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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

The oldest CPU that I remember using was an i486 running Windows 3.11. This was in 96 or so, I was allowed to fool around with an older desktop at one of my parent's office (all the other computers had Pentiums and ran Windows 95).

I honestly probably did use an i386 during an (earlier) office visit, but I was too young too know anything about computers (I vaguely knew what a Pentium was when I was 8).

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Z80 for me, take that, ha!

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We'd managed to snag a second-hand i186-based PC, with integrated green-and-black screen and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Most useless excuse for a computer you ever did see; good luck trying to take notes with edlin on DOS any faster than just writing them down. Super-futuristic looking, though - predated the iMac by over twenty years.

Remember getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas and being astonished that computers could actually display colour and play games. Z80 for the win.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Those were 80186? Cool, never saw one. I did some computing at school's 8086 PC, though.

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