A 1995 Dell Latitude XP laptop - with a staggering Pentium 100MHz CPU, 8MB of RAM, a large 500MB HDD, 14.4k PCMCIA modem (via CompuServ initially, then AOL) and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I was eight at the time. I still have it (in my living room, of all places) in complete working factory condition. Absolutely everything is standard, including the battery (which is now shot after years of no use). It still runs off the mains though. I used to host a bouncer and a few eggdrops on it for sheer geekery until very recently. Replaced Windows with Debian and acquired a PCMCIA ethernet card. I might put it in the data centre actually, just for a laugh.
That was followed by a 400Mhz Celeron/64MB/8GB in 1998. Small form factor desktop. That caught fire after about a year. I was running VMware at the time (I had upgraded the RAM and HDD first).
Then worked my way up the range, the usual 800MHz AMD's, 1GHz, 1.2GHz and so on...
Kids these days don't realise what they've got. Dual/Quad core 64bit, more RAM than we had HDD, not to mention double-digit MBit broadband...
It used to take me a WEEK to download an album - nearly as long to convert it to WAV to burn to CD. And don't get me started about parental nagging regarding dialup costs.
gtford.
That was followed by a 400Mhz Celeron/64MB/8GB in 1998. Small form factor desktop. That caught fire after about a year. I was running VMware at the time (I had upgraded the RAM and HDD first).
Then worked my way up the range, the usual 800MHz AMD's, 1GHz, 1.2GHz and so on...
Kids these days don't realise what they've got. Dual/Quad core 64bit, more RAM than we had HDD, not to mention double-digit MBit broadband...
It used to take me a WEEK to download an album - nearly as long to convert it to WAV to burn to CD. And don't get me started about parental nagging regarding dialup costs.
gtford.
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