In a 2019 Ars Technica documentary video, Meier said he’d saved two of the Compaq Deskpro 386 computers, but one of them exploded when he tried to boot it up due to the dust in the power supply.

Lol that sucks. “Hey look guys! I found my old PC, let’s power it on” BOOM “Well… shit.”

That’s about $32k in today’s money, using the “Other goods and services” category at in2013dollars.com.

That’s pretty cool. Where I work, there’s a computer museum and all of our stuff boots up and we have gotten them to load stuff but it’s a chore. We have an Apple Lisa but it’s a stupid thing. It’s best feature is the happy mac boot image and ding. Otherwise it’s useless.