I spent part of the Easter long weekend looking at a beige PC tower from 1998 that had recently been donated at my Store.

It has 384MB of RAM, and would appear that the system was upgraded in 2001 to a Celeron 1GHz, most likely alongside an OS upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP.

I first gave it a good internal clean out, as it was very dusty! I then erased the two hard drives and installed Windows 98.

The experience of using something of this vintage is quite different to modern machines - beeps, noises of fans and drives accessing, flickering read lights, etc.

Even the idea of putting in a CD-ROM to reinstall an OS feels now like such an anachronism…

Now I just need to find and install all of the appropriate device drivers! :)

Currently listening: Vic^ - “The Hidden Gems of Atmospheric Drum and Bass”