My very first desktop PC was built in 2004 and it had an AMD Duron 950 MHz CPU 😄
Specs:
https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Duron 950 - D950AUT1B.html
Specs:
https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Duron 950 - D950AUT1B.html
Do consoles count?
If yes, MOS Technology 6507 (Atari 2600). If no, MOS Technology 6502B (Atari 400). Around the same time as I got the Atari 400 the family got an Intel 8088 (IBM XT clone).
A couple years later I got the MOS Technology 6510 (Commodore 64). Soooo many fond memories with my C64.
Several years after that was my first modular "PC," an 80486SX clone, then a Pentium 90 in a Compaq, and so on and so forth.
Hell of a deal! Must be why they called him Crazy Eddie!Weirdly, Crazy Eddie, the place I got the C64 from, offered to give me a refund of the amount I originally paid years earlier, which meant that for $20 more, I got a C128.
Hell of a deal! Must be why they called him Crazy Eddie!
Ahhh. Got it.More like due to fraudulent business practice they decided to quietly refund him to avoid unwanted interest from authorities. Which somewhat matches with their business name quite well.
Alceryes - I saw in your signature you're cooling your i9-9900k (overclocked) with an H80i v2?? How??? What are your CPU temps like?Ahhh. Got it.
I was several states away at that time so I didn't have any interaction with the business.
The H80i v2 is actually very good. I can game all day and the CPU only gets up to between 70-75CAlceryes - I saw in your signature you're cooling your i9-9900k (overclocked) with an H80i v2?? How??? What are your CPU temps like?
Before that I worked on a Univac 9300 with 16KB memory, 4 tape drives (the big ones you see in really old movies), a card reader, a card punch, and a band printer.This is history!
Before that I worked on a Univac 9300 with 16KB memory, 4 tape drives (the big ones you see in really old movies), a card reader, a card punch, and a band printer.
Univac 9300
Magnetic core memory
I didn't count that one because I didn't own it.
that doesn't sound that different from the 32 bit Pentium 4 PC that I'd been using up until very recently, that also served me well through high-school and in engineering college, it ran Auto-cad in XP strangely wellA Duron 750, I still have it, the whole computer in fact, my dad bought it for him in 2001 and it then became the family's computer until 2018 or so, it had a 20GB hard drive that died at some point but was never removed from the case, and to this day it runs on a 80GB drive with Windows 2000, has a floppy drive, a CD reader and a separate CD burner, everything working as a charm.
That thing served me well during high school, I finished it in 2018 btw, I'm not that old.
Period appropriate AutoCad would run well.that doesn't sound that different from the 32 bit Pentium 4 PC that I'd been using up until very recently, that also served me well through high-school and in engineering college, it ran Auto-cad in XP strangely well
I guess, I'll never forget how much laughter I had from my classmates when I told them what PC I was using, but it did the job and saved me from needing to spend money - that is until it's motherboard died, tech doesn't last foreverPeriod appropriate AutoCad would run well.
Todays AutoCad, not so much.
I guess, I'll never forget how much laughter I had from my classmates when I told them what PC I was using, but it did the job and saved me from needing to spend money - that is until it's motherboard died, tech doesn't last forever
Raise your hand if your computer had a 'turbo' button!
Mine had the button but it didn't do anything cause it was the slower 80486SX - 25MHz. A friend of mine's did though! Some games were just too fast in turbo mode - completely unplayable.
Having used quite a lot of retro tech I can imagine what it would have been like, but I'm not quite old enough to remember it LOL"Period appropriate AutoCad would run well" recalled memories about transition from command line/text mode to GUI era in mid-1990s. At that time every new CPU generation was huge performance improvement. Software sluggish on 386SX-25 was had normal speed on 386DX-40, fast on 486DX-40, very fast on 486DX-133 and achieved light speed on Pentium 100+. It was visible with naked eye. One my old friend data analyst who worked with Excel 4 on 386DX-40, got a new computer with 486DX-133 and Excel 5 and after first launch became unbelievably grumpy. Turned out he was disappointed about that he don't see how numbers in table cells are changing on recalculation anymore. A month passed until he got used to it.