Charles Kozierok
Elite Member
We have a pile of old PC hardware that we want to donate or trash, and this includes an old tower PC that we haven't used in years.
When I say "old", I mean old. It's over a decade old, and some of it is even older than that.
We originally bought this machine as a 486DX-33 back in, oh, must be the mid-1990s? Used it for a while, upgraded the memory, then got a laptop and used this only sporadically.
Circa 2000 I upgraded it. It appears to have AMD K6-II-333 in it, probably Super Socket 7. 128MB of RAM. Voodoo video card with 16MB of memory.
This is a full-sized tower case, all metal, must be 30" high. It is heavy -- they really don't make them like this any more. Tons and tons of bays. The motherboard takes up a tiny fraction of the space allotted, which must have been originally for a full-sized AT mobo. It has a 5-pin DIN keyboard connector and no PS/2 mouse connector!
Amazingly, most of it still works. Plugged in a monitor, actually found an old keyboard that worked, and it fired right up. Unfortunately, the hard drive is doing the "kerklunk of death", even though my wife said it was working when she booted it about a year ago. Whatever happened since then, it appears to be dead, which is too bad. Pretty sure it had Windows 98 on it.
The inside of the box is a real nostalgia trip: IDE cables, floppy drive, an old-fashioned read-only CD-ROM drive, analog modem, no USB ports, and a Promise Ultra/66 add-in PCI adapter. ISA slots! Oh, and lung-choking quantities of dust.
Anyway, I've decided I'm hanging onto this thing. It's practically a museum piece at this point and if nothing else, I'll dismantle it at some point.
When I say "old", I mean old. It's over a decade old, and some of it is even older than that.
We originally bought this machine as a 486DX-33 back in, oh, must be the mid-1990s? Used it for a while, upgraded the memory, then got a laptop and used this only sporadically.
Circa 2000 I upgraded it. It appears to have AMD K6-II-333 in it, probably Super Socket 7. 128MB of RAM. Voodoo video card with 16MB of memory.
This is a full-sized tower case, all metal, must be 30" high. It is heavy -- they really don't make them like this any more. Tons and tons of bays. The motherboard takes up a tiny fraction of the space allotted, which must have been originally for a full-sized AT mobo. It has a 5-pin DIN keyboard connector and no PS/2 mouse connector!
Amazingly, most of it still works. Plugged in a monitor, actually found an old keyboard that worked, and it fired right up. Unfortunately, the hard drive is doing the "kerklunk of death", even though my wife said it was working when she booted it about a year ago. Whatever happened since then, it appears to be dead, which is too bad. Pretty sure it had Windows 98 on it.
The inside of the box is a real nostalgia trip: IDE cables, floppy drive, an old-fashioned read-only CD-ROM drive, analog modem, no USB ports, and a Promise Ultra/66 add-in PCI adapter. ISA slots! Oh, and lung-choking quantities of dust.
Anyway, I've decided I'm hanging onto this thing. It's practically a museum piece at this point and if nothing else, I'll dismantle it at some point.
