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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:44:45 PM   
Nikademus


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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:46:26 PM   
Nikademus


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Status: offline 		LoL...my dad was a bank computer operations manager back in the 70's. He'd take me to work and the computers would fill entire floors. The tape reels were as big as an extra large pizza tray and data was entered into the machines through punch cards. When they got their first monochrome montiors it was the coolest thing since....well Space 1999.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:46:44 PM   
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This is the one I use:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1



i meant to ask - how is this working for you???

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:48:09 PM   
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Got my first PC in 1993. A whopping 33 MHz 386 CPU!


Heh...bought the same system in 1990. I'll bet you didn't pay $5000 for yours.....

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:49:10 PM   
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anyone remember "Hellcat Ace"? and "Eastern Front"?


i remember looking at them, but i never bought them...

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:49:17 PM   
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sounds about right

lets see...

8088/8086
286
386 - used one at work!
486
Pentium (586)
Pentium II (686)
Pentium III (786)
Pentium IV (886)

i know they dropped the x86 clementure with the Pentium so the pseudo numbers probably don't apply from II onwards if there were subtantial changes. Went from 486 to my first Pentium around 94. LoL, my computer purchases have increased power exponentially with nearly each purchase.

first upgrade 486 33Mhz....(33 - 66) 4meg RAM
then another small jump to 90 with the first Pentium model. 16meg RAM
Then upgraded the processor to 266Mhz which was smoking hot at the time.
Next machine was 300MHz Pentium II 256Meg RAM

I was fortunate in that my machine remained viable enough that i was able to skip the entire Pentium III series and went straight to IV....1.4MHz,512Meg RAM then replaced motherboard, RAMBUS memory and process making it it's current 2.0MHz wth a gig of RAM (and LO....Windows XP finally started working well enough to replace 98 as the main O/S)

Still have the above but its the secondary machine now....the Alienware Laptop (P4 3.6MHz dual processors 2 gig RAM) is the primary vehicle now. A Doom 3 ultra quality level playing machine. Can process a WitP AI orders phase in under 20-25 seconds.



LOL. Yes I find that I care less with each generation what the processor is. I tend to really squeeze all the performance I can out of my comp before upgrading though, but that may change now. I think my mean time to upgrade was about 5 years. Now it's going to be more like 2.5

let me think Atari 800 84 to 90
286 from 90 to 95
mac from 95 to 2000
pentium IV from 2000 to 2003
dont even know what I have on my laptop now.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:49:30 PM   
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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:50:59 PM   
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LoL...my dad was a bank computer operations manager back in the 70's. He'd take me to work and the computers would fill entire floors. The tape reels were as big as an extra large pizza tray and data was entered into the machines through punch cards. When they got their first monochrome montiors it was the coolest thing since....well Space 1999.

Yeah, I remeber that well. Space 1999 WAS cool.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:52:02 PM   
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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:52:18 PM   
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i meant to ask - how is this working for you???


Just fine... Before I bought WitP, I played PacWar on it; also such titles as Complete Carriers at War, War in Russia, Red Lightning, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Northern Fleet, Red Storm Rising, Centurion, War of the Lance, Nuclear War and that perennial classic, Blockout!

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:52:18 PM   
Mike Solli


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LoL...my dad was a bank computer operations manager back in the 70's. He'd take me to work and the computers would fill entire floors. The tape reels were as big as an extra large pizza tray and data was entered into the machines through punch cards. When they got their first monochrome montiors it was the coolest thing since....well Space 1999.

Yeah, I remeber that well. Space 1999 WAS cool.


Yeah, Space 1999. I could never figure out how they built so many of those space ships. They lost droves of them each week.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:52:47 PM   
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Speedy is gonna be lost. This stuff is older than he is.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:53:42 PM   
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Got my first PC in 1993. A whopping 33 MHz 386 CPU!


Heh...bought the same system in 1990. I'll bet you didn't pay $5000 for yours.....


Nope. I seem to remember it cost me about $1K (in the money of the day).

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:54:15 PM   
Terminus


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Speedy is gonna be lost. This stuff is older than he is.


The poor little infant... He wouldn't last 5 minutes in 1980!

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:55:34 PM   
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Got my first PC in 1993. A whopping 33 MHz 386 CPU!


Heh...bought the same system in 1990. I'll bet you didn't pay $5000 for yours.....


It could be worse - i paid about that for a disk-based TRS-80 system in 1984 or so... (just over $4K, not including add ons, etc., just for the basic system...)

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 9:59:52 PM   
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Yeah, Space 1999. I could never figure out how they built so many of those space ships. They lost droves of them each week.


Very true...that and how the hell did the Moon get so far away from Earth so fast? oh yeah....."space warps!"

GF mark I unit's comment: "I can see the wires lifting up the spaceship....how dumb is that?!"

"well dear...make in the old days before Terminator II and "The Last Starfighter", they had to use actual physical models of the spacecraft"

"Last Starfighter....whats that? another geeky movie??"

(GF unit is younger than Speedy.......and has no clue about the classics)



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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:00:31 PM   
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Speedy is gonna be lost. This stuff is older than he is.


The poor little infant... He wouldn't last 5 minutes in 1980!



The year I was born no less!

What are you guys on about?

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:00:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Got em all on DVD now. Season 1 is fun to watch. Season 2 makes me cringe. Yikes.....Maya was a babe though.....

Cool. Im going to see if Netflix has them. Course, I will have to interrupt my X-files marathon to see it.

A didcation pic. 1975 at its finest.





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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:01:37 PM   
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Too much younger than Speedy and you're in danger of violating the underage laws!

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:02:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The only reason I watched Space 1999 was for that alien chick. She was hot back then. To be honest, I don't even remember what she looked like. Brunette, I think?

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:02:43 PM   
Terminus


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1985-87 -> Commodore 16 (yep, I had one!)
1987-90 -> Commodore 128 (with ein German keyboard)
1990-93 -> Amiga 500 (with a whole Mb of RAM)
1993-96 -> 386 PC 33MHz
1996-98 -> Pentium PC 100MHz
1998-00 -> AMD K6-2 PC 333MHz
2000-03 -> Pentium 3 PC 700MHz
2003-? -> Pentium 4 PC 2800MHz (the current one)

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:02:57 PM   
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Everything female looked hot sometimes at that age.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:03:57 PM   
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Too much younger than Speedy and you're in danger of violating the underage laws!


Christ! What are the Laws like where you live?

Here's under 16 is illegal and clearly WRONG!

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:03:58 PM   
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"Last Starfighter....whats that? another geeky movie??"


ahhh - when that came out - the gawky computer graphics were $1 Million per minute (no lie). Now you get as good or better spitting out of your PC in most games...

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:04:08 PM   
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Everything female looked hot sometimes at that age.


Sheesh, yeah... How naif we were...

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:04:51 PM   
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Everything female looked hot sometimes at that age.


Yes, very true.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:06:31 PM   
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Impressive as Doom3 is, I think i was more amazed when Unreal first came out. Totally amazing graphics and a killer AI.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:07:43 PM   
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Everything female looked hot sometimes at that age.


no way man....Catherine Schell was a babe......and she could turn into a beer keg. What more does a man need?



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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:07:57 PM   
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Yeah, Space 1999. I could never figure out how they built so many of those space ships. They lost droves of them each week.


Very true...that and how the hell did the Moon get so far away from Earth so fast? oh yeah....."space warps!"

GF mark I unit's comment: "I can see the wires lifting up the spaceship....how dumb is that?!"

"well dear...make in the old days before Terminator II and "The Last Starfighter", they had to use actual physical models of the spacecraft"

"Last Starfighter....whats that? another geeky movie??"

(GF unit is younger than Speedy.......and has no clue about the classics)



Sheeesh Nik, I thought my GF mark 1.0 is young. How do you do it?

Although, mine does gets the X-files and that's all that really matters.

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RE: Test Thread - 2/3/2006 10:09:19 PM   
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Everything female looked hot sometimes at that age.


no way man....Catherine Schell was a babe......and she could turn into a beer keg. What more does a man need?

She could turn into a beer keg???

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