does anyone still use ancient computers?

[pgc hunter]

Mine is 7 years old with a P4 2.8 ghz processer but with upgraded ram and graphics card. It can't run Flight Simulator X without being subjected to a slide show so that's a real bummer. For everything else its perfectly adequete.

[stattonb (Statton)]

My current pc is AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ 4gb ram, 1tb hdd running OSX86. but i still have a commadore 64 that i use to play load runner lol

[starlooker (Duc)]

Originally Posted by stattonb

My current pc is AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ 4gb ram, 1tb hdd running OSX86.

Athlon 64s are ridiculously powerful single-core CPUs.

I had an 17" A64 3000+ laptop, and it was FAST. But it stopped working, and I had to downgrade back to my P4 2.6 desktop.

I still have the A64 chip in my drawer.

[kinetic (Steve)]

heads up ABC Collectors 8pm tonite SA time
old computers..

Steve

[M54 (Molly)]

Hi guys,

You all might like to take a look at this, from tonights episode of collectors. (If you missed it).

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors/...s/s2899648.htm

[DavidU (Dave)]

Well the hard drive went DOA this morning. buggah !

Originally Posted by DavidU

YES! My internet laptop is an old Dell P4 1.8Ghz with 2G of RAM and it is super stable and fast. I have faster more modern computers but this one is a gem.

[starlooker (Duc)]

You can probably find laptop drives cheaply on eBay or gumtree.

Anyway, with respect to my own ancient P4 2.6Ghz, I have bought a 1Gb stick of ram on eBay, which will now bump my ram from 768mb to 1.5Gb. I am expecting at least a 10% boost in speed.

[RB (Andrew)]

I sometimes still log onto IIS using my trusty System 80 and the acoustic coupler.
But I find 75/300 a little slow, might upgrade to a 1200/1200 Maestro.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by RB

I sometimes still log onto IIS using my trusty System 80 and the acoustic coupler.
But I find 75/300 a little slow, might upgrade to a 1200/1200 Maestro.

Yep, takes all of 5 hours to download the first sentence of my reply!!

Seriously sloooooooooowwwwwwwww

[Spanrz (Brett)]

I just recently upgraded from a P4 machine that was built by me in 2004. I now am the proud owner of the latest Pentium quadcore i7, only 2.8ghz, but it does everything quite fine.
It finally bit the dust after all those years of hard work. So 6 odd years was pretty good out of that one.
We got given to us (the wife an I), an 8086 about 13 years ago, I still had it a while ago, but I had no purpose it. I had to "let it go" to heaven a couple of years ago. But it still worked like a treat. Could have sold it to NASA

My first computer was an Atari 2600, then a C64 then first PC was a 486sx33. I still remember that 486. Cost me $800 to put 8 meg of ram.

I still remember when they Overclocked the Pentium (1) 300 cpu up to blistering 500mhz. I think that this was the surge for overclocking and just raw power.

Could you imagine overclocking the 8086/TRS80/286 ?? LOL
"Oooooooohhhh, we got an additonal 5mhz overclock".......lol..