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Sad thing is I remember growing up around this time and would have killed for one of these lol. I felt so damn old when it was emailed to me
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The cadillac of all computers..
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lvent
United States140 Posts
Sad thing is I remember growing up around this time and would have killed for one of these lol. I felt so damn old when it was emailed to me . | ||
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
edit: actually, i think it's pretty clearly less than a smart phone. Is there anything today that would be equivalent? | ||
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RubiksCube
Germany259 Posts
Thing was a beast had 16 MB of RAM, too. | ||
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aguy38
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lvent
United States140 Posts
On October 19 2011 00:42 DamageControL wrote: What level of computer would this be comparable today? Less than a smart phone? edit: actually, i think it's pretty clearly less than a smart phone. Is there anything today that would be equivalent? I doubt it lol, I just find it fascinating that this was a monster back in the day; hell it didnt even have a 56k modem in it! Perhaps an old school Razr phone with web browsing? | ||
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lvent
United States140 Posts
On October 19 2011 00:45 RubiksCube wrote: I actually remember having a 33 MHz PC that had a "Turbo Button" that made it go up to 66 MHz. Overclocking like a champ haha | ||
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
On October 19 2011 00:49 lvent wrote: I doubt it lol, I just find it fascinating that this was a monster back in the day; hell it didnt even have a 56k modem in it! Perhaps an old school Razr phone with web browsing? I think my current phone with web browsing which isn't smart is actually better...perhaps. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On October 19 2011 00:42 DamageControL wrote: What level of computer would this be comparable today? Less than a smart phone? edit: actually, i think it's pretty clearly less than a smart phone. Is there anything today that would be equivalent? This is the best possible PC graphics from that time: This runs in 320x200 resolution completely on the CPU without any help from the graphics card. It is perhaps comparable to a Nintendo DS? But I think the Nintendo DS processor gets help from a graphics chip for 3D stuff. | ||
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Belano
Sweden657 Posts
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josemb40
Peru611 Posts
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lvent
United States140 Posts
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fezvez
France3021 Posts
My father bought in 94 the very best thing available, because he wanted something that would last (how wrong he was!) If I remember, it was a Pentium 90 and a, wait for it, 15 inch screen! For the modest sum of 4000$ (I cant believe someone could put that much money in a PC...) And yeah, Quake was THE hype game at that time =) | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
Feels weird when I compare it with my Samsung Galaxy S2.... | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
My dad didn't let me mess with our Packard Bell too much since he was afraid of crashes so much. However, he did install a bunch of games from a bunch of demo CDs as well as some educational games. Freddi Fish. 3D Dinosaur Adventure. Louis the Lion. Ah, the memories. Oh, and I also played my first RTS on my old Packard Bell in the form of the Age of Empires: Rise of Rome demo from one of my dad's demo CDs. I still remember how I thought the game was "Age of Vampires" instead of "Age of Empires," and I was thoroughly confused when I couldn't find any vampires in the game. Fun demo, though I struggled to play it as a 5-year-old. | ||
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GigaFlop
United States1146 Posts
I also have a Commodore 64, but I have no clue what kind of display it needs :/ | ||
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Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/471740-their-finest-hour-the-battle-of-britain-atari-st-screenshot.png) | ||
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
Then again, it was enough to play brood war  Oh, and Sim City 2000 on floppy disks! Oh the nostalgia...These days I've been shopping around for a 120GB solid state drive. It's amazing how fast technology advances. | ||
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Zombie_Velociraptor
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eu.exodus
South Africa1186 Posts
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Vansetsu
United States1453 Posts
I makes me wonder though, soon how long will it take to make something that can push technology? I think the characters in the FF movie hand like 10,000 pores or individual strands of hair or something like that, and were considering them as "digital actors" as I imagine the amount of time it takes to create these types of models is insane. | ||
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