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Bought a new computer!!

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Sysbuilder05

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So...what kind of power did we have in Dec 1994?

Pentium 90........... Fastest CPU for a PC. The P100 came out a few weeks later in January
540MB Hardrive.....I up'ed to 740mb as an option. My HD capacity was about what a CD is now.
8mb of memory....Want another 8mb? Back then it would have been an additional $500.00+
ATI Mach 64.........Whopping 2mb of memory
CD-ROM drive.......4X if I remember right
15" Monitor...........I've used a 22" for so many years I can't imagine how small that would seem

Floppy drive,mouse,keyboard etc...

The machine was an Acer which was a pretty big name back then although they got a pretty crappy reputation for quality later on. I never had any problems,mine worked perfect. Of course by the time I finally got rid of it there was little left inside that was original.

Cost? Around $2700.00 with shipping.
 
in '94 we had our Apple performa (? i think) desktop at a whopping 33mhz. 🙂 Dont remember the entire specs, wasnt too bad a machine though. It was running OS7 i believe.
 
I don't quite recall but I think I still had my 486dx2-66 at the time. Homebuilt of course. Couldn't afford a Pentium at the time.
 
I got a new computer in 95 or 96. It was a Gateway P133🙂 We were the coolest on the block since we had a 3.2GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM, Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers🙂 (which sound great to this day) 8X CD Reader, WIN95!!!! And a 15 inch Vivitron (Sony Trinitron) Monitor. Was about 3k, but man was it cool!
 
I believe it was 98 when I purchased my first PC to call my own.
K6 400, 20gb, 128mb, Win98, Voodoo Banshee! No monitor-keyboard-mouse, $1600
 
Early in 95 I was still using my dad's old 286 in college to telnet into campus to do my homework. That summer my parents and I combined our money and I got myself a Packard Bell Pentium 60 with 15" Packard Bell monitor. That monitor still works and was still in use by my wife until we upgraded her PC a month ago. I then gave her my 17" I bought a couple years ago. Sadly the Pentium 60 was trashed a couple years ago when just took too much room in the closet. I probably still worked, but why would you even bother?
 
I bought one 7 years ago. Specs were:

200Mhz Pentium w/MMX technology
32mb RAM
4.3 gig HD
ATI RageII+ with TV Tuner!
17'' Sony Trinitron monitor

Cost around 1800 dollars.
 
I remember in '94 when the engineering lab at my college got a shippment of P-90s.
They were so fast (at the time).
 
P-75
8Mb ram
540Mb HDD
Diamond Stealth 64 2Mb
15" monitor
SB AWE 32 (or maybe I hadn't upgraded from my old SB 2.0)
 
it really is sad that everyone knows the specs on their first computer 🙁

anyways, my first one was about 10 years ago as well, and was a powermac. no clue on the specs, but it ran the game Marathon pretty well, as well as Star Wars: Rebel Assaul.
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
it really is sad that everyone knows the specs on their first computer 🙁
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If you're going to pay thousands of dollars for something, you best know what you're getting!
 
Mine was a P75 with 32mb RAM and 850 hard drive. I thought I was king. Sadly, due to budget constraints I'm still only computing with a 233... Time to upgrade?:Q
 
Originally posted by: vegetation
I don't quite recall but I think I still had my 486dx2-66 at the time. Homebuilt of course. Couldn't afford a Pentium at the time.
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I upgraded from a 486SX-25 to a DX2-66 that year. Then I started tearing into the old one and next thing you know I was a builder.
 
In 94 a Pentium 90 was fast as crap. In 1996 I had an sx20 (486). It sucked. My brother in 94 had a dx266 486, which was pretty decent.
 
My First Computer was a Packard Bell 386 50MB Hard Disk
Then I got a IBM 486 with 350 MB Hard Disk, 33Mhz Processor
Then I Got a Compaq PII 333Mhz Processor, 8gb Hard Disk, 32Mb Ram
I Currently Have a Compaq AMD Athlon 1800+, 120Gb 5200 Rpm Hard Drive, 1Gb Ram, 10/100 Nic, DVD Burner and CD-Rom Drive

The Next Computer Will be a Self-Bulid
 
Our first was a 486sx-25 w/ 4 megs ram. 🙂 Then we went IBM 6x86-100, then i upgraded that to a 166 then after that I've had too many to count.
 
Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
I got a new computer in 95 or 96. It was a Gateway P133🙂 We were the coolest on the block since we had a 3.2GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM, Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers🙂 (which sound great to this day) 8X CD Reader, WIN95!!!! And a 15 inch Vivitron (Sony Trinitron) Monitor. Was about 3k, but man was it cool!
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I bought a pentium 200 mmx (overclocked 166 mhz chip) pc from a friend who owned a computer store in 1996(1997?)

Paid $800.00. Came with 16 mb memory, 3.2 gb wd hdd, 8x cdrom, trident graphics (later upgraded to s3 virge baby!!!), 14 inch monitor, epox motherboard, etc.

It was nice and cheap for the time. Ran quake great when I bought the monster 3d voodoo board.
 
Originally posted by: Sysbuilder05
So...what kind of power did we have in Dec 1994?

Pentium 90........... Fastest CPU for a PC. The P100 came out a few weeks later in January
540MB Hardrive.....I up'ed to 740mb as an option. My HD capacity was about what a CD is now.
8mb of memory....Want another 8mb? Back then it would have been an additional $500.00+
ATI Mach 64.........Whopping 2mb of memory
15" Monitor...........I've used a 22" for so many years I can't imagine how small that would seem

Floppy drive,mouse,keyboard etc...

The machine was an Acer which was a pretty big name back then although they got a pretty crappy reputation for quality later on. I never had any problems,mine worked perfect. Of course by the time I finally got rid of it there was little left inside that was original.

Cost? Around $2700.00 with shipping.
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my uncle has that exact same comp in his living room right now... he plays solitaire and poker and freecell on it.
 
Originally posted by: TwoMix
in 94 i got my 1st pc: Gateway 486 DX2-66; 8mb, 540mb hd, 14" monitor, $2000
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I got an AMD 486-33 with everything else the same for $500 from a coworker who knew how to build his own systems. He is responsible for my current habit, damn you Richard Brown!!!! 😀

 
We had a 90mhz P1 with a 1GB hard drive and had the RAM slots filled to the maximum the board could support. It was really good at the time

😛
 
Ten years ago I was using (at work anyway):

A brand new Silicon Graphics Indigo 2:

Extreme Graphics
MIPS R4400, 250 Mhz, 2Mb L2 cache
384 Mb of RAM
4 Gb SCSI drive
64 bit Irix

More details here...

Metron
 
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