Ever owned a PC with a turbo button?
 

my first PC had one :glugglug

mine too, never could figure out what it was for

Yep, good times :thumbsup

rofl i forgot about the turbo button

i'd push that bitch constantly, and nothing would happen :(

Yeah, I think it boosted it from 8 mhz to 12 or something.

my old 286 did.. i think it boosted it from 16mhz to 28 or something like that..

several of them :)
in fact, i'm sitting right next to one. it's a P2 266 Mhz. i use it as a foot rest.

engage the warp drive?

I had a turbo button, I never connected it.

why wouldn't people use turbo all the time? why even give that option, just have it go fast always

Turbo simply simply slowed the processor by roughly half (when it was off). Lots of software back in the day didn't look at processor speed, so would run waaay too fast.. think about games, etc.. I had a flight sim that ran great at 8khz but was totally retarded at 16. Yep.. 8 and 16.. what fun!

Hell yes!

I made my digital megahertz display read "69" too :thumbsup

I did ... 2 or 3 when I was young . I never understood what it was supposed to do

what were they thinking when they built those?

it looked all cool to me, when i only had an amiga 500.. when i got the PC, realized it was just BS..

turbo mode is actually regular speed, and u turn it off for application that run 'too fast' i think

My 286/16 had one, it was supa-dupa fast. My friend had a 286/12 and he was very jealous of me.

Yup had a few of them... I think I still have an old 386 kicking around the office somewhere. :1orglaugh

hahaha MEMORIES.

Oh yeah ... I remember now :)

God damn that's the old days . I was sooooo newbie back then ... I remember wolfeinstein 3d and doom too now !

thats what i always figured. LOL

fuck.. we were all newbies back than.. it was a new world.

hmm... never knew that.

Are the activators activated we need to engage turbo captain?

It was a shit useless button but it passed the time when I was up late at night from coffee induced sleeplessness.

Hell yeah, my old Packard Hell 286 had one :) 12Mhz with 4 Mb Ram and a 40 Meg Drive !

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair:1orglaugh

some games didnt have frame control back then..

throwback

They should bring back the digital MHZ displays :thumbsup

yep.

:glugglug

I remember buying my first pc and the salesman telling me go with the 30 mb harddrive you will never fill it up. lol I miss my leading edge word processing program it rocked lol.

Yep and no matter how fast I pushed that turbo button the computer was still too slow.

I wouldn't mind a turbo button these days... unless I'm doing video encoding my CPU is probably idle most of the time. I don't need full power to surf GFY. :)

Still got a 486 at the office that I use to run legacy scripts which has the turbo button.

WG

HAHAHA I remember those. Seemed like a dumb idea even back then, I mean, you really says "My computer is too fast, oh shit, I had that damn turbo button on." Good memories.

Mine had one when I was younger.

Yes, it was sweet.

My computer is always in turbo mode.

:smokin

I hope to get one soon

What memories! What fucking memories, that takes me back! I remember those fucking things! Damn, I should go buy one now! hehe

jDoG

My 486 has one. :Graucho
33/66 hz

Yes I had one. If I pressed the button it increased it's speed from 16 to 20 MHz. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I never got to own one of those, would have been cool :( I remember seeing them in school