RetroB1977

I enjoyed Tapper on the C64. Anything AD&D Goldbox is fun for a few hours to kill. Maybe some Monster Munch?

Lazarian!

Really loved the Slot 1 form factor; had a dual P3/600 in it.  Great machine, but crappy motherboard (EPoX KP6-BS) build quality.  Also had an 8-way P2/233 in a dishwasher form factor at work that was specifically used for SMP testing.  That thing was a beast 

Too few pins for a modern CPU, and the extended traces add capacitance and induction issues. Also make a parallel bus for DDR at current speeds very tough, but a system-on-card with a shared PCI-e backplane might be viable.

I lived in the SF Bay Area where they were obviously oversold on their capacity. It was s--t. Maybe elsewhere it was OK. Pacific Bell was like my first tape of a dumb pipe with enough capacity. I remember AOL had a lot of problems with their networks back then.

No, it wasn't "ok" here.  It was good to great.  And I didn't hear or read stories like yours back then, either.  So, clearly, people didn't have a lot of problems with AOL where I lived.

I just meant OK in terms of it clearly being a legit service for you, not on a spectrum of 1 to 10 but sounds like it was a 8 to 10 for you which was cool. But in some areas it was a problem that made the news a lot. In some areas, their capacity was way oversold. I heard of people calling to cancel and being offered 2-3 months of free AOL to stay. Me I said, meh, goodbye to AOL. 2 months of that was enough punishment.