Post #1550109
2026-04-09 08:21 UTC
Good drives and hilariously bad financial decisions
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@graf@poa.st 2026-04-09 08:23
Back then the only place in my home town was a city over at a military surplus hilariously enough. My parents bought us an IBM (at the time their canadian brand of the Aptiva was called Ambra) full black vcr pizza-box shaped desktop with a cyrix media GX processor in it. within a week or two of the warranty expiring the CPU died so we went out to the city to the surplus and they tested the CPU and then took it and a screw and screwed it to one of the joists near the test bench and said "you need a new CPU" and to this day it's still screwed to that joist. I remember that day like it was yesterday and I was like 8 or 9 at the time, Cyrix MediaGX 266