Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s when Windows Me and 2000 and XP were still popular and internet connectivity was measured in Kbps, device drivers were hard to come by.
The most popular Chipsets were Intel, VIA, ALi
One valuable thing that you could own in those years was a Motherboard CD with various drivers from the different manufacturers.
Sound was mainly by Realtek or Creative Labs. Display was by Intel, network by Realtek
Processor makes have not changed much Pentium I,II,III,4 and AMD Athlon. There was the cheaper Cyrix and Celeron.
Processor naming has changed to include Cores as the number of transistors increase leading to multiple cores being housed in one chip. Core i3, i5, i7
I can relate. We have come a long way. During my Univeristy days I used to sell Porn VCds made from My Desktop using Nero CD writing software. My Computer was a Simple Brandless Tower that I had assembled over the course of 2 years.
Comp ikifail lazima ungetafuta Drivers za motherboard. Windows XP didn’t have enough drivers in its drivers.CAB file.
Had a BenQ Cd Writer, 256MB RAM, 80Gb and 15 Inch Mercury CRT. There was a Kibanda guy hapo Buru Mtindwa who used to buy those Porn VCds at Ksh 150 and in one week i used to sell at least 20 Copies. Kazi ilikuwa kunyonga then copy the AVSEQ file onto HDD.
Comp ikifail lazima ungetafuta Drivers za motherboard. Windows XP didn’t have enough drivers in its drivers.CAB file.
Had a BenQ Cd Writer, 256MB RAM, 80Gb and 15 Inch Mercury CRT. There was a Kibanda guy hapo Buru Mtindwa who used to buy those Porn VCds at Ksh 150 and in one week i used to sell at least 20 Copies. Kazi ilikuwa kunyonga then copy the AVSEQ file onto HDD.
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