I just thought of something; my first two computers were an ELF-II and a VIC-20...and people wonder why I give my PCs names.
Hell, I wondered about it until just now.
Hell, I wondered about it until just now.
Oh yes. Question is, do YOU remember Wren?I think it had a 120mb HDD made by Conner (anyone remember them?).
This one wasn't terribly fast, but the IQ was great for its time IMO. It had very nice alpha textures, I remember the camouflage nets, wire fences and stuff like that in Half-Life/Opposing Force looked great compared to other hardware at the time. Many bashed the i740, but for that reason alone I rather liked the beasties.Intel i740 AGP graphics card
My first PC was a Packard Bell with a 50MHz 486DX2 with 4MB RAM, a 500MB hard drive, a 4x CD-ROM drive, and a 1MB Cirrus Logic onboard VGA adapter running Windows 3.1/MS BOB. This was purchased in 1994 with a 14" monitor and 3 year in-home warranty for the cool price of just under $2000. Within a year it had been upgraded to 12MB RAM. Within another year - 20MB RAM and an AMD 586 100 @ 133 - my first foray into overclocking whereby a mere dip switch on the mobo provided a 33% performance boost; ah, those were the days!
running Windows 3.1/MS BOB.
huge hard disk, 32bit memory SIMMs and even a CD drive twice faster as usual. I'm jealous, even retrospectively!
my first own hardware purchase was a 4MB stick for the family computer, but it didn't fit, I had the pesky 9bit SIMM
Do you still have bob ?
I remeber it quite vivid..as I came from this:
Amiga 1200
GVP A1230-II (68030 @ 50Mhz) + FPU (68882 @ 50Mhz) + 8 Mb FAST RAM (all internal)
320 MB HD (Internal)
Golden Image 3A-1D Floppy with trackdisplay (external)
14" CRT
To this:
Intel 486DX4 100Mhz
Asus PCI/I-486SP3
S3 Vision864
2x8MB SRAM
Soundblaster 16
800MB HD
1.44MB floppy
4xCDROM
15" CRT
I didn't fell much like a upgrade....to this date I regret selling my AMIGA back then
I had almost identical Amiga 1200/40MB setup!
Blizzard 68030 MKIII with 68882 and 8MB FAST
My HDD was upgraded to Cavair 850MB from that 40MB internal one
Luckily for me a month ago I bought A4000/040 (loaded with extras) for my brother and for another 4 months it will be to my disposal Fun to look at Scene productions on 32'' LCD! Almost no interlace visible