It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
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Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#2That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994.
My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#3That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994. My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
75 MHz and 16 MBytes RAM isn't all that unrealistic for a 1994 PC but it would be quite bleeding edge. The first Pentium was released in 1993 at 60 and 66Mhz, and the successor P54C came out in 1994 with 75, 90 and 100Mhz.
By the end of the decade there was already the Pentium III at 800 MHz (it's actually quite amazing how fast hardware progressed in the 90's compared to today):
https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/1999/dp1220...
Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#4The LCD is clearly connected via VGA. The owner needs to hit the autosync button so the left edge isn’t cut off.
Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#5That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994. My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
75 MHz and 16 MBytes RAM isn't all that unrealistic for a 1994 PC but it would be quite bleeding edge. The first Pentium was released in 1993 at 60 and 66Mhz, and the successor P54C came out in 1994 with 75, 90 and 100Mhz. By the end of the decade there was already the Pentium III at 800 MHz (it's actually quite amazing how fast hardware progressed in the 90's compared to today): https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi…
There has been a larger increase in computing power in the last 5 years than there was in the entire history of computers beforehand.
Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#6That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994. My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
I had a very similar computer (100mhz Pentium instead 75mhz) bought in late 1995 and it was not obscenely expensive. It’d be a high end machine for 1994 and obsolete by the late 90s (by 2000 AMD were selling athlons at >= 1Ghz)
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#7That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994. My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
The computer did not look like 1994 to me either because of the more rounded aesthetics, the CD drive, and kind of because there's no 5.25" disk instead (something has to fill that bay). Also the bundled speakers.
The internet says it came out in 1995. http://pbplanet.info/wiki/index.php/Force_482CDT Which seems like a quibble, but Windows 95 changed everything.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
75 MHz and 16 MBytes RAM isn't all that unrealistic for a 1994 PC but it would be quite bleeding edge. The first Pentium was released in 1993 at 60 and 66Mhz, and the successor P54C came out in 1994 with 75, 90 and 100Mhz. By the end of the decade there was already the Pentium III at 800 MHz (it's actually quite amazing how fast hardware progressed in the 90's compared to today): https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi…
There has been a larger increase in computing power in the last 5 years than there was in the entire history of computers beforehand.
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Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#9That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994. My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.
I had a very similar computer (100mhz Pentium instead 75mhz) bought in late 1995 and it was not obscenely expensive. It’d be a high end machine for 1994 and obsolete by the late 90s (by 2000 AMD were selling athlons at >= 1Ghz)
I rolled into my sophomore year of college with a P90, 16MB RAM, and a 19" CRT.
All of that was great, but it was Windows 3.11 that made the difference, as that was the the version that made networking work reasonably well.
Re: It's 1994 and you Startup a Windows 3.11 Computer [video]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
75 MHz and 16 MBytes RAM isn't all that unrealistic for a 1994 PC but it would be quite bleeding edge. The first Pentium was released in 1993 at 60 and 66Mhz, and the successor P54C came out in 1994 with 75, 90 and 100Mhz. By the end of the decade there was already the Pentium III at 800 MHz (it's actually quite amazing how fast hardware progressed in the 90's compared to today): https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi…
There has been a larger increase in computing power in the last 5 years than there was in the entire history of computers beforehand.
...the same can most likely be said about any 5 year period since computers were invented though, doesn't change the fact that the 90s saw a particularly radical hardware progress.