New Retro Rig

**HeavyG** · 01-20-14, 02:13 PM

I picked up an IBM PC 330. It has an Intel 486 50 MHz CPU, 12 MB of RAM, and a 1.2 GB hard drive. It was very clean. The guy recently took it apart and restored it, and it has been sitting around since. I need to replace the hard disk because it reported 6 MB of bad sectors. I found an exact replacement (not that it matters) for $20 shipped. Believe it or not, smaller IDE hard drives in working condition are getting harder to find.

**HeavyG** · 01-20-14, 02:14 PM

Oh, and I broke down and picked up a Sony Trinitron 17" CRT monitor. I thought I was finally rid of these things, but in reality, sometimes they are better.

**flame** · 01-20-14, 06:05 PM

LOL... wow. It is always crazy to me looking at old specs and seeing how far we have come in such a short time frame.

**Rumble** · 01-20-14, 06:18 PM

I was looking for an old pentium 75 recently because I had so many old games in a closet that are from that era. Grats finding that rig.

**AetheLove** · 01-20-14, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by HeavyG

Oh, and I broke down and picked up a Sony Trinitron 17" CRT monitor. I thought I was finally rid of these things, but in reality, sometimes they are better.

My trinitron gave up the ghost (output transformer) less than 2 years ago.

IBM P275. It would run at 1920 x 1440 @ 75 Hz (more pixels and faster refresh than most people have on their flat panels). I usually ran it at 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz.

Flat screen. Wide colour gamut. Wide viewing angles. Zero glare and no glossy shine. Blacker blacks than anything I've seen since.

It weighed a ton, it ate up desk space, and it probably sucked enough juice to light Yankee stadium.

I still miss it.

Æ

**HeavyG** · 01-21-14, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Rumble

I was looking for an old pentium 75 recently because I had so many old games in a closet that are from that era. Grats finding that rig.

Check eBay. Every now and then you may find something. I now have 3 different retro PCs, that will all play different generations of games as they were designed in that time period. It might be overkill, but I still find the experience better than running games on a modern PC on Dosbox, or on a VM or compatibility modes.

**enf** · 01-21-14, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by HeavyG

Oh, and I broke down and picked up a Sony Trinitron 17" CRT monitor. I thought I was finally rid of these things, but in reality, sometimes they are better.

haha keeping it OG! Nice!