bad computers Created 19 years ago2005-09-27 11:34:14 UTC by Fragmeister

How bad was your worst computer? Preferably one that could actually run hl1.

processor: 233mhz p1
memory: 80mb
video: 2mb s3 virge, unsupported
hd: 10gb

processor: 0.0005mhz p1
memory: 2kb
video: 0.2mb Ultra2D, unsupported
hd: 2mb
OS installed: MSCalc 0.7 (MS Dos For Caculators 0.721b)

my old laptop:
processor: 33mhz 486
memory: 8mb
video: standard vga, 640x480, grayscale screen
hd: 250mb

and a battery that didn't work

Worst I had was 286 system... can't remember its exact specs but I remember it had 100mb HD which was a hell of a lot back then!

The computer they used (and probly still do) at NASA in the moon landings only had 64kb RAM

We've had this thread before.

Worst I've owned is probably an old PDP from many many years ago. It wasn't fully functional, but it still powered on and did basic things. Think, a giant calculator.

And we can start it again:

My old computer:

The crapest thing in the world and don't ask me about the specs cause back then I didn't fully understand specs

my old was a 233 mhz Celeron

It sucked so utterly..

yes, my parents have a 433mhz? celeron, it even sucks for solitaire and email!

tell me about it

My worst computer that I ever owned was a commodore 64.

WOW I found a pic, so old

65 (or so, who can remember?) MhZ Pentium with 8mb ram. It couldn't run AoE one.

My current computer is pretty junk!
The worst is its processor!
AMD Athlon with 700mhz of clock speed.

AMD Athlon with 700mhz of clock speed.

That's rather good.

My first 'own' computer was 133mhz 8mb (or 16mb) RAM - Can't remember anything else of it's specs.
Second was p2 (?) 433mhz, 64mb ram, 6gb HD & voodoo 3 2000 - It pwned.

My "worst" comp :

Amstrad CPC6128
CPU : ??
RAM : 128 Kos ?
video card : lol ?
netword : lol?

the best ever, with the Amiga 512 ...

The first PC I had was a K6 200 (200 Mhz), with maybe 128 MB RAM on I don't remember ...

I don?t even remember how bad my suckiest computer was...

...It couldn?t run windows 98

ok, this old Packard Bell i had.

processor: dont know
memory: 50mb? around there?
video: integrated shit
hd: 25gb

I had an 8088 with 2MiB of expanded memory. Back then, there were different types of memory. No SDR, all that shit. EGA was top dog. The monitor had a switch on the back to change between COLOUR (zomg), orange/black, and green/black. DOS 6.22. You elitist bastards :P.

I had a C=64 and a ZX Spectrum too.

The oldest Ive used was an Apple IIGS, originally with 512KB RAM and an 8MHz CPU. We upgraded it to 4MB later on. It also had a massive external hard drive that held 17MB and took an entire minute to spin up.

The beast still works too, although it is in need of a reformat.

I think mine was 32MiB. It was so slow, its sounds were musical.

I HAVE a C64 ^^ Respect!

AMD Athlon with 700mhz of clock speed.

You said that want too bad! THATS my current PC, lol!

None of you have beaten me yet.

DOS 6.22

I had to use dos 6.22 for several years on my primary computer because win98 crashed.

I HAVE a C64 ^^ Respect!

I wish I still had my c64! It was cool! (but I didn't have a floppy drive for it, so it probably wouldn't have worked.)

None of you have beaten me yet.

I had a calculator which had an L.E.D. display. Seventies or eighties or something, I guess.

same. It needed to be plugged into an outlet to function, though! Orange display.

33Mhz something i don't even remember as i was 4 years old.
later:
133Mhz pentium I (pwnage) 16mb(later 32mb) of RAM, 1mb video :O. Not so bad eh (I played hl on it for the first time :O)

I bet that it lagged like hell with HL.

I played HL too on my first comp. res 320x???, smallest screen and software mode

I even mapped on that crappy comp

Well, I think our very family computer (and the slowest, plus my first after I deleted "DOS" from the Windows 3.1 folder out of "curiosity") was a 486DX, which was as slow as hell and only good for word processing. I really wish I didn't format that computer. I had some great nostolgia (sp?) from my writing past.

Anyway, the next computer I had was a 166MHZ. Pretty good (still didn't have Half-Life then), but there was no 3D card (so I was disappointed I couldn't run Descent 3, and my mom was too paranoid about putting it up on the family computer) and it only had a lousy 3 GB on it. Heh...and I remember an article in PC Gamer about PC Gamer's history, stating that my computer might've been the "dream machine" in 1994.

Anyway, the computer I have now is still a piece of junk, but I'm able to run half-life on it (although I still get some graphical error junk and it crashes in some mods).

Specs:
256MB RAM (useless)
1.8GHZ Intel Celeron Processor
A crappy 128MB RADEON 9200 PCI (zing!) graphics card
And, I think a 50/60 GB hard drive

Man, even though I spend my entire life on computers, I really hate them.

do you play d3 still? It's a good game! the computer you have now, I would love one like that for my network, so that I can have a hldm lan party!! w00t

My laptop only has a 32, 64, or 128mb video card. ( I can change it in the bios)

I think I forgot to mention I have Windows XP (RAM eater) and that I have a PCI (NOT PCI Express) card. In my opinion, it sucks worse than my old Intel Extreme Graphics chip, especially in Unreal Tournament. Heck, I can't even run UT2004 on thing without major slowdowns!

I've been hunting around for a new system. Any ideas?

get someone to build you a custom one. I'm thinking about building a computer a little better than yours, loading it with linux, and doing about $200-250 worth of case mods. Sell it for about $7-800! Building a custom computer, you can save hundred$. Btw, you know what processes are absolutely necessary to start with winxp?

MY DAD

Wtf that is good! 128MB screen card is damb good, you proccessor is OK your RAM is a bit out and you Hdrive is fine! What do you mean "I can run Half-Life" ! My friend runs HL2 on that! And doesnt even lag that much!

Graphics cards depend on much more than their onboard memory for good performance. The processor is poor, and the RAM is terrible.

I bet that it lagged like hell with HL

Actually it didn't. I don't remember what settings i used thoug, but i think i ran on 640x480

my worst computer that i have to use still (which isent that old really but it sucks) is a old windows 98 that got upped to a 200 witch screwed it and its got an old ati 128mb video card which sucks cause it doesnt work with many things (got it second hand) 128 mb of ram (which is stopping me from playing hl2) and a 400mhz prossor that got screwed with the upgrade of my computer for some reason, it makes half life1 run like its on the net and makes trains and trams(and also cut seens) spin when they move in hl
EDIT: haha forgot to say the screen goes green now and then
But im getting an awsome one soon

i have a sega and it still works but i cant find it in the attic because i dont have one

owned bitches!

i had a laptop that i threw out only yesterday (it has been rotting in my attic for about three years.. before then, the basement) with the worst specs ever!

it ran windows 3.1
had 75mhz pentium processor
4mb RAM
and a 1024kb 2D accelerator
i believe it was roughly 128mb of HDD if that

no wait the old computers that just ran on floppy disks they were the worst ever you cannot beat them

it DID just run on floppy disk.. u had to have a windows 3.1 boot disk in it all the time... it went into a sort of safe mode if u wanted to save something onto a different disk

My first multimedia computer was a 60 Mhz Pentium.
I still have it and it works (not the monitor, though). It had a very useful life, since I got to play SimCity 2000, Tie Fighter, Doom I, Doom II, and even Age of Empires
The 2x Cdrom drive stopped working 7 years ago, and the disk drives had a total of 1,7 Gb.

hunter i meant the computers that dident have a running system really all it did was play stupid games that were built out of green sqaures

Floppy disks? Tapes, man.

Punchcards are even worse.

Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?

Joshua (correct name?) from Wargames, now thats a bad computer, it shut down trying to play tic-tac-toe!

It did? I thought...although I didn't get this...that by playing endless rounds of tic-tac-toe with itself, the computer realized that there was no victor at all, especially in the Global Thermonuclear War program, so it just ditched the game and asked to play another one.

166 mHz, 16mb of RAM, used software mode for hl (366mHz, 64mb RAM and Voodoo 1 - after 'upgrading')