The Computer Chronicles - Megahertz Mania (1989)

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[@AllMuscle1]

10 years after this episode aired, Intel had surpassed the 200Mhz target that Bill Rash stated. By 1999, it was well over 1Ghz. Amazing!

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

Lol, I remember watching this in 1989 and thinking about how far we had come. Now I’m watching this on KZbin on my cell phone which makes these desktops look like calculator’s.

[@lordmmx1303]

386 at 33Mhz is great machine for video editing. 5 minutes long video was rendered in just one week. What a insane speed!

[@MelloBlend]

Hahaha, I do believe I am the first person to overclock a 286/386. I'll never forget when I was a young engineer working in the radar field, I was responsible for what was called the Built In Test Equipment (BITE). I was able to get this running faster by combining 2 speeds together (5 Mhz to 10 Mhz) and the data stream was twice what it was. I thought about my 386 could benefit from an increase in clock speed so I looked up the schematic of my motherboard and saw that the CPU was running at 16 Mhz. I called a vendor to order a 24 Mhz crystal (xtal) and the guy asked me why did I want to buy that. He told me he only sales to OEMs. I told him I wanted to test the idea of overclocking the CPU. He says he didn't think that would work. I looked at the buss for the I/O and the CPU and didn't see why it would not work. Low and behold, I got the xtal and installed it in my motherboard. It was just plug and play. I booted my system, brought up MS Flight Simulator and wow, I saw a much better runtime in the graphics performance (remember though, this is like 1989 or 1990). I called the guy and let him know it worked. He asked me to send him instructions on how it was done and what adjustments did I make with the clocks. I told him I did not do any wait states above 0. It was just remove and replace. I don't know how many years later but I started seeing ads of vendors talking about overclocking. If I'm not the first, I am certainly in the beginnings of all of that craze. Fun stuff!!!!!

[@handlealreadytaken]

Still remember our first family pc. Gateway 2000 with a 386DX 33Mhz, 4MB RAM and 35MB hdd. Got a Sound card for Christmas to play Wing Commander 2 with the voice add on pack.

[@2dfx]

I will always fondly remember this era in personal computing. So many small vendors adding their own special upgrade, their own flair on something new.

[@WaybackTECH]

"In 10 years from now, we expect to be shipping processors in the range of 200MHz" lol well the end of 1999 to early 2000 they got up to 1GHZ. I guess they beat their own estimates :)

[@eurocrusader1724]

In 89 I was still pushing a couple of 8mhz 68000 machines

[@digitalmagicAR]

33MHz was blazing fast around 1990. My 386 had a "turbo" button to slow it down to 8MHz for when running old applications that ran too fast to be usable

[@Zedek]

OH MY GOD! We had ONE golf game on a floppy we played up until 2003. The whole family would play it. And this it! That feeling of accidently stumbling over "That" game!

[@DAndyLord]

The guy from Intel expecting 200Mhz clock speeds by 99. The first Ghz CPU was released by AMD in 99.

[@beakt]

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[@robintst]

The first computer I ever used was my older brother's VIC-20. I was little and he had some old education games on it he'd boot up for me. Then the first computer we got that was specifically mine was a second-hand setup of an Amiga 1000 with expanded RAM, a discarded Apple color monitor that occasionally needed smacked on the side to make the color come in, and I used my old Panasonic boombox for the audio-out. Damn good sound too since it had a 5-band equalizer. I loved that thing.

[@TheScyy]

These videos are so nostalgic and relaxing. Reminds me of a simpler time I barely got to experience.

[@cloviscareca]

This is how I get updated to the newest technologies. In the future we will probably be watching this show in small computers in the palm of our hands

[@JohnMichaelson]

While Gary was irreplaceable on the show, Jan was great as well. She was very charismatic and personable, and didn't sound like she was just reading a script.

[@mauryginsberg7720]

We need a similar TV show in today’s age but instead focusing on the fast moving area embedded technology, Micro-controllers and Single board computers.

[@MasterKoala777]

Then there was the Gigaherz race, and now in 2019 we have the multi-core wars.

[@dave7830]

Boy that brings back memories, my first computer was a 10 mHz 8088. Bought from an add in Computer Shopper, a rag that could have used in place of concrete building blocks.

[@vadermasktruth]

Stew knew how to keep the show moving ahead. He does not waste a single second of air time! What an alpha male & rock boss.