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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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JewKiller 3000 posted:

the bios that visibly counted up your memory before continuing to boot was the last time computers were any good

and the ticking sound. my goodness


what exactly was it doing with each increment?

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
i remember my uncle giving me an engineering sample 486 which was twice as fast as my previous 486 and the RAM count was substantially faster


actually everything was noticeable and substantially faster. windows 95 was a bit sluggo on a 486-33 with 8MB of RAM lol

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

C.H.O.M.E posted:

i oncei once bought 4 american megatrends pentium III 1ghz computers for $100,000 a piece for a work co contract. in 2008z

nice. what kind of kickbacks did you get from the sales rep

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