RE: Digital Archaeology: IBM 300GL
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Gosh I remember the day I first got to use a 100mhz PC and I was so excited. It was like science fiction come to life. I'd been following the progress via work computers because at the time I had a 12mhz 286! First we had a bunch of 386, 486, 33mhz, then gradually faster and faster until that milestone.
Amazing to think how far we have come today!
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From the first 100 MHz processor to the first 1 GHz processor was almost exactly 6 years. I jumped from 1 MHz (Commodore 64) to 66 MHz to 333 MHz to 900 MHz (I for get if that's exactly right...It was a Duron). After that it was probably something close to 2 GHz (Athlon XP).
I remember a couple of years after I got my 486 DX2 66 lusting after the Pentium 133/150/166...the MHz sure increased fast back then.
I have similar memories with a 133 MHz Pentium 1 PC with MS-DOS 6.22, with Windows 3.11, and with a lot of video games. It was one of the best parts of my childhood. This was not ours, but this was one of the first PCs that I used. I learned to type on it.
I still remember looking for the keys on the keyboard, and now (since many years) I type blindly on keyboards. I also used a 66 MHz PC in that time with Windows 95 and with some video games. Our first PC that we owned was a 400 MHz Pentium II PC with Windows ME (Millenium Edition). We received a lot of video games on CD-ROMs, and we also copied a few games on floppies from the previously mentioned 133 MHz Pentium 1 PC.
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