Somewhat on topic, I retired my old Windows 95 machine almost exactly 2 years ago. It was a Fujitsu Siemens with these specs. * Pentium 200Mhz with MMX technology (all the rage backj in 1996 when I got it) * 32 MB EDO RAM * ATI Rage 3D video card * Sound Blaster Vibra 16X sound card * Speakers with good output but no way of adjusting the sound volume * Windows 95 OSR2 OEM It was marketed as one of the first multimedia PCs, which a cutting edge 3D graphics card. Well, I learned the hard way to never trust sales hype or prebuilt computer packages. First off, I had speakers that had no knobs for adjusting sound. This lead to extreme problems with some games that would automatically max all sound levels from the sound control panel when run ---> my ears were practically bleeding after that and I had to quickly unplug the speakers to avoid going permanently deaf. The computer originally had a 3GB hard drive that simply stopped working one morning. I got a new one under warranty but it was a 10GB drive becuse 3GB drives were no longer made. I also bough one of the first HP CD-Writer drives to help with my ever-increasing storage space problem. No buffers or anything fancy like that. Burning CDs was like playing russian roulette sometimes. Perhaps one of the biggest problems in that computer was that the cutting edge ATI Rage 3D wasn't so cutting edge after all. To be honest, it was a piece of crap, a complete travesty in terms of hardware and almost useless. I never got any 3D accelerated games to work with it (actually, save one, and even then the game had texture errors). I took it to the store and they said that the card had so little VRAM (1MB, and presumably there was some sort of an upgrade chip that would raise the VRAM to 2MB. Cutting edge my ass) that no 3D accelerated game would work with it. So I promptly ordered the folks at the store to go though all the available graphics cards (we're talking about Riva TNT 2, Voodoo 3 line of cards here) to replace the ATI. None of them worked. It seems that my computer had such a strange hardware setup, not to mention a weird dislike for any DirectX above DirectX5 that the upgrades were impossible to do on any level. So everytime a games would update DirectX without asking me, I ended up formatting my whole drive and reinstalling everything. As a desperate last option, I bought an old Voodoo 1 card from a friend of mine (one of the first 3D graphics accelerator cards on the market ever) and it worked. Yeah, Glide and early DX5 implementations of Direct3D were my only rendering options. Later I installed Windows 98 to solve some new hardware conflicts. The computer now sits unused in the adjacent room, and I'm not sure what to do with it. [/end rant]