The Boring Beige Box podcast talks about collecting of the boring beige boxes. Yes, the computers that are sitting in your garage which you used to play King's Quest on.

Matt Wilson grew up in an era of boring beige boxes. They were the Compaqs, Dells, IBM PS/1s, Gateway 2000, Acer, AST, and so many more. You could custom build them or order them pre-built. There were enormous magazines like Computer Shopper that had hundreds of vendors selling their wares. It was a lot to choose from!

Matt Wilson did a lot with his boring beige box back in the day. He played all the classic Sierra and LucasArts games and hacked away at autoexec.bat and config.sys. He ran DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and finally Windows 95. He got "online" with The Sierra Network, Prodigy, CompuServe, and America Online. He even dialed up to BBS and got that dreaded $500 phone bill. He used Grolier's Encyclopedia on the new fangled CD-ROM. MPC standards and multimedia were all the rage. The Internet came about and everyone was using Netscape 1.1N. He remembers connecting with AOL and then running Netscape just to get on the Information Superhighway!

These were the days of the boring beige box. Times have changed. Now you just buy a Dell and hook it up to your blazing fast DSL or cable modem. The emergence of case modding has made things more fun and interesting. The Boring Beige Box podcast will make you think back to a simpler time, when you were exploring the new world of computing.

Distribution

There is only one format that show is available in and that is MP3. The first 3 shows where encoded at 32kbit/s while all the newer shows are encoded at 64kbit/s. The files are all distributed via libsyn.

This show is Apple's iTunes podcast directory.

External link

Boring Beige Box official site

Boring Beige Box Forums

Matt Wilson's Blog