Good times, good times.

-and you can actually pinpoint EXACTLY at which PRECISE point they stated to be able to run Doom.

Where's the original Pentium? I don't see it on the list. I totally forgot about the Pentium Pro... Anyone remember the Pentium MMX?

Great article, thanks Giz

I still have an old P4 1.5Ghz Optiplex running on a 133Mhz bus.
Old School baby.

Not to be whiny, but is there any particular order to the above? I don't see any, which makes it fairly confusing to read.

@josejuan05: second that. had to hover over every single one to find out how to go about chronicalogically.

@strider_mt2k: was running a celeron 333hz till middle last year. served me well. in fact, it ran much better than some of my friend's p4 for a while doing basic things. if you take care of your pc well (ie, not let spyware, malware, on the machine at all), it lasts much longer than most believe. it may be slower, but was solid.

I remember seeing a bilboard for the new 486. Broke the 25mhz barrier.

i wish pcs still had 'turbo' buttons on them...

@hansning and josejuan05: Like I said in the copy up top, this is because of the way our system serves up Flickr galleries, or the way Flicker archives photo sets in the first place. Either way, trust me, I tried, dudes, I really did, but until we get this fixed, it's a tradeoff between chronological order and readability (i.e. resolution and metadata).

My first pc was a 386 with the (as i called it then) green screen. After that a 486 33mhz which i upgraded to a 486 dx4 100mhz. Just remembering how muh fun it was back then, to think about having a 1000 MB of harddisk memory, the 200mhz barrier. Even paid 600$ to get 12 MB of ram (i already had 4). @echo off, smartdrv, dblspace, the first cdrom and getting it to work(mscdex -d:mscd000), wordperfect, dos 6.2, conventional memory, larry, win3.11, windows 95, games that were sold on floppies with sound being an expansion pack and of course, the internet... man do those ever bring back memories.

p.s.
i love the mac ad, first time i even liked an ad on the web....ever....+1

Old school? I still have my old 8088 with 640k of memory, which ran at 4 or a blazing 8 Mhz. It didn't come with a hard drive back in the day so I eventually bought a huge 20 meg hard drive and had it installed. The drive itself is like a boat anchor. Amazing! Run Doom? I don't think so. It's even more amazing considering my little Treo has 64 megs of internal memory and runs an 8 gig SD card.

2300 transistors... Holy sh-! And they even managed to run Asteroids and PacMan.

ahhh... fond memories of my 486 DX2 66mhz PC with the sweet Turbo button.

but I liked the music (second song anyway)

Well, it would have been much nicer to simply post the link to Intel's web site. It has a PDF file that shows all of this in a visually pleasing and easy-to-read format:

[www.intel.com]

@bimplebean: Specifically, this file:

[download.intel.com]

Oh 486 how I miss thee...