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 Post subject: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:39 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:06 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:40 am 
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You are lucky, your first computer actually had a hard drive.

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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:50 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:30 pm 
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I still have that old 5.2 and its fully functional.


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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:38 pm 

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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:38 pm 
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I had a Vic20 and a commodore 64

Those were the days.

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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:00 pm 
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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:35 pm 

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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:23 am 

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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:50 pm 
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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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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:17 pm 
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Man I feel old and i'm not that old..

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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:49 pm 
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Phonix wrote:

Who remembers Trumpet Winsock?

I remember BBS's before the first ISP came to town.

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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:23 pm 
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ditto!!!

I was JUST talking to my roomie earlier about bbs's!

Sweet deal yo!

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 Post subject: Re: A decade of PC's
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:46 am 
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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 :D 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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