After building the mini-ITX PC, the obvious had happened: I had stopped using the main PC altogether, since just having the one install and configuration of Windows and all the games was just too convenient.
I decided I no longer needed the main PC, so I ended up selling the parts from it (excluding the drives and the PSU – more on that in a bit) to my friend. Despite being a friendly price, I ended up selling the RTX 3070 for 400 € more than what I paid for it new, thanks to the global GPU shortage.
Included in the trade was a semi-functional Dell prebuilt from the early 2010s. At the same time, my uncle (from who I had received the i386 PC earier), had made the long-overdue upgrade from a Windows Vista era prebuilt to a modern laptop due to the Vista prebuilt dying. Guess who got the freshly-dead Vista prebuilt? My uncle just wanted a copy of the data on the HDD, which I provided.
Both of these junk machines are depicted in the picture below. The upper one is the Dell, and the lower one is the Vista. The cause of death of the Vista PC turned out to be the PSU, so I temporarily put the Seasonic unit left over from the old main PC into it for messing about.
At the same time, I also got the CRT monitor that used to be connected to the i386 PC at my uncle's. Here's a picture from the Vista PC's BIOS displayed on this CRT monitor. Such specs!
Despite its age, the Vista PC ran the latest 32-bit Debian decently in my short testing.
This post was retroactively compiled on 2024-01-05 from photos in my photo library.