PC gaming was hard in the 90s

[PsychoFish]

I have an IDE interface HDD of 80GBs, I think. If I can get a SATA to IDE converter cable, I can use it; an extra 70+ GBs is worth it, if I can get the cable.

It's not worth it, you'll find the drive ridiculously slow and it will just frustrate you.

[Hagan]

It's not worth it, you'll find the drive ridiculously slow and it will just frustrate you.

True. I can't sell it either or I can -- but I get very little for it...

[PsychoFish]

True. I can't sell it either or I can -- but I get very little for it...

Get creative with it

[Hagan]

Get creative with it

Someone may have need of it in future. Will give it to my Dad next time I see him and am able to. I'm sure his motherboard still has an IDE socket.

[PsychoFish]

I just end up doing this to all hard drives I no longer use



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Because I worry about my data and what people can actually recover off an old disk

[Hagan]

I just end up doing this to all hard drives I no longer use



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Because I worry about my data and what people can actually recover off an old disk

Great. Hardware snuff.
I feel bad for that HDD.

[Jan]

I used a Siemens ball mouse many years ago and it was a good mouse. Its tracking was quite remarkable for a ball mouse.

When we discovered the Genius Netscroll+ there was no other mouse worth owning.

Does anyone remember how horrendous these mice were? You had to take the ball out every few months to clean it up and then it still wasn't a guarantee that it wouldn't randomly jerk around.

I still remembering getting my first optical mouse. I was so excited.

A friend of mine insisted he got better accuracy on his old ball mouse, so he resisted switching for a long time. Do you remember your mouse cursor jumping around all over the place with early optical mice?

And even back then people were claiming PC gaming was dead.

I remember that only starting to happen at the turn of the century - around the time of the launch of the PS2, I believe.

and...remember when graphics cards were PCI and not PCIe?

And ISA before that

And AGP in-between PCI and PCIe!

[to0kenZA]

Hmm, I remember overclocking my 166 with the jumpers on the motherboard...lol. Also remember trying to install Warcraft on a 486 when I was a keed, not really understanding that "my" PC didn't at all meet the required specs to even run the game xD.

[Blazzok]

I remember using Works way back when before Word.

We got a Pentium1 166MHz PC somewhere in 1999 (due to Y2K bug shenanigans). My mom was doing accounting at the time and we still had a 286 before the upgrade.
Somehow we got a hold of the Diablo1 demo; you could play the first 3 levels, but over and over. So you would reset at level3 to start at level1 again with all the gear and money you have acquired. I played that demo into oblivion :3
I can still hear the Windows95 startup sound.

[blaaislaai]

I can still hear the Windows95 startup sound.

Just heard it after reading that text!