One seriously customised computer!! (Too much for my liking!!)


Click thread to see all pics :)


http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=52568

I used to be a PC aficionado.......from the performance end.

When many of the folks I socialized with started doing the glamour mods, with the glass panels, cold cathode lighting rainbow colored wires, etc....I thought it was SILLY.

I thought the ultra small motherboards were pretty neat. where you could build a full blown PC with a 4" X 4" footprint

I have a DOS computer that I purchased back in 1990 and it's still running and working. I use it for playing games. My two favorite games are one that simulates NBA basketball and another game that simulates NHL hockey. The basketball game is titled Big League Basketball and the hockey game is titled APBA Pro Hockey. I can replay entire seasons with standings and everything, including playoffs. Fun stuff. :)

Its amazing what 1 can build :)

I remember back on the wild and wooly golden era, You could go out and buy the latest innovation in CPU, pop the cover off your box, put in the chip, maybe move a couple jumpers around, and it was like having a hot rod.

Then I remember going with the Cyrix 686, which was supposed to be the next big thing...except there never was a compelling follow up with that architecture, so it dead ended.
Then, AMD produced the first consumer CPU with a 1 Ghz clock speed....only rub being, you had to have a motherboard with a slot, instead of a socket. Talk about ill conceived. Something about cache configuration requiring the change. Which they promptly over came, because the very next iteration of "2 die 4"CPUs were back in a socket. Which I just HAD 2 have. WHICH OF COURSE required a new power supply, which necessitated a compatible case so the bolt holes would all line up ($$$)

The TRUE cost of being an "early adopter"...you end up with quite a few museum pieces.

But, that was an incentive for me to learn networking. After buying a router, I found that old slot AMD rig had plenty of power to serve as a file server, so I loaded it up with Adaptec SCSI cards and hid it down in the basement with the router, modem, and other "entry point" peripherals .

One of these days when I die, somebody having to clean out my house is gonna discover all that garbage in my basement "data shed" and have a real 'WTF?" moment

LOL, as I became adept at networking, I remember discovering this "white board" application designed with networking in mind, where I could sit in my living room doodling on my main PC, and watch the screen on my kitchen PC mimic the same action, in real time. LOL I felt like Thomas Watson.

It was like "Mr Drawing board" from the old Captain Kangaroo TV show