Bananaquit
A chub from the Grant Corporation
from The Darién Gap
Since: Jan, 2001
Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
A chub from the Grant Corporation
#2: Sep 22nd 2017 at 11:46:29 PM
Probably something that used punch cards. Yes, I’m that old!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!
Euodiachloris
Since: Oct, 2010
#3: Sep 23rd 2017 at 3:47:32 PM
Outside milspec? Probably the Tandem-16/ T-16: the first really popular online network computer used in commercial banking and transactions. Without these babies, international transfers took weeks instead of a couple of days (depending on the traffic).
They helped birth the modern hole-in-the-wall, but your average smart-phone outpowers them quite handily.
edited 23rd Sep '17 3:48:27 PM by Euodiachloris
TuefelHundenIV
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
from Doomsday Facility Corner Store.
Since: Aug, 2009
Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#4: Sep 26th 2017 at 4:51:19 PM
Hmm. For me the Cray 1 was the most powerful and the year after I was born the Cray X-MP would come around.
Who watches the watchmen?
Hi
#5: Sep 26th 2017 at 5:19:43 PM
The Cray-1 for me.
eyebones
Since: Apr, 2004
#6: Dec 13th 2017 at 11:04:03 PM
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. — H.L. Mencken
rmctagg09
The Wanderer
from Brooklyn, NY (USA)
(Time Abyss)
Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#7: Feb 5th 2018 at 11:45:42 PM
Fastest PC in 1991 would've been a 80486DX to my understanding.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Total posts: 7
For me it's probably a Cray-1. Those were multi-million dollar supercomputers with only an 80MHz clock speed and 8MB of RAM. When I was a college freshman in 1996 I had a computer with those specs and it was an obsolete hand-me-down that was still somehow better than what the university I went to made available to students in the computer labs.
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