Surfin' With a Dog

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

No I'm not talking about hitting the waves of Hawaii with Lucky the pooch.



My fairly new hotrod 900Mhz computer has been ailing as of late, and pretty much puked out the last couple of days. So, off to the doctor it has gone. And out comes the backup, my not-so blazing 1995 vintage 100Mhz/32meg piece of Pentium Power . Gotta get on TDR somehow! I must be a TDR addict if I can withstand minute-long page loads and jagged animation! Of course if my 800k (or so) hard drive wasn't maxed out, things might be a smidgen faster. The orininal, top-of the-line 28k modem doesn't help either.



It is hard to believe my company shelled out $3300 for this dinosaur back in July 1995. It was about the best and baddest back then. Nowdays, if you spent $3300 for a PC it would be quite a radical machine.



So, anyone out there top this machine in dismal performance or lack of clock speed??



Vaughn

tangled in the 'web

 

[LarryB]

TRS80 with 16K of ram. Just upgraded from my Timex/Sinclair with casset data storage. Notice the kick butt 16k ram module added on. Quite an upgrade!



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[Scollins]

I'm running a Pentium II 350mhz, but the real speed on the internet comes from the AT&T cable modem! I will never, ever, never, never, did I mention never? go back to a dial up service! The $40 a month for the broadband is well worth it! Hell, I'd pay a little more for even faster service!



We've had this computer for a little over 3 years, but I can't see a reason to upgrade just yet. Prices are dirt cheap these days (unless you buy an AlienWare gaming system, ~$4500!!!! )



PS - Woohoo! Just noticed I broke the 300 post barrier. At this rate, I'll have caught up with Illflem in 22 years!

 

[Bigsaint]

Man, you nailed it with a screamer in '99 !!! LOL, mines a P2 450 with 128 megs. of ram. When purchased, nothing could slow it down, now it's a dog with many of the newer games out there, does well for everything else though.



Scott W.

 

[The patriot]

Very decent machine. It's an Athlon 1. 4Ghz. It has everything except the DVD burner.

I should have went with a bigger harddrive though. 40 Gig.

512 Mb ram, two 1394 ports,DVD-rom, etc. etc. I'm a happy dude.

Now I need a cable modem!!

Eric

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Originally posted by Scollins

. . . from the AT&T cable modem! I will never, ever, never, never, did I mention never? go back to a dial up service!

I just signed up with DSL (just gotta wait for the parts) since they FIIIINNNNNNAAAAAALALLLLYYYYYY made it available here in my neighborhood. I tried to go wireless but there were too many trees in the way (line of sight deal). Satellite too spendy. No cable available yet. It has just been in the last month or so anything but dialup has been affordable or available in this 30,000+ pop community

 

[illflem]

Scott, A co-worker of mine uses micro-wave internet service and claims it's much faster than her old cable system, $49/mo. Dish is set horizontal pointed at a cell phone repeater tower 15 miles away. That's all I know about it though. Can find out more if you like.

 

[MOWPAR]

Only 220 mhz but with the cable modem, who cares!

 

[KatDiesel]

Currently : PIII 550Mhz



Built brand new a couple years ago when that processor was first released.



Currently in building process (awaiting parts) :

Antec SX1040 case

AMD Athlon XP 1900+

Vantec CCK-6027D (HSF)

Artic Silver II (for better heat transfer of cpu)

Soyo Dragon Plus MB

512 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR

Maxtor 45gig ata100 7200rpm (sitting here new in box)

aTi Radeon 8500 64 mb agp

Lite On 16x/48x DVD/CD ROM

Lite On 24x/10x/40x CDRW

Teac 1. 44 MB 3. 5" floppy



I'll use the onboard sound of the motherboard (that particualr mb is supposed to be excellant sound) and the onboard network connection for my cable modem.

Currently have a Sony 420GS 19" monitor which I will continue to use.



Near future plans when I have the time and money... .

Creative Labs Sound blaster Audigy MP3

Logitech z560 THX speaker setup

 

[E7mack96]

Screamers

I have two 'puters side by side here. 1 is a p4 1500mhz with 640mb ram, 60 gig hd, 16x dvd, 16x cd/rw, zip, floppy, nvidia card, 2 1394 ports and 4 usb ports.



the other is a AMD K6-2+ 400mhz, 384 mb ram, 45 gig hd, 4x dvd, cd rom, zip, floppy, ati graphics, and 2 usb ports .



Both are connected to a dsl line at 768KB by way of Intel PRO/100 cards, a linksys 4 port hub, and a Cisco 675 DSL modem.



For grins, ... my first puter is a texas instruments 99/4a. Still have all the software (cartridges) and I had a cassette tape system as well. (Couldn't afford $500 for a 5. 25 floppy drive back then)



Remember 400 byte download speeds????

 

[LSMITH]

I have 2 computers that I use at home. The desktop is a P4 1400mhz with 128mb of RDRAM, 40G hard drive, DVD, CDRW, 3. 5, 32MB video card, 16MB sound, 19" trinitron. It is a nice unit, fairly fast too. If I could keep the wife from loading every shareware app she can find it would scream like it did when I got it. My laptop is a P3 650/500mhz with 384mb of SDRAM, 12G hard drive, 8mb video, 8mb sound, cd player, 3. 5, 15. 4 SXGA monitor, and a 12 cell L Ion battery. Everything about the setup is for speed and it is respectable. It is huge, heavy and I love it. The resolution is better on the display than any CRT I have ever seen. It is fairly fast and has enough ram to run as many intensive apps as you want and still listen to the jukebox About 5 gig of mp3's on it too. I prefer the laptop to the desktop by a large margin. I am on dial-up, no DSL or cable available, so both computers are WAY faster than my internet connection. I have a P133 with 64mb of ram and a 10G hard drive in the basement, the kids use it to play the learning games and that is about it. It was the biggest baddest box on the market a few years ago now it is a hog, can't even stand to use it for anything serious.

 

[CJ Johansson]

It's not the machine...

... but the connection that really counts. I've got a 100Megabit/sec connection, so even a slow machine looks fast Of course, the machine itself is no slouch either, an HPJ5600 workstation with dual 552MHz PA-8600 processors (probably the equivalent of a 2GHz PC, each) and 8GBytes of RAM. But, I'm kinda cheating since it's not mine personally, it's at work...



Oh, and as for disk space, currently I've only got 10 40Gig Fiber Channel drives (we make disk arrays here )



-cj

 

[Dkevdog]

I have computers at home ranging from 486dx 100 all the way to Pentium 4 2. 0 Ghz. Since I never am home, my work machine is a dual pentium 3 1 ghz with 4gb or ram, multiple monitors and hundreds of gigabytes of disk storage (digital photo and publishing) But the best is boss pays for a T3 connection ! Hell even my Pent2 350 laptop screams!



Kev

 

[KennyM]

I've got two AMD 333's one at home one at work.

 

[mdlowry]

Originally posted by Scollins

I'm running a Pentium II 350mhz, but the real speed on the internet comes from the AT&T cable modem! I will never, ever, never, never, did I mention never? go back to a dial up service! The $40 a month for the broadband is well worth it! Hell, I'd pay a little more for even faster service!

Can anyone tell me how to hook the cable modem up to my C=64?

 

[LarryB]

Ooooooo... ... Commidor 64. Ahh, someday!

 

[DRR-24V]

KatDiesel- Are You An O/Clocker?

Is that chip an Athlon or Palomino? Overclockers.com has some good info. Have loved and used the Soyo boards forever. Still running the little Celly600 at 900mz. Bomb That Puter.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Scollins, you and me will never catch up to illflem. That guy just talks to dang much!



I'm still plodding along at 200MHz. The cable modem makes up the difference.



Doc

 

[illflem]

Doc, you think I'm bad now just wait. I'm on a phone line, best I've got was 24,600 bps. Called the phone co because of static on the line, after he left it was up to 54,333. More than double = two times more posts, I don't know how you guys can stand going much faster...