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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
My old Packard Bell ran Windows 3.1 and came with 2 MB RAM. When I upgraded to 18 MB, I thought the system had become a real powerhouse.
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LOL. I can remember the transitions my 486 went through in the 90's.
1994: 80486 DX/2 66MHz, 4MB RAM, 250MB HDD, OS/2 3.0
1995: 80486 DX/2 66MHz, 8MB RAM, 250MB HDD, 2x CDROM, Soundcard, OS/2 3.0 with WinOS/2
1996: 80486 DX/2 80MHz(1), 8MB RAM, 500MB(2) HDD, 2x CDROM, Soundcard, WNT4 / DOS 6.22
1997: 80486 DX/2 100Mhz(3), 16MB RAM, 2x 500MB HDD, 2x CDROM, Soundcard, WNT4 / DOS 6.22
1998: No change. At the end of the year I sold the computer to upgrade to a Pentium II 350 MHz, 128 MB, 8GB HDD, SBLive!, 40x SCSI CDROM, 6x SCSI burner. Still running Windows NT 4.0, with 3rd party USB stack to be able to use a USB scanner (edit: one of the very few scanners that specifically supported that USB-stack.)
That 486 was one powerhouse of a machine in those 4 years. Because of the CPU-overclock, I was able to run games on it that would normally require a Pentium 60 to run. After selling it, that computer ran in that configuration for at least another 3 years before I lost track of its new owner.
(1) I set the mainboard bus to 40 MHz instead of 33 MHz.
(2) The 250MB HDD went bust.
(3) I set the bus to 50 MHz, but had to replace the cooler by a bigger one as well.