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Computers are much more powerful now than even a year ago. Some people here have been recording for a long time on PCs. I first recorded on a 500MHz Duron with maybe 512 MB ram and a cheapo mobo.

What's the slowest computer that worked for you?
 
Apple iMac G3, 400 MHz with 384 MB RAM running OS 9.2 with Reason 1.0 and Cubase VST 32 (or something like that) from 2002-2005.

AMD K6 500 MHz with 256 MB RAM running Windows XP with Reason 2.5 and Cubase SE. Also in 2005.

Both computers have been retired from music duties and have been donated to needy friends :)
 
I think... a Pentium 2 133?
I still use a P-3 700 with Samplitude.
 
My original mBox rig. The first mBox (Focusrite) USB, old Mac G4 400 with 512K in it. I plan on pulling it out of retirement for home recording again. rarely froze and rarely a hiccup. Seems like I fight our studio rig alot more than I ever did with this rig.
 
My first venture into computer recording was 6 years ago, on a Pentium 3, 1GHZ, 256MB RAM, Windows 2000, with a Lexicon Core2 (I think that's what its called) - biggest PCI card I've ever seen, with a 4 line input breakout box, and Cool Edit 1.1

I was completely inept at the time when it came to recording - I didn't know about mic preamps, balanced cable, anything. I thought the breakout box was meant to have dynamics with 1/4" jacks on em plugged right in, ready to go. At the time I knew nothing of bbs's and thought I could figure the whole process out myself, so I never researched recording online (and by 2000, there was plenty of info available, Im sure)

The recordings were this: 4x Radio Shack $20 dynamics w/ 1/4" jack.
1 on vocals, 1 on guitar cab, and two for drums (1 kick and 1 overhead).

I listened to those recordings recently, and the drums and guitar don't sound half bad (as they were both loud enough to even somewhat overcome the gain problems I had in my mic->recorder chain). The vocals, however, are almost non-existant... basically floating in the sea that is the noise floor of the track.
 
I first recorded on the Amiga 500 using a tracker program call Octamed 4 and wave editor program called Audiomaster III that was nearly 14 years ago.

The Amiga 500 had 8 bit built-in sound and ran at about 7mhz with 1/2 meg chip ram and 4 megabytes of fast ram(dispite the name it ran alot slower then chip ram) and 50 megabytes scsi-II harddrive, before we switch to the Atari ST 1040 using a rackmount sampler FZ-10M from casio.

We still have the sampler but the Atari is long gone.

Now I'm waiting to even older stories of people tracking on commodore 64 which is alway entertaining. LOL!!
 
I was tracking in 1902 to a digital wax cylinder recorder! There was a device between the horn+diaphragm and the needle that cut the wax that converted the analog vibrations into 1s and 0s, which then got etched into the disk.

What's sad is, that doesn't sound much more far fetched to me than digital tape. I've used digital tape - I think its odd that even though it came out around the time that hard drives were starting to come into decent capacity and reliability, we decided it would be best to write to tape, so we'd still have all the inherent problems of narrow-width, high-use cassettes :p

Perhaps it was a little behind the hard drive boom, but still - digital tape should've been replaced by HD sooner than it was :D
 
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