Am I the only one that used "bubble RAM" ... 32K/64K - that was HIGH END

 

Behold, my first computer I started programming with:

 

Noel,

 

Your first PC purchase in '92 was not dissimilar to mine also in that year. Couldn't afford a Sony monitor though. :mellow:  I timed how long it took to boot 3.1 from cold. 8 seconds! We haven't progressed on that front - we've regressed!

 

I remember a friend's comment on my 170Mb HD. "You'll never use all that space!". :biggrin:

On a side note......did you see that total solar eclipse in your avatar, Ray? If not, have you ever seen one?

 

 I tried to see one in the UK around 1999-ish. It happened in the daytime too. Didnt get to see it though as just as the eclipse started it got dark, I couldn't see anything and by the time the darkness went the eclipse had finished B)

Oh well maybe next time

Better luck next time, Graham :rofl:

I was chatting with a friend today who is also in the process of planning his next FSX PC. He was going to get the Titan but having read this review is now reconsidering. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-review

 

This GTX780 from EVGA is superclocked to 1020MHz and performance in the above review is only slightly inferior to the Titan for considerably less money.

 

So the GTX780 it is. The money saved can go towards more scenery packages.

So the GTX780 it is. The money saved can go towards more scenery packages.

 

Good idea Ray.  The Titan is the only part of my bunch I went overboard on, but I justify it because of my 5-6y upgrade plan, and hehe I admit that's a stretch of a justification!  I do like the headroom though for multi monitors w/ the 6Gb of GDDR5 over 384bit bus plus I"m ready should P3D v2 or other sim use as much video ram as is available.  Plus bonus, you have a like a name like 'Titan' (!!)

 

 

Your first PC purchase in '92 was not dissimilar to mine also in that year.

 

That was actually 1981 ... I used a "endless" cassette recorder to load/store programs ... think 2-5 minutes to load a program that was only 16KB.

 

 

 

So the GTX780 it is.

 

Good choice, unless you need the floating point part of the Titan (and the 6GB VRAM), the GTX780 is a better choice.  Certainly for FSX anyway and even if P3D V2 DX11 becomes a reality, the 780 is still the better cost effective choice.

The 386SX wasn't my first computer. That record belongs to the ZX Spectrum 48K that my brother and I received as a Christmas present in 1982. Many happy hours were spent playing Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Lunar Jetman, 3D Deathchase, and Atic Atac.

 

Sometimes I wish I could go back to those carefree days :(

Good idea Ray.  The Titan is the only part of my bunch I went overboard on, but I justify it because of my 5-6y upgrade plan, and hehe I admit that's a stretch of a justification!  I do like the headroom though for multi monitors w/ the 6Gb of GDDR5 over 384bit bus plus I"m ready should P3D v2 or other sim use as much video ram as is available.  Plus bonus, you have a like a name like 'Titan' (!!)

 

Cheers Noel. Having multiple monitors justifies your choice. :wink:  I'll only ever use a single display so perhaps I should call mine "Mini-Titan" :biggrin:

 

 

That was actually 1981 ... I used a "endless" cassette recorder to load/store programs ... think 2-5 minutes to load a program that was only 16KB.

 

You must have had a Spectrum. So did I. Ah yes, the joys of waiting 5 mins to load Lunar Jetman only to get the dreaded read error. But I still marvel at the efficient coding. Totally unlike today of course!

The 386SX wasn't my first computer. That record belongs to the ZX Spectrum 48K that my brother and I received as a Christmas present in 1982. Many happy hours were spent playing Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Lunar Jetman, 3D Deathchase, and Atic Atac.

 

Sometimes I wish I could go back to those carefree days :(

 

Ditto! I even managed to create a database of sorts in 40Kb of memory by creating 2 tables and merging them. And I bought a micro-drive which reduced loading times by a huge amount. Happy days!

 

Well that's the graphics sorted. I have another thread in RAM, CPU and storage for my SSD/HDD question. Feel free to add to Noel's advice if you want.

 

 

Many happy hours were spent playing Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy

 

Oh wow I remember those on the old Amstrad we had. I also remember "Fruity Frank". My sister and I were just looking at youtube videos of those games a few months ago.

 

I was tempted to try find some emulators to play those games again and bring back old memories, but never got around to it.

I had a BBC computer and was running a flight simulator on just 28k of ram.

Psion Flight Simulator on the ZX Spectrum was the first flightsim I ever had. It had two runways, two lakes, and a cardboard cut out mountain background. Nothing else. No buildings or trees or AI planes or ATC or PMDG 777s.

 

The world was a quieter place back then :wink: