Hello! My name is Joe and I'm a PC enthusiast... this kind of feels like an AA meeting. 
I love tinkering with and playing games on old PCs. In recent years I've gotten into vintage computers (I own an IBM 5150), but prior to that my experience with PCs goes back to the early 90s. I consider the mid 1990s to early 2000s to be the golden era of PC hardware, with the rise and fall of 3dfx, the huge year-on-year advances in processing power (the Ghz race!), and the amazing variation in the PC sound card industry throughout that time (Sound Blaster, FM synth, Midi, A3D, nvidia Soundstorm, etc.).
I have an interest in other areas of computing and vintage gaming, but I don't really have the resources, space or time to get into them. I used to play on an Atari 8bit computer as a kid (likely a 130XE) and LOVED it, and my family had a Commodore VIC20 and a Tandy 1000HX when I was young too. I got my feet wet with those, enjoyed every minute that I got to play with my brother's Packard Bell 66Mhz system, then his later Cyrix 133 (upgraded to a P200 MMX) until I finally got my first computer in 1999, a Gateway G6-400 with a 400Mhz PII... and that system is still under my desk (not my main rig any more though!). The rest is history.
Anyway, I hope to be a somewhat useful part of the community and I also have quite a collection of hardware that I'm certain that I'll never fully make use of, so I am here to sell items I don't immediately see myself using. I'm not an engineer or a programmer or a network admin so I'm not rolling in scads of "IT career" money like a lot of computer enthusiasts are, but I pick things up cheaply where I can, and I try to save things from gold scrappers when possible. I would like to get into the habit of repairing and reselling items to get them back into the hands of people who can use them and to be able to fund my future PC endeavors. Right now I just kind of horde them.
I have developed a whole new appreciation for the hobby in recent years because my 3 1/2 year old daughter seems to love computers the way I did from an early age. She has played and beaten Mixed Up Mother Goose (the original EGA version) on my IBM 5150 using a vintage Kraft joystick from the 80s... and that makes me happy.
I love tinkering with and playing games on old PCs. In recent years I've gotten into vintage computers (I own an IBM 5150), but prior to that my experience with PCs goes back to the early 90s. I consider the mid 1990s to early 2000s to be the golden era of PC hardware, with the rise and fall of 3dfx, the huge year-on-year advances in processing power (the Ghz race!), and the amazing variation in the PC sound card industry throughout that time (Sound Blaster, FM synth, Midi, A3D, nvidia Soundstorm, etc.).
I have an interest in other areas of computing and vintage gaming, but I don't really have the resources, space or time to get into them. I used to play on an Atari 8bit computer as a kid (likely a 130XE) and LOVED it, and my family had a Commodore VIC20 and a Tandy 1000HX when I was young too. I got my feet wet with those, enjoyed every minute that I got to play with my brother's Packard Bell 66Mhz system, then his later Cyrix 133 (upgraded to a P200 MMX) until I finally got my first computer in 1999, a Gateway G6-400 with a 400Mhz PII... and that system is still under my desk (not my main rig any more though!). The rest is history.
Anyway, I hope to be a somewhat useful part of the community and I also have quite a collection of hardware that I'm certain that I'll never fully make use of, so I am here to sell items I don't immediately see myself using. I'm not an engineer or a programmer or a network admin so I'm not rolling in scads of "IT career" money like a lot of computer enthusiasts are, but I pick things up cheaply where I can, and I try to save things from gold scrappers when possible. I would like to get into the habit of repairing and reselling items to get them back into the hands of people who can use them and to be able to fund my future PC endeavors. Right now I just kind of horde them.
I have developed a whole new appreciation for the hobby in recent years because my 3 1/2 year old daughter seems to love computers the way I did from an early age. She has played and beaten Mixed Up Mother Goose (the original EGA version) on my IBM 5150 using a vintage Kraft joystick from the 80s... and that makes me happy.
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