Gaming? Computing? Just setting up the hardware and having it sit there to be cool? What generation computer is your cutoff for being more than a neat piece of history to tinker with? I'm curious and often ask myself what I want out of old computers I set up. Mostly it's to enjoy the process of researching and setting them up, then having them look cool as they run.
486s actually seem quite useful to me for real computer. I recently set up something close, a 133 MHz Pentium, put a network card in it and a CompactFlash hard drive, and ran Windows 3.11. I was surprised that I was able to do normal computing tasks, like light web browsing, a very usable remote terminal, and lots of gaming.
486s actually seem quite useful to me for real computer. I recently set up something close, a 133 MHz Pentium, put a network card in it and a CompactFlash hard drive, and ran Windows 3.11. I was surprised that I was able to do normal computing tasks, like light web browsing, a very usable remote terminal, and lots of gaming.