On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 10:45 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 04:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > Depends on your CPU needs, but if you're willing to settle for P2/P3 > era, > > anything using the Intel i440BX or GX generally has very good ISA > support. > > Well, to be honest, I don't have any real need beyond enough to run the > OS, a basic editor (preferably something more user friendly than > ed(lin)) and run a networking stack. > > I /might/ consider playing some old DOS / Windows 3x / Windows 9x based > games, nothing fancy. (Yoda Stories is the most likely candidate.) > > > If you want to go earlier than that (90s covers a lot of ground), a 486 > > or P1 or SS7 board might also be a possibility. > > Ya. > > I'm thinking more in the P I / II / III range. > > I think I'd rather have a NeXT if I had an unlimited budget and it was say 1993, but that's also when Pentiums came out and changed everything. I have set aside a few intel machines from the 90's. I really like the quality of the Dell Dimension 466V. Bill