Comments on: Video card retrospective: take a trip down Video Memory Lane

By: Richard Molpus

Richard Molpus — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:50:17 +0000

Solid State Music’s VDM1
16 lines
64 characters per line
1024 bytes of memory
All 7400 TTL SSI chips

2 Megahertz 8080 CPU

32 Kilobytes of 2102 Static Ram

S-100 Vector Graphics Chassis

Circa 1975

By: Marc Muher

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:39:13 +0000

Trident 9440 was the beginning for me.

By: Gryphyn

Gryphyn — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:02:41 +0000

I still have my old Voodoo 2 12 Meg card. Man, that thing would scream at 800×600 resolution.

By: kP

kP — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:36:06 +0000

Mine would be the original IBM PC 25 row x 80 column monochrome card. I got a Hercules card a little later then bought a color monitor and a generic CGA card.

By: Nigelg

Nigelg — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:08:26 +0000

I think my history goes something like…

Orchid Richeous 3DFX 4MB
Matrox G200
Geforce 256
Voodoo 3 2000
Geforce 3 Ti 200
Geforce 7600GT
HD4850

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:40:57 +0000

This is awesome! Thanks for the great find. Nostaligia is kicking in :)

By: Steve Jabs

Steve Jabs — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:26:42 +0000

I remember owning some of those 3dfx cards. I remember having to buy one when we ordered 3d studio max off of ebay (which ended up being a really illegal rip and came with softimage too :P).

I want to dig out my old motherboards and frame some of them. And I’m also quite proud that I have an old ass win 95 setup still up and running using all of the original parts.