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Ahh, I miss when things were like this.
2005-05-13, 10:55 PM #1
Nice round numbers for the hard drives: 639.9 MB.
Onboard 4 MB EDO RAM.
1 MB EDO SIMMs.
No silly heatsinks or fans on the processors.
Overdrive processors (there used to be one in there, but it found a new home a long time ago).
Diamond Speedstar 64, amazing 1 MB video card, allowing 16-bit color, mmmmm.


[http://www.gimpshack.com/stuff/pics/486sx.jpg]

[http://www.gimpshack.com/stuff/pics/486sx2.jpg]

Sad thing is, the 3.5" floppy drive in that PC is still being used in this one actually.
2005-05-13, 11:03 PM #2
I'll give you a dollar for it.
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2005-05-13, 11:32 PM #3
My first built PC was about the same specs as yours. I wonder what became of that case...
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2005-05-14, 12:05 AM #4
I remember getting a out first Pentium computer back when I was in 9th grade. Had a 1.5 gig hard drive.
Pissed Off?
2005-05-14, 12:24 AM #5
Heh, that hard drive was an upgrade purchased a few years later. If I remember correctly, the original was 100 MB. I remember just getting TIE Fighter and struggling to make room for it, heh.

Originally it was something like this:
25 MHz 486SX
4 MB memory
100 MB hard drive
512k onboard video (I think)
no sound card and no CD-ROM
2400 baud modem

When I stopped using it, it was:
100 MHz after the Overdrive was added in and a little overclocking
8 MB memory
639.9 MB hard drive
1 MB Diamond Speedstar 64
Sound Blaster 16 (that was probably the hugest step at the time, wow, "real" sound, heh)
2x CD-ROM drive
14.4 kb/s modem
2005-05-14, 6:18 AM #6
I need a DOS Box so bad... So bad...
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"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2005-05-14, 2:04 PM #7
Quote:
Originally posted by Glyde Bane
I need a DOS Box so bad... So bad...


Heh, I have a DOS Laptop :D

It's actually perfect for DOS games. It has a 750MB HD, SB compatible sound card, 1MB video RAM, 24MB RAM, and an external 24X CD-ROM.
2005-05-14, 2:53 PM #8
I have a laptop with Win 3.1. I use it regularly to type stuff on (not for printing, just for my own use).
2005-05-14, 4:32 PM #9
I have... I have... what do I have?

Well... I have enough components to build 3 more computers of various specs (ancient to old) and the two pcs one laptop I'm using now.

I'd love a dos comp, I have two games I'd love to play but my current computers are too powerful to run them! I remember back in highschool trying to get the money for a computer that would run works! I never thought I'd have trouble finding a computer slow enough to run a game, I'm so used to having trouble meeting specs!!!
2005-05-14, 5:18 PM #10
I miss when things were like this
[http://www.emulator-zone.com/gallery/emulators/n64/n64.jpg]
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2005-05-15, 9:05 AM #11
Here, have a DOS box.
I'm just a little boy.
2005-05-15, 9:21 AM #12
I don't get the joke. "Way more FPS than Counterstrike!"
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The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others 1931-1935
2005-05-15, 9:29 AM #13
frames per second. as in... you'd get way more case you're running something 10000x more simple... eh, dumb joke.
2005-05-17, 8:14 AM #14
I remeber my first PC which had:

Pentium Processor
16MB RAM
4x CD-ROM
Onboard Sound
Windows 95 OS

And.. Civilisation as it was part of the software bundle :)
'Its worth it all in the end when We Are On The Other Side Of The Moon and thats good enoguh for me"
2005-05-17, 8:21 AM #15
I've got a quad 486dx50 Zenith Datasystems server holding up my desk. Its got a mega cool 6way scsi array with 1gb HDDs, a SCSI 2x CDROM and enough ISA network cards in it to connect every major country.

Doesnt have any use other than being a desk support, though.
"Whats that for?" "Thats the machine that goes 'ping'" PING!
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A. We just noticed the room was dark; we don't actually fix the problems.
MCMF forever.
2005-05-17, 8:27 AM #16
8088 processor at 4.77 mhz (IIRC)
256k RAM
No hard disk
5 ΒΌ" 360k floppy drive
TGA graphics (kind of between CGA and EGA, made by Tandy, lo-res 16 colours)
3-channel sound (another Tandy exclusive)

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