Prize for oldest computer?
Posted by: Deane F on 23 January 2005
If there is a prize for the lowest spec computer used to view this forum I would like to submit an entry. I do all my surfing on a 266mhz (I think) with 64MB RAM, an S3 Virge video card, 1GB of HDD. No speakers. VGA (not SVGA) monitor. Every day when I switch it on I’m surprised it got through the day before and is still working.
I’m guessing that the average computer used to surf this forum is at least ten times as fast and powerful as my one.
Do I get the prize, or is there an even lower-tech forum member?
Posted on: 23 January 2005 by long-time-dead
Up to last month, I used an old work PC sometimes. It was only ever used as a portal for personal e-mail use during work hours so speed was not the essence.
It used Win95 !
P100 (Yep, original Pentium)
32k RAM
Onboard graphics
1.2GB HDD
No speakers either.
You used to load a page and then make a coffee !
Posted on: 23 January 2005 by Deane F
LTD
Wow! That is half the spec of mine. I don't play games so I don't mind the slow computer but I do worry about the thing crashing and taking files with it so I back up a lot.
Posted on: 24 January 2005 by Matthew T
quote:
Originally posted by long-time-dead:
Up to last month, I used an old work PC sometimes. It was only ever used as a portal for personal e-mail use during work hours so speed was not the essence.
It used Win95 !
P100 (Yep, original Pentium)
32k RAM
Onboard graphics
1.2GB HDD
No speakers either.
You used to load a page and then make a coffee !
32k RAM, really, WOW!
Matthew
Posted on: 24 January 2005 by long-time-dead
oops - 32MB
Posted on: 24 January 2005 by jayd
"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
-Bill Gates, 1981 (could be apocryphal, but widely attributed to Bill)
Posted on: 24 January 2005 by long-time-dead
dollars per second ?
