Retro PC: Quirky Compaq Presario 2200 from 1997!

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This silly machine is the longest-standing member of my collection - I acquired it in November of 2010 (which you can see in an old video I also uploaded here). This thing has a Cyrix MediaGXi CPU (which is borderline SoC territory) that runs at 180MHz, has 80MB of RAM, and a really unusual built-in sound system! (A resonance chamber in a desktop PC? Really?!) Then, to top it all off? Trying to install Windows 98 onto this thing is VERY funny. It's definitely no ordinary 90s PC (and is definitely different from the later Compaq Presario 2200 laptop from the early 2000s).

00:00 Intro 00:54 Personal History 04:18 External Hardware Overview 06:27 Internal Hardware Overview 14:36 APM Rambling 16:16 Obscenely Long Windows 98 Install Rambling 26:46 Disassembly, CD Player Functionality 29:46 Startup, Software

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