The Good Old Days

[AdmnPower]

How many of you remember the good old days of computers that had turbo buttons?

 

[hermeslyre]

Only just recently got into Computers, so no. Whatza turbo button do?

 

[apj101]

Only just recently got into Computers, so no. Whatza turbo button do?

it was a button that when pressed would make the mouse move around twice as fast. Didnt catch on really hehehe


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

 

[chrisalviola]

is this with a number digit on the front panel?

 

[andy faith]

hehe lol yeh...and keylock with an actual key

 

[Jet]

Back in the day, my family had a 486 with a turbo button on it. We used that computer lots! Any of you remember, or have played, the original Need For Speed? Now THAT was what I call gaming..

 

[brian]

i am only 15 and i rembore!!! we... that is b/c my boss gave me one with it on it . also what about the lcd display. that i wish some still have

 

[skidude]

I had no idea what a turbo button was until I read this thread.... jeez....

 

[spanky]

My monitor has a turbo button.

 

[Jabes]

I didn't know wat a turbo button was but I think I remember seeing one on an old computer maybe my moms old dos

 

[Emperor_nero]

I have a keyboard that says turbo around somewhere I think. And I've had a couple I think that had a turbo button so did my mothers 95.

 

[patrickv]

I had no idea what a turbo button was until I read this thread.... jeez....

lol, same here

 

[ThatGuy16]

O thats so cool, maybe i can get meh a turbo button

 

[oscaryu1]

I had one but trashed it due to an ROM failure...

I thought Turbo increased your CPU speed? The little panel always went from 66 to 100 or 133 everytime I pressed it.

 

[Bradan]

ya seriously it increases cpu speed a ridiculous amount.

its liek a "50% oc button"

my friend had one pc we used to play heroes 3 on when we were in gr 4.

it's kind of like a manual power save feature i guess.

 

[Geoff]

The turbo button didn't speed up the mouse. It was used to slow down the computer so you can run older apps that wouldnt run no the current PC's. The processor is set at a certain speed, the turbo button didnt overclock it, but when it was depressed it was a certain percentage lower.

 

[StrangleHold]

On the 486s it would cause wait states to the processor and even disable the CPUs cache, later with the 386s it would just lower the CPUs MHZs by lowering the FSB by a few MHZs.

 

[AdmnPower]

wow, i thought everyone would remember that. i had no idea so many people had never heard of such a thing. I think on the one i had bumped a 30 mhz processor way up to 33mhz.

 

[Verve]

I remember seeing one, that was about 6 years ago. Never owned one though.

 

[AdmnPower]

yeah, i guess i didn't technically own mine, it was the family computer.