Picked this up (amongst other things) from a class A weirdo in Illinois a couple months ago. Finally fired it up tonight to see if it worked. Pentium 200 w/ MMX, 32 MB RAM, 3.8 GB HDD, 2 MB S3 Virge, Win95 B. All original. MSRP $2200.
Dude lived in a teeny tiny apartment that was crammed wall to wall, floor to ceiling with retro hardware and it was all up for grabs. He was literally pulling parts out of his bathroom to show me. But he had obvious mental issues and within about 15 minutes of being there his demeanor entirely changed and I felt like I was gonna get stabbed. Bought what I could and left.
Bumpity. Been waiting all night for a retro thread. Nice system OP.
Joshua Garcia
Not bad.
I picked this up last weekend not far from me. Currently waiting for a converter cable to come into the mail but it powers on, which is more than what I could say for my Indy.
I know little about those beyond an LGR vid. Are they still viable for anything other than pure collector value?
Dominic Ramirez
Thrift store find a couple weeks ago. Totally mint, with manuals and everything. When REAL laptops were $2 - $3,000, you could get one of these bad boys for like $700.
IRIX is still usable and as far as I know can go online fine enough.
I would say its far more viable than the NeXT I have, trying to get online with only 8mb of RAM is not at all easy.
Andrew Taylor
Hmmm.... kinda sparked an idea. The retro community is only growing, perhaps a "retronet" is in order.
Ethan Foster
Well, there is BBS which is still around and more or less hosts that kind of community after everything is said and done.
Most people with systems too old can not use anything but BBS, so they are still in use to this day. Hell I think there was even talk of a Jow Forums BBS.
Carson Bailey
Yeah but BBS's, imo, are rather hit and miss. See I was brought up on the infancy of the internet but never actually used BBS in it's heyday. I've tried joining a few these days and they seem overly complicated and redundant. Maybe I'm just not hitting the right ones but they don't seem appealing at all. Something that looks like mid-90's WWW, however, would be right up my alley.
Zachary Young
Is it just me, or has it become increasingly difficult to find electronics in thrift stores lately? I used to check thrift stores pretty often (here in southern VA/northern NC) back in 2011 - 2013, and I would often come across pretty nice stuff. I mean I got an old Thinkpad, a generic buckling spring keyboard, a few CRTs, and loads of other stuff that I refurbished/upgraded and sold. I recently got back into it, but almost all of the thrift stores I used to go to now have absolutely no selection, save for some shitty mice, keyboards, LCD monitors, and speakers. What are my alternatives? I really don't care for Ebay.