HW News - GPU Maker Layoffs, Intel HEDT Returns, AMD Gaming Chairs
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Date: 2022-08-08
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Joshua
For the engagement challenge, I've got a few answers.
The first computers I used didn't have a hard drive. (Commodore 64, Apple 2e.)
The first computer with a hard drive I used was my mom's 386SX (that I since inherited) with a 40MB under the hood (paired to a whopping 2MB of RAM!). She got it with an MDA monitor, and got us kids an EGA so we could play games on it.
The Oak Technologies video card can go all the way up to I think SVGA, but my last attempt to play SVGA games didn't work. Probably because I had a standard VGA monitor and had the card in the appropriate standard VGA mode.
System is still fully functional and has been upgraded with 8MB RAM and a 512ish-MB IDE hard drive. It HAD a CD-ROM, but I took that out to put into my 486.
The first computer I personally owned was a highly beloved 8086C-2 based laptop with a 20MB under the hood. It clocked at a whopping 9.54MHz, and the monochrome LCD could dither to emulate CGA graphics.
Sadly, neither laptop nor hard drive have worked for many years by now, and I retain it only as a momento to remember my grandfather who gave it to me by.
And the first computer I had a hand in buiding was a '98 machine with a 4GB hard drive that we were never going to fill up .
My current system has a 256GB and a 1TB, I have a 4TB, and still feel a little cramped. My next power move will be to deploy a NAS.
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For the engagement challenge, I've got a few answers.
The first computers I used didn't have a hard drive. (Commodore 64, Apple 2e.)
The first computer with a hard drive I used was my mom's 386SX (that I since inherited) with a 40MB under the hood (paired to a whopping 2MB of RAM!). She got it with an MDA monitor, and got us kids an EGA so we could play games on it.
The Oak Technologies video card can go all the way up to I think SVGA, but my last attempt to play SVGA games didn't work. Probably because I had a standard VGA monitor and had the card in the appropriate standard VGA mode.
System is still fully functional and has been upgraded with 8MB RAM and a 512ish-MB IDE hard drive. It HAD a CD-ROM, but I took that out to put into my 486.
The first computer I personally owned was a highly beloved 8086C-2 based laptop with a 20MB under the hood. It clocked at a whopping 9.54MHz, and the monochrome LCD could dither to emulate CGA graphics.
Sadly, neither laptop nor hard drive have worked for many years by now, and I retain it only as a momento to remember my grandfather who gave it to me by.
And the first computer I had a hand in buiding was a '98 machine with a 4GB hard drive that we were never going to fill up .
My current system has a 256GB and a 1TB, I have a 4TB, and still feel a little cramped. My next power move will be to deploy a NAS.
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Jarno
The first hard drive I've used was a 10MB drive on a IBM PC/XT that only had text graphics card and green display. We later upgraded it with a CGA card that could run Larry. First we did not understand that it required a new monitor also. My first own HD was a 30MB MFM second hand drive. I got it from my employer, those drives cost a fortune back then. I was extremely lucky and I was thrilled to install it on my 386DX computer. That was also top notch back then, it was still strongly 16 bit 286 / 386SX era on home computing. I could not have afforded all this myself, my employer had a bunch of these and I got one that was left over from their ERP system in an system upgrade. I will always remember the superb spin up sound of that era hard drives. It was so soothing to hear that after powering on the PC with a flip switch! After a few years I learned to hate hard drives. It is one of the worst PC components ever invented even though it was crucial for the whole development of computers. I will probably never have a HD in my own use anymore. At least I hope so. I have to admit that I hate them nowadays. Terrible things!
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The first hard drive I've used was a 10MB drive on a IBM PC/XT that only had text graphics card and green display. We later upgraded it with a CGA card that could run Larry. First we did not understand that it required a new monitor also. My first own HD was a 30MB MFM second hand drive. I got it from my employer, those drives cost a fortune back then. I was extremely lucky and I was thrilled to install it on my 386DX computer. That was also top notch back then, it was still strongly 16 bit 286 / 386SX era on home computing. I could not have afforded all this myself, my employer had a bunch of these and I got one that was left over from their ERP system in an system upgrade. I will always remember the superb spin up sound of that era hard drives. It was so soothing to hear that after powering on the PC with a flip switch! After a few years I learned to hate hard drives. It is one of the worst PC components ever invented even though it was crucial for the whole development of computers. I will probably never have a HD in my own use anymore. At least I hope so. I have to admit that I hate them nowadays. Terrible things!
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James
My first computer had two 1mB hard drives. Each one was a separate box that sat next to the computer. The box was about 20 x20 x10 . Inside, there was a 3D wire mesh. One horizontal axis and the vertical axis were of one metal type, while the other horizontal axis was another metal type. It would fuse the disimilar metals together to write a 1. Unfused was a 0. It could fuse and unfuse each bit a few hundred times. The computer this was attached to had the monitor and floppy drives built in. It was a 12 CRT with dual 8 floppy drives (500kB). I can't remember the processor, but I know it was not an x86 variant. I even had a state of the art printer that printed like a ball typewriter. This was a parallel technology to dot matrix printing, but would only print text, at a decent speed. It could do 3 to 4 pages a minute, which was blazing fast. It did chew through ribbons quickly.
The only part of this computer I still have is an AT connector mechanical keyboard. It even still works with an AT to PS2 adapter then a PS2 to USB adapter. I love the feel of it even more than my cherry MX keyboard.
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My first computer had two 1mB hard drives. Each one was a separate box that sat next to the computer. The box was about 20 x20 x10 . Inside, there was a 3D wire mesh. One horizontal axis and the vertical axis were of one metal type, while the other horizontal axis was another metal type. It would fuse the disimilar metals together to write a 1. Unfused was a 0. It could fuse and unfuse each bit a few hundred times. The computer this was attached to had the monitor and floppy drives built in. It was a 12 CRT with dual 8 floppy drives (500kB). I can't remember the processor, but I know it was not an x86 variant. I even had a state of the art printer that printed like a ball typewriter. This was a parallel technology to dot matrix printing, but would only print text, at a decent speed. It could do 3 to 4 pages a minute, which was blazing fast. It did chew through ribbons quickly.
The only part of this computer I still have is an AT connector mechanical keyboard. It even still works with an AT to PS2 adapter then a PS2 to USB adapter. I love the feel of it even more than my cherry MX keyboard.
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TheLightLOD
It departments in general are pretty horrible, at least the kind of IT department that does maintenance and problem solving, the type that actually develops software well the opinions vary (I work in a development type).
What I've had on my job is that quite often IT did a change that they neither communicated (before nor after the fact), nor got a green light for doing in the first place. This has in fact been such a problem that since the IT was run by a different company we actually kicked that company out, because you know we don't want to have our systems locked up from one day to the other because someone flips a switch they're not allowed to and refused to listen to us the last about 5 times we told them that....
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It departments in general are pretty horrible, at least the kind of IT department that does maintenance and problem solving, the type that actually develops software well the opinions vary (I work in a development type).
What I've had on my job is that quite often IT did a change that they neither communicated (before nor after the fact), nor got a green light for doing in the first place. This has in fact been such a problem that since the IT was run by a different company we actually kicked that company out, because you know we don't want to have our systems locked up from one day to the other because someone flips a switch they're not allowed to and refused to listen to us the last about 5 times we told them that....
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SeraphimDelta
First HD - I still have. Maxtor 86mb. Warranty expired in 1990. Confirmed it still works on an old 386 fairly recently (386 was not mine, but happens to be the same computer I built when I was 9 so it was a special test for me). We have come such a long way. I recall being tech support all through high school for everybody I knew. Remember the late 90s where games/programs were getting huge but a 20gb hard drive was big at the time? It was such an odd point in PC history that I recall, did not last long maybe a year but I recall the days of only being able to have a few games on a drive. edit for typeo
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First HD - I still have. Maxtor 86mb. Warranty expired in 1990. Confirmed it still works on an old 386 fairly recently (386 was not mine, but happens to be the same computer I built when I was 9 so it was a special test for me). We have come such a long way. I recall being tech support all through high school for everybody I knew. Remember the late 90s where games/programs were getting huge but a 20gb hard drive was big at the time? It was such an odd point in PC history that I recall, did not last long maybe a year but I recall the days of only being able to have a few games on a drive. edit for typeo
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Ronnie
I don t agree that hiring more people when demand is high is incompetent . That s what they should be doing.
Does it suck that people lost jobs? Yeah. But that s life.
Everyone knows (or should know) that jobs always have the possibility of going away.
I have to do it sometimes as well. We ramp up for spring and summer when business is high. Then starting in the fall we evaluate the workers we have and when the slow winter season hits we let go of the workers who are performing the worse.
Just because a company is making money doesn t mean they should waste that money. Business is business.
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I don t agree that hiring more people when demand is high is incompetent . That s what they should be doing.
Does it suck that people lost jobs? Yeah. But that s life.
Everyone knows (or should know) that jobs always have the possibility of going away.
I have to do it sometimes as well. We ramp up for spring and summer when business is high. Then starting in the fall we evaluate the workers we have and when the slow winter season hits we let go of the workers who are performing the worse.
Just because a company is making money doesn t mean they should waste that money. Business is business.
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Matei
Hard drive poll: I think 20MB. My parents bought a 286 in around '90 for my sister (my career start), while I got another one (this time a slim PS/2) a few years later.
The HDD that I certainly remember was a 600MB, maybe on my 486 (in 95), as that allowed me to collect SW to then archive it and almost fill a CD.
Edit: 2020 made me tap into nostalgia, and currently I have 2x 286 MBs as my oldest components. But I mostly bought components and got only 2 HDDs (1.3GB and 10GB) which I didn't event power on (due to: IDE to CF, IDE DOMs, XT-CF; incredible how fast win98 is, even on 386SX-40).
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Hard drive poll: I think 20MB. My parents bought a 286 in around '90 for my sister (my career start), while I got another one (this time a slim PS/2) a few years later.
The HDD that I certainly remember was a 600MB, maybe on my 486 (in 95), as that allowed me to collect SW to then archive it and almost fill a CD.
Edit: 2020 made me tap into nostalgia, and currently I have 2x 286 MBs as my oldest components. But I mostly bought components and got only 2 HDDs (1.3GB and 10GB) which I didn't event power on (due to: IDE to CF, IDE DOMs, XT-CF; incredible how fast win98 is, even on 386SX-40).
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Mark
My first hard drive was 20MB in the first computer that I ever purchased in 1988 - an Intel 286 and math co-processor, with 640k of RAM, 20 MB hard drive, both a 1.2 MB 5-1/4 inch floppy drive and a 1.44 MB 3-1/2 inch floppy drive, and EGA (320x200, 16 color) graphics. Cost me 2,500 for that rig, and I used it for several years, upgrading pieces of it at a time. The first computer that I ever used wasn't a PC - it was a Prime mini-computer that filled it's dedicated computer room, with a 1 MB hard drive the size of a large cake platter topped by a 5-layer cake.
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My first hard drive was 20MB in the first computer that I ever purchased in 1988 - an Intel 286 and math co-processor, with 640k of RAM, 20 MB hard drive, both a 1.2 MB 5-1/4 inch floppy drive and a 1.44 MB 3-1/2 inch floppy drive, and EGA (320x200, 16 color) graphics. Cost me 2,500 for that rig, and I used it for several years, upgrading pieces of it at a time. The first computer that I ever used wasn't a PC - it was a Prime mini-computer that filled it's dedicated computer room, with a 1 MB hard drive the size of a large cake platter topped by a 5-layer cake.
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Melvin
I can't recall the size of my first HDD, but my second one was 20GB
The GPU was probably not a gaming GPU. It's probably an A serires GPU (former Tesla/Quadro series). They usually have more memory than their gaming-counterpart but use the same chip (with less stuff disabled of course. And different firmware).
Though 800W is probably a bit too much for a desktop variant. If I remember correctly there is a standard for accelerators (mostly GPU) for servers that goes up to 1,500 Watt.
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I can't recall the size of my first HDD, but my second one was 20GB
The GPU was probably not a gaming GPU. It's probably an A serires GPU (former Tesla/Quadro series). They usually have more memory than their gaming-counterpart but use the same chip (with less stuff disabled of course. And different firmware).
Though 800W is probably a bit too much for a desktop variant. If I remember correctly there is a standard for accelerators (mostly GPU) for servers that goes up to 1,500 Watt.
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Arudanel
It sounds like a 3090ti, or 4090ti to me. Honestly, with Apple bragging up to 48GB of their shared ram being usable for rendering, the 48GB flex for nVidia makes perfect sense. You know, because 48 is double 24, and almost triple your average card. Also, my first HDD was a 10mb used in an ancient 8086 Zenith office PC I scrounged out of a dumpster as a kid when the University was upgrading the computer lab to 286 systems. Cost me 250 bucks, which, as a paper boy, was a LOT.
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It sounds like a 3090ti, or 4090ti to me. Honestly, with Apple bragging up to 48GB of their shared ram being usable for rendering, the 48GB flex for nVidia makes perfect sense. You know, because 48 is double 24, and almost triple your average card. Also, my first HDD was a 10mb used in an ancient 8086 Zenith office PC I scrounged out of a dumpster as a kid when the University was upgrading the computer lab to 286 systems. Cost me 250 bucks, which, as a paper boy, was a LOT.
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Serge
The first hard disk I used was a Shugart Technology (Seagate) 5MB model ST-506 from back in early 1980s in a computer from my dad, followed by a 10MB in a IBM XT PC.
I was impressed by the boast of both capacity increase as well as the physical size reduction of HDD storage devices over the years and now looking at a tiny Micro SD card on my desk that holds more data than a bunch of warehouse fully filled with that first Seagate HDD.
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The first hard disk I used was a Shugart Technology (Seagate) 5MB model ST-506 from back in early 1980s in a computer from my dad, followed by a 10MB in a IBM XT PC.
I was impressed by the boast of both capacity increase as well as the physical size reduction of HDD storage devices over the years and now looking at a tiny Micro SD card on my desk that holds more data than a bunch of warehouse fully filled with that first Seagate HDD.
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Anders
My first hard drive was a used 210MB drive that I used with my Amiga 1200 back in the day (about 30 years ago now). I was very proud when I managed to buy it for 150 (In todays value, 300, if what I've seen is correct). But back then I also worked with servers that had 4x9GB drives. The drives were almost 1U in height by themselves. :) (Btw, the server was Novell NetWare 4.12, for those that remember good old NetWare).
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My first hard drive was a used 210MB drive that I used with my Amiga 1200 back in the day (about 30 years ago now). I was very proud when I managed to buy it for 150 (In todays value, 300, if what I've seen is correct). But back then I also worked with servers that had 4x9GB drives. The drives were almost 1U in height by themselves. :) (Btw, the server was Novell NetWare 4.12, for those that remember good old NetWare).
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Marc
The first HD I bought was a 10mb unit part of a Commodore PC 40, an old, very old computer of the early 80's back in the days I worked as a sales rep in a Canadian Compucenter. Luxury model back then with a 80286 processor. None of those slow 8088 crap processors for me thank you. Also, back in those days we had to walk 20 miles in the snow to get to shcool...
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The first HD I bought was a 10mb unit part of a Commodore PC 40, an old, very old computer of the early 80's back in the days I worked as a sales rep in a Canadian Compucenter. Luxury model back then with a 80286 processor. None of those slow 8088 crap processors for me thank you. Also, back in those days we had to walk 20 miles in the snow to get to shcool...
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MisterZ3r0
My first computer was a Tandy Sensation from RadioShack. It had an Intel 486SX 25 MHz CPU, 4MB RAM, and 105MB Hard Drive. It ran Windows 3.1 and of course DOS. It featured a 1.44MB floppy disk drive and even a push pull CD ROM drive. My first game on it was Commander Keen (Demo) that came with the purchase of the computer.
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My first computer was a Tandy Sensation from RadioShack. It had an Intel 486SX 25 MHz CPU, 4MB RAM, and 105MB Hard Drive. It ran Windows 3.1 and of course DOS. It featured a 1.44MB floppy disk drive and even a push pull CD ROM drive. My first game on it was Commander Keen (Demo) that came with the purchase of the computer.
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Paul_Sleeping
First HD I purchased with my own money was a 40MB Maxtor from CompUSA for 300 or 400 in the 90s. All the HDs I've purchased so far have never died. I'm fortunate in that department.
The first computer was a PC that was also an Apple II clone, I think, in the 80s. I don't know the size of the HD that was in there.
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First HD I purchased with my own money was a 40MB Maxtor from CompUSA for 300 or 400 in the 90s. All the HDs I've purchased so far have never died. I'm fortunate in that department.
The first computer was a PC that was also an Apple II clone, I think, in the 80s. I don't know the size of the HD that was in there.
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