When we were young

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Factory OC said:

Lucky, I wish I had a Windows 98 machine. I have all the parts compatible with Windows 98, except one thing, the CPU. The oldest CPU I have is a Pentium 4. I thought about under clocking it to 700 MHz, but never got around to trying that.

Oh, my neighbor gave me a box full of P3s and P2s. 

[Guest]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Oh, my neighbor gave me a box full of P3s and P2s. 

Yeah, rub it in my face...

Now I'm wondering, how much can you get for that. Pentium 2 and 3's are getting more and more expensive and rare.

[PlayStation 2]

I don't remember much, but it's interesting to see that a lot of Nintendo consoles were bitchy about inputs like RGB SCART, while most Sega consoles supported it, from the Master System all the way up to the Dreamcast.

[imreloadin]

That's nothing, how do you think the people who heard about the first airplane flight as kids felt when they watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon? Now THAT is true technological progress.

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Yeah, rub it in my face...

Now I'm wondering, how much can you get for that. Pentium 2 and 3's are getting more and more expensive and rare.

I don't know. I haven't used any of them because I can't figure out the freaking jumpers to make the others work. The 400MHz CPUs run fine with no changes to the motherboard, but not the faster or slower ones. 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I don't remember much, but it's interesting to see that a lot of Nintendo consoles were bitchy about inputs like RGB SCART, while most Sega consoles supported it, from the Master System all the way up to the Dreamcast.

Sega's consoles were amazing in their time. People forget, the Genesis/Mega Drive was released almost 2 years before the SNES. It was suppose to combat the NES.

[NLD1st]

2 hours ago, WhatComesAround said:

Ahh the good old days, anyone still remember when a man called jesus made a passage through a sea, and when he saved all the animals, good times...good times. What a guy, he was a very nice guy you see...I miss him... Not sure where he went. Ohh well, people come and go. Can anyone relate or is it just me?

Didn't Jesus walk on water tho and Moses split the sea? ...

But he was a cool bro non the less

 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I don't know. I haven't used any of them because I can't figure out the freaking jumpers to make the others work. The 400MHz CPUs run fine with no changes to the motherboard, but not the faster or slower ones. 

At least 400MHz is a good balance for games before and after 1995.

[moderategamer]

2 hours ago, WhatComesAround said:

Ahh the good old days, anyone still remember when a man called jesus made a passage through a sea, and when he saved all the animals, good times...good times. What a guy, he was a very nice guy you see...I miss him... Not sure where he went. Ohh well, people come and go. Can anyone relate or is it just me?

correct me if I'm wrong but was it not Moses that parted the Red Sea?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, NLD1st said:

Didn't Jesus walk on water tho and Moses split the sea? ...

But he was a cool bro non the less

 

If I'm correct, yes. 

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

At least 400MHz is a good balance for games before and after 1995.

It is good, but I've always wanted to get a P3 working. And I have 2 (I think) and can't use them. 

[Guest]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

It is good, but I've always wanted to get a P3 working. And I have 2 (I think) and can't use them. 

It would be nice to see a Pentium 3 going. I found one here, but sadly it's a Dell board, and Dell used a special 6 pin connector...

[Chewique]

26 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

PowerMac G5? That's pretty cool. I've always wanted one of those for no real reason other than I love the case design. 

Yeah! Its broken and dusty at the moment but im planning to resurrect it at some point and if i cant fix it build my own hackintosh inside.

[Akima]

Who remembers the Turbo button on the older desktop PCs?

 

It never actually increased performance. I think it was something to do with clock speeds in relation to software timing. Some applications ran at one clock speed, and other at a different speed. All selectable via the Turbo button. This was way before the GHz clock speed days... i'm thinking sub 10Mhz speeds.

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, Akima said:

Who remembers the Turbo button on the older desktop PCs?

 

It never actually increased performance. I think it was something to do with clock speeds in relation to software timing. Some applications ran at one clock speed, and other at a different speed. All selectable via the Turbo button. This was way before the GHz clock speed days... i'm thinking sub 10Mhz speeds.

 

 

 

Those were so cool. Sadly I never had a chance to use one. 

[Dylanc1500]

16 minutes ago, Akima said:

Who remembers the Turbo button on the older desktop PCs?

 

It never actually increased performance. I think it was something to do with clock speeds in relation to software timing. Some applications ran at one clock speed, and other at a different speed. All selectable via the Turbo button. This was way before the GHz clock speed days... i'm thinking sub 10Mhz speeds.

It was more so of a compatibility feature. Think more of a anti-turbo, since most people ran them at full speed. It was there for when you ran software that was dependent on processor clock speed. Which at that time a lot of legacy software was. Think of running doom at 5 times the speed.

[IntMD]

My first actual PC was one of these bad boys, except mine had an awesome 3 CD changer 6x drive instead of a normal CD drive.

 

Win 95, Pentium 133 (non MMX), 16mb RAM, 1.5gb hard drive, 15" CRT. I think it had 1mb of graphics onboard too - it was so much better than anyone else I knew had at the time too. Got it for Christmas 1995 or birthday 1996. It cost £2000.00 for the computer and another £200.00-£300.00 for the HP deskjet printer (I think that was an HP 693C).

 

[WhatComesAround]

20 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I don't know. I haven't used any of them because I can't figure out the freaking jumpers to make the others work. The 400MHz CPUs run fine with no changes to the motherboard, but not the faster or slower ones. 

Ahh yes, moses. I am pretty old you see, so my memory is kinda foggy. But they were both great guys.

[WhatComesAround]

20 hours ago, NLD1st said:

Didn't Jesus walk on water tho and Moses split the sea? ...

But he was a cool bro non the less

 

Ahh yes, my memory is kinda foggy, and did you know them too? Cus I don't know many people as old as me

20 hours ago, moderategamer said:

correct me if I'm wrong but was it not Moses that parted the Red Sea?

You are right, I am old and having trouble remembering. 

[Marine_Boy]

22 hours ago, Dylanc1500 said:

The days before ACPI.

 

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Then editing the .sys file to say different things or change the image entirely.

Ah... Good old days  

 

I remember Win 98 and then XP and so on... I have never used Vista tho... But it's not a bad thing I guess  

 

Who owned one?  I think if I would search a bit in my parents house I would still find at least one  Not sure if working, but I would definitely find one  

[Emberstone]

Several posts in this thread make me feel old, and I was born in 1994.

 

Back before 2000, my family had a Pentium I machine that I would play the typical classics like Wolf3D, Doom, and Quake on. My parents didn't care about what games my brother and I played growing up (for which I am thankful).

 

We lost the original discs at some point though, and also no longer have our original Pentium (and later Pentium II and III) machines. Damn shame.