I don't miss those days at all. I chose to build a fairly expensive setup ~10 years ago that is now completely obsolete. I'd have to build a 32-bit Windows XP machine to get it to even work. It got replaced by maybe $400 in USB devices and they'll power up on any computer I plug it into.
Yeah - the future's pretty awesome. I can run a three-camera live studio with six microphones off a laptop these days (for Internet streaming; higher quality obviously requires a little more work).
