Why the hell would someone pay $156 for this?

[Shawn]

Link

There was more than one bid no less. Boggles the mind.

 

[Jodell88]

Nerd ++

 

[Tweak155]

Retro gaming?

 

[nickbits]

Someone paid $42 for my 5 (6?) year old xfx 7300gt I had listed for $5. Someone thinks old crap has value I guess.

 

[Wyndru]

And last year I threw out my original Packard Bell computer from '94.

Still have the Timex Sinclair and Commodore 64 though.

 

[randomrogue]

Guessing...maybe someone can recycle the plastic and metal and they're worth more than $100?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Idiot thought it was A6-3500 instead of K6-350 maybe?

 

[GrumpyMan]

The keyboard.

 

[gorcorps]

whoa flashback

That's the same tower my parents first PC was in.

 

[bearxor]

I'm going to go with retro DOS gaming PC.

 

[postmortemIA]

I'm going to go with retro DOS gaming PC.

which is what you can do with DOSBox and a modern PC.

 

[amdhunter]

“Shows some gentle ware.”
:awe:

 

[Slew Foot]

Hipsters are stupid

 

[sandorski]

Other than vidcard, power supply, case, and monitor in my sig, I recently offered my parts along with Win 7 to my bro for $25. I suppose I could get more elsewhere, but I figure I've got all I want from this rig already so $ don't matter.

 

[lxskllr]

How do you ship a CRT? Sounds like an expensive PITA.

 

[akshatp]

Because its got a CD Write PLUS. Had it just had a plain old CD Writer, it would be worthless

 

[Sluggo]

“Shows some gentle ware.”
:awe:

He left off the "z"

 

[WelshBloke]

Meh.

There was a phone case recommended on the front page for $140.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Do any modern programs and games even run on Win98 anymore?

 

[coloumb]

" I have recently retired and moved to a smaller home..." = probably someone as old as my parents who bid/bought the item.

My Mom HATES using anything other than Windows 95 [we finally convinced her to use WinXP a year ago] because none of her programs would run - original outlook express, Adobe Photo something 1.0, etc...

There probably is a nice cash cow if you can find these old items for little to nothing and resell them locally/ebay...

 

[Shawn]

Do any modern programs and games even run on Win98 anymore?

No. The most recent internet browser that works is Firefox 2.0 and flash doesn't work. I know because I have an old P3 laptop that I occasionally use for dos/win9x games. I have to dual boot with win2k so that I can use modern programs on it.

 

[drebo]

Lots of metal shops and manufacturing facilities have programs that only run on Windows 95 or 98 that interface with old CNC machines and other equipment. Generally the software upgrades count in the 10s of thousands of dollars. Buying a machine that gets them another year or two of use is worth the $150.

 

[Shawn]

Lots of metal shops and manufacturing facilities have programs that only run on Windows 95 or 98 that interface with old CNC machines and other equipment. Generally the software upgrades count in the 10s of thousands of dollars. Buying a machine that gets them another year or two of use is worth the $150.

No doubt, but I'm sure you could find such a machine for much cheaper.

 

[Ichinisan]

OP didn't realize that the power cord is included. Missed out on a great deal!

 

[Childs]

That K6-2 was a POS. I remember praying a game would support the 3D Now extensions, and they almost never did. I had to save up for a Celeron 300A.

hehe...thinking about it some more, I used to always buy the ghetto CPUs. 486SLC2, Cyrix 686, IBM 686, K6-2. I still have them in a tray. I wonder how much I could get on ebay for them...