samsonlonghair wrote:Can we talk about case designs in this thread please? There were a lot of soft beige boxes in the 90s but there were a few standouts like the Packard-Bell corner PC, IBM Aptiva Stealth, the NeXTstation, and the 20th Anniversary Macintosh.
SGI did a lot of cool stuff then. Some of them just cool colors, but the O2 and Octane towers were pretty standout. I think Sun tended to do more subdued but still cool looking things.
I still like some of the beige boxes though, like the Power Mac 8100/8500 (though it's horrible to work on).
I found a socket 7 mobo on eBay for $20 which includes a Pentium 133Mhz CPU and some RAM. The mobo has IDE, FDD, serial and parallel ports (though serial and parallel require break out cables which aren't included) on board, so I wouldn't have to worry about controller cards. I have a lot of parts on hand, so all I would really need (aside from slowly upgrading) is an ATX to AT power adapter to get it up and running right away (to at least test it out).
Hmmm, I'm thinking about doing it. I have MS-DOS 5 full retail, 6.22 upgrade, and Win95 as part of my big box collection (I bought them all NOS for really cheap) that are currently a waste since I don't have an appropriate computer for them to run on.
On the other hand, there's really nothing I can do on it that I can't already do on my Win98 PC, and I have a fear of not being able to find drivers or configure it correctly because DOS and Win95 can be a pain in the ass.
Picked up this little guy today for $25. Works perfectly just isn't powerful enough to really run anything as far as I know. Thought it would be cool to have a functioning computer from my birth year though.
I remember my 4th grade class having a Macintosh computer in it. I'd love to know what kind it was. I remember playing some math platforming edutainment game.
We had IBMs during elementary school used to play Oregon Trail and what I believe was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Would love to pick one of those up.
