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by ralphc 1793 days ago
I do most of my collecting by being old and not throwing things away. From experience a good vintage computer to have is a 1999-2000 era Pentium III with Windows 98 on it. It's old enough to recognize 5.25" floppies in the bios, but also USB drives. Put Windows 98 on it and you can run old software from pure DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x. I've put a big enough hard disk in it to suck up all my files and software from my older machines and floppy disks.