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I have to admit I am a fairly young'un. The first CPU I bought for myself was a Pentium III 933MHz. Still got it, it's under the house routing packets and crunching BOINC tasks.

Brynet-Inc wrote:My router was a P133 for the longest time, also had a 486 DX2 (66MHz) as my primary workstation for awhile.

As JackScott said, young people are spoilt rotten.. I definately wouldn't turn down a 1.3GHz Celeron system.

Not saying I would throw out any of my computers(yet that is) because there is always a use(compiling firefox on the 1.3ghz machine was quite fun... and KDE took at least 2 days lol) even if it's for testing out 'new' stuff before you put it on your workstation, or testing OSs.. whatever..

I would happily take any computer I got.. but I would request the one after the next to include a router with it, cause I onle have 2 ports free now. lol

Main PC:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2,66GHz
4GB RAM
32-bit Vista Ultimate <--- :/ couldn't get Vista Ultimate 64bit legal for 30€, working well btw

Netbook where I develop on:
Acer Aspire One
Intel Atom 1,6GHz (I think)
1GB RAM

Got some older pc's somewhere around with Pentium and Celeron, unused for now.

// PHPnerd

JackScott wrote:

earlz wrote:Another Celeron x86 processor, 1.3ghz; Very slow, with even slower PC133 ram

You young'uns don't know about slow. When I was young, we had 486s running at 33MHz! And that was fast. 8MB of RAM was enough to run *anything*.

lol yea I remember those days... and

well
i got some CPU's too:

main computer :
INTEL quard core, 3 GHZ ( Q9650)[12 mb cache]

sec computer:
intel pentium d ,3,4 GHZ [2 or 4 mb cache ( dont remeber)]

third computer:
amd athlon xp 1800+ (1,4 GHZ) [uknown cache]

and i have one cpu witch i dont use:
Intel pentium 4 , 3,2 GHZ [uknown cahce]

and my laptop:
amd turision 64 2,2 GHZ [512 KB cache]

KMT dk

At my working PC I have Athlon 64 X2 5200+ working on its default frequency 2700MHz.
At my old PC I have Athlon XP 2600+ working at 1.92GHz and I'm currently looking for hard disk of any size to develop OS at it. (Anyway my old PC has some hardware problems about the AGP slot and I cannot put a VideoCard there without risk of crushing it, so I use an old 4MB videomem videocard at PCI).
I'm looking for 8086, 80386 and i486 DX based system right now.

I'm trying to remember the first computer I used a lot...

Ahh, now I remember: Macintosh Performa 580CD (limited edition, upgraded to Mac OS 7.6.1, then later to 8.1.) I had a lot of fun tweaking that machine... I think we got rid of it around five years ago.

Masterkiller wrote:At my working PC I have Athlon 64 X2 5200+ working on its default frequency 2700MHz.
At my old PC I have Athlon XP 2600+ working at 1.92GHz and I'm currently looking for hard disk of any size to develop OS at it. (Anyway my old PC has some hardware problems about the AGP slot and I cannot put a VideoCard there without risk of crushing it, so I use an old 4MB videomem videocard at PCI).
I'm looking for 8086, 80386 and i486 DX based system right now.

my teacher has an old Tandy computer in his classroom. It's a 286 with iirc 2MB of ram like 20MB hdd or something like that; msdos and qbasic also.. I'm still not sure how, but he has a CD drive hooked in it too lol(I'm not sure how he has it hooked in though.. cause the CD drive is external and it's way to old to have anything but parallel and com ports)

earlz wrote:

Masterkiller wrote:At my working PC I have Athlon 64 X2 5200+ working on its default frequency 2700MHz.
At my old PC I have Athlon XP 2600+ working at 1.92GHz and I'm currently looking for hard disk of any size to develop OS at it. (Anyway my old PC has some hardware problems about the AGP slot and I cannot put a VideoCard there without risk of crushing it, so I use an old 4MB videomem videocard at PCI).
I'm looking for 8086, 80386 and i486 DX based system right now.

my teacher has an old Tandy computer in his classroom. It's a 286 with iirc 2MB of ram like 20MB hdd or something like that; msdos and qbasic also.. I'm still not sure how, but he has a CD drive hooked in it too lol(I'm not sure how he has it hooked in though.. cause the CD drive is external and it's way to old to have anything but parallel and com ports)

Nice, but probably it will be not usable for booting. Anyway I'm running out of space in my room and another heavy box would not make my room prettier I think I will look for 8086/80386/80486 emulator.
P.S. Does your teacher can boot from CD?

Masterkiller wrote:
Nice, but probably it will be not usable for booting. Anyway I'm running out of space in my room and another heavy box would not make my room prettier I think I will look for 8086/80386/80486 emulator.
P.S. Does your teacher can boot from CD?

wait no, I'm wrong.. It has a 486 with 4MB of memory.. it was one of those dumb 486DX or whatevers without a FPU

and I highly doubt it could boot from CD lol.. It's from like the 80s I think, El Toronto hasn't been around for that long has it

Hi,

earlz wrote:wait no, I'm wrong.. It has a 486 with 4MB of memory.. it was one of those dumb 486DX or whatevers without a FPU

and I highly doubt it could boot from CD lol.. It's from like the 80s I think, El Toronto hasn't been around for that long has it

For "80486SX" class machines ("SX" means no FPU, "DX" means with FPU), it was normal to have a (double speed!) CD-ROM connected to a special interface on the sound card (a non-standard "Sony", "Panisonic" or "Creative" interface) rather than connected to the hard disk (ATA/IDE) controller. In this case it's impossible for the BIOS to know how to access the CD-ROM, so even if El'Torito did exist it wouldn't have worked (but IIRC El'Torito wasn't introduced until a few years later, and wasn't supported by most BIOSes until a few years after that).


Cheers,

Brendan