Free school PC rig
Posted by Parking_Constant_960@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 9 comments
So I picked this up from a school storage after they cleaned up a bit. This is a very very nice somehow working dusty piece of nicotine and hddless early 2000s. It came with a printer but the desk they gave me couldn’t hold it. Yes it is outdoors. Gotta do your bioses with the greens. Don’t worry I’ll move it indoors as soon as I get space for it.
PikwikHazel@reddit
A good wipe down will go a long way for this. If you want to upgrade it, I’d recommend grabbing a Pentium III
Parking_Constant_960@reddit (OP)
I don’t even know what’s inside, haven’t opened it yet.
PikwikHazel@reddit
According to the boot screen, there’s a 633mhz Celeron with 128mb of memory
Parking_Constant_960@reddit (OP)
Good catch, yeah that’s a okay machine I guess.
DrNick42@reddit
Yeah very nice for a Win98 rig. If you wanted the absolute best you could stick a P3 in there, but it's already pretty good - there honestly wasn't *that* much difference between the Celeron and a P3 of a similar clock-speed back then. Celeron's of that generation were actually fairly good.
qwikh1t@reddit
The super slow refresh on that monitor is messing up the pics
Parking_Constant_960@reddit (OP)
Better than dead. It’s a buggy monitor, makes small pops now and then. After running for a bit the pops stopped luckily.
leadedsolder@reddit
Could be as simple as some conductive dust having settled under the anode cap.
WingedGundark@reddit
Super slow? That VGA text mode is 70Hz, it isn’t slow. The effect ahown is because the camera shutter isn’t synced with the screen refresh rate combined with the raster scan that CRTs use to create the image.