Originally Posted By: J Geoff

In 1999 I upgraded to a 486/66 (I think it was 66 MHz, or maybe 100 -- does that make sense? The Apple //e was 1 MHz). 200 MB HDD which I thought I'd never fill up (lol). I think it came with 16MB RAM which was mind-blowing. I assume it came with Win 98 -- I did have a PC before that and ran Win 3.1 and Win 95 (and DOS). I never upgraded to Me, but my next computers did have XP which I used until just last year when I got Win 7.

Between '96 and '01, for 3 years in there I worked on a Mac at work.

BTW, I was using a GUI (graphical user interface) on the Apple // well before I got Windows -- I upgraded the mainboard to run GEOS in the late '80s.


The 486's bus ran at either 25 or 33 MHz, but you could get 66, 75, or 100MHz with their 486 DX2 and DX3 chips which multiplied the bus. My first 486 was 33MHz. Then I bought the 100Mhz "Overdrive Chip" as an upgrade. By the late 90's, I was building my own systems using mostly chips by Cyrix and AMD because they were so much cheaper than Intel, and ran just about as fast. The first system I built ran a Cyrix 5x86 running at 133Mhz. Later on I built a system running an AMD K2 266MHz chip. The last system I built was was a Pentium MMX 233MHz, that I overclocked to something like 300MHz.