ALL GLORY TO THE BUILDERS

Building your own PC in the early 1990s was different. My friend Matthew had a PC that was built almost entirely of all the standards and formats that the rest of the IT industry had decided to reject. He had an MFM hard drive. It used SCSI, but not just SCSI, an even weirder SCSI. I’m pretty sure it only had a SCART output for its non-VESA video subsystem. Also, remember (or ask an old if they remember) those 5.25-inch floppies that were of that particular density such that you could never use them in any other PC? Remember when you had to think of disk capacity in terms of density? As for that long-ago PC, Matt eventually blew it up... not because of dust or a faulty power supply, but because we spent a Saturdary morning scraping all the inflammable parts off 20 packets of sparklers, dumped that all into the PC using a funnel, and then dropped a lit matchbook in after it. Good times.