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Wouldn't have a clue. But I can always check. The PC is now a stand for my TV at the foot of my bed. 

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One of these horrible Intel Celery processors. A whopping 300Mhz!

 

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One of these horrible Intel Celery processors. A whopping 300Mhz!

 

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If that's the 300A it was anything but horrible. All you needed to do was jumper it to P2 400 and you had a P2 400 for next to nothing.

 

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If that's the 300A it was anything but horrible. All you needed to do was jumper it to P2 400 and you had a P2 400 for next to nothing.

 

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Erm..............I was 15/16 years old when my dad bought the PC in the 90's. I didn't even know how a PC worked and I didn't want to either as I was out getting drunk and hitting on girls!

 

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Erm..............I was 15/16 years old when my dad bought the PC in the 90's. I didn't even know how a PC worked and I didn't want to either as I was out getting drunk and hitting on girls!

 

Nerd!  :D

 

If that's the 300A it was anything but horrible. All you needed to do was jumper it to P2 400 and you had a P2 400 for next to nothing.

 

Noob ! :D

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Had an Macintosh 2. Have no idea what processor it had.

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Celeron 300A is one of Intel's best chips ever. 

 

Seems like these Z80's were quite popular....

 

They're still used to this day. Mind you, I guess what you could say was even more popular was the ARM that Acorn developed in the 80s... :D

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AMD Athlon II 5000+ which powers the first computer I did major work on. It was a prebuilt, but pretty OK, and with only a little maintenance, that computer still lives today, after like 8 years or so. Runnin' Vista!

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Intel Pentium MMX and if I recall correctly it was 200 MHz.  Man it was such a beast at the time.

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AMD Athlon XP 2600+, it was a beast at the time.

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I honestly done remember. It had windows 98 on it and I felt like a BAMF playing Wolfenstien 3D on it...

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Intel Pentium MMX and if I recall correctly it was 200 MHz.  Man it was such a beast at the time.

I believe that ran on socket 7, the only socket that ever existed which supported both Intel and AMD CPUs. Another thing was all CPU, RAM, FSB has to be set manually via jumpers or dip switches, and if there are any conflicts between certain devices, you set IRQs or manually select a free resource address. Unlike today where everything is automatic, back in those days, you really have to dive in and get some basic knowledge to be able to fix a problem yourself.

 

 

 

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