processors over the years

[wju425]

I started at TI 99/4a when it was affordable. Learned basic and wrote games til I needed more memory to make better games.

Commodore 64 was my dream machine. I enjoyed learning the basic programming on it and later learned some assembly language. I've made arcade games and sold one to Compute! magazine.

Wise 286-8. My friend bought me this system to get me away from the Commodore 64. There I learned the world of IBM and clones. Blew my mind when I saw the possibilities with them.

386sx-16. I bought a bare bone with 8 megs mems for $130 from a fellow on the bbs. The machine I needed to run some games that required "protected mode" that was not available on 286. This is where I was really having fun. from the bbs I found a 1meg video card and sound blaster with speakers. Also had my first windows, the 3.1 and later 3.11.

486dx2-66. That one really ran good. First machine to use EDO mems. Paid a lot to get 32 megs on it.

586-133. I remember I plugged my turbo button to the fsb jumper pins on the mobo. Turbo off is 4x33 (133) and turbo on is 4x40 (160).

Cyrix 166mx. First I got 64 megs mems. Later upgraded to Cyrix 233mx and after that P1-233mmx. Bought my first windows 95 OSR cd. Before it was floppies.

K6-2/350. I ran this at 5.5x66 (366) as the mobo don't like 100fsb even though it's supposed to be able to.

K6-2/533. Upgraded from 350 and ran this at 5.5x95 (522.5).

Duron-1ghz. I bought this barebone online for the first time. Bought DIMMS for the first time. An 128 pc100 and later another 128 pc100. It's performance has really impressed me. Great machine.

Today, I upgraded the barebone with new mobo and xp1700 palo. Later replaced cpu with xp1700 tbred A now running as xp2000. Replace mems with 256 pc133 and later another 256.

 

[IndianScout]

Commodore 64, 8086, 8086-Z30 10mhz, 286 Zenith backplane system, 486 DX50, AMD K6/2 350, AMD 1.3g, AMD XP too many to list, P4 2.2 400 fsb, P4 2,8c 800

 

[Mr_Obvious]

Amstrad 6400 @ 640khz (not a typo, thats khz) still have, like new
K6-2 300 @ 333,
k6-2 500 @ 535. untill the psu freaked and took out everything.
950 duron @ 1197, 1.85 vcore
1300 duron @ 1600, 133x12.5
1600 duron @ 1661
1800 duron, stock
XP2200+@1891 140x13
Several more burried in the backyard (went too far)

 

[MRD]

You guys are so young!

My first computer was a TI that hooked up to the television and which had a tape recorder attachment that you could use to save your data onto regular audio cassettes. I blew that up...

My first PC was a... PC! Well it was a clone actually. It was an ARC (I think they are out of business now) turbo XT. When you hit ctrl alt minus it would go from the normal 4.77mhz mode to the "turbo" 7.0 mhz mode. It came loaded with a 20mb hard drive and 640KB of ram. It even had 16KB CGA graphics (320x200x4 !! colors).

My father got his M.S. in computer science in the late 70's, and as a child my sister and I used to play with his punch cards (for anyone who doesn't know, before magnetic media, data was stored on a stack of cards with little punch holes... they had to be kept in order and then read in by a machine that shuffled through them and shot light through the holes onto a sensor). In the process, we'd of course get them all out of order and then he would have to put them back in order. He never got mad, but he kept trying to find better places to hide them.

I remember going to Yale and playing around on their computers. My sister and I used to like to play snake, this game where you would go up/down/left/right and move the number of spaces of the number to your side. The goal was to eat as many numbers as possible before hitting your tail.

Oh, and in the early 80's, I remember my father bringing home Compaq Computer's first portable. It was larger than a regular full tower case and weighed about 50-60 lbs. It was bigger than I was at the time. It had a 5 inch green low resolution monochrome CRT and dual 360k floppies. The keyboard would fold down revealing from the front much like the much later lunchbox portables. Of course there was no battery, you had to plug it in.

HAH! I found a graphic on the web of what they look like!

http://www.sell.com/2KPZP

Wow things have changed.

 

[hafa]

You guys are so young!...

Now I take exception to that! My Atari is every bit as archaic as your TI!

FWIW, my father was a Customer Engineer with IBM from 1958 to 1980. He used to take us into the office back in the early 70s and show us the mainframes with their miles of cabling and vacuum tubes...quite impressive in its day.

 

[MRD]

Lol... yes your atari is quite archaic as well! I just find it funny that people now think of Pentium 90's as vintage.

 

[IndianScout]

oh I forgot one, I had an old Timex Sinclair... what a POS that was, never worked right

 

[Foxie3a]

P2 400 @ 464mhz.

P4 1.5ghz @ 1.6ghz

P3 1ghz @ 1.07ghz

Making Dual P3-S 1.3ghz

I'd have to say the highest quality one was the P2 400. Solid processor. Especially with good cooling. Ran in dual, awesome.

 

[superamd]

1: Tandy (radioshack) 64

2: c-64

3: IBM 8086

4: every mac/pc chip made

5: athlon xp-m @ 2520mhz

 

[Dragonprince]

Started back in the mid 90's .....

Pentium 100 (still have - call me sentimental)
Pentium 166
Pentium 233 w/mmx
AMD K62-400 (still have and works)
AMD K62-550
AMD K62+ 500
AMD K63-450
AMD Slot A 750 (in daughters rig)
AMD Athlon AXIA 1 Ghz (would hit 1.4 stable - sold on EBay)
AMD Duron 1Ghz (hits 1.3Ghz - still have in backup rig)
AMD Atlon XP 1800 (died in horrible heat sink accident....)
AMD AthlonXP 2400 (in wifes rig)
AMD AthlonXP 2500 Barton (will hit 2.3Ghz - sitting on desk waiting for new rig build)
AMD AthlonXP 2400M (in my main rig chugging along at 2.4 Ghz - need a better board)

Just realized I could be why AMD is still in business

 

[OC Noob]

486 SX25 (25 mhz) w/ 1 x CD-Rom (200 mb HD I think)

90 Mhz Pent w/ 500 mb HD

133 mhz cyrix (166+ first PR chips)

200 mhz Pent. O/C to 225 mhz (that thing could fly!)

333a celly O/C'ed to 400 mhz on Abit BH6 (or something)

500 mhz PIII @ 700 mhz still on the Abit above

P4 1.6a @ 2.56 mhz Abit BD7-II

Athlon 1600+ pally stock (poor overclocker)

Athlon Tbred A 1800+ @ 2 ghz

P4 1.8 ghz @ 2.96-2.8 depending on who was using it

Athlon Tbred B 2100+ @ 2.4 ghz

Athlon Tbred B 2100+ @ 2.5 ghz

Now the current rig in sig and a Celly 2.0 @ 2.9 in the BD7-II

Many, many dollars and even more enjoyment.


ps, non-PCs TRS80 Color computer and C64. Also, a Philips CD-i for about a week before returning it and getting the 25 mhz 486.

 

[Chris_F]

Intel 8088 4.77MHz

Intel PII 233 MMX

Intel Celeron 500

Intel Celeron 1.3

Intel P4 3.0C

 

[jcsurg]

you guys are young
punchcards on IBM 360
Wang with tube display
First TI calculators
Apple
IBM pc
286
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
386 dx
Pentium 100 @120
Pentium 166 mx
dual Celeron 366@550
AMD tbred xp [email protected]
P4 [email protected]

 

[OC Noob]

you guys are young
punchcards on IBM 360
Wang with tube display
First TI calculators
Apple
IBM pc
286
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
386 dx
Pentium 100 @120
Pentium 166 mx
dual Celeron 366@550
AMD tbred xp [email protected]
P4 [email protected]

Well, I didn't want to say anything and date myself, BUT...


I was using the mechanical loom with the punch card type sheets that IBM used to develope its punch cards

Its funny that the first 0's and 1's were holes or no holes. That is some ancient code

 

[anonymous3]

P90 @ 133 (killed it...)

P2 233 @ 300 (still running @ friend))

P3 1Ghz @ 1.3 Ghz (sold)

P4 2.0A @ 3.4 Ghz (that one was awesome..BEAST) (sold)

currently: see sig

 

[hafa]

Well, I didn't want to say anything and date myself, BUT...Its funny that the first 0's and 1's were holes or no holes. That is some ancient code

OK, FINE! My Atari was a bleepin' rocket ship and I'm just an uppity whipper-snapper! Man, I KNOW when I've been out-archaiced!

 

[OC Noob]

OK, FINE! My Atari was a bleepin' rocket ship and I'm just an uppity whipper-snapper! Man, I KNOW when I've been out-archaiced!

rofl, you wipper-snappers and your 640k memory!

 

[12am]

Here is my computer history:
IBM Displaywriter 8086 5mhz
Intel 486Dx2 50mhz
Intel 486 Overdrive 100mhz
Intel Pentium 166mmx
Intel Pentium 2 350mhz (overclocked it to 392mhz, and gave it to my father, he still uses it as his buisness computer)
Intel Pentium 3 866mhz (overclocked to 1007mhz, later sold it to make way for my next pc)
AthlonXp1600+Palomino (overclocked to 1710mhz)
AthlonXp1700+TbredB (was the infamous JIUHB core, that is until I fried it because of a bad hs install never even got to run once!)
AthlonXp2100+TbredB (overclocked to 2366mhz using it right now)
AthlonXp2500+Barton Mobile (overclocked to 2500mhz, in my second pc until I can swap mobo's between my second and main rig)

Well that is my cpu history.

 

[Red_rose]

heres my systems

- Cyrix 6x86MX 200Mhz, my system deadman311 gave me

- amd druon 1.2ghz, ran stock speed till I traded it

- amd athlon xp 1600, ran stock till it blew up

- amd athlon xp 2000, ran it at 1680mhz untill it died

- amd athlon xp 2200, thats the one I have now

 

[Quailane]

Mine is easy.

333Mhz G3 iMac (strawberry color); I use it to this day when my rig is down from constant tinkering.

1.4Ghz duron; bought when first came out, had it at 2.1Ghz, my stepdad now has it at 2.5Ghz

2500+ locked barton; have it running at 2.2Ghz