Ramblings on IT

My wife & I got married 10 years ago in May, 1998. As women tend to be (in my life anyway), she wanted to do a bunch of stuff I would never have even considered – like putting together a time capsule (ever notice these things are never marketed to men?).

Wow, does time fly.

We opened it up on the Saturday morning after our ‘official’ anniversary dinner the night before (we love Hy’s – steak & Caesar salad can’t be beat), and spent the rest of the day reminiscing.

My grandmother managed to write us (and the rest of her extended family by proxy) a 23-page letter, and since died at the ripe old age of 95. Lots of laughter and tears – that letter alone was reason enough to do the capsule.

I did also manage to put in the September 1998 edition of PC Magazine (OK so we didn’t seal it right away), along with the August ‘98 issue of Wired. I’ll poke through these and blog on some of the tidbits I find.

For this post, let me see. . .

The Future of Microprocessors (Q3, 1998):

Intel: Mendocino – A Celeron with 128K of on-chip L2 cache.

AMD: K6-2 – Features a faster MMX unit and 3DNow!

Cyrix: MII – Essentially a renamed 6×86MX that runs at higher core and bus speeds.

IDT: WinChip 2 – Features faster FP and MMX units as well as 3DNow!

Last nugget today: How much for a PII-400 w/ 512K cache? $589 in 1k lots.

Who says computers are expensive?

L8r,

Dave