I have the same gigabytes of ram as that has megabytes and my graphics card nearly the same storage as the hard drive. Oof.
I used to have a PC like that, though, as an upgrade from an Amiga 1200. Amiga was a great gaming and coding machine, but struggled a bit for ‘office’ work and was more suited to bulletin boards than websites. A PC like that thing got me through university, though - able to do it all. I don’t remember the internet as being much worse, back then - more limited, but so much less shit on it. And if you get a list of the best RPGs of all time, it can probably run three-quarters of the list.
Yeah, I had a Sinclair spectrum, then a BBC B before I got my first PC (386, 33mhz!). The BBC was a cool machine, a great version of basic to learn on, and you could compile assembly on it too. The spectrum had better games though.
Ours was a custom build, Pentium 1 75MHz, 4MB DRAM, 1.19 GB HDD rocking Windows 3.1. My parents believed the salesman when he said it had all the storage they would EVER need.
wild that many computers now have more RAM than this one has storage
I have the same gigabytes of ram as that has megabytes and my graphics card nearly the same storage as the hard drive. Oof.
I used to have a PC like that, though, as an upgrade from an Amiga 1200. Amiga was a great gaming and coding machine, but struggled a bit for ‘office’ work and was more suited to bulletin boards than websites. A PC like that thing got me through university, though - able to do it all. I don’t remember the internet as being much worse, back then - more limited, but so much less shit on it. And if you get a list of the best RPGs of all time, it can probably run three-quarters of the list.
Yeah, I had a Sinclair spectrum, then a BBC B before I got my first PC (386, 33mhz!). The BBC was a cool machine, a great version of basic to learn on, and you could compile assembly on it too. The spectrum had better games though.
What feels even weirder is that my CPU-caches added together (yes, I know that they contain duplicate information) are larger than the dram.
our families first computer was a tandy sensation with 4mb of ram and 200mb hdd storage :)
Ours was a custom build, Pentium 1 75MHz, 4MB DRAM, 1.19 GB HDD rocking Windows 3.1. My parents believed the salesman when he said it had all the storage they would EVER need.