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What's a Pentium 5?
Probably a P4 with a 2 cycle engine.
Your first computer
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Probably a P4 with a 2 cycle engine.
Yeah, I remember the modem sound, too. Bliss. 
Quickly followed by someone in the apartment cursing because you had just inadvertently interrupted their phone call. 
Quickly followed by someone in the apartment cursing because you had just inadvertently interrupted their phone call. 
I remember installing software on your computer meant having to know all sorts of goofy ass number and settings for your video and sound cards.
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I miss managing my own IRQ settings. *sigh*
An HP, purchased in 1999. I think it sported an eight or nine gig hard drive with 32 ram. I can't remember the processing speed. It ran Windows 98, and I played games like The Sims, SimCity 2000, Elite Force, and Armada on it. I remember it having a 'zip' drive. In 2005 I moved to a better machine (though I can only remember its ram, 256), and in 2009 I bought a proper gaming rig.
Though I don't have money to buy games, so I'm still playing stuff from 2004 on it.
Though I don't have money to buy games, so I'm still playing stuff from 2004 on it.
My stepfather worked on those missions. I remember him saying the Mac I had in 1990 could have run like 5 NASAs in the 60's. Anecdotally, my first exposure to the "internet" was when he brought home a print out of Star Trek trivia for me circa 1988 or so, so I spent the next 5 years until I got to college thinking the internet was a bunch of star trek nerds exchanging nerditudes.
And then I found out I was right.
GRR indeed.. especially because else it will refuse anything higher than 60Hz for my 17" Vision master pro screen..
H Freq/ V Freq: 27-96 / 50-160 I know it by heart nowadays..
Another oldie but goodie from my collection.. I own a Conner CP3204F like the one in the picture, its a 3'5" full hight IDE drive 204Mb in capacity, its about as tall as two modern drives stacked on top of eachother, it must have been a very expensive drive, manufacturing costs were probably high, since it has a 4 platter assembly and 8 read/write heads, also I own a much later 210Mb drive from Conner, a CFS 210A which has only two platters, must have cost less that hlaf of the CP3204F and its a MUCH faster drive.
I'll do a complete PC history. Probably easier.
1. Amiga 600 Commodore. Circa 1992. Disposed of. Wish it wasn't.
2. Pentium 166 MMX. 32MB RAM. 2MB Onboard ATi Rage II+ Graphics. 4GB IBM Quantum Fireball (before IBM sold their Hard Drive division to Hitachi, where they are now called Deathstars^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hskstars. Eventually upgraded to 128MB RAM and Pentium 233 MMX. Disposed of.
4. Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Northwood Core with 512MB RAM on an Intel D845EBG2 motherboard, one 80GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive and Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP8X Graphics Card. Eventually upgraded to 3.06Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM and Geforce 8600 graphics. Still works.
5. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB RAM on an Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard, with Geforce 8600 Graphics card, and a Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro Sound Card. Broke the motherboard by touching it while installing RAM without Anti-static precautions.
6. Current PC is AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU, 2GB RAM on an Asus M2N32-SLi Motherboard, Geforce 9800 Graphics card, with the same Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro Sound Card as previous system. Originally installed 2 x 320GB Maxtor drives to start, one is now dead. Added 1.5TB drive, and later a 1TB Drive that is now failing.
1. Amiga 600 Commodore. Circa 1992. Disposed of. Wish it wasn't.
2. Pentium 166 MMX. 32MB RAM. 2MB Onboard ATi Rage II+ Graphics. 4GB IBM Quantum Fireball (before IBM sold their Hard Drive division to Hitachi, where they are now called Deathstars^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hskstars. Eventually upgraded to 128MB RAM and Pentium 233 MMX. Disposed of.
4. Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Northwood Core with 512MB RAM on an Intel D845EBG2 motherboard, one 80GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive and Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP8X Graphics Card. Eventually upgraded to 3.06Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM and Geforce 8600 graphics. Still works.
5. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB RAM on an Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard, with Geforce 8600 Graphics card, and a Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro Sound Card. Broke the motherboard by touching it while installing RAM without Anti-static precautions.
6. Current PC is AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU, 2GB RAM on an Asus M2N32-SLi Motherboard, Geforce 9800 Graphics card, with the same Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro Sound Card as previous system. Originally installed 2 x 320GB Maxtor drives to start, one is now dead. Added 1.5TB drive, and later a 1TB Drive that is now failing.
IBM and Quantum are seperate manufacturers, the Quantum Fireball series were pretty fast and reliable, IBM's DTLA's of that time were great too, it all went wrong with the 75GXP.. had one of those, after a few months it just spinned up but didn't respond to anything and wasn't recognized by the computer, RMA'd it, got it back and it worked a few years more but it always made all kinds of vague noises even when idling, a few years ago I switched in the machine and got the tell tale chhhhrrrrr CLICK, chhhhrrrrr CLICK, chhhhrrrrr CLICK and again dead as a mutton.
I got a Commodore 64 in '84 or '85 (cant' remember exactly when). I had that until I bought my Mac Classic in 1991.
My computer history:
1. Atari 800 XL
2. 286
3. 386
4. 486 DX
5. Early Pentium based machine, self built
6. Sun Sparcstation
7. Pentium III based machine, self built
8. Mac PowerBook
9. Dell laptop
10. Pentium 4 based machine, self built
11. Macbook Pro, which I still use.
The 286 and 386 ran different versions of Windows, the 486 and the Pentiums had different versions of Linux (at first Slackware, later Red Hat and then Fedora), the PowerBook and the Dell ran Debian and the Macbook Pro runs Snow Leopard.
1. Atari 800 XL
2. 286
3. 386
4. 486 DX
5. Early Pentium based machine, self built
6. Sun Sparcstation
7. Pentium III based machine, self built
8. Mac PowerBook
9. Dell laptop
10. Pentium 4 based machine, self built
11. Macbook Pro, which I still use.
The 286 and 386 ran different versions of Windows, the 486 and the Pentiums had different versions of Linux (at first Slackware, later Red Hat and then Fedora), the PowerBook and the Dell ran Debian and the Macbook Pro runs Snow Leopard.
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I miss my Pentium 60.
It was a MAC POWERBOOK 520c in the '90s.
Ohh! I got four of them, if you assemble the parts, i mean. Only one is working though. Lovely machine.
My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. (Yes, they used to make computers )
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My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. (Yes, they used to make computers
I had a cousin who had an old TI machine back in the 80's.
My first was the C64. My dad bought one from a neighbor that I hooked up to a 20' television set so I could play my vast collection of duplicated floppies!
My first PC was a 75mhz Pentium with 8MB of RAM and the brand new Windows 95! Eventually I upgraded it to a P133, around 32MB of RAM, and Windows 98.
My next system was a Gateway with a 500Mhz PIII and 512MB of RAM in 2000.
3rd I built myself - a 1.9Ghz P4 with Windows XP.
Finally my most recent self build system is a Core 2 Quad 6600. I skipped Vista thankfully, and went from XP straight to Windows 7.
Since it appears that everyone lists their systems here are mine. Note that these are main machines, not backups, servers, HTPC's and so on, then i'd use the up bandwidth. I build computers for a living. 
Desktops:
Pentium 2 233/266/400mhz, 128/256mb ram, 4 summin GB HDD.
AMD Duron 1.1ghz, 512mb ram, 40 gb
AMD Athlon XP 1.5/2.0ghz, 768mb ram, 40+40gb hdd
Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz, 1gb ram, 250gb hdd, GF8400
AMD Phenom x4 2.3@3.0ghz, 6gb ram, 1TB HDD, HD4850/GF8800GTX
AMD Phenom 2 X6 3.2@4.0ghz, 16gb ram, 2tb HDD+ 120gb SSD, 2x HD6970
Laptops:
Lap Power (unknown series) Pentium MMX 233mhz, 160mb ram, 3.1gb HDD
Apple Powerbook G3 Pismo, G3-400/G4-500mhz, 64/1024MB ram, 6/100gb HDD
Zepto Znote 3215w, T5250-1.5ghz/T7250 2.0ghz/X9000 2.8ghz, 2/4gb ram, 80/500gb HDD
Asus EEEPC 1005HA, Intel Atom 1.6, 2gb ram, 64gb SSD
Asus X72JR, i3-330-2.13ghz/i5-520-2.4ghz, 4/8gb 120GB SDD+500gb 7200rpm, HD5470
EDIT: Toughbook CF-28, Pentium 3 800mhz, 768mb ram, 60gb 7200rpm, GPS, Wifi (800m+ range), Touchscreen, built in bluetooth and USB 2.0
^ Yes, not even laptops avoid my modding addicted hands.
Desktops:
Pentium 2 233/266/400mhz, 128/256mb ram, 4 summin GB HDD.
AMD Duron 1.1ghz, 512mb ram, 40 gb
AMD Athlon XP 1.5/2.0ghz, 768mb ram, 40+40gb hdd
Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz, 1gb ram, 250gb hdd, GF8400
AMD Phenom x4 2.3@3.0ghz, 6gb ram, 1TB HDD, HD4850/GF8800GTX
AMD Phenom 2 X6 3.2@4.0ghz, 16gb ram, 2tb HDD+ 120gb SSD, 2x HD6970
Laptops:
Lap Power (unknown series) Pentium MMX 233mhz, 160mb ram, 3.1gb HDD
Apple Powerbook G3 Pismo, G3-400/G4-500mhz, 64/1024MB ram, 6/100gb HDD
Zepto Znote 3215w, T5250-1.5ghz/T7250 2.0ghz/X9000 2.8ghz, 2/4gb ram, 80/500gb HDD
Asus EEEPC 1005HA, Intel Atom 1.6, 2gb ram, 64gb SSD
Asus X72JR, i3-330-2.13ghz/i5-520-2.4ghz, 4/8gb 120GB SDD+500gb 7200rpm, HD5470
EDIT: Toughbook CF-28, Pentium 3 800mhz, 768mb ram, 60gb 7200rpm, GPS, Wifi (800m+ range), Touchscreen, built in bluetooth and USB 2.0
^ Yes, not even laptops avoid my modding addicted hands.
Lets see... if I'm correct this list should be complete.
01 C64 old model
02 C64 new model
03 Atari 800 XL
04 Atari 65XE
05 MSX 1 used.
06 MSX 1 mint condition
07 IBM XT 8088 4.77 Mhz
08 Philips NMS 9100 NEC V20 8Mhz
09 Philips P 3105 NEC V20 8Mhz
10 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 +8087 8Mhz
11 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 8Mhz
12 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 8 Mhz
13 Atari 520 ST
14 Atari 1040 ST
15 Sony MSX II
16 80286 6Mhz
17 80386 DX 20Mhz +80387 copro
18 Compaq Contura laptop 80486 DX 40
19 IBM Thinkpad 80486 DX 40
20 i486 DX2 66
21 Topline Pentium 150 laptop
22 Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pentium MMX 200
23 Cyrix 6x86MX PR 200+
24 Pentium 233 MMX
25 Pentium II 400
26 Celeron 466
27 Celeron 633
28 IBM Netfinity 1000 server Pentium III 650
29 Pentium III 1000
30 Pentium 4 2.0Ghz
31 Compaq Pressario 3000 Celeron 2.8Ghz
32 Sempron 2200+
33 Sempron 2400+
34 AMD 64 3200+
35 Sempron LE 1250
36 Athlon 64x2 4450E
37 Core duo T8300 Dell D830
38 Core duo T8300 Dell D830
39 Pentium E2220 dual core 2.4Ghz
40 Athlon 64x2 4850E
41 Phenom 905E server
42 Phenom II 955 3.2Ghz
43 Amd64 3800+ dual core
44 Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
45 Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz
46 Celeron 440 2.0 Ghz
47 i7 920
48 Sony Vaio P-III 500 Mhz
49 Asus laptop P-4 1.6 Ghz
50 Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
51 Celeron 440 2 Ghz
52 Duron 800Mhz
53 Phenom 905E previous main machine.
54 IBM Model 77i 486 DX2 66
55 Bro's i7 920
01 C64 old model
02 C64 new model
03 Atari 800 XL
04 Atari 65XE
05 MSX 1 used.
06 MSX 1 mint condition
07 IBM XT 8088 4.77 Mhz
08 Philips NMS 9100 NEC V20 8Mhz
09 Philips P 3105 NEC V20 8Mhz
10 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 +8087 8Mhz
11 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 8Mhz
12 IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 8 Mhz
13 Atari 520 ST
14 Atari 1040 ST
15 Sony MSX II
16 80286 6Mhz
17 80386 DX 20Mhz +80387 copro
18 Compaq Contura laptop 80486 DX 40
19 IBM Thinkpad 80486 DX 40
20 i486 DX2 66
21 Topline Pentium 150 laptop
22 Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pentium MMX 200
23 Cyrix 6x86MX PR 200+
24 Pentium 233 MMX
25 Pentium II 400
26 Celeron 466
27 Celeron 633
28 IBM Netfinity 1000 server Pentium III 650
29 Pentium III 1000
30 Pentium 4 2.0Ghz
31 Compaq Pressario 3000 Celeron 2.8Ghz
32 Sempron 2200+
33 Sempron 2400+
34 AMD 64 3200+
35 Sempron LE 1250
36 Athlon 64x2 4450E
37 Core duo T8300 Dell D830
38 Core duo T8300 Dell D830
39 Pentium E2220 dual core 2.4Ghz
40 Athlon 64x2 4850E
41 Phenom 905E server
42 Phenom II 955 3.2Ghz
43 Amd64 3800+ dual core
44 Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
45 Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz
46 Celeron 440 2.0 Ghz
47 i7 920
48 Sony Vaio P-III 500 Mhz
49 Asus laptop P-4 1.6 Ghz
50 Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
51 Celeron 440 2 Ghz
52 Duron 800Mhz
53 Phenom 905E previous main machine.
54 IBM Model 77i 486 DX2 66
55 Bro's i7 920
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