It’s incredible how much the prices have fallen and that’s how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it’s a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that’s what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

  • Twofacetony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I got excited when we got a math-coprocessor for our 386 33MHz. I tried my hardest to get a sound blaster card so I didn’t have to use PC speaker to play games (namely TFX), but it was deemed too expensive for little reward.

    • jafo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Your parents weren’t worried about the math co-processor doing all your homework for you? That was the GPT-387? :-)

      • Twofacetony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I had typewriter classes back then!!! Homework came on “photocopies” from a handcranked machine that had a lot of rollers from memory. I have no idea what it was, but it was witchcraft!

        Edit: I looked it up for curiosity sake, and the “witchcraft” machine might have been called a mimeograph.