It was a Pentium pro in an HP my parents bought in 1996. All I was allowed to use was this dinky program called "Launch Pad." Other specs included a 2 gb hard drive, CD-ROM drive, and 64 mb memory. I still have the box it came in and it's always good for a laugh.

coketown

486 with a math co-processoer. God knows what the other specs were. I was 8 or 9 and all I knew is it played a lot of stupid cheap games.

Ryan H

My first PC was a 'laptop' where the main computer was in a box section in the back half and the front half split open to a monochrome LCD screen and keyboard. It had 2 720KB 3 1/2" disk drives and 768KB of memory. Ran on an Intel 8086 processor. And no battery; you had to plug it in to turn it on.

Go to this page: [www.futurebots.com] and search for "IBM laptop portable, dual floppys" about 1/3 of the way down the page.

Baladen

All I can remember was an old computer that ran at 33MHz and it had actually had a "Turbo" button that would supposedly run it up to 66MHz. There was a digital display on the front that showed what speed it was running. After that my first own computer had a Pentium 4, 1.7GHz I think and this one here is running an old 2.0GHz AMD64. When I finally get around to a new build, its going to blow this one away and I can't wait.

CubFan81

@Josh_Geyer: Yes, I was a rich kid.

Josh_Geyer

Also, 4 MB of RAM. I finally got another 4 MB for $150 a while later.

mthrndr

486 DX2 33Mhz. Pretty slow, but I thought I had bought a 25Mhz, so I was super psyched when I opened the case and found the higher rating on the chip.

mthrndr

My first processor was an AMD Sempron, but I fell in love with Intel after I built my first gaming machine. My current rig runs an Intel E6850 with 2GB of DDR2 Ram and a nvidia 8800GTS 512.

And yes, it can run Crysis...

Evangelion

It was a 486dx2 in my IBM ThinkPad 755CE that my dad got me when I was like eight...

The thing had 16MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive. It's so funny to think about now, some of my photoshop files wouldn't even fit on the hard drive now....

Josh_Geyer

my first was a dx2 66mhz w/ 8mb ram, 300mb hdd, 2x cdrom, soundblaster16, ati mach 32 or 64 and windows 3.11. it cost over 2 grand back then and now my cell phone is more powerful

Weihovah

my first was a dx2 66mhz w/ 8mb ram, 300mb hdd, soundblaster 16, and ati mach 32 or 64. the whole thing cost over 2k. funny how my phone is more powerful than that thing

Weihovah

mine was a plain ol' pentium. in '94 we had just about one of the first 'personal computers'...but that was the upgrade from a SiS chip or something...also went from 3.1 to windoze 95, yup, and got a 3.5 floppy, from the 5.25...it was a Packard Bell. wut wut. I was four years old...

waynoworlater

First? An 8008. Favorite? Believe it or not, the 80186. Go look it up.

The Turtle

Not my first Intel proc, but I had the first generation Pentium 66MHz with the floating point error...now THAT was interesting. They did swap it out once they realized the issue.

UofITom

@Uncle Remus: Oops, forgot my 12Mhz 286 in between the 10MHz and 25Mhz.

Uncle Remus

My catchphrase is "Dammit, Prescott!".

Enough said. I love my processor, but my computer is rather shitty. 1MB L2 cache, 3.2 Ghz, 800Mhz front side bus.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

Below is what I did with my dx2 - it probably would have made a better keyring. I did have a keyring though with the dies from the 386 and 486, one on each side. Did anyone have one of those?

[img295.imageshack.us]

tommo

486 33mhz 8mb RAM, baby! Gateway 2000 workstation with a 14" CRT monitor... that thing lasted a good five years. Even ran Win95 on it. Took about 15 minutes to boot. Couldn't even run animations on Civ II because I didn't have 16mb RAM. Still have fond memories of DOS and SimCity 2000 and Civilization playing on that machine.

We had a Zeos before that, but I don't remember what it was packing, just that it melted back when thats what PCs did when you looked at them wrong.

mastercha

Commodore 64
10MHz XT Turbo (8088)
25Mhz 386
66Mhz 486
266MHz Pentium
900Mhz AMD
1700+ AMD
2000+ AMD
4000+ AMD
Looks like Intel will be next.

Uncle Remus

The chip John Conner threw into the vat of steel was an Intel.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

I think my first one was actually a Pentium II at 300 MHZ or something like that, i only use Intel processors...i don't know i have always felt AMD a little cheap.

Mike918

My first computer use was when I was 4, I sneaked out in to the living room at night and went over and played with my magnets on dad's new $400 spreadsheet software. Luckily the company was nice and gave him a new copy free and I regained feeling in my butt after a month.

Technogen

A Pentium Pro 200Mhz MMX on a Micron. When we got that I was amazed at how fast it was. That is till they starting getting crazy and jumping into the 500MHz range and thinking mine was wat slow lol.

Ephemera

@Hello_Newman: whew, and Trailblazer modems!

The Turtle

First PC was a 4.77mhz 8086 with dual 360k floppies and CGA monitor. I bought a hard drive and the decision was between a 10MB and 32MB RLL drive. My friend said "you'll never see the bottom of a 10 megabyte drive". I got the 32meg and then a month later added another 65meg RLL drive. I remember a friend at the time spent $1100 on the 120meg drive, which was the largest available if I remember right. These were the days when you wanted to run the best BBS you had to have a lot of space.

Another favorite quote was a couple of years later when the 486SX 25mhz system was on display in a Radio Shack and the sales guy said "oh those, the 486sx is really for industrial use only, it's much more powerful than a home user would need".

Hello_Newman

@Technogen: Toshiba used the 80C88 in some portables back in 1988 or so, too. Nice little machine, the T1000 and T1200.

The Turtle

@biostuart: Probably "expanded," which was the LIM spec (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) swapped RAM through that 64K window so you could run big 1-2-3 spreadsheets. Only thing that used extended memory was HIMEM, ram drives and Unix.

The Turtle

I still have a zenith portable somewhere around here that has a 80c88 in it. [www.old-computers.com] Dont have an OS for it anymore... or a working 5.25" floppy drive.

Technogen

@Usama: I completely forgot about the turbo button on the Gateway 2000! Ahhhhh memories

mastercha

Ahhh
First was a 386 Dx 20, 8mb ram (I think) and 80mb hard drive
was hard core back then.........

collin8579

The first Pentiums were 60Mhz, not 66. They were in the original Compaq Proliants in 1994, fairly rare chips now because the 66 and then the 90 came out so soon after.

The Turtle

My Dad had a computer store back in the early 80s. I remember at home we shared an 8088 that ran at 4.77 MHz. I once programed it to calculate a Mandelbrot set and let it run over night. It didn't get very far. LOL Later we had a Leading Edge computer but that may have been a bit faster.
After that I got my own Packard Bell 286 for college. Hmm, did it have extended or expanded memory?

biostuart

And I always knew the 8088 was just a half-assed 8086.

The Turtle

First machine I did digital video production on was a 486/DX4-100, back in 1994, with a boxful of Quantum 700-meg SCSIs and a Miro DC10 MJPEG board.

The Turtle

486 DX2 25Mhz w/ 4MB of RAM, later upgraded to a total of 8MB .. and it also had that cheap Turbo button (it was a Gateway back when Gateway weren't known). It had about 170MB of HDD space.

next was a Pentium II 233Mhz (w/ MMX of course) in a Micron xku, then the horrible Pentium IV in a Dell no less, then an AMD 1400+ (great chip) built by someone else and bought on eBay, from then all self-builds and these all have Core 2 Duo

Usama

386 12Mhz baby... watch out for that speed lest you get burnt

I had 1 of each Intel, then went to AMD instead of getting a P3... now that they basically set themselves up for failure with that bonehead merger of theirs I'll be back with Intels by my next build.

kaneshadow

@Josh_Geyer: My first HDD was 500MB... I remember thinking to myself, "I'm never going to fill this up!"

Remember keeping more than one file on a microfloppy?

TIE Fighter was 5 microfloppies.

My parents didn't even get a touch tone phone until like 1997....

PlayerX

286. It booted DOS from floppy. I learnt to type first than hand write. Imagine a 5 y/o kid wanting desperately to play such beautiful games in B/W even better games than my Atari 2600. Fucked it up several times and papa fixed always.

phr3ak

Motorola PPC chip, here. What do I win?

PlayerX

My first intel chip was an Hp running a pentium with mmx running at 166mhz. Now that's bad ass!!!

LoCoNights

I bought a Pentium II with my first paycheck when I was like 13.

My mom's company was a top Intel distributor at the time and they sent her a binder with the timeline of future CPU's and they already had the 1Ghz developed back then but weren't going to release it until over a year later.

I wonder what processors they already have now but are holding on to.

Digo

@The Turtle: We had an external dial-up modem you could cook an egg on. You could hear it screaching for blocks. Scared the shit outta cats all over town.

PlayerX

The Celeron 300A was probably my favorite Intel processor. It could be reliably overclocked to 450MHz. Plug it into a nice 430HX mobo and you had a helluva system for cheap cash.

JonnyO

@kaneshadow: Hope this doesn't ruin the memory for you, but the 386 was introduced at 16MHz. There was never a 12MHz part. Maybe it was faster than you thought!

JonnyO

Okay, wow. I must be older than all but one or two of you. My first Intel processor was an 8088 running at 3.6 MHz in a Sanyo MBC-555. Not a bad computer in its day, but unfortunately not completely IBM compatible.

CSX321

PowerPC, and yes my bus speed is very very slow....

otis123

Ive got a pentium 60(mhz) with the original pentium math bug! not my first, but its by far my favorite in the collection.

They even sent out a replacement fixed version, which i also kept.

TheDude06

hmmm i fondly remember my 286 12mhz with a meg of ram. I believe it had a 40 meg hard drive as well... oh the good ole days.. i miss my 1200 baud modem.

Papatronic

First one was an IBM desktop with 6 mhz i80286, 640 kb RAM, and a whopping 20 meg HDD. Massive, I know!
It also had a 5,25" floppy drive with 360 kb disks, CGA graphics card with 256 kb memory, 14" CGA color monitor.
CPU was embedded to the motherboard and it ran so cool that it didn't even need a heatsink! Later upgraded to VGA graphics.
It ran MS DOS, and I had several fun games to go with it.

Oh joy...

Are new processors really 1000 or 2000 times better?

elliotness

my first computer was a apple IIe, think i was 5 at the time. and my favorite proccessor was a Motorola 68LC040, which was the last 68k proccessor that was used in macs before the switch to PowerPC. i had that in a macintosh performa 630cd

segamanxero

Apparently, according to the OLD-COMPUTERS.COM website, my first PC was actually running a NEC clone of the 8088 (although it did apparently have an Intel math co-processor): [www.old-computers.com]

My first Intel powered PC would then be the IBM PS/1 with an Intel 80386SX @ 25 MHz: [en.wikipedia.org]

Baladen

PowerPC. My first Intel was a P4 2.8ghz that I still use today. Then I moved to AMD64x2. Time for Intel again.

oo0cyst0oo

First PC I got in 1997 was a 133 MHz Pentium, next was a hand-me-down 333 Mhz Pentium II in early 1999, and then an AMD Athlon Pluto 550 Mhz in mid-2000. Currently using a 1.25 Ghz eMac at home that I bought in early 2005 and saving to build a new Intel-based PC.

Nintenboy01

The first was that indestructible 486dx 25mhz; I honestly tried everything to kill that chip (magnets, water, smashing) nothing ever worked. Then was the dual P200pro, that had to run linux since windows didn't even support dual cpus yet.

kurrier

On my refrigerator at home is a magnet I made from a 486 DX chip that ran _continuously_ for about eight years at my former employer.

I lopped off the pins and made it into a magnet, but that thing is probably still operable even today.

Happy Birthday, ya bastids.

strider_mt2k

intel 264
pentium 2
pentium3
celeron
pentium 4
3600+ athlon64 AMD

p.fortin

"my"<-- "many"

tsunamisurf

My first Intel processor is the one I'm using to type this. The 2 GHz dual core in my black MacBook. Before that, nothing by Motorola processors, in my 4 previous Macs and my Amiga 500.

rsquared

surprised at how my n00bs there are on Giz. first intel was a pentium II? hah!

as for me I used an amiga 2000 until I gave up and used an intel 286 briefly than switched to a 486sx25 machine (IBM PS/1)

tsunamisurf

i had an 8088... awesome! i remember playing (and loving) a polygon flight sim called Sky Chase. best game. ever.

digitalhen

Oh yeah I totally forgot: our turbo button was broken after my dad upgraded it to 33/66 (was 16/33 before then) so effectively the upgrade did nothing until one day my buddy accidently just touched the side of the computer and doom started going REALLY smooth. I was like DO WHATEVER YOU DID AGAIN! From then on out one person played while the other pressed the side of the tower, lol. Doom was a true co-op game. :P

Kharnellius

@CubFan81: HOLY CRAP I HAD THE SAME THING! Hah! I think ours had 32meg of Ram. Doom ran pretty good but once you got it going to 66mhz it ran like a DREAM!

Kharnellius

Oh, yeah...
My first was a 7Mhz Turbo XT with a 8086 CPU.

My brother and I ran all over hitting his ham radio buddies up for spare RAM chips to bring it up to 640k.
I learned DOS and started phone line BBSing on that machine.

strider_mt2k

@entropyman: oops I meant win 3.1.... just woke up

entropyman

I don't know the model- it was what came in my toshiba satellite 100 running windows CE - it still runs but is somewhere in the closet

entropyman

First intel chip was an 8088, but first machine was an Ohio Scientific 6502 1mghz with 8K (that's K) ram. Those were the days you young whippersnappers.

Wavel

Cyrix 6x86 FTW!

Seriously though, I think my first Intel was a 8086, 5 MHz, in an old Olivetti system of some sort. It was a rock solid machine for years, and I wish I still had it to play around with.

RoyalKennebecasisAdventurersSociety

intel 486dx2 66mhz w 4mb ram, and a 400mb hd. doom ][ ran like a dream in ms-dos 6.1 =D

iddqd185

Started work for Intel in April 1980. 1st computer was a Intel 8086 development system. 1984 1st home computer was a 8088 4.77Mhz, 320K RAM, dual 5.25" floppy drives, Zenth Heathkit computer I built.

mrtech

oh my!!!!!!!!! mine was the pentium 133mhz then 166mhz then 233mhz then pentium 2 350 mhz my favoriate was p2 450 mhz and even today in 2008 i have a few working yets:))))))) the upward slots were pretty kewl pentium 3
was still a upward slot what was it slot 7 or slot a

usntom

8088 in my ibm ps/2. with mcga graphics of course. though i used to think it was a motorola chip. guess i was mistaken. after that it was on to the good ole pentium 60.

Sticky230

The first I enjoyed -- mostly for text games -- was my mom's "word processing" computer, an IBM PC model 5150, with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088. In my BBS days I had a blast hooking my modem (Packard Bell 1200, at first) up to the thing and typing on that massive, clicky model M. And that darling Microsoft mouse with the stainless steel ball and big green buttons. And with those F-key overlay templates for Word.

My first personal Intel was an Amdek '286 running at 12.5 MHz. It had a 40 Mb Seagate ST-251N-1 (maybe MiB, back then, before they started trying to trick us!) and 5 1/4" AND 3.5" floppy drives. I loved that computer.

Since then -- 386DX/33 -- 486/66 -- Pentium-120 -- Pentium III-500 -- P4-1.8 -- Core Duo 2.0 -- Core 2 Duo 2.5.

sillywabbit

My first was a speedy 8088 4.77 Mhz within a PCjr.

So many folks started at blazingly fast CPUs. Amazing.

My favorite was probably my 486DLC40. Oh, wait.. that's TI, not Intel. I guess I'd have to say my current Core 2 Quad Extreme... and am anxiously awaiting Core 2 Quad M.

lilbyrdie

My first was this girl named Sara, she was Brazilian and a friend of my cousins. She was blazing fast, I wouldn't meet another girl that fast until college.

Digo

Well, my pops was a consultant back in the mid 80's through the mid 90's, so an assortment of machines came and went and I never knew what was in them. The first I ever acquired on my own was a nice little Pentium III system built by a smallish shop in San Jose. In a lot of ways that was my favorite PC ever. P3-450mhz CPU, 128MB RAM, 6GB HDD, 3.5" Floppy, CD-ROM, 8MB ATI Rage IIC based video card, no-name sound card, 56K modem.

I cut my own IT teeth on that system. The Samsung HDD went wonky within a year, and I swapped it for a 30GB drive (my first time working inside the case!). Then I upgraded the Vid card to an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro w/ 32MB onboard (YAY! TV in my room!). Next came a Soundblaster Live MP3 edition soundcard (I still use the bundled software today). Then a Creative CD-RW (purchased white box from Tiger Direct), and finally a DVD-ROM (Though I also eventually had to replace the modem when the original failed...$70).

Once I got it to that point, I had nice stable little system that did just about everything I could want. I spent many an hour playing Delta Force 2 on that thing when I should have been doing school work (college). Ironically enough, that's still my favorite game...

Next came an Athlon 1.2ghz (fastest chip you could get...for about 2 weeks) that was pretty good if a little unstable. Later built a secondary rig out of a Duron 1600. Then my glorious AMD 2800+ Barton rig that I unknowingly ran underclocked for years (always wondered why it didn't seem much faster than the 1.2ghz system...). Bios update fixed that just in time for it to run Vista reasonably well. Then I replaced that after I uh...acquired an E6700 and built a system around it, and later built a second out of a 4800+ X2 to replace the Duron.

Yeah...max performance ain't my thing anymore :P

OddManOut

Yeah I still got a dual MB with two Celeron 300a's I overclocked to 450, it was the best deal going for performance in the day. Gonna maybe put that system together again for use as a web server or something, it can keep up under NT, or maybe too much trouble just for old times sake.

Some of the major upgrades of the day was going from an XT to the 286 12mhz, which still is the biggest jump in performance ever seen if you remember it. Also going from 2400bd modems to 14.4k was awesome.

Probably the best "old timer" story was when the Doom "b" patch came out enabling modem play. A friend and I played deathmatch for weeks after on our 14.4k modems and got really good. His brother came over and he told him he was playing against the computer when it was really me on the other end of the connection. I ripped him to shreds so bad I heard later the tossed the Gravis gamepad down and almost went hysterical that a computer opponent could roast him so badly. "Turn the skill level down! Turn it down now!" he was quoted later.

Hello_Newman

8086, 4.77MHz in my Tandy 1000. Other cool features: 128k memory (which I later upgraded to a screaming 384k), a single 5 1/4" 360K FDD, no hard drive, Tandy 16 color (stuck squarely between CGA and EGA).

All this hooked up to a 12" B&W TV as a monitor, using an RF modulator to convert the signals from the RCA jacks to coax, which of course attached to the TV via a coax to antenna adapter.

GC736

Pentium 133 with 16mb ram, 1.19gb hard drive, and an 8x or 16x CD drive!!! The external 14.4 modem was amazing...

We got that in 1996 when I was in grade 12.

photophile

at age 20, i had a pentium desktop with 32mb of ram and it was the envy of my peers at work... it had a 32mb hard drive and people felt it was too much for the kind of work i did... i had a color monitor as big as the spare tire housing of my current SUV :-) and gee, before i forgot, i was attached on a dot matrix printer that was doing 2 pages per minute and again, that made people around me jealous!

sevenich

My first Intel CPU was - as far as I can remember - a 386 SX-16MHz, later upgraded to 25 blazing MHz.

I remember that the 486 DX-2 66MHz was the holy grail of computing at the time - at least for me as a consumer - and how people's eye lit up when someone started to tell tales about how smoothly Doom ran on one of those bad boys. On high quality settings with a full-sized windows, no less!

ZillionDollarSadist

My first intel (that I owned) was a PIII. The only other that I personally owned before that was a 700mhz athlon desktop, but when I was a kid my fam had a C=64, then a nintendo. did not use computers so much after the C=64 until my family got a PII. I took a nerd break for nearly a couple of decades to do drugs and get laid. I recommend it to anyone. You can always reappreciate gadgets, but it's problematic if you don't get breasts and substance induced neural ablation nice and early in life.

capitalass

(Showing my age)

First Intel was an 8086XT that ran at 4.3MhZ, with a "turbo" button that increased the speed to 8.7MhZ. This was at a time when such a machine was called a "clone" because it was not made by IBM.

40MB hard drive! 640k RAM! 2600baud modem! And a... MOUSE!!

Norton Commander made it a bit Gui-like. Windows was just a program that kind of frustrated the situation at the time.

Before that was an Apple ][ - looks like there's only a few in this forum born in the '70s or before...

ajpen

Commodore 64 to start, then all the games systems of the time. First PC was a PB 286. Then on with 386, 486, Pentium, and P II. I remember an AMD next but can't remember its name. Currently running AMD64x2 3800 and an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe, 2.13GHz, that's auto clocked between 2.4 and 3.2GHz. Maybe it's time for a friggin' break.

jcc703

Let's see....

Vic 20, TI-99/4a, Packard Bell with 3.1 and 486sx, Compaq with P2 and 98, Local system with 98se and Athlon tbird, right now self built with XPMCE and a Athlon 64 and Gateway Laptop with Core 2 and Vista.

OtakuboyT

Lots of Intel history since 1989 for me:

12MHz 286 1MiB RAM
100MHz 486DX4 8MiB RAM
200MHz Pentium 200MMX 64MiB RAM
800MHz Pentium III 512MiB RAM
900MHz Pentium III 512MiB RAM
Athlon XP 1800+ 512MiB RAM
Athlon XP 2500+ 512MiB RAM
1.8GHz Core 2 Duo E6300 1GiB RAM
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T7500 2GiB RAM

fpunit

I used to build machines in the early-mid 80's.
My first machine was a Fanklin, (the original, before the Ace), then I owned an Ace. I believe they were both 4 Mhz.
My first IBM compatible was an 8086, no HDD, dual 5.25 FDD, ss/sd, mono-amber screen
I then moved to an 8088 with a 10Mb HDD w/ dual 5.25" FDD, ds/dd, CGA 16 color. What a beast! It had an old flip top case that the FCC soon banned because too many "kids" were killing themselves by putzing around in and getting shocked. That machine cost me $3,600.00.
I later added an RLL card to it to get 15 Mb and later added an ERLL (daughter) card to get almost a full 20 Mb storage, "(Enough to store all of the text from the books in the Library of Congress)".
My next machine, (again at $3,600.00), was a 386SX with a math coprocessor, I needed the MCP to run AutoCAD! This machine had a VGA card and a whopping 1 Mb RAM. I also had one of the first digitizers with this machine. I loved this box and used it for many years [cough].

Wow, what memories!

siville

Tandy 1000 SL (8088 I think) dual 5 1/4 floppy drives, 10 MB hard drive, 640k RAM.

Then graduated to 386 25 Mhz, 2 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive.

Built a bunch of 486 66 Mhz machines (AMD though) for a small company I worked for.

Damn! I feel old!

sbraudrick

hmm, a 386SX @ 16MHz, what that a vintage with a 40MB Seagate hard drive, it's twice the thickness of modern desktop drives!!

EmmanuelAstypalaea

Man I had a 486SX I think it ran at 24mhz or so. Unlike the DX shown above, it had not math co-processor (what they called the FPU back then). It choked on doom for exactly that reason. I was all wrapped up in a Micron computer which was all the rage back than.

Prior to that I had an apple IIgs as my first comp, it's still in my pop's garage, I have to fire it up one of these days.

kaplanfx

My first PC was a Ti-994a back in '86. I was like 13 and embarrassed of it cuz all my rich friends had Apple IIc's. The speech module and tape drive were fun, though - no floppy.

My first (and favorite) Intel was a 386DX 33mHz Compudyne running Windows 3.1 back in '94. I tried everything to make that thing act like a Mac! To add my full length Ensoniq sound board I had to cut the chassis and write a custom autoexec.bat. Taking out that 5.25 floppy and adding that first CD-ROM drive was something else! But I got it working and wrote a bunch of music with Cakewalk, so I was happy.

My current Intel is a 2.8 GHz Core 2 duo in my glorious 24" iMac. I can still play those MIDI tracks in Garage Band. Crazy.

jschroter

How old are all of you? 12? My first PC was an 8086 - the turbo button let it run at 8mhz!

UthmanKaplog

8088 at 4.77 MHz in an IBM PCjr in the summer of 84 or 85. The enhanced keyboard had been announced before I got the computer so I didn't have to make do with the chicklet keyboard for very long.

JamesDafoe

My favorite Intel chip is the AMD Athlon 64 X2. Oh, wait a minute.

The first Intel CPU I owned was an 8088. It was inside my Amiga 2000 and allowed me to run a full PC compatible at the same time I was running AmigaOS.

Nyle

I can't believe only a couple people mentioned the Celeron 300A. It was amazing, and you bet I had one. Easily overclockable from 300MHz to 456MHz as I recall, and it was still very stable... fantastic! Best bang for your buck. Hands down the best processor for that time.

Hi Matt! - Mike Karikas

karikas

486 dx all the way, oh how I miss the 15 minute boot up.

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