Last payday I bought some parts to get started. I bought the Video card, Sound card and IDE to Compact flash adapter. A co-worker gave me a old school case that has a floppy drive and a couple of IDE CD-ROM drives.
Well, Payday is here again and I ordered the CPU, Ribbon cables and ATX to AT adapter.
I was lucky and found someone selling a lot that had floppy 34pin and IDE 40pin cables for 15 bucks. If I was going to buy them separately it would of been around 30 bucks. I got the CPU for 30 bucks and the power supply adapter was 10 bucks.
I’m keeping my eyes open for a good deal on a 1GB or 4GB compact flash card. Next payday I’ll get the motherboard and then get the RAM last. I don’t want to order the RAM at the moment because for all I know the mother board might want 16MB SIMMs rather then 32MB SIMMs.
I also need to get a USB floppy drive for my main PC and buy some floppy disks. I would like to skip the floppy drive altogether and get one of those GoTek floppy emulators but the case I have has the floppy disk drive molded into the case front. Floppydisk.com has a box of 10 for 12 bucks. I might go for the 50 recycled pack for 21 bucks. I’ve bought floppy disks from them before when I was fixing up the HP Analyzer a couple of years ago and the floppies worked great.