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Raise your hand if you bought an "upgradable" mother board in the 286 and 386 days.... Do you still have it? I have a computer that still uses some of the same
by drakaal 13y ago
Raise your hand if you bought an "upgradable" mother board in the 286 and 386 days.... Do you still have it?
I have a computer that still uses some of the same screws that my 486 used. For a long time I kept the original hard disk spinning even though I didn't store stuff on it... But when IDE connectors went away I stopped bothering with keeping it for nostalgia.
Even my case is no longer compatible, the power supply stopped being compatible long ago.
Some of this is "advancements" some of it is just that manufactures want to sell you new stuff.
Houses are about the only thing that are modular and you can say you will only need to buy one... The house I grew up in is nearly 200 years old. So far it hasn't needed to be replaced to do incompatibility.