The mini-boxes are kind of expensive for what you're getting, but might be worth it for some people. They are physically pretty small, which is nice, but don't have built-in peripherals like floppy drives, serial/parallel ports, CD-ROMs, or slots to plug things in. The I/O they do have is probably suitable for most people, particularly if the main interest is games.
I still have an old tower computer (350 MHz AMD K6-2 CPU) which is roughly the same vintage/speed as the mini-boxes, but it does take up a LOT more space than a mini-box would. But mine has floppies (both 5-1/4 and 3-1/2), serial and parallel ports, two CD's (one read-only and one read-write), USB ports, and also some empty ISA and PCI slots for additional expansion (though both ISA and PCI cards are hard to find these days). I don't turn it on very often (it doesn't even have its own monitor), but last time I tried it still worked. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
