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During that time the tech moved so fast it was worthless to try to upgrade existing hardware. By the time you wanted to upgrade almost everything had changed. N
by spookthesunset 4y ago
During that time the tech moved so fast it was worthless to try to upgrade existing hardware. By the time you wanted to upgrade almost everything had changed. New CPU socket, new memory, new/faster peripheral bus, etc.
About all you could keep between builds was the case, the monitor, the keyboard/mouse and maybe the power supply and soundcard.
It was almost always more cost effective to buy a new, much larger drive…
- thriftwy 4y agoMice also went from COM to PS/2 to USB, though ball mouse tended to break down earlier than it became obsolete. DIN keyboards probably still work, though. No Win key.
- ridgered4 4y agoMan ball mice sucked, it seemed like I was always cleaning the rollers. I generally am an early adopter of nothing but I rushed out to buy that first Microsoft Optical mouse. I was still using it on a secondary machine until a couple years ago when it finally died.