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Technology (Read Only) => Computers => Topic started by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 04:31:44 PM

Title: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 04:31:44 PM
(http://oldcomputers.net/pics/compaqIcase.JPG)

(http://oldcomputers.net/pics/compaqI.JPG)


It looks rather similar to those (has the same case)

But its an upgraded version with a 8Mhz processor with a TURBO button that overclocks the CPU to 16 Mhz :D

It also has a 9" color monitor.

Best of all it still works!

edit:

Holy crap I just stated it up and looked at the bios,

It has 640KB of ram, a 80286 processor

and 256K/64K of Dram



It probably cost around $10,000 as it was a telemetry data processor.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Sabb on April 08, 2011, 04:36:14 PM
That's pretty bad as.
Where can I get one?
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Foofoojack on April 08, 2011, 04:39:19 PM
Selling out too fast, can't get my hands on one.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 04:40:45 PM
Runs on MSDOS copyright 1981-1994.


That's pretty bad as.
Where can I get one?

I think this might be the only one in existence set up like this... I've tried finding anything about it on Google, but I think it was custom built for NASA.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Deacon on April 08, 2011, 04:48:12 PM
that could become quite the collectors item
contact nasa?
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Nah NASA had us junk it, so I took it rather than throwing it out.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Deacon on April 08, 2011, 04:56:21 PM
Nah NASA had us junk it, so I took it rather than throwing it out.

well nevermind then lol.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 04:59:25 PM
well nevermind then lol.

I probably could sell it for a few hundred bucks, but hell with that, I want it  ;D
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Cake Faice on April 08, 2011, 06:51:04 PM
How many FPS does it get at pac-man with high settings?
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 08, 2011, 08:18:22 PM
How many FPS does it get at pac-man with high settings?

No idea, it doesn't have a HDD so I'd need a floppy disk with Pac Man on it :P
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Mr. Franklin on April 08, 2011, 08:20:34 PM
Welcome to the club Xrain!
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: blαh2355 on April 08, 2011, 08:29:01 PM
Couldn't this technically be called a laptop because you can carry it wherever you go in a suitcase? Also found this on yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt (http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt)
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Deathie on April 08, 2011, 09:11:50 PM
Couldn't this technically be called a laptop because you can carry it wherever you go in a suitcase? Also found this on yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt (http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt)

I feel like slapping you right now for confusing a Compaq Data Processor for a Commadore 64 ._.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: » Magic « on April 09, 2011, 02:15:55 AM
Damn I was expecting Quad 10Core Xeon with an array of nVidia's SuperComputing GPU's & 1 TB of RAM D:
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Peetah on April 09, 2011, 08:46:45 AM
A new computer?
From an antique store? :3
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Seb on April 09, 2011, 08:53:15 AM
So what can you run on it?

Command prompt?
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: blαh2355 on April 09, 2011, 03:25:55 PM
I feel like slapping you right now for confusing a Compaq Data Processor for a Commadore 64 ._.
Now I didn't say it was the same thing right? RIGHT?
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on April 09, 2011, 06:03:23 PM
Damn I was expecting Quad 10Core Xeon with an array of nVidia's SuperComputing GPU's & 1 TB of RAM D:

It is a Quad 10Core Xeon with nVidia's supercomputer GPU's & 1 TB or RAM, relatively speaking....

It's just the equivalent of that from 24 years ago...  ;D

Accounting for Inflation this thing probably cost a little over $10,000 new.

So what can you run on it?

Command prompt?

MSDOS tyvm, and it can decode rocket telemetry data... if I had the tens of thousands of dollars of secondary equipment required to do it...



Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Osme on April 10, 2011, 03:09:31 AM
do it
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Cake Faice on April 10, 2011, 10:54:33 AM
Use Test-Drive 1 to benchmark it.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Deathie on April 10, 2011, 11:14:08 AM
Use Test-Drive 1 to benchmark it.

Test Drive 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif3mb3TkKc#)


THE AUDIO DESIGN IS AMAZING.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Alphaggot on April 10, 2011, 11:30:08 AM
Test Drive 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif3mb3TkKc#)


THE AUDIO DESIGN IS AMAZING.

The audio is crawling down my throat.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: » Magic « on April 10, 2011, 02:25:01 PM
Test Drive 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif3mb3TkKc#)


THE AUDIO DESIGN IS AMAZING.

oh mah god

the sound lags while scrolling the cars
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Seb on April 10, 2011, 02:27:24 PM
Test Drive 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif3mb3TkKc#)


THE AUDIO DESIGN IS AMAZING.

That looks like Charlie Sheen at 0:11.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: » Magic « on April 10, 2011, 02:29:48 PM
It is a Quad 10Core Xeon with nVidia's supercomputer GPU's & 1 TB or RAM, relatively speaking....

It's just the equivalent of that from 24 years ago...  ;D

Accounting for Inflation this thing probably cost a little over $10,000 new.

MSDOS tyvm, and it can decode rocket telemetry data... if I had the tens of thousands of dollars of secondary equipment required to do it...





need sell it, then get the Quad 10Core Xeon with nVidia's supercomputer GPU's & 1 TB or RAM
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Benem3000 on May 02, 2011, 01:59:08 AM
DUDE! I bet that plays crysis 2 like a boss!    :halfheart:
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Foofoojack on May 02, 2011, 06:54:01 AM
DUDE! I bet that plays crysis 2 like a boss!    :halfheart:

._____________________________________.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on May 02, 2011, 01:29:40 PM
DUDE! I bet that plays crysis 2 like a boss!    :halfheart:

If by boss you mean it would take 3,125 floppy disks to play the game then sure!
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: » Magic « on May 02, 2011, 02:50:49 PM
If by boss you mean it would take 3,125 floppy disks to play the game then sure!

Did you use your brain to calculate that or did the compaq help ? :D
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Striker on May 02, 2011, 03:23:30 PM
Test Drive 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif3mb3TkKc#)


THE AUDIO DESIGN IS AMAZING.
the sound was the best part. I loved it.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: InfamousFelix on May 06, 2011, 12:58:59 AM
Can I stick my floppy in your disk drive?!
 :trollface:
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: Xrain on May 06, 2011, 02:14:55 AM
Can I stick my floppy in your disk drive?!
 :trollface:

Get out.
Title: Re: So I just got a new computer...
Post by: blαh2355 on May 06, 2011, 09:57:21 AM
Can I stick my floppy in your disk drive?!
You can't, most new computers don't have floppy drives. :trollface: