My Old School Computers Part 3, The Compaq Presario 850

This was our first family computer, and the first modern one I had ever used.

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• old
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• 486
• Compaq
• Presario
• 850
• AMD
• 5x86
• 586
• DOS
• Windows
• 98
• games
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• AWE
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• Doom
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[an65001]

This splash screen comes from the unofficial 98SE SP2.

[Maxxarcade]

@an65001 Yep! I used that on the last few systems that were running 98.  Helped stretch them out a bit longer for usefulness.

[vwestlife]

That is a custom Windows 98SE splash screen, and I rather like it!

S3M was similar to the Amiga MOD file format. I have two CD-ROMs full of MOD, S3M, and other similar music files.

[Maxxarcade]

@vwestlife Yep, I have some MOD's too. Wasn't IT another similar setup?

[fordbroncodave]

that DOS music is way cool!!!! how do i get DOS games and will they work on DOS windows xp?

[Maxxarcade]

@fordbroncodave You can use DOSBox to emulate an older PC for that stuff. Just Google DOS games and you'll probably find some.

[Lachlant1984]

I've never messed around with those audio formats like S3M, I know nothing about them, and i'd not heard of them until I saw this video. Our first family computer was a 486 in 1995, Windows 3.11, no sound card and no CD-ROM drive, we had very few games, mostly the machine was used for doing our homework and other stuff like that. I'm guessing there were DOS games that used these S3M and other similar audio formats for music, right?

[79Datson]

Our first computer was a 486 with 16 mbs of ram.Someone gave us it in the late 90's..I remember being the only kid in the class that did not have a computer it was running windows 3.1 when we got it then a few years later we upgraded to windows 95.

[wastedpills]

@an65001 yeah i know that's why i said it would be amusing, because it would be SO

FUCKING SLOW

[torythefanman]

that sound program thing is really cool.

[an65001]

My first PC came with Windows 98 first edition.

[an65001]

@wastedpills It's impossible. It does not have the processor instructions to run Windows XP. I wouldn't even recommend 2000 or ME. 98SE is the highest this can go without problems.

[wastedpills]

it would be so amusing to see you try to run windows xp on that thing

[LellePrinter82]

Ah, those were the days.. My first own computer was a Hyundai PC with a Pentium 133mhz CPU, 32mb ram, 2mb S3 graphics. Upgraded later to a Voodoo 3 2000 16mb PCI. And a total of 13gb of hard drive space. Some Scsi 50-pin drives and some ide drives lol.