Who has the slowest PC in THG

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surprise to find my colleague still his very old pentium 100

we always talk about the fastest dream machine.
I wonder who's still using the older system and can contest for the slowest PC in THG.
 
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My mum and dad also use a pentium 100. However, until reacently, I was using a very beaten up 286 at 10MHz with a huge 1MB of ram and a massive 42 meg harddrive!!! Hmm, things appear to have progressed a little over the years!

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While I don't use it, I have an old 1986 PC based on the venerable 8088 (I believe it runs at 3 mHz, but not to sure). It was my brothers and he was going to dump it. I took it, along with the phosphor-burned yellow monitor. It gives me an date error (obviously, not Y2K complient) on boot up and it takes forever to check it's measley 1MB of system RAM.

It also has a 10 MB hard drive, ISA video, no mouse, DOS 2.0 and WordStar!!!
 
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Got some NEC 20 Notebook runs at 8 mhz clock
got 640 Kb memory
and a 64 KB! HD (some kind of memory disk )
in japanese and dos 3.1 (also japanese)
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got some 286 12 Mhz with 287 and 4 Mb ram !
386 sx 20 , 386 dx 25 ,386 dx 33, 386 dx 40 ,486 dx2 66,
486 dx2 80, p 66, 2xp166 mmx.. (peeuh... all working )


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one of my colleages (Consultant Developer) still uses a 486 dx2 66 at home , His laptop is faster than his home PC .....

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I have an old Apple that i save from dumping. it has screen,disk drive, it has a printer once, but it was stolen together whith 1/2 of the cable. Inside there is sticker that saz 1978. It hase z80 chip,it starts ,but i dont know how to operate it . I olso have an PC XT + color monitor.
It is so clean inside and outside that i can't trush it.
Enybody interested?
 
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I still have (and use) my Commodore 64. I can't help it if game companies today just can't make story lines as entertaining as they were in C=64 games. Legacy Of The Ancients rocks. :)

Somewhere a Tandy 8088 (that doesn't even have a hard drive) is crying because I don't use it anymore.

My 486-66 is happy just to still be hooked up and occasionally used while I'm busy burning CDs or downloading on my Celeron-500.

My P1-133 died. :( That was a sad occasion. I just couldn't see putting more and more money into keeping it running when it'd be cheaper just to buy a new system.

And my Celeron-500 is that new system that I bought. It's the fastest computer that I have at present.

One day, when I'm rich, I'll buy a new system that costs too much and I can brag about it to all of my friends.

Until then, I have my C=64. :)

Does a TI-85 count as a computer? It does have it's own programming language and graphics system. I wrote a Break-Out clone for it, so I'd personally call it a computer.

- Anything can be fixed with duct tape, a swiss army knife, and WD-40. :)
 
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I have an old Zenith 286. It has no hard drive, dual 5.25 floppies and a green monochrome monitor. Even though the computer has EGA capabilities. I only use it for little programming things of course- nothing hard like web browsing etc.
 
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I got a nice little 2MHz 8086 :)
20mb harddrive! 4 Color CGA!!!! :D

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How about a Commodore VIC20, the predecessor to the commodore 64. Haven't used it since I was a boy. It's got 16K of RAM! It doesn't even have a floppy drive but runs off of an external cassette tape drive (you know, like the audio cassettes that you put in a walkman?). Most of the time, it had to read through the entire tape linearly to get the data that it needed. If your data was at the end of the 60 minute tape, you had to wait 60 minutes for it to load.

Oh yeah, it does have a port on the back in which you can squeeze ROM software cartridges into, much faster than the tape drive but of course, you couldn't save onto them...

Oh the good old days of personal computing - No Giga, No Mega, it was all about the Kilo.

HO Ho ho.

Sigh.

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Well, PC-wise my old 8088 still boots for some old games I have. It has a blazing fast clock speed of 4.77Mhz, 640k of ram and dual 360k floppies.
Non-PC I have an Atari 800: MOS 6502 @ 1.79 Mhz, 48k ram, 180k floppy, and a great color plotter. The processor has to be disabled during video DMA so depending on the video mode it actually runs at 1.2-1.7Mhz.
 
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The slowest in my house is a K6-2 450. However, the system I maintain at work (which could be considered a computer in a prehistoric sort of way) uses 8088, 8086, and Z-80 processors. There might even be an 8008 in it somewhere. It has about 100 of them per system. They are slow, but, they are... slow. ;)

Just a little something to laugh at. The system has 4 memory cards which function as a sort of hard drive. 256kb per card. Wanna guess how much they cost?

OK, since there is no way anybody will possibly get it, they cost $250,000 a piece. Yup, $1,000,000 for 1Mb of memory.

Wanna laugh some more?

It's flash page memory.

That always gives me a good chuckle.
 
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Hey, that's great! My 800 died a few years ago.

I remember paying about $800 for it in 1980. Cost me about $60 bucks to upgade one of the 8KB modules to 16KB by either replacing the DRAM chips or piggy-backing them. I can't remember which. That's $60 for 0.008 MB of RAM (by today's standards) or $7500/MB.
 
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How about my 512k Amiga 500 or my 2Mb Amiga 600 with 40Mb Harddrive, but i don´t use them anymore.. Oh i still use my 128kb Atari Portfolio! But it think my Nokia 6210 is faster and has more options (next to making phonecalls that is)... But it lacks a keyboard..

Anyway, i am rather happy with my new Thunderbird 800 now...
 
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Well, I also still have my Commodore 64 with the 5 1/4 floppy drive. I still have my old Panasonic KX-P1091 dot matrix printer, chugging along connected to my old Packard Hell 486 running an AMD 5x86 @ 133 and W95OSR2.5.

Still, gotta admit, that C-64 still has the fastest boot time I ever seen. And, with no RTC, it's Y2K compliant ;-)>
 
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Well, I have a old (was new a year ago) K6-II 350, but I still have my old PC NEC V30 CPU running at 4.77 MHz(!) (compatible to 8088!) with 1.2 MB and 360 kb 5.25" floppy drives. It has 640 kb of RAM, and *NO* hard disk (i dint find any 8 bit IDE controller to get into the 8 bit ISA slots to put them on) teh i/o card has 2 serial, 1 parallel and 1 floppy drive header.

I hope I get some upgrade options for that :)

Its still running by booting from floppy disk. Anybody has windows 1.25 (that booted from floppy disk worked in real mode and used the disk in the floppy drive for virtual memory.....), pls tell me

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I collect old programs and games so I have win 1
and win 1.03,2,2.?
dos 2 and other ..

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Not a pc,but I still have a Sinclair ZX81 with a 16kb ram expansion and the worst keyboard ever.It's holding my door open as I type this.
 
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