Just wondering?

[aleincaveman]

You know I just joined this forum last nite. And I think I chose the right user name.
Because as I read through the differant threads I've started to wonder if I'm the only one on the web using a prehistoric outdated, old 120 mhz pentium. I got a 6.5 gig hdd that has hundreds of bad clusters on it slaved to a 1 gig that came with the system. And all in all it does a pretty good job even if it is slow as a snale.
But then maybe thats because I know how to caress it. Infact that is all I have ever had is old prehistoric rigs.
Atleast till I took the trash out on nite about a month ago. Behold in the dumpster was a rig calling, no screaming my name. I thought I hit the lotto!!!
After getting it going I discover that it has a boot virus on the drive. It's a 533mhz celeronw/64 mgs ram, tyan i810 mobo.
Being that I've had to time to time reformat my drives before, on the real old ones. I reformated, and ran fdisk mbr to get rid of the germ.
EEEEEYYYYYYYOIOOOOO!!
Well I descovered that win98 did'nt have the drivers for the chipset. And since it did'nt come with a backup disk. LOL I have had no luck getting it going again.
Anyway thats another topic.
But I have always been wondering why it is that ppl well throw away working rigs, bury them in a pile of junk where ever they keep it and forget them.
If your not gonna sell them, then at least wipe the drive,reinstall the OS and go find a kid at the nearest school that needs a rig to learn on. And give it to him,or her.
Cus after all a mind is a terrible thing to waste. and so is a working rig nomatter how old it is.
I am living proof of the point I'm trying to make. They told me that this rig would never work online. And it's faster then the old 75 mhz w/16 megs ram running win 3x that I started with last year. And I had it online also at first. Till it got fried from lightining.
I wonder how meny of u know dos and the old win3x? I've got alot to learn about this win98. But I well just as I learned before.
Ya I like to play games some but I like surfing the most. And it works for me. But I do wish that I could get the newer rig going.
Who has the oldest rig in here? Besides me?
Just wondering?

[Odm]

I used to have a 1987 black and yellow computer. We gave it away

[Hobbes874]

I've got a brand new comp :D my old one was a P2 266mghz with 128 MB or RAM and a Voodoo 3, wasn't bad just pokie and unstable :(

[sushi128]

slowest rig i've had the pleasure of using was a 486DX/33mhz, 8megs of RAM? maybe 16.....

[Bluu]

Originally posted by sushi128
slowest rig i've had the pleasure of using was a 486DX/33mhz, 8megs of RAM? maybe 16.....


hey me too...it was ages ago...

[Rhenna]

I have a Commodore64 in the attic that I used to teach myself 6502 machine language when I was 14. Then I built my first PC, an 8086, two years later. You guys are making this girl feel really old...

[Shadow]

Remember the Hyperion?

[sushi128]

Originally posted by Rhenna
I have a Commodore64 in the attic that I used to teach myself 6502 machine language when I was 14. Then I built my first PC, an 8086, two years later. You guys are making this girl feel really old...

"old"? i say "experienced"....a veteran, a connoisseur. yeah, where's the ol' thesaurus.

actually, i'm sorry to say i haven't seen a C64 in my life. what's a Hyperion???

[AVataRR]

Originally posted by aleincaveman
You know I just joined this forum last nite. And I think I chose the right user name.
Because as I read through the differant threads I've started to wonder if I'm the only one on the web using a prehistoric outdated, old 120 mhz pentium. I got a 6.5 gig hdd that has hundreds of bad clusters on it slaved to a 1 gig that came with the system. And all in all it does a pretty good job even if it is slow as a snale.
But then maybe thats because I know how to caress it. Infact that is all I have ever had is old prehistoric rigs.
Atleast till I took the trash out on nite about a month ago. Behold in the dumpster was a rig calling, no screaming my name. I thought I hit the lotto!!!
After getting it going I discover that it has a boot virus on the drive. It's a 533mhz celeronw/64 mgs ram, tyan i810 mobo.
Being that I've had to time to time reformat my drives before, on the real old ones. I reformated, and ran fdisk mbr to get rid of the germ.
EEEEEYYYYYYYOIOOOOO!!
Well I descovered that win98 did'nt have the drivers for the chipset. And since it did'nt come with a backup disk. LOL I have had no luck getting it going again.
Anyway thats another topic.
But I have always been wondering why it is that ppl well throw away working rigs, bury them in a pile of junk where ever they keep it and forget them.
If your not gonna sell them, then at least wipe the drive,reinstall the OS and go find a kid at the nearest school that needs a rig to learn on. And give it to him,or her.
Cus after all a mind is a terrible thing to waste. and so is a working rig nomatter how old it is.
I am living proof of the point I'm trying to make. They told me that this rig would never work online. And it's faster then the old 75 mhz w/16 megs ram running win 3x that I started with last year. And I had it online also at first. Till it got fried from lightining.
I wonder how meny of u know dos and the old win3x? I've got alot to learn about this win98. But I well just as I learned before.
Ya I like to play games some but I like surfing the most. And it works for me. But I do wish that I could get the newer rig going.
Who has the oldest rig in here? Besides me?
Just wondering?

dude, paragraphs. heard of them?

[wangstramedeous]

we still have a computer with 5.4 inch floppy drive

[blind_mad_cow]

Originally posted by wangstramedeous
we still have a computer with 5.4 inch floppy drive

i have/had 2 of those that i used for practice (i like to tare down and rebuild) :D

i still have the parts that i didnt want in it laying around in my room!.

[Odm]

I gave my friend my old computer to tinker with... only things missing were hard drive and powersupply (burnt out) Unfortunately, I lack the funds, willpower, and skill to tinker with anything electronic.

[aphremen]

Wow, Rhenna beat everyone here, she is straight up old-school. My old man used to build pcs back in the late 70s but the first pc I used was a x386. I actually have a burned out 8086 chip as a keychain. It's amazing how small it is.

It still amazes me when I see stats on my pc and it says "40gigs of space total, 8gigs available", and 1600mhz. Used to be that new generations of hardware could process more operations per cycle, nowadays it's all about how many cycles per second...OI!

[Shadow]

Remember the Lack of hard drives... the old floppy boot computers...

[aphremen]

yeah, it's nice to have hard drives at all. Even when they were teeny tiny it was great. But nowadays, you can have tons of mp3s, plenty of proggies, your OS, everything! Eventually even the contents of your brain! WOOT!

Right now, I don't even have a FDD. It is...illogical.

[shlumpen]

My computer history:
486, don't remember much about it.
P133, 32MB ram, 1.5 GB, 2MB video
P167, 64MB ram, 1.5+3 GB, 2MB video
Celeron 1700, 256MB DDR, 60GB, GeForce4 MX, 64MB

Kinda steep rise from the third to the fourth, don't you think?^^

[Chimera[NL]]

History? OK:

Atari.....something...I'm sorry my memorie isn't what it used to be.
XT..you know the thing without a HDD and slow as a......... exactly!
80386....tinkered with the internal memorie so DOS would reserve enough to play Doom I :D
Pentium I 75
Pentium II 200
Pentium II 300
And now: tatatatatadataaaaa: Pentium III 450 (overclocked it to a....WHOOPING 512 but still in my P2 motherboard so now REAL P3 features :()

[Wolf3D]

hehe my history was:

XT without HD ....there was no HD yet....lol i think 256 kb ram
then
intel pentium 100....2 MB grafik
then
intel celeron 450 slot 1.....voodoo banshee 16 MB
then
P-3 600 .....128 mb and a 32 MB Geforce 2 MX
and now
P3 1GHz .........512MB ram.....Geforce 3 TI 500 ....80GB HD

well its still good but i will also soon upgrade to Athlon XP becuse Intel is so damm exp.

[Hobbes874]

Originally posted by wangstramedeous
we still have a computer with 5.4 inch floppy drive
ROFL, I remember those :D in like 2nd grade we had a really old mac that used those, I remember playing Oregon Trail on one, lol