theredeemablefemalecousin78
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Mar 11, 2024 7:09 PM
theredeemablefemalecousin78
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tellm1by
15 years ago.....
SpockIsMyHomeboy
I built so many of these systems as a teen at my first job in a local computer store in the 90s. Them are some good memories.
Awlyah
back when you could listen to error codes on the motherboard. chefs kiss.
SpockIsMyHomeboy
Break out the motherboard manual and look for those wonderful beep patterns. Juuuuuust right.
DefinitelyNotMadeOfBees
133 MHz? Jesus Christ, were you trying to upstage NASA or something?!
Mariguamar
The old song
drcapthandsome
Gravis game pad, I remember them well
thetonestarr
I accidentally broke the joystick off while inserted so I always had a little broken piece of plastic inside the center of mine.
diezl97
Jazz Jackrabbit!
EggBanj0
Not Duje Nukem related, but IDDQD/IDKFA are somehow still engraved in my memory to this day.
UniqueUsername87692
DNKROZ
runtu
IDSPISPOPD
totheredwoods
It's all about the pentiums baby
RowanUnderwood
I don't have anything quite THAT retro but I do have win95 installed on my MiSTer 586 core if that counts. /gallery/aBv2LFT
oldvydeo
Pentium. In Mexico we used to call them "Lentium". From the Spanish "lento", which means "slow" in English.
hotdoginathermos
KaJuN
Hello and welcome to another LGR thing!
d3jake
I miss flipping a big clunky switch to start my computer.
MrWobblyHead
The old AT power supplies
Filanwizard
I think the only way to get that today would be to set the BIOS to default to on with power loss. And then use the switch to control power to a modern PSU. In theory any time you clunked it on the PC would boot up.
CouldntCakeLess
Aww! The Imgur server upgrade!
theredeemablefemalecousin78
AamuVircku
Imgur WISHES they had servers this new
SpaceCoyote300
B166ERMaximus
crystalistwo
I would give anything for a PS/2 style power switch on PC. This momentary button shit is for the birds.
Ree81
cd..
irrelevantsentence
Nothing excites us anymore
3rdoption
Seriously? You're just going to leave the desktop with the single tile in the middle and not change the background setting to "tile"?
davebeastly
USSBigBooty
CLOUDS ALL DAY! CLOUDS! CLOUDS! CLOUDS!
ironymus
Pah! Pipe network all day, every day š
MoeMoep
TURBO BUTTON !
NorwegianJim
Looks like it's pressed :(
DarylDutch
TURBO BUTTTON !!!!!!
nowiwannasniffsomeglue
Yeh, which actually makes it slower!
MoeMoep
TURBO BUTTON !
MisterLemons
But... but it... but it actually...
Quessir
I will never not find it funny that my friend's 486 100MHz couldn't run Netscape Navigator and play an MP3 at the same time.
gablestout
NSFW
tylerlarson
Turbo button? *Confirmed*
For those unaware: for a long time computers were stuck at 4MHz, enough so that many games just assumed that clock speed and hardcoded their loops accordingly. So running on a 16MHz computer meant your game ran 4x faster, which was kinda novel but got old fast. So the next gen of PCs allowed you to underclock back down to 4MHz, or "turbo" back up to normal speed.
weedeewee
cdrom and hard drive on the same IDE controller... that's sad.
Photeus
So the controller stirred a memory in me. If that's the same one I had, there is a small screw-in joystick that goes into the d pad
DavidBrooker
Gravis Gamepad. They were the first IBM-compatible controller, so they ended up dominating the market.
Photeus
That's the one, loved that thing. Pretty sure I played Crusader with it.
Whitemannatee
madjo
My first pc was an 8088 with 2 5.25ā floppy drives, no hard disk and a cga color monitorā¦ good times.
I had a 3d-ish golf game on there, where after each stroke, the game took a few minutes to paint in all the trees from the new location. And donāt move too far to the left or right, r itāll have to do it again. Good times
Frenchgeek
Dual data EuroPC II: 8088 clone with one 3.5 floppy, CGA and an external converter for TV output (but no composite out). No wonder I need glasses now.
Konoton
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
seheim
How did the plastic not age and yellow
YouAreTheInsultMaster
Non-smoker
certainlynotaserialkiller
we can do a LOT better: https://imgur.com/GvWaK2o.mp4
certainlynotaserialkiller
ps: for those getting flashbacks, dont forget to take your pills
jplusc
PS/2 for the win!
I once tried to buy a replacement/used ps2 keyboard from a computer repair shop about 10 years ago and was told that they do not sell game console parts : (
PuckerScream
My first home PC was a 486 DX2 66. I thought I was hot shit. I seem to recall Sound Blaster sound cards were all the rage as well around that time.
mikeatike
Proper sound blasters and ad lib cards were great becuase they didn't any extra drivers, games were just written for them.
seheim
It was hot shit!
terdFerguson3electricFergaloo
Jonathan Taylor Thomas over here with his rich boy computer
mikeatike
Well it might have been in 2002 for all we know. :)
keeshi
Hail to the king baby.
svga
ToonMan4351
Iām gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck
NinetiesBoomer
Iāve got balls of steel
KaJuN
Balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls of steeeeeel
MrWobblyHead
What are you? Some scum sucking, bottom feeding, algae eater?
KilliK69
your face, your ass, what's the difference?
Atomic2
This might be super nerdy but I don't think thats a 56k modem. Sounds more like 33.6k modem.
ChloeRed
Would be hard to tell if it was a 56K running at 33.6, or a 33.6..
Atomic2
True, but 56k modems didn't come until 1997 and by that point, it was rare for a computer to have a "turbo" button. That was more of a late 80s early 90s thing.
untrugby
The pentium 133 didnāt come out until 1995, windows 95 came out in 1995 and duke nukem 3d came out in 1996. So itās entirely possible for all that to be the same computer with a new 56k installed into in 1997
Atomic2
I didn't catch that it was a pentium. I didn't even know they made pentiums with clock speed limiters.
untrugby
Technology changed so fast back then itās hard to form a memory of what was what. I do remember having a turbo button on my computer that played star craft when it came out in 1998
troy1984
I had the exact same crappy PS2 connector controller, so many cool gaming memories
jplusc
the game controller is actaully ran by the sound card via a D-15 pin connector. the keyboard here is in an AT port, this PC doesn't appear to have a PS/2 port.
I once tried to buy a replacement/used ps2 keyboard from a computer repair shop about 10 years ago and was told that they do not sell game console parts : (
troy1984
You are correct sir, although I could have sworn I owned a PS/2 variant at some point. Childhood memories tend to get foggy as you get older :)