CPU's Revisited - A great article for you younger guys...

My First PC

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Edit: Specs: http://members.tripod.com/mastodonpc/personal/8580-a21.html
 
Is that one right there yours or u had one just like it?

Edit: My friend had one EXACTLY like that... trippy :) 'Twas a popular comp!
 
FragTek said:
Is that one right there yours or u had one just like it?

Edit: My friend had one EXACTLY like that... trippy :) 'Twas a popular comp!
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The pics are not of my one...but my one was EXACTLY the same. Including the dual hard disks and dual floppy drives.

My uncle *borrowed* it from the UK stock exchange ;)
 
XMS said:
The pics are not of my one...but my one was EXACTLY the same. Including the dual hard disks and dual floppy drives.

My uncle *borrowed* it from the UK stock exchange ;)
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LoLoLoL :D I love borrowing things! hehe

These were the first consumer dual proc comps on the market :D Oh so powerful! lol
 
FragTek said:
LoLoLoL :D I love borrowing things! hehe

These were the first consumer dual proc comps on the market :D Oh so powerful! lol
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^ This one wasn't. Its a 386 - all u could do was add a math co-proc i believe.
 
name='XMS' said:
^ This one wasn't. Its a 386 - all u could do was add a math co-proc i believe.
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Exactly... A math co-processor is exactly that, a second processor :) Yet it doesn't have the same instruction set as the main proc, it's still another proc :)
 
hey im 13 and my first pc was a 486 running @ 100mhz and had a hdd of about 800mb. and i had a floppy drive and an 8x cd drive.

altough about 4 months ago i found a very old laptop. which was 4mhz had about 128kb ram. i don't think it had any hdd and it had a 7 inch screen i think :D
 
balilu said:
hey im 13 and my first pc was a 486 running @ 100mhz and had a hdd of about 800mb. and i had a floppy drive and an 8x cd drive.

altough about 4 months ago i found a very old laptop. which was 4mhz had about 128kb ram. i don't think it had any hdd and it had a 7 inch screen i think :D
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That's a pimp ass laptop! :D U should see how much u could get for it on Ebay, I know there's some antique computer collectors on there that'd probably like to get there hands on it. Mono screen lappies are the shizzle.
 
my 1st pc was a 486sx 25 MHZ (but i got the 487 match proc)

2 hdds eqaliing to just over a GB and a full 8MB ram (win 95 really choked it)

least i had a sb16 / 2x speed cdrom .... watta pos glad its dead couldnt oven oc the crap (no fsb controls in bios)
 
name='kempez815' said:
Ahhh - I remember BBC's back in the day
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eww and their shitty as version of basic that was diff to every other basic . but did love pod (big tomato that u could explode aka 'pop')
 
i feel so young, my first comp was the family one and was a celeron 700mhz built by TINY. lmao. this comp is the first one i have built myself.
 
My first PC was a sinclair ZX spectrum which I had a word proc on!!

I think I used to use the Archimedes (Acorn) that my Mum used to bring home. And also I had a 386 running 3.1 (I upgraded to 3.11). I used to know all the DOS commands back then!! :D
 
The first computer I remember owning was a Commodore 128 and I don't remember it all that well, I was too young at the time.

The one I remember the most from back then was the one after the Commodore which was a Compaq Deskpro 386 w/ a 16mhz 80386 Intel proc :D

And then we upgraded again a year after that to an IBM PS/2 Model 80 (20 whoppin' Mhz) with OS/2 on it, that was a kick ass system :)

I remember we had that comp for quite some time and was the last one we owned before Intel released the 486 and that was a homebrew comp running DOS, can't remember who the maker was.

And of course last but not least of my old skewl computer ventures was my very first that I bought on my own. It was a Quantex w/ a 66mhz Pentium and a 2x CD-Rom drive loaded with Win 3.11. It only got better after that comp, I upgraded the hell out of it everytime something new became available for it. Anyone remember the Intel Overdrive procs? I bought a 133mhz Overdrive for that Quantex and it was like a whole new machine doubling the speed! hehe.
 
FragTek said:
The first computer I remember owning was a Commodore 128 and I don't remember it all that well, I was too young at the time.

The one I remember the most from back then was the one after the Commodore which was a Compaq Deskpro 386 w/ a 16mhz 80386 Intel proc :D

And then we upgraded again a year after that to an IBM PS/2 Model 80 (20 whoppin' Mhz) with OS/2 on it, that was a kick ass system :)

I remember we had that comp for quite some time and was the last one we owned before Intel released the 486 and that was a homebrew comp running DOS, can't remember who the maker was.

And of course last but not least of my old skewl computer ventures was my very first that I bought on my own. It was a Quantex w/ a 66mhz Pentium and a 2x CD-Rom drive loaded with Win 3.11. It only got better after that comp, I upgraded the hell out of it everytime something new became available for it. Anyone remember the Intel Overdrive procs? I bought a 133mhz Overdrive for that Quantex and it was like a whole new machine doubling the speed! hehe.
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Ahh the overdrive chips. Yup i sure remember those. I so badly wanted to get one for my machine at the time, but for some reason or other it wasn't compatable (cant remember now - soooo long ago)
 
name='XMS' said:
Ahh the overdrive chips. Yup i sure remember those. I so badly wanted to get one for my machine at the time, but for some reason or other it wasn't compatable (cant remember now - soooo long ago)
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The Overdrives were wierd... I forgot what it was but something else in ur comp limited which Overdrive u could get. I remember they had a 166mhz Overdrive and I couldn't get it because it wasn't compatible for one reason or another. I think it had to do with the chipset but they called it something else.
 
name='kempez815' said:
What about that cool "bananas" game on win 3.11? That r0cked! :D
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yea it was a basic file --- i have it lying round sumwer , as with nibbles (still have my dos 5.0 disks)
 
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