Category
Personal computers
Every personal computer in the RetroFlops catalog, oldest first.
Personal computers in the catalog
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Personal computer · 1978
Intel 8086 PC
A representative 5 MHz 8086 desktop configuration with 256 KiB of DRAM and a period display adapter.
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Personal computer · August 1981
IBM Personal Computer 5150
IBM's original PC: an 8088 at 4.77 MHz and a selected 16 KiB base-memory configuration.
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Personal computer · 1982
Intel 80286 PC
A representative 12.5 MHz 80286 desktop configuration with 512 KiB of DRAM and a period display adapter.
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Personal computer · January 1984
Apple Macintosh 128K
The original Macintosh: a 68000, a built-in monochrome display, and a Toolbox ROM holding the routines that drew the interface.
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Personal computer · 1985
Intel 80386DX PC
A representative 25 MHz 80386DX desktop configuration with 4 MiB of DRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.
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Personal computer · June 1985
Atari 520ST
An 8 MHz 68000 personal computer with 512 KiB RAM, TOS ROM and the SHIFTER display subsystem.
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Personal computer · June 1987
Acorn Archimedes A310
The first Archimedes, built around Acorn's own ARM2 and running RISC OS from ROM. It put a RISC processor in a home computer years before the idea reached the mainstream.
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Personal computer · 1989
Intel 80486DX PC
A representative 33 MHz 80486DX desktop configuration with 8 MiB of DRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.
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Personal computer · 1993
Intel Pentium PC
A representative 100 MHz Pentium desktop configuration with 16 MiB of SDRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.
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Personal computer · 1997
Intel Pentium II PC
A representative 300 MHz Pentium II desktop configuration with 64 MiB of SDRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.
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Personal computer · 2002
Intel Pentium 4 PC
A representative 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 desktop configuration with 512 MiB of DDR SDRAM and VGA-compatible graphics.
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Personal computer · July 2006
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 PC
A representative Core 2 Duo E6600 desktop configuration with integrated graphics; Intel's surviving family table does not fix an E6600-specific clock or fitted RAM capacity.
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Personal computer · January 2011
Intel Core i7-2600K PC
A representative Core i7-2600K desktop configuration with 8 GiB of DDR3 SDRAM and Intel HD Graphics 3000.
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Personal computer · November 2020
Apple Mac mini (M1, 2020)
16 000 000 000 transistors on 5 nm, with processor and graphics cores sharing 8 GiB or 16 GiB of unified memory. The computer is rated at 150 W. Its performance and efficiency cores retain separate clock records.
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Personal computer · October 2023
Intel Core i9-14900K PC
A representative Core i9-14900K desktop configuration with 32 GiB of DDR5 SDRAM and integrated UHD Graphics 770.
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Personal computer · October 2023
Raspberry Pi 5
A 2.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A76 board with an 800 MHz VideoCore VII GPU and 8 GiB of LPDDR4X memory.
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Personal computer · November 2024
Apple Mac mini (M4, 2024)
A 10-core M4 CPU and 10-core GPU with 16 GiB of unified memory and 120 GB/s of published memory bandwidth.