Computers Ive Owned

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Shane

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Was just thinking of my old computer systems I have had and maybe you will wish to share your computer upgrades over the years.

1. Atari 400 16k of memory / later upgraded from a tape drive to a disk drive with a whopping 80k of storage / later again got me a 300bps modem and entered the world of private bbs

2. Year later got me the atari 800 and 2 indus gt disk drives that held 160k each wow ! / then upgraded to a 1200bps modem and it blew me away with how fast it was. It was at this time I started my own bbs named ( The Druids Keep )

3. Couple years down the road..... at age 17 or so I pawned all the atari stuff and blew the money on alcohol and girlfriends..... no computer

4. 3 years later at 23 got me a 486 sx 25 system with a svga 14' monitor with 8 megs of ram and a badboy Matrox Millineum with 4 megs of ram ..... was far frop top of line becuase they just introduced the badest computer on earth the Pentium 60mhz

5. Got the game doom and it played kinda ok on my 486 .... upgraded to a 66mhz cpu and wow I was flyin now.... DukeNukem 3d came out and omg my computer sucks!!!!! cant run it in 800x600 without it slowing to a crawl .... upgraded to a 99mhz intel cpu and didnt help much.

6. Was jobless and played duke3d on Ten Entertainment all the time with new high speed modem I think it was 36k bps and was in the top 50 on rank. Mad cuz computer didnt respond good. Got pissed was reading my mail and contained within was a credit card application for gateway computers...... went online applied and whola approved for 5,000.00 fukn dollars and my jaws dropped to floor.

7. Purchased a badboy computer the 333mhz p2 with 128mb ram, 15' monitor ..... the day it arrives I read on gateways site they just introduced the all new 400mhz 100fsp p2 that blew away my system so I sent it back and purchased the new 400mhz a 17' huge fukn monitor and also a even larger one the 40' crt that had maxiumum res of 800x600 I was in duke3d heaven and my rank went from 47 to number 1 . I remained the duke champion for over 3 months .... my rank fell to number 3 at the time of me quiting looseing 2 matches to a player named Mad Clown

8. And so later got a 900mhz athalon then a pentium 2.4c which I have now oc'ed to 3.5ghz 1 gig ram, dvd burner sony 21' monitor, klipsche 5.1 sound system etc

9. I wonder what number 9 will be :)
 
PC Systems
1: Packered Bell 386 with windows 3.1 forgot how much ram was in it, and disk space
2: IBM 486 with windows 3.1 then to 95, 300MB of Disk Space
3: CompaqPII 300 MHZ with 8 Gb of Ram, and Sucky Video Card 8MB, and Sucky amounts of ram 32 mb
4: Compaq AMD Athalon XP 1800+ , 64 MB Nvidia geforce 2 Video Card 120GB Hard Drive, 1gb of ram, 10/100 NIC, Onboard sound.

The next system will be a home-built system

Video Game Consoles
1: Atari 5400
2: Nintendo Classic
3: Sega Genisis
4: Sega Saturn
5: Playstation 1
6: Sega Gamegear
 
try this for a distinguished old comp collection:

- sinclair zx80
$99 new, kit was $79.99
pity i threw it out, but i couldnt get it to work... improvised radioshack psu & blast that
membrane keyboard... i heard they die after awhile... mine didn't work.

- texas instruments ti-99/4a
original price is unknown
i got it at the thrift shop for $3 when i stopped to drop off some old junk was rusting in
my attic. no cables though so i don't know if it works :(

- commodore vic-20
$~300 new... amazing for something that old & junky
i got it at the flea market for (get this folks) 50 cents!!! orig. box, peripherals, cables...
everything!!! including a promise that it would work... i have yet to see if it indeed does. if
not you will see it in the for $ale forum for probably around $50.

- commodore 64
original price is unknown
i got it at the dump for free so no cables or anything... of course the cables are
proprietary :( anybody enjoy making cables for old computers? :rolleyes: didn't think
so. someday when it is worth $$$ i will sell it. or if anyone is gullible enough to pay $25-
$50 for it... not likely on this site.

- tandy trs-80 series iii color computer
original price is unknown
this was the 2nd comp in my family (1st was the zx80), so i have all the cables & such...
i took off the top cover tho... makes it look cooler. i even have all the documentation & a
number of games & such. did i mention it *still works* after 15 years in the attic? o_0 boy
are those old things durable.

- commodore amiga 1000
original price is unknown
this was the 3rd comp in my family... unfortunately it was $old to a friend

- dramen professional systems 80386sx workstation... originally cost around $1000, this
was my mom's 40th birthday present & the 4th comp we had. pity it doesnt work
anymore... psu blew out some cigarette smoke w/ a poof noise and a bakelite smell,
now theres a busted teardrop shaped cap on the mobo and it sez it doesnt have a hard
drive... i will pay whatever is reasonable for a replacement quantum 80mb ide hard drive
id also like to know what went wrong.

- packard bell legend 402cd from circuit city... 75mhz pentium 1 proc, 8mb ram, ~1gb hdd
those were the days... idiots at circuit city installed a 2nd stick of ram so it had 16mb
but they did it wrong... ill never shop *there* again :mad: no, dont tell me how to fix it...
rom died a year or 2 ago & i junked it... anybody care to buy a $10 12x cd-rom drive?
this was the 5th comp in my family

- unknown brand & model #, pentium 1 90mhz, unknown everything else... still works,
amazingly enough, esp. because it has never been dusted inside... how many other
people think my mom should get rid of that antique? please let me know!
its the 6th comp we've bought.

- unknown brand & model #, pentium 1 150mhz, unknown everything else... still works, but
is undeniably antique... beige case is turning tan, has both 5.25" & 3.25" floppy drives.
last owner was an architect but it appears to have had a previous life as a server.
got it for free at the Habitat store after helping them move.
 
Primary Machines

1) apple ][, dual floppy drives...
2) ibm ps/2 55sx, 16mhz 386; 8mb ram, MCA
3) 486 66mhz, 8mb ram, 1gb hdd, trident 4mb video card
4) celeron 433@590, 224mb ram, 10gb hdd, 32mb tnt2 ultra
5.0) celeron 600@1035, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 64mb quadro 2 pro
5.1) celeron 1100@1250, 1gb ram, 40 & 60gb hgd, 128mb geforce fx 5600u
5.2) celeron 1300@1600, 1gb ram, 40 & 60gb hdd, 128mb geforce fx 5600u
6) Pentium 4 [email protected], 1gb ram, 320gb hdd, 256mb radeon 9800pro < CURRENT >

Secondary Machines

1. Pentium 233, 128mb ram, 10gb hdd, 8mb matrox
2. Pentium 2 350@540, 256mb ram, 20gb hdd, 32mb tnt2 ultra
3. Celeron 600@1035, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 32mb tnt2 ultra
4. Celeron 1300@1500, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 64mb quadro 2 pro < CURRENT >
 
Well i'm only 19 so dont have a huge list but i think i can say I was one of the few people who used a 486 without the intertnet until 1998

1. 486 Dx 33 4MB ram (upgraded to 8 later) 250Mb HDD 4X cd-rom, ATi VGA Wonder with a 14" monitor. I used this all the way until 1998, also had some sweet fastmenue gold software on it, anyone remeber that?

2. late 1998 K6-2 300 overclocked to 336 :rolleyes: 160MB Ram 3.2GB HDD S3-Virge with Voodoo1 card 36X cdrom

3. Dec 2000 Duron 650@1000 384mbs ram 40 gig hard drive, Viper V770 Ultra (Then A Radeon 7500) 24X burner.

And now whats in my sig...
 
Here are mine. Dont remeber full specs so :/

1. Some REALY OLD IBM. 5 1/4 drive. And screen just prints green print.

2. AST desktop PC. Pentium @ 90MHz, 32mb of ram, 1.4GB hd, 4x cdrom, and some old 15" monitor.

3. Compaq Presario PC. Intel Celeron 667MHz, 64mb ram, 15gb hd, 40x cdrom and 4x cdrw, and i added a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 200 (32mb).

4. Custom PC. AMD XP 2600+, ASUS A7N8X mobo, 512mb ram, 80gb hd, 52x cdrw and 16x dvd, ATI Radeon 9600pro, and 17" NEC monitor.
 
1) AST 286 Preimum 256K ram, whopping 40MB HDD (took up 2 5.25" bays) (DOS)
1.5) Above computer was upgraded to an i386 with 16MB RAM via an expansion card. (Win2 > Win 3 > Win3.1)
2) Dell 486 66MHz DX4 64MB RAM 2GB hard drive. Later upgraded to 128MB RAM and 4GB and 6GB drives added. Also got my first sound card and cd-rom with this system (win31, later upgraded to Win95)
3) Pentium 2 233MHz 128MB RAM, 6GB HDD, windows NT4 workstation
4) eMachines celeron 450Mhz (I think, mighta been 433MHz) 64MB RAM (upgraded to 192MB) 6GB HDD, Win98 > ME.
5) Dell Latitude 166 notebook. Pentium 166MHz with 256MB RAM. 4GB HDD. (First notebook). (Win98 > 2000)
6) Intel Pentium 3 750MHz 256MB RAM, 30GB HDD (ATA66, whoot), Win 2000 > XP Pro.
7) AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM, KT3Ultra board. 4xIBM 60GB drives.
7.1) All 4 IBM drives take a crap... upgrade to 2x80GB WesternDigital
7.2) Swap CPU for a 2200+ and KT3Ultra2 mobo
7.3) Swap CPU for a 2500+ Barton, nForce2 mobo (ILSR), upgrade to 1GB Dual Channel.
7.4) add 2x80 GB Maxtors
7.5) move all 80GB's to a RAID 0+1 array, add Western Digital 40GB as system drive.
7.6) DVD-RW (woot)
7.7) upgrade PC-2100 memory to PC-3200 (still 1GB)
7.x) Done with 7 system ;)

Seriously, I'm done with this current system... gonna plan my next one now.
 
Ok, lets see here...

1) A extremely old computer called a "grid", it had like some kb of memory and maybe 8mb of space :p. I had windows 3.1 on it and basically did a lot of QBASIC programming on it. I had this a long time ago, it was my brothers. It is somewhere in my attic now...

2) A Pentium 133mhz gateway computer with about 64mb of ram on it, at this time I had windows 95 on it. Again, my brothers so I got it for free :D it is also still lying in my attic...

3) A Pentium 2 266mhz Compaq (which I have sitting next to me as I type this), a very reliable and stable machine, got it for free from a friend. First had windows 98 on it, then, I installed linux for the first time on it (Mandrake) and a lot of my computer experience was with this computer. Beleive it or not, It was the best computer I had until 2002! I moved from mandrake to red hat to slackware. I am working on making it a server now. I used a Voodoo2 addon card with it to play unreal tournament :)

4) My brother gave me his old Pentium 3 1ghz (slot A), with 512mb of ram. I started my case / hardware modding for the first time on this computer. I had a Geforce 2 (32mb) on it and then a Geforce 4 (64mb) Oh yeah, it had a MSI BX Master Mobo

5) Sold that above computer and worked up money to get my computer today, Athlon XP 2500+ OCed @ 2.15ghz on a A7N8X-Deluxe, 1gb of ram, Ti4200 (64mb) OCed.

Well thats all for me :)
 
im actually *looking* for a really old comp. its a data general eclipse mv/8000 minicomputer. its _huge_. call me nuts for wanting a 1981 minicomp that was obsolete when it was released... but after reading 'soul of a new machine' i just had to have one.

anybody know where i can get one? or how much its worth? already tried ebay & google.
 
starhawk said:
im actually *looking* for a really old comp. its a data general eclipse mv/8000 minicomputer. its _huge_. call me nuts for wanting a 1981 minicomp that was obsolete when it was released... but after reading 'soul of a new machine' i just had to have one.

anybody know where i can get one? or how much its worth? already tried ebay & google.
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Minicomputers are great fun. A friend of mine collections DG
gear. He has a few Novas and... I think an Eagle? They're
very hard to get. If you're interested in aquiring a fridge-
sized mini, I'd suggest a DEC PDP-11 as the easiest to aquire.
They also come in a very wide range of sizes - an 11/45 or
11/70 will be two or three six-foot cabinets, but an 11/23
is about the size of a PC.
 
IBM 8088

386

486

486 Laptop?

Pentium Laptop

Pentium III 550

Homebrew P4 1.8 - P4T, 1.5GB Rambus

Newest: 3.4P4, 2GB PC-3500, SCSI RAID, SATA RAID - rockin' and rollin'.
 
shieldforyoureyes... a dg eagle *is* an mv/8000... how do i get in touch w/ your friend? i would *love* to have one of those!!!
 
IBM 8088
386
486
Cyrix 233
AMD K6-450
Celeron 550 (very fun to OC)
Pentium III 1000
Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4
 
Hmmm...let's see if I can remember....

1. TRS-80 with tape drive, later a floppy drive. $300 for a 5 1/4" floppy drive.

2. XT IBM - compatible. 30MB hard drive, DUAL floppies.

3. Packard Hell 486SX-25, 4MB RAM, 130MB hard drive. Had to edit the win.ini so my mom's statistics program would run on 4MB instead of 8MB.

4. 486-DX4 100 Mhz. 24? MB RAM. It didn't have a case for like six months. 600MB hard drive, 2X CD-ROM drive. 14" monitor that only displayed 640x480 resolution. First computer I built myself. All computers after this one were built by me.

5. Intel Pentium MMX 166Mhz, 32MB RAM, 1.6GB hard drive. Had a 32X CD-ROM that died when it fell on the floor about 2 years later. (CD-ROM drive only, not the whole computer) Moved up from crap-tacular 14" monitor to less crappy 15" monitor.

6. AMD K-6 233. Just popped that into the motherboard my Pentium 166 was in. Upgraded to 8GB hard drive, 64MB RAM and TNT video card. Quake II played pretty well on this setup. current status: trash

7. AMD K6-2 400Mhz. Overclocked to 500, easy. Started with 64MB EDO RAM, eventually it had 256MB SDRAM. Got a 17" monitor off my friend for free. Current status: processor in a box

8. Intel Pentium III 450Mhz. Slot 1. So fun. Faster than K6-2 overall. 256MB RAM, and eventually a 30GB hard drive and GeForce2 MX. Current status: first it went to my dad, then my sister, where it still sits, running....

9. Intel Celeron 600 Mhz. Fry's special, built it myself. Started with 128MB RAM, eventually had 256MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive. This was my first computer for the girlfriend. Integrated graphics were crap-tacular but got the job done. Still runs as a Counter-Strike server from time to time.

10. AMD Duron 1000 Mhz. 512MB SDRAM, 30GB hard drive later upgraded to 120GB hard drive and first CD-R/RW. 40x Sony. First appearance of GeForce4 Ti4200. Also upgraded from free 17" monitor to high-quality 19" monitor. Current status: folding

11. AMD AthlonXP 2400+. Another Fry's special, girlfriend's second computer. 768MB RAM, 80GB hard drive, DVD-ROM drive, GeForce4 MX400. First "Silent" computer built with Zalman cooler and Antec Sonata. 17" Best Buy special monitor that's not too bad. Current status: it's what my wife uses now. Oh yeah, and it folds, too.

12. Current computer in my signature.
 
1. Commodore C-64
2. Commodore Amiga 500+
3. AMD- DX4 120 MHz, 2 Maxtor HDDs (one 220 and the other one 240),8 megs of ram (later upgraded to 16)
4. \Cyrix 266MX, 1.7 Gig HDD, 32 Megs of ram, S3Virge...
5. P!!! 500@750, Asus P3BF, 198 megs of ram, ATI Rage pro 32 megs (I still use it as my college setup but with P!!! 600@800 and 384 megs of ram.. I don't really need a faster comp..)
6. AMD T-Bread 1700+@2200+, AOpen AK77Pro, 768 megs of ram, GeForce MX400 (I don't play much on PC.. I enjoy playing my PS2 more.. )
 
Systems I've personally owned at one time or another
1. Packard Bell 386 SX/25 / 380mb hdd
2. (?) 486/DX2 66mhz / 380mb hdd
3. Compaq Presario 5600i (P3 500) / 43gb hdd space/ 128 RAM
4. Self-built Athlon 750 system / 75gb hdd space / 512mb RAM
5. Self-built P3 800eb(@1ghz) system / 75gb hdd space/ 512mb RAM (mobo/CPU swap from above)
6. Self-built Athlon 1.1ghz @ 1.4ghz / 75gb hdd space / 512mb RAM (mobo/CPU swap + GF2 GTS upgrade from above)
7. Self-built Duron 700@ 900 / 40gb hdd space /512mb RAM (burned out the Athlon, sold off most of the parts, built this to last me the summer. Sold it when I got the laptop at #8)
8. Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353 P3 900 / 512mb RAM / 20gb hdd space
9. Self-built Duron 700@900 / 45gb hdd space /512mb RAM (sold to a bank, used until struck by lightning)
10. Self-built Athlon 1600+ / 1gb RAM / 80gb hdd space
11. Self-built P4 1.6a @ 2.4ghz / 1gb RAM / 280 gb hdd space
12. Self-built Athlon 2500+ /1gb RAM/ 320gb hdd space
13. Self-built P4 2.4b @ 3ghz / 1gb RAM / 320gb hdd space
14. Self-built/Shuttle SN41G2 / Athlon 2500+/ 1gb RAM/ 320gb hdd space (promoted from secondary # )
15. Self-built P4 3.0c @ 3.8ghz / 1gb RAM/ 1120gb hdd space (4x200 in RAID 5, 200gb external, Raptor OS, 80gb games)
16. Self-built/Shuttle SB61G2 P4 3.0c / 1gb RAM / 320gb hdd space (chassis switch)
17. Self-built P4 3.0c @ 3.8ghz / 1gb RAM/ 600gb hdd space (chassis switch)
18. IBM Thinkpad X30 1.2ghz P3-m / 512mb RAM /40gb hdd (sold, bought M6805)
19. Self-built/Shuttle SB65G2 P4 2.6c / 1gb RAM / 400gb hdd space (chassis + CPU switch, multiple vid card switches)
20. Emachines M6805 A64 3000+ / 768mb RAM / 60gb hdd space (sold, bought X31)
21. IBM Thinkpad X31 1.4ghz P-m / 768mb RAM / 40gb hdd space (sold, bought T41)
22. IBM Thinkpad T41P 1.7ghz P-m / 1gb RAM / 100gb hdd space
23. IBM Thinkpad T42P 1.8ghz P-m / 1gb RAM / 140gb hdd space (released and cheaper than above, T41P returned for T42P)
24. IBM Thinkpad T41 1.7ghz / 1gb RAM/ 60gb hdd space (Sold, buying an engagement ring)
25. Self-built A64 3500+/ 1gb RAM/ 780gb hdd space
26. Self-built P4 2.53 / 512mb RAM / 60gb hdd space (for sale now)

Secondary systems
Multiple P2 systems(about 5 or 6 throughout the years)
3 Celeron systems
2 P4 systems(currently selling 1 of them, sold the other long ago)
4 K6-2 systems
4 or 5 AMD Athlon systems.


So, I'd say that since 1999, I've owned 40-50 computers.
 
gateway 233mhz
500mhz k6-2 nutec brand
celeron 533 @ 610 mhz
1.33 athlon (first PC i built)
1.8 p4 on ecs mobo
2.0 on ecs mobo
2.0 p4 @ 2.67ghz on abit mobo
2.0 @ 2.4 in shuttle xpc
all the same 2.0 ghz p4 a
1.8ghz celeron toshiba laptop
133 mhz? thinkpad 560

consoles

nintendo
super nintendo
nintendo 64
sega genessis
PS1
game boy
game boy color
game gear
 
starhawk said:
shieldforyoureyes... a dg eagle *is* an mv/8000... how do i get in touch w/ your friend? i would *love* to have one of those!!!
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Ok - I was just hunting around a bit, since I can never keep
this stuff straight - the Nova was DG's original 16 bit mini.
Then they came out with the Eclipse, which was also 16 bit.
Then there was a project, codenamed "Eagle" which was a
32 bit version of the Eclipse. That's the MV/8000.
My friend has an earlier Eclipse.
 
id still like to talk to him... if i were to find out where he got the older 1, i might be able to get an eagle from the same source. :rolleyes: not likely but possible
 
Here's the comps I've had:

1) 386... Forget any specifics (I was 3-5 years old when we had it.) Except the Turbo button :)
2) Family Comp: P3 667MHz, 16MB Video, 128MB RAM
3) Main Rig (in sig), Family Comp(well, my comp that the family uses): AMD AthlonXP 2200+ 256MB RAM, Integrated Vid. And the P3 Rebuilt from spare parts, most which were taken from the P3, or removed from the family comp, like the harddrive.

Not much, but over my 13(almost 14..) years on earth, I think thats a great accomplishment :D
 
16 years old
1.AMD 100mhz with 32MB of ram and a 800Mb HDD and a 14" monitor
2.HP 700mhz Celeron with 64MB ram and 4MB onboard video later upgraded ram to 256 15" monitor. 40gb HDD
3.700mhz duron 256Mb ram 64MB video AGP, 15" monitor 40GB HDD
4.2.0ghz Celeron 256Mb ram, 64MB video onboard, 17" monitor. 10GB HDD with 80GB slave.
5. I hope my next is much better than this. Money is getting to be a problem. lol :p
 
Macintosh (original 128K ram, 400k floppy, no hard drive)
286
3B2/300 (mid-80s AT&T multi-user Unix system)
3B2/400
VAXstation-3100 (desktop version of the popular minicomputer)
RS/6000 Powerserver 930 (Monsterous 220-volt server - 1st generation
POWER processor, the ancestor of PowerPC.)
Sparcserver-2 (40 Mhz)
Sparcserver-5 (170 Mhz)
Sparcserver-1000 (2 x 50 Mhz)
Sparcserver-1000e (8 x 85 Mhz)
SGI Origin200 (2 x 225 Mhz R10000)
(Assorted other exotic stuff, but those are the machines that
have served as my main computer at one point or another.)
 
400mhz AMD
diamond monster fusion banshee!
128 megs of ram?

1gighz
geforce 2mx400!
256

2000+
1gig of ram
ti4200

3200+
gig of ram
9800pro
 
- commodore 64
original price is unknown
i got it at the dump for free so no cables or anything... of course the cables are
proprietary anybody enjoy making cables for old computers? didn't think
so. someday when it is worth $$$ i will sell it. or if anyone is gullible enough to pay $25-
$50 for it... not likely on this site.
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I'd offer you $10 -- that's what I get for them on eBay if I'm lucky -- but I'm already swamped with working Commodore gear right now.
 
1) Z80-based one with basic in ROM and a tape player, a swedish-made ABC80. Monochrome, slow and all, but much fun. There's something immediately available with the ROM-basic - computers that has been lost.
2) AST-made Cyrix 486/66. Put to a lot of practical use. Win 3.1, though I did consider Win95 at the end. 20Mb ram might have made that a bit unpleasant.
3) a P2-300, with a Voodoo2. Hardware-accelerated goodness :D
(In the end it had 256Mb ram and a Voodoo3 2000. Responible for far too many wasted hours of gaming.)
4) is the oldest one still in use, an athlon Tbird 750 (bought after reading the [H] for some time).
5) an athlon XP 2000+ that wasn't my main computer for very long before I got paid a
6) P4-Xeon 2.8 plus a suitable MB and PSU. (512Mb ram, radeon 9800)
(Reminds me, I still need to get myself another CPU :D)
6) an SGI O2 Mips R5000 150MHz that doesn't see as much use as it deserves.
7) the newest one, but not, in a way. It's a Digital Personal Workstation 433au. 433MHz Alpha EV56, 256Mb ram, mostly SCSI disks. I do my coding on this one.

It's interesting to compare the last two to the rest in pure build quality. They're full of nifty solutions, impressively solid, and I suspect the O2 has to be the easiest computer to disassemble ever.

I'm 20 now, and if I continue to accumulate computers like I've done the last years I'm going to need more room soon. OTOH, it is a private goal of mine to have a sample of every semi-recent non-x86 unix computer available. (I should probably put True64 or openVMS on the alpha to get the real feeling.) :D

shieldforyoureyes: Impressive. :)
 
1. Pentium 133 with 1MB video, 32MB (I think) of ram
2. Upgraded gradually to a K6-2 350, TNT2, 384MB ram
3. TBird 1.333, GF3, 512mb
4. laptop in sig
5. desktop in sig
 
/me with daydreamy look

geez... a p1 133mhz... that was the proc in my old laptop. boy does *that* ever bring back memories. thing died after i tried to install a canon s3 printer w/o using the driver cd. hard drive went belly-up like a dead fish. bios won't even recognize the drive and the comp is worth *nothing*.

now its sitting in my closet and cant be thrown out cuz mom is a lawyer and has confidential files on there. id love to know how to make the data on that drive totally useless... is it true that simply waving a strong magnet around on top of the drive will work?
 
I certainly don't have an impressive list of previous computer like some of these guys. I just have two boxes. One is my high-end and one is my low-end. As I buy upgrades for my gaming machine, I put the replaced parts in my other box.

This system keeps me running with two pretty decent computers constantly.
 
Atrye said:
I certainly don't have an impressive list of previous computer like some of these guys. I just have two boxes. One is my high-end and one is my low-end. As I buy upgrades for my gaming machine, I put the replaced parts in my other box.

This system keeps me running with two pretty decent computers constantly.
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Sooner or later you'll have enough parts for three computers, or almost four and, well, why not buy another HD so you can put the old one in the second-best one, free the old one from there, and build another box? And network cards are so cheap these days ...

Been there, done that, got the scars from cheap, sharp cases.
:D
 
1. Some old Atari... played it when I was about 5 and I can't remember what model.
2. Packard Bell 60mhz Pentium (16mb RAM I believe) (family computer)
3. Compaq 200mhz, 32mb RAM (my first computer) (got for free)
4. Compaq Pentium II 350mhz, 64mb RAM, Matrox G200 8mb (got for free)
5. 800mhz Duron, 128mb RAM, Voodoo 5500 64mb
6. XP1900, A7N8X, 512mb RAM, GF3 ti200
7. XP1700 JIUHB, 8RDA+, 1gig 3200, GF4 ti4800SE
8. XP2400-m, NF7-S, 1 gig 3200, 9500np-> 9700 (still have as a 2nd system without vid)
9. Vaio GRT10014, 2.2ghz p4-m, 1gig 2700, 5600go (laptop)
10. System in sig.
 
HHunt said:
Sooner or later you'll have enough parts for three computers, or almost four and, well, why not buy another HD so you can put the old one in the second-best one, free the old one from there, and build another box? And network cards are so cheap these days ...

Been there, done that, got the scars from cheap, sharp cases.
:D
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I paid $200 for a *used* 10 megabit ethernet card once.
AARRGG. I have some ethernet-over-fiber (FOIRL) hardware
that was obscenely expensive when it was new. Fiber is cool.
 
shieldforyoureyes said:
I paid $200 for a *used* 10 megabit ethernet card once.
AARRGG. I have some ethernet-over-fiber (FOIRL) hardware
that was obscenely expensive when it was new. Fiber is cool.
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There's still coax cables hanging on the walls here. :D
I suspect I got into this a bit later than you, though. I didn't need a network card back when they were that expensive. Unless it was some specific, obscure card, of course. :)
(The one card that works in the PCI slot in the O2 isn't exactly cheap.)
 
1. Amiga 500
2. P-90
3. P-150
4. Compaq 750 Mhz
5. P4 2.4B
6. 1987 Compaq Portable III (I know, more than a few steps back, but its for a mod:p)
7. P4 2.8B Current
 
My Personal computers:
1999 - AST P100 80mb ram 850,250,233mb hdd 4x cd on win98 took 3 minutes to boot :p

2000 - Emachines 600is celly 600mhz 32mb ram 10gb hdd 40x cd winME

2001 - Got an after market case and mobo for the celly and got 256mb of ram and a S3 savage 4 32mb vid ram which ran at 121/112mhz and got my 40gig

march 2004 - got a antec P3 cooler and oc'ed the celly to 747mhz

april 2004 got my 120gig

july 2004 - got my pcchips mobo and radeon 7500 oc the 766 included with it to 866

september/october 2004 - sold/traded the pcchips mobo, ram and proc the for p4 and soyo

september 2004 - got my compaq deskpro en (which is now my main computer) from a trash can behind a friends house, Can't beat free :D

october 2004 - got my pentium 4 mobile 1.6ghz and my soyo mobo which absolutley HATE each other.


My personal Laptops I've had over the years:

2000 - Toshiba notebook T1000LE 8086 12mhz 2mb ram 20mb hdd msdos 6.2 circa 1988

2001 - Trac laptop 286 8mhz 4mb ram 40mb desktop conner hdd desktop 3 1/2 inch floppy win 3.1 dos 6.00

2001 - Ncr Safari 3180 color edition 486sl 33mhz 8mb of ram upgraded to 20mb 250mb hdd upgraded to 540mb 9.5" tft win95A

2002 - Compaq Lte elite 4/75cx 486dx4 75mhz 24mb ram 540mb hdd upgraded to 810mb upgraded from win95 to win98

march 2003 - Compaq LTE 5000 Pentium 75mhz 24mb ram 2gb hdd win95

july 2003 - Compaq LTE 5280 P120mhz 80mb ram 4gb hdd win98

November 2003 - Compaq LTE 5400 P150 80mb ram 6gb hdd win98 6x cdrom

May 2004 - Got my Compaq Armada 7730mt P166 144mb ram 6gb hdd 12x cd win98

August 2004 - Upgraded my Compaq armada to P233mmx, 20gb hdd win2k pro
 
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