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Very close to mine. I recall it being a 286, not sure if it was 12Mhz though...I remember 8/16Mhz for some reason...but that may have been someone else's computer.
And that 40MB hard drive! OH JOY! It was phun. Really had some room for some killer philez on my BBS! And a 2400 Hayes modem. Don't recall the RAM, but a CGA video/monitor...
In fact, I can't remember for the life of me where that computer wound up. I would like to get those ANSI's off it and turn them into avatars...I made some good ones!
Good ol' DOS, ANSPAINT, WWIV, VBBS, and those crazy download protocols...
1991 I think was the year...paid $440 for it, from my Stepmom's brother, who told me it was a 386 w/VGA...I still hate him.
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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by siliconjon on 08/11/03 05:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
And that 40MB hard drive! OH JOY! It was phun. Really had some room for some killer philez on my BBS! And a 2400 Hayes modem. Don't recall the RAM, but a CGA video/monitor...
In fact, I can't remember for the life of me where that computer wound up. I would like to get those ANSI's off it and turn them into avatars...I made some good ones!
Good ol' DOS, ANSPAINT, WWIV, VBBS, and those crazy download protocols...
1991 I think was the year...paid $440 for it, from my Stepmom's brother, who told me it was a 386 w/VGA...I still hate him.
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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by siliconjon on 08/11/03 05:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
god yeah ... my friend had a 16 mhz of 286 
) a bit faster than mine .. our benchmark was typing "dir" command and watching how fast the list goes by .. ) and mine had a turbo button ) to slow down the computer to 8mhz ) so it would not run the older applications too too fast )))) the ones for 4.77mhz XT systems (note not XP, XT ehehhehe)
) a bit faster than mine .. our benchmark was typing "dir" command and watching how fast the list goes by .. ) and mine had a turbo button ) to slow down the computer to 8mhz ) so it would not run the older applications too too fast )))) the ones for 4.77mhz XT systems (note not XP, XT ehehhehe)
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I got my first computer 17 years ago almost to the day. It was a mac though so I know nobody cares about it. Nonetheless it ran at 8 Mhz and was the fastest computer of all my friends for at least the next year.
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Wow it's spooky how close my system was to yours
386 @ 33 Mhz
40 Mb hard drive
5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives
1 mb ram
desktop case
I'm just your average habitual smiler =D
386 @ 33 Mhz
40 Mb hard drive
5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives
1 mb ram
desktop case
I'm just your average habitual smiler =D
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Lets see IBM model 30286. 286 10mhz I believe. 20 meg hard drive. I managed to fit dos 5.0 and Wfw 3.11!! And holy [-peep-] did wolfenstein run like crap!
siliconjon
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Yes, I believe it was Wing Commander that required my Turbo be shut off, otherwise it was like being Wile E. Coyote on a rocket made by ACME.
Seems I had 2MB RAM if I recall correctly...man, that seems like FOREVER ago. And I remember getting a 14.4 USR Sportster and getting it to run 28.8. I was in HEAVEN! Doesn't take long to load up 40MB, even on 28.8 just BBS'n when the best warez were 4-6 disks (1.44 of course).
Never did upgrade that bad boy. In fact, when I turned 16, I learned the Rock N' Roll lifestyle, and wound up not getting another computer until...1997 I think it was. A P2-266 Compaq w/64MB RAM, onboard ATI Rage Pro (2MB), DVD-ROM...
Put a 2X CDRW in it...HP, cost me $250, and it had just dropped from $300. Sure am glad they're <$100 now! Then I started upgrading...had enough parts to reassemble the Compaq and put the new parts together as a FRESH pc...and from there I've gone from playing to working with them. And there's still a plethora to learn yet...
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Seems I had 2MB RAM if I recall correctly...man, that seems like FOREVER ago. And I remember getting a 14.4 USR Sportster and getting it to run 28.8. I was in HEAVEN! Doesn't take long to load up 40MB, even on 28.8 just BBS'n when the best warez were 4-6 disks (1.44 of course).
Never did upgrade that bad boy. In fact, when I turned 16, I learned the Rock N' Roll lifestyle, and wound up not getting another computer until...1997 I think it was. A P2-266 Compaq w/64MB RAM, onboard ATI Rage Pro (2MB), DVD-ROM...
Put a 2X CDRW in it...HP, cost me $250, and it had just dropped from $300. Sure am glad they're <$100 now! Then I started upgrading...had enough parts to reassemble the Compaq and put the new parts together as a FRESH pc...and from there I've gone from playing to working with them. And there's still a plethora to learn yet...
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The first one I got was a Commodore VIC-20: 6502 CPU,5K RAM, but only 3.5K of RAM usable for programmation and I was using audio cassette custom player (called datasette) to run/save programs, game, ... Basic was in ROM, very fun machine. got it for 3 years
Then came the Commodore 64: 6510 cpu, 64k ram, 39k usable for programmation, basic still in rom. Got that one with floppy disk drive..wow, what an improvement over tape. Lots of good game and nice apps, for this time. got it for another 3 years
Then the wonderful Amiga 500. Motorola 68000, 7.15 MHz, 512k RAM, which later I upgraded to 1 megs. No hard disk yet, I was using 3 1/2 floppy .A 16 bits machine with 8 bits stereo sound, good graphic too and lot of game too. Workbench 1.3 as OS, It was a small GUI os that could multitask with even 256 megs! got it for about 3 years too
Then upgraded to an Amiga 1200, a 14 MHz motorola 68020ec, 2 megs ram with80 megs HD. Later added an accelerator card with a Motorola 68030 40 MHz, math co-proc and 8 megs of fast ram. Amiga machine had chip RAM for the video and sound co-processor that could be used too for the system. Fast ram was only for program, so sisce it was not shared, it was faster, so the name. Workbench 3.0 was the os at this time.
I bought a CDTV...Ah Ah.Surprized? That thing was like an audio CD player for sound system, that could be plugged to a TV. That was an Amiga 500 with a CDROM (1x) in a component cd player. I used it as a CDROM for my A1200 by networking them with a special parrallel cable. At this time, CDROM were very expensive. I dont remember how much I paid. Oh, this unit had an infrared remote control to emulate the mouse, and with all the necessary button to control the cd player with a nice interface and screen blanker when playing audio cd plugged in the TV.
Got a cheap functionnal used Amiga 4000 a couple year later, which I add a motorola 68060 and 80 megs of RAM. a 4 gigs SCSI HD, A cybervision 64 video board and an ethernet card. That was a nice machine, And I still have it, waiting for me to finish my computer room to install it beside my Windows machine.
I've too got a 386 dx 40 machine rebuilt from spare part from my friends with dos 3.1 then dos 5, then a 486 dx4 100MHz, with 8 megs. never really used them, was using my Amiga 4000 for all my internet and work task. Better os, more responding than Windows 3.1/ dos 6.22 on the 486.
Got my Amiga til 2001 when I decide to build my first Windows machine. Athlon XP 1700+, Soyo dragon+, 512 megs DDR RAM, 40 gigs HD and Radeon 64 ddr VIVO. first running Win98se, later switched to WinXP. Sold that machine to my friend 3 months ago to get an AXP 2500+, Soltek 75frn2-rl, 1 gigs TWINX memory, 240 gigs HD (2 120gigs in raid 0) and a Radeon AIW 8500DV. Both AMD machine perfectly stable with Windows XP pro.
And yes, I was using my Amiga 4000 to read THGC to check for advice and info b4 building my first Windows based machine. could even listen to MP3 and watch mpeg video, but without the sound, not enough cpu power tu decode both video and audio at same time. That what mak me switch to a faster machine...That poor Amiga gave me all his best but all good thing must come to an end!!! Oh, I still have the 1200 and CDTV too! The VIC 20 and C64 are at my parents house, but I dont know if they are still functionnal. The 500 is at my friend house and still working, but not used. Maybe I should start a museum...
-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!
Then came the Commodore 64: 6510 cpu, 64k ram, 39k usable for programmation, basic still in rom. Got that one with floppy disk drive..wow, what an improvement over tape. Lots of good game and nice apps, for this time. got it for another 3 years
Then the wonderful Amiga 500. Motorola 68000, 7.15 MHz, 512k RAM, which later I upgraded to 1 megs. No hard disk yet, I was using 3 1/2 floppy .A 16 bits machine with 8 bits stereo sound, good graphic too and lot of game too. Workbench 1.3 as OS, It was a small GUI os that could multitask with even 256 megs! got it for about 3 years too
Then upgraded to an Amiga 1200, a 14 MHz motorola 68020ec, 2 megs ram with80 megs HD. Later added an accelerator card with a Motorola 68030 40 MHz, math co-proc and 8 megs of fast ram. Amiga machine had chip RAM for the video and sound co-processor that could be used too for the system. Fast ram was only for program, so sisce it was not shared, it was faster, so the name. Workbench 3.0 was the os at this time.
I bought a CDTV...Ah Ah.Surprized? That thing was like an audio CD player for sound system, that could be plugged to a TV. That was an Amiga 500 with a CDROM (1x) in a component cd player. I used it as a CDROM for my A1200 by networking them with a special parrallel cable. At this time, CDROM were very expensive. I dont remember how much I paid. Oh, this unit had an infrared remote control to emulate the mouse, and with all the necessary button to control the cd player with a nice interface and screen blanker when playing audio cd plugged in the TV.
Got a cheap functionnal used Amiga 4000 a couple year later, which I add a motorola 68060 and 80 megs of RAM. a 4 gigs SCSI HD, A cybervision 64 video board and an ethernet card. That was a nice machine, And I still have it, waiting for me to finish my computer room to install it beside my Windows machine.
I've too got a 386 dx 40 machine rebuilt from spare part from my friends with dos 3.1 then dos 5, then a 486 dx4 100MHz, with 8 megs. never really used them, was using my Amiga 4000 for all my internet and work task. Better os, more responding than Windows 3.1/ dos 6.22 on the 486.
Got my Amiga til 2001 when I decide to build my first Windows machine. Athlon XP 1700+, Soyo dragon+, 512 megs DDR RAM, 40 gigs HD and Radeon 64 ddr VIVO. first running Win98se, later switched to WinXP. Sold that machine to my friend 3 months ago to get an AXP 2500+, Soltek 75frn2-rl, 1 gigs TWINX memory, 240 gigs HD (2 120gigs in raid 0) and a Radeon AIW 8500DV. Both AMD machine perfectly stable with Windows XP pro.
And yes, I was using my Amiga 4000 to read THGC to check for advice and info b4 building my first Windows based machine. could even listen to MP3 and watch mpeg video, but without the sound, not enough cpu power tu decode both video and audio at same time. That what mak me switch to a faster machine...That poor Amiga gave me all his best but all good thing must come to an end!!! Oh, I still have the 1200 and CDTV too! The VIC 20 and C64 are at my parents house, but I dont know if they are still functionnal. The 500 is at my friend house and still working, but not used. Maybe I should start a museum...
-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!
my friend had a commodore 64 it was amazing.. with floppy .. then somebody else bought an amiga 500 ... i was so surpised to see a built in floppy drive :O and graphics were amazing... so when i got my first pc it was looking huge .. but had no sound .. a black and white screen ... it was sort of disapointing for me to see such a huge machine , not performing even half of what commodore 64 was doing .. it was so boring that i started learning programing in C .. ) god those were such amazing days
) god those were such amazing days 
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Started relatively late. It was the year 1997 I believe and this was a bundle from Packard Bell. A 486 DX 33 w/ 2.1 GB HDD. It had a 16x CD-ROM, an FDD, onboard graphics and sound I still have the original monitor mounted speakers from it. The keyboard was a typical MS keyboard naturally with Packard Bell's emblem on it. OS was 95 but I then updated to 95B.
I bought it from my brother-in-law for 50 Deutsch Marks ($20.00)
I then sold it about 6 months later to a soldier for $50.00
Gotta make money somehow. ;o)
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<b><font color=blue>VAGABOND<font color=blue></b>
<b><font color=blue>veni,vidi, and ended up in THGC<font color=blue></b>
I bought it from my brother-in-law for 50 Deutsch Marks ($20.00)
I then sold it about 6 months later to a soldier for $50.00
Gotta make money somehow. ;o)
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=23810" target="_new"><font color=blue>My System </font color=blue></A>
<b><font color=blue>VAGABOND<font color=blue></b>
<b><font color=blue>veni,vidi, and ended up in THGC<font color=blue></b>
First Comp: Comodore64
First PC:
Intel 486DX2/66MHz
8MB RAM
420MB HD
Trident 9800 Video
Oak Tech Sound
Consecutive PCs:
P1 100MHz
P1 133MHz
P1 150MHz
P1 233MHz MMX
P2 233MHz (Laptop)
P3 500MHz
P4 1.5GHz
Last but not least, Th3 M0nSt3R!!
P4 2.4C @ 3.0GHz 1.525V Stock HSF
Abit IS7 BIOS v1.3 GAT Auto
Corsair XMS 512MB TwinX3200C2 2-3-3-6
GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP8X 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7220.7 80GB SATA
First PC:
Intel 486DX2/66MHz
8MB RAM
420MB HD
Trident 9800 Video
Oak Tech Sound
Consecutive PCs:
P1 100MHz
P1 133MHz
P1 150MHz
P1 233MHz MMX
P2 233MHz (Laptop)
P3 500MHz
P4 1.5GHz
Last but not least, Th3 M0nSt3R!!
P4 2.4C @ 3.0GHz 1.525V Stock HSF
Abit IS7 BIOS v1.3 GAT Auto
Corsair XMS 512MB TwinX3200C2 2-3-3-6
GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP8X 128MB
Seagate Barracuda 7220.7 80GB SATA
I'm feeling old here....
1984 - First computer IBM PCjr (My Dad works for IBM):
Microprocessor: Intel 8088 (16 bit)
Clock speed: 4.77Mhz
Coprocessor: n/a
Type of BUS: 8 bit
Total number of expansion slots: 1 PCjr 'sidecar'
Ports: 2 cartridge slots
Memory: max of 512kb using 128kb 'sidecars': My first MOD, we maxed it out to 640KB by adding some resistors, a mem chip, and scratching off some of the tracings on the board.
Drive bays: 1 (5.25 inch half height)
Floppy Disk Size: 5.25 inch half height Capacity:360kb)Hard disk: n/a
Display Size: 14 inch
Display type: 4863 PCjr Colour Display (Direct drive RGB, 0.43 dot pitch, 60hz/15.75khz (V/H))
Graphics modes supported: 40/80 column text, 160x200 16 colour, 320x200 16 colour, 640x200 4 colour
Software
Operating system: IBM PC DOS Version 2.10
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by spitoon on 08/14/03 01:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
1984 - First computer IBM PCjr (My Dad works for IBM):
Microprocessor: Intel 8088 (16 bit)
Clock speed: 4.77Mhz
Coprocessor: n/a
Type of BUS: 8 bit
Total number of expansion slots: 1 PCjr 'sidecar'
Ports: 2 cartridge slots
Memory: max of 512kb using 128kb 'sidecars': My first MOD, we maxed it out to 640KB by adding some resistors, a mem chip, and scratching off some of the tracings on the board.
Drive bays: 1 (5.25 inch half height)
Floppy Disk Size: 5.25 inch half height Capacity:360kb)Hard disk: n/a
Display Size: 14 inch
Display type: 4863 PCjr Colour Display (Direct drive RGB, 0.43 dot pitch, 60hz/15.75khz (V/H))
Graphics modes supported: 40/80 column text, 160x200 16 colour, 320x200 16 colour, 640x200 4 colour
Software
Operating system: IBM PC DOS Version 2.10
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by spitoon on 08/14/03 01:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Shouldn't this be in a different forum? Oh, I dunno...maybe 'polls?'
Call me crazy...Call me nuts. Perhaps I drank too much coffee and I'm seeing a caffeinated hallucination. Pray tell me I am wrong.
<font color=blue>I don't have to be careful! I have a gun!</font color=blue>
<font color=green>Homer Simpson</font color=green>
TKS
Call me crazy...Call me nuts. Perhaps I drank too much coffee and I'm seeing a caffeinated hallucination. Pray tell me I am wrong.
<font color=blue>I don't have to be careful! I have a gun!</font color=blue>
<font color=green>Homer Simpson</font color=green>
TKS
pat
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Most Commodore machine, as well as Atari, Apple and TRS-80 (radio shack) were good to learn programming, because they start with BASIC, no OS. So If you wanted to load a program, then you had to write a basic command as, for the C64, load "*",8,1, iirc. the * was to load the directory and to load the program, I had to replace the * by the program's name.
Oh, one of my friend had a TRS80 that was overheating...sometime the computer would crash(usually in the middle of a game or when you were almost done typing your 1000 lines program). I think the store put a fan in his machine, but not 100% sure!
Yes, that was the good time of buying magazine and typing the programs included inside to find out that the month after that there was a typo error that prevented your program to work...
Damn..am I that old!
-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!
Oh, one of my friend had a TRS80 that was overheating...sometime the computer would crash(usually in the middle of a game or when you were almost done typing your 1000 lines program). I think the store put a fan in his machine, but not 100% sure!
Yes, that was the good time of buying magazine and typing the programs included inside to find out that the month after that there was a typo error that prevented your program to work...
Damn..am I that old!
-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!
my pc's were
1) amd 286 - mhz..
2) intel 486sx-25 mhz
3) amd 486dx4-100mhz
4)intel pentium II 300 (66mhz fsb)
5)intel celeron 433 (mendocino 66mhz fsb)
6)intel celeron 500 (66mhz fsb)
7)intel pentium III 650mhz (100mhz fsb coppermine)
8)intel pentium III 800mhz (133mhz fsb coppermine)
9)intel celeron 1.7ghz (now)
1) amd 286 - mhz..
2) intel 486sx-25 mhz
3) amd 486dx4-100mhz
4)intel pentium II 300 (66mhz fsb)
5)intel celeron 433 (mendocino 66mhz fsb)
6)intel celeron 500 (66mhz fsb)
7)intel pentium III 650mhz (100mhz fsb coppermine)
8)intel pentium III 800mhz (133mhz fsb coppermine)
9)intel celeron 1.7ghz (now)
After my original IBM 386 (near the top^), I came up to the world of the "Pentium's"
- Pentium 133MHz, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD, 1MB Video Card
- Pentium 133MHz (notebook), 48MB RAM, 6GB HDD, 2MB Video
- AMD K6-2 500MHz, 64MB RAM, GF2MX 32MB, 8.4GB HDD
- AMD Athlon TB 1.4GHz, 256MB RAM, Matrox G450etv, 60GB
- Intel Pentium M(notebook), 640MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 64MB GeForce4Go4200 (My baby 😉
RaPTuRe
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
- Pentium 133MHz, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD, 1MB Video Card
- Pentium 133MHz (notebook), 48MB RAM, 6GB HDD, 2MB Video
- AMD K6-2 500MHz, 64MB RAM, GF2MX 32MB, 8.4GB HDD
- AMD Athlon TB 1.4GHz, 256MB RAM, Matrox G450etv, 60GB
- Intel Pentium M(notebook), 640MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 64MB GeForce4Go4200 (My baby 😉
RaPTuRe
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Ok here's mine:
1993 - Intel 286 10MHz, 15" Mono Display, MS DOS
1994 - Intel 286 10MHz, 15" Mono Display, MS DOS
1995 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1996 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1997 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1998 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1999 - AMD 486 67MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN95B
2000 - AMD K6-2 450MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN98SE
2001 - AMD K6-2 450MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN98SE
2002 - Intel P4 2.0GHz, 15" SVGA Display, WINXP PRO
(forgot some specs tho)
2003/2004 - Waiting for prescott/tejas; nv40; pci-x; lcd display. (i hope)
<font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue>
1993 - Intel 286 10MHz, 15" Mono Display, MS DOS
1994 - Intel 286 10MHz, 15" Mono Display, MS DOS
1995 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1996 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1997 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1998 - Intel 386 33MHz, 15" EGA Display, WIN 3.11
1999 - AMD 486 67MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN95B
2000 - AMD K6-2 450MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN98SE
2001 - AMD K6-2 450MHz, 15" VGA Display, WIN98SE
2002 - Intel P4 2.0GHz, 15" SVGA Display, WINXP PRO
(forgot some specs tho)
2003/2004 - Waiting for prescott/tejas; nv40; pci-x; lcd display. (i hope)
<font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue>
i spend more than $5,000 on all my pc's and upgrades.
We're all computer maniacs you know.
<font color=red>ten years and counting... wee... </font color=red>
<font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jmecor on 08/17/03 10:23 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
We're all computer maniacs you know.
<font color=red>ten years and counting... wee... </font color=red> <font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jmecor on 08/17/03 10:23 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
I remember that game:
(The bouncy thingy ball-destroying blocks)
<b> ARKANOID </b>
I nevered finished that game. I think i only reached level 8 or something.
<font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue>
(The bouncy thingy ball-destroying blocks)
<b> ARKANOID </b>
I nevered finished that game. I think i only reached level 8 or something.
<font color=blue>
My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue>
yeah its true .. i feel like i can buy 2 mac G5 with the money i've been spending on PC's for the last whatever years.... ) and btw ... my graphics card was hercules.. (which has nothing to do with the hercules now which uses nvidia chipsets..).. ) old computer freaks will know i am sure .. if u didnt start using PC by late 80's or very early 90's dont even care about what i mean by hercules graphics card.. anyway .. i am sure jmecor knows hercules.. ) cos he had a 286-10mhz and knows the days of hercules cga )... god .. when u think about all those stuff ... it sounds so funny
) and btw ... my graphics card was hercules.. (which has nothing to do with the hercules now which uses nvidia chipsets..).. ) old computer freaks will know i am sure .. if u didnt start using PC by late 80's or very early 90's dont even care about what i mean by hercules graphics card.. anyway .. i am sure jmecor knows hercules.. ) cos he had a 286-10mhz and knows the days of hercules cga )... god .. when u think about all those stuff ... it sounds so funnyMy first computer was a cute little ZX81. Compared to this baby you guys had supercomputers. It ran at 3.5MHZ and had a huge memory of 1K RAM!!! I got a memory expansion module of 16K
the text resolution was 32X24
but it had graphics resolution of 64X48!!! 1bit color resolution, thats b&w
Surprisingly it had a decent flight simulator game.
Really loved it
http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/
the text resolution was 32X24
but it had graphics resolution of 64X48!!! 1bit color resolution, thats b&w
Surprisingly it had a decent flight simulator game.
Really loved it
http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/
intel 33mhz later uppgraded to dx4 100mhz wow ^^
4mb ram
cirrius logic or something like that 512k graphic
cdrom N/A later bought internal cdrom which had no room in my compaq (chassi and monitor together) so i drilled a whole in it and connected the cdrom to the soundblaster card since mobo had no ide connector ^^.
200 mb hard drive.
4mb ram
cirrius logic or something like that 512k graphic
cdrom N/A later bought internal cdrom which had no room in my compaq (chassi and monitor together) so i drilled a whole in it and connected the cdrom to the soundblaster card since mobo had no ide connector ^^.
200 mb hard drive.
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