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I know that in the late 90's myself and a friend were really into computers- not top of the line stuff, but mid 80's early 90's stuff that was hitting the market cheap cheap cheap as people had loaded them up with junk software and getting rid of them in lieu of the faster, cheaper stuff that was coming out.
At any one point my basement had anywheres from 10-12 partially disassembled machines, none with any real purpose. I ended up collecting a lot of those crap HP's and compaqs that debuted in the late 90's with 300-500mhz pentiums- everyone had one of those computers, WalMart- $1000, it was yours. And then after installing bloatware and bloatware they would take 30 minutes to boot and people were literally giving us these machines after a while.
Now it's not so fun anymore. You can get a nice, slim, top of the line laptop for $400. There's no scrounging and swapping parts, no real DIY deal anymore.
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