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Lanx
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I bought it with it. No sound card though, added my SB16 later, and after than a Roland MIDI daughter card for that sweet Doom soundtrack, and somewhere in there I added a CD-ROM Drive and dial-up modem. System was a prebuilt from Gateway - 486 DX/66, 40MB HDD, 8MB, 15" flat glass CRT, keyboard, mouse for around $2k.
Lanx
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holy shit did yours have a lock n key?
my friend gave me her old gateway dx/66 in 99 i think, i made it into a diablo2 server? and/or eq healer bot
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Someone let me play with their TRS-80 when I was 4 and gave it to me when I was 6 or 7. Didn't really teach myself BASIC until I was 8 but I could load the stuff from tapes myself before then. I didn't get a real computer until my 486 50mhz SX2 which was a complete and total useless piece of shit, which is why I decided to learn everything about computers so I would never end up with a useless piece of shit computer ever again.
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holy shit did yours have a lock n key?
my friend gave me her old gateway dx/66 in 99 i think, i made it into a diablo2 server? and/or eq healer bot
I think that was the system. I just had a 3.5" floppy drive until I added the CD drive, and maybe a second 3.5" for copying disks. I would have bought it in 93 or 94. Thing was a tank too - survived the 94 Northridge quake where the monitor flew off the top and was only held on by the vga cable screws.
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yea cases were made of steel back then
and remember those cases were extra thicc, cuz you put the heavy ass crt on top of it.
Lambourne
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VIC20, MSX-2, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, 486dx100
I wonder how the world today would have looked if Commodore hadn't ruined itself by mismanagement. The Amiga platform was way ahead of PCs in user friendliness and technological capability and only a lack of investment allowed PCs to catch up. Microsoft might have had some competition.
I wonder how the world today would have looked if Commodore hadn't ruined itself by mismanagement. The Amiga platform was way ahead of PCs in user friendliness and technological capability and only a lack of investment allowed PCs to catch up. Microsoft might have had some competition.
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If you want to waste money for the sake of wasting money I would highly suggest waiting for the next iteration of these.
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The next gen should have a 7940hs processor and radeon 7xxx something or other GPU.
If you have to spend now now now then I would suggest this.
Minisforum UM773 Lite
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I have a UM690 with 32gb ram and 1tb ssd. For everything that isn't a AAA title it is more than enough.
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Wait, my moms Gateway had that little key thing. What was that for?... (I could just google it I guess. But maybe someone else is/was curious, too!)
I will probably replace my office PC with something like that. But for w/e reason, the GTX 970 in my office PC is still pushing through 99% of the games I play just fine with its low 60mhz/1080p monitors. Its definitely at the end of its life though, as Im starting to see games where the minimum spec is finally 1060 or something similar. I'd experiment with higher end parts, but that old z97 motherboard cant handle anything more than whats in it already.If you want to waste money for the sake of wasting money I would highly suggest waiting for the next iteration of these.
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The next gen should have a 7940hs processor and radeon 7xxx something or other GPU.
If you have to spend now now now then I would suggest this.
Minisforum UM773 Lite
Minisforum UM773 Lite AMD Ryzen™ 7 7735HS & AMD Radeon™ 680M MINI PC
I have a UM690 with 32gb ram and 1tb ssd. For everything that isn't a AAA title it is more than enough.
Makes me laugh that its lasted this long - but hell, my media PC is top of the line for consumer products (4090/13900) right now and I bet it would last just as long as the 970 PC did, if not longer, if I just stopped updating shit. I may just do that unless the 50x0 series can really bring something new to the table or games start doing something more niche in the graphics department. The new Ray Tracing shit looks great, but its being show cased on Cyberpunk 2077. CP2077 was "ok" in my book - and thats kind of what Im getting at. Nothing is out there that I personally, really enjoy for the type of money Im throwing at PC's. At least you could brag about being able to run Crysis back in the day lol.
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I think it was a keyboard lock. It prevented people from accessing your w@r3z and pr0n.
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Cinge
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Nice. Case?
It's one thing that makes me sad about where I live, no micro center in town. I think the closest is about 4-5 hours away.
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I actually stopped at one on the way back from a golf trip. It’s not wildly far, but definitely not convenient.