The Core Wars

[styckx]

Intel reaches 50...

http://gizmodo.com/5860038/intels-newes ... our-family

[ozinoz]

Fat lot of good it will do us - RW only works on 1, and not that well at that

[arizonachris]

LOL, yeah, only core I'm worried about is the core of this game. My CPU has 4 of them and I think I'm good with that.

Besides, that's not a CPU, it's a co-processor. I remember those back in the days of 386 CPU's. Math co-processors.

[PapaXpress]

I remember those back in the days of 386 CPU's. Math co-processors.

Thanks... now I am feeling really old. But lets try and one up you. Remember the third chip player back then (noted for getting extremely hot) Cyrix? Yup, had one... wish I didn't.

[arizonachris]

Oh, there wasn't anything wrong with a Cyrex chip. Little too hot at times. They were just as good back in the day. Or what was the other one, Evergreen? Quite a few knock off's until Intel got a choke hold on CPU arcetecture.

Now, you want to go nostalgic, how about a Commodore VIC 20 or a C64? I still have both of those and an Amiga. I was an authorized Commodore repair center for quite a few years. Got pretty good at replacing those 8086 chips.

Wow, I think I just had a flashback to playing games on a C64. Remember the expansion slots? Oh, my. 8 bit games.

[PapaXpress]

C64... I was just a child when I saw my first one. I started with Apple II and Tandy.

I think you are thinking of "Everex". I don't think they made CPUs but they did make memory expanders (my Dad had one for his 286) and other controllers.

[arizonachris]

Hmmmm, could have been Everex. It was one of those in the very early Pentium 1 days. Could have been a P1 100 or something equivalent. Move a few jumpers and overclock that bad boy to 105Mhz! Weeeee Hooooooooo!

[Chacal]

Even though my PC runs a C64 emulator, I still have the original machine in a box.
Can't make myself throw it out.

[PapaXpress]

How about the first 10mb hard drive... no one will _ever_ need that much space!

Little did they know.

[arizonachris]

I have one room in my pad I should set up as a PC museum. OK, so it's junk. But it's cool, nostalgic junk. How about one of those double stack hard drives that pushed the envelop at 256Mb. I have an original IBM desktop, yep, the one that the top opened like the hood on a car. Even has the "prop rod" to keep the top up. 386/ 33 CPU. Wow, screamin! Yes, the darn thing still boots up! Hard to find a good AT keyboard now a days. Those adaptors stink.

[PapaXpress]

I have one room in my pad I should set up as a PC museum. OK, so it's junk. But it's cool, nostalgic junk. How about one of those double stack hard drives that pushed the envelop at 256Mb. I have an original IBM desktop, yep, the one that the top opened like the hood on a car. Even has the "prop rod" to keep the top up. 386/ 33 CPU. Wow, screamin! Yes, the darn thing still boots up! Hard to find a good AT keyboard now a days. Those adaptors stink.

My Dad still has his H89 with an external 5.5" dual-sided, dual bay drive (made copying files a breeze back then), but everything else we ever built has been long since recycled.

You should start a small site devoted to tech antiques, my get some good hits.