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SUMMER 2010

Anonymous Freak

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Well, with 25 minutes left, my sad attempt ends with just two of 30 games reviewed.

I thought I was going to get another 5.25" drive from someone local via another vintage computing forum; but it took two weeks to finally meet up with him, and he gave me a box of old hardware; none of it the 5.25" drive that was the one and only thing he actually offered me.

And most of the old hardware is crap. A couple broken mid-range (for their time,) video cards; a bunch of old low-end sound cards, some middling motherboards (the most interesting of which are baby AT, and I don't have any AT chassis,) etc.

In the whole box o' crap, the only things I'm even considering keeping are a box of PC-100/133 RAM, a PCI ATA-133 card (Mac compatible is the only reason I'm thinking of keeping it,) a passively cooled Radeon 9600, a PCI Matrox Millennium, and a 3dFX Voodoo 5 5500. I *MIGHT* keep one of the ATX motherboards, if only because it's a Socket 7 (Pentium) with AGP and ISA. So it would be a good one to play vintage games on.

 

Anonymous Freak

Well-known member
Yeah. A guy from another forum who lives close to me offered one up; but we had our meeting delayed by two weeks, and when we finally did, he gave me a big box of hardware, with nary a 5.25" drive to be seen...

 
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