*Post Your Obsolete Hardware*

well its was fun when I was 10 :D I'm glad I didn't have to put up with it for long. it was about 2 years before I a 486/66 with 32mb of ram and a 160mb hdd and 14" CRT and win 3.11 :P
 
Gee? I only had a 50mb hard drive in the old IBM 386 I bartered for parts to get into an AST 486. There was only 16mb of memory on the IBM. Later I was able to swap out the 500mb WD drive out of that one for a 1.4gb and use a 5 1/4" drive adapter for a 1.44mg floppy drive "finally" seeing the end of the 5 1/4" floppy disks. yes! :D
 
HA HA! I love it!

I don't think half the people on here remember the old 2400bps modems. I"m only 26 years old and I look at how everything has changed since I started fooling around with this stuff and I am in complete awe. I remember being a member of compuserve when I was 13 and leaving my computer on all night to download a 100k file!
 
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You wouldn't loved those old Epsons too well. I had to go through a ton of those for one company some years back stripping some for parts to get others working. You should have seen the condition they were in as well. :eek: :eek: :eek: !!! "How can you even touch those things?" would be one question.
 
at one point wouldn't it have been cheaper to just replace the broken ones with newer models? Create some kind of complete renovation of components over like a 2 year period?
 
Well after finally deciding to dump the floppy for a cd drive using the lower 5 1/4" drive bay for the 1.4gb WD drive there I went into a newer custom build with a Soyo board and eventually saw my first 512mb when later adding a second 256mb PC100 module there and the move from Intel to AMD's K5. The next build saw 98SE by that time with 768mb and the Slot One cpu. And then there was Asus boards that came with the early Atholon model cpus there.
 
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