A 350!! That has a 100 MHz bus speed!I've got my eye on this little gem:http://img73.echo.cx/img73/4995/percon8311bbig8ui.jpg

LOLhttp://img73.echo.cx/img73/893/flightsimul...e8812big5fo.jpg

Hey the company I worked for back then had a few of those... we called them luggables. They must have weighed 20lbs+! :-)Georgehttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/betaimg.jpg

Oh my goth . . . I just had flashbacks to my first computer . . . . such a difference.=============================================FIRST COMPUTER:Tandy 1000SXFloppy DriveSome little bit of -- well -- I think it was RAM . . . Coolest game on machine: Pacman==========================================================================================COMPUTER NOW:**Home built sustem**ABIT IC-7G w/800FSB**P-IV 3.2GHz w/ 800FSB and HT Enabled**4GB DDR 400 Corsair PC3200**500GB SATA Hard Drive w/250GB dedicated to Flight Simulator250GB of above mentioned drive dedicated to storing FS downloads**500GB SATA Hard Drive partitioned into Windows, My Documents, Videos, Utilities and Music.**nVidia Ultra 9800 512 MB high end version**Cable Internet**Goflight and CH Products componant home cockpit=============================================Hmmm . . . I think, now that I am thinking about it, that I really need to upgrade. I could use getting my claws on that new Pentium processor T-Socket and I hear there is a better type of memory now. Wonder how much that will cost for upgrade.

Probably showing my age here but this thread got me digging through the boxes in the garage and I found I have every copy of MSFS since version 4.0.Back then it came on two disks. No, not CD's ..... floppies!!!If I remember correctly sound came out that little single built in speaker that was wired to the motherboard and RAM was measured in single digits. My 486/33 had no trouble keeping up with whatever Flight sim threw at it.I tried re-installing V4.0 but my P4 3.06GHz promptly spat it out again.John EDMONDSONYBBN (Brisbane)

Boy, I was a senior in HS when MSFS 4.0 came out. :( I didn't even run a computer at that time. I had been into the Commodore 64 and Texas Instrument Ti99. After that, I stopped computing until 93, but didn't start flight simming until 2000 came out.

CHANGE IN POSTI had asked what FSWisgets was . . . did a few searches and found the site. Interesting MFD there. Saving this in my favs.<<>> To retract my question on what FSW was.

Sorry guys, Can one of you tell me where I can reach PM Sir W.Churchill?I must present him my last invention, the coloured electric light bulb (3 different colours!!!)Thank you ladies and gentlemen and happy Christmas to all.David

**chuckles**Christmas?

Christmas...it's Christmas already? Better go make my list. Wouldn't want Santa to skip my house. :(

Talk about TIME ZONES!!!!!Gerry

Who?Admiral Nelson?He is here???Send him my greetings!!Hummm...where did I put my pills?? *:-* ......Please PMDG...release the 747 yet...look at your poooooor customer....David

I remember trying to fly that with my keyboard. I wasn't hooked :)

Admiral Nelson . . .now THAT I understand **laughs**

I have a AMD 64 3200+, ATI X800XT PE (Sapphire) 1 GIG DDR 3200 Ram on an ASUS board and FS runs pretty well. I cannot run Ultimate Terrain at night though if that tells you anything but the 744 runs just great even from the VC, in fact it runs much better than the 737 series. What I have found is that a ok video card like a 9800 PRO with a very fast CPU can do what I can do in FS, my 500+ video card only comes into play at very high res or with non FS titles like Battlefield 2. SO what I am saying is - save your cash for a good CPU and mainboard if you want the best in FS....[h4]Randy J. Smith[/h4]