JamesTerryMitchellJr

I think you should (when travel is okay again) visit The8BitGuy in Texas & as a challenge see how much you can upgrade his stuff while still keeping the retro aesthetic. Possibly take an old af laptop & ship of Theseus upgrade it bit by bit until it is competitive today, like the inverse of a hackintosh using the old Mac case & putting a windows computer in it or trying one of the “newpc” usb Linux things in one of the old MacBooks he has lying around. Also could you make a computer that has F connector input & output like a vcr so one could digitize their vhs collection & also record from the computer onto vhs tapes both as video that will play in other vhs players but also as a tape drive to store digital data & read it back later.

I bought what I thought was a 7900 but it was actually a HP Compaq 6000 but it had a 500GB hard drive & windows 10 64bit, & I just bought it to be a media server with plans to expand the memory as much as I have ripped all my dvds with it & cds & that almost filled it so now I plan on getting another drive & a SATA cable because the cable inside has power for another drive but not a sata cable for it. Also the front usb stopped working for data transfer but all still charge stuff. it went black screen many times because of poor airflow but I removed the pci shield covers to open it up & that worked but there’s 2 heat sinks, one that the fan actually blows on but the other one is just fins & they get burn yourself hot. I’m sure it’s fine but still it’s a drawback. It was 150$ on Amazon but I’m happy with the purchase because if I had bought the 100$ one & then upgraded it as much it would have cost way more than the extra 50$. I think they just had a bunch of stuff laying around & just slapped it together to liquidate stock. Because Frankly it’s worth more than I payed for it, like I got a whole damn pc for as much as an iPhone. I would like to see the crew find the cheapest amazon prebuilt pc whatever it is irrespective of age or specs just a pc that a person can use & then find out the cost to upgrade it as much as possible and then tell us which parts to buy in what order. Another idea deal for a video, a retro computer that can boot both windows 10 64 bit & XP 32 bit & is programmed to switch between them when the retro game is inserted into the optical drive. Another idea deal for a video side panels replaced with window screens. another idea deal for a video, make a computer case made out of wood & see if it catches on another video, how much can you upgrade a latitude d510 laptop, including a ssd replacing the cd drive & see if it can handle the over 120gb internal memory in the hard drive bay & the ssd replacement for the cd drive. It has a maximum of 2gb ram but I wanna see if you can upgrade the software or hardware with Linux or something to see the maximum ram it can physically handle if you take out the limitation that is programmed into software. Idea for a video, use a multiple usb hub and use usb microsd card readers with the highest capacity microsd cards you can find unless there are legitimate 1T or more flash drives available & use the highest capacity possible & run them in raid as a single drive, whatever the largest number USB port thing there is & see how much storage that can possibly be.