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lvent
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States140 Posts
October 18 2011 15:26 GMT
#1
circa 1996 are these:

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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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DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-18 15:47:31
October 18 2011 15:42 GMT
#2
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?
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RubiksCube
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Germany259 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-18 15:50:17
October 18 2011 15:45 GMT
#3
I actually remember having a 33 MHz PC that had a "Turbo Button" that made it go up to 66 MHz.

Thing was a beast had 16 MB of RAM, too.
aguy38
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
131 Posts
October 18 2011 15:49 GMT
#4
1.6 gig hard drive! shit just got real.
lvent
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States140 Posts
October 18 2011 15:49 GMT
#5
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?
lvent
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States140 Posts
October 18 2011 15:50 GMT
#6
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
DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
October 18 2011 15:50 GMT
#7
On October 19 2011 00:49 lvent wrote:
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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?

I think my current phone with web browsing which isn't smart is actually better...perhaps.
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Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
October 18 2011 15:56 GMT
#8
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
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden657 Posts
October 18 2011 15:59 GMT
#9
Haha, I too feel a bit old now.
Bring back 1 supply roaches.
josemb40
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Peru611 Posts
October 18 2011 16:02 GMT
#10
almost had one of those :p back in the days
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lvent
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States140 Posts
October 18 2011 16:06 GMT
#11
Im just trying to remember how I played games like WC2 and Rainbow 6 on these "graphics" lol
fezvez
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
France3021 Posts
October 18 2011 16:09 GMT
#12
Ah, so much good memories

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 =)
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
October 18 2011 16:32 GMT
#13
It's funny because my first PC had exactly those specs. Pentium 133mhz, 16mo ram, and 1.6 gb hard drive. I remember my dad feeling like a pimp telling everyone he had a 1.6gb hard drive and everyone going 'whoaaaaaa'. And indeed pimps we were, because we had a Matrox video card with it's own dedicated 2mb memory !

Feels weird when I compare it with my Samsung Galaxy S2....
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eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
October 18 2011 16:34 GMT
#14
Woah, nostalgia to to the max.

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
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
October 18 2011 16:44 GMT
#15
I remember seeing a box in my attic for a Pentium 3 computer, that's as far back as I can go. I think I used it mainly to play chess. It was a lot of fun, because you could change the colors of the board and pieces, so I would play black vs green and red vs white.

I also have a Commodore 64, but I have no clue what kind of display it needs :/
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Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-18 16:55:56
October 18 2011 16:54 GMT
#16
I probably had something like that back in the day. Playing Battle of Britain!! Good times. I remember thinking, "Wow, can graphics get any more real??"

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jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
October 18 2011 17:04 GMT
#17
My first computer had a 7GB drive. I honestly have no idea how I managed.

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
Profile Joined May 2011
274 Posts
October 18 2011 17:07 GMT
#18
I still remember 'gaming' on a 64bit Commodore, where you'd literally have text characters for graphics in some of the first games...
eu.exodus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa1186 Posts
October 18 2011 17:24 GMT
#19
lol windows 95 ftw! i remember that shit like it was yesterday. playing prince of persia 2d and gateworld was so epic back then! the pixels were the size of peanuts. I remember when my da bought a compaq presario pentium 3. i was like i champion among my friends because i could run war3 fullspec without lag lol. awesome times
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Vansetsu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1454 Posts
October 18 2011 17:33 GMT
#20
I can totally remember thinking 64mb of ram was just godly... I can see something just stupid like tb of ram someday...

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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