# Anyone remember what a "fast" PC was in '98
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [November 4, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179 "2005-11-04T00:13:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/21 "2005-11-04T07:16:29Z")
NERRRRDDDDDDD
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/22 "2005-11-04T07:17:12Z")
> [@zwarbyt](#):
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If it is all in that good of condition - ebay that shit. You’d prolly fetch $1-2k from some suuuuuper-nerd.
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/23 "2005-11-04T08:19:32Z")
holly shit lol
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### Author:  [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/24 "2005-11-04T08:29:12Z")
128MB!!! sweet fancy moses!
i remember going on prodigy and BBSes on my 12Mhz computer with ooh! amber screen!
if i hit the “Turbo” button i could get it up to 24Mhz on a good day. i was nearly bankrupt when my 8MB hard drive died and i had to buy a new one. i was so special, most people only rocked the 2 floppy drives, but i had a HUGE hard drive too.
that clip was great by the way
/supernerd
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/25 "2005-11-04T08:33:30Z")
yea i remember that, i bought my first computer in 98, it was a P2 300mhz with a 10 gb hard drive lol fuckin shit cost me like 2 grand with the monitor, and that was a good “deal” back then too :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/26 "2005-11-04T09:08:55Z")
> [@duck](#):
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> 128MB!!! sweet fancy moses!
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> i remember going on prodigy and BBSes on my 12Mhz computer with ooh! amber screen!
> if i hit the “Turbo” button i could get it up to 24Mhz on a good day. i was nearly bankrupt when my 8MB hard drive died and i had to buy a new one. i was so special, most people only rocked the 2 floppy drives, but i had a HUGE hard drive too.
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> that clip was great by the way
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> /supernerd
Holy shit I remember the Turbo button on the computers in school. That is so funny.
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### Author:  [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/27 "2005-11-04T09:32:05Z")
I had almost all the same stuff as they did back in 98. Smaller version of the addtronics case, Abit motherboard, but I had a Celeron 300A that I OC’d to 450!!! :eek: Adaptec 2940UW, 2 8GB SCSI drives, 2 MonsterII accelerators in SLI… and I think I had 128 MB of RAM in it too.
I just remember having about 8 people crowded in my dorm room the first time I ran GLQuake on this thing. A god 4 or 5 of them had to run back to their room for a clean pair of shorts.
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### Author:  [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/28 "2005-11-04T09:40:37Z")
i think i still have my VIC 20
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### Author:  [@Inn-Tune](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Inn-Tune)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/29 "2005-11-04T10:27:03Z")
I still use my computer from 98. g3 450 MHz with dual ultra 2 lvd drives, dual ati cards, and 768 mb ram. It was over 3k for the tower alone, but well worth it IMO. It’s been running pretty much non stop for 7 years, crashes about once a year when I install some crap shareware, and I’ve never repaired it.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/30 "2005-11-04T12:14:06Z")
remember laserdiscs?
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/31 "2005-11-04T12:20:49Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> remember laserdiscs?
what happened to that “wave of the future” anyhow?
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### Author:  [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/32 "2005-11-04T12:39:18Z")
> [@Inn-Tune](#):
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> I still use my computer from 98. g3 450 MHz with dual ultra 2 lvd drives, dual ati cards, and 768 mb ram. It was over 3k for the tower alone, but well worth it IMO. It’s been running pretty much non stop for 7 years, crashes about once a year when I install some crap shareware, and I’ve never repaired it.
i used my dell pentium pro until recently 🙂 it still works like a champ. they don’t make them like they used to :shoot:
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/33 "2005-11-04T12:55:10Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> what happened to that “wave of the future” anyhow?
I remember Roger Ebert singing the praises of laser disc. It was like a chrome record. I think the size was the cause of its downfall. Who developed that technology anyway?
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/34 "2005-11-04T15:14:56Z")
Atari 600XL + Acoustic Modem = :pimp:
First computer here was an 10MHz 8088, with 40MB Hard-disk, VGA, 3 1/2 floppy and with a CD-ROM!!!1111. CPU was the suck, but the rest was pimp. Nothing like loading a Hi-Color (256) image at 320x240, and watching it draw line by line.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/35 "2005-11-04T15:25:24Z")
omg…
L O L!!!
440 BX HAHAHAHAHAHA
“new”
wow, btw ,the 440BX was the best mobo chipset ever.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-remember-what-a-fast-pc-was-in-98/4179/36 "2005-11-04T15:28:46Z")
omg, i just found my OOOOOG Sony SCSI external CD ROM (1x)
It has a caddy and everthing.
LOL
awesome
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