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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present!
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Start it up then
Start it up then
haha - I'd rather not contribute to the never-ending, pointless "Post Your" threads.
haha - I'd rather not contribute to the never-ending, pointless "Post Your" threads.
Well your doing a good job then by posting here
Well your doing a good job then by posting here
Yah, kinda meant contributing NEW threads, not to the existing ones.
Is that the iSub? If so, we not only have the same desk, but the same subwoofer, and we keep it in the same spot. Creeeepy...Hey someguy, I think we have the same desk
heh.
So, the thread is "Past & Present!", so here we go!
This was from way back in my last year in college, June 8, 1998. Yes, that's the back of me. My bunk was the bottom one surrounded by a blanket/curtain to keep the dark in.
And, since it seems to be popular, to illustrate the setup...
As the cardboard box slowly crushed, the desk top slowly tilted down to the right. In addition to the PeeCee, I also had a PowerBook 5300c that I often plugged into the monitor. I had an old fashioned manual video switchbox to switch between PeeCee and Mac inputs.
Let's see if I can remember the specs of that computer...
Asus P2L97-S with onboard SCSI (wow, I still have the driver floppies for these.)
Intel Pentium II 333 MHz (I ordered all the other components, then waited a month for this processor to actually be released.)
128 MB, PC-66 SDRAM, 1 DIMM! (I had to pay a small fortune to get a single DIMM that was a full 128 MB. But I wanted to have future expandability.)
Matrox Millennium II PCI and Matrox m3D PCI 3d accelerator. Later upgraded to an AGP video card that escapes me. (I still have the Millennium video card in my server.)
SCSI ZIP drive and SCSI 4x CD-R drive. (One of the first in the dorms with CD-R.)
Some random 10 Mbit PCI Ethernet card.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32.
Thrustmaster complete setup, FCS Mk 2 (the ultra-high quality one,) WCS, and rudder pedals.
Mag Innovision DX15T high-end monitor. (17" monitors were a little beyond my means at the time.)
HP ScanJet 4s serial port, sheet-feed 4-bit grayscale scanner. (The little thing between the keyboard and monitor.)
Some decent quality Yamaha computer speakers.
I worked in a computer store as a technician, so I got most of it at cost. (Still had to save up quite a while to afford it all. I seem to remember it costing well over $3000 by the time I was done.)
So, the thread is "Past & Present!", so here we go!
This was from way back in my last year in college, June 8, 1998. Yes, that's the back of me. My bunk was the bottom one surrounded by a blanket/curtain to keep the dark in.
And, since it seems to be popular, to illustrate the setup...
As the cardboard box slowly crushed, the desk top slowly tilted down to the right. In addition to the PeeCee, I also had a PowerBook 5300c that I often plugged into the monitor. I had an old fashioned manual video switchbox to switch between PeeCee and Mac inputs.
Let's see if I can remember the specs of that computer...
Asus P2L97-S with onboard SCSI (wow, I still have the driver floppies for these.)
Intel Pentium II 333 MHz (I ordered all the other components, then waited a month for this processor to actually be released.)
128 MB, PC-66 SDRAM, 1 DIMM! (I had to pay a small fortune to get a single DIMM that was a full 128 MB. But I wanted to have future expandability.)
Matrox Millennium II PCI and Matrox m3D PCI 3d accelerator. Later upgraded to an AGP video card that escapes me. (I still have the Millennium video card in my server.)
SCSI ZIP drive and SCSI 4x CD-R drive. (One of the first in the dorms with CD-R.)
Some random 10 Mbit PCI Ethernet card.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32.
Thrustmaster complete setup, FCS Mk 2 (the ultra-high quality one,) WCS, and rudder pedals.
Mag Innovision DX15T high-end monitor. (17" monitors were a little beyond my means at the time.)
HP ScanJet 4s serial port, sheet-feed 4-bit grayscale scanner. (The little thing between the keyboard and monitor.)
Some decent quality Yamaha computer speakers.
I worked in a computer store as a technician, so I got most of it at cost. (Still had to save up quite a while to afford it all. I seem to remember it costing well over $3000 by the time I was done.)
Is that the iSub? If so, we not only have the same desk, but the same subwoofer, and we keep it in the same spot. Creeeepy...
No it's not an iSub, just a regular- stereo grade- sub. I thought that was evident in my picture
And, since it seems to be popular, to illustrate the setup...
Did you use some sort of 3D program to make this? Looks a little like SketchUp.
And your old corner looks very cozy.
Nezza said:
Who makes that monitor?
edit: just checked the picture, it's an Acer right? Looks vaguely like a Cinema Display.
*squints*No it's not an iSub, just a regular- stereo grade- sub. I thought that was evident in my picture
Ahh, now I can see it... kinda.
Reading those specs brought back some really warm and fuzzy memories
Is that strange... haha. Those were the glory days of computing for me. Nvidia was coming into its own, 3Dfx was king and AGP 2x was as cutting edge as it got. I, too, spent thousands on a PII computer that eventually got upgraded to a PII 350. I actually remember dreaming of having a PII 450 system with two 12MB Voodoo2 PCI graphic accelerators running in SLI HAHA. Ok, nostalgic moment over 
Reading those specs brought back some really warm and fuzzy memories
heh, yeah. I was a graphics snob, and avoided the VooDoo chips because they only did 16-bit color, where the Matrox m3D did 32-bit color. Later, I did have an 'Obsidian II X24' card that was two VooDoo 2, 12 MB chips on one single PCI card. That was the ultimate... (I still have that card somewhere...) To think, that card was considered to be a power consumption monster, even though it didn't even have a heatsink on it, much less a fan. Compare that to the new Radeon HD 2900 XT which apparently can draw up to 215 Watts of power... Whew. My entire 1998 ultra-rig's power supply could only supply 235 Watts max.
It sure is, the sound on it is quite impressive. Linky...
I love your walls!
I wish I could talk my fiance into a color as bold as that.
Well thank you, I picked the colour myself. Me and my girlfriend live together and she wanted lilac/pink for the bedroom. I wanted blue for the study. Compromise. I actually quite like the bedroom too!
David
Yeah it's an Acer, they are available at a very reasonable price from Amazon UK. I'd have loved to have picked up a cinema display, but they are more then a little beyond my budget at the moment.
One day though!
Can you guys take this to PM? Some of us have email notifications setup for new posts, then we come here only to find your conversations instead of picture setups. It is really annoying.
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