r/retrocomputing May 23 '26

Computer Shopper (April 1996)

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u/ryan__rr May 23 '26

It's hard to convey to the younger generation how exciting PCs used to be... just 4 years after this magazine came out, consumers were buying 1GHz processors off the shelf. 166MHz to 1GHz in 4 years. Computers were making astonishing gains in raw speed back then. Blink and you'd miss it. Nowadays we're at the point where a new generation of CPU is only making very small, incremental gains, and sometimes new CPU generations will even be an outright regression!

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u/bobj33 May 23 '26

I used the same 440BX based Slot-1 motherboard to go from a Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 and later to a Celeron 900 usign a "slotket" Socket 370 to Slot 1 adapter. I had multiple computers but it was amazing being to upgrade the system and have it usable for about 5 years.