I see all you lucky bāstards posting your far out specs, well here is my kickāss system
Asus p2-99b motherboard
(no case so it's tacked into my desk)
celeron 333 oc'ed 375
4.2gig seagate
acer 6x4x32 rewriter
4mb generic ATI videocard
Diamond monster3dfx 8mb
96mb ram
a glued togeter floppy drive
17 trinitron bought on ebay for $99
(have to hit it real hard to make it work right)
10/100 3com fast ethernet on T2
bunch of old car speakers hooked up to onboard cheapy soundcard
(wires everywhere!)
Win2k advanced server & Wimme for games
all this and a keyboard that sticcks
This isn't my primary sytem but I'll be dammed if someone has something slower. It runs windows 98 even though they recomend at leat 16mb ram or something like that.
Lets keep it to your PRIMARY SYSTEM. I could beat you with a XT 8MHz, 640k memory, and blah blah blah, but here is my PRIMARY SYSTEM:
P2 266MHz
64MB ECC EDO SIMM RAM
6.1GB IBM DMA-33
16MB Riva TNT PCI
Sound Blaster Live!
17" Sony Trinitron Aperture Grile Monitor
3COM 10/100 NIC PCI
24X CDROM
Decent speakers, not sound boxes
<sad> I need a new PC </sad>
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25 mhz
486 SX (not Dx, no floating point)
2mb of ram
system speaker
I have no idea how gay the video card is
3 1/2 floppy
5 1/4 floppy
256mb hdd
Windows 3.1
12" monitor
i have 1 buried in the graveyard, here it is.
386sx 20mhz
2meg of ram
Xtended VGA trident 512K ISA
2x cdrom
SB 8bit mono ISA 8bit slot
1.2floppy
1.44 drive
130mb harddisk
talk about ancient computer this is one of them that was quite decent in 91
yes I just dig this up out of graveyard so all can see, what ancient really is.
Man, I don't care how slow the rest of your PCs are- the poor guy with a Packard Bell 486 wins MY pity, heh I mean, UGH! That's scraping the bottom of the barrel!
Besides, I'm trying to forget that year I wasted (1998) using a 486-33 to do heavy CAD and programming at work, whist coming home to a PII-400. I mean, geez, my video card practically had more MB RAM than my work PC had megahertz! FYI, I still only have a POS Pentium 233 MMX at work, damn cheapskates...
way back around 1989 or so we had this 8MHz 8088-powered IBM PS/2 at home I really loved. The MCGA monitor really kicked ***- 688 attack sub was great on that sweet little system... You kinda have to look at the PC in the current context of how old it was and what software you have to run. And the 8MHz never once felt slow! Now, anyone forced to use a 486 at this day and age... well... poor bastards
Don't kill yourself over my crappy system, its not my primary PC: My real sustem:
P3 700E@858(will do more but I only have stock cooling)
Abit BF-6
256 Pc-133ram@Cas2
Asus V6800 32mb Geforce DDR
Kenwood 52X CD-ROM
8x4x42 CDRW
Sound Blaster 16bit for Joystick onl
(digital speakers run on USB)
I agree with you, if anyone is running on a 486, I'd start a fund to get him a new PC, escpecially if it was Packard Bell.
Well you can start your charity event now because here is my computer.
486 50mhz
24mb ram
36k modem
2mb rage graphics card
win98-really slow takes 5 minutes to start with programs running.
no joke i built it myself.
I have to go to school if i want to play any games better then doom!
My webserver, which has an uptime of is a Pentium 75 on an AT&T motherboard with 40 megs of EDO and a 420 meg hard drive on a LAN connection. It mainly serves the images I post in forums like this one, and so has 3500+ hits. It is built into a cardboard box and cost in the neighborhood of $35 to build.
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It said "requires Windows 95 or better," so I installed Linux.
It said "requires Windows 95 or better," so I installed Linux.
You know, I've seen some damn long descriptions of where people live, and I was just wondering how freakin' long of a location they actually allow you to write in here. Looks like it's quite a bit. Oh well, if the space is here I'll use it!!! :)
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Thank god I retired it some time ago... but my workhorse used to be:
286 @ 12MHz Packard Bell
1MB Ram (top of the line)
VGA graphics (top of the line)
40MB Hard drive (top of the line)
5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy (rare)
I almost cry when I remember that this system cost around three grand. I do cry when I remember that the Microsoft mouse + MS Paintbrush package cost about three hundred.
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IMO, Mr. Derek Smart is a hypocrite: Only someone who is either (a) lying (b) ashamed of their products (c) just plain ashamed, would hestitate to give out some simple and straight forward information. - Derek Smart, Ph.D.
I think that I may have the record for crappiest system still in operation:
Intel 8086 Processor (runs at 4Mhz!)
250Mb Hard Drive
1200/2400 Internal Modem
5 1/4" Floppy Drive
64K RAM
Windows 1.0 OS (DOS based; no mouse support as mice weren't around then)
12" viewable CRT
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I mean, UGH! That's scraping the bottom of the barrel!
is a Pentium 75 on an AT&T motherboard with 40 megs of EDO and a 420 meg hard drive on a LAN connection. It mainly serves the images I post in forums like this one, and so has 3500+ hits. It is built into a cardboard box and cost in the neighborhood of $35 to build.
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