One of the technology/technical drawing teachers of my school were throwing out old 486 computers (this is where I got the old processors). Now, I'm not that kind of person who allows things to go to waste (seen as I'm interested in computers). So I grabbed two computer frames (along with motherboard and power supply) in each hand and hauled these things down three stories to my mothers poor old car and shoved them in the boot (it's called a trunk for you Americans). I proceeded to fetch more, 10 in total and had to put three on the back seat. The next day, the other components such as IDE controller interfaces and others hadn't been thrown out yet, so I stuffed as many as I could into my bag and an entire box full of these cards. I dumped the whole lot into my shed (where I work on my projects) and began plugging things in, testing and tinkering. I managed to acquire a 2GB HDD from a friend for a low low price and (AMAZINGLY) installed Win98SE, what a miracle, had to overclock quite a bit to achieve this! About 4 or 5 systems actually work. The best system is a 486DX 80MHz (overclocked from 66MHz) 4 Mb RAM! Alot of work for old, outdated computer systems. But it was a lot of fun, besides the constant, mocking remarks of bystanding spectators, "Where you stealin' that from?, I'm gonna report you to the principal!". Yeah right, you do that I'm so petrified, LOSER!
I also took a monitor, but the image looks yellow is really blurring, by jiggling the VGA cable at the back it goes lighter and darker in yellow. Anyone understand this, it has something to do with the blue signal somewhere along the line.
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