"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
11/20/2018 at 21:41 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
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Pentium 75.
These were originally Socket 5; and had
320 pins.
It’s not exactly small; that’s a US Quarter for scale.
Peak ‘90s, right here!
MoCamino
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 21:49 |
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wafflesnfalafel
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:03 |
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overclock that mo fo...
David Baker
> MoCamino
11/20/2018 at 22:05 |
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Thank you, that made my night. Lol, I needed that
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wafflesnfalafel
> MoCamino
11/20/2018 at 22:08 |
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I love that I can buy a hard drive at Costco for $100 with more memory than the entire planet had 50 years ago.
Just Jeepin'
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:09 |
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Now I’m wondering whether I still have my FDIV bug Pentium ( 90?) box still lying around.
facw
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:13 |
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And of course it’s pre-flip-chip, so the die is on the pin side, rather than on top.
Somewhere I’ve got at least one 200MH z Pentium Pro, which is an enormous chip. Also a 400MHz Pentium II, but it’s not really fair to compare a Slot 1 cartridge to a socket processor.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:19 |
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My Dad was a technical manager for a county’s emergency communications center. As a little kid, I remember going to work with him once to see a couple a pair then brand new servers with Pentium 150mzh processors (named Boris and Natasha, as he liked to name servers after Rocky and Bullwinkle characters) that powered the county’s 911 call taking and sheriff’s office dispatch operations. At the time, we still had a 386/40mhz machine at home. We skipped the 486 altogether and eventually replaced it with a Pentium 133.
For Sweden
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:22 |
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I still remember upgrading to Pentium II
user314
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:25 |
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Pea k Aughts?
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MoCamino
> David Baker
11/20/2018 at 22:37 |
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Weird Al always makes me smile. :)
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MoCamino
> For Sweden
11/20/2018 at 22:51 |
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I’m old. I remember upgrading my 8088 (with 10 MHz turbo!) from 512k of RAM to 640k so I could play a game. As I recall the game was “Lemmings”. I took out my first bank loan (with my 83 Mazda GLC as collateral) to buy that computer so I could do my Fortran homework from my dorm instead of going to the computer lab.
I wish I still had the GLC. Two door, four speed, kind of a coppery metallic paint. The interior was black vinyl with black and white houndstooth fabric inserts. It was completely Oppo. :)
itranthelasttimeiparkedit
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:52 |
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Reminds me from last week. I just threw out one of my old computers but pulled out the p4 2.4 B. that thing was the shit when it came out, huge jump in performance and you could OC the fuck out of it. I think I got to 3ghz with a yuge copper heatsink...
(first pc was a 386, the p4 was in high school I think?)
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Boxer_4
11/20/2018 at 22:54 |
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We got a gateway P75 in 1995 I think, when Windows95 was new enough all of the pack in software was Win 3.1 (MS works it came with could only use 8 letter file names for example).
By the late 90’s it was already too slow to be usable.
MM54
> MoCamino
11/20/2018 at 23:03 |
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1) Lemmings is one of the best games ever made
2) I know that color that the GLC would have been. That would be a cool car to still have around for sure.
Grindintosecond
> Boxer_4
11/21/2018 at 00:42 |
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S tarted college with a 386/20 in 92 and went to a 486/66 by sophomore year in 94 . Rode that wave to 99 when the keyboard input shorted. But Pentium! Such a flirt! I got an 8 lb. Notebook in 2000 and used it till i built the next desktop. I skipped pentium and overclocked the piss out of an amd laptop chip 50%. Thunderbird core. Athlon 2500+ XPm. Hit 2.61 on it. Then chipped the die wrestling a copper wat er block off it. Sad.
duurtlang
> Grindintosecond
11/21/2018 at 03:27 |
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Oh nice, I had an Athon XPm too ( 2400+? I don’t remember) , unlocked multiplier and over clocked into infinity. With a huge (for the era) copper cooler, but still air cooled. Much, much better CPUs than the Pentium IVs of the era. Cheaper, more performance, lower energy consumption.
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Grindintosecond
> duurtlang
11/21/2018 at 10:22 |
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2500+, I remember cost me $90 on Newegg. I had it under a Volcano 12 cooler with a manual control knob. It was nice and quiet doing regular stuff but when I booted up BF1942 I had to crank it to max to keep it cool enough and holy begeezuz was that loud. So I went on homebrew water and gained another 150mhz. I went for the Opteron 165 after that and I think had it up to 2.8, never could get to that magical 3.0 some got. But it was great for a few years and then realized I didn’t have the desire to maintain a home made water cooled rig. So I sold the whole kit and built an Intel e7400 in an htpc case. Lived on that until I won a contest and got a 4-core AMD phenom 965 entire rig. Lived on that for 8 years until just now. I’m an AiO cooling fan so far. Air cooling may be quiet now but also not really enjoyable to look at.
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Boxer_4
> For Sweden
11/21/2018 at 18:28 |
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The first computer I remember using heavily was Pentium II.
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Boxer_4
> MoCamino
11/21/2018 at 18:28 |
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I was waiting for that to be posted!
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Boxer_4
> user314
11/21/2018 at 18:33 |
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Yes! I forgot about these commercials.
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Boxer_4
> facw
11/21/2018 at 18:36 |
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The Slot 1 processors were weird. The Pentium II Xeons were massive, as I recall. The Pentium Pros were always really neat!
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user314
> Boxer_4
11/21/2018 at 20:02 |
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I still have the clip of the song I acquired from a completely legitimate and above-boa rd source back in ‘01-’02.