Do you wish you still had your old computer for Nostalga sake?

[AaronP]

I used to have a 286, it was my first computer, I took such great care of it, I upgraded with with a Sound Blaster, put in a 1x cd rom drive, it was my little baby. I then unloaded it for 900 bucks after a couple years when I decided to get a blazing fast 486 SX33. I have always wondered what happened to my old 286 after the person I sold it too got rid of it.

Is it in some landfill, is it being used somewhere still (yeah right) WHERE IS IT?? ARRGH

I also would like to know what happened to my 486DX2 50 mhz. The SX33 that I got was a POS (packard bell) but I got a great DX2-50 a year later (for FREE thanks to a great guy at Best Buy who did an exchange with no questions asked, those days of Best Buy being cool are long gone).

 

[flood]

I wish i still had my ppro system
that thing was blazing back in the day, esp paired up with my voodoo1 (diamond monster3d! )
reminds me of the good ol quake1 days...

 

[HouRman]

My favorite memoirs date back to OS software like "Direct5". It was a single screen with 5 choices.. MS excel, word, paint, DOS and something else.

I used the paint program and drew a dinasaur and printed it with a very loud dot matrix printer. It was the BEST! Microsoft word was $400 and came with a set of 3 ring binders that was about 3 inches thick to act as a manual. Also had a stack of those large thin floppy discs to act as backup.

Then came a pentium 133, a celeron 433, and my current pentium3 rig. I also have a very old "Mac Classic" which is tiny yet still works!

 

[kjacobs]

I miss my VIC 20 with cassette drive, 300 baud modem, and my 12 inch black and white TV monitor!

 

[krackato]

No.

 

[Gstanfor]

I don't miss any of my former PC's all that much. I still have my beloved Amiga 1200 tucked away in the spare cupboard though. Sometimes I get a litle nostalic for my C64, but not so much for the hardware as for all the great games the machine had in its day.

Greg

 

[Mitzi]

I'm glad I still don't have my first real PC (Pentium 60 with 8Mb RAM and 1Mb Cirrus Logic card etc) because it was big and clunky but I wish I kept hold of the processor - would of made a nice keychain.

 

[Mem]

<< Sometimes I get a litle nostalic for my C64, but not so much for the hardware as for all the great games the machine had in its day. >>




Gstanfor we are showing our age now but yes games in those days had special playability IMHO, sure the graphics look laughable now but playability and gameplay rocked!

 

[Gstanfor]

<< sure the graphics look laughable now but playability and gameplay rocked! >>



Indeed! A lesson game developers today should sit up and take notice of. Graphics are nice and a decent standard of graphics (and sound) is required to help pull me into a game, BUT, they are not the most important part of the game.

Greg

 

[Mavrick007]

I miss my old 486 dx2/66, it was the slowest thing that would still play some of my old games. Heh Maybe I should dig it out of the closet and fire it up.

 

[Ausm]

I miss my C64 and also my PPro 200

Ausm

 

[jkoXP]

mine was pretty good, it was a DX4 100 with 24MBRam, and 500MB hd. ran really fast.. untill i saw a pentium 120

 

[vegetation]

I actually still have my C128 rig fully functional. But I don't turn it on much. The display hurts my eyes (I don't know how I lived with it back then), storage slow (no hard drive of course), and besides, I can run an emulator program on the PC to make it into a super fast overclocked C128.

 

[johndoe52]

My first computer was in apple back in 1992. Ruined my experience. I was just a kid!!!! Dad wouldn't spend money on computers until i finally got to college. So my second computer was a athlon 800, 128 megs of ram, 30 gig hdd. That I sold to my sister...upgrading is a sickness.

 

[Sundog]

I for one am glad I do not have my old computer around.

 

[Woody419]

Nope, I traded my old Kaypro 2 for an ATI Xpert@Play. The card is still being used in my girlfriend's computer.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

No

 

[Sunner]

I still have my Amiga 600 hooked up and working.

Most games on it are still way better than most games I have for my top of the line PC.

But it's starting to feel a bit slow lately, Im probabaly gonna try to find a 1200 or better soon, shouldn't be too expensive these days.

 

[amdskip]

Still have my P166 although it needs a hard drive.

Have a 386 here with the original monitor and keyboard still, works great with windows 3.1 and a 4 meg ram upgrad

 

[MisterDuck]

*sigh*

When we got our 386 with the cyrix math co-processor, it was cool as hell. Toss is a 120 mb hard drive, 4 megs of ram, and a video card with 512k of on board memory (I think this set us back something insane, like five hundred bucks) and we had a pretty sweet computer back in the day. That fifteen inch sony trinitron monitor? wOOt!!

Windows 3.1 - you'll never use another OS like it (thank god).

We finnally trashed this computer just last year. We still had it running 3.1 just for reference - the amazing thing is that for the cost of the video card that thing had, you could build a computer probably ten or twenty times as fast in a number of aspects. Weird.

 

[jcmkk]

I feel young, my first computer was a Pentium MMX 233MHz, 32MB RAM, and a 3GB HD. When I first got it, everyone told me that I would never fill up the HD. Now I have games that take up 3GB on their own. My sister still uses it for net surfing and stuff.

 

[steelthorn]

I was very much a newbie when I first started in computers so I bought a Packard Bell. That was about 9 years ago.
Believe it or not I had alot of fun with that computer. It had all the bells and whistles at the time. It was one of the
first computers to have a CD rom drive etc. Now I wouldn't touch a premade. I buy all my parts and put it together myself.

 

[ViRGE]

I miss my old 486 myself. It ran Second Reality(it was a demo, as in a tech demo similar to the 3DMark series, not a game demo) very well and without complaints. I've never been able to find another machine that'll do that, many will just complain about not having enough free conventional memory.:|

 

[wasamicron]

Mine was a Packard Bell 486 sx33. Came with Windows 3.1, had a 1400 baud modem.

 

[Daovonnaex]

I still have a dozen old Macs, two old athlon systems (one slot A, the other an AMD760 based socket A), and an old PIIICu system.