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    With our packard bell my dad wanted a CDROM installed and when we tried to install it we found out that the motherboard only supported 1 ide. and the sound card I got for it, somewhere around $150 used, had no ide plugins on that.

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    Nice writeup! What you forgot to mention though (probably because its pretty obvious) is that these "dream machines" of the past don't hold there value! Wich is quiet frustrating for owners but great for us retro fans . Me myself built this dreamer as the "ultimate game system '98" a year ago for just over 150$ ! I thought the value back then was about 5000$ but reading this article really opend my eyes.

    +3K for a cpu no thx

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    I had my 286 custom built. What really made it look boss was the fact it was in a tower. I also got the biggest HD they had ever put in a computer, a 120mb drive. It was insane storage space. But at the time, I could 'rent' computer games. Rent/install/play forever. It was allot cheaper then buying a console and cartridges. Later I installed a 14.4 modem and discovered I needed something called Windows 3.1 to run Netscape on. Paid well over $100 / mb for RAM.

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    my very first PC didn't even have a HDD, everything was run from 5" Floppy discs with an impressive 2MB of RAM!


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    I remember using those types in school! those were the ****!

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    My dad used to be in programming. We still have [very long] sheets of data and lots of punch cards lying around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nevermind1534 View Post
    My dad used to be in programming. We still have [very long] sheets of data and lots of punch cards lying around.
    THAT ONE WINS THEN!


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    Haha, I remember when I got my first sound card. I have been playing The Return to Monkey Island, with all these beeps and stuff. My dad got it for me just so we could hear that owl talk. All that money to hear a low quality voice from an owl. But at the time, it was bad@$$

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