Do I have the worst, most outdated computer of all of ATOT?

[joecool]

Originally posted by: MetalMat
I still have my old 66mhz ALR system.486, runs windows 95, has 16 megs of ram, 2 hardrives that are about 200 megs each, some old ass video card, 4x cd drive.

I run old games like Crusader: No Remorse, Master of Magic, Civilization 2 and Arena 1 on it. This was my first real computer I worked on myself and actually used this thing from my sophomore to senior years in Highschool from 96-99. Me and my friends nicknamed in the TRACKTOR because it was so slow. It actually ran Starcraft which was pretty cool.

mmm, i remember crusader: NR. my first real pc game (after doom, of course). man it was hassle to get that thing to run under dos - it needed so many special switches. i remember i set up a "boot loader" that let me choose between which configuration to boot just to make it easier to run crusader. it was cool, tho. even my wife thought so! i remember how awesome the little flame looked when you shot something. bet my current system (xp pro) couldn't even play it. i should try, tho, i've still got the cd. doesn't xp have a special game mode where it emulates dos?

 

[MetalMat]

Originally posted by: joecool

Originally posted by: MetalMat
I still have my old 66mhz ALR system.486, runs windows 95, has 16 megs of ram, 2 hardrives that are about 200 megs each, some old ass video card, 4x cd drive.

I run old games like Crusader: No Remorse, Master of Magic, Civilization 2 and Arena 1 on it. This was my first real computer I worked on myself and actually used this thing from my sophomore to senior years in Highschool from 96-99. Me and my friends nicknamed in the TRACKTOR because it was so slow. It actually ran Starcraft which was pretty cool.

mmm, i remember crusader: NR. my first real pc game (after doom, of course). man it was hassle to get that thing to run under dos - it needed so many special switches. i remember i set up a "boot loader" that let me choose between which configuration to boot just to make it easier to run crusader. it was cool, tho. even my wife thought so! i remember how awesome the little flame looked when you shot something. bet my current system (xp pro) couldn't even play it. i should try, tho, i've still got the cd. doesn't xp have a special game mode where it emulates dos?

You can use DOS-BOX emulator, but it runs really slow on my machine. I tried playing Arena 1 on my machine using it, and the dos Box emulator ran really slow.

 

[dudeguy]

my only puteh is a 1gh p3, but im upgrading soonish.

 

[Svnla]

My main PC is a Dell Dimension XPS Pent III 700Mhz, 384MB RAM (upgrade from 128MB), 160G HD (from 30GB), 52X CDRW (from 32X), 16X DVD,XP Pro (from 98SE). I bought it brand new over 4 years ago for $1700.

 

[kevman]

this thread reminds me of the crappiest as PC that I ever had, it was an XT 8086 (xt <186 or 286) from 1987 had it untile 1994 , freakin thing had only 4 color CGA, and two floppy drives, upgraded it to a 3.5 inch and a whopping 540M hardrive at onepoint. Used to love play sierra games like spce quest in 4 collor ....NOT....

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
I'm a tech dork, and yet I think I have the worst (aka most outdated) computer of all you ATOTers:

An HP from 1998...

300 mhz PII
512 MB SDRAM
40 GB HD
8x cd-r burner replaced the original 2x dvd player drive!
Running Windows 98 SE w00t!



Gimme a break! I don't play computer games. IntArnet and Email is all I need!

how do you avoid going insane?

 

[sciencewhiz]

My bosses main computer is a 486 DX-66 running windows 3.1. It runs quickbooks and word and excel, what more could you want?

 

[imported_Salvatore]

P3 440Mhz

384 MB SDRAM

12GB HDD

Unknown Speed DVD-ROM

Win 98

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

My main PC is quite nice, but my lappy is an NEC Versa/S: 486/50, 12 MB RAM (upgraded from 4), 270 MB HD, no optical drives, running Win95. Nice active-matrix screen, though.

 

[Balt]

I'm posting from a p2-350 w/ 128mb SDRAM and a 6.4GB HD atm.

My main machine is a p3-700, but it's only on a dial-up connection so I prefer to use this one.

Probably going to get a Dell 4600 when the next deal rolls around. I'd prefer to build my own but you really can't compete price-wise (to my knowledge, at least).

 

[episodic]

I've got an AMD k62 475 that I use in the bedroom to word process on sometimes. . .

 

[her209]

*zing* I've got an Apple. *zing*

 

[newParadigm]

pEnTiUm 233mhz MMX
64mb RAM (EDO)
Riva TNT Clasix
52x CD-Rom

(obviousl not my main RIG)

 

[DaiShan]

My firewall/vpn box has more power under the hood than that

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
I'm a tech dork, and yet I think I have the worst (aka most outdated) computer of all you ATOTers:

An HP from 1998...

300 mhz PII
512 MB SDRAM
40 GB HD
8x cd-r burner replaced the original 2x dvd player drive!
Running Windows 98 SE w00t!



Gimme a break! I don't play computer games. IntArnet and Email is all I need!

My computer at home:

200 Mhz Pentium w/MMX
64 MB SDRAM
4.3 GB HD
24x CD-ROM
Windows SE

...but, I have an ATI All in Wonder card in there....Rage II+

 

[Allio]

Well, you have twice as much ram as me.

 

[n0cmonkey]

36mhz sparc4m
32MB ram
1GB scsi drive

If it wasn't so loud, I'd consider using it as my main machine.

 

[voodoochylde]

Bah!

Main rig - Northwood P4 (400MHz FSB) @ 2.0GHz, 512MB PC2100, 120GB total HDD space, PCI Radeon 7000, DVD+R/W

Current linux box/experiment-in-progress - AMD Athlon @ 1.0GHZ, 512MB PC133, 13GB HDD, 52X CD-ROM, onboard graphics

Newly acquired socket 7 emachines machine - Emachines 333CS eTower: Cyrix MII @ 250MHz, 64MB PC100, 2.1GB HDD, 32X CD-ROM

Ex-webserver - Pentium Pro 180 (have a 200MHz proc...never got around to installing though), 64MB EDO RAM, twin 1GB HDD's, unknown CD-ROM, onboard video

Old-a$$ Caldera/OpenLinux 'n' Smoothwall machine - Pentium @ 133MHz, 32MB EDO RAM, 750MB HDD, Quad-speed CD-ROM, "upgraded" to a PCI 1MB graphics card lol

/me thinks I've got too many machines and not enough bandwidth (I'm on dialup...)

 

[AlienCraft]

whew..... beat ya with a P3 @ 450 mhz &amp; win2K ..... but not by much .....
The lappy is a 133 w/ win98se.... I need an external HD to hold programs, its a PITA.

 

[GroundZero]

got a 133 mhz
an old 8088 and another 8086
a 166 mhz
a p2 350
a ti-99/4a
sanyo greenscreen
p3 550
p3 755
those are my old ones...
am posting from a p3 550 clocked to just under a ghz right now.
working on my new machine though...
p4 3.0

 

[FleshLight]

Running a gateway with an intel "80486 66 Mhz Processor", a 2x cd-rom drive, 16 mb of EDO ram, and a 600 mb harddrive here.

 

[cucumber]

Originally posted by: kevman
this thread reminds me of the crappiest as PC that I ever had, it was an XT 8086 (xt &amp;lt;186 or 286) from 1987 had it untile 1994 , freakin thing had only 4 color CGA, and two floppy drives, upgraded it to a 3.5 inch and a whopping 540M hardrive at onepoint. Used to love play sierra games like spce quest in 4 collor ....NOT....

I have a very similar one in my garage. A Packard Bell with the 8086. 20 MB hard drive. That was when I was into gaming and played tons of Sierra games. (Leisure suit Larry, King's Quest, Hero's Quest.....) Oh yeah!

I'm also partial to my old Atari 800. I used to play Star Raiders (I think that was the name) all the time. Loadgin programs on the casette tape deck was sooooo slow. As a kid though I thought it wsa the coolest thing ever.

 

[jai6638]

450 mhz
p3
20 gig hdd
192 mb of ram
win 98 SE ( sux )
8 mb vid ram.

 

[DurocShark]

My father in law:

Packard Bell P100 rig with 32mb ram, onboard video, 500mb hard drive. He won't let any of us upgrade it for him. It was his first computer and he'll be buried with it I suppose.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

My temp main computer right now is a 133mhz toshiba laptop with 16mb of ram, 1gb hard drive and no cd-rom My previous main computer had a hard drive failure and I'm using that as an excuse to get a new one