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15 years of underestimating hardware advances

BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
Among other things. :)

[url]http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/f2abee2df7582f36cc2569a4007e4ab9/b28f47e0ac75bfddcc256eba0080fe2f[/url]

Fun fact: our first PC that we actually owned was a PC Direct (we previously had a 286 on loan from someone else for business purposes for a few years).

Comments

  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    I remember My old 486, got it for 300 bucks back when I was in grade 5 I think.

    $300 was a fucking rip-off BTW.
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    I may have a new motto.

    [QUOTE]We’re living in beta, babies. Enjoy the ride.[/QUOTE]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Well...

    We still run our first Amiga 2000 system.

    We still have our first 286 mobo sitting in the basement. We won it in a give-away that we were automatically entered in when we bought our first Amiga in 1987.

    We still run our Amiga 3000 system.

    We still have our 386 mobo in the basement.

    We still have both our 486 mobos in the basement.

    We still have my mom's 486 laptop.

    We still have our old Pentium 75 running as an "old Dos machine" for legacy gaming.

    We still have my Pentium II 266 laptop sitting arround used occasionally.

    We still have our Pentium III? 400 desktop in use mainly for Linux, BeOS, QNX, etc now (my dad's play computer).

    My old P4 1.3GHz is now my parent's main computer.

    My current computer is a 3000+ AMD Athlon.

    :D
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
    [B]My old P4 1.3GHz is now my parent's main computer. [/B][/QUOTE]

    You know how sick this comment makes me...

    :(

    I just got this Athlon XP1800+ 1.53 Mhz going a few months back...

    :p
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    I've had a Pentium 75MHz, Celeron 533MHz, Athlon 1800+ and now a Athlon 2800+. I still got them all.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Actually Jack, I didn't need a faster CPU at the time I upgraded. What I needed was more memory. However, when a mobo uses RDRam it is almost as expensive as buying a new Mobo, a new CPU, and new DDR ram. Thus I did the entire system upgrade.
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    I wish I still had my older machines, especially the Amiga :(

    My first was a C64 with cassette drive. Then an Amiga 500. Then a Pentium 75MHz which was overclocked to 90, if I recall correctly. Then a Pentium 233MHz MMX, which was overclocked to 266. Then a Celeron 400MHz which was overclocked to 533MHz. And now I'm running an Athlon XP 2100+, which I'm very happy with as it is :D
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    C24
    IBM 8086 XT 8 mhz aquired 1983 :D
    286 16?
    386 25
    386 33
    486 100
    Cyrix 6x86 133? (I think thats right)
    Pentium II 333
    Athalon Thunderbird 1 ghz
    Athalon XP 2.2+
  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    lets see

    486
    Celeron 400MHz(now broken)
    Pentium 2.4 Ghz
  • JohnDJohnD Ranger
    Re: 15 years of underestimating hardware advances

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]Fun fact: our first PC that we actually owned was a PC Direct (we previously had a 286 on loan from someone else for business purposes for a few years). [/B][/QUOTE]

    I remember the first PC I owned - the Timex Sinclair 1000, when it first came out. God, some wrist watches have more power than that thing, these days.
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Hmm my PC List (this includes one my parents owned while I was at home).

    Apple IIe
    Apple III
    Apple IIc
    Macintosh SE
    IBM built 486 25 mhz <-- This computer still operates to this day, having endured a fire and being stored outside for 6 months...
    PII - 300 mhz
    ...and that's where I got stuck...

    Jake
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    C64
    486DX2 50
    P200
    Cel 400@500
    P4 Northwood 1.8@2.07
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    Apple IIe, still used on a daily basis until last year.

    then the win 3,1 machine
    then the win98,
    then the winXP HP pc's...(Both)

    and then mine, the powerhouse of the house.
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
    [B]Apple IIe, still used on a daily basis until last year.
    [/B][/QUOTE]

    What did you use a IIe for? :confused: :confused: :confused:

    Jake
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