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What the PC world was like 10 years ago | |
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| Time: 13:58 EST/18:58 GMT | News Source: Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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Ten years doesn’t seem all that long, but this list really brought home a few facts about how much the PC world has changed since then. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (173.27.241.22) at 5/27/2009 3:45:01 PM |
| My Cyrix 233 kicked ass with Windows 2000 and 192-MB of RAM. That was pure power! |
| #2 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at 5/28/2009 7:07:52 PM |
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Mid 1999 we were shipping Pentium III 550's and later 600's with 128 MB or 256 MB of RAM and 13 GB IBM HDD's. Many were configured with dual optical drives - DVD on top and a CD burner down below. Some shipped with an Iomega Zip drive, which was popular at the time.
Win 98 gave way to 98 SE that year and HDD's topped out at 22 GB. The venerable 44 BX chipset was king and Riva 128's finally gave way to ATi's offerings which went to 16 MB GPU RAM by the end of the year. AGP was a year old and common. DVD play-back no longer required a dedicated MPACT MPEG decoder card. Many builds also included an I/O card boosting IDE throughput to the HDD where early boards had a slower BUS by half. By the end of that year we were shipping Pent III 600's and Abit boards had native faster IDE BUSes. We used Hitachi 19" CM-751 CRT's that seemed to run forever. I still have one running in my office that was built in 1998. While it does not connect to any network, I still use it to program pass cards for door entry devices. Being connected to battery and other aux power, it has not been turned off in nearly 11 years. It has not been rebooted in longer than any of us can remember and it still has its original mouse and KB. We've heard stories and have seen some of our machines that were built back then still running image morphing software that we shipped with them. About five years ago a lady called me and asked for the password to her machine. I was stunned. It seems she had not rebooted it ever. She said she never had to. It was a system connected to 9 remote monitors she sent imagery to. It seems they had a power outage long enough that lasted beyond the generator's fuel supply. I remembered her and her password and the computer booted normally. |
| #3 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 5/29/2009 1:35:28 PM |
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I'm still running a PowerEdge 2400 with 2xPIII550's and 512 RAM. It's still running all original parts although it has been upgraded from WinNT4 Server to W2K Server. Not a single failure of any of the hardware to date. Original 20/40GB Tape drive still works can't imagine how many hours on it. It has been on save 2 day long power outtages and the 3 hour move to a new building since September of 1999.
They don't make them like that anymore. |
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