Breaking another 10^x

[Szech]

Hey, anyone remember when the first 486-100s came out, thinking ****! THREE DIGITS OF MHZ!!! and now drawing parallel thoughts with AMD's 1.1 Ghz? Heh heh... I know I sure am.

[wee96]

I remember it oh too well, I actually got the dx4-100 when it first came out, great stuff! I was all siked, thinking I actually had 3 digits. Then the pentium 100 came along and absolutely destroyed the dx4. Yes though, I definately DROOL when I see those 1ghz athlons roaring! Im sure in 5 years ill be laughing at myself as well, when they have 10ghz chips

[alpha]

Come on, I remember when two digits came out!!!!

[Sterling_Aug]

Yea well I can beat that one Alpha: My first computer was a 1 MHz Apple + with 16 KBytes RAM.

[alpha]

****!! Mine was only an XT! (4.77mhz!)

[richamies]

How fast did ZX Spectrum 48k's run at? I had 2, so maybe it could be classed as a "Dual Processor".

Would it be worth using my little black box on RC5 then?

[Barney]

I still remember the day my father bought a 486 DX4-100 & mobo with PCI which was twice as small as we had ever seen before.

Ronald

[JeffSP]

How about a good old c64 anyone remember q-link??

[SilverSurpher]

Alpha/Sterling:

I had an C64 with 64kb ram and 0.9MHZ ;-)
who had less?? *lol*

Silver

[Barney]

Yes,Commodore64!I remember the day I bought a Powercartridge,faster loading no more typing codes,just use the F-buttons.It was a great feeling,it was so fast!I still have that cartridge,I tried to sell it years ago.I guess nobody was interested.

Ronald

[RobRich]

Don't you like thinking back to the good old days, when you could dropp thousands of dollars on a decent computer to only see it outdated 6 months later (wait a second, that's todays market too!! ) I remember when my first true PC, a XT 8086-1 10mhz with an expensive math coprocessor, CGA graphics, and a 14" monitor was considered luxury items.

As for less computing power, I still have one of the first solar powered calculators laying around somewhere. Try 100x100 and it takes about 30 seconds to compute it, now that's cutting edge technology!