Holy crap have these types of blogs become rare from me lately. Anyhow, y'know how I have that little tidbit on my user page on posting a blog from a late 90's-era computer?

I kinda maybe sorta bumped it up a notch. I'll prolly post a blog from that system sometime else, but short to say, I've built a system using a mix of period-correct hardware from the late 90's and early 2000's. What can it do?

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And this time, it's actually running smooth enough that writing this blogpost doesn't place an awful amount of lag on the system!

Here's the end specs for anyone who may be interested:

• Motherboard: Asus P5A-B
• CPU: AMD K6-2 @ 450MHz
• 512 MB SDRAM
• GPU: Nvidia Geforce FX5500
• HDD: Quantum Bigfoot 19.2gb
• Sound Card: Sound Blaster AWE32
• Additional hardware: NEC 5-port USB 2.0 card
• PCI to PCMCIA adapter (for wifi and stuff)

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holy frick.