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~elijah

I had to google to look up what a "600 Mhz PIII with 256 MB RAM" even was. My first piece of computer hardware was from the in the early 2010s and I have only recently felt an intrigue into the history of technology, retro gaming etc. Could you tell me more about the tech you saw and used in life?

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~ralfwause wrote:

Hah, thank you for adding to my self perceived age :-D

Well, i am a kid of the 80s, so i have grown up with the whole range of 8 Bit machines thanks to my dad who - while being a mason in his dayjob - was, and is still, very much interested in computer systems.

Let me just assemble a short list of machines i had or used since the 80s:

- Commodore VIC-20

- Commodore C 64 (multiple ones)

- Atari 520 ST (handed down from my dad)

- massively nerfed up Atarai ST (2 MB RAM, Harddisk, PC compatibility card and whatnot)

- 486/SX with 25 Mhz and (i think 8 MB RAM and a 100 MB HDD)

- many, many different Pentiums and AMDs