A Celeron is much, much worse than a Pentium of the same clock speed.
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Yes, I have still a Windows 98 running. (good solid work). The only problem is, that having it in my network is a pain. And the Windows startup-floppy disk is still here, too.
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I have 3,5" FDD in all my 4 computers (3 of them are old computers)
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Don't have one since years. The cheapness of CDs led to their replacement and now i use USB sticks. But i remember sharing savegames, cheat codes and the first the settlers with them
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Yeah, happened to me and my buddies a few times until we realised we didn't copy the whole game :D
Never played GTA 1 or 2 on PC though, had a PS1 for that
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they surely were! i really wonder how they could actually work :o
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Used to in my old PC; with a Pentium II processor, 24x CD-Rom (I think), 20GB hard drive (massive for the time) and my 3Dfx Voodoo 2 graphics card (oh the nostalgia). Can't remember how much RAM I used to have, though... probably 256 or 512MB.
EDIT: I used to have an IBM with a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy drive and a 486 processor, too... Playing Sopwith and Digger like a baws.
Does anyone remember the Turbo button?
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512 with a pentium 2? and 20GB od disk WITH A VOODOO!? man, that was powerful!
i remember my old PII... 128MB of RAM in 3 cards... 8Gb of disk... the floppy (3 1/2), the big 5 1/4 disks...
the useless turbo button... the old AT power suply "now you can turn off your PC..... BEEEEEEEEEEEEP"... the 56K modem...
so many memories... so many awfull memories...
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why call the turbo button useless?
i perfectly remember having to switch off the turbo so that the 8088 went from 8MHz down to 4,77MHz and I actually could play Tennis.
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Well, his computer had a PII - I don't think those even supported turbo (correct me if I'm wrong) so his button probably wasn't hooked up.
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i can remember the feeling if not the sequence of tones needed to connect to an internet node i used to use ages ago, just 1200 baud but it was ahem... "free" and ok for email and bbs
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Thanks for the nostalgia! Now i remember playing Digger all day with my friends sitting next to me :D. And yes, i also remember the turbo button and the lovely power switch with its on and off states because that PC wasn't able to shutdown on its own :D
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Oh yes, the button for making your computer slow down, which a clever marketer decided to label "Turbo". Good times :)
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I do, but it was a real pain to make it fit. I had to use an old audio cable (usually for old CD drivers/burners) and had to try basically all the spikes that could give it power until I found a random one that's definitely not there for that exact reason... But it works!
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I remember my dad showing me this new video game but we couldn't play it because it turned out it required a "mouse."
So cool having a nerdy dad that worked with computers in 1988.
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[takes a punch card out of his pencil case, looks at it lovingly, then puts it back]
(By the way, did you know that by taking a pencil and writing on a punch card, you can increase its capacity by more than 1000 %, depending on your handwriting size? :-))
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I have been using electronic systems for programming, for as long as I can remember.
I started out with a Casio PB 700 where I wrote a Paranoid clone and a 4 frame animation. Later on I had a Sinclair QL, then a system(don't remember the brand name) with 12Hz processor, 512Kb ram with Green Monochrome monitor. The first system had Microdrive tape-loop cartridge drive and the later one had both 5.25-inch (133 mm) and 3.5-inch (89 mm) size floppy drive. After that I had my first Pentium 1, 133Hz system.
So, returning to your question yes I know what floppy drives are and I only missed the 8inch one. ;)
Btw, you know the fun part of this answer? Most of this systems are still at our house and they still works like the first day. If you unpack them, no-one would be able to tell if they are new or 20 year old.
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Well I'm 29yo and my first computer was an Atari 800XL. It used casettes and 5 1/4 floppy disks
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I still have floppies. I think 30 or more. I'm not counting the game floppies (like the Westwood games, Sierra, etc., or the first Police Quest game..in which I never made it out of the parking lot =/). I have a external floppy drive as well. It makes me nostalgic and feel a bit sad for the floppies that they just are not up to par anymore ^^
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I have on my two desktop PCs. One is Pentium Celeron (400MHz)PC and its floppy drive is 12 years old. Other one is Athlon 3000+ PC, black and 7 years old. Two of them are functional.
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Oh, a prehistoric item, I used it to transfer Diablo 2 saves in ye old time.
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I should warn you; the first one is a classic. The second one is just... awful.
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So, do you have FDD in ur PC?
DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT FLOPPY IS? DO YOU?
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