Shuttle XS3510MA - my dream come true

Once upon a time, when the 286 procs were conquering, I bought a sound card for my first computer. There was no cheap fun and it was mono and there was no unfortunate game port on it, but sound came from the machine. Then, a few years later, there is one DellOn a 486 multimedia (you can imagine how very multimedia it was) I saw the first movie, which even on monitors at the time only appeared in stamp size, but surely Buzz Lightyear was running around the screen there.

Sometime around this time, the thought of how good it would be to watch movies on a machine next to a TV, or perhaps play on a much larger display than on monitors at the time, began to rave through my head.

Unfortunately, I still had to wait a bit for the first Really Multimedia Machine, but I never gave up on my plan to build a machine next to the TV. Sometime during the Pentium 2, I was able to buy my first VIVO video card. If anyone didn't know, VIVO stands for video input, video output, which means we could and could receive a video signal through these cards.

The only problem was that I just had enough money to put together a machine for myself, so this structure couldn’t be a real HTPC either, not least because that word might not even exist then. Regardless, I loved it, as I took the picture out to the TV in the other room with a good long string, and the sound filtered through as it could. I bought an external Panasonic tuner next to the machine that was the same size as a medium VHS VCR in both external dimensions and weight. Of course, this was not a problem, the point was that I could watch TV on the monitor and record programs. Needless to say, this was, to put it mildly, a rarity at home at the time, if only because there were far fewer computers than there are now.

Bottom line, in the end my dream came true and I became a real HTPC, which in my own ideas came together from a lot of hardware.