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!MiKrofT 04-06-2012 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by .Renn.Sport (Post 7877786)
i had one of those as well, but I think mine was slower... it was 8mhz/33mhz (as what was displayed on the case) LOL

didn't even had a sound card! but it ran street fighter II just fine!

then I got a 486 with 8MB ram or something... it felt like it was lightning fast compared to the 386 until windows 95 came out.... took a fucking 10 minutes to boot up!

ever since Pentium era, it was all about gaming systems...
i still have those 3DFX cards lying around somewhere!

Stick fighter ftw!

Oh I had a program that used the PC speaker to emulate a sound card lol.

!MiKrofT 04-06-2012 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bcrdukes (Post 7877566)
Does the turbo button actually do anything? :lol

It just changes the clock rate multiplier I believe.

CorneringArtist 04-07-2012 06:17 AM

My family was given an old Windows computer back in like 1999. Had some DOS-based OS, but couldn't remember exactly which build. Ran Pokemon Blue and Tiger Woods Golf just fine though.

Hehe 04-07-2012 09:56 AM

My first PC was a 386. I remember when I upgraded to a 486 100mhz, the TURBO button would make my apps go nuts. :fuckthatshit:

But I think the first modern glory of computer was the arrival of 3DFX voodoo. I still have my dual monster lying around somewhere. :D

Hondaracer 04-07-2012 11:17 AM

3DFX voodoo 3 with the green box, the blue face/box was so 1999 :P lol

FerrariEnzo 04-07-2012 12:13 PM

I had the 486pc, it hit top speed of 33mhz, with the built-in TURBO button, it was boosted to 66mhz!!!
modem was 14.4k and it ran DOS and windows 3.11 for worrkgroups FAST....

Manic! 04-07-2012 03:29 PM

First family computer was a Commodore 64. Still have the computer somewhere and the monitor is still being used as a TV in our gas station. I still remember load *.* . Favorite game was Boulderdsh.

Second computer was a 486 DX with 105 of hard drive space. Bought a program from someone from the schools computer club called hard drive doubler. It compressed all the files on the computer and uncompressed them as needed. Did not work and almost messed up the whole computer. Got in big shit with my dad and brother.

Third computer was a Pentium 133 from Campus computers Victoria. Had 1 gig of HD space. That was 10 times more space than the last computer. I thought I would never run out of space lol. Also came with 40 3.5 inch floppy disks. didn't know what they were for until it crashed. I was supposed to make an OS recovery disk using all 40 disks. Started messing with the Bios and messed up the HD. Got in big shit again with my brother and dad but was able to fix it.

My first computer that I bought myself was a Pentium 333 form ATIC computers. Bought a Viewsonc 15 inch monitor from Costco for it. Ended up upgrading the HD and video card. That was my baby back in the day.

Presto 04-07-2012 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7878394)
First family computer was a Commodore 64. Still have the computer somewhere and the monitor is still being used as a TV in our gas station. I still remember load *.* . Favorite game was Boulderdsh.

Actually, it's: Load "*",8,1 ;)


The C64 was my 2nd computer. My dad purchased it at K-mart, in Coquitlam. I had to beg him a long time for it.
(The first was a Vic20 with the tape drive). A lot of friends had it, so we swapped a lot of games. My parents still have both Commodore systems in their basement, plus all the accessories and stacks of floppy disks.

winson604 04-07-2012 05:49 PM

This reminds me of the movie Hackers and how their hacking and doing shit at blazing speed which was pretty funny.

I don't remember the specs of my first PC but I will always remember floppy discs, DOS, cd *insert command*. The good ol days

Anjew 04-07-2012 11:27 PM

my first computer (owned by me, not family computer) was a 486dx 33..

i learned so much from that thing.... duke nuken 3d, doom and its awesome aliens mod... tie fighter.... and porn... glorious porn. Each picture took like 30 seconds to load sometimes upto a minute, but i waited every second :joy:

Spoon 04-08-2012 12:06 AM

1984 - Apple 2e or something along the lines, with a green monitor and floppy drive.

FN-2199 04-08-2012 12:13 AM

Man, I remember my parents upgrading our ram a whole 64Mb from 128Mb to 192Mb in the millennium. Sadly, I continued to use it until I bought a laptop in 2008 :alone:

bigzz786786 04-08-2012 12:39 AM

i remember my family's first computer, it didn't have a cd drive

it was dos based and it took upwards to 15 floppy drives to install a single game lol

Jermyzy 04-08-2012 10:44 AM

Haha, I remember our first computer only ran at 25mhz, with a "turbo" button that boosted it to 33mhz :lol

Iceman_2K 04-08-2012 02:21 PM

Anyone here use QEMM to do their memory management? I hated that it didn't work well with Windows.

!MiKrofT 04-08-2012 03:00 PM

I had QEMM and Stacker. I also had Drivespace/Doublespace on at one point too.


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