This is such a difficult question to answer. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and was a young man in the 90s, so I remember how amazing it was seeing something like Doom or Quake for the first time. My answer probably depends on a couple things: can I access the internet at speeds where it is useful, …

Havent tried the monitor yet... still getting a few hopes in before that =) Any idea what the blocks are called so I can look them up online? If not I will try to hard wire something together =)

Not a real steady hand for soldering. It does have an external bat hookup on the board. Has a 4 pin connection but Pin #2 is not present. And as I sit here reading the matching monitor just smoked up my office =( Hope its not fried.

I am currently attempting to get an old Packard Bell Legend VI 286 going. Currently it will boot up but it does take it a few power ups. Not sure if finding an external CMOS battery will help but need to try and find one. Boots into a menu screen that is customizable, running on a 40MB Western …

My little mancave when she lets me go in. Myroom.jpg Yes its has been cleaned up, tornado of parts and paperwork all over it now. Game rig on left, left corner is office laptop area, top right is tinkering table, right side is the play with the old hardware desk. Think its the old Athlon XP setup …

I7 950 6GB Patriot Viper RAM Sapphire 7870 GHZ Crucial M4 128GB SSD WD Velociraptor 10k RPM 150GB XSPC 360 Rad water cooling loop ( had old 4870X2 on loop til i fried it ) 🤣 No OC atm but was at 3.8 at one time.

Just found this forum and I must say I like it. Working on an old system myself the past month or so. Board1.jpg Micronics w6-LI Wish it had the SCSI and all but i got two of them cheap a few years back and just got around to getting one running. Build1.jpg Twin Pentium Pro 200's and currently only …