There was a combat karate style game I loved to play with my friend - each of us had half of the same keyboard to control the game. We had to play with turbo off because it was made for that speed and didn't automatically adjust for faster computers. Good times.
They hit me at just the right time. I was using them from like 1997 to 2000. I didn’t get a CD burner right away. 100 megabytes was huge compared to the earlier floppies and cheaper than the syquest disks (I had a 40 meg one I think) too.
I wasn't feeling this until I noticed the Creative logo, the volume dial on the CD tray, and the lock on the case. Then the I-Remember-That!s hit me like a sandbag.
Working as a PC tech in that era I always hated those LED speed displays. They were hand-set with a huge jumper bank in the back. And when we upgraded someone's CPU we had to explain to him why his two digit LED display didn't reflect the speed of the 133mhz processor we just put in his computer...
I had a 386 16MHz with 4mb of ram. I upgraded the processor to a pentium, I think 90 or 120 MHz? I added ram to 8 mb. The operating sytem was Geoworks and it had DOS 6.0.
Probably not. 5.25" drives were on their way out by that point (as I recall), but we had so much stuff on that format (from the previous computer, an 8088 XT Turbo) that we needed it.
Nice! The first PC I ever used was an Olivetti M24. Two 5.25" floppy drives but no hard disk. We only used it as a tool to download payment data to the floppy disk from a PICK multi-user system. It worked quite well as dumb terminal to the main system.
My first PC had a button on it that would crank up its processing speed to a whopping 33MHz. It was an Intel 486SX CPU (pre-Pentium) and the button was labeled "turbo". 😀
Never had the 5/ but I did have the 2 floppies and two cd drives in a case almost the same as that thing, I also had the key on mine what functioned but was wired in to the power button not the turbo like many was. are the good old days.
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But does it run Crysis? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The 2 (5.25") bay Mini PC.
The 386DX16 never had this capability AFAIK.
Perhaps you had a 386DX33 which would run at 16Mhz without the turbo button? 🤷♂️
Yes, I am sure. DX was for rich people- lol.
New motherboard and ram in a 386 case must have been fun 😃
https://youtu.be/D0t4DBxtI90?si=fhZvKckbUyF3MpaR
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Reminds me of when I'd load in Commander Keen from a 3.5 disk set when I wasn't playing The Incredible Machine.
Ah, the memories.