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WHAAAAAAAAAAT?! Did you read that Wikipedia article? LOOOOOOL

 

Damn, that's fucked up.

 

It doesn't even make sense though. It's the OS that makes it user friendly (stupid friendly in this case). Has to be a troll.

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It doesn't even make sense though. It's the OS that makes it user friendly (stupid friendly in this case). Has to be a troll.

 

of course its a troll. 

 

 

Its been a while since I've seen the much dreaded wikipedia false information... Someone didn't like that person obviously.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Sadly the oldest PC i had access to was this hunk of junk, might have been capable of XP but regardless, it's still a relic and my relic :)

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As you might or might not know, i'm out of my house, so right now, i can't post anything. :(. I will do it as soon i get to home :D

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This is my Pentium 75mhz machine. Its one of my best all-around DOS machines. It can pretty much play everything.

 

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Its got a P54C Pentium 75MHz

32MB of 72-pin SIMM RAM (possibly EDO, Not sure though)

A Cirrus Logic PCI video card

Sound Blaster AWE64

An 800MB Quantum Trailblazer HDD

CD-ROM, 3.5" 1.44MB FDD

200W AT PSU

onboard IDE, Serial, ETC.

 

I'm not too much a fan of this case. to get the cover off, you have to pull off the front panel that is held on by clips. I would hate to see those break. Luckily they are made of metal. The AWE64 is something I added to this computer. Beats the hell out of that ESS audio drive sound card. This has MIDI that will blow your ears off, but its still nothing compared to the mighty MT-32. I wanted to put an AWE64 in my 486, but the case doesn't fit full height ISA cards, so the top of the case wouldn't fit right :|

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This is a Dell Latitude xpi p100sd. I have no idea what year it's from. Probably the mid 90s. 

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This is a Dell Latitude xpi p100sd. I have no idea what year it's from. Probably the mid 90s. 

 

 

That's a cool looking laptop. Do you know the specs?

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That's a cool looking laptop. Do you know the specs?

I need to check them in Windows, but it only works with the charger plugged, and I don't know where the charger is. I believe the RAM was 4MB and the HDD is either 1GB or less. Not sure about the CPU though. There should be specs on the internet for that particular model. :)

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Those IBM Thinkpads were very good. I always liked the mouse joystick type nub thing in the middle of the keyboard, they are much better than a touchpad.

 

On some of the later Thinkpads there was a little LED light you could turn on with a keyboard button combo that would shine down on the keyboard for while you're working in the dark. That model also had a 1600x1200 LCD screen, and that was from like 2002. It was insane.

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Sadly the oldest PC i had access to was this hunk of junk, might have been capable of XP but regardless, it's still a relic and my relic :)

Compaq Presario 5423US Desktop

41TYB2T230L.jpg

 

Processor 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 RAM 512 MB Hard Drive 80 GB Card Description nVIDIA GeForce2 MX Graphics Card Ram Size 64 MB

OMG ITS MY OLD COMPAQ

 

DUDE

 

dude...

 

Seriously man, this thing was all I had for SO LONG - I played everything on this thing, I ended up upgrading it a ton too, man this thing was great - Never died either, mom just made me throw it away

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OMG ITS MY OLD COMPAQ

 

DUDE

 

dude...

 

Seriously man, this thing was all I had for SO LONG - I played everything on this thing, I ended up upgrading it a ton too, man this thing was great - Never died either, mom just made me throw it away

Not very compact... or should I say.. Compaq? ha no, sorry. 

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OMG ITS MY OLD COMPAQ

 

DUDE

 

dude...

 

Seriously man, this thing was all I had for SO LONG - I played everything on this thing, I ended up upgrading it a ton too, man this thing was great - Never died either, mom just made me throw it away

I gutted one of those the other day, same specs minus the GPU and 80GB HDD

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I love older pc's there just so awesome even tho im 17 i still enjoy looking and reading about them too bad i smashed my old old pc lel :(

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Wow this thread makes me really wish i had a picture of my old compaq slash dial up setup! 

Probably buried somewhere at my parent's place...Yes i did print it.

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OMG ITS MY OLD COMPAQ

 

DUDE

 

dude...

 

Seriously man, this thing was all I had for SO LONG - I played everything on this thing, I ended up upgrading it a ton too, man this thing was great - Never died either, mom just made me throw it away

Ha I had the same one ! It was a hand-me-down from my aunt and uncle and has been gone a few months now but we still have the speakers left over :D

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This is my first computer. Still works just as well as it did in 98 or 99 or whenever I got it. I got it dual booting DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE

 

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I've upgraded it a few times over the yeards. right now it has:

 

Pentium MMX 200mhz

96MB  60ns EDO RAM

S3 ViRGE 2mb video adapter

AOpen AP5VM motherboard

ISA NIC

Sound Blaster AWE64

3GB Maxtor HDD

8GB Quantum Bigfoot HDD

2x 1.44MB 3 1/2" floppies, only one connected though, my old FDD cable busted and I could only scrounge up a single drive cable

TEAC CD-ROM

 

It used to have a low end cruddy yamaha xwave card, so that got upgraded. Also used to have only 64mb of ram.

 

I use it the most out of all my old computers. Its the best all around computer for DOS gaming that I have, it will run Quake, Descent and any really heavy DOS game nicely and most other DOS games work. Also it runs a fair bit of Win98se games. I also sort am attached to this thing, being my first ever computer. I neeeeeed to get a VooDoo for this machine though.

 

Also, there's my Model M too.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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I have an old IBM aptiva, it originallyhad a 486 and a 540mb HDD in it. My old man upgraded it to an 83mhz Pentium Overdrive and a bigger HDD sometime in the mid 90's. It was my first PC, I played Doom on it.

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I have an old IBM aptiva, it originallyhad a 486 and a 540mb HDD in it. My old man upgraded it to an 83mhz Pentium Overdrive and a bigger HDD sometime in the mid 90's. It was my first PC, I played Doom on it.

 

Thats cool, Pentium Overdrives aren't to easy to come by.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Thats cool, Pentium Overdrives aren't to easy to come by.

Really? I have the box and everything that it originally came with. :P

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There are 4 DDR sticks and a P4 sitting beside my monitor, and I am typing this on a PS2 keyboard. 

...PS2 is still the superior keyboard interface...

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