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Old 06-10-2009, 10:33 PM   #29
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Default Re: how times have changed

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Originally Posted by rack04 View Post
The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz.
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First real desktop I had was a 8086. paid extra to get the BIG hard drive, 20 mb. Also paid extra to get the upgraded RAM, got 1 mb instead of the standard 640 kb!! Anyone else remember extended verses expanded memory? Had to run a side program to take advantage of the extra 360 kb of RAM. I can't remember the speed of the original modem, was slow, slow, slow, that's for sure!

That desktop started up in about 3 seconds! I still think that Word Perfect ran faster on that machine than it does on my current machine.

Way before Windows. DOS 5.0, I'm thinking, was the last upgrade I put on it. Graphic cards? Speakers? Mouse? Ethernet? WTF were those!!!
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