What computers did you own in the old days? Share your story!

[arthura]

Heath/Zenith H-151 kit featuring the 5Mhz 8088, two "high capacity" 320K 5.25" floppy drives, 11MB HD, amber 320x225 mono display, all assembled from a kit costing $2400 (or about $5000 pre-assembled). This was a state-of-the-art system in 1983, one of the first 16-bit PCs. I also had a Daisywriter 2000 daisywheel letter-quality printer to go with it.

 

[king smp]

I love crazy mods
I just wired the 5v from a molex to my CPU fan
and disconnected the PWM so instead of running
between 1200RPM up to 2400rpm
it runs at a steady 2500rpm
actually not very loud and dropped all my temps

also did the BSEL pin mod
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/341123-intel-bsel-vid-mod-guide.html
to my E4500 to OC it from 2.2/800FSB to 2.93/1066
it is the only way to OC these crappy Dell towers


I had years of vocational AC/DC
and when I was a kid I had one of those 150 in 1 electronic project kits
I cant design my own circuits but I know my way around a soldering iron
and can read schematics

I remember the days when you wanted to run more memory
you would have to piggyback mem chips since they were embedded

 

[FALC0N]

I love crazy mods
I just wired the 5v from a molex to my CPU fan
and disconnected the PWM so instead of running
between 1200RPM up to 2400rpm
it runs at a steady 2500rpm
actually not very loud and dropped all my temps

Why did you do that? You know you could have done this with software. Just because you could?

 

[king smp]

Aah you see with a piece of crap Dell you CANT change
fan speeds with speedfan or other software
Only with "real" mobos that are not limited like the ones by Asus,MSI etc
can you do that
Dell uses a Foxconn board that is very limited
No OCing features,no fan control etc

 

[CharmingEdgar]

First PC i got in my house was a Compaq 'Work' desktop, featuring top of the range pentium 4 @2.8Ghz, 256mb of shared RAM, a DVD drive, a floppy drive, 80gb HDD and Intel 'Extreme' integrated graphics controller!

 

[clarkjd]

What could you do with Linux on a PS2 I wonder
It is not like you have a kbd or mouse
I cant see how a GUI worked with a PS2 controller with Linux
I have enough trouble using ubuntu 11.04 (dual booting with 7) LOL
I guess you could write code on PC then run on the PS2
You know if I find a cheap PS2 at a yard sale I have to try that out
Just for sheer curiousity

The Air Force used a bunch of PS2s clustered and running linux as a really cheap supercomputer. They were kind of ticked off when Sony removed support for "Other OS" from the PS2.

 

[dastardlyexpressions_24]

It was only recently that i got into pc gaming so for a while before i built my first comp i was trying to game on an inspiron 1525. IT FAILED AT TF2. TF2!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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