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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | A decade of PC's |
I put my first PC togther over 10 years ago now, sadly I can remember the key details of all my main systems: Mobo (chipset)(CPU)(Video Card(s)) Aopen AX6BC (440BX)(P3 450) (Xpert98+VoodooII, Viper V770 Ultra) Aopen AX3SP (815E)(P3 1G) (GF2 GTS 32M, MX440 64M, Ti4800SE) Aopen AX4PER (845PE)(P4 2.8G Northy) (TI4800SE) Aopen AX4SPE-N (865P)(P4 2.8G Northy) (TI4800SE, 9800Pro) Asus K8V-X (K8T800) (2800+) (6600GT) DFi Lanparty UT NF3 Ultra-D (NF3 Ultra) (3200+) (6600GT) Asus A8N-SLI (NF4 SLI) (3200+) (6800GS(x2)) Asus P5N-SLI (NF4!) (C2D E6300) (6800GS(x2)) Asus P5B Deluxe (P965) (C2D E6300, Q6600) (6800GS(x2), x1950Pro, 8800GTS 320, HD3870(x2)) Asus P5Q Deluxe (P45) (Q6600) (HD3870(x2), HD4870X2, HD4770(x2), HD5850) |
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| Author: | Hali_Newf [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
My first pc was an AMD K6 II 333Mhz with a whopping 5.2G HDD and 128MB of ram. Then I upgraded to 256 as 128mb cost ~70 bucks. That simple pc was close to top of the line back then and cost a retarded ~1700+ bucks. Think of what 1700 can get you today for a pc. Also later I upgraded the video to a $200 Voodoo Banchee 16mb Card lol |
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| Author: | CMDR Steve-O [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
You are lucky, your first computer actually had a hard drive. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
CMDR Steve-O wrote: You are lucky, your first computer actually had a hard drive. That's just PC's, my first computer had a tape drive. |
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| Author: | Hali_Newf [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
I still have that old 5.2 and its fully functional. |
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| Author: | tweakstur [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
Hali_Newf wrote: My first pc was an AMD K6 II 333Mhz with a whopping 5.2G HDD and 128MB of ram. Then I upgraded to 256 as 128mb cost ~70 bucks. That simple pc was close to top of the line back then and cost a retarded ~1700+ bucks. Think of what 1700 can get you today for a pc. Also later I upgraded the video to a $200 Voodoo Banchee 16mb Card lol Heh, that's pretty close to my first computer that me and my uncle built back when I was 8 years old. K6 II 450mhz, some crappy motherboard, 32mb of ram and I think a quantum fireball hd. |
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| Author: | Topsecret66 [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
I had a Vic20 and a commodore 64 Those were the days. |
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| Author: | Hali_Newf [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
I had the commodore C64. lol in regards to what I consider a PC, the K6II 333 was my first pc running Windoze. Some Aopen crappy mobo with pc-133 ram. Sweet! Mechwarrior 2 and 3 all over the place!! |
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| Author: | gtrguy [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
Ah yes, the good old days of the VIC-20 and C64... tape then big 5 1/4 floppy disks... lol... my first PC was a Cyrix 'P150' with an ATI Rage3D... The ATI wasn't that great so I remember getting a Diamond Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo) add on card for playing games. I might still have that card around somewhere... playing GLQuake ruled! LOL |
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| Author: | sbeeze316 [ Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
if your talking first IBM/Clone pc my first one was: 486 DX2 66mhz 4MB RAM (SIMMS lol) 550MB HDD Trident Video card of some sort SB audio and it rocked! |
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| Author: | Phonix [ Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
I had a C64 and Vic20 as well. I wrote plenty of proggies for my C64 and was a pro at BASIC. But as for IBM based PC: My first: i386 (good ole 80386) 2MB RAM 100mb HDD Can't remember vid card, but it was like 1mb or something, maybe even less. Used it til 95 when I bought my first Pentium. BUT I remember through various tweaks and other nonsense, I was able to get Doom and Quake working on it in Windows 3.1, albeit very slow and ugly software rendering. Man was it a big jump from that to my Pentium 100. Who remembers Trumpet Winsock? |
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| Author: | Topsecret66 [ Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
Man I feel old and i'm not that old.. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
Phonix wrote: Who remembers Trumpet Winsock? I remember BBS's before the first ISP came to town. |
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| Author: | Phonix [ Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
ditto!!! I was JUST talking to my roomie earlier about bbs's! Sweet deal yo! |
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| Author: | Hali_Newf [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A decade of PC's |
haha yeah this conversation is really makin me feel the years lol I had a few bbs's back in the day - running on my parents phone line with a massive 300 baud modem  Then when a computer store ran a bbs on a dx33 pentium, i could still connect via my commadore 64 as it was ansi graphics capable.Then shortly after I would have a game of choplifter lol |
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