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I can't beleive I can't remeber this right now... so I'll ask. I remeber
building a bunch(about 10) computers for my old college computer lab back in 1998. We really had no money, like a hardware budget of 1500 a year or some crap. Our little old 286 and a few "big" 486dx33s workstations were really outdated. I figured out a good upgrade. But I can't remeber the company that made the CPU, and its driving me nuts.... So this was the orig. Pentium days, I had decided on buying 10 FIC-2007 AP motherboards, had great reviews at that time. Still have one, minus the CPU, in my garage somewhere. I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... Urg... anyways, back in spring time 1998, I remeber this was supposed to be a decent CPU for the price. Heck, I think I bought it off of realworldtech.com. Dean, you still post on here? Anyways, just wondering if people remeber some of the CPU company's from that time... it would be interesting to see a "history of CPU manufacters" article somewhere, |
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On 27 Aug 2006 23:26:29 GMT, Grant Schoep
wrote: I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... That should be the Centaur IDT Winchip. Since you bought it from Dean, you could try www.realworldtech.com or something. -- A Lost Angel, fallen from heaven Lost in dreams, Lost in aspirations, Lost to the world, Lost to myself |
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On 27 Aug 2006 23:26:29 GMT, Grant Schoep
wrote: I can't beleive I can't remeber this right now... so I'll ask. I remeber building a bunch(about 10) computers for my old college computer lab back in 1998. We really had no money, like a hardware budget of 1500 a year or some crap. Our little old 286 and a few "big" 486dx33s workstations were really outdated. I figured out a good upgrade. But I can't remeber the company that made the CPU, and its driving me nuts.... So this was the orig. Pentium days, I had decided on buying 10 FIC-2007 AP motherboards, had great reviews at that time. Still have one, minus the CPU, in my garage somewhere. I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... IDT Winchip C6? Urg... anyways, back in spring time 1998, I remeber this was supposed to be a decent CPU for the price. Heck, I think I bought it off of realworldtech.com. Dean, you still post on here? Anyways, just wondering if people remeber some of the CPU company's from that time... it would be interesting to see a "history of CPU manufacters" article somewhere, I'm sure Google will turn up such an article. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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On 27 Aug 2006 23:26:29 GMT, Grant Schoep
wrote: I can't beleive I can't remeber this right now... so I'll ask. I remeber building a bunch(about 10) computers for my old college computer lab back in 1998. We really had no money, like a hardware budget of 1500 a year or some crap. Our little old 286 and a few "big" 486dx33s workstations were really outdated. I figured out a good upgrade. But I can't remeber the company that made the CPU, and its driving me nuts.... So this was the orig. Pentium days, I had decided on buying 10 FIC-2007 AP motherboards, had great reviews at that time. Still have one, minus the CPU, in my garage somewhere. I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... Definitely sounds like an IDT Winchip. The very first ones started showing up in early '98 and ran at 200MHz. Not an entirely bad chip, performance wasn't much to get excited about, but they were cheap and made for a nice little upgrade on some older systems that couldn't handle a newer Intel, AMD or Cyrix chip. FWIW IDT sold off the Centaur division that made these chips to VIA. VIA still makes and sells the follow-up revisions to this chip. Still not much in the way of performance, but they are dirt-cheap and consume very little power. They show up mainly in set-top boxes these days. For the latest and greatest of these chips, see: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/ Urg... anyways, back in spring time 1998, I remeber this was supposed to be a decent CPU for the price. Heck, I think I bought it off of realworldtech.com. Dean, you still post on here? Anyways, just wondering if people remeber some of the CPU company's from that time... it would be interesting to see a "history of CPU manufacters" article somewhere, There is a fair bit of info at: www.sandpile.org Not much in the way of explanations of what happened, but it lists all kinds of specs and info about processors for the past 10 years or so. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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Grant Schoep wrote: I can't beleive I can't remeber this right now... so I'll ask. I remeber building a bunch(about 10) computers for my old college computer lab back in 1998. We really had no money, like a hardware budget of 1500 a year or some crap. Our little old 286 and a few "big" 486dx33s workstations were really outdated. I figured out a good upgrade. But I can't remeber the company that made the CPU, and its driving me nuts.... So this was the orig. Pentium days, I had decided on buying 10 FIC-2007 AP motherboards, had great reviews at that time. Still have one, minus the CPU, in my garage somewhere. I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... Urg... anyways, back in spring time 1998, I remeber this was supposed to be a decent CPU for the price. Heck, I think I bought it off of realworldtech.com. Dean, you still post on here? Anyways, just wondering if people remeber some of the CPU company's from that time... it would be interesting to see a "history of CPU manufacters" article somewhere, My First "Real" Computer was a 486 Years ago... before that was the TRS-80 Model III ...But anyone who remembers that computer had a monochrome screen, no HD , No sound to speak of and Windows. There is a computer museum site online which may have what your looking for. |
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I opted for a ??? CPU, it wasn't Cyrix, Intel, or AMD. It was 200mhz... I think it was another acronym name, like Ixx, where x is some letter, I think there was an I in there anyways... IDT Winchip C6? Thats it. I remember it being decent, but cost was great. I think they were like 60 USD for the 200mhz, at the time I think the Pentium 200 was around 150 USD an performed about the same. |
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