Horsepower
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In 1993 I paid $280 for a 720k stick for my Compaq Presario, but worse yet in the 80's I cought an IBM PC (no hard drive), color monitor, oki printer, and Hayes (speedy) 1200 baud modem for $5500!
Originally posted by: vegetation
Now the Amiga 1000.... that was going from night to day!
The Amigas were indeed incredible. From then on, the biggest difference in speed I've ever noticed from a single cpu upgrade was the 68K 7MHz to 68030 @ 25MHz with 32-bit RAM, ROM image copied to main memory and using cpublit or whatever that thing was called to make the text scroll quicker. I still remember how much faster the system became..
Yeah, a change for the worse, Amiga > PC.Not really... Going from a 7MHz Amiga to a 486DX2-66 was Night and Day.
Originally posted by: alewisa
Originally posted by: vegetation
Now the Amiga 1000.... that was going from night to day!
The Amigas were indeed incredible. From then on, the biggest difference in speed I've ever noticed from a single cpu upgrade was the 68K 7MHz to 68030 @ 25MHz with 32-bit RAM, ROM image copied to main memory and using cpublit or whatever that thing was called to make the text scroll quicker. I still remember how much faster the system became..
Hehehe I still have several Amigas.
1. B2000, with GVP G-Force 68030 40MHz, PicassoII, ICD FFV, SuperIO board, GG2 ISA card, Nexus SCSI (for when the GVP is switched out), 32mb RAM, Internal SCA copier, ROMSwitch, and loadsa other boards and mods. Still used
2. A4000/030 with WarpDrive 68040/ (o/cfrom 25 to 40MHz), C64-3D gfx
3. A1200 in tower case with 68060 card, PC board, and a few bits n bobs.
4. Vanilla 1200. Given to me, never used!
Never did get an A1000! CPUBlit was a godsend when using CygnusED. There is (was) some good RTG stuff going around for gfx cards.
Best of all? The abillity to boot up and working in under 2minutes. There again, I still have a Commodore64, 1541 drive, and EasyScript ROm cartridge. I can switch on and be word processing in under 3 seconds (getting a bit longer now as the machine is nigh on 20years old!)
Ahem... off-topic wibble over!
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
And people complain about the high price of the geforceFX!Diamond Stealth 64 4MB video card - $600
I don't know what's worse... still driving that car, or still using a C64.Originally posted by: joshg
Heh...
I still remember the day when my dad traded a car for a Commodore 64 plus $100
Yes, he traded a whole, complete, running car for it!
The person who he traded it to still drives that car to work the last time that I saw him (probably around 2-3 months ago). Wow!
The C64 is long gone, though, however... One of the coolest things about it was that we used a standard television set instead of an "official" computer monitor!
Originally posted by: Whitedog
In 2013 we'll be cooling our overclocked computers with liquid nitrogen. Air cooling with be a thing of the past. At the rate it's going, air cooling will be gone in 3 years.
There will be 1GB DDR Dimms laying in the drawer where my old 8 and 16 MB simms are not at RIP. Memory Modules will be like 128GB instead of MB and will have to be cooled with a HS/fan like the video cards are.
Our 120GB 8MB cache IDE's will be holding down paper where it would be inconcievable to think that an OS could be installed on such a hard drive. (my first 486 had a 250MB HD... Now, you can't even fit your My Documents folder on one, much less an OS.
HD's will be in TB size with 256MB of cache.
Internet connection speeds will be 100MB/s at your home.... but it will still take you an hour to load a webpage as a webpage will be around 150MB in size... (I remember when webpages were average 2-5k minus graphics, now they are ALL GRAPHICS).
We will still be using a mouse and keyboard. Yes, they got it all wrong in Star Trek!
a 27" flat panel will be the standard monitor (drewl).
Have I missed anything? :clock: