What is the slowest computer you've ever owned?(Hertz wise)
Mine was an Apple IIc I bought last year: 1 (or was it 2?) MHz
Mine was an Apple IIc I bought last year: 1 (or was it 2?) MHz
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What is the slowest computer you've ever owned?
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Commodore C64... Shocked to see that its speed was a grand 1Mhz.
Cannot remember the speed of the ZX spectrum but it certainly felt slower than my 64.
Cannot remember the speed of the ZX spectrum but it certainly felt slower than my 64.
It was some Hewlett-Packard thing with 64K RAM and a 4GB HD. 
Those were the days when I could fit everything onto one 1MB floppy disk.
Those were the days when I could fit everything onto one 1MB floppy disk.
I can not remember the specs for my first computer. Booted into DOS, 5.25" diskette drive, good stuff.
My second oldest/slowest machine is my PowerBook 165c.
My second oldest/slowest machine is my PowerBook 165c.
Atari 800 with a 6502 running at approximately 1.79 Mhz, which is half a colour clock. However, you could disable DMA mode temporarily, which disabled video, and increased throughput by about 30 percent.
I jumped from there to 3.59 MHz Z-80 in a Sony HB-201 running MSX-DOS at a full colour clock. That thing actually seemed to calculate more slowly.
I jumped from there to 3.59 MHz Z-80 in a Sony HB-201 running MSX-DOS at a full colour clock. That thing actually seemed to calculate more slowly.
Well I'm 16, so I don't have any experiance with computers older than my family's first celeron-based gateway. All I remember about that machine is that it had a celeron when they were new, a whopping 7gb of HDD space and something like 256mb of RAM. It ran diablo 2 and browsed the internet; that was all I needed it to do at the time.
An Apple ][e that had everything and a floppy drive . Man we must have over 300 games at least for that and all of them still work. Those games were fun
. Man we must have over 300 games at least for that and all of them still work. Those games were fun
Ditto the //e was my first and slowest computer, followed by a speedy 2 MHz Commodore 128D.iBookG4user said:An Apple ][e that had everything and a floppy drive
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Technically, the computer I'm using right now, since I own it, is the slowest I've ever owned. Dell 2.2GHz P4, 256MB RAM, XP home, 3 1/2 years old. The oldest I remember using is my dad's old Packard Bell, which had Windows 3.1 and the 5.25" floppy disks.
frankblundt said:
I had a ZX81 as well, they were so cool, all my mates used to come round to play games, I was popular for a while.....oh well.
TI 99/4a. I was 9 years old and thought this silver machine was the coolest thing I'd ever seen (and it may have been, at that point).
Looks like it ran at 3.3 Mhz. Not bad for 1982.
We also had a Commodore 64 hooked up to our TV for awhile.
Looks like it ran at 3.3 Mhz. Not bad for 1982.
We also had a Commodore 64 hooked up to our TV for awhile.
I don't quite think that counts. Though I too first learned RPN and simple programming on my brother's 1973 vintage HP 65 which has that one beat by a few years. Then my math prof taught us BASIC on a HP-85 while the physics prof had us messing with Apple ][+s.Don't panic said:
Ah the simlpe joys of typing 07734 and turning the calculator upside down, at least my 41CV was alphanumeric.
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