One reason these were so cool, is they weren't that expensive, and at the time I was working on alot of computers for people. Back then alot of people still bought custom built systems instead of big oems. Alot of them were running socket 7 systems with a k62 at say 300 or 350mhz. (nutrend and abs built rigs most of them which later became newegg 😛) I remember i bought a whole tray of them for upgrades. People were amazed you could drop in a k6III+ and suddenly be at 600mhz or 616 etc. Funny thing was alot of those systems were probably running 4000 rpm 5 1/4" quantum bigfoot drives so they were still crippled LOL.
I loved the k6III and socket 7 so much that I skipped the durons and slot athlons altogether along with the celerons people were getting such good o/c with at the time. I sort of wish I had kept one around to throw linux or something on.
