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Originally Posted by freebeard
That's more than I paid for a 128K Macintosh. It lasted me for 9 years until it was stolen. How long did that Pentium last? It sounds like you learned repair rather than use.
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I upgraded it to 32MB RAM at some point. About 4 years later I pieced together my own Pentium II 266MHz rig, running Win98 SE, and upgraded to Win98 SE on the Pentium 100 too. I used the "old" PC as a gateway to the internet, since it was the one with a 56.6kbps modem and a phone line. Whenever my PC called for WAN access, it would connect to that Pentium over LAN and prompt it to dial automatically (our ISP was the local library, which owned something like 90 modems).
As I built new rigs, my old ones would become my parents PC. We probably had that Pentium from 1995 until around 2003. Hard to recall exactly what I had built and later passed on to my parents. They're currently running an old Ion mini-PC, similar to the NUC formfactor. Suits all their needs, so probably no replacement needed for a few more years.
I still need a mobo/CPU/RAM for my next build. Hate to spend good money on a gen 13 Intel chip (all the best sales are on gen 12, but I don't want that old) when they are releasing a major overhaul this fall.