Say hello to Marjory, she may be from 1995 but she's still kicking

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SaltMakerShaker on August 11st, 2020 at 01:58 UTC »

Photo gallery and original case.

https://imgur.com/gallery/84QbuCY

TropicalFerret on August 11st, 2020 at 02:20 UTC »

Interesting fact about those turbo buttons.

Many programs from back in the day used the CPU clock to work correctly. As soon as new CPUs came to be, higher clocks broke those programs.

The turbo button actually lowers the clock so your applications work as expected. Makes everything faster by lowering clocks.

Edit: I forgot the word clock and now it is there! Also, some people told me that some of those turbo buttons worked as expected. But I never actually used one that increased the clock. Thanks everyone who added something to the original comment.

boardgamejoe on August 11st, 2020 at 03:28 UTC »

I bought my first PC in 1995 Custom built by a local business called Computer Warehouse Inc.

It was a Pentium 75mhz I had 4MB of Ram 2MB video ram on the motherboard a Soundblaster 16 card 2x speed CD-ROM 14,400 Baud modem 0.98 GB HDD CRT monitor 15" Mouse and Keyboard and 2 Desktop Speakers (no subwoofer)

It was 3499.00

I had to get a bank loan. They took the serial numbers of every component because back then, they actually used the PC as collateral for the loan!

It was worth it though, I mean look at that beast!

It played Warcraft 2, Quake, Doom, Diablo, Ultima Online, Command and Conquer and eventually The Sims and StarCraft.