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i have an MAC machine powered by a 68030...but it runs only 30mhz...did the amiga have a copro...i should get 1 for the mac...could breath new life into it..lol

If i put my k6 in a Ferrari it would be faster than your your pentium 4 or Athlon XP :tongue:
 
Yes the expansion board that had my 50MHz 030 had a 68883 (or 2) FPU, I didn't notice any difference.

What really made a difference was that my 14.9MHz chip was a 68EC020 and had no MMU. My 030 had an MMU and I could then have a virtual memory swapfile!!

BTW my amiga during the years got a 240MB Hard Drive and 10MB RAM (the A1200 came with 2MB).

Windows XP Works on a K5 PR133 (100MHz) with 80MB RAM!!!!!!
 
My first PC was a custom built 486DX2/66MHz, 4MB RAM, 640MB HDD (Conner), don't remember the detail specs, at 1995; 2nd was a Pentium 133MHz which generally a revolution of my old 486DX2, also by that time I still far from a technie, so I only remembered beside the Intel CPU, I have a generic 4x CDROM drive and Sound Blaster 16, and 16MB RAM, at 1997; my third was Cyrix MII-333, 64MB RAM, Gainward mobo, Sound Blaster Live! Value, 48x Creative Infra CDROM drive, 3D Labs Permedia2, 6.4GB Quantum Fireball, at 1999; forth come the Pentium III 700MHz Coppermine on Epox CU133+, 384MB PC133 (3x128MB Hyundai, NEC, JetRAM), nVidia Vanta 16MB (upgraded to GeForce2 MX400 64MB), 10GB Quantum Fireball (upgraded to 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5), generic 52x CDROM (upgraded to Lite-On 52x), and this system is still running fine now as my secondary machine good from 2000; my fifth machine was a temparory rig which was a Duron 900MHz SpitFire at 2002, I moved all my parts to my old PIII system and sold this one; my current rig is AthlonXP 2600+ on A7N8X Deluxe, built at 2003.

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Mine was a 486 DX/2, not sure what company made it or anything. I dont even know how fast it was but i beileve I had 8 mb of ram and 512 kb for the video card. But the interesting thing is just recently I found an old computer in the trash (I like to trash pick :wink: .) I believe it is a 486 SX/2. Any one want to buy it? Still works, the hard drive was shot so i guess they thought it was time to upgrade.

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when i upgraded my 286-12mhz to 486-25 mhz i couldnt upgrade my ram. it was still 1mb .. i bought 4mb of ram then i realized it didnt fit my mobo cos it was a new tech. thing called EDO ram :)))))))))) isnt that funny .. the guy where i got the ram was telling me this is the memory of the future.. it will be used for ages.. bla bla bla.. i was so upset that i couldnt use the technology of the future .. 🙁( :))
 
6502 (I'm not sure but I think it ran at 1Mhz) in an AppleII+ back in 1978. Ended up with 5 various II+'s and IIE's collecting dust by 1983. 😉

First PC was a 286 something which I don't even remember well.

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Life Sucks! Then You DIE!!!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by LaughnCynic on 08/10/03 10:08 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
My first new computer was a 60mgz Pentium. It really kicked ass over my friends 486sx. It had a 540MB HD and I think 8Megs of ram. It had an s3 trio Vid card with 1 meg of ram. I remember spending bookoo bucks upgrading the ram to 16 megs. Not too long after I got this comp. Q1 came out and my P60 wasn't going to cut it. I think this was back in 1995. I didn't know anything about computers back then. It was a good time to learn because my comp came with win 3.1. So I had to learn a little about DOS. Remember modem init strings and boot disks? Weve come a long way.
 
i still have a dos 3.3 boot disk...it can only recognise a max of 200 some MB for the primary partition and like 5mb for each logical drive...

Even comparing dos 3.3 to dos 6.2 i can say that computers have come a very long way!

It is on a half density floppy by the way...

If i put my k6 in a Ferrari it would be faster than your your pentium 4 or Athlon XP :tongue:
 
My computer was an IBM 386 with 25mhz 50mb harddrive 16mb of memory. got it from priceclub

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65C02, 0.00179 Ghz (1.79 Mhz LOL!), in an Atari 800. I think the year was 1979 or 1980. Just 16 KB of memory, no peripherals, $750.


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My first computer was an IBM 386, I used it for simcity 1 (I think it was before the upgrade). It also had a modem and my dad used it to connect to compuserve and another network whose name I don't remember, anyway, that was pretty cool back then.

I had a much better usertitle but was caught trying to hack me a better one so I got my current title as a punishment
 
The first PC the family ever had was a BBC micro, and it contained a RISC type cpu running at a beefy ~1.4Mhz. 32k ram rounded out the platform.

The first CPU i owned was an original P1 - 166Mhz with 32Mb of EDO ram. And yes it cost a fortune.

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my friend had a xt runing at 4.77mhz .. mine was so fast compared to his computer. mine was 12Mhz .. and i had high density floppies .. both 3,5" and 5,25" i used to love 5,25" but u had to be really carefull with em .. :)) god when u think about it ... my friend he could only save 360k on a floppy on the double sided double density ones.. i still have one single sided single density 5.25 floopy which is 160kb :))
 
mwooo haa haa. such speeeeed.
the BBC micro was acutally quite an advanced system for its time.

1Mhz risc chip, 32k ram (only 16k usable, other 16k was OS) 1 5.25" floppy holding a whopping 180k and 4 channel sound!

When i finally got a PC it came with awesome MCGA graphics, capable of 320x200 and 256 colour.


<b>Regards,
Mr no integrity coward.</b>
 
4 channel sound .. wow i had no sound at all.. i bought my first soundblaster pro compatibe card for 190usd :)) it was huge like one of those voodoo 5 6000 cards... :)))
 
Commodore 128.. I was pretty young back then but I remember playing tons of games on it.. the seemed so good and I remember comparing our first PC we got later to the Commodore and thinking how bad the PC is at gaming. Especially the difference in sound quality.. and the C128 had 2 built in gamepad ports on the side of the keyboard.. how long did the PC take to make a decent looking gamepad port (USB) that was put on the front of PCs?
The gfx took quite a while to catchup also.

My first PC was a 286, dont remember the specs but had a phoenix mouse that I wore out playing Quest for Glory (Heroes Quest was the name of the game at the time) and KQ3/Space Quest 1.

The rise of all computers in the 80s was a wonderful thing to experience.. I'm greatful I'm barely old enough to remember it.

Commodore had a GUI (Geos) how long did that take Wintel? Another 5 years at least to catch on. Its good to see that Intel is no longer stiffling progress in the PC realm anymore with AMD around.
After the Commodore went thru the 286/386/486, then I bought my own system completely on my own which was a P133. Of course I'm alot older at that point.
Then I grew up and went AMD with my Tbird 700.

As far as year I'm sure we had the Commodore circa '86.

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i remembered in 1993, still using a 286 intel processor. And the classic games of dos, oh men i missed that computer, cause it cost me over a thousand dollars, and the experience.

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yeah well considering the BBC was around the time of the apple 2, 4 channel sound was YEARS ahead of anything else... and it was MANY years before PC's got decent sound in the form of soundblaster or before that, adlib.

We even had a "speech" program on the BBC. type stuff in and it would say it stephen hawking style. primative, but fun!
not bad for a 32k machine.

<b>Regards,
Mr no integrity coward.</b>
 
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