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Haha memory lane. I remember walking into a little computer store with a good friend years ago and seeing a 386 that displayed some really odd frequency on the
by markbnj 8y ago
Haha memory lane. I remember walking into a little computer store with a good friend years ago and seeing a 386 that displayed some really odd frequency on the front panel led, like 53 Mhz or something at a time when 33 Mhz was the fastest 386 you could buy. I asked the owner and he said "Landmark speed!" (Landmark was a popular benching utility and he had programmed the led to display the benchmark results when the turbo button was pressed).
- interfixus 8y agoProgrammed? The speed displays I remember were simply wired to show whatever. I've seen turbo buttons swapping the display between '66' and '33'.
- mrbuttons454 8y agoThat's what I remember as well. You'd set jumpers to light up the segments of the display. No programming involved.
- schoen 8y agoI'm guessing the store owner ran the benchmark once and then hard-coded the benchmark result in the display.
- markbnj 8y agoWell yeah, I used "programming" rather loosely. He set it up that way.