This old Intel Celeron processor was AMAZING

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People love to trash talk Intel's Celeron processor. But there was a time decades ago when it was even more desirable than the highest-end Pentiums.

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Many thanks to VWestlife for providing catalog scans used throughout this episode.
Asheville Computer Club case badges: https://geekenspiel.com/products/asheville-compute-club-lgr-fundraiser-case-badge-sticker-dome?_pos=1

"400MHz Pentium II PCs," PC Magazine, May 26, 1998.
AMD K6 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KL_AMD_K6_LittleFoot.jpg
Intel headquarters photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_HQ.jpg
"Intel unveils new Celeron chip," Daily Press, March 5, 1998.
"Intel's Celeron 266," PC World, May 1998.
"Intel christens cheaper chip to target lower-cost PCs," The Oregonian, March 5, 1998.
"Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs," PC Magazine, October 6, 1998.
Celeron 300A box photo: https://www.gdm.or.jp/crew/2015/1123/141643
Celeron 300A photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_Celeron_300A_MHz.jpg
Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentium_II_300_Deschutes_-_SL2W8_-_case_removed-4670.jpg
"Double Feature," PC World, October 1998.
"Crank it up," The Sydney Morning Herald, August 8, 1998.
"Overclocking: Intel Celeron 300A," Maximum PC, April 1999.
Overclocking the Celeron 300A: https://web.archive.org/web/20010413175015/http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q2/980514/celeron100-01.html
Celeron 300A at 500MHz: http://www.benchtest.com/504.html
Abit BH6 photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/gw3oiq/bought_this_abit_bh6_from_ebay_described_as/
Pentium III photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentium_III_-_SL3ND_-_Slot_1-8545.jpg
PC Magazine, March 23, 1999.
Intel headquarters aerial footage courtesy Intel.

00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - A wolf in sheep's clothing
02:33 - Let's build a computer
06:54 - Even in the future, nothing works
09:08 - It goes to eleven
11:10 - ...except it doesn't
12:36 - Number crunchers
13:25 - The price is right
14:14 - That Yamaha sound card plays passport.mid pretty well
15:43 - y u no go fast???
16:18 - A flash in the pan

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