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charger bandit
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 13:57
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I recently dug up an old AMD Duron 800mhz CPU.It was in my first pc.Does anyone else own any ancient CPU's?

I also found a beast of its time,MSI K7T PRO2 motherboard.

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wizard of id
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 14:46
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Still have my working 286 + 200mb HDD I use for print "Way bills" for the post office with a dot matrix printer. Oh yeah, working P1 and 486 laptops pity the battery doesn't hold a charge any more.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 14:47
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I've a similarly spec'd system running right next to me atm.


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Cybermind
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 15:08 Edited at: 12th Feb 2010 15:08
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I wish I had a 486 :-( But I do have an upgraded Amiga2000, specs are 030 CPU running 40Mhz, 16mb extra ram, 1GB SCSI HD kickrom 2.0.
I also have some c64's, a VIC20, Sega Master system 2, CD32 and so on :-P cant remember them all

EDIT: I love old computers, and new ones as well

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Melancholic
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I have an Amiga 600(yep, thats the crappy one), got a Motorola 68000 in it, a massive 7.1MGHZ!. Not to forget a hp omnibook running win 98, battery suprising still holds a carge for about 15 mins. I have an unknown old looking desktop which dosent work aswell, PSU fault.
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charger bandit
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 16:50
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You guys have seriously ancient PC's,my first computer had:

AMD Duron 800mhz
ATI Rage XL 8mb
16mb RAM
10gb HDD

I was damn sad when I got BSOD while geeking Hugo

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zeroSlave
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 17:55
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I've still got my Tandy that I learned Basic on. I don't really know the specs for sure, but Wiki says:
CPU Motorola 6809E @ 0.895 MHz / 1.79 MHz
Memory 4 KB / 16 KB / 32 KB/ 64 KB / 128 KB / 512 KB

It's probably one of those.

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Cybermind
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 17:59
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My first machine was an Atari 2600 and the game Pacman Jr. My first real computer with a keyboard was a C64, and my first PC was a Cyrix 5x86 120Mhz - 8mb ram - 850mb HDD

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MSon
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 18:10
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im from the time of the old atari's and amigas, but in a box in the basement, i have an old 386 cpu, other than that, im not sure what specs it is, but i never throw away old pc's so i still have all the old midget HDD's, and one of them old 5 and something inch floppy drives for a pc, now thats pretty ancient.

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5867Dude
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 18:23
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500Mhz Processor
192MB Ram
8GB H/D
Used up to 2003

I DID have a 386, at least my Dad says I did (that's how old it is-I can't remember it)

I also owned a 300Mhz iMac (The big ones with transparent blue casing-like the one destroyed in Milk Paton!)

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bibz1st
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I have a Sam Coupe....yeah....one of those, loved it then and still do though I dont use it any more
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charger bandit
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 20:17
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A pic of my beloved Duron.



Had a Pentium 2 with the big heatsink somewhere.


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Lonnehart
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Posted: 12th Feb 2010 22:33 Edited at: 12th Feb 2010 22:34
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Too bad my Tand RLX 1000 was destroyed long ago in a disaster (mother nature destroyed my house). It had a 286 10mzh processor, which was too slow to run Wing Commander II at the time. T_T

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