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Nov 2 09 3:35 PM

Heh, pc's and pc games are also in my hobby list (for the winter months mostly now). I still have the first one I ever reassembled, an IBM pc xt (whoa, the SPEED BABY ) complete with its Hercules graphics card and 2 (thats right, not 1 but TWO baby) 5 1/4" floppy drives ! AND a 900 baud modem (after market, of course) and a real life RGB monitor ! You say you have 32 million colors? Well I have 8 bit graphics BABY oh YEAHHHHHH !

The only pc I didn't assemble for myself I also still have, a 1988 Macintosh Plus, in all its glory with 2 whole megs of ram and full black and white monitor BUILT IN ! YES!! A TRULY portable full desktop pc with graphics glory in 9 whole inches of screen real-estate !! And a truly advanced 3 1/2" floppy drive for more storage than the IBM had on BOTH of its floppy drives PUT TOGETHER !!!

And they still work !! I've had a lot of systems over the years, but those two really are my favorites and have stayed with me despite constant pleas of mercy to get rid of them by my wife so she can claim some of the wall space back. I just look her DEAD IN THE Eye and say " hey, they are good for parts if I ever need em..."

If a little knowledge is dangerous, I'm probably lethal on a GLOBAL scale !