Computer Chronicles: intel i486

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IamFat32

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@punishedgondola1814
@punishedgondola1814 5 жыл бұрын
Watching stuff about 80's and 90's computer tech is super comfy
@herrfriberger5
@herrfriberger5 4 жыл бұрын
Well, 60's, 70's and 80's for my part. After 1990, it started get out of hand :)
@mikejones-vd3fg
@mikejones-vd3fg 7 жыл бұрын
"you need about 12fps and the 486 50mhz processor has made that a reality" on VR
@link238_
@link238_ 4 жыл бұрын
Christ, 12fps on vr would make me nauseous
@justandhans
@justandhans 3 жыл бұрын
It makes you wonder how long you could operate one of those before getting sick. We now need at least 60 FPS to remain somewhat comfortable
@davidt8087
@davidt8087 Жыл бұрын
@@justandhansback then they were just happy to get something somewhat acceptable and we're happy with it. Things like this were new at the time so people would ACTUALLY get excited, go out to the store, shop for what they want, and come back and be happy for months or years. Today, people sit home downloading one app after the other and use it for 2 minutes and then forget about it and leave it stuck on their device never deleting it either r
@BlownMacTruck
@BlownMacTruck Жыл бұрын
@@justandhans Uh, "now"? It's not like that just happened recently.
@RonJohn63
@RonJohn63 9 жыл бұрын
3GB in an era of 250MB hard drives was darned impressive!!
@dachanist
@dachanist 5 жыл бұрын
It was for tracking political contributions. They have since upped their game.
@Kennephone
@Kennephone Жыл бұрын
250MB? even most high capacity drives were around 100MB in '89
@RonJohn63
@RonJohn63 Жыл бұрын
@@Kennephone maybe I was thinking of '92/'93 (when I bought a system with a 250MB HDD).
@brodyplayz1234
@brodyplayz1234 Ай бұрын
1GB hard drives didn’t become the norm until around 1996. from there, drive size basically doubled every year until the 320GB in 2004. 1TB became standard around 2012.
@tomnudho4202
@tomnudho4202 5 жыл бұрын
It is insane today see these guys talking about virtual reality in a i486 PC.
@Conradlovesjoy
@Conradlovesjoy Ай бұрын
Times change. People don’t. AI, VR, it’s all there.
@datalore6187
@datalore6187 4 жыл бұрын
I used to work for an old software vendor, Egghead Software. For a while on the floor, our top computer was a "true blue" IBM 386. Next to that we had an Apple IIGS, then a 286 and finally an old 8088 XT machine. We then got a new 486 machine, and the speed increase was impressive. The price was high, but some people would spend the money just to play Wing Commander. And the difference in animation was quite noticeable. And of course, if you wanted more speed you'd upgrade from 1MB to 4 MB. And if you really wanted more power you'd upgrade to 8 MB, but for rich people, you might as well go all the way to a whopping 16 MB! Heck Windows 3.1 and MS Office ran at light speed on a 486dx2 50MHz with 16 MB. The ThunderBoard sound card was an option, but SoundBlaster was the superior product. I think a 30 MB hard drive was about the standard, but again if you had lots of money you could get 250MB. And that software, wow! Egghead sold all that software: Stacker 2.0 which just slowed down your computer to a crawl. MS-Dos 5.0 upgrade was a huge seller. The memory manager. Norton Desktop was a big seller too.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
you ready to upgrade to a 386 or you going hole hog to 486??🤣
@RP-ej1fm
@RP-ej1fm Жыл бұрын
I miss Egghead.
@bloqk16
@bloqk16 Жыл бұрын
That one organization going with OS/2 was understandable to have a stable PC network. In the engineering company I was working at back then, with Windows 3.1, it was a PC network headache for the IT crew. Many-a-times the laser printers wouldn't work due to network issues. So with that, I got my own laser printer for my PC so I could continue with production work while everyone else sat idle. When my colleagues made an issue about why I had a printer they didn't, informing them I paid for the printer out of my pocket had them get quiet. The printer went with me when I left the company.
@HighwinderShow
@HighwinderShow Жыл бұрын
In 1994, the first PC I ever built was a 486DX2-80 with 8mb of RAM and an Orchid VLB video card (and original SB16). Oh, the memories not just of building it, and the gaming, but the joy I experienced continually reconfiguring it - DOS, Windows, OS/2, DesqView, sometimes all of the above in multi-boot config with System Commander 3. I was running dial-up BBSes on the same system I was simultaneously playing DOOM (OS/2 was downright miraculous).
@georgef551
@georgef551 8 жыл бұрын
For a taped video, this is actually exceptional quality.
@SimonChristensen
@SimonChristensen 8 жыл бұрын
And it's only 240p. It could look great with a proper transfer (not saying this transfer is bad) and a high-bitrate/high-res upload to KZbin. Even doubling the framerate would make it look better.
@georgef551
@georgef551 8 жыл бұрын
Simon Christensen Usually 240p looks like a bad LEGO animation. Then again, we've seen 1080p videos that make THIS one look high-def. :)
@acmenipponair
@acmenipponair 7 жыл бұрын
That's because the 240p videos are really 240p. In this case they were able to intermix the pixels like old tv sets would do it to get the picture more gradient => less fragmented.
@Roshan_420
@Roshan_420 5 жыл бұрын
georgef551 depends on the bitrate
@setoth1234
@setoth1234 Жыл бұрын
While the video might look good, the audio was hella compressed. Watchable, but not great.
@gentlepersuader
@gentlepersuader 5 жыл бұрын
The 486 when it came out was quite a revolutionary jump. Because the cost jump was also fairly significant the SX and DX versions were interesting. The 486 came with the math co-processor built in. Prior to that you purchased the 8087, 287, 387 etc separately. The 486 chips that failed the co-processor functions had that portion of the chip disabled and were badged cheaper SX variants. The DX was a full function CPU. If you purchased the "co-processor" for the SX, you in essence got a fully functioning DX instead that would completely disable the other chip when connected to its socket.
@okaro6595
@okaro6595 Жыл бұрын
The 486SX was introduced to kill the AMD 386DX-40 just as 386SX was introduced to kill other manufacturer's 286s which ran at 16 MHz.
@OpenGL4ever
@OpenGL4ever 10 ай бұрын
@@okaro6595 Both is true.
@johto
@johto Ай бұрын
Yeah, i had the 486 SX my parents bought. When i was dabbling with first 3d graphics with povray and 3d studio in ms-dos, those worked but were VERY slow, had to upgrade to the math co-processor afterwards. What a difference that made! 🤓
@Andy-df5fj
@Andy-df5fj 4 жыл бұрын
My first computer was a 486 with a whopping 340 MB hd and 8 megabytes of ram. I paid through the nose thinking it would take a while to become obsolete but it only took about a year.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
you poor thing 340 meg hard disk you must have been crying for space real quick with that tiny old drive back then
@Andy-df5fj
@Andy-df5fj Жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 I actually paid big bucks extra for the bigger drive option. 🤦
@sandwichbreath0
@sandwichbreath0 Жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 I had a 260MB HDD on mine, could only have 2-3 'big' games on it at once -- it was like a roster system, uninstall one or more games to install others.
@OpenGL4ever
@OpenGL4ever 11 ай бұрын
If you had a 340 MiB HD, then you obviously bought the 486 quite late. When the 486 was new, 20 to 40 MiB HDs were normal and 340 MiB were not available at all.
@OpenGL4ever
@OpenGL4ever 10 ай бұрын
Bill Gates said that a 486 would be good enough until the late 90s.
@voltare2amstereo
@voltare2amstereo Жыл бұрын
The performance difference over 10 years was wild up until 2010 The last 12 years haven't seen the same level of improvements
@dignes3446
@dignes3446 11 ай бұрын
an x58 based pc from 2008 (with upgrades) is still a pretty good gaming pc today. imagine using a pc from 1993 in 2008 *even with all the upgrades*. The 1993 computer was a joke by 1996.
@jgaines3200
@jgaines3200 11 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Doom on my 486 dx with 4mb of ram :]
@grindererrofficial3755
@grindererrofficial3755 4 жыл бұрын
486 dx 2x 66mhz 16mb ram, 4xcdrom,hdd 407,win 3.q up to win 95.soundblaster 32. Wolf3d,doom,doom2,duke3;...those sweet times :)
@mattizzle81
@mattizzle81 4 жыл бұрын
I remember upgrading that to 8mb and a 1GB hard drive! Oh the power!!
@effexon
@effexon 4 жыл бұрын
I remember 486 from 386 was really big jump, allowed doom style games, which consoles didnt run. Difference was very big. 386 games were blocky, mostly 2d games. Wolfenstein isnt so impressive, but Doom is. Ofc until maybe 2005 it was all about getting faster hardware, limits were always there, not even programmers could bypass everything. Since 2005 and dualcore era, programmer skills are more important than cpu raw power. I thought that pentium 60 was insane improvement and very very expensive computer, maybe 4000$ then. Looking now, it is minor improvement over 486dx's with decent ram. But this era from 90s to 2000s was critical what hardware trick programmers used, leaving older cpus behind just coz instruction set limitation. This was era before proper 3d cards, so cpu was everything. Since first Geforce card came, cpu could get a breather in games sometimes. Intel was very skillful in securing its cpu "monopoly" by instruction set support and other tricks. Competitors were just way worse, still more affordable but not cheap like now, 80$ cpu is still decent.
@muppetoverlord2013
@muppetoverlord2013 3 жыл бұрын
@@effexon try jumping from a Tandy 1000 to a 486 DX :)
@1sainteve1
@1sainteve1 2 жыл бұрын
I remember trading my 386SX motherboard/RAM for a used 486DX4-100, costing me $100. Of all the upgrades I've done over the decades, this one sticks in my memory.
@GreatOutdoors1
@GreatOutdoors1 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I upgraded my 486sx to the same overdrive processor, made a huge difference.
@fulkthered
@fulkthered 9 жыл бұрын
Ah,the days when a video card was 2 foot long.
@TruthLivesNow
@TruthLivesNow 9 жыл бұрын
+joseph fulks Remember those VESA graphic cards? 1992 and they were huge!
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 9 жыл бұрын
+Monster LMA today's graphics cards don't have an excuse though
@retrosimon9843
@retrosimon9843 9 жыл бұрын
+joseph fulks SoundBlaster Awe 32 says hello
@cardbored_
@cardbored_ 5 жыл бұрын
@@TruthLivesNow I had a VESA card, it was only 1MB but I had one in like 1991 so it was pretty decent for it's time for home computing. It could do 16 Million colors etc with my SVGA Samsung Syncmaster 3ne.
@dunkydog1676
@dunkydog1676 4 жыл бұрын
That's today . cards were smaller then
@satanspilz
@satanspilz 4 жыл бұрын
Spellchecking in the BACKGROUND? sci fi tech right there !
@jwdickieson
@jwdickieson 9 жыл бұрын
Its sad to see back then that they were talking about moving from Ethernet to fiber optics and more than 20 years later we still have not made the move.
@fulkthered
@fulkthered 9 жыл бұрын
+jwdickieson I was thinking about this the other day while watching a video about a raspberry pi.The ethernet connector takes up a lot of room on the board.It's 2015 isn't there a better way?
@andreiordean9346
@andreiordean9346 9 жыл бұрын
+fbw71u Romania e considerata ca fiind tara cu cel mai bun internet din europa.
@bluebull399
@bluebull399 7 жыл бұрын
It depends on what country you are in. We have full fibre optic internet throughout the whole of the UK (even in the rural areas) as our government directly funded it.
@goodiesguy
@goodiesguy 7 жыл бұрын
We've got Fibre here in New Zealand, in fact I'm typing this on a home fibre connection now!
@oldtwinsna8347
@oldtwinsna8347 6 жыл бұрын
Pretty much all fiber to the street junction level in most areas by now.
@MsDigitalThai
@MsDigitalThai 12 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was really the way my friend told this story. The reason they had to special ordered this 24MB SIMM was due to the demand to a CAD application that was loaded onto a underpowered PC (486 I believe), and the teacher demanded more memory!!!! As a result, we decided on the 24MB SIMM that would total 32MB on his CAD system.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
are you a power user?
@maximilianoadl
@maximilianoadl 6 ай бұрын
My first PC was a Cx486DX2-66, 8 MB of RAM and a 540 MB HDD. SB16MCD and Trident T8900D. It was the fastest PC in the neighborhood for almost a year.
@QuantumBraced
@QuantumBraced 8 жыл бұрын
I hate the 1990s, but I love 1990s technology. Truly the Golden Age of computing. The progress made was astounding.
@volvo09
@volvo09 8 жыл бұрын
It really was, so much stuff changed so quickly. Computers got more powerful and got nice color displays, and the internet became more of a household reality. Sure things are changing these days, but it's more of a progress of technology than the revolution that personal computers were.
@The_Wandering_Nerd
@The_Wandering_Nerd 11 жыл бұрын
And then Windows 95 came out and sucked all the raw power of that 486 right up...
@homfes
@homfes Жыл бұрын
Very impressive. I have a desperate need to get the the power of the 486 right now.
@ivo215
@ivo215 11 жыл бұрын
I had a 486DX33 in 1993, with 8MB RAM, a 250MB harddisk, a 1MB videocard and a double speed CDROM drive. That videocard could do do 1024x768 resolution. Only my monitor couldn't handle that, and limited the resolution to 800x600. Most games ran in 320x240 though, and some in 640x480 which was like super high definition. It was a beast of a machine! I still have it, for nostaglia. Haven't hooked it up for years though.
@ens8502
@ens8502 Жыл бұрын
Still have?
@ivo215
@ivo215 Жыл бұрын
@@ens8502 Sure. Still got my old Atari 8-bit too.
@OpenGL4ever
@OpenGL4ever 11 ай бұрын
Syndicate run in 640x480 but only with 16 colors. It didn't use the SVGA modes, only high res VGA.
@dlewis9760
@dlewis9760 8 ай бұрын
@@ivo215 If you ever crank it up, put it on the end of a long extension cord, preferably outside. Electronics age out. I'm typing this in 2024. So, that's a 31 year old box. Solder joints, capacitors..... Heck PCB boards can degrade.
@ivo215
@ivo215 8 ай бұрын
@@dlewis9760 Oh, I'm pretty sure all of te caps are bulging.
@IamFat32
@IamFat32 12 жыл бұрын
I remember buying a high end Pentium 133 back in early 1995, it was made in 1994 but I got it on sale since the P166 came out. it had 16MB of RAM, 2 1GB Seagate medalist HDDs, a Trident 1MB card, and a PCI Turtle beach card (back when turtle beach was first starting out) it was the baby AT form factor with 4ISA and 3 PCI, I still have that machine and it works fine to this day. It was made by CompuPartner, a Swedish company that left north america in 1996.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
this is the chip that is going to double your speed muhahahahahahaha
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez Жыл бұрын
It played Quake 1 well, will it play crysis?
@teleportedfunk
@teleportedfunk 7 жыл бұрын
"who needs the power of 486?"
@515161
@515161 4 жыл бұрын
Too much for me
@balazspinter4832
@balazspinter4832 4 жыл бұрын
People who play hexen and doom 2 ;)
@TheNicky9905
@TheNicky9905 4 жыл бұрын
Clearly everyone does, I answered you on an 8086 a few years ago from the future at the time and its only just appearing now, I dreampt of a day when there will be a 586, but alas, that's just a dream..
@Wok_Agenda
@Wok_Agenda 4 жыл бұрын
Ι miss my 486s
@aaronvaldes3104
@aaronvaldes3104 7 ай бұрын
I just looked up John Wharton. Very sad to hear that he passed away in 2018. I enjoyed his talks. He was also on a panel talking about Gary Kildall. I was kind of annoyed that he was cut short as he was talking about Gary. I also remember him at a famous talk that Linus Torvalds gave. John asked Linus about the x86. Life is too short.
@Proxy762
@Proxy762 9 жыл бұрын
12 fps VR.
@IvanBoskovic808
@IvanBoskovic808 7 жыл бұрын
0 fps on Mac.
@JohnnyinMN
@JohnnyinMN Жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these. Interesting to read the comments since I was in college during this period. Talk about feeling old!
@IamFat32
@IamFat32 12 жыл бұрын
the damn video capture card screwed up the audio. oh well, at least I've preserved it on the web.
@estusflask982
@estusflask982 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
@paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: up to and including the 80486 and first generation Pentium CPUs(60-200MHz) had no level 2 cache on-die. It was supplied by static RAM chips around the CPU. This they never tell you but these machines being demoed have a huge amount of cache making it fast. Consumer 486 machines had no or little cache making them slow as hell, certainly no faster than a well-cached 386.
@WaybackTECH
@WaybackTECH 11 жыл бұрын
I think the 486 era was one of the most innovative eras in computer hardware. So many ideas tried back then are still used in computers to an extent today. The CPU/Video board is basically the same idea as I3/I5 A8 cpu/gpu chips are today. Removable drive bays are still used in many desktop HP/Dells today.
@cmatthews718
@cmatthews718 4 жыл бұрын
I love how this guy just casually drops "virtual reality applications." Dude, you have no idea.
@hulksmash8159
@hulksmash8159 3 жыл бұрын
It's obvious that he did have the idea.
@Kynareth6
@Kynareth6 2 жыл бұрын
@@hulksmash8159 People back then thought they were close to virtual reality applications. Here we are in 2022 and we also think we are close. For me the Quest 2 is a blurry mess, I can't even imagine how it must had looked back then.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
@@Kynareth6 much much clearer sadly back then then it looks now my how times have changed🤣
@Olgasys
@Olgasys 4 ай бұрын
I remember either a 486 or Pentium with a high end graphics card doing VR at shopping mall.
@Pymmeh
@Pymmeh 3 жыл бұрын
Who needs the power? Gamers need the power, everything else is just advanced pencil work.
@yornav
@yornav 4 жыл бұрын
Nice to see how the world of computing changed. Back then it were mainly older man in suits. Nowadays it are young casually dressed boys and girls.
@victorwilson6826
@victorwilson6826 4 жыл бұрын
That does it. I'm throwing away my Intel Core PC because I want the power of a 486!
@Ace1000ks19751982
@Ace1000ks19751982 12 жыл бұрын
Windows 3.1 and Dos 6.22 were the standard operating systems of the early 1990s. Computer technology really accelerated from 1997 to 1999. The comp industry came out with many amazing things, like 3d accelerators(3dfx, Riva TNT, STB velocity, etc), high powered processors(Pentium 2s/3s, Pentium 4s, & Athlons), hard drives became much bigger(10 gbs 20 gbs, 40 gbs), and DVD-ROM drives were released in the late 1990s. Computers also got cheaper in the late 1990s.
@gsampson3565
@gsampson3565 11 жыл бұрын
My first computer was a 486dx4 100 8mb ram and a 120mb hdd with dos on it. Was a beast for playing games in 1994. As a bonus it ran windows 95 no problem when that came out in 95. Only problem was the first copy of windows 95 that was released was like 45 floppy disks. Not on cd.
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez 5 жыл бұрын
My first computer was pocket computer. It had 1.5k memory. I expanded it to 3k.
@mattizzle81
@mattizzle81 4 жыл бұрын
boom! look at that, the POWER of the 486. I stand in awe.
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 9 жыл бұрын
From the days when 3gb of storage was impressive... Those were the days!
@QuantumBraced
@QuantumBraced 8 жыл бұрын
3GB was insane for a 486. I had 200MB haha.
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 8 жыл бұрын
QuantumBraced Until about the Pentium 4 days, my personal computer was a 386DX with 4MB of RAM. IDE was a revelation for me when it came around, it was *much* faster than the MFM card I had been using. Went strait from a Type 0665 IBM drive of 44MB to a 273MB Maxtor drive, both of which I still have and both of which still work correctly to this day.
@hifijohn
@hifijohn 8 жыл бұрын
my first computer ran at 66M, 32M of ram and IG of harddrive!!!!
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 8 жыл бұрын
hifijohn 486 or a clone I'd guess. 32MB of RAM would have been ridiculous at that time, good lord. IG of hard drive? Do you mean 1GB?
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez 7 жыл бұрын
My first computer had 1.5K or kilobyte of ram.
@pipschannel1222
@pipschannel1222 3 жыл бұрын
Wow! An actual i486DX2-40.. Pretty rare beast, at least in Europe. Never seen one in person :-)
@baladi921
@baladi921 Жыл бұрын
lol it's like bigfoot 🤣
@doganb34
@doganb34 6 жыл бұрын
Watching these old series just reminded me about my old acer 8088 with 8kb ram and dual 5.25" floppy drives.. didnt even have a hard drive coz they were like $10,000 lol
@okaro6595
@okaro6595 Жыл бұрын
No way did it have only 8 kB RAM. Any computer had at least 64 kB, many had 640 kB.
@Kg277
@Kg277 11 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the flash bios. They made it sound like a big must-have feature!
@tr1p1ea
@tr1p1ea Жыл бұрын
Because it is I guess.
@ColdFusion
@ColdFusion 12 жыл бұрын
8th*
@kirankumar-ki3ci
@kirankumar-ki3ci 6 жыл бұрын
Happy to see you here!!
@marcosgazamanes6165
@marcosgazamanes6165 5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite people anywhere @coldfusion
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez 5 жыл бұрын
Watching this channel I want my IBM PC-XT, AMD 386DX-40, 486DX4-75, and pentium 1-66 back.
@gogolapeter
@gogolapeter 3 жыл бұрын
A factor of 50x in 10 years!
@ThunderKat
@ThunderKat Жыл бұрын
Update BIOS using a floppy disk, makes me wonder if those things had a least error check redundancy to prevent problems if not done right. Beside the normal parity check that's.
@andljoy
@andljoy 3 жыл бұрын
I would love to take say, a dual 64 core AMD EPYC server with 1.5TB of ram back in time, just to show them where it all ends up.
@peterhelpme
@peterhelpme Жыл бұрын
... or wait for someone 20 years from now to bring back in time whatever they have 🙂 to show us what kinda Matrix we are heading to
@phillipclark4891
@phillipclark4891 Жыл бұрын
@@peterhelpme Or just show them a smartphone that is 1000 times faster than their typical mainframes.
@ChatGPT1111
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
I would love to take a 132 core Apple M2 Ultra Mac Studio (size of small dinner salad), with just 192GB of RAM and an 8TB SSHD back to your time 2 years ago! 😂
@tra-viskaiser8737
@tra-viskaiser8737 Ай бұрын
Bad part is... there are not really any programs other than meby benchmarks that would even show what the pc can do, especially compared to the programs they have. Graphic advancement, is all... Like the space shuttle compared to a wwi biplane.. they don't operate in the same environment really anymore. And the shuttle would be useless at 1000 feet trying to fly. As would the plane be useless in space. Kinda sad that we can't even do a side by side like they did in this episode.
@timothystevenhoward
@timothystevenhoward 4 жыл бұрын
I remember when we got our Pionex 486sx 25mhz with a single speed cd-rom drive. It was a huge upgrade over our C64.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
I bet going from 1 mhz to 25 must have been ground breaking for you at the time
@jonathonmenth3901
@jonathonmenth3901 Жыл бұрын
I remember having the Commodore 64 SX and loading each game took over 3 minutes each.
@ChatGPT1111
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
I remember going from the abacus to the slide rule. I could now do 1 calculation per minute!
@Fina1Ragnarok
@Fina1Ragnarok Жыл бұрын
Oh man, when desktop CPUs used like 5w of power and needed no cooling.
@oubrioko
@oubrioko 3 жыл бұрын
Originally aired in *February 1992*
@SteveLeicht1
@SteveLeicht1 7 жыл бұрын
It never ceases to amaze me how old technology seems so quaint in retrospect. Also the commentators.
@empireofnoise2200
@empireofnoise2200 6 жыл бұрын
yeh the hairstyles are ace imagine rockin a hair do like them nowadays ,heads would turn
@sailorenlil
@sailorenlil 11 жыл бұрын
@Kamil Niewiadomski Before the Pentium MMX and the Motorola 68040 (but with the exception of some 486's), home desktop CPU's didn't need special cooling at all, not even heatsinks.
@MrGencyExit64
@MrGencyExit64 10 жыл бұрын
I've never seen any processor newer than a 486 DX2 without a heatsink. 486 SX/DX yes and the first two Pentium models (60/66 MHz), but after that it just never happened.
@Gary_Hun
@Gary_Hun Жыл бұрын
Luv how Cheifet went out of his way in every intro to make it as hard on himself as possible. I would never be able to give that little flawless speech in a once-every-ten-minutes background situation.
@danmanx2
@danmanx2 11 жыл бұрын
I love this stuff. Thanks for the video. Sadly, I never had a 486...only a 386/dx generic.
@anwerabdallah569
@anwerabdallah569 4 жыл бұрын
its amazing how things changed how powerful the processor am holding in my palm
@OldAussieAds
@OldAussieAds 11 жыл бұрын
To be fair though, these guys probably assumed we'd have flying cars by now. I doubt they'd be that impressed with today's computers given the age we live in.
@churblefurbles
@churblefurbles Жыл бұрын
Jared Taylor would confirm!
@jonathonmenth3901
@jonathonmenth3901 Жыл бұрын
I’m sure they’d be very impressed, especially with networking even though they all knew it was only a matter of time.
@twisterwiper
@twisterwiper 4 жыл бұрын
And so, this show actually serves as a computer chronicle.
@soylentgreenb
@soylentgreenb 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, folks. You heard that right; he really did say VR on a 486. And 12 FPS is good enough!
@chloedevereaux1801
@chloedevereaux1801 4 жыл бұрын
3Gb of data... linus techtips, HOLD MY TEA ............
@CoolDudeClem
@CoolDudeClem 12 жыл бұрын
I can still remember when these first came out. I was thinking this was amazing. I Must be getting old!
@ens8502
@ens8502 Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez Жыл бұрын
Me too. It was a dream at that time. You could buy a small car for that price.
@TruthLivesNow
@TruthLivesNow 9 жыл бұрын
I remember weird stuff. The first computer we bought for my wife's business was in 1989. It was a 386SX running at 16 Mhz, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB Hard Drive. We got a deal at $1,800. We used DOS 3.3. The problem with DOS 3.3 is that the most it could handle was a Hard Drive of 32 MB, so my wife had 32 MB for her business needs, and I had 8 MB for my needs. My sister at the time worked for IBM and my brother worked for HP. Their computer was a 8086 running at 4.77 Mhz, they think that they spent around $8,000 for the hardware and software.
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 9 жыл бұрын
The most is could handle was 255mb, your drive was either set up wrong, defective, or just a 45mb drive formatted.
@TruthLivesNow
@TruthLivesNow 9 жыл бұрын
AIO inc. "Version 4.00 (OEM) - First version to support a single hard disk partition that is greater than 32 MiB and up to a maximum size of 2 GiB (SHARE.EXE was required to be loaded to access these partitions)." - Wikipedia Again, the maximum that DOS Version 3.3 could handle was a 32 MB partition.
@AiOinc1
@AiOinc1 9 жыл бұрын
Truth Lives My IBM 5150 has a 45MB Seagate ST 251-MLC2 hard disk and is running DOS 3.3 with perfect formatting all to one disk.
@TruthLivesNow
@TruthLivesNow 9 жыл бұрын
AIO inc. You can look it up in Wikipedia and other places. MS DOS 3.3 maxed out at 32 MB per partition. Here is the fact regarding MS DOS, and I quote, "Version 4.00 (OEM) - First version to support a single hard disk partition that is greater than 32 MiB and up to a maximum size of 2 GiB (SHARE.EXE was required to be loaded to access these partitions)."
@TruthLivesNow
@TruthLivesNow 9 жыл бұрын
AIO inc. You know, I am correct about MS DOS 3.3, one can go to many places to show this, however, DR DOS 3,31-3.35 was able to go up to 2 GB. - See "Comparison of DOS" on Wiki. PC DOS 3.3 could only go up to 32 MB also. The three main DOS was Microsoft, MS, IBM, PC, and Digital Research DR. By the way, I am weird enough to still have floppy disks for MS DOS 6.22, O/S Ver. 2.1, (Red and Blue), and even floppies for Windows 95...but before that I pitched it all, except the beautiful DOSSHELL floppy.
@IamFat32
@IamFat32 12 жыл бұрын
my first PC was an old 1986 IBM AT/XT with a 10MB HDD. then I got a used 386SX, then in 1995 I got a 1994 Pentium 133 on sale (they were selling last years stock for cheap) and it came with 8MB of RAM, CD-ROM 4x (upgraded to a 52x in 1997), 2 1GB Seagate medalist HDDs, and a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive. it came with Windows 3.1, Win95 wasn't out yet. I upgraded to Windows 95 in 97, then to windows me in 2000, which it still has on it to this day. it still runs fine.
@squaretrianglez
@squaretrianglez Жыл бұрын
11 years later hows the hood going?
@Big_Tex
@Big_Tex 7 жыл бұрын
I remember back in 1992 -- 386's were still common then, in fact I bought a 386sx notebook PC that year -- a co-worker was pontificating that a 386 was all anyone would ever need! Sounds like a joke but people actually used to say things like that, every step of the way.
@empireofnoise2200
@empireofnoise2200 6 жыл бұрын
yeh remember bill gates saying all the memory you would ever need was "i think but might be wrong" ....64mb
@ChatGPT1111
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
I remember when people (including my parents) saying, "a computer, in your home, what could you possibly need that for?!?"
@sergheiadrian
@sergheiadrian 11 жыл бұрын
Intel had to recall ~900.000 motherboards powered by the i820 chipset which pissed off the OEMs and allowed VIA to take the title of No.1 chipset manufacturer. (Google "i820 chipset saga" for some fun reading) They launched the 1.33GHz P-III and had to recall it shortly after due to problems, rushed the P4 to the market before it was finished, it was very expensive and couldn't beat the existing AMD Thunderbirds and Athlon XP until it reached the 2GHz mark.
@sims2forever27
@sims2forever27 11 жыл бұрын
1TB is evolving, but it's not as common YET. 2014 awaits us.
@jamesvalentine925
@jamesvalentine925 6 жыл бұрын
Hi from 5 years in the future. 1TB+ is fairly common these days, maybe somebody will reply in 2023 with an update.
@WaybackTECH
@WaybackTECH 11 жыл бұрын
The 486 will always be a special processor for me. Amazing how much use could be gotten by it.
@OpenGL4ever
@OpenGL4ever 11 ай бұрын
I agree on that.
@gogolapeter
@gogolapeter 3 жыл бұрын
That ATI mousepad! 😁
@OhFishyFish
@OhFishyFish 7 жыл бұрын
Maria Gabe-riel.
@ulysses2162
@ulysses2162 5 жыл бұрын
2 years late, haha... but yeah, the way she says her surname is odd for sure. As if she suddenly got some kind of stage fright and forgot how to pronounce her surname. 😀😄
@jamiem5068
@jamiem5068 4 жыл бұрын
She says it that way in every episode.. that’s how it’s pronounced
@BigEightiesNewWave
@BigEightiesNewWave 4 жыл бұрын
the overly-large glasses=smart era.
@sergheiadrian
@sergheiadrian 11 жыл бұрын
Pentiums didn't became popular until they hit the 100MHz mark. Before then, 486 CPUs running at up to 133MHz could pretty much match pentiums in performance while being cheaper. After Pentium hit the 100 MHz mark it became "the undisputed king of the arena", the competition consisting in AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86 were late to the market and slow. It wasn't until AMD launched the K6 that Pentium got some real competition.
@bloqk16
@bloqk16 Жыл бұрын
That 18 pound portable Dolch computer was referred to back then as a _luggable_ PC.
@BrianBates128
@BrianBates128 11 жыл бұрын
Holy crap!!! A FlashROM for BIOS. Who would have thunk it.
@IamFat32
@IamFat32 12 жыл бұрын
I paid 600 for a 16MB 72 pin simm in 97, it was the largest capacity available at the time, there was 2 modules in the package.(it was on sale at the time because people were moving over to SDRAM DIMMS on new motherboards, so EDO RAM was starting to get obsolete.
@eightbit1975
@eightbit1975 2 жыл бұрын
I paid $20 plus shipping for two 16MB 72 pin parity DRAM modules just the other day!
@unrealeck
@unrealeck 11 жыл бұрын
Oh and the GeForce GTX Titan GPU has 7.1 billion transistors. Just to put the technical advancement into perspective.
@Roshan_420
@Roshan_420 5 жыл бұрын
Eck phones have this
@anwerabdallah569
@anwerabdallah569 4 жыл бұрын
at that time it was something
@dvc0727
@dvc0727 8 жыл бұрын
Maria Gay.... .... ... ... .. . briel.
@KurisuYamato
@KurisuYamato 7 жыл бұрын
every. single. time.
@44Bigs
@44Bigs 11 жыл бұрын
It must've been only months after this that VESA Local Bus was introduced along with window accelerator video cards (with hardware BitBlt etc).
@geemailMossman
@geemailMossman 10 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, watching this on a Holographic Antimatter Subspace Crystal...
@empireofnoise2200
@empireofnoise2200 6 жыл бұрын
so a monitor then lol
@cpm1003
@cpm1003 Жыл бұрын
I remember the 50MHz DX had problems with overheating, which led to the clock-doubled DX2 versions. I still have my chunky old laptop with a 100MHz "DX4". It was actually clock-tripled, and I never knew why they called it DX4 instead of DX3?
@BlitzvogelMobius
@BlitzvogelMobius 7 жыл бұрын
4:08 Sweet ATi mousepad!
@Ace1000ks19751982
@Ace1000ks19751982 12 жыл бұрын
I never got a 486 DX back in the 1990s. I got a 386 SX-16 in 1989, and I got a Pentium 100 in 1994. Computers were expensive back in the 1980s, and early 1990s. My Pentium 100 came with about 4 mbs of ram, CD-ROM 2X, and 800 mb hdd, later I upgraded that to 16 mbs later for about $130. Now, you can buy DDR3 4 gbs of ram for about $30. My my have we come a long way in computer technology.
@BenWeinel
@BenWeinel 11 жыл бұрын
Bring this show back
@magnusharrison2715
@magnusharrison2715 4 жыл бұрын
lol nowadays computers are not user upgradable everything is soldered to the motherboard specially apple
@mikehosken7461
@mikehosken7461 5 жыл бұрын
Cyrix Cx486DX2-80 used to be the cpu that everyone wanted. They were way cheaper than intel. 4 mb ram 80mb Hdd with Dos 6 and win 3.11 14.4k modem was my first internet machine in 1993. Internet was $5 per hour.
@gr8bkset-524
@gr8bkset-524 3 жыл бұрын
The only time I notice that my computer is slow is after I've experienced one that's faster.
@CeeStyleDj
@CeeStyleDj 7 жыл бұрын
VR has got to be one the slowest progressing technologies to get to to where we are today.... I remember hearing it's coming since I was 12 years old lol....and it looks like they were working on it before that!
@empireofnoise2200
@empireofnoise2200 6 жыл бұрын
yeh and a.i.
@ChatGPT1111
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
And you're 13 now? 😂
@CeeStyleDj
@CeeStyleDj Жыл бұрын
@@ChatGPT1111 1. That comment was written 5 years ago. 2. Come up with your own original name. 3. Not funny. ✌️
@ChatGPT1111
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
@@CeeStyleDj OK so you're 17. But you act like a 13 year old 🤣
@CeeStyleDj
@CeeStyleDj Жыл бұрын
@@ChatGPT1111 what's the purpose of your comment? I've been following technology for decades. My original comment still stands.
@jwgfoto5419
@jwgfoto5419 4 жыл бұрын
Maria GaBBBBriel was a highlight for me!
@perfectionbox
@perfectionbox 3 жыл бұрын
"oh, you're making the graphics faster?" (shows them MS Flight Simulator 2020 on a multicore system with rtx gpu in 4K) 🤣
@perfectionbox
@perfectionbox 3 жыл бұрын
If only i could time travel and show these guys an iphone x or something 🤣😂
@biouhu3
@biouhu3 10 жыл бұрын
i love the idea of a 50mhz 486 lol
@ballsrgrossnugly
@ballsrgrossnugly 6 жыл бұрын
I was in high school when they came out, I loved the idea at the time as well! (ended up with a 586 by the time i could afford to upgrade from the old 386 tho) (wish i had spent the extra on a pentium)
@Ace1000ks19751982
@Ace1000ks19751982 12 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1980s food and energy were cheap, and electronics were expensive. Today, the cost of living is high, and electronics are cheap. It is quite a reverse isn't it?
@plexus004
@plexus004 8 жыл бұрын
days when email was called ELECTRONIC MAIL
@Folsomdsf2
@Folsomdsf2 8 жыл бұрын
dude with glasses, prophetic. He was thinking hyperthreading and integrated gpus/audio/etc
@dom3827
@dom3827 6 жыл бұрын
well. Thats no prophecy. that are the logical steps of developing microchips. Shrtink everything and put more inside of it. It will be faster. thats like i said, no prophecy, but logics.
@dom3827
@dom3827 4 жыл бұрын
@@alfa-psi yea
@jdl2444
@jdl2444 5 жыл бұрын
Early graphics tester, ahead of their time these guys. These guy's were ballers.
@WIllyGilly321
@WIllyGilly321 11 жыл бұрын
4:12 Milliseconds & seconds rather than days. This is the main reason the job market has changed so much, so fast. The last 30 years are like no other in history. My first CPU was a Z80, then an 8088, 286, 386sx, 386, 486 then I went AMD until the i3 - i7 What changes!
@sergheiadrian
@sergheiadrian 11 жыл бұрын
There were quite a few especially in the early days: National Semiconductor, IBM, Texas Instruments, NEC, NexGen (later aquired by AMD), etc. The ones that survived the post 486 era or appeared in the post 486 era were: Cyrix (later aquired by VIA), Transmeta, IDT and VIA.
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
did you get the michealangelo virus back then?
@ygorgomes5202
@ygorgomes5202 2 жыл бұрын
excelente work uploading this! this is the legacy of the human history man! great job!
@ratmadness4858
@ratmadness4858 2 жыл бұрын
I have learned one thing about computers. I will not live long enough to have a computer as fast as I want.
@RealWitblitz
@RealWitblitz 4 жыл бұрын
I miss my old AMD Am486 Dx4-100 100mhz CPU, the glory days of PC gaming.
@unexpecteditem7919
@unexpecteditem7919 Жыл бұрын
A *THREE GIGABYTE* database. These times used to be so much easier, I swear. Or maybe it's just fuzzy memory.
@FDCAFOK
@FDCAFOK 5 жыл бұрын
Well I'm getting a 486DX-100 and an extra 2mb ram giving me a massive 4mb next week. Oh those were the days.
@MrHav1k
@MrHav1k Жыл бұрын
I wasn't even alive when this came out, but this is so cool!!! The 486 is one of the greatest CPUs of all time!!
@raven4k998
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
a 46 pound portable I am like🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@sandwichbreath0
@sandwichbreath0 Жыл бұрын
I was 9 years old, and wouldn't get my first PC (a 386) for another 5 or 6 years 😅 486 was the dream. My friends at high school with it could run all the games I could only run with no sound (if at all!). I eventually caught up, though 😄
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