swaaye wrote on 2024-11-17, 06:02:
DrAnthony wrote on 2024-11-16, 22:36:
It's interesting though, I feel nostalgia going just a tiny bit further back (say XP on my old Athlon X2 3200+) but I don't feel it for 7. I absolutely loved the build I used from that era (Phenom II X4 955 and a Radeon 4850) and it's still perfectly functional sitting in my basement, but it's also running windows 10 and had an SSD popped in so it just feels....modern~ish I'd say.
Oh I agree. It's hard to feel nostalgia for something that functions essentially the same as a modern machine. Even a graphics card from 2009 is very similar to modern cards. Motherboard audio is the same 24-bit Intel HD standard. GbE networking. 802.11n. Etc.
It's 15 years ago. In 2009 a 15 year old PC was a DOS/Win3.1 PC with a <500 MB hard drive, potentially only dumb framebuffer VGA, and maybe 8-bit audio (or PC speaker)! Let me dial into my PPP connection and load up Trumpet Winsock so I can check out this WWW thing on my hot new 28.8 modem! 😀
+1
In my country, we still used primarily BBSes and online services at the time.
Such as AOL (late), CompuServe, T-Online (aka BTX, Datex-J) and so on.
France used Minitel/Teletel, while other countries had GEnie and Prodigy I think.
Banks, ATMs and power grids had their own networks, I think.
A business network in my country was Datex-P service, which used networks based on X.25 protocol (the older rival of TCP/IP).
They were based on the predecessor technology to internet, in principle.
They operated on virtual connections based on the old telephone infrastructure of 20th century.
ISDN was also using X.25 protocol, but didn't last very long unfortunately.
Thinking about it, I think that early 90s and late 90s were a different world really.
In early 90s you still had 80s fashion, music, kids playing Tetris on their Gameboys and beige ~25 MHz PCs running DOS,
wereas late 90s was about hipsters, Playstation and Pentium II PCs with a DVD drive and Windows 98. 😉
Shponglefan wrote on 2024-11-17, 11:57:
Horun wrote on 2024-11-17, 06:01:
Hmm I think some forgot the OP's request/comment on "period correct" that excludes anything newer than about 2012/2013.. just sayin
I used Windows 7 up until 2017. Anything from late 2000's to late 2010's could be considered period correct for Win7.
Windows 7 was an OS with a fairly long lifespan, similar to XP.
Hi, I think that PCs with "Vista Premium Ready" stickers were a good indication for Windows Vista/7 capable PCs. 🙂
Though there's one thing to care of, maybe. Graphics hardware that has WDM 1.1 drivers (recommended).
WDM 1.0 was used by Vista and didn't support 2D acceleration (GDI).
When running Windows 7 with the older graphics driver model, a copy of video data is kept in system memory, causing a higher memory usage.
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