People love to trash talk Intel's Celeron processor. But there was a time decades ago when it was even more desirable than the highestend 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/ashe...

"400MHz Pentium II PCs," PC Magazine, May 26, 1998.
AMD K6 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Intel headquarters photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Intel unveils new Celeron chip," Daily Press, March 5, 1998.
"Intel's Celeron 266," PC World, May 1998.
"Intel christens cheaper chip to target lowercost 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/...
Celeron 300A photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"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/200104131...
Celeron 300A at 500MHz: http://www.benchtest.com/504.html
Abit BH6 photo:   / bought_this_abit_bh6_from_ebay_described_as  
Pentium III photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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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