Don
Just got back from meeting family in Oxford and my Aunt and Uncle gave me my Grandad's old PC. I was planning on upgrading it (and I still might) with a better graphics card, bigger hard drive/Flash Card etc. However the specs are as follows:
Intel Pentium 3 - 550Mhz
384 MB SDRAM (PC100 I think)
10GB Quantum Fireball Hard Drive
16MB Voodoo3 3000 AGP Graphics Card
Soundblaster PCI 128D
10/100 LAN Card
Windows 98SE
and it's a Gateway...
Currently planning on removing the 56K Modem it has and popping in a flash card at the back as a second hard drive for easy transfer. Any suggestions on other things I should do with this awesome old computer?
I remembered upgrading the RAM and sticking the LAN card in a few years ago with old parts from our family computer which had been upgraded, however the Voodoo3 was a big surprise, having said that though we used to have a Voodoo3 in our Celeron 400 so it probably originally came from there and I just forgot I put that in with the RAM and LAN card. It is a speedy old bugger though, Grandad only used it for his accounts and emails back in the day and was using it up until he died as a standalone accounts machine (no internet).
Intel Pentium 3 - 550Mhz
384 MB SDRAM (PC100 I think)
10GB Quantum Fireball Hard Drive
16MB Voodoo3 3000 AGP Graphics Card
Soundblaster PCI 128D
10/100 LAN Card
Windows 98SE
and it's a Gateway...
Currently planning on removing the 56K Modem it has and popping in a flash card at the back as a second hard drive for easy transfer. Any suggestions on other things I should do with this awesome old computer?
I remembered upgrading the RAM and sticking the LAN card in a few years ago with old parts from our family computer which had been upgraded, however the Voodoo3 was a big surprise, having said that though we used to have a Voodoo3 in our Celeron 400 so it probably originally came from there and I just forgot I put that in with the RAM and LAN card. It is a speedy old bugger though, Grandad only used it for his accounts and emails back in the day and was using it up until he died as a standalone accounts machine (no internet).
no no no 
3dfx for ever!
