What's up at home today...?

Haha, turned out my mother still had my old gaming rig from end '90's / early 2000's.

A whopping 8.4 GB HD with windows 98 SE, 64 MB RAM, a Voodoo 1 3D graphics card, S3 Virge 2D graphics card (yeah you needed two graphics cards in those days), a Soundblaster sound card in an ISA slot and a Pentium MMX @220 Mhz (overclocked).

Yeah baby. Played Quake, Tomb Raider and Need for Speed on that thing among other games

In 2001 I had a AMD Athlon @ 650 MHz, 64 Mb RAM, 32 MB Video and a 15.3 Gb HDD.
I played Mafia on that. A bit slow, but mid-low settings it was playable.

My first computer




Processor - 100MHz Pentium Processor
Memory - 8MB, Upgradeable to 72MB
Hard Drive - 1.2GB
Graphics Chip - Cirrus Logic 5430/40, 1MB Video Memory, upgradeable to 2MB
Sound Card - Standard Packard Bell Sound/Modem Card
Optical Drive - 4x NEC CD-ROM Drive
Optical Connection - IDE/Atapi
Floppy Drives - 1x 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
Operating System - Windows 3.11/Windows 95
Navigator Version - Navigator 3.0 (Windows 3.11)/Navigator 3.5 (Windows 95)


With one of my favorite games installed: Duke Nukem

The system I mentioned was not my first pc, I first had a 386, than 486-DX, Then a Pentium @ 75 mHz and after that this one...then a Pentium II, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and now an i5. Only the last system I bought and built completely new, all other pc's were made from left overs, scraps and gifts and I was constantly upgrading and overclocking

Do you guys remember the sound of old computers?

Like it was yesterday I had a 486 borrowed for a couple of weeks. I had to
wait around 15-20 minutes for it to start