Should they sell 486s again?

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4 total messages Started by Todd Sun, 26 Oct 2003 06:50

#77954

Author: Todd
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 06:50

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So the Lottery in California was up to 90 million dollars, so my
coworkers pooled their money and bought tickets.  I didn't get my
money in in time, but I still fantasized about what I would do with my
share of the money.  (They didn't win.)

After a new car (Mustang!) and a nice house, my biggest wish was a top
of the line computer.  Athlon 64, fastest video card, 2 gigs ram....

Can't dual boot Win98 on a computer with more than half a gig of ram,
so I'll have to have a second computer for that.  While I'm at it, a
third computer to run my old Dos games on.

Anything slow enough is damn near ancient in computer terms; too bad
they don't still build 486 computers.

But why would they do that except for old games?

Why not?

It would be a non-modifiable system, with integrated graphics and
Sound Blaster sound (8 bit? 16 bit?).  It'd have to have 3-1/2, 5-1/4,
and CDrom drives so you could play all of the old games.

Modem?  Network?  After all, Doom and Duke both supported multiplayer.
(Granted, both have plenty of Win32 ports, but I haven't found one I
like.)

Re: Should they sell 486s again?

#77955

Author: ADAM BRYANT
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:38

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good idea i would love one but why not go to
120 mhz processor,
32 mb ram
1.2 hd,
sb16 sound
3 1/2 floppy,
5 1/4,
16 x cd,
4 mb graphics,
both modem and internet.
hmm this sound like my Ł200 toshiba laptop.

Re: Should they sell 486s again?

#77956

Author: Revoltix
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:14

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Why would you bother?
Why don't you buy a commodore 64?

"ADAM BRYANT" <adamjamesbryant79@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bp8jnr$q1q$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> good idea i would love one but why not go to
> 120 mhz processor,
> 32 mb ram
> 1.2 hd,
> sb16 sound
> 3 1/2 floppy,
> 5 1/4,
> 16 x cd,
> 4 mb graphics,
> both modem and internet.
> hmm this sound like my Ł200 toshiba laptop.
>
>

Re: Should they sell 486s again?

#77957

Author: ADAM BRYANT
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:56

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no thanks ive already got 2
"Revoltix" <ihate@spam.com.au> wrote in message
news:bpaa3a$5v1$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> Why would you bother?
> Why don't you buy a commodore 64?
>
> "ADAM BRYANT" <adamjamesbryant79@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bp8jnr$q1q$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> > good idea i would love one but why not go to
> > 120 mhz processor,
> > 32 mb ram
> > 1.2 hd,
> > sb16 sound
> > 3 1/2 floppy,
> > 5 1/4,
> > 16 x cd,
> > 4 mb graphics,
> > both modem and internet.
> > hmm this sound like my Ł200 toshiba laptop.
> >
> >
>
>

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