creative Graphics Blaster Exxtreme (Permedia 2)
some ISA sound card
It also came with a cute little CRT and a matching Gateway keyboard. I kept the machine for a few years, then I got something newer, and, being a complete idiot, I threw it away. I kept the keyboard, hard drive, and graphics card, but everything else is gone. That was right before I caught the collecting bug, and I've been plagued with remorse ever since. 😢
Anybody have an equally depressing story to share? Or is just me who does this sort of thing?