Today in history: First Pentium chips released

[Shlong]

I had a 386 DX2 and upgraded to an Acer Pentium 66mhz. It had 8mb ram, 14.4k modem, 1mb videocard, 400mb harddrive, 2x cd-rom & ran windows 3.11. It also came with a 360dpi printer. Around that time windows95 came out & I quickly upgraded. I remember playing a lot of doom & some game called megaracer around that time.

 

[gamephile]

That's a good story pm. I'd love to hear more if you have 'em.

 

[WT]

I bought two Pentium Overdrives from Compgeeks a long time ago. I dropped them in a Gateway DX2/50 that I had, but due to the 25mhz bus I could only wring 63 mhz out of it. The 33mhz bus ran the chip at 83mhz I recall. I still couldn't play Quake on the damn thing.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: gamephile
That's a good story pm. I'd love to hear more if you have 'em.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: gamephile
That's a good story pm. I'd love to hear more if you have 'em.

 

[imported_Truenofan]

oh boy, had the first "computer" type system, that was an atari 800xl i believe, floppy drive, keyboard, controllers and a whole lotta other games...track and field as well(god save us from that game,it was my dads, he programmed a few games for it himself, bought it for 100 bucks).
95/96 486dx2 with 24mb i think of edo ram, cirrus logic 1mb pci card, later on upgraded it to a 586 wintergreen and with a 3d accelerator. packard bell windows 3.11 and 95
97/98 amd k6-2 300mhz with another 1mb cirrus logic pci card and a voodoo 2(WOOHOO) something like 64-128mb of ram on that one windows 95, 95se, 98, and a little ME(ugh)
99/00 amd k7 t-bird 1.2ghz or something along those lines i believe, i was running at least 256mb of sdram 133. radeon 9700 pro(oh yeah) windows 2k
02/04 amd k7 barton 2.21ghz, round 1-2gb of ram, but sd200 i think, rig as before, just upgrading it alot. windeows 2k/xp
04/05 amd 64 winchester 3500 2.21ghz, 2gb of ram, x800xl. my first 64bit rig and it ran ddr400 crucial i think, i later on upgraded video to the ati x1900xt windows xp
05/current (sig) windows xp

 

[RedBeard]

Originally posted by: y2kse
I remember playing MegaRace on my Packard Bell Pentium 60 with 8 MB RAM, 420GB HDD, 4x CDROM and combined 14.4k baud modem/sound card.

Lance Boil wants his game back!

 

[Sable]

Ah, memories. My first Pentium was the 83mhz overdrive one that dropped into a socket 3.

Vastly improved my Magic Carpet gaming experience.

 

[Cooler]

I went from a 486 to a P2 350 mhz i used to play StarCraft all the time on it.

 

[hardwareking]

Got a P3 in 2000
Used it to finally play septerra core and final fantasy 7
Got P4 1.6ghz(wilmette) in 2002
I bought into the advertisements and didn't get any sort of speed boost.I was really dissappointed
Then in 2005 got a prescott.That did bring a speed boost but also raised the temperature of my house

 

[Uhtrinity]

Originally posted by: WT
March 22, 1993 marked the debut of Intel's first Pentium line of processors, checking in at a speedy 60mhz, and effectively doubling the speed of Intel's fastest 486/66 chips.
:thumbsup:

Smart Computing article

Ahhhh, these were heady days indeed !! With the Pentium nearing retirement, post your fondest Pentium memories from days long since gone by.

That article isn't exactly technically accurate.

Pentium pro - 64 bit cpu, actually it was a native 32 bit cpu which sucked at 16 bit apps.
P4 20 stage pipeline - so it can move data through faster, longer pipeline means the cpu can go up, but the longer pipeline actually slows down the process...

Just a few

 

[Frintin]

Pentium 90 was my first Pentium, switched to AMD after that until the Celeron 300 came along, then back to AMD until recently I got a Core 2 Duo chip.

 

[ribbon13]

Hail the days of Command and Conquer (the original) goodness! Heh, Overdrive just makes me think of a classic:

lock cmpxchg8b %eax

 

[oztrailrider]

My first pentium PC was also the first machine I ever assembled for myself. It was a Pentium 75 with 16MB EDO RAM, 800MB HD, 8x CD-ROM, ESS 1868 Sound Card and a 2MB video card. The screen was a KTX 15" CRT that was horrible to look at. It took us 5 days to get the machine running stable. We even got virus infected driver disks with the VGA card!, I remember the virus was something called Monkey_B. OS was DOS 6.22 w/ Windows 3.1. I loved that machine, I then later upgraded it to 32MB of RAM and dropped a Pentium 166 CPU into it, it then received one final upgrade to 64MB of RAM, Pentium 200MMX CPU and 1.2GB HD. I gave it away to the guy I was boarding with a couple of years ago.

 

[Frintin]

We even got virus infected driver disks with the VGA card!, I remember the virus was something called Monkey_B.

LOL

Mad props to the Monkey virus! The most common master boot record virus spread only by floppy discs!

 

[AMDrulZ]

My first Pentium memory... was around 1998 when we found an old gateway 2000 tower on the side of the road... it was a gateway 2000 P5-90 Tower Friggin HUGE tower... But any how I played doom for hours and hours on that thing it was pretty fast... coming from an old Compaq 386-33 that was also a found on the side of the street find..LOL pretty much all of my first computers were trash finds...LOL I have even had a Tandy at one time and an old IBM with the almighty 8086 @ 4.7mhz man old star trek dos games ran good on that...LOL O and battle chess...LOL

But I am looking for an old socket 7 Baby AT tower on eBay so I can make a DOS computer to play all of the classics.... I think I am going to use an old AMD K5 PR-133 or PR-166..... They were good chips believe it or not... and FPU speed was the same at the same physical clock speed as the Pentium... but K5's are faster running DOS programs than the Pentium?