First post, by dave343
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I'm curious what the actually norm was (affordable norm), vs what was available say during a particular month/year eg; 1994/95. For instance, the Pentium 100 was released on or around March 1994, so building a PC based around that would be period time correct. However, how many people actually had a Pentium 100 on release date, let alone even in 1994. My father bought a NEC Ready 166MMX in April 1997 and it was used until 2001. A friend upgraded his PC to a 166 in 1998, another ran his Pentium 100 until early 2000, and another upgrade from a 386 to a AMD 586/133 in Summer 1997 and was still using it as his main rig in 1999.
I always thought the transition to Pentium Systems for the majority of people happened between 1993-1995, and it wasn't until recently that I realized how many 486 systems were still being sold in 95-97. So I'm curious to know how many of you were still running Pentium 1 systems in the late 90's? and even into the 2000's. And if you were still using a 486 in the late 90's when and what did you upgrade too? I often forget how expensive PC parts were back then, and I guess that's why so many of my friends at least ran their Pentium system's until very late 90's, even into the 2000's.