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06-10-2008, 08:55 PM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I just installed a hacked up Linux distro called YOPER  YOPER has breathed new life into my 486 DX33 with 96meg of ram and a 9.6 GB hdd. It's like a new computer - lots of things to explore and play with - hard to believe the 486 is running this fast again. I had RedHat on it for the longest time - but this is much better .gif "Drogar BigGrin(DBG)")
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06-10-2008, 09:02 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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486 dx 33 fast, is there such a thing?
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06-10-2008, 10:09 PM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Yep and I just installed good ole firefox on the YOPER - I like this so far - only one little install glitch my monitor is not listed so I had to do some creative configurations to get Xfree86 out of 800 x 600  and back to 1024 x 768
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06-10-2008, 10:25 PM
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Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by jeff...  I just installed a hacked up Linux distro called YOPER YOPER has breathed new life into my 486 DX33 with 96meg of ram and a 9.6 GB hdd. It's like a new computer - lots of things to explore and play with - hard to believe the 486 is running this fast again. I had RedHat on it for the longest time - but this is much better A 486DX33 - wow, talk about serious power! All I have is this 386SX16....
Those were the days of computer building, memory was expensive and overclocking required setting manual jumpers. None of that built-in BIOS stuff....
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06-10-2008, 10:47 PM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Bas A 486DX33 - wow, talk about serious power! All I have is this 386SX16....
Those were the days of computer building, memory was expensive and overclocking required setting manual jumpers. None of that built-in BIOS stuff.... remember the "1 meg" sticks and AMD 386DX-40 
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06-10-2008, 10:50 PM
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Wow, I can barely keep up with the power tool model numbers...what the heck are y'all talking about 
Dave 
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06-10-2008, 10:58 PM
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Name: Wayne City: Hillsborough State: NC County: Orange Join Date: Apr 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I still have the receipt from my first real computer.
It was a 386sx16 (Yes Bas) with a 90mb hard drive and I got a 2400 baud modem for free. If I remember the whole deal was about $1800. I thought I was the man. | |
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06-10-2008, 11:04 PM
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#8 | | Asst. Webmaster
Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Those 1 meg sticks...yeah. In the days of SIMMS and SIPS... Back then, 1MB was $100.... Originally Posted by ebarr I still have the receipt from my first real computer.
It was a 386sx16 (Yes Bas) with a 90mb hard drive and I got a 2400 baud modem for free. If I remember the whole deal was about $1800. I thought I was the man. 90MB - wow! With that much storage, you wouldn't have had to use Doublespace like us poor folks did. 386 and 486 are processor designations. It's like horsepower on a DC, higher numbers are better. DX meant "darn eXpensive". SX meant "somewhat less eXpensive". Baud is a technical term meaning "really slow".
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06-10-2008, 11:15 PM
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Name: Joe City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 65 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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You boys are newbies! I built my 8080.With DMA and bank switching 256K!
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06-10-2008, 11:38 PM
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Name: Chris City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2008 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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And how many of you remember being hardwired to a Vax 11/780? In Junior High we had a hard wired (300 baud) connection to a Vax, which could be bumped up to 9600 with a long forgotten command.
For that matter who remembers Gopher?
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06-11-2008, 12:04 AM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by cptully And how many of you remember being hardwired to a Vax 11/780? In Junior High we had a hard wired (300 baud) connection to a Vax, which could be bumped up to 9600 with a long forgotten command.
For that matter who remembers Gopher?
Chris Gopher and awk - I was the awk king - now it's gawk. First computer I ever built was a 8086 with a big 64K of memory the motherboard was huge and full of jumpers - big 8 bit bus 
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06-11-2008, 12:10 AM
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Name: Peter Davio City: Hope Mills State: NC County: Cumberland Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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grew up with Tandy TRS-80 Model 1, III, and IV. In college I had a Zenith Z-200, with the 8086, and 8088 Math Co-Processor. we had a smoking 16 mHz processor! two 5 1/4 inch drives, one a 1.2mb format, the other 360???
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06-11-2008, 12:12 AM
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Name: RAS City: Pikeville State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Any one remember the old core memorys?
Talk about a pita
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06-11-2008, 12:43 AM
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#14 | | Asst. Webmaster
Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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ZX Spectrum, Zilog 3.5Mhz processor, 64K memory (48K RAM). Tape drive. To change the keyboard bleep, POKE 23609,x. How can I remember that and not remember where I put my tape measure?
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06-11-2008, 06:54 AM
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Name: Rob City: Hendersonville State: NC County: Henderson Join Date: Nov 2005 Age: 66 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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This was the first 'personal computer' I used -- in the early 1960's. It took up most of a room and we wrote our prgrams in FORTRAN. Typical turn around time for fixing a single character error in your program was about an hour.
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