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I had my Packard Bell 486x up until I graduated high school in 2000. I still remember the one summer I mowed every lawn in my mobile home park so I could finall
by hollywood_court 3y ago
I had my Packard Bell 486x up until I graduated high school in 2000. I still remember the one summer I mowed every lawn in my mobile home park so I could finally afford to upgrade the modem from the original 2400.
That PC introduced me to BBSs and then the internet. I learned QBASIC and html with that thing. Good times.
- D13Fd 3y ago2400 in the year 2000? You were WAY behind the times. Should have been 56k by then.
- hollywood_court 3y agoNa I replaced the 2400 well before 2000. I simply stated that I had the 486x until 2000.
- D13Fd 3y agoOooh that makes sense. 486DX ran pretty well all told.
- IntelMiner 3y agoDid you move it to Linux at any point? Back then it seemed to be an easy way to turn aging machines into veritable hotrods
- hollywood_court 3y agoNo I didn't fool around with Linux until almost 2004.
- donatj 3y agoYeah. I had a Cyrix CX486DX4 up until 2000 when my family got an AMD 1000 MicronPC (aka Crucial) running Windows ME. That thing was SUCH a headache until I upgraded it to Windows 2000. My parents were ALWAYS mad at me for “breaking the computer” but that was just the natural state of ME, it would just stop working after a couple weeks.