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You should have seen the look on my nerd friends' faces when they learned I had 8 whole mb of RAM. Who could possibly use that much? I was all set to buy a 486DX66 with 4mb like my buddy had, since I knew it would be able to play Doom in full resolution. But that black Acer really stood out. I couldn't help but up-sell myself. I think it may have been a couple hundred more. Well worth it.
Im fucking jealous right now you lucky bastard! ;)
I upgraded twice in 3-4 year to a dx66 then a p120 that was for some reason running at 133mhz. That was the day i discovered over clocking.
The vendor i bought the pc from set the jumper wrong but it was stable anyways. I thought i found a crazy secret and convinced my BIL to upgrade that same day. It actually was lucky for me as later on i tried flashing the updated tyan bios only to find out my floppy drive would stop working 20 mins in.
Turns out my 'tyan' motherboard was a clone and i had to end up copying my BIL's bios image to revert it back lol.
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[–] voats4goats [S] ago
P60 in 94? You had a hotrod back then! ;)
I got mine in 94 as well but it was a Leading Edge 486sx 33mhz with a whopping 4MB ram and a 2x cd-rom that didnt fully eject. You literally had to pull the tray all the way out to pop in your cd!
Then i discovered computer shows a short while later and it was all downhill from there. I was hooked bad :D
[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You should have seen the look on my nerd friends' faces when they learned I had 8 whole mb of RAM. Who could possibly use that much? I was all set to buy a 486DX66 with 4mb like my buddy had, since I knew it would be able to play Doom in full resolution. But that black Acer really stood out. I couldn't help but up-sell myself. I think it may have been a couple hundred more. Well worth it.
[–] voats4goats [S] ago
Im fucking jealous right now you lucky bastard! ;)
I upgraded twice in 3-4 year to a dx66 then a p120 that was for some reason running at 133mhz. That was the day i discovered over clocking.
The vendor i bought the pc from set the jumper wrong but it was stable anyways. I thought i found a crazy secret and convinced my BIL to upgrade that same day. It actually was lucky for me as later on i tried flashing the updated tyan bios only to find out my floppy drive would stop working 20 mins in.
Turns out my 'tyan' motherboard was a clone and i had to end up copying my BIL's bios image to revert it back lol.
Ahh good times before plug and play and BBS'