I've upgraded my beard comb

[lovingboth]

It used to be a 486 - the 33 MHz version I paid about £100 for in the late 80s, not long after Intel brought out the 486/50 and the price of the 486/33 dropped.

It was the first CPU in what was my main PC for some years in the 90s, and ended up being replaced by a 486 DX-2/66 and then the wonderful pin-compatible Cyrix Xc5x86/100.

Now it's a Pentium/133 from a PC found in the street with almost everything else ripped out. Even more gold pin goodness :)

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[foibey.livejournal.com]

Cyrix blew donkey cock.

[lovingboth]

Their later Pentium clones were bad, yes.

But this was the fastest processor you could stick in a 486 motherboard - this one overclocked to 120 MHz and there was a 133 MHz version. Even with the overclocking, it was much cooler than an Intel DX-2/66 or AMD clone. Internally, the design was a couple of years ahead of any other x86 CPU.

[foibey.livejournal.com]

I think that must have been just before I got into computers.