u/fazz34

Heyo everyone :3

I'm 17 and recently discovered this sub. These are my four functional vintage PCs, and I hope you like them. (this post will be long, so be prepared to read a lot of specs. Also, no AI was used to make this)

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PC #1: HP Pavilion XT963 (2001)

I recently bought this as an end of school year gift for myself, as I wanted a good Win9x rig for some time, and this seemed to do the job and was pretty cheap, all it needed was a couple of drive replacements

- CPU: Intel Celeron 1200 at 1.2ghz

- RAM: 128mb PC3 SDRAM

- iGPU: Intel i810 2MB

- dGPU: nVidia Geforce 6200 PCI 256mb

- Networking: 56k modem

- Sound: Integrated Intel AC97

- Primary storage: 2gb spinning IDE HDD + 32gb IDE SSD

- Optical storage: Lite-On DVD writer

- Floppy drive: 3.5 inch 1.44mb

- OS: Windows Me (WinMe was actually not bad, especially on a slightly newer system like this)

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PC #2: Generic 486DX2 clone

I got this from my dad. This was the PC he used during high school from 1994 to 1997. Dual booted with OS/2 2.0 and Windows 95 OSR2, shown here running Win95.

- CPU: Intel 486DX2 at 66mhz

- RAM: 16mb

- GPU: Trident VESA VLB graphics

- Networking: IBM Token Ring ISA card

- Sound: Soundblaster 16 ISA

- Primary storage: 500mb spinning HDD

- Optical storage: IDE CD-ROM

- Floppy drive: 1.44mb 3.5 inch and 1.2mb 5.4 inch

- OS: Win95 and OS/2 2.0 dual boot

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PC #3: Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT (1998)

Also got this from my dad. This was the PC he used during college from 1998 until he dropped out in 2000.

- CPU: Mobile Pentium 2 at 233mhz

- RAM: 96MB PC2

- GPU: Chips and Tech 65555 PCI

- Networking: CompUSA PCMCIA Ethernet card and USRobotics 56k modem PCMCIA card

- Sound: Yamaha OPL3-SAx

- Primary storage: 16gb spinning HDD

- Optical storage: Toshiba CD-ROM

- Floppy drive: 1.44mb 3.5 inch

- OS: Windows 98 Second Edition

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PC #4: Toshiba Satellite 225CDS (1996)

I got this for about $90 a couple years ago. It's a solid business-focused rig.

- CPU: Intel Pentium 133 at 133mhz

- RAM: 64mb PC2

- GPU: Chips and Tech 65554 PCI

- Networking: 3com PCMCIA Ethernet card

- Sound: Yamaha OPL3-SA

- Primary storage: 4gb spinning HDD

- Optical storage: Toshiba CD-ROM

- Floppy drive: None

- OS: Win98 SE and WinNT 4.0 SP6 dual boot.

No, this is not a vm, this is real hardware.

This is isn't exactly a true battlestation, but that's exactly why I got this. It's a low-end family PC you would've gotten from Walmart for dirt-cheap, and that's exactly why I love it, because it's a cool time capsule. I was born in the Vista-going-into-7 era, so I never really got to experience this era. Put Windows Me on it because it's one of those weird transition-era PCs where manufacturers were putting XP on PCs really made to run a 9x system, and because Windows Me deserves more love. Surprisingly, it's a great computer. Hair-raisingly fast and runs all the games I like at remarkably great speeds, UT99, Quake3, and NFS4 at 30fps average, even with the lackluster excuse of a graphics chip in here.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Celeron 1200 @ 1.2GHz

GPU: Intel 810 on internal AGP 2X bus

RAM: 128MB SDRAM (unknown speed)

Network: 56k winmodem

Sound: Intel AC'97 with barely any DOS/Midi support

Primary storage: 15gb spinning platter hard drive (replacement for original 40gb platter that failed)

Optical storage: DVD writer (replacement for original DVD reader that failed)

Floppy disk: 1.44mb 3.5 inch

This will become my main Win9x machine, as I don't have a good Win9x machine yet lol. GPU and RAM upgrade will be nesscicary!

It does have the original keyboard and mouse. Used to have a matching HP monitor, but I lost it years ago, and I also don't have the original Polk Audio chicken nugget speakers, but otherwise, this is system is almost all original.

Thanks for reading this wall of text... Even if this computer is extremely boring or lackluster.