In 1999, my dad bought a surplus PC from an office move. A pentium 166, 24 MB RAM, 15" CRT, and eventually updated to Windows 98. The new CDROM drive broke a fe

In 1999, my dad bought a surplus PC from an office move. A pentium 166, 24 MB RAM, 15" CRT, and eventually updated to Windows 98. The new CDROM drive broke a few days after, and it took months for the neighbor to get a replacement from whatever flaky family member he got it from. In 1999, a useful PC had to have a CDROM drive, so having it out for months felt like forever. We could have gone to Best Buy or something to get another, but my parents were (and still are) such cheapskates. The thing stopped booting in 2001, replaced by a 1.2GHz duron with Win 2000. About 8 years ago, I built a retro PC. I targeted 2000, and got a P3 600, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2 GTS, 17" CRT, and Win 98. Ball mouse. I turn it on every few months to feel nostalgic. For some reason, I still had the same sound card from that 166 (some Yamaha XG card), so I put it in there, and it sounds so right!