heh. try a 5 minute long animation for the start of a star trek convention, modeling done on a 486Dx2 66mhz with 8mb of ram and a copy of trueSpace 2, then exported (terribly via 3DS) to 3DStudio R4 for animation and rendering (done on a Pentium 133 with 8mb Ram).

playback required 2 computers, 1 for the sound and 1 for the 'video' (was a FLC file) since one machine alone could'nt play the video and sound together without going badly outta sync.

all terribly primative by the standards of what we're doing now.... but it was liked and I wish I still had a copy :(
(hard disk failure back in '99 killed it)