Show Us Your Rig [2]

Wordsworth said:

I remember the DX4 100. You could upgrade from the DX2 50 and coupled with taking the RAM from 8mb to 16mb I thought the machine I had then was awesome. Until I built a Pentium.... And so it goes.

It's been a long time since I thought of the days when owning a Pentium meant you were an "awesome PC guy". Dang...

pparks1 said:

I upgraded a Packard Bell with a 486SX-25 to a Pentium Overdrive chip running at 63Mhz. That upgrade was around $300. I also upgraded the 4MB of RAM on the mobo with a 16MB SIMM chip...that had just dropped in price from $300 to $200. That got me up to a Pentium 60 give or take with 20MB of RAM. The 2x CDROM drive was fabulous at the time.

I must admit I was very young when I got into computers, it sort of turned out to be a family thing... So although I remember using them a heck of a lot, it was only a good few years later than I started paying for them with my own money.

I do sort of remember a PC my grandparents had with a 'Turbo' button, it even had a numbered display on the front to show the CPU speed, but don't ask me what model it was or how fast it was.... That was many many years back.

pparks1 said:

I upgraded a Packard Bell with a 486SX-25 to a Pentium Overdrive chip running at 63Mhz. That upgrade was around $300. I also upgraded the 4MB of RAM on the mobo with a 16MB SIMM chip...that had just dropped in price from $300 to $200. That got me up to a Pentium 60 give or take with 20MB of RAM. The 2x CDROM drive was fabulous at the time.

That was a Packard Bell I upgraded with the DX 4 as well. I don't recall precisely what I spent on the RAM but it was between 300-400 dollars. What a deal!

ZaLiTH said:

I do sort of remember a PC my grandparents had with a 'Turbo' button, it even had a numbered display on the front to show the CPU speed, but don't ask me what model it was or how fast it was.... That was many many years back.

I recall 386s we had at work with the Turbo button but I don't recall us using it. It is funny when you look at old computers and the badges they wore, 486 DX2 50 and so forth. Today you look at computers at Best Buy and it's hard to find out what some of them are except Core i7 and so forth. What's the speed? A little different today where the speed is concerned; now it's cores, Quad or more.

It all sounds very familiar. That 486 DX2 was the first I'd bought as well; before that it was hand-me-downs from my father: IBM PC jr, then 286. Just when he was going to give me the 386 I said enough. The cost was high, comparatively speaking, but I was happy to have something up to date for once.

"...it's an antique."

"...control alt delete you..."

LOL.