You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

I have an old compaq I use as an experimental box for the os of the week =). It hasn't had a cd-rom drive in it until this past week (I install over the network). The machine had been running win2k ...