What is the slowest computer you ever owned?

n-ster · Aug 22, 2010

I had a 400mhz once... I don't remeber amd or intel, think it was amd...

When I started gaming more was on some 800mhz processor, idk which again. I was rocking Need for speed III hot pursuit and fifa 2000 all day long xD

crazyeyesreaper · Aug 22, 2010

Commodore PC 10 was my first PC
http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/commodore_pc_10_ii.htm

no idea what the specs were but there ya go that is the slowest PC i have owned / used

MohawkAngel · Aug 22, 2010

It was a Intel 233MMX with 3½ and 5¼ reader 128 megs rams and 10 gigs hdd...this was THE bomb at that time

Mussels · Aug 22, 2010

my first PC that i owned, was a Pentium 90 w/ 32MB of ram and a 512KB video card. i upgraded to 64MB for the extra maps in total annihilation core contingency

MT Alex · Aug 22, 2010

Well, after a couple of TRS-80s and the like, I got one of these babies, which was awesome, it had cartriges instead of cassette tape drives.

The Texas Instruments TI-99. I used to dick around with "ti basic," making my own text adventures and scrolling character graphics. I also logged tons of hours playing Parsec, a fantastic space shooter based on Scramble, and Munch Man, a knock off Pac Man type game.

theonedub · Aug 22, 2010

First computer I had was an XT my dad picked up from one of his coworkers. Super basic, monochrome display, ran DOS, and played Colossal Cave Adventure and Chess

First modern (At the time) computer was an IBM Aptiva Pentium 100.

Perseid · Aug 22, 2010

I thought I was going to say the TI 994/a, but surprisingly Wikipedia says that machine was 3Mhz, so I guess my C-64 at 1.023 MHz is the slowest. What did TI do wrong that the 994/a was 3 times the CPU power of the C-64 but so lacking in...everything compared to the awesomeness of the 64.

The first "IBM compatible" PC I had was a 286-16. 2MB of RAM I think. 40MB HDD. Heh.

kurosagi01 · Aug 22, 2010

my first over priced piece of junk desktop my parents bought from pc crap*pc world*

Batou1986 · Aug 22, 2010

my first was an ibm ps1 running win 3.1, still runs today without a hitch amazingly
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1274

TechPowerDown · Aug 22, 2010

crazyeyesreaper said:
Commodore PC 10 was my first PC
http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/commodore_pc_10_ii.htm

no idea what the specs were but there ya go that is the slowest PC i have owned / used

2 Floppy drives!!!??? WWHHAAATTTT :respect:

p_o_s_pc · Aug 22, 2010

didn't you have the P3 when i met you and i had the x2 4600+ at the time?

TechPowerDown · Aug 22, 2010

p_o_s_pc said:
didn't you have the P3 when i met you and i had the x2 4600+ at the time?

no i had a celly that hit 1.8GHz with a pin mod and 512MB of SD RAM! YAYAYAY :rockout:

Solaris17 · Aug 22, 2010

p_o_s_pc said:
a 50% overclock what would it take to get a 100% overclock?

He-4

a.k.a. liquid helium.

Wyverex · Aug 22, 2010

My first computer was AMD K6 at 100 MHz with 16 (or was it 32) MB of RAM, which would've been good, had I not gotten it during Pentium 4 era

My family was poor

Nowdays, when I buy my own stuff, I'm quite happy with my configuration

shevanel · Aug 22, 2010

I had a 266mhz machine with 64mb of ram... MMX baby!

Lionheart · Aug 22, 2010

Well my first family computer I should say was so popular but I don't remember the spec's of it, because I was only like 4yrs old or younger, and somehow I reconfigured the whole damn computer and I knew what I was doing, somehow :laugh:

, thats what my older bro's and sister's said lol :laugh:

but it had one of those old big floppy drives :rockout:

Second family PC we got was a a Pentium 200MHZ with MMX technology :laugh:

32MB SD RAM and 2MB video card :rockout:

floppy drive and CD ROM drive & a 2GB HDD it was a Packard Bell

and all I played on it was some car game called POD and encyclopedia encartia 96 or sum shit lol

Nosada · Aug 22, 2010

25Mhz 486 DX with 4Mb of RAM (and a turbo button!). I had to use a bootdisk and use LOAD HIGH to get X-COM to run. Good times

Steevo · Aug 22, 2010

I found a really old i386DX PC that was used as a frame replay to twinax converter a few years ago. It wouldn't even run tiny linux. It was running some custom software though. The oldest I owned as a personal machine was a 266Mhz Intel. That one desktop case lasted me through 5 upgrades.

KingPing · Aug 22, 2010

The first was a 386 something. I was too young and i don't remember more about that. The second one, i still have the manual, was (it's no longer with us

) a Cyrix 586 100 mhz with 8 mb of RAM

HUSKIE · Aug 22, 2010

mine is a pentium II 266mhz... way back 90's

Widjaja · Aug 22, 2010

Looking at this picture bring backs some good memories.
Street Fighter II, Dune II, Wing Commander, Sid Meier's Pirates, Cilvilization, Colonization & Secret of Monkey Island.

And some bad ones.....Please Insert Disk 2....Please insert disk three.....please insert disk one again.....
And the disk noises.....dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit............
nrrrrrn nrrrrrrrn!
nrrrrrrrrrn nrrrrrrrn!
dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit.....

To think....the piece of metal to the left was the 512kb memory expansion card.

Solaris17 · Aug 22, 2010

KingPing said:
The first was a 386 something. I was too young and i don't remember more about that. The second one, i still have the manual, was (it's no longer with us ) a Cyrix 586 100 mhz with 8 mb of RAM

i feel your lose bro

i just took a moment of silence.

shevanel · Aug 22, 2010

LOL I'll take you way back, the first PC games I ever played was DUNE II and Commander Keen on a 500mhz system

CounterZeus · Aug 22, 2010

pentium 120MHz 16 megs ram (upgraded to 32MB), diamond 1MB videocard(think this was also an upgrade/replacement), 1.2GB hard disk with windows 95. I think I played with with win 3.11 on a 286/386, but that was our spare pc back in the mid 90's and I can't remember specs ^^

mm67 · Aug 22, 2010

This one:

VIC-20, about 1 MHz processor.

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