8088 or was it 8086 running at 4.77Mhz (yes...very exact)
640K RAM..Bill Gates said it was enuf for everything.
GeForce256..oops...I mean no video card...
It was a top performer...it had 20GB ..oops..MB hard disk
The monitor was CGA..so yeh...color!!
The case was one of the best case, it was a desktop with 2 buttons on either side, I press the buttons and the whole top of the case opens like a car bonnet. Computer cases back then were of the same quality as Mercedes-Benz. Now, they are so mass-produced even the average spring operated ball-point pen has better overal quality.
The case now houses a 1x CDROM (which I bought in the 386 days for the same price I could buy a car with). The original power supply sits there still, with everything else ripped. The CDROM had buttons for playing AudioCDs. So guess what it is now...yes...a CD Player. Now isn't that classic.
The I/O card with serial and printer port from the XT machine was very useful when I blew my I/O card in the 386 that I had later. Although the 386 card was the size of a SBLive! card now, I had to replace it with the full size XT I/O card...Did some1 say PCI slot?
Back then, it was cool to have more IDE expension slot than your friend.
And what heat sink....nobody dreamed of getting a slab of copper to be placed on top of that 4.77Mhz CPU. The CPU ran without a heatsink. If my memory serves me write, my 386/33 ran without a heatsink too.
Then I had a 486-DX2-66. Hey the DX2 was very important, remember that?
640K RAM..Bill Gates said it was enuf for everything.
GeForce256..oops...I mean no video card...
It was a top performer...it had 20GB ..oops..MB hard disk
The monitor was CGA..so yeh...color!!
The case was one of the best case, it was a desktop with 2 buttons on either side, I press the buttons and the whole top of the case opens like a car bonnet. Computer cases back then were of the same quality as Mercedes-Benz. Now, they are so mass-produced even the average spring operated ball-point pen has better overal quality.
The case now houses a 1x CDROM (which I bought in the 386 days for the same price I could buy a car with). The original power supply sits there still, with everything else ripped. The CDROM had buttons for playing AudioCDs. So guess what it is now...yes...a CD Player. Now isn't that classic.
The I/O card with serial and printer port from the XT machine was very useful when I blew my I/O card in the 386 that I had later. Although the 386 card was the size of a SBLive! card now, I had to replace it with the full size XT I/O card...Did some1 say PCI slot?
Back then, it was cool to have more IDE expension slot than your friend.
And what heat sink....nobody dreamed of getting a slab of copper to be placed on top of that 4.77Mhz CPU. The CPU ran without a heatsink. If my memory serves me write, my 386/33 ran without a heatsink too.
Then I had a 486-DX2-66. Hey the DX2 was very important, remember that?
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