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**KenC** · 05-15-2006, 09:36 AM

haha, crazyness.

My Dad bought an IBM laptop back in 1991. It was ~$6000 with a rockin 386. He paid $700 to 'upgrade' to 2mb of RAM (from the standard 1). The thing is FUCKING HUGE. The battery pack was 5x5x12 and weighed probably 25lbs.

**parkerbink** · 05-15-2006, 09:46 AM

I bought an IBM PC AT with screaming 186 processor, 8mb of ram a HUGE 1gb hdd and a "color" monitor in 1984(5,6?). It was (are you sitting down) 8k which was a DISCOUNT!

This machine is home made, has an Athlon 3800 939, five hdds totaling 875gb a Sony DVD burner, ATI AIW 800 PCIE card 2gb of pc4000 and cost less than 2k

**1991 318is** · 05-15-2006, 09:55 AM

Nerd alert!

Check this out!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/

My first box was a Darth Vader model KayPro 10. It was a CPM machine. As the kid asked when I bought my first 386 with Windows 3.0, "What's CPM? It was an operating system that was older than DOS! The 10 in KayPro 10 stood for the 10 MB hard disk. That's not a misprint - 10MB. Cost $3000.

**Ryan Stewart** · 05-15-2006, 10:41 AM

Im dissapointed with the current dual core efforts. My dual P2 xeon 800 box that I built in 99 paces with and runs engineering apps faster than the 3.4s we have on campus. My concern with 64 bit is the loss from crosstalk. Im sure SATA helps a lot but the boards arent getting any faster save for PCIe.

Old shit? When I had my business I was setting up a doctors office and the doc wanted a few machines for home. When I dropped them off he said I could have the old one in the basement. And IBM PC2. Upgraded to 2mb disk and he ran cobalt on it.

We took it, welded in the backplate from a modern ATX case, tapped new board supports, and put in (quick at the time) a P3 setup. The hardest part was finding a non-ATX board that we could rig up to the power supply so we could keep the big red switch on the side.

**delatlanta1281** · 05-15-2006, 10:49 AM

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just kiddin guys!
It's hard for anyone to accuse while sitting in Atlanta airport on wifi in order to post on R3v!!
I am bored............

**golde30** · 05-15-2006, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by delatlanta1281

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just kiddin guys!
It's hard for anyone to accuse while sitting in Atlanta airport on wifi in order to post on R3v!!
I am bored............

aight nerd. u going to the may20th meet in hayward?

**arsevader** · 05-15-2006, 11:22 AM

Originally posted by parkerbink

I bought an IBM PC AT with screaming 186 processor, 8mb of ram a HUGE 1gb hdd and a "color" monitor in 1984(5,6?). It was (are you sitting down) 8k which was a DISCOUNT!

This machine is home made, has an Athlon 3800 939, five hdds totaling 875gb a Sony DVD burner, ATI AIW 800 PCIE card 2gb of pc4000 and cost less than 2k

Luxery....and it was probably an 286 as the 186 (or 8086/8 to us real nerds) was the XT. And I find it hard to beleive you had a 1 GB HD in the mid eighties. My first 1 GB computer was 1992.

My First 8086 computer had 512KB of RAM and ran at an impressive 11 MHTz..when you pressed the 'turbo' button on the front. It came with awsome low density 5 1/4 floppy which held a staggering 360K per side. It came with a 32MB hard drive (that's right MB) and I upgraded to 16 colour EGA goodness.

**parkerbink** · 05-15-2006, 11:26 AM

When I first got to Mexico, (Dec 2001) I went to fix a computer at a friends office, it was a freaking Acer 286 box with a 300mb hdd. I could not believe there was one of those being used. It had Windows 3.1 on it! Problem was the power supply fan fried but the ps kept working.

Obviously I could not get a ps for that pos but they refused to buy a new computer! I had to take a fan out of a dead ps I had lying around (see being a packrat is not a bad thing) and I fixed the pos.

Originally posted by arsevader

Luxery....and it was probably an 286 as the 186 (or 8086/8 to us real nerds) was the XT. And I find it hard to beleive you had a 1 GB HD in the mid eighties. My first 1 GB computer was 1992.

My First 8086 computer had 512KB of RAM and ran at an impressive 11 MHTz..when you pressed the 'turbo' button on the front. It came with awsome low density 5 1/4 floppy which held a staggering 360K per side. It came with a 32MB hard drive (that's right MB) and I upgraded to 16 colour EGA goodness.

Alrighty it was the "faster" so 286 and I guess it had 500mb or whatever was the costliest as I distinctly remember the reason it was over 5k was I got the fastest and biggest plus the non green monitor was a fortune.

**arsevader** · 05-15-2006, 11:39 AM

Originally posted by parkerbink

Alrighty it was the "faster" so 286 and I guess it had 500mb or whatever was the costliest as I distinctly remember the reason it was over 5k was I got the fastest and biggest plus the non green monitor was a fortune.

Ah yes the green/amber glow of a tiny fish bowl screen. My EGA monitor had a switch on the front so you could turn it amber if you wanted.

I remember when DOS 5(?) came out it had 'doublespace' which you could use to essentially double your disk space. I went from 32MB to 64MB..whooohooo!

**delatlanta1281** · 05-15-2006, 12:30 PM

Originally posted by golde30

aight nerd. u going to the may20th meet in hayward?

Does the pope shit in the woods?
Ummmmmmmm probably, my car is at SFO right now, so I gotta wash it... what is in store for the meet ? drive? Standing around looking at e46s?..... Last meet I went to I was the only e30 there..... very few people knew or cared about the work I had done. One guy John who recently sold his e30 was interested.... that's about it though. Nice group of people, real nice autos!

**James Crivellone** · 05-15-2006, 09:46 PM

Lets see, my first computer was a Tandy Model 4 Terminal (The Model III died when the 5 1/4 inch drive decided to smoke)

Learned Basic programming on that, wrote a few cool little programs on it, and played too many damn games.

Replaced that with the Tandy Color Computer, which I had for a few months before going to an ITT Xtra 8088, with 384K of Ram, and 1 360K (SOO BIG) floppy drive.

I later upgraded it to an EGA graphics card, and a 10MB RLL Seagate HDD/Controller.

Next was an HP 286 with 2MB of ram, and a 20MB MFM Seagate HD, ran Windows 2.11 on that for awhile, until Windows 3.0 Came out, I then upgraded again to a Packard Hell/Bell 386DX with 4MB of Ram, and a 40MB Connor HDD.

After that it was just upgrading after upgrading, I always kept the old computers, so I had all of them running so I could do whatever at the time.

After the 386 I went to a 486DX2-66 with 16MB of ram and a 420MB HD, Replaced that with a 486DX4-133 AMD Proc with 32mb of ram, and an 800MB HD.

Then it was the intel days, 166, then 233, then 450, then dual 550, then dual 700, then dual 1ghz, then single 1.2ghz, then AMD 1.0, then P4 2.4 - 2.8 (Fastest P4 I currently own)

Current processor speeds I own are hilarious compared to my old XT

Dual G5 2.7Ghz
Pentium-M 2.13Ghz
G4 1.5Ghz
Pentium 4 2.8E
Dual 550 P3

And all the damn servers, not even gunna go there.

**permit** · 05-15-2006, 09:55 PM

My first laptop was a titanium 15" Powerbook G4 that probably cost ~$3500. It was pimped out with a 10GB hard drive, 400Mhz processor, and 256MB of RAM--upgraded later to 512MB.

I gave that one to Bryson's little bro after having it for 4+ years and picked up an aluminum 15" Powerbook G4 that was ~$2900 and has a 60GB hard drive, 1Ghz processor, and 712MB of RAM--now 1GB (had it for 2.5 years).

I handed over this laptop to my mom for Mother's Day, and tomorrow my third laptop shows up in the mail. It's a 15" MacBook Pro with almost all the luxuries: dual 2Ghz processor, 100GB hd @ 7200rpm, 2GB of RAM, and is costing me $2400. Can't wait! With my luck, it'll be outdated in a few weeks :)

**Jordan325iC** · 05-15-2006, 10:15 PM

640k should have been enough for anybody.

**arsevader** · 05-16-2006, 05:43 AM

Originally posted by James Crivellone

Lets see, my first computer was a Tandy Model 4 Terminal (The Model III died when the 5 1/4 inch drive decided to smoke)

I was born in the UK so my first computer was a 'Dragon 64'. Awsome machine. Nothing quet like sitting for half an hour waiting for a text based adventure game to load off a tape.

I then moved to the Acorn/BBC line of computers which for the day were pretty hot shit. That's where I first learned BASIC. That's where you spend half your day inputing code to create a game that once it's finished you really have no desire to actually play.

Originally posted by James Crivellone

Replaced that with the Tandy Color Computer, which I had for a few months before going to an ITT Xtra 8088, with 384K of Ram, and 1 360K (SOO BIG) floppy drive.

Yeah I had a Tandy, back when Radio Shack was an actually decent store.

I remember spending hours and hours trying to fit a copy of Kings Quest or Space Quest off of a friends computer onto a million low density floppies as later on I got left behind when he got a 386 with a high density 3 1/2 drive.

My first really awsome comuter though was a dual Pentium II 400 with a gig of Ram.

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