I have recently received a 1994 Packard Bell 486DX2-66 computer. It has a Matsushita motherboard which is the biggest reason I like it. I am a huge sucker for stuff that's Made in Japan, and I've never seen a Panasonic motherboard before.
Anyways....
We might be moving into a house soon and I thought it would be badass to load Windows 95 on this thing and throw it in the garage for mp3 duty. However, I have done some research and anything pre-Pentium struggles with mp3s due to floating-point performance (or the lack of it).
It pains me to throw such a sick-ass computer away but there is honestly no use for this thing. DOS games are cool if you grew up with them I guess. I grew up with MacOS 7-era games so there's not much nostalgic appeal in DOS games for me.
Should I keep this thing around just for shits and gigs or should I toss it? It's not often you come across badass 486 machines.
I used to have a badass 90mhz Pentium DEC tower back in middle school that I threw away. I regret getting rid of it, which is why I'm torn about what to do with this 486. These old computers are just too cool. I wouldn't think twice about throwing out a shitty Pentium 4 machine.
Anyways....
We might be moving into a house soon and I thought it would be badass to load Windows 95 on this thing and throw it in the garage for mp3 duty. However, I have done some research and anything pre-Pentium struggles with mp3s due to floating-point performance (or the lack of it).
It pains me to throw such a sick-ass computer away but there is honestly no use for this thing. DOS games are cool if you grew up with them I guess. I grew up with MacOS 7-era games so there's not much nostalgic appeal in DOS games for me.
Should I keep this thing around just for shits and gigs or should I toss it? It's not often you come across badass 486 machines.
I used to have a badass 90mhz Pentium DEC tower back in middle school that I threw away. I regret getting rid of it, which is why I'm torn about what to do with this 486. These old computers are just too cool. I wouldn't think twice about throwing out a shitty Pentium 4 machine.
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