Homebrew/home-assembly computing nostalgic sigh All those trips up and down the Valley, like was a spread out Guangzhou JDR Microdevices, NCA Peripherals, Wier

Homebrew/home-assembly computing nostalgic sigh All those trips up and down the Valley, like was a spread out Guangzhou JDR Microdevices, NCA Peripherals, WierdStuff, Central Computers, MicroCenter, Halted, Egghead, mom&pop shareware and even the "evil" Fry's and CompUSA. IIRC I spend somewhere on the order of $5k on basically a homebuilt workstation... Adaptec U2W, IBM Ultrastar whopping 9 GB drive, Plextor CD burner, PC Power & Coolng PSU, GUS and a Courier modem. IIRC i got tired of hearing the 7000 RPM fan droning like a 1U server and made a fanless water-cooling setup with an RV heater core and CPU cooling block. Oh and UPSes since 1986.. south San Jose had frequent power outages. IIRc we had back issues of PC Magazines for at least the previous year. I had C++ PJ and DDJ.