Sweet memories
Still wish I hadn't taken that computer apart (and never put back together) in my never ending quest to quench my curiosity
That's interesting, because 286s and 386s normally didn't even have heatsinks. Did they wire the turbo button to the fan of the PSU?
IIRC, heatsinks were showing up on low-frequency 486s and heat sinks with fans on 486s >= 50MHz. I think (but may misremember) that most 486 fans were also always running at the same speed.
(Not contesting your statement, just wondering what weird beast your first PC was ;).)
The minimum requirement of Windows 95 was an 80386, though it was unbearably slow (tried to run it on an 386SX25 or 386DX40). It was usable on a 486 with 8GB of memory.
On the one hand, yea I guess I did learn some things from it, but on the other hand I went on to become a software developer not an electrical engineer, so how much did I really learn from it? Wouldn't it have been better off keeping it for the future... Some of my peers have some really cool old hardware that they used to do whatever on and I'm kind of envious of that :)