Btw, if you get an Ipex, make sure you do the following:

a) Take out any good parts it may have. (Oh no! what am i saying?)

b) Find a nice Holden of the 6 or 8 cylinder variety

c) Back over it.

And then post pics!

Btw, i thought your parents only let you have one comp at a time?

[EDIT] Heck, the spelling in that line was bad. I can see you can now delete your own replies with this forum...nice.

Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure...

FYI, a P166 WILL run '2k, just veeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy ssssssssssslllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwlllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

RAM is the key issue though, if you can put 128 in it, the better. Or, for an added flavour, stir in 3 CD's of RedHat Linux, 1 CD of Knoppix, 1 CD of Windows 2000, stir untill smooth, boil for 20 minutes and serve hot.

mine's a Packard Bell Legend 812CD, with a pentium in it... i havent opened it up yet to look at the innards, and currently its booting win95. More on this as i figure it out. I'm moving my machines all into one room tonight!

P166 - represents a golden era when PC games ere simple and fun to play and you didn't have to learn your way around the keyboard backwards tp play them. Indycar Racing still stands up as the best race car sim of ALL time. I played it for days at a time. Carmageddon was another all time classic that echoed through the halls of my P150 around that time. Oh happy days.....

As for crappy PC vendors, Packard Bell made really sucky machines over here. Large lumps of propriery board and a total bitch to upgrade.

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Holder of the Crowbar of Persistant Crate Opening
"Never send a human to do a machine's job" - The Matrix

As for the P166 representing the golden era of PC games, you're right there, although a lot of the games that came out in the 486 era weren't all that bad either.

Seanix made some very nice P166/200 machines in thier business line. The machines had fast boards, USB and lots of features. The Intel chipset was a little buggy, but once you got around it, had a nice chunk of ram in it, they flew. The P166 era and even the higher end 486 machines in DOS can use the ZSNES emulator, the best SNES emulator out there, to play fullscreen EagleFX enhanced games that make the game look and feel way better. Not to mention a keyboard has so many more options, so making a quick and useable gamepad keys out of a keyboard is a cinch, and easier to use. Gamepads always gave me blisters cause they were just awkward.

yeah this Packard Hell is gonna be a really good llama-X test machine! if only it had more than one 5.25" drive bay, so i'd put in a 5.25" floppy drive but it is a desktop case. I got the camera to work long enough to take two pictures, they'll be up on the kevcave soon.

oh btw its a Socket 5 pentium with a massive blue heatsink stuck to it! the heatsink says "100MHz" but i dont know if thats what the heatsink is supposed to bring it up to or if its a pentium 100.
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About 4 years I worked at a used computer store. Mostly what we delt with was junk and was a pain in the ass to work with. One day this sound card just pushed me over the edge. So I went out in the parking lot backed over it with my truck, but with the sound card still under the tire. Reved the engine up to about 3500 and dropped the clutch. The tire ripped all of the componets off of the board and sent it flying about 15 feet.

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Total 68k Macs Liberated: 6.02x10^23
Or just 6

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Total 68k Macs Liberated: 6.02x10^23
Or just 6

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If a computer I am working on acts like its possesed by the devil I just take a walk and cool off,come back to it when I am in a better frame of mind and refreshed (works on any project that your stuck on).

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68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

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But its not as satisfying as seeing parts go flying through the rear view mirror.

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So you're saying he should go beat the crap out of somebody instead?

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I was trying to point out that if you beat the crap out of someone bugging you he wont bug you no more (problem solved).

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One day we were just dead not a single person came in. So we took very tray load CD-ROM we could find in the place and raced them to see wich one could close the fastest. And we were always doing stuff like this.

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Warrior maclover5
68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

speaking of cassette decks, on my stereo, Deck B opens faster than Deck A... weird huh?

One time, I plugged an 18 volt laptop into a 6 volt tape player... LOL

you SHOULD have seen the smoke begin to pour from that thing!!!

needless to say, it didn't work after that...

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One time, I plugged an 18 volt laptop into a 6 volt tape player... LOL

you SHOULD have seen the smoke begin to pour from that thing!!!

needless to say, it didn't work after that...

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Warrior maclover5
68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

ohwell... it was kinda fun and exciting to see it

Why not reverse engineer these poor slaves of the PC world into Mac components? Use a little Borg nanotechnology, add a twist of Lime and voila!

Mac to go!

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