[Dubbedoutgeo27]

Okay, if anyone this post is just a waste of space, I'll gladly delete it...
but


I HAVE to post a link to this http://www.dumpinggoods.com/dumpingg...ic=CP-INT-0002

lol, I found this pretty funny, its amazing how far technology has come oin the last several years huh? Its weird how obsolete this is now...

And anybody who spent several hundred dollars on a pentium2 a few years ago, its normal that you feel kinda suicidal here, huhaha.


Cheers,
Casey

[Nexus Realized]

lol $1.99 I guess it's not bad as a keychain. Probably more for the shipping.

[Dubbedoutgeo27]

funny part is, if you go to another item, it shows a little ad for the PII at the top, and its like $3.99 or something with a huge red x through it, lol...this way you know your getting a deal.

[Shelnutt2]

My P2 450 is still chugging along perfectly fine....I think they were on f the better built pentiums...its amazing 7 year later and not a flinch in preformance and its was abused badly(due mostly to my gaming)...

[Shelnutt2]

My P2 450 is still chugging along perfectly fine....I think they were on f the better built pentiums...its amazing 7 year later and not a flinch in preformance and its was abused badly(due mostly to my gaming)...

[V6 Knight]

i still remember my P2, it was a good system for during that time.

[Mr_Fuchs]

lol u can build a p2 system for 30 bucks

[CJ-5]

I've got an old Gateway Performance 450. It's PII cpu and 440bx chipset somehow made it into a PIII, at least that's what Gateway told me to justify the $3000 price tag in 1999. It still works great for web surfing if you don't get the latest and greatest version of MSN, AOL, etc.

Also, had a Gateway 2000 in 1994. It was around $2500 and had a whopping 8Kb of ram and a 450Kb Hdd. I just booted it up last week after 6 years and it still worked.

Just puts in prespective as to what all of this high priced stuff of today will be worth in 5 to 10 years.

Edit: should be 8Mb of ram and 424 Mb Hdd

[Mr_Fuchs]

^ those specs seem warped.. 1994 8kb of ram ?? in 1995 didnt windows 95 require 8mb of ram ? I know even the powerful windows 3.11 wouldnt run on 8kb. you got robbed if you paid 2500 for it even in 94

however ur right about the 3000 dollar price tag on the p3 in 1999

[CJ-5]

You've got a sharp eye Mr_Fuchs, my appologies for the error and thank you for pointing it out .

I just looked at the specs again and it was 8Mb of ram and 424 Mb Western Digital HDD. I believe the 8Mb of ram was an upgrade from standard 4Mb and yes when I tried to upgrade to Win 95 from 3.11 it did crash. When I finally got Win 95 to work is when I bought the awesome PIII and yes I did feel like I got ripped off . But then again I thought it (Gateway 2000) was going to be so much better then the Apple IIe that it was replacing.

The PIII cost so much because my wife wanted MS Office and of course we had to have the game package.

[AlabamaCajun]

In the 90s I spent close to $20,000US for 4 computers 4 printers and a scanner. Today I can order 4 Athlon 64 939 or Pentium4 775 Systems with 250G drives for $2000
4 printers and 4 scanners for another $2000 ( 2 are 11x17 paper printers).

On top of that the quality of the machines will be better. The machines from the 90s were not high performance for their time, that would have added another 2Gs to the list.
Hardware.
Custom 386sx 1 meg ram 256color 600x800 40mg HD (hahahahahahahahahahahah (gasp, catch breath).
Comtrade 486dx33, 4MB, 120 meg HD, 16bit color 1024. Still runs today, did they really take that long to boot?
Comtrade 486dx66, 8MB, 240 meg HD, 24bit STB 1024 fast video for it's time.
Quantex Pentium 133, 32MB, 1.2G HD, 24bit ATI 1280x1024 Finally able to see DukeNukem 3D at ok FPS. Gave to Parents.
HP300XL wide format color printer (huge machine) finnaly put it by the road for a free grab by the first person to see it.
HP4V Wide format laser, still in operation today, best printer but low ROI (took 8 years to get money back from online sales).
HPIIIP still wating to sell for a few bucks, works great needs toner.
StarMicronics DOT MATRIX, gave away to parents.
HP Flatbed Scanner Large format, gave to parents.

Time not spent drinking in bar 40 weekends time $50 * 10 years = $20000 (Had to party at least once a month). Either way you look at it, the money would have been spent. Today the cost of living, (Home,Utils, Trans & Food) exceeds that every year!

[fordf250]

I took the HSF of my old pIII and put some as3 on it last year for fun and it ran like a new computer and its as solid is they get,good cpus!Used pII and PIIIs are easy to find and cheap, but the mbs are not.

[CJ-5]

Your PIII has a heatsink fan! I'm impressed. My PIII just has a duct dropping down from the PS which draws air over the CPU heatsink. Apparently this was enough to cool my 450 mhz processor. It's never overheated but the exhaust air from the power supply has been pretty warm on occasion.

[ThePCGuy]

Haha, I still use my PIII 500Mhz Asus P3B-F combo machine. The motherboard was originally in a customer's computer and died prematurely. We swapped the board out and kept trying to get Asus to honor their warranty. Finally we let it sit for about a year. I had almost forgotten about it and was about to throw it away when I figured I'd call Asus and try one last time. Well they sent me an RMA number and it is all mine now . It is my Mame arcade machine . That story happened back in 2000 or so. It's between cases (using it's case temporarily for my HTPC that I'm working on).





In fact I just got this Gem recently. I tested it out, it's working very well. If I can't sell it, it's going to be a small game machine for my 5yo nephew.



I've also got an old Compaq presario that was donated to me in place of payment for working on said computer. It's got a K6-2 500 with 256MB of SDRAM. I put a wifi pci card in it and gave it to my younger sister for IMs, Email, Webcam, etc. It's running Windows XP Professional . Runs along quite nicely too.

Then I have a Compaq Workstation that was being thrown out that is a PIII 800Mhz machine. I put a cdrw drive in it and cleaned it up. Put XP on it and gave it to another sister of mine to use while they were in Louisiana (Bro-in-law is in the Army, stationed in Louisiana). They just got back. It ran like a champ.

[Shelnutt2]

Its funny how My Gateway 450 MHz P2 with windwos 98 starts faster than every other computer in ym house except my mom's new gateway with a intel 530 processor. They turn on about the same. I only wish my dad woulda paid 50 bucks back in 98 to get the upgrade to 98SE...we actually bought this computer in 97 and had to wait 3 weeks for gateway to ship us 98 (pending microsft's release). Darn I love that machine. You willn't find any files that will download faster than on the machine. If you blink sometimes you miss the windows updates....


Should I post pics of this monster?

[3DFlyer]

I'm hgaving flashbacks!

[Tc3 Toad]

looking around more on that site. You can get 2 free for the price of shipping.

linky

[maelstromracing]

I just got rid of this old K6-200 that worked. 255MB from 1993 in it still works. Now if only I could load Win2K on that small hardrive. Deadbeat tenant left their Dell GX1 II-350 when they got evicted, trying to find a good use for it....file server/print server?

edit: WTF, I needed a new HSF and some memory heat spreaders, got me 2 PII266 for about $2.50 more in shipping. I will find a use for them. Someone always needs their old crap fixed. Hmm $1.25 a CPU.....6 pack my choice in trade....woot!

[mc9180]

wow... the good ol' days

[aNTiChRisT]

They weren't working on such tiny scales then... IMO the latest 90/65nm CPUs won't last as long, and will possibly degrade before they reach the lifetime of these P2/PIII machines.

~t0m