LGR - NCR 386 MS-DOS Computer Overview
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Jorendo
We got the 386 back then thanks to a pc project on my parents work. Back then they said -The 386 is so advanced you won't need to buy a new pc ever! - I think it wasn't that long after that the 486 came out xD
We had this one for a long long time. My parents didn't see any point in buying a new pc while this one worked fine. even though the games that where released couldn't play on our computer anymore. We had one upgrade when my neighbour was about to trow away his cd rom drive. I think we where one of the few people who actualy had a cd rom drive in our 386 xD mostly cause other people already upgraded to pentium 1 and such.
Great times though, really miss those days when games left way more to the imagination. I could really dream away with the game. these days games are way to beautiful so not leaving much to the imagination, or maybe it just seemed better cause i was a child back then.
We gave it to my aunt and uncle when we (finally) upgraded to a pentium 2 400 mhz with a voodoo 2 3dfx. Man that one was badass too. finally i could make my friends jealous cause Need for Speed 2 special edition had nifty effects if you had a 3dfx card.
The 386 eventually died when the battery was depleted. i didn't know there was one inside it, but appearantly on the motherboard or something there was one. But it served for a long long time.
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We got the 386 back then thanks to a pc project on my parents work. Back then they said -The 386 is so advanced you won't need to buy a new pc ever! - I think it wasn't that long after that the 486 came out xD
We had this one for a long long time. My parents didn't see any point in buying a new pc while this one worked fine. even though the games that where released couldn't play on our computer anymore. We had one upgrade when my neighbour was about to trow away his cd rom drive. I think we where one of the few people who actualy had a cd rom drive in our 386 xD mostly cause other people already upgraded to pentium 1 and such.
Great times though, really miss those days when games left way more to the imagination. I could really dream away with the game. these days games are way to beautiful so not leaving much to the imagination, or maybe it just seemed better cause i was a child back then.
We gave it to my aunt and uncle when we (finally) upgraded to a pentium 2 400 mhz with a voodoo 2 3dfx. Man that one was badass too. finally i could make my friends jealous cause Need for Speed 2 special edition had nifty effects if you had a 3dfx card.
The 386 eventually died when the battery was depleted. i didn't know there was one inside it, but appearantly on the motherboard or something there was one. But it served for a long long time.
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Danny
I had two of these NCR 386 SX from 1989, one for parts, and the other still running. Still have the memory from the NCR 386 SX! Awesome old machines for it's days. The low formatting process was cool also. I was just 24 years back in them days of 1989! Everyone in High School wanted me to take computer class, but I never did, because I was waiting for something better then floppies to come out in the future. I still use floppies even in my new computers, because I still like them the best compared to USB or Flash drives! Cd Roms & DVDs are awesome! I endup throwing the older larger floppies out when I moved my -69- computers twin in two years! I just restored a 2006 hp pavilion a1324n since my HP Labtop DUO Core went up missing from a thief I left in my house by herself well I went out grocery shopping! That was a big mistake on my part. I will never place trust in anyone any more! Goodnight LGR!
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I had two of these NCR 386 SX from 1989, one for parts, and the other still running. Still have the memory from the NCR 386 SX! Awesome old machines for it's days. The low formatting process was cool also. I was just 24 years back in them days of 1989! Everyone in High School wanted me to take computer class, but I never did, because I was waiting for something better then floppies to come out in the future. I still use floppies even in my new computers, because I still like them the best compared to USB or Flash drives! Cd Roms & DVDs are awesome! I endup throwing the older larger floppies out when I moved my -69- computers twin in two years! I just restored a 2006 hp pavilion a1324n since my HP Labtop DUO Core went up missing from a thief I left in my house by herself well I went out grocery shopping! That was a big mistake on my part. I will never place trust in anyone any more! Goodnight LGR!
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MadameSomnambule
I noticed that SimCity 3000 runs MUCH slower on my Compaq Presario laptop compared the my old Compaq Deskpro EN from the same year. After looking up the Presario's cpu, it uses an AMD K6-2, which was the equivalent to the Pentium II in terms of clock speed while the Deskpro uses a Pentium III. Big difference in the clock speed range and both computers now have a similar amount of ram after expanding the Presario's ram. It was almost the late 90s/early 2000s version of those two computers running the same golf game on DOS with the difference in processor speed. SimCity 3000 is practically unplayably slow in anything under a Pentium III while it's WAY too fast in newer processors in bigger screen resolutions.
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I noticed that SimCity 3000 runs MUCH slower on my Compaq Presario laptop compared the my old Compaq Deskpro EN from the same year. After looking up the Presario's cpu, it uses an AMD K6-2, which was the equivalent to the Pentium II in terms of clock speed while the Deskpro uses a Pentium III. Big difference in the clock speed range and both computers now have a similar amount of ram after expanding the Presario's ram. It was almost the late 90s/early 2000s version of those two computers running the same golf game on DOS with the difference in processor speed. SimCity 3000 is practically unplayably slow in anything under a Pentium III while it's WAY too fast in newer processors in bigger screen resolutions.
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djpirtu2
I have watched nearly all newer LGR videos and so I started to look them from the start: D Jokes, all this 286-386 stuff, the games, I just love it. I grew up with IBM AT, 286/8, MDA (later HGC&CGA, HD 5, 25- (later 40Mb hard drive, black-yellow 12- screen and 640k RAM. End times of this 286 in 1992 it had VGA and Soundblaster compatible soundcard. Damn I played Wolfenstein 3D with it! Then I got 386SX/33. 486SX/25. 486DX2/66 (just swapped processor) and then I got into overclocking. This 486 went 80MHz with no problems, and even 90MHz but then it was little unstable. But when it worked, Duke Dukem 3D just flew at 320x400 resolution and my Pentium 60MHz friends were pissed off: D: D
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I have watched nearly all newer LGR videos and so I started to look them from the start: D Jokes, all this 286-386 stuff, the games, I just love it. I grew up with IBM AT, 286/8, MDA (later HGC&CGA, HD 5, 25- (later 40Mb hard drive, black-yellow 12- screen and 640k RAM. End times of this 286 in 1992 it had VGA and Soundblaster compatible soundcard. Damn I played Wolfenstein 3D with it! Then I got 386SX/33. 486SX/25. 486DX2/66 (just swapped processor) and then I got into overclocking. This 486 went 80MHz with no problems, and even 90MHz but then it was little unstable. But when it worked, Duke Dukem 3D just flew at 320x400 resolution and my Pentium 60MHz friends were pissed off: D: D
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EB
My mother was a beta tester for some of the earliest versions of Windows back in the 80s through the company she worked for and they found it incredibly annoying to get used to not having to type the exact location on the hard drive where the file was with every function you used and they kept losing files because Windows would save them in funny directories until they figured out to make the default folders with obvious names like -My Documents-.
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My mother was a beta tester for some of the earliest versions of Windows back in the 80s through the company she worked for and they found it incredibly annoying to get used to not having to type the exact location on the hard drive where the file was with every function you used and they kept losing files because Windows would save them in funny directories until they figured out to make the default folders with obvious names like -My Documents-.
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Ivan
Acutally, 386 SX was a fully 32 bit processor, it had 32 bit registers and a 32 bit instruction set. Why was it slower than a DX chip? Because its data bus was only 16 bit wide and it only had 24 bit address bus, being capable to address only 16 MB of RAM (DX had a full 32 bit data and address bus. That's why its speed is a bit sub par. It's quite fater than a 286 but a bit slower than a full 386, and a lot slower than a 486.
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Acutally, 386 SX was a fully 32 bit processor, it had 32 bit registers and a 32 bit instruction set. Why was it slower than a DX chip? Because its data bus was only 16 bit wide and it only had 24 bit address bus, being capable to address only 16 MB of RAM (DX had a full 32 bit data and address bus. That's why its speed is a bit sub par. It's quite fater than a 286 but a bit slower than a full 386, and a lot slower than a 486.
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TheLemminkainen
I had NCR 286 EGA 512KT 20mb. It was great machine with unique design. It was really flat and small pizzabox style case. It had external (really internal but it was external) 720kb floppy: ) Sadly i sold it i havent seen those model anywhere on net? Floppy drive connecter was under machine it was designed to own stand/table.
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I had NCR 286 EGA 512KT 20mb. It was great machine with unique design. It was really flat and small pizzabox style case. It had external (really internal but it was external) 720kb floppy: ) Sadly i sold it i havent seen those model anywhere on net? Floppy drive connecter was under machine it was designed to own stand/table.
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bullseyestrat
Damn I would have probably torn my hair out if I were a PC builder back then. The differences are beyond ridiculous within months or years of time. These days unless you're a heavy PC gamer or into using programs that are rather cpu, gpu, or ram dependent you probably won't notice a huge bump in performance.
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Damn I would have probably torn my hair out if I were a PC builder back then. The differences are beyond ridiculous within months or years of time. These days unless you're a heavy PC gamer or into using programs that are rather cpu, gpu, or ram dependent you probably won't notice a huge bump in performance.
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knurlgnar24
Awesome video. I remember both of those systems and the games - loved commander Keen! To be technical, though, the 80286 was the real step up and the 80386sx was mostly a marketing ploy. I kindof wish I kept some of those old systems. The IBM XT was sold on a garage sale a long, long time ago for $20.
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Awesome video. I remember both of those systems and the games - loved commander Keen! To be technical, though, the 80286 was the real step up and the 80386sx was mostly a marketing ploy. I kindof wish I kept some of those old systems. The IBM XT was sold on a garage sale a long, long time ago for $20.
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Tito
Awesome!
Exactly what I was looking for!
You are amazing!
This was the first pc I interact with, because in 1993 I worked at Sam's and we have to take it out of the box for display, so we started playing with it.
For me it didn't look like it was built on 1986, but rather 2020!
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Awesome!
Exactly what I was looking for!
You are amazing!
This was the first pc I interact with, because in 1993 I worked at Sam's and we have to take it out of the box for display, so we started playing with it.
For me it didn't look like it was built on 1986, but rather 2020!
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