A blast from the past

[Chaotic42]

A 600 isn't old. My friend still has a Celery 333.

I remember my C64 and later my 4.77MHz 8088. I always wanted to put a hard drive in that thing.

Oh, and I remember Archon!

The manual said that if you could figure out how to run the game without having the disk in at startup, then you need to be writing games for them and not hacking their stuff.

 

[Gza]

Still got my old desktop in the other room:

Asus P2L97 mobo
PII 266 @ 300
128 RAM (upgraded from 64)
Hercules GF2 MX400 (upgraded from an ATI All In Wonder, with the addition of a Diamond Monster Voodoo II later)
SB Live! Value (upgraded from an AWE64 Value)
4GB Maxtor + 13.6GB Fujitsu (used to be 4GB + 384MB)
24x matsushita CD
V.90 56k US Robotics
Win98SE

^ marked the real beginning of my FPS "career"

Still got my 486 box in the storage as well:

Full tower
486DX-66
4MB RAM (upgraded to 8 later and was amazed at the difference - was a big Nascar Racing nut back then)
4x CD
some Ess Audio card (SB Pro emulated)
some Cirrus Logic vid card
Win 3.1

^ my multimedia "experience" consisted of surfing through my encyclopedia CD, in the hopes of finding pics and sound clips; I also had this talking calulator, where it would read out the numbers inputted, and yes, I was amazed like no other; and lastly, X-Wing / Tie Fighter owned me

 

[hopejr]

I still have a 486. In fact it's sitting on the floor behind me
Specs:
25MHz Cyrix 468-SL (i think)
16MB RAM
487MB HDD
36x CD-ROM (upgraded this too )
ESS-audio drive sound card
S3 TRIDENT video card (i think, can't remember)
Windows 95B

I used to have an IBM JX (8086 based) with 256KB RAM (yeah, that's KB). It had 2 3.5" floppy drives, 2 cartridge drives, CGA monitor, infra-red keyboard, etc, and it was black.
I also had a 80286, with 512KB RAM, 30MB hdd, DOS 6.0 (lol), 5.25" floppy drive, hercles video card and a monochrome (green) monitor.

 

[Trente]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: karnick
i got a blast from the past for you: overclocking by moving jumpers

That's not the past. Even as recent as 2000 I was overclocking Duron 700 on my Asus A7V with jumpers and pencil trick.

My Asus P3V4X (bought in Feb 2000) had no jumpers on the PCB at all, just DIP switches. I was also able to O/C through the BIOS alone = "jumperless".

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Still waiting for my new video card to come in for my computer, so in the meantime I've switched back to my old E-Monster 600. This thing is SWEET.

600 MHZ PIII
64 MB of SDRAM
20 gig 5200 RPM hard drive
8MB NVidia Vanta LE Video Card
Windows 98 SE

WITH Starcraft still in the CD Player (36X, oh hell yeah)! I tell you what, the nostalgia I've got going on right now is incredible. I almost never want that other video card to come in. Did I mention this computer came pre-loaded with Star Office Suite? KILLER RIG!!!

stick in like 192 more mb's of ram (SD ram is rediculously cheap) and you have a computer capable enough for most needs. heck, that could probably outperform a computer double that speed on windows XP

 

[Regs]

It's still better than my 4 year old Dell with a 700 Mhz Celeron. Damn computer made even war craft 3 stutter on 1024x768.

 

[2HededMonster]

Believe it or not, my primary (and only) rig is a PII 233, 512 RAM, 6Gig HD. Still killin' time with 33.6 dial-up, and I don't even remember what video card it has. This thing was upgraded from a PII 75 after a lightning strike and is in desperate need of the trash heap.

 

[wickedone]

I dont have this anyomre but my first PC was a IBM clone from Radio Shack. I think this was back in 1984, I daont rember what CPU it had but I do rember it didnt have a Hard Drive Just a 5 or 5 1/2 flppy drive. It was so advanced it ran all programs from the Floppy. I played some of the original D&D games on it mostly ad a few real time War bord games. and had a printer that let me do reports I make up for work.

I rember seeing a Amiga and the first Appel's for the Firs time the Amiga was and I think still is a PC that was way ahead of it's time. It used a 3 1/2 Flpppy that was cased in Hard Plastic and the graphics could didplay more than todays PC's . That was a lot for a PC in the Early 80's

 

[Megatomic]

ARCHON!! Oh man that was my favorite game.

 

[meltdown75]

archon was definitely a classic.

when i'm feeling retro i go into the garage and play Track N Field or Hyper Sports on my P133. Mame rules!

I have a Duron 900 sitting around here somewhere that I'm going to put together and play with too... not old enough to be a classic but fun to abuse.

 

[bobalong]

Originally posted by: wisdomtooth
I still got a Commodore 64 in my closet somewhere and piles of 5.25 " double-density double-sided floppies full of games on them.. Pity I no longer have a working 1541 drive, otherwise I'd play those games too.

Raise your hand if you remember Archon!

I have a 5.25" drive under my desk - pm if interested

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Young punks. As if a 600mhz computer is nastolgia worthy. I'm thinking you have to at least be pre-pentium era to be worthy of such a title.

No kidding. When I want nostalgia, I will fire up my old atari 800. If I want more power I will fire up the Amiga 500.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: wickedone
I dont have this anyomre but my first PC was a IBM clone from Radio Shack. I think this was back in 1984, I daont rember what CPU it had but I do rember it didnt have a Hard Drive Just a 5 or 5 1/2 flppy drive. It was so advanced it ran all programs from the Floppy. I played some of the original D&D games on it mostly ad a few real time War bord games. and had a printer that let me do reports I make up for work.

I rember seeing a Amiga and the first Appel's for the Firs time the Amiga was and I think still is a PC that was way ahead of it's time. It used a 3 1/2 Flpppy that was cased in Hard Plastic and the graphics could didplay more than todays PC's . That was a lot for a PC in the Early 80's

Hey, I remeber those computers from 10 years ago back at school! I can't believe it was that long ago and I also can't believe we played games off floppy discs.

 

[ryker]

I'm currently using a 166mmx, 4 gig drive, voodoo3. The reason I found this place was because I am looking to upgrade this computer I bought 6 years ago. Gonna go amd 64 and 939 hopefully in the next few months.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Young punks. As if a 600mhz computer is nastolgia worthy. I'm thinking you have to at least be pre-pentium era to be worthy of such a title.

Does a computer made from wire-wrap boards out of individual chips count? With 8" drives that look like they came from WWI-era tanks? Hehe. Ok, technically, it wasn't mine, it was given to me by an engineering-type friend. Should have donated it to a computer museum, I guess. Still have some of the floppies.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Heck, I was still using my outdated rig last week before my A64 3000+ breathed life over the weekend!

It's in my rigs, but in short it's a Slot 1 PIII-550 with 384MB RAM. It was originally a PII-350 with 64MB, but that changed a long time ago. Man, that WS440BX board was sweet for its time. Couldn't game on it with todays stuff, but considering I got over 6 years out of it without a single non-user caused error and not a single byte of lost data, (bought it in '98) I sure got my money's worth.

My kids use the old salvaged Dell, a Celery466 that still runs Win98! I actually use it too for Duke Nuke'em (yeah, the old DOS one) and Wolfenstein. Some things just don't like XP. Thank God for old PC's!!!!

 

[imported_sphinx]

I'm still using my old HP with a Celeron 500, 128mb ram, 20gb hd, onboard video/sound, win 98 se. I only keep it around because I haven't had a single problem with it. I'm not a gamer, so it doesn't matter.

 

[imported_sphinx]

Forgot to mention. I have a old Packard Bell running windows 3.11 laying around somewhere.

 

[bluemax]

One day when I have cash and room to spare, I'll get myself a Tandy 1000 machine (best of the Tandy 1000's the TL/3 likely). My 7.14MHz Tandy 1000SX (8088) was my first IBM-compat and sure got me hooked on PC's. Even more than my TI99 4/a before it! Still have ALL my old floppies!