Grant Fondo
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oops,...er, I thought it said 'computing'
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Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Maybe this could become an obsolete computing gear thread, AGP graphics anyone?
Gixxerman
Guru
- Location
- Market Rasen
I have a ZX81, 128K Spectrum, Amiga A1500 and an Acorn Atom somewhere in the loft.
bonsaibilly
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I've got one of these in a shoebox under the bed. Truly awful, even at the time!
Bb
I've got one of these in a shoebox under the bed. Truly awful, even at the time!
Bb
My wife threw out my box of old bits a couple of years ago. There was a mint condition ISA Super VGA card in there. You know. Just in case.
cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
I remember the time of the DEC PDP-11
They had proper disk drives
All 5MB of it !
They had proper disk drives
All 5MB of it !
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
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- That London
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Grant Fondo
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- Cheshire
Does anything beat the true awefulness of a 1995 Cyrix processor?
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
- Location
- London, UK
I have some intel 486DX & SX II machines lurking somewhere in my shed... I broke one in my youth got it working again in my 20s then broke it again not long after that
I started with an old Amstrad 8086 - came with an upgraded 20MB HDD and a 3½" floppy drive - but this was in 1998 when everyone else was loading WIN95 onto their Pentium II systems - I upgraded from DOS 3.2 to DOS 5. Not long afterwards, I managed to lay my hands on a 486SX base unit and spent over £100 on a 14" or 15" colour CRT monitor to go with it!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My brother had the Spectrum 32K and next Christmas I got the superior, Lol, Commodore 64; he was well jealous. The spectrum got nicked, the insurance got him a Spectrum + (128k if I remember rightly) and for a while he was happy. Lol, then I got the Amiga.
Jumping on a few years, my first year in college I had a work placement so I saved up and got a PC; by the time I'd saved up the P66, P75 (and probably a few others had all gone). Which was good for me I got a 'all singing, all dancing' P90 and at uni I upgraded its RAM to 16mb
. 5 years or so later I was in full time work and got my self a phone, a Nokia 6230 IIRC and it had a faster processor, more ram and a bigger storage but was probably about 10x less in cost and 100x smaller 
Jumping on a few years, my first year in college I had a work placement so I saved up and got a PC; by the time I'd saved up the P66, P75 (and probably a few others had all gone). Which was good for me I got a 'all singing, all dancing' P90 and at uni I upgraded its RAM to 16mb
. 5 years or so later I was in full time work and got my self a phone, a Nokia 6230 IIRC and it had a faster processor, more ram and a bigger storage but was probably about 10x less in cost and 100x smaller Similar threads
