Author Topic: CPU history (Read 430 times)

StarOfAfrica2 · « **on:** March 23, 2005, 11:56:42 PM »

Thought maybe some of you guys would get a kick out of this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041220/index.html

I can remember my 8087 XT case I upgraded to a 286...........my first upgrade lol.

My first 486 was a 33mhz SX

Then I got wise and built a 486 DX2 100. Seemed like a screamin machine back then. VL Bus too. Spent extra for that. Had a Diamond Viper VL Bus video card with 1MB of RAM on it. Actual RAM on a video card! The whole system only had 8MB of RAM, and here was a video card with a whole MB all of its own! Hehehe. 540MB hard drives were the standard then. I had 2 x 540MB HDs, and I never thought I'd fill them.

After that was a K6 200mhz, and its been all AMD since. Well, except for one socket 370 celeron. But everybody cheats at least once dont they?

SkyWolf · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2005, 06:19:06 AM »

Heh... I'm dating myself here... well.. not actually dating myself...that would be weird... but my first system after the Atari 800 was a 2 5.25 floppy no HDD IBM with a green screen and a cassette tape back up. Damn was I cool. Except all I had was Lotus 123 and one other program I can't remember and I didn't know wtf I was supposed to do with it.

Woof

Aubrey · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2005, 03:03:07 PM »

8088 4.77 mhz with 640 k of ram and two 5.25 floppy drives

Played Falcon and Battle of Britain. M1 tank platoon and some of the old SSI war games. I would get to battle in a war game and go make a sandwich and watch tv while it loaded.

Then I went to a 386 -40

cyrix 166
amd 600
now my amd 2.1 ghz

FOGOLD · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2005, 04:11:57 AM »

Hee hee... 386 DX then Apricot Xen 486DX 100 36 Mb RAM... That was a great machine which ran Win 95b with ease. 1mb onboard video RAM tho:(

Then European Air War appeared and MS CFS1. Had to get a PII 350, 8mb Rage Pro swiftly added Voodoo2.

Been all downhil from there:rofl

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2005, 02:51:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Aubrey
8088 4.77 mhz with 640 k of ram and two 5.25 floppy drives

Played Falcon and Battle of Britain. M1 tank platoon and some of the old SSI war games. I would get to battle in a war game and go make a sandwich and watch tv while it loaded.

Then I went to a 386 -40

cyrix 166
amd 600
now my amd 2.1 ghz

dang near same path as me Aubrey!

I had an old commadore 64
then an 8088, then 286, to (2) 386's, to a 486 50mhz S2 or SX2 or something of the like, to cyrix P166+, to Pent200pro, to athlon 700, to AMD athlonXP1600, to AMD athlon 2100 overclocked to 2900.

when I dropped bck from the P166 cyrix(same as AMD) to the Pent200pro, it was a step back, and from then on I stayed AMD all the way, they always seem to outperform the Pentiums from my experience/comparison

next build, when I get the greenbacks will be Athlon64 FX53 or better, with the PCIexpress video slots hopefully it will be the last pc I ever have to build......

my squadies helped me out lately, they furnished the athlon2100 to me and video cards and memory , case , just bout everything, got to give some pats on the back to my squadies
Ren, Whels, Ode (Odessa) and others.is great to be part of a family that comes thru for each other when times are bad for some!

Hajo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2005, 03:16:55 PM »

8088 had to feed DOS 2.01 disk to boot machine.

3/12 and 51/2 floppies. Fed disks to it constatntly while playing Their Finest Hour.

512k memory. Memory was boards then not stick. Was told when went from 256k memory to 512 that's all the memory you'll ever need.

Then bought 486 DX.....installed Paradise Vid card....VESA drivers were the Ratzass then

ebgb · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:46:06 PM »

I remember in 8th grade, teacher took us into a lab where this typewriter device connected to a phone line would 'Hal-like' type out a math problem on an impact printer. You would then reply and then 2 or 3 minutes later get an answer pass or fail.

One whole building of our high school was full of punch card machines and brand spankin new IBM selectric typewriters right next to the old rat-a-tats they replaced.

Then my sister got a No-name 8088 clone with 5 1/2 floppies.
Played Starcraft for days on that rig. Had Lotus123 and Wordperfect too.

Then I got a hold of robotics on HP machines
running HP Basic and 3 1/2 floppies. We did some trick
stuff with Basic then.

Aaaah, the good ol' days.

Grits · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2005, 08:06:25 PM »

286 12mhz
386 DX 16
486 SX 33 (O/C'd to 40mhz)

486 DX4 100 first I built not bought it had
256M HD
STB Lightspeed VLB (Tseng ET4000/W32p) 512M
8M ram
I still have that one.

humble · « **Reply #8 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:28:00 PM »

1st system was a "trash 80"....dual floppies...whoot (8088 I think)...

286, 386, 486, P133, P2 500 (I think) AMD K5, AMD K6/450, P3 800 AMD XP1800, AMD XP2500+, AMD 64 3200+

Blue Mako · « **Reply #9 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:59:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Aubrey
8088 4.77 mhz with 640 k of ram and two 5.25 floppy drives

Played Falcon and Battle of Britain. M1 tank platoon and some of the old SSI war games.

I've still got a bunch of pre-386 games in their original boxes including M1 Tank Platoon, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, LHX attack Helicopter, Geoff Crammond's F1, etc etc.

I started around 1980 with a Microbee (tape), went on to C64 (disc), then 8088 12MHz with CGA vid card (FDD only), 386 DX40 with 1MB SVGA card (100MB HDD), 486DX100 (400MB HDD and CDROM) upgraded to P1 133MHz with 3D blaster vid card, then new P3 733MHz (20GB HDD), followed by new P4 2.4GHZ (120GB HDD) and now upgraded to P4 3.2GHz.

Ahh memories...

RookieCAF · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2005, 06:27:52 PM »

Atari 800 , FDD
My "Console" period. NES, Genesis
386SX20 80MB HD 256k VGA 3.5 5.25 FDD Soundblaster running to my Boombox. Had to buy the mouse seperately.
486SX25 4MB RAM 170MB HDD 512kb ET4000 VGA. Added a NEC2x SCSI CDROM for about a grand :(
486DX33 (Warranty Replacement for my SX25 which suffered a catastrophic failure in a failled EPROM transplant in my WCS MK1)
P1 100 Micron PC. 16MB EDO Ram 4x CDROM 2 MB PCI Graphics and a Diamond Monster 3D. SB AWE32
K6/2 400 128MB PC100 ATi Rage 128 2 Monster 3DII SLI'd Aureal 2 , 8.4GB HD, 4x CDRW
Athlon Thunderbird 900 768mb PC133 12xCDRW Plexwriter 2x30GB HDD GeForce 2 Ultra
P4 2.53 512MB PC1066 Radeon 9600 2x80GB HDD 52x CDRW 12x DVDRW SB Live

LePaul · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:18:40 PM »

Wow, good read

Heck, my first PC was a Commodore 64. (I'd love to find an Amiga with a Video Toaster card in it!)

Went from there to a Tandy 100 TX, I think that was a 8mhz 286.

Then..

386SX 25mhz
386DX 40mhz
486SX 25mhz
486DX2 66mhz
Pentium 100mhz
Pentium 133mhz
Pentium 233mhz
Pentium II 400mhz
Pentium III 500mhz
Pentium III 800mhz
Athlon XP 2000

Heck, that's my Personal PCs. I still own all the old servers I have.

Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz server (Still in service!)
Dual Pentium Pro, both CU's "Overdrived" to 399mhz (retired)
Pentium 3 800mhz server (In use)
Pentium 3 500mhz server (In use)
(qty 2) Pentium 3 1.0ghz servers (DNS Servers, in use)
Pentium 4 2.8ghz (current CheckSix.Net Forums machine)

Sounds like a lot of Servers but a few years back, in the Novell days, I had 8 running all the time! Ah those heady BBS days.