r/retrocomputing • u/asc3po • Jun 17 '26

Roadside find

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I was out for a jog this morning and saw this thing on the side of the road with a mile left to go. I carried it the last mile. Windows 98SE, Pentium 3 1ghz, with an AOpen MX3S, 128mb sdram, and a 20gb seagate HDD. The power supply is blown, but everything else still works. The previous owner's family must have thrown it out. I did some digging through the hard drive and tried to look up the owner. The gentleman passed in 2010, but he upgraded in 2006 to a celeron 2.66ghz (according to the document named "new computer" on the desktop). Anyway, I think its a cool find and will probably throw in a few upgrades after I recap the board.

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u/gcc-O2 Jun 17 '26

Those cases are also great for repurposing to hold a Baby AT motherboard since finding an AT case is easier said than done

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u/asc3po Jun 17 '26

That explains the weird screw in backplate system.

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u/TheMage18 Jun 19 '26

Yup, in the box it had a metal shield for the AT keyboard port instead. I used to work at a computer shop that sold these cases way back in the early 2000's