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I picked up an old computer at a garage sale. I grab'em if the price is right. You can always use the CD-ROM, floppy, or if you're lucky it will have a "usable" HDD or even some RAM.

This was an old 450Mhz PIII slot 1.. (remeber those ? )..128MB of PC133. I think it was high-end computer in it's day, cause it has an AGP slot and a pretty decent (prob 32MB) V-card.

Anyway,, my point is :   I cleaned up the HDD, put Win98 on it..and with AI turned off and all the scenery at default.. it runs FS2002 pretty darn well. I was surprised.

It kinda squelched my urge to built a 3Ghz P4 super computer, cause it reminded me that what I run now (AMD XP2600, 1GB RAM, 128MB V-card), is still pretty darn good  ;)

I guess it's all relative.

Now.. go check those garage sales.. ya never know what you'll find.

garage sales are not very popular here in germany ,but hey,a nice machine. would be ideal for my parents (K6/2 333,96megs,4mb vid card).

This was an old 450Mhz PIII slot 1.. (remeber those ? )..128MB of PC133. I think it was high-end computer in it's day, cause it has an AGP slot and a pretty decent (prob 32MB) V-card.

Lol I remember when my brother got his first Computer I went to my friends houses bragging about it.

It was a P3 450MHZ
128mb ram pc 133
13.0gig HD
Diamond Viper 550 video card 16mb(nvidia riva TNT chipset)
Diamond Monster Sound
Windows 98

i brag about my comp i just built  ;D

Ahtlon XP 3000+
GeForce 4 Ti4800 128 MB (Should have gotten the radeon but i like the Ti4800 very nice)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platnium
Currently 512 Ram goin to put that RAM on my old comp and i am going to buy 3 Gigs of DDR ram  ;D

and thats all the good stuff