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[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 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.

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[–] 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'

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[–] SmokeyMeadow ago 

The 60mhz Pentium was really just a beefed up 486. I remember it had an enormous (for the time) heat sink fan that eventually wore its bearing out. I also upgraded to a P120, and in fact I still have that board in another machine, waiting on the right vintage parts to get it going again. I just wish I had saved that old Acer case.