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DoomUK said:
EDIT: Except yours wouldn't even make a good barbeque because of that weird case design PCs used to have.
Well, he can do what he wants to the case as long as the contents are safe somewhere else ;-)
Now....the graphics are with all likelyhood some generic VGA implementation, especially if you see a VGA connector at the back (don't expect it to be blue, though, it will just be a black 3-row 15-pin D-sub connector). Don't expect SVGA or any exotic/unique features out of it. You'll be lucky if it even has the full 256K of VRAM a VGA can use.
For sound, and pretty much for any and all expansions, you'll need an ISA sound card. Stuff from 2000 will be PCI bus, which didn't even exist as a conceptual design when your computer was designed. An original Sound Blaster/AdLib or a decent clone will do. Don't bother with Gravis Ultrasound and the such, any games/software that will be able to make good use of it will be too demanding to even run on this bitty box.
Such old boxes are ideal if you are a sort of "combo" PC/electronics tinkerer as it allows you to experiment with you own DIY digital elecronics and direct probing of output ports even through QBasic. Making a parallel port DAC was a popular project at the time ;-)
Other uses would be turning it into a dedicated MOD player. Using a reasonably optimized player + a decent sound card, you could get some oldschool goodness out of it.
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