Back in the day, did any of you own a computer with....

[chuckywang]

a TURBO button???

*raises hand*

 

[SmoochyTX]

*raises hand*

 

[mattjbak]

i knew this was coming from the topic

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Hell yes. I also enjoyed turning off turbo mode whenever I could get to it while my brother was on

 

[Viperoni]

yep

 

[HamburgerBoy]

IIRC my computer did, although I don't remember what was for as I was a Mac person back then. What era did they exist over?

 

[Eli]

w00t!

8MHz baby!

 

[her209]

Yes.

486DX2 66Mhz baby!

 

[Unheard]

From 5 to 7mhz when you hit F8 @ boot!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

yep, even if it wasn't wired to do anything, I had it pressed and lit up

 

[I Saw OJ]

We still have cases at my job in use with turbo buttons.

 

[SlitheryDee]

My parents had one. I'm still not sure what it did...

 

[SparkyJJO]

Yes. On the one computer it actually did speed it up. On the other it just turned a stupid LED on and that was it. Heh, at least I had more bling on the front of my case lol

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: her209
Yes.

486DX2 66Mhz baby!

You just had a case with a turbo button if it was a 486. It had long since done nothing.

IIRC, without the turbo button on, the computer would slow down to 4.77MHz, so you could use older games and such. With it pushed, you had 8MHz.

They may have made it do similar things into the 386 days, but I'm not sure.

 

[Ronstang]

The better question would be did anyone ever have the button set to "non-turbo"?

 

[Shawn]

Yes! Several.

 

[Eli]

Who also knows that instead of using the turbo button, you could use ctrl-alt-<+> or ctrl-alt-<-> to turn it on and off?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Eli
Who also knows that instead of using the turbo button, you could use ctrl-alt-<+> or ctrl-alt-<-> to turn it on and off?

I'm pretty sure that depended on the BIOS.

 

[Luthien]

oh, yeah baby! lol

 

[trmiv]

Not at home, at work I did thought. My first one has one that went from like 4 to 8 or something like that. Then I got upgraded to a 486 66 that was like 33 without the turbo pressed.

 

[Slew Foot]

Anyone have a computer with a cassette tape drive?

<-- Raises hands

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Eli
Who also knows that instead of using the turbo button, you could use ctrl-alt-<+> or ctrl-alt-<-> to turn it on and off?

I'm pretty sure that depended on the BIOS.

There weren't very many different ones in the days that a turbo button actually did something.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: her209
Yes.

486DX2 66Mhz baby!

You just had a case with a turbo button if it was a 486. It had long since done nothing.

IIRC, without the turbo button on, the computer would slow down to 4.77MHz, so you could use older games and such. With it pushed, you had 8MHz.

They may have made it do similar things into the 386 days, but I'm not sure.

With the Turbo button @ 66MHz on it was impossible to play One Must Fall.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

No... although this thread did make me think of my dad's Apple IIc I used to play Space Invaders on.

 

[eelw]

Well, it was more an underclocking button. Anyhow, 20286 6/10MHz.