Your computer history!

Tandy CoCo3
Amiga
Pentium 90, 32mb ram, Win95
P4 1.8ghz, 700-some mb ram, WinXP
Early Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram, Vista, it's what I'm using right now!
Acer Aspire One netbook on the side, WinXP turning to an Ubuntu dualboot whenever I get the time.

All fantastic! Except the P90, which was on its deathbed when I got it.

I also have an older iMac at work (one of the desk lamp ones), but it's all poopy.
I was wondering when the first Tandy would pop up ;)
 
1.In 2000, my dad had bought me an IBM Aptiva with a honking great 17" CRT monitor and a printer for a whopping $2000!! It lasted me for a while until I got pissed with AMD K6 power.

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2. My uncle got me an ECS K7S5A motherboard and a new 1.2 GHZ AMD Duron CPU for christmas!!!!! With a Geforce MX200, I was able to game for once!

3. As the Duron got a bit too slow, I decided to build myself a new PC, starting with an AMD Athlon64 3000+ with a Geforce 6600 Vanilla and 1 GB or PC3200 DDR RAM. Total cost was around $750. I was happy with that system.

4. As I am about to enroll in a University, I decided that I probably should give up desktop power for laptop portability. This summer, I managed to buy an HP DV2 1116AX with the AMD Athlon Neo X2 processor (though I really wanted to get an Intel chipset for once). I love the small size, reasonable price, and the fact that it can do some light gaming. It also happens to be faster than my current desktop PC (though with Vista, it somehow feels more sluggish). Currently waiting for the available Windows 7 upgrade from HP :)

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pentium 100 / 8mb / 2mb video thing / 1gb

pentium 3 500 / 128mb / tnt2 / 12.7gb

amd k6-2 333mhz laptop, 64ram, 2mb sis thing - 2 gb?

amd 2400 / 512 / 9550 iirc / 12.7gb

amd 1800 / 256 / gforce 4200 128mb

pentium IV 2.8ghz / 1024 / 9800 / 80gb hd

C2D 6750 / 4gb RAM / 8800GT SSC / 250 + 320 + 4*750gb (notice where i got more geeky? :D )

C2D T6400/3gb RAM / X3100 dell inspiron 1525 laptop
 
To be all correct, the first 5 of these were not MINE but belonged to my parents ... but I used them no less. And I won?t list Memory or Graphic cards ... because I canged those more often than my underwear between 7 and 12 ...

1 C16
2 C64 (two - the first one broke)
3 C128
4 286
5 386
6 486 - Pentium 1 66mhz
7 Pentium MMX 266mhz
8 AMD Athlon 750mhz (SlotA)
9 Pentium II 400mhz (as Server)
10 AMD AthlonXP 2500+
11 P3 500mhz (Slot1 - as Server)
12 P3 900mhz (as Server)
13 Intel C2D 6300 - up untill now, to get a processor-update end of the year or early next year.
 
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My short list:

1. some ibm (i think) 386.
2. HP deskjet or something p2 333Mhz, 64Mb 6,4Gb => 386Mb, 40Gb
3. Acer ferrari 3200 mobile athlon 64 1600Mhz, 512Mb, 80Gb (it died :( )
4. some other ibm p4, 1,5Gb 40Gb, 500Gb lacie (now mums pc)
5. Hp pavilion dv6827eo, amd something 64 x2 :p 4Gb, 160Gb (changed it to 160Gb WD black), nvidia 8400 mobile 256Mb.

other's:
1. home server, amd duron 600Mhz, 512Mb, 40Gb + 1,5Tb

I still have all of em :)
 
1: Some old old old Intel chip with a 4GB hard drive and 8MB of ram I believe. We later bought a Zip Drive for it. :lol:

2: Sony Vaio with a 1.8 Pentium 4 with a 40GB hard drive and 256MB of ram. It was like stepping into the future after using my first computer. Came with a beautiful 17 inch flat screen (yet still CRT) monitor and a CD burner. It was like magic :lol:

3: Toshiba Satellite A65 Laptop. The worst computer I have ever used. Came with a 2.6ghz Celeron and 512mb of ram. It was slow the day I bought it, then after 4 years of constant use it finally died altogether.

4: Apple MacBook 2.0ghz C2D Intel chip with 4GB of ram and a 320GB hard drive. Its my baby :)
 
oooooh, Here we go...

Acorn Atom (1MHz, that's a 1 and 2K, yes 2K of RAM)
Commodore C16
Commodore C64 ( Had the 5 1/4" floppy drive too, that was bigger then the computer :)
Amstrad 1640 (with a 10Mb hard disc !)
Pentium 75
Cyrix PR150+ (Made myself as are all following PCs)
AMD K6 233 Later swapped for a Pentium 233 MMX as it couldn't hack Unreal and Quake 2
AMD Athlon 650
AMD Athlon 1400
AMD Athlon 2800
Intel Core2 Quad 6600

I've also had various other pieces of hardware
A Psion Series 3a organiser (Best organiser ever made, it broke though)
Casio cassiopeia E115
I-mate windows mobile POS
Nokia N810
 
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First 3 were/are Mum and Dad's, but I used them.

  1. Apple Macintosh Performa 630 (lasted years, only was thrown out about 4 years ago after nearly 10 years) I have some great memories of this computer, and if we still had it, it would beat #3 hands down.
  2. Some grey box thing with Windows 98, later upgraded to Windows 2000 for my brother going to University, then again to XP and put into a Dell casing for me to use for about a year, it has 20GB hard drive and that is all I can remember (still being used by my sister)
  3. eMachines something or another, their current machine, and gradually getting slower and slower, takes at least 8 minutes to start up.

My own ones.
  1. Apple MacBook (White) July 2007, 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 120GB HDD (top of the line at the time for the white MB's)
  2. Apple iMac 24" June 2009, 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory and 1TB HDD (bottom of the 24" models)
 
CyberMax 586 that I last booted up a few years ago in desperation for audio drivers when I had to reinstall Windows on my current compy. I didn't find the drivers...

Some beige box that I think had a 333MHz processor. Mostly used as a game computer for my sisters and I. I was the one that used it the most, though. It was a hand-me-down from my parents when they got a new computer. It later became my sisters' computer, then replaced with the computer my parents replaced it with, after I got my current machine, and upgraded with a P4. The "new" one eventually died...

I then got a Compaq Presario s4000v, with a blazing 2.3GHz Celeron (Ugh!) and 128MB of RAM, for Christmas. It could play NFS:HP2 reasonably well, which was an absolute joy for me, as I had waited a year for a powerful enough computer to play it. NFSU, however, slowed to an absolute crawl. It later gained an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB graphics card. About a year after that, it gained an extra 512MB. NFSU was finally playable! Good thing too, as NFSU2 was under the pine tree at the time. I then added an 80GB Seagate hard drive after the original 40GB Maxtor began to run out of room. A few years later, I upgraded it to a 3.06GHz Northwood P4, an extra gig of Ram, and a Radeon X1650 512MB graphics card. However, it's still quite long in the tooth. But it can run Crysis at mostly playable FPS!* If things go according to plan, I'll be able to add a new, more up-to-date machine to this list...

* On low. (Medium for physics) At 800x600. No AA or AF
 
I can only recall four

1. IBM Thinkpad. Ran Pentium 3, could run Diablo 2 which was cool. (Sister's)
2. Sony Vaio FS. Intel Centrino 1.7 GHZ. Nvidia Geforce 6600 Go (Mine)
3. Sony Vaio SZ28GP Intel Centrino Duo 2.GHZ Nvidia Geforce 7400 Go
4. Sony Vaio SR46GD Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53GHZ ATI Raedon 4570 HD

Yes I am a VAIO whore.
 
Right... let's recall.

1. An ancient 486 with DOS, Norton Commander and (as I discovered after quite a time using it...) Windows 3.1.

2. Pentium with Windows 95... no idea what other hardware it had, at the time I wasn't even aware it had any.

3. Pentium II with an ATI Rage 128, that I successfully fried by playing Empire Earth. Replaced with a GeForce 2 GTS 32MB, and the card is still in working condition somewhere in my stacks.

4. The first one I built myself: Athlon 1800, 128MB RAM, and it still had the GF2. Motherboard with CPU must still be somewhere around in my old home in Ukraine.

5. The one I built after coming to Germany: Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9600 128MB. That machine served me long and well, and now (slightly modified) performs as a home-server of sorts, standing in a remote room running Ubuntu 24h a day.

6. Athlon 64 3800+, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 7900GT 512MB. I wanted a gaming PC and failed by not buying a dual-core when they were on the rise. Still, it was workable.

7. The current machine - Samsung R700 T9300 Dillen, my first laptop. Core2Duo 2.5GHz, 3GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT 256MB, and recently upgraded to Win7 - works like a charm, not that much of a gaming machine though.

8. In the near future - a new workstation/gaming PC. Will order the parts in about a month, after Intel releases the new i5 and i7 processors; will probably have the i7 860, somewhere between 6 and 8 GB RAM, and some proper video card. Then I will finally play GTA4 on full details :)
 
1. 1993 - A then top-of-the-line 486 with Windows 3.1 and a whopping 8 MB of RAM
2. 1995? - 386 with Windows 3.1
3. ? - Compaq Pentium I with Windows 95
4. 2000 - Intel Celeron 500Mhz with Windows '98 pre-installed. Would later endure two years with Windows ME with it and replace it with Windows XP. First computer with internet.

5. 2005 - HP Pavillion Pentium 4, 2.93GHz, XP pre-installed, replaced with Vista in 2007. 512MB RAM and 160GB HD.

6. Mar. 2009 - Apple iMac 24" Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06Ghz, 4GB RAM and 1TB HDD. OS X 10.5 Leopard pre-installed, replaced by OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard last Friday (08/28). First Mac and first computer I bought with my own money.
7. Jul. 2009 - Acer Aspire One Netbook - 1Ghz Intel Atom, 1GB RAM
 
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I had a couple of PCs in the mid to late 90s don't remember much about them, played a lot of Doom.

Then I had a Mac of some sort, Quadra upgraded to G3, I think, followed by a G3, then a G4 733 (had that for the last 8 years), and recently bought a used MacBook Pro, 15", 2.5 ghz, 4 gig ram, 320 gig hard drive. Pretty happy with Macs, don't think I'll ever go back to a PC.
 
Hmm let's see...

#1 - Apple II - all this did was play games and the floppys were truly floppy
#2 - A no name 386 - loved playing scorched earth...
#3 - A no name 486 - this is the 386 upgraded...turned out to be a waste of money to do this
#4 - IBM Aptiva P1 233 MHz...a big POS, worst PC in the house the only one we want to get rid of
#5 - Custom machine - P3 forgot the MHz, used this until I had my own custom machine
#6 - Custom machine - P4 1.7 GHz, used this one from 2002 to 2008, skimped on a lot due to lack of funds its too outdated now but it still sees use with my dad
#7 - Current machine also custom built - Q9450, significant improvement overall finally with funds to start with a very up to date machine.
 
1. Generic beige box circa 1993 with the gold-plated Pentium chip. (FATE: Turned in to DOS Arcade machine, later scraped)
2. Compaq Presario 1200 laptop with Intel Celeron ~500Mhz (FATE: Broken CD drive and mega virus; traded in for Toshiba)
3. "Dark Shark One" desktop that I built when I was 11. Had a P4 2.4 GHz or something and 512MB DDR2. (FATE: Non-functional; broken video card and monitor)
4. Toshiba Satellite with 1.5ish GHz Celeron and 256MB. (FATE: Damaged motherboard; turned in to LCD photo frame, later traded in for Dell)
5. Dell Inspiron 6400 with Core Duo 1.8ish GHz and 1GB DDR2. (FATE: Had numerous problems after a year and started to shock me; traded in for Macbook)
6. Macbook Aluminium Unibody Core 2 Duo 2GHz w/ 2GB DDR3.
 
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1. Dell Latitude CPi
2. Toshiba Satellite M115
3. Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium
4. HP Pavilion Entertainment PC
5. Apple MacBook
 
- Mega old DOS monster that smoked if you put the wrong floppy disk for "space wars" in

- IBM laptop running Win95- very old chipset, but i loved it and I could record my voice and make it all funny on it. Thgen my mum dropped it and broke the screen

- IBM again I think- a desktop this time, running Win98. Don't remember the CPU, but it did have a 4 gig HDD until my dad spent big and upgraded it... to 20 gig. That was a good computer, but it had a motherborad failure where lights started flashing and smoke started pouring out of it. As a 7 year old, it scared the shit outta me.

- Compaq Presario laptop with Intel Celereon 1.6 ghz, 256 mb ram (upgraded to 512 because it wouldn't run the Sims 2) and a 30 gig HDD. Runs winXP. Still have that one, but my sister took custody of it and filled it full of viruses. One of my February projects is to reformat it and get it running again. Got that for getting into my school, actually.

- Dell Dimension (or something) 4600, Intel Pentium 4 3ghz or something, 1 gig RAM, 100 gig HDD, winXP. We got this about 5 years ago and it is still running.... somewhat. It is in getting repaired at the moment as the system file in the system32 folder got deleted/corrupted. I blame my sister. It is a good computer though, and at the time we got it, it was massively powerful and fast. It is reliable too, like most old DELLs. It's HDD is starting to thrash and fail though :(

- Finally, mine. DELL Inspiron 9400/E1705 (depending on where you live :p). This is my (admittedly massive) baby, and the computer I use for everything. It has an Intel Core2Duo 7200 (2 ghz), 2 gig ram, 160 gig HDD and runs Vista home Premium. It also has a Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS in it, which runs pretty well for what I use it for. It is an awesome computer, I love it. It is a bit tempremental at times though and can run a bit hot 9due to a design flaw whereby it sucks in dust along with air to cool it and is essentially uncleanable unless done by a professional), and it has had its graphics acard and mainboard replaced due to a graphics card failure a few months ago. But its great.

Next up in the line is most likely a netbook for me to use at uni, a Lenovo laptop in a year and a bit time from my new job and potentially a new desktop as the main PC.
 
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great thread idea (it was mine :p)

1) 1993ish - 1997 : 486DX 66 mhz (with awesome co-processor) and 4 megs of RAM
Dos games FTW and Windows 3.11 also


2) 1997 -2001 : Pentium 200 Mhz (With AWESOME MMX technology) with 32 megs of Ram, even installed an optional extra graphics card, a Voodoo 2 with 12 whopping megs of Video Ram. that card alone cost me 400?...
Ran Win95 and later Win98

3) 2001-2006 Pentium 3 900 Mhz 256MB of RAM
added an ATI card I got for free from a mate sometime around 2004. It had 256 MB of ram, which was exactly the same as the system RAM ...
Ran Win98 and later WinME

4)2007 - present : PIV Dualcore 2.2 Ghz 2 GB of RAM
the current machine, running XP (With SP3)

Also, my laptop history

1)2009 - present : Acer Netbook :p
 
HP Pavillion - 126MB Ram, 15GB hard drive, Win 98, later upgraded to about 200MB Ram, 100GB hard drive and Win XP, although it took about 15 minutes to boot
HP Pavillion - 2GB Ram, 200GB hard drive, Intel 2.8Ghz Dual Core Processor, Win XP
Custom - 3GB Ram, 100GB hard drive (will get 320GB eventually), AMD 2.8Ghz Dual Core Processor, Nvidia GeForce 9500GT, Win XP, Win 7, Ubuntu 9.0.4 (tri-boot ftw)

I tend to keep PCs for a long time and upgrade parts of them when needed
 
1998: Dell Optiplex something. Pentium 100MHz, 64MB RAM, two 6GB HDDs. Windows 98.

2002: Packard Bell Imedia. Celeron 1.7GHz, 256B RAM, 40GB HDD.

2004 (maybe): Upgraded to 512MB RAM, extra 120GB HDD, Radeon 9250.

2006: Built 2.2GHz AMD 64X2, 2GB DDR RAM, 320GB HDD.

2009: Rebuilt to Core 2 Quad 9550 (2.83GHz), 4GB DDR2, 2x512GB, 1TB HDDs, 9800GTX+.
 
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