- Joined
- Dec 26, 2004
I wish I had my old mac, and an older x86 machine, for Doom and Duke Nukem'
damn, those games were fun
damn, those games were fun
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Keeping "ancient" computers around
- Thread starter Celeron_Phreak
- Start date
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2004
- Location
- NYC
Hmm... I took a 1gig pentium III to school for me for just studying (didn't want to be distracted with games this year) it also has 384 megs of ram, 120 gigs of space and thats about it....
Old works for me if it can get me to be productive.
Old works for me if it can get me to be productive.
- Joined
- May 30, 2004
Here is how I class PCs:
Old fashioned:
8088
286
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Super old school:
386
486
Pentium
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Old school:
Pentium II
K6-2
Pentium III
K6-III
Athlon "Pluto" (never seen those) (they are the first Athlons, which debuted in 1999) (they range from 500 mhz to no more than 700 mhz->rare)
Athlon "Orion" (never saw those either!) (from probably 600 mhz to possibly 1.0 ghz!->probably rare)
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Semi-old school (this was my powerhouse of 2001 and 2002!)
Athlon T-bird (This was the most popular kid on the block for old school Athlon'ers) (from 650 mhz to 1.40 ghz) Most of them at 700 mhz and higher probably are T-birds. They are the first Athlons to include integrated L2 cache)
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New:
Athlon XP (these things still can rock)
Athlon 64 (for the future!)
Old fashioned:
8088
286
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Super old school:
386
486
Pentium
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Old school:
Pentium II
K6-2
Pentium III
K6-III
Athlon "Pluto" (never seen those) (they are the first Athlons, which debuted in 1999) (they range from 500 mhz to no more than 700 mhz->rare)
Athlon "Orion" (never saw those either!) (from probably 600 mhz to possibly 1.0 ghz!->probably rare)
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Semi-old school (this was my powerhouse of 2001 and 2002!)
Athlon T-bird (This was the most popular kid on the block for old school Athlon'ers) (from 650 mhz to 1.40 ghz) Most of them at 700 mhz and higher probably are T-birds. They are the first Athlons to include integrated L2 cache)
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New:
Athlon XP (these things still can rock)
Athlon 64 (for the future!)
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2004
Lets see...
these still are working
Compaq notebook 486-33, 500Mb Hd, 8Mb Ram
K6 - 133, 640Mb Hd
Compaq P-Pro 200 dualie server, 256 ram, 3.2Gb Hd
PIII - 233Mhz Dualie, running Knoppix Live CD
Compaq 486 - 66Mhz, 420Mb Hd, 16Mb ram, running Win 3.11
and on....
Used to have an old TRS-80, 32K ram, w/4 5.25 floppy drives (the really big ones)
but sold that to a collector for more that I paid new.
these still are working
Compaq notebook 486-33, 500Mb Hd, 8Mb Ram
K6 - 133, 640Mb Hd
Compaq P-Pro 200 dualie server, 256 ram, 3.2Gb Hd
PIII - 233Mhz Dualie, running Knoppix Live CD
Compaq 486 - 66Mhz, 420Mb Hd, 16Mb ram, running Win 3.11
and on....
Used to have an old TRS-80, 32K ram, w/4 5.25 floppy drives (the really big ones)
but sold that to a collector for more that I paid new.