• frunch@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I still remember being soooooo fucking excited to see the next big step from a 486. I think we had a 486SX back when Pentium was current. I vaguely recall the Pentium chip being almost more like a cartridge in it’s form-factor but i could be way off. Old school computing days were the best 💖

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      10 hours ago

      Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.

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        9 hours ago

        Ahhhh yes, thank you! I should have googled it but i was swimming in nostalgia, lol 😅

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        And if you had a CPU for a socket but a board with a slot, you used a slocket adapter!