[Nostalgic] Blast from the Past - Computer Bills!

[Dr.Vijay]

Digger, Bouncing Babies, Alley Cat, Load Runner, Frogger -- those were some of my favorites

my first pc was IBM PC XT Compatible

i like to play digger and Lakers vs Celtics

btw my monitor only CGA (4 colors only)

 

[Dr.Vijay]

Ah sweet!
The heyday for overclockers, hehe.

Lemme see if I can find some receipts of those purchases - used to do a lot trading at that point of time and I don't think I've accounted all expenses in that period :-x

Wow!!! That's so cool!!!

I could still remember my 1st PC when I was a kid. I think it goes like this for the specs if I am not wrong:

Celeron 300A overclocked to 450mhz (Which caused me to just love overclocking to this day still)
128MB SDRAM
7GB Hard disk
Geforce 2 GTS
17 inch CRT Philips monitor
Windows 95(Ahem)

Damn those were the days. This PC was a godly gaming beast for Quake 2/3 and Unreal.

 

[Dr.Vijay]

Must be a typo.
It's a Radeon 9800 XT.
Though yours looks like a 9800 Pro:-
PowerColor RADEON 9800 Pro 128MB (Page 2/8) :: Articles :: www.hardwarezone.com®

A 9800 XT is similar to it but with a slightly revised core; more info here:-
PowerColor RADEON 9800XT 256MB (Page 1/21) :: Articles :: www.hardwarezone.com®

So old that those were tested and written by me

the receipt says "9800 TX." I've always thought it was a 9800 PRO. anyway, it was once amongst the best ATI card at the point of time. now it's a total piece of sh!t

 

[stan216]

Wow, that P4 was bought during the P4's prime period

Oh and we reviewed the PowerColor X1950 Pro
PowerColor Radeon X1950 PRO 256MB Review - HardwareZone.com

ah, i think it was this review i saw: Conclusion : ATI Radeon X1950 PRO Shootout (AGP) - HardwareZone.com.sg
not sure if you somehow missed it, it's an AGP card.

not sure about the P4 being in its prime back then; i was only 13 in 2003 and i remember seeing dell brouchers at a later time and thinking "if i got the PC later i'd have gotten one with a faster processor speed" (maybe around 2.8 or more GHz. yeah, the GHz race where higher frequency = king)

Digger, Bouncing Babies, Alley Cat, Load Runner, Frogger -- those were some of my favorites

yep, played digger, alley cat, frogger, zeliard and load runner before! was on a data mini com that ran on DOS when i was like 4-5 years old. yep i learned to navigate on command line, at least for the games i wanted to play i last downloaded a DOS emulator in 2009 and played alley cat and zeliard. man, i haven't completed zeliard to this day, since i first plated it at like 4 years of age

 

[nosferatu]

still remember .... first comp

Ranger 486DX2-66.....MY one and only intel ....think after that went to AMD and never went back to intel ....till tdy

remember the days of OC amd processers and my mobo on a cardboard box ...

 

[Nakedtoes]

my first pc from sherry computer.... 286 machine

 

[tarui04]

Io I still remember the story of 9800pro and xt

Epic days

 

[saysuzu]

lol i still rmember that time computer cost 2k+ and is not even high end

 

[Rocket3]

How much did PC DVD-ROM drives cost in 2001?

Ranger 486DX2-66.....MY one and only intel ....think after that went to AMD and never went back to intel ....till tdy

remember the days of OC amd processers and my mobo on a cardboard box ...

I tried AMD once (AMD K6-2 500 MHz) and have since stayed away from AMD when serious PC gaming was concerned. That AMD CPU made my gaming in Half Life CS miserable (unplayable low frame rate at 640x480 resolution with Voodoo 3 graphics card).

 

[Kiwi8]

Last time PC literally cost a bomb!

 

[quekky]

mine 1st computer was a 386 digitek, cant remember how much but should be around $3k

I still keep these:

(the card was in some other box)

These 2 is a kit. the cdrom is only 1x and I think it's their 1st cdrom

 

[wmania2]

How much did PC DVD-ROM drives cost in 2001?


I tried AMD once (AMD K6-2 500 MHz) and have since stayed away from AMD when serious PC gaming was concerned. That AMD CPU made my gaming in Half Life CS miserable (unplayable low frame rate at 640x480 resolution with Voodoo 3 graphics card).

Those days when Intel competitors Cyrix and AMD sold their CPUs by Pentium equivalent ratings but never even come close except for specific applications.

 

[HeeroYuy84]

Old school sia

 

[muddle]

Last time gaming need a boot disk. Still remember the joys of autoexec.bat and config.sys.

 

[Redberries]

720 by 400 lines


those days are the technology.

 

[Rock-kun]

These 2 is a kit. the cdrom is only 1x and I think it's their 1st cdrom

Ooo! I remember those CD-ROM drives! Ran at 1-2x and the dicsc must be placed into the provided caddy!

Those caddies were super tough to open for my small hands back then!

 

[Dr.Vijay]

Epic days when AMD/ATI was clearly leading! Both in CPU and GPU

Io I still remember the story of 9800pro and xt

Epic days

You bet... high spec PC is $5K upwards!
I remember the first Pentium PC (P-60) costs nearly 10K iirc. And IPC used to be the brand of PCs for the mainstream folks looking to buy a PC, along with Datamini or something.

Last time PC literally cost a bomb!

 

[yusoffb01]

besides the typical dos shooters, other games i played wwhich i can recall is the living books series (arthur, dr seuss, barenstein bears), aand games from the humongous entertainment company (spy fox, putt putt, freddi fish)

still have the iso, and works on scummvm!

 

[Calvin.Lee]

mine 1st computer was a 386 digitek, cant remember how much but should be around $3k

I still keep these:

(the card was in some other box)

These 2 is a kit. the cdrom is only 1x and I think it's their 1st cdrom

I still remember I worked when I was very young (just after NS) for a company that assemble this CD-ROM for our company's PCs to customers who have ordered them and we get to test and (at that time CD quality sound multimedia videos) listen and admire these customers with the first CD-ROM drives in Singapore from Creative Technology... That brought the PC market to a new heights with sound and media..

I remember each Creative CD-ROM package with the CDs bundled cost the customer $1,099 to buy it...

 

[FinalTidus]

I still remember I worked when I was very young (just after NS) for a company that assemble this CD-ROM for our company's PCs to customers who have ordered them and we get to test and (at that time CD quality sound multimedia videos) listen and admire these customers with the first CD-ROM drives in Singapore from Creative Technology... That brought the PC market to a new heights with sound and media..

I remember each Creative CD-ROM package with the CDs bundled cost the customer $1,099 to buy it...

sorry maybe I saw the figure wrongly. 1099 for a cd ROM drive???!!