Computers and Related Hardware/Software

Oh I would not know.. the Last Pentium I used was my PII 450Mhz, it was GREAT to switch to AMD.

lol, the only Intel machine I owned was an almighty P90 :hehe: after that I went to AMD K6 200, 400, K7 800, AXP2100+ and now a A64 3000+ @ 4000+

My very first AMD was a 486x which was 100Mhz if i'm right.

Then came the Intel PII 450Mhz, then about 4 years later I got the AMD Thunderbird 1.1Ghz and I used that until 2005 and I now have a Sempron 3100+ which I built the system ground up mobo, PSu, cpu and hsf, memory for less then $250

Reason why I did it.. was I thought I cracked my Cpu core on the Thunderbird.. but really turned out was the mobo just went out on me that night... and I had a big wedding to do. So I used one of my 4 spare Computers and I was able to finnish the job but it was So slow... beacuse it's just used as a server and not really ment to be used humanwise LOL.

but anyways about that cracked core Cpu.. Not long ago I was given another computer.. So I take the motherboard out and stick the one which I thought had a crack core on it, And I desided not to use a HSF beacuse I figure it would not do anything.. Well LOL I turned on the power with my finger on the CPU Die... I was at the point of yelling in about 1 Second.. it got so damn hot I had to reach for the power plug.

So it works... and the Duron that was on the Pc before was dead.. But it turns out to be good... Because the Duron was 700Mhz, and the AMD was 1.1Ghz so it's working perfect :)

Since we're on the subject of firsts, my first PC was a Intel 80286 at 20Mhz, with 1 or 2 MB of RAM, and a 40 MB hard drive.

lol my aunt before she passed used to work for IBM and she had this huge old IBM.. lol the Hard drive was 5 1/2 in size and the platters were Huge! Had to boot to 5 1/2 floppy discs.. I have no clue what the speed was.

Now that could have been either the Intel 8086 or 8088 processor lines.

I think your right.

my first was a 4mhz (12mhz turbo) 12mb 1" hard drive, it's still in the garage somewhere. :sweat:

krim wrote:my first was a 4mhz (12mhz turbo) 12mb 1" hard drive, it's still in the garage somewhere. :sweat:

i had a commodore 64, and an apple 2c, major dinosaurs, it's a joke at how much power they had and what they could do, but that was the technology back in the day.... :hehe:

I heard somewhere that a scientific calculator has more computing power than the one that was onboard the Apollo spacecraft.

dochira wrote:I heard somewhere that a scientific calculator has more computing power than the one that was onboard the Apollo spacecraft.

Whoa.
That's not too good.

ahochaude wrote:Whoa.
That's not too good.

LOL scary right?

The worst part is that the Russian still uses this "technology" on their Soyuz spacecraft. :hehe:
That doesn't stop some rich people to pay 20 millions $ to climb on that thing. :crazy:
They should change their computer to an iPod. More power + music. :sweat:

tabana wrote:The worst part is that the Russian still uses this "technology" on their Soyuz spacecraft. :hehe:
That doesn't stop some rich people to pay 20 millions $ to climb on that thing. :crazy:
They should change their computer to an iPod. More power + music. :sweat:

iPod processors aren't radiation rated... it wont happen.

ipods suck.. no Ogg file support.

ahochaude wrote:Whoa.
That's not too good.

It's not necessarily "not good," it was the top of the line technology back then. We've evolved since...and why I continue to have a job. ;)

dochira wrote:
It's not necessarily "not good," it was the top of the line technology back then. We've evolved since...and why I continue to have a job. ;)

lol but what I don't understand, they say a Caclulator had more power then the Spacecraft.... But did that mean Mission Control had more power then the Space Craft it's self?

and just to think they used Radio to talk to mission control I don't think it was all that bad.

SubaruWRX wrote:
lol but what I don't understand, they say a Caclulator had more power then the Spacecraft.... But did that mean Mission Control had more power then the Space Craft it's self?

Probably. Mission Control did have the real estate to house such a powerful machine. ;)

SubaruWRX wrote:
and just to think they used Radio to talk to mission control I don't think it was all that bad.

Nope, if the astronauts didn't feel safe, I don't think they would've gone up to begin with. :D

SubaruWRX wrote:

lol but what I don't understand, they say a Caclulator had more power then the Spacecraft.... But did that mean Mission Control had more power then the Space Craft it's self?

and just to think they used Radio to talk to mission control I don't think it was all that bad.

Spacecraft dont need the power we do... for example. the two Mars Rovers are powered by PowerPC processor (in essence) running at 20mhz, 128KB of RAM, 256KB of flash memory.

Most processors aren't rated (ie, radiation hardened) for use space, the ones that are certified are few and relatively low powered.

it still needs to be radiation hardened if it's not exposed to the outside?