i wonder what kids growing up nowadays will reflect back on in 20 -30 years ?
my laptop was too slow?
my iphone was too small?
What year? 1GB HD was considered pretty big through ~1996 but 8MB RAM was small by 1993.My first pc had a 1GB HD, 75Mhz CPU, 8MB of RAM
Didn't own a PC (or a cellphone) until 2000... so the 90s were devoted to socializing, sex, hiking, swimming, traveling, going to movies, etc...
Anyone remember this?
My mom had the model 50 and I thought I was the shit because I had . . . . (wait for it) . . . EVGA graphics! 16 simultaneous colors baby!
That didn't exist in 1990.
My fiancée's kid asked what a floppy drive was a couple of months back. He is 15.
I've got a 386 and 486 here too...I think they still work.
These are all my dads computers, some were still powered up until he moved a month or two ago. Wish we still had his Kaypro 10, had a huge 10MB HDD! And a dot matrix printer.
Right now I'm messing with a Slot 1 Pentium 2 533MHz.
Now that I'm messing with it I actually remember it pretty well.
It has a Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2 Ultra), was pretty good back then.
I see 1 double sided 256MB RAM and 1 single sided 128MB stick.
If I recall it started with 1 64MB stick then the 128 then replaced 64 with 256.
It's currently running Win 2k Pro (I recall this with 98SE originally).
Running a 27-28GB HDD...don't recall if that was original or not.
I can't actually find anything about this chip though, it's not a P3. Odd chip.
Have you used a floppy drive recently? Remember how horrible they were? Slow and loud and barely held any data? Well, they're even slower and louder than you remember. Its insane how awful they seem now.
Can't find the exact techno stuff, but this looks close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0oTkrALyA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE89BjSg8S8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjPYJcYYNs
I'll one up you. Anybody ever use one of these bad boys?
SyQuest drives in the early 90s were like Zip Drives on steroids. An entire hard disk platter in a plastic caddy. My parents had them for backing up their two business computers. They had both the 135MB and 270MB models. They've still got a stack of those disks lying around too. CDRW really killed all these off though. Those cartridges weren't cheap.
For most of the 90s, I used Macs. My parents had them for their business, and that's also what the schools had. I had a friend who's dad built custom systems at the time. Though they always seemed like a curiosity to me. Going into the command line to fire up a DOS game seemed like a big step back from Apple's neat GUI. At the time though, Apple didn't have a clue how to design computers much less sell them. Was rough being a Mac fan for awhile there.
My first PC was a Packard Bell 386sx-33 that my folks purchased around '88 or '90 maybe. It came pre loaded with MS-DOS 5.0. I remember playing Wing Commander on it. It was soooo slow but at the time I thought it was awesome.Oh wow. - I remember in the 80's my Dad's IBM XT had a Turbo button on it. We eventually updates to a 386-33 and I thought that it was really fast.
i wonder what kids growing up nowadays will reflect back on in 20 -30 years ?
my laptop was too slow?
my iphone was too small?
Whats even more annoying than the floppy drives are the fans.
This p2 computer is putting out like ~70db of screeching and crunchy sounding fans.
I have super high speed fans in this newer PC, as well as a GPU that can produce 50-60db at max fan...I turned it all up and it's getting drowned out by the old PC running idle. That high pitched screech is actually hurting my ears and making my eyes throb. WTF?!