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01-20-14, 02:13 PM #1New Retro Rig
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.
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01-20-14, 02:14 PM #2Re: New Retro Rig
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.
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01-20-14, 06:18 PM #4
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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.
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01-20-14, 07:12 PM #5
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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.
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01-21-14, 09:45 AM #6Re: New Retro 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.
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