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What is the slowest computer you ever owned?

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Just thought i'd ask, I am only 16, so i wanna get a taste for how slow things really were back in the day (Hz wise). The furthest back i can remember is a P3 @ 1200MHz with 256MB of SD RAM :roll:

Edit, I Ment P3 @ 1200MHz
 
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back in 2004 i had a 266 P2? with 256mb ram and 16mb video card ... it lastest a week before i got rid of it :P


5 month later i build my first pc... AMD athlon 3000 Venis core with a 6600GT and a massive 1GB of ram lol.

FordGT90Concept said:
Pentium II never got close to 1 GHz. :confused:
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yeah lol?
 
computers @ work, swear they get slower everday :laugh:
 
I still have a laptop running right now that has a 1Ghz P3 w/ 256MB of RAM.

My first PC that I remember the specs on was a i386DX@25Mhz.

Of course I had a Commador 64 @ 1.023 MHz also...
 
The first computer I remember as "Mine" was an AMD K6-2 @ 533Mhz, with a nice 3DFx Voodoo 2. But that was way back then.
 
newtekie1 said:
I still have a laptop running right now that has a 1Ghz P3 w/ 256MB of RAM.

My first PC that I remember the specs on was a i386DX@25Mhz.

Of course I had a Commador 64 @ 1.023 MHz also...
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I'm so young i've only herd rumors of the commadors lol
 
newtekie1 said:
I still have a laptop running right now that has a 1Ghz P3 w/ 256MB of RAM.

My first PC that I remember the specs on was a i386DX@25Mhz.

Of course I had a Commador 64 @ 1.023 MHz also...
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i also had a i386 but it was because i found them 5 at a flea market for 10 bucks for all of them(boards,psus,hdds,ram,heatsinks,cases,etc)
was worth it just to play around. but that is the slowest pc i have owned.
 
Believe it or not but a lot of classic arcade games like Street Fighter II ran on ~12MHz boards. Most arcade games that use the JAMMA standard ran on very slow processors. Of course everything was loaded onto ROM chips and there really wasn't a CPU as we think of it today.

I have an Aquarius in the garage. I never owned a Commodore but those things were awesome back in the day even running at 1MHz. They still are really cool to learn about.

The start of affordable computing as I remember it was the glorious 6502 (around 2MHz). Variants of it are still used today. That thing is awesome! If you watch Futurama you'll see there is even one in Bender's brain!

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The 6502 is probably the most recognized microprocessor ever amongst those in the know.
 
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My slowest, still working machine is a Pentium II at I think 266 MHz.
 
If I remember right I had an IBM Personal Computer. My next PC after that had a 75MHz AMD K5.
 
It was a Celeron Pentium 3 cannot remember the clock speed but it ran on the dreaded windows ME, before that i had a Pentium II at around 200mhz but that wasn't exactly slow for its day.
 
IBM 5150. I still run it. I can code BASIC FTW!

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5mhz clockspeed, 64k ram, B&W graphics, Amber display (I have orange display), hell yeah!

EDIT: FYI no hard drives.
 
my first was an AMD socket 7 i believe. like 266mhz and i think it had 32mb of ram and some onboard trident grfx. it was super cool.
 
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1.023Mhz of awesomesauce
 
I still have the intel

INTEL PENTIUM I at 133Mhz right here- beast chips with bigger dies then i7's :laugh:

half as light due to ceramic.

System had 10gb of storage

and 64mb of ram or less

PS: im a 93'er and yes i had and used a computer that old for 6 months.

Today i used my centrino m processor at 1.4Ghz laptop with 1gb of ram

It has verizon security so i stood there and waited 5 minutes to load Internet explorer :banghead:

I decided to fix my computer and im back to speed again :laugh:
 
The commodore 64 was mine then the first Desk top I had was a 486DX2 66Mh That was super slow 64Mb of Ram !
 
Commodore PET 4016

CPU: 8-bit 1Mhz
System Memory: 16kb
Storage: Tape Drive
Video: ? 40x25 Resolution
Sound: Tone Generator w/Internal Speaker
O/S Microsoft Basic

I'm still using a 486SX 66mhz (I think) in my alignment machine.
 
I had a C64. I used to hate waiting for those darn tapes to "LOAD,8" lol
but then got a floppy drive and an action replay cartridge lol.
 
First Windows computer I had was a 286 4mhz o/c'd to 6mhz
 
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Amiga 500 brilliant in its day
 
My first computer was a Sytem-80. There is a fan page here

Specs:
CPU : Z-80, I don't know how fast it went (not very)
RAM : 16 Kb
ROM:`3.5 Kb with inbuilt basic
Storage : audio cassette, I never bought the optional HDD:(

A good friend of mine had the same model, I remember us reading up on how to OC these babies back then but it sounded too hard. Had to desolder a crystal off the mobo and replace with a faster one. We also had to retrofit them with earthed aluminum foil to cut down the radio noise that affected half the Tv's in the street whenever we turned them on. I nearly lost that rig over making the old mans cricket go to shit.

Now, I realise I am older than my dad was when I got that first computer:eek:

PS - YES I still have it and it still works, 28 years later :)
 
my first GF had a 16Mhz mac with 8MB of ram.
 
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