Computer Chronicles: intel i486
IamFat32
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I found this on an old tape I had and just had to upload it.
sorry for the beyond terrible quality, but you probably won't find this whole episode anywhere else =
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@OrangeHandleLongScrewdriver 9 months ago
Young people today have no idea how quickly tech became obsolete in the 90s.
@mikejones-vd3fg 9 years ago (edited)
"you need about 12fps and the 486 50mhz processor has made that a reality" on VR
@douglasm3368 8 months ago
I remember getting a 486 when I was a kid.. we were in awe how good Doom and DukeNukem ran!
@video99couk 9 months ago
10 years of progress was huge in those days. Now you can use a 10 year old desktop PC and it works just fine for light to medium tasks.
@tomnudho4202 7 years ago
It is insane today see these guys talking about virtual reality in a i486 PC.
@LegacyOfTheAncientsC64c 9 months ago
RIP Mr. Cheifet. Computer Chronicles was such a big part of my childhood and teen years.
@unexpecteditem7919 3 years ago
A THREE GIGABYTE database.
These times used to be so much easier, I swear. Or maybe it's just fuzzy memory.
These times used to be so much easier, I swear. Or maybe it's just fuzzy memory.
@ryanmonti4903 8 months ago
Bought a 486-33 after graduating from college with an IT Degree in 1991. 100 Mb hard drive, wondered how I was ever going to fill it, different times...
@datalore6187 6 years ago
I used to work for an old software vendor, Egghead Software. For a while on the floor, our top computer was a "true blue" IBM 386. Next to that we had an Apple IIGS, then a 286 and finally an old 8088 XT machine. We then got a new 486 machine, and the speed increase was impressive. The price was high, but some people would spend the money just to play Wing Commander. And the difference in animation was quite noticeable. And of course, if you wanted more speed you'd upgrade from 1MB to 4 MB. And if you really wanted more power you'd upgrade to 8 MB, but for rich people, you might as well go all the way to a whopping 16 MB! Heck Windows 3.1 and MS Office ran at light speed on a 486dx2 50MHz with 16 MB. The ThunderBoard sound card was an option, but SoundBlaster was the superior product. I think a 30 MB hard drive was about the standard, but again if you had lots of money you could get 250MB.
And that software, wow! Egghead sold all that software: Stacker 2.0 which just slowed down your computer to a crawl. MS-Dos 5.0 upgrade was a huge seller. The memory manager. Norton Desktop was a big seller too.
And that software, wow! Egghead sold all that software: Stacker 2.0 which just slowed down your computer to a crawl. MS-Dos 5.0 upgrade was a huge seller. The memory manager. Norton Desktop was a big seller too.
@HighwinderShow 2 years ago (edited)
In 1994, the first PC I ever built was a 486DX2-80 with 8mb of RAM and an Orchid VLB video card (and original SB16). Oh, the memories not just of building it, and the gaming, but the joy I experienced continually reconfiguring it - DOS, Windows, OS/2, DesqView, sometimes all of the above in multi-boot config with System Commander 3. I was running dial-up BBSes on the same system I was simultaneously playing DOOM (OS/2 was downright miraculous).
@stevied007ytb 9 months ago
When he mentioned running spellcheck in the background.
I had completely forgotten that you used to have to ‘run’ a spellcheck.
Those days spellcheck wasn’t just suggesting corrections on the fly.
I had completely forgotten that you used to have to ‘run’ a spellcheck.
Those days spellcheck wasn’t just suggesting corrections on the fly.
Computer Chronicles: intel i486
IamFat32
152,303 views
I found this on an old tape I had and just had to upload it.
sorry for the beyond terrible quality, but you probably won't find this whole episode anywhere else =
September 24, 1938 — December 28, 2025