How Low can ya go? (PC Specs Race to the bottom)

[3_bit]

I've got an Aptiva E2N with

-AMD K6 2/266 processor with 3DNow! Technology

-32 Megs of DRAM

-512KB L2 Pipeline Burst Cache

-56K Modem

-2 MB Graphics Ram

-ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP Graphics

Let's see if you don't have a system lower-spec than mine.

Oh, and if you do,

I have a 32KB Von Neumann memory architecture Cosmac Elf Membership Card clocking 2.1 Mhz.'

What do you have that's older/lower-spec?

[RocketTurtle]

Potato GLaDOS? A toaster? Lol, nah. My rig's pretty good. I'm probably gonna be getting a nice laptop with an i7-4700QM, dual GT750m's on SLI. A typical 1TB hardrive... the RPM was somewhere in the 5000's, can't really remember, also a 24 GB SSD, 1920x1080... uh... I think I got the important stuff.. so yeah.

(I'm in my phone so I don't have the specs with me )

Oh, right, 16 gigs of RAM

Edited October 13, 2013 by RocketTurtle

[tom1499]

I play one Intel Integrated graphics. Ever since my graphics card broke I've been using this. But hey it can do Skyrim aswell so...

But I keep most of my settings on minimum apart from textures. Full res on Textures.

[Pixel of Life]

Raspberry Pi Model B rev. 2.

700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S processor and 512 MB's of RAM split between the system and the integrated graphics core.

Oh, and then there's my TI Nspire CX CAS calculator. It appears to have some 150 MHz ARM processor and 64 MB's of RAM. Still runs GBC and NES games just fine.

[minerman30]

I have a blinking light that I soldered together.

[bigyihsuan]

An Acer AO722 netbook with Windows 7 Home Premium.

4 GB of RAM, and AMD C-60 APU with Radeon HD Graphics, 1000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) (copy-paste from System Information)

[lajoswinkler]

I play it using my ten fingers, but I'm going to upgrade to an abacus.

[Spartwo]

I have a blinking light that I soldered together.

My one doesn't even blink.

[ZedNova]

Intel integrated graphics, 2gb of memory ( Not dedicated though)

8gb ram

2.3 ghz processor ( rated at 3.1 ghz thanks to my modifications.)

I can't play games on this so i use my imagination.

[Kerbal01]

Crapbook Pro 13 inch, it sucks so bad lag/ overheat wise.

[OdinYggd]

I've got an Aptiva E2N with

-AMD K6 2/266 processor with 3DNow! Technology

-32 Megs of DRAM

-512KB L2 Pipeline Burst Cache

-56K Modem

-2 MB Graphics Ram

-ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP Graphics

Let's see if you don't have a system lower-spec than mine.

Oh, and if you do,

I have a 32KB Von Neumann memory architecture Cosmac Elf Membership Card clocking 2.1 Mhz.'

What do you have that's older/lower-spec?

Pentium MMX 233.

384MB RAM

15GB hard drive

Has an S3 Trio 2MB videocard- doesn't even do 3D rendering properly.

Oh and I actually managed to put a 24x10x40 CDRW in it and make it work.

Originally this thing had windows 95 on it.

This is a HP Vectra VE5/233

It originally had only 32MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive, I long ago maxed it out

[3_bit]

Pentium MMX 233.

384MB RAM

15GB hard drive

Has an S3 Trio 2MB videocard- doesn't even do 3D rendering properly.

Oh and I actually managed to put a 24x10x40 CDRW in it and make it work.

Originally this thing had windows 95 on it.

This is a HP Vectra VE5/233

It originally had only 32MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive, I long ago maxed it out

Man, Mine has a 4 GB HDD. I have no idea what GPU you're talking about, but I wasn't into gaming and high-end hardware those days. On the contrary I mostly played Gameboy Color games.

[Specialist290]

The very first computer I remember our family having is an old Tandy 1100-series laptop with a monochrome green LCD screen. I think it's still around somewhere, although it's been out of use for a long time -- probably still tucked away in a moving box somewhere. I think it's older than I am.

I don't have the exact system specs, but I remember the hard drive on that thing was tiny, and (from my dim recollections) was entirely devoted to the OS. You had to save all your actual data on those little 3.5" floppy disks. You also had to type command prompts in order to access any programs that didn't ship with the computer, since the GUI was rudimentary at best.

I still have the users' guide for the DeskMate operating system, incidentally. It has an appendix with instructions on how to use a wonderful new third-party peripheral called a "mouse," since not every computer actually shipped with one back then.

Edited October 14, 2013 by Specialist290

[Galacticruler]

Stock Emachine here, too lazy to hunt down the model number, but here are the specs(You'll need Pitriform's "Speccy")

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sd75btvucoi3kv/KEVIN.speccy

Edited October 14, 2013 by Galacticruler
link

[The Deep Space Kraken]

I've got a macbook 13 inch from mid 2010 and it runs KSP suprisingly well.

[tom1499]

-awesome-

You must give us a picture! It sounds AWESOME. (I like vintage hardware)

Also:

[John FX]

I have a blinking light that I soldered together.

My one doesn't even blink.

Mine is just a bit of solder someone once threw at me after they made a light that didn`t even turn on..

Edited October 15, 2013 by John FX

[OdinYggd]

Also in my collection is a working-order Apple IIe with green/black monochrome CRT and 5.25" dual-drive. One of my first encounters with computer programming was writing Lunar Lander on it in cassette basic.

[Nuke]

i own one of the first amd 64 bit machines that came out close to 10 years ago. it stands as a permanent reminder of how slow the software industry have taken to the 64 bit architecture. it doesnt have an os because i am out of hard drives, unless you count the old linux live cd its running. i really dont know what to do with the thing, its too slow to run a modern os, but its still in working order. maybe i can install baremetalos to a flash card or something.

all my older machines got scrapped for parts.

Edited October 14, 2013 by Nuke

[DisarmingBaton5]

My one doesn't even blink.

Mine doesn't light up.

[nhnifong]

I've still got my TI-83+ with all the programs I wrote on it in high school. It's the first thing I ever programmed on so I have it as a keepsake.

6 Mhz Zilog z80 processor

32 kb of ram!

[rpayne88]

A custom rig I built myself. It consists of a 9v battery, wire, a resistor and an LED.

Nah. I'm pretty high up. 3rd gen Intel i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 Premium 64- bit, 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, NVIDIA GT650M and HD 4000 graphics cards. 1080p high def screen, too.

[Specialist290]

You must give us a picture! It sounds AWESOME. (I like vintage hardware)

Sadly, I wasn't able to find the dark corner that my family's personal model is hidden in. However, after doing a bit of searching, I was able to find a webpage with some photos of essentially the same model and the disks that came with it, as well as the system specs.

(The website itself is Russian, but the text for that page in particular is English.)

[razark]

Sinclair ZX-81:

z80 @ 3.25 MHz

1 kB stock, this one has the 16 kB memory expansion

But for everyday calculating, I use the Picket Microline 120 slide rule in Eye Saver yellow.

[John FX]

It really is a shame that 64bit has taken so long to be widespread. The price of RAM has had a lot to do with that, people are only just now getting over 4GB into their machines as standard.