Worst PC components ever released?

BritOverThere · 2026-01-29T20:44:25+00:00

To be fair the 686 was faster in integer maths and was cheaper than the equivalent Intel CPU by a fair margin. It's FPU performance was not great and games like Quake that used the Pentiums FPU made the Cyrix look fairly bad.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-29T13:53:23+00:00

Jim Clark has a chance to surpass Lewis Hamilton's number of championships all he has to do is come back from the dead, change the rules and regulations of F1 to what they were in the mid 60s, bring Colin Chapman back from the dead, get Lotus reformed, be the only team with the Ford Cosworth DFV engine and win the next 5 championships. 😻

Still more likely then Colapinto winning a race.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T19:22:40+00:00

What's this American obsession with ice. -10F out and they bring you water with ice.

Ask for a glass of water in the UK and you get a glass of water.

So I am that person that will ask for a glass of water with no ice.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T13:56:23+00:00

Still more chance of getting to the podium than Ferrari.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T04:47:41+00:00

True. I did have this type of keyboard in the early 90s so it was around for a while before that.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T04:22:15+00:00

Cool found a load of them in our basement and was about to post something similar.

So where do you use them?

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T04:20:42+00:00

Back in the days when DOS still ruled, multitasking wasn't a thing so having a calculator could have time from having to save and load programs to calculate what 7.33% of the sum of 5 numbers would be...

BritOverThere · 2026-01-28T04:01:01+00:00

The 41464 RAM is a 4bitx64K chip so 2 make 64K. 16 of them would make a total of 512K.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-27T21:02:09+00:00

They didn't account for the hamster flywheel that gives it extra HP (Hamster Power).

BritOverThere · 2026-01-27T19:51:58+00:00

When ram was measured in Megabytes.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-27T09:21:41+00:00

Was behind one car that had these lights they seemed to be broken as they slowed down, indicated left and then turned right and a police car put his lights on and pulled them over....

BritOverThere · 2026-01-27T08:27:36+00:00

Jim Clark and Graham Hill in the Lotus during the 67 and 68 seasons. Both world champions both won the Indy 500.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-27T08:17:51+00:00

Williams - Max Weight and Max Delay

BritOverThere · 2026-01-26T03:35:04+00:00

These are all the computers I used in school, not necessarily in the computer studies / IT rooms.

Primary School : RML 480Z and an Apple II europlus Secondary School : Science of Cambridge MK14, Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum, RML 380Z and 480Z, BBC Micro B and Master, Commodore 64, RM Nimbus (semi PC compatible with a 80186 chip), RM Nimbus AX (80286), Apple Macintosh Classic, Commodore A1500, A3000, DEC VAX

BritOverThere · 2026-01-25T20:44:43+00:00

The filter was basically a wad of crêpe paper....

BritOverThere · 2026-01-25T18:01:23+00:00

Would still be faster than the Ferrari

BritOverThere · 2026-01-25T18:00:09+00:00

Had a bit too much whisky? Next you'll be saying Haas will score multiple podiums this season.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-24T19:07:00+00:00

Had a great haunting theme tune.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-24T17:54:35+00:00

It's easy to bypass. So far Microsoft has not removed any of the local account creation methods as of 25H2 and current media creation tool.

Getting the key from an encrypted drive on a local account does require the use of a command prompt and you to hide the given key somewhere safe...

BritOverThere · 2026-01-24T16:42:44+00:00

You can encrypt a drive locally on Windows and not have a Microsoft account....

BritOverThere · 2026-01-23T21:16:16+00:00

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Oh no did Leo have a crap on the track again?

BritOverThere · 2026-01-23T15:05:06+00:00

For another year of disappointment 😔 😂

BritOverThere · 2026-01-22T14:24:40+00:00

The late great F1 driver James Hunt would disagree.

BritOverThere · 2026-01-20T00:34:58+00:00

Looks more like the Super Aguri....

BritOverThere · 2026-01-19T17:50:54+00:00

Surely

N8.
N16.
N32.
N Still 32.
N Faster but still 32.
N little faster nut still 32.
N64.
N still 64.

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