Building a computer in the 90s
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Building a computer in the 90s was almost always harder than it needed to be. Let's step through one build that stood out above the rest for me.
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    6·
    20 days ago

    case: optional

    i had a machine once i needed runnin but no case so i put it all together just sitting on a shelf and used a screwdriver to jump the power button pins to turn it on.

    fun times

  • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    I remember being so excited when PCI came out and having to find cards for it instead of ISA (never had MCA). Then AGP and having to make sure that my video card supported it and not PCI. For a time I even had a server level board that supported PCI-X though I never got any cards for that.

    Once PCIe came on the scene, everything was unified.