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What is the slowest computer you've ever owned?

Tandy HX 1000

(yay RadioShack :rolleyes: :) )

Unfortunately, my mom refuses to move on, and thus, it's still sitting in here basement so that the grandkids can play on it... I keep telling her that they'll be doing just fine on a current PC, but she refuses.
 
I never felt any computer was "slow" until I ran a modern (90's+) PC running Windows (3.1/95/98/2000/XP). Older computers would startup quickly and ran programs quickly that were loaded in memory. Anything accessing floppy drives and tape drives was slow on those older machines but the machine seemed fast enough.
 
Hmmm... maybe my G5 iMac running Safari with Flash ads loading in a few tabs? :D Okay, so I (or my family) have owned far slower, but the sluggishness I often experience in the described situation is a bit surprising. (Safari's better than it used to be, but still not as smooth for Flash as Firebox, for me.)
 
THe slowest computer, response-wise, would be this POS Gateway I'm currently using. Its a 1.5 Centrino with XP and it takes longer to wake from Sleep than my G4 iMac does go from a cold boot to full usage. :eek: This is DOG SLOW. I have had other Wintel and none have ever been this slow to respond.
I keep trying to convince my IT people to let me get a dual booting-Macbook but they are scared of Macs.
 
My first computer wasn't really mine, but my Dad's, so I technically didn't own it, though I ended up using it more than my Dad. It was a prototype computer built to test Intel's 8088 processor.

Dual 5.25" double-side double density 360KB FDDs
4.77 MHz processor
640KB RAM
4 MB hard drive

Ran MS DOS 3.0. I think it would have ran Windows 3.1, but the hard drive was too small. Great for programming (sadly I only knew BASIC at the time) and simple games.
 
Kernow said:
Repton was another awesome game. I bought Repton and Repton 2 for Windows from Superior Software (the original makers of the game), but I've been looking for Mac versions for ages. The emulators I've tried have been rubbish & I want to see if Repton 3 and Repton Around the World were as good as I remember them.
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The Windows emulator is flawless. Even better, you can get cheats for all the games!

MacNeXT: you could try selling your Atom on eBay. Some of them go for silly money.
 
~Shard~ said:
Apple //e - 1983 - 1 MHz processor. :cool:
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One million operations per second! *dies* :D

2009, we'll be oohing and ahhing at one trillion operations per second!!! *dies some more*
 
dynamicv said:
Same here. 7.14MHz of raw power, and a whopping 2MB of Chip RAM :)

I later payed £200 for a 16MHz 68020 accelerator board with a maths co-pro and 2MB Fast RAM, about two weeks before the A1200 came out :rolleyes: . Man, was I pissed off. I could have put the 500+ in Loot, put the proceeds with my cash and got a brand new AGA machine that could take an internal HD if only I hadn't bought that card.
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Yay! Another Amiga owner. I still have my Amiga 2000 in my storage room. Originally came with a 7 MHz 68000, 4 MB RAM, 200 MB HDD, when my Uncle gave it to me. Later added a 68020 accelerator board, couple more MB of RAM, and a 5.25" tall 666 MB SCSI internal HDD that I just sat on top of the Amiga's case. Added the very last available internal SCSI Zip drive for backups.

I always had slower machines, since I typically just program simple business applications, and can't justify the expense. My fastest computer is a G3 700 MHz, and my main home one is a G3 400 MHz. Fast enough to run Mail, iTunes and Firefox :)
 
dynamicv said:
Oh, and I once got a letter published in Amiga Format magazine. How cool was I? Not cool at all
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Oooh, so did I! Of course we were cool!

I had a 500, a 1200 and finally a 4000. I really loved the 4000. I thought Brilliance was brilliant.

I was really gutted when Commodore screwed themselves up.

I started off with a Sinclair Spectrum 16k. I got it for the kids and they weren't too careful with the tapes so it would be a bit dodgy loading games for them at times. I swear that I listened to them loading so many times I could tell what game it was just by the rhythm of the beeps.
 
Kernow said:
Despite this, it still had one of the greatest games ever made - Elite, which had full 3D graphics. :eek:
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Elite was awesome!

And it had Revs as well, which was the first really good racing sim, I spent hours playing that as well.

The BBC B was a great computer and it had a usable basic, heaps quick that all the other computers around at the time.
 
Slowest PC - Tandy 1000 TX. 8 MHz 286, 640KB RAM, 20MB HD, DOS.

Slowest Mac - Macintosh LC575.

Fastest PC - Pentium 4 HT 3.6 GHz, 2GB DDR 400 Dual Channel, 800GB HD Space, Radeon 9800XT w/ ATI Silencer 3, DVD-RW, Windows XP MCE/Vista RC1

Fastest Mac - 466 MHz G4 Digital Audio, 1.25 GB SDRAM, 60GB HD Space, Tiger 10.4.7/Mac OS 9.2.2
 
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