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I have a 19 year old PC lying around... Anybody has ideas?

deWaardt
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Hi all,

 

My grandparents tossed out an old computer and I got hold of it.

It is an unbranded PC, on the motherboard I was able to find a date sticker, and the motherboard is from 1997, and due to the way the PC is built I'm pretty sure it's prebuild and not a custom built one.

I haven't found out which CPU is in the thing yet but it's 150mhz. It has 16mb RAM and an 8gb hard drive.

 

Something that caught my attention is that the CPU does not have a cpu cooler. Not even a heatsink. Was such thing not required back in the days? This CPU runs incredibly hot and I'm unable to touch it without getting burnt.

It doesn't have any screwholes or plastic clamps where you could possibly attach a cooler.

 

 

The machine runs a very broken copy of Windows 98 (missing most of the drivers, lots of registry errors on bootup) but it manages to boot up and has graphics acceleration.

 

 

It doesn't have Ethernet, USB, and the floppy drive is broken.

 

It's complete with keyboard, mouse and monitor. Although the monitor is quite a bit newer.

The keyboard is quite nice actually, it types very nice.

 

 

 

Now.... except for setting it on fire, what should I do with this machine?
I have absolutely no idea.

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you might be able to use the case to hold a new pc, cool retro look and thieves won't look twice. or just sell it to some enthusiast  

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Cook some pasta with that CPU.

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Lol motherboard was made the year I was born. Can I see a pic of the case? maybe Ill buy it off you.

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Just now, Tmt97 said:

Lol motherboard was made the year I was born. Can I see a pic of the case? maybe Ill buy it off you.

out of curiosity, what use do you have for it?  

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6 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

you might be able to use the case to hold a new pc, cool retro look and thieves won't look twice. or just sell it to some enthusiast 

The case is very strange, and the motherboard is made to fit in that case, like with dell machines.
Apart from that, from all the cases from those years, this one is ugly as hell and in a pretty bad condition (entirely yellowed)

5 minutes ago, pedro69 said:

If you are lucky the keyboard might be a Model M from IBM: http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Keyboard-Model-M-1391401/dp/B00F4FHY64

No unfortunately it's not.
It's a Mitsumi kpo-e99zc-12.

I haven't pulled any keys of yet so I don't know what type of switches it has.

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3 minutes ago, Tmt97 said:

Lol motherboard was made the year I was born. Can I see a pic of the case? maybe Ill buy it off you.

I'll make a picture of the case

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Unless I am mistaken, processors at the time didn't produce enough heat to actually require much of a cooler on it, with the exception of maybe a small heatsink.

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Could be a early P5 processor, K6, K7, or even a Pentium Overdrive for 486 socket...

There wasn't any 486 that ran at 150MHZ.

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Here are some pictures of the machine:
Sorry for the zip format.

Pictures.zip

 

If you'd like to rather not have it in a zip, I can do that later, but I'm on my phone right now.

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Pack it full of tannerite.

Shoot the tannerite.

Watch it go boom.

Upload a video to YouTube.

 

Tannerite is cheap, and easy to use.

 

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