Very old computer working?

[pike]

i was once a cyrix fan

 

[Alyarbank]

I still have a few M-II's in service here, old PackardBell's 😳

 

[dasickninja]

i just opened a case from the trash last night and low and behold...a p-90 socket 5 inside..a cd drive...sound and video onboard and a 540 hd and a 3com network card

i beleive i will overclock it to 120 and sell it...i may need to add a fan to the heatsink

Dear God in heaven, I knew it would eventually come back to this. [/horror] :lol:
I've got a Pentium 2 and a Pentium Pro. Thats as old as it gets.

 

[pike]

*wonder*

 

[Zorak]

You know, seeing this thread (regardless of how absurd it is) makes me marvel at just how far technology has come since that old pentium was top of the line. Even now, some of the latest graphics cards have more ram on them than both the hard drive and the system memory put together from the computer that originally spawned this thread, not to mention that just the gpu alone is on the order of 10x faster than that system's cpu.

Bearing that in mind, it makes me wonder just how much more powerful future systems will be so that 10 or 15 years down the road, we will look at the new Core Duo/ Quadro machines and laugh.

By the way, this is officially the longest running thread built on absurdity that I've ever seen.

-Zorak

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

very much so

@Comptia
The object being burned has enough energy to keep the process going, kind of like a chain reaction (aka buring fuel). The gasses being release (in most cases, such as wood) is really just plain old air, mixed with some of the object, like carbon (in wood) which is why you dont want to breathe it in.

Thanks for the clearification. What keeps the thermonuclear reaction that happens in the sun from, say expanding to epic levels (the entire solar system). Is it simply just the force of gravity.


Because of gravity.

 

[vikris]

Is the credibility tied with the post count?

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

no. Sadly its not.


And the Sun will expand past the orbit of Earth when it dies. But that is a different question.

 

[vikris]

but 😀

 

[vikris]

but 😀

 

[dasickninja]

9 inch had a post count of over 1000 and look how many people would believe a word he'd say.
Any idiot can spout off whatevers on his mind.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

We will all die in 4.3 billion years. And the sun will be nothing more then a white dwarf.

I will have my own spaceship of course, which will be powered by a stick one lightyear accross, and have a brickwall attached to one end.

 

[dasickninja]

Mine's powered on improbability. What are you running?

 

[gm0n3y]

Good morning folks!

The oldest any of my PCs (that I still own) get is 2 P3 800s that I have acting as a side table in my apartment.

 

[branson]

can it be thought of as layers in photoshop? like light is one layer, heat is another layer, and the reactions another layer?

 

[dasickninja]

Such a sad state for once state of the art and powerful PC's. Relagated to holding coffee cups and giant Slurpees

 

[OldGoat]

i was once a cyrix fan

So was I, I had a Cyrix 166+, 384MB SIMM, 5GB & 1.2GB HDD, 16MB Matrox Millenium GPU, 16 bits sound card (I forget the company)

I still have a DX4-100 Pakard-Bell running DOS 6 and Win 3.11 (heh, baby)

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Dear GOD! Im only 22 and my computer storage house (aka garage) is filled with computers much older then yours, you panzies.


On my desk at work I have:

An unopened VLB 2mb videocard
A computer stick (joystick) for a 386, it has 24 programmable buttons.
Unopened software for windows 3.1.

At my house, I have 15 or more computeres older then the p133's. Plenty of 386's and 486's. I have a few cyrix processors, and a few of the old chip speed doublers for the 486's.

I have a 20mhz laptop running windows 2.0. I still use it to program C++.
An old 28 inch RGB computer monitor (rgb input, not VGA).
I have countless external serial modems under 28.8bps. And a basket full of old simm memory.

 

[gm0n3y]

I have a 200 (I think) baud modem. You actually have to take the phone receiver and put it onto the modem for it to work.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

HEHE I was what? 5 when those were around?

 

[gm0n3y]

I have also owned many old computers (commodore 64, macs, p1 166, etc). I just have the good sense to toss them (or at least give them away). I am actually giving one of my p3s (that I stole from work) to one of my friends (once I get a new side table).

Oh yeah, and slurpees are awesome (2nd best beverage after beer).

 

[gm0n3y]

HEHE I was what? 5 when those were around?

It wasn't my modem, I took it from my parents cause I thought it was hilarious. I am actually the same age as you.

 

[Zorak]

who here still has any hardware that is older than commodore 64? I still have one of those as well as a VIC 20 (I think I must have been about 4 years old when I used to play on those machines). I think there may even be an old style tape drive in my garage somewhere, and when I say old style, I mean the kind that used audio tapes to record data as noise 😀

-Zorak

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Ah I thought u were saying you were 40 or something. Anyway, I have owned every type of computer since the 8088s. Started selling computers when I was 8. Sold my first computer, which was a 486 with windows 3.1 on it. It has 16mb of ram and a sound blaster 16 card. The week after I sold it, (to a friends dad), it got the first peice of spyware that i remember. It turned all the title bars into Porn advertising... NO JOKE. It wasnt that funny then, but sure funny now. I sold it for enough money to buy a brand new pentium 100 computer with a 800mb hdd. And sold that one for enough money to buy a newer computer.

So that 486 has payed for my current computer .

Note: oldest hardware I still have would be the old 320kb floppy drives, MS-DOS/ PC-DOS, and I thnk I still have a z80 chip somewhere. All from the same era as the c64.

BTW: I keep all the old stuff because I am always fixing pplz old computers. They will never upgrade lol.

 

[dasickninja]

I remember when we had to install Win 3.11 by floppy. We payed the same for my first computer as I've payed for my Rig.
Half the old computers that I have don't even need to run with the heatsinks they have.