First Home PC:"custom built and i had no clue what to do, it was fun"
IDT Winchip 200
Aopen AX5TC(430tx)
32mb PC66 SDRAM
2.1gb PIO4
1mb s3 trio PCI
sb16
Second Home PC "Need alittle bit more power and got some too!"
K6-2 300
Aopen AX5TC (430tx)
64mb PC66 SDRAM
6.4gb ATA33
4mb sis PCI
sb16
First Work PC "Well needed some to wordprocessor, programming, etc."
K6-2 400
Aopen AX59 Pro(MPV3)
128mb PC133 sdram
13gb ATA33
32mb sav4 PCI
sb 128
Third Home PC " My first Intel Box :*) "
Cel 533
Abit BP6 (440bx)
256 mb PC133 sdram
20gb ata66
32mb sav4 PCI
sb 512
current home PC "Love this machine to death, very stable":
P3 733
Chaintech CT-6OJA3(i815ep)
386mb PC133 SDRAM
40gb ata100
ATi Radeon 32mb ddr 4x AGP
Cmedia 8738
current work: "Get to show this off to my co-workers stuck with a P2 400's"
Athlon 850
Asus A7A266(ALi magik1)
256mb PC1600 DDR-SDRAM
30gb ata100
32mb Sav4 PCI
sb 512
Pentium 75MHz
40MB RAM (SIMM's, but Don't know what type)
2 4.3GB Hard Drives
Cirrus Logic 1MB Video
2nd PC (Gateway Select 475):
AMD K6-2 475MHz, MSI ALi Aladdin5 Motherboard
128MB PC100 SDRAM
13GB ATA/66 Hard Drive
On-Board ATI Rage Pro 8MB Video
3rd. PC (Just built 2 weeks ago):
ECS KM133 Motherboard w/ External AGP Port, and ATA/100 Controller
Duron 800
128MB PC133 CAS2 Crucial SDRAM
30GB ATA/100 7200 RPM HD (It won't recignoize the ATA/100 cable, on every boot up it says 80-c cable not found, Any suggestions?)
On-Board ProSavage Graphics (Will upgrade to a GeForce2 MX in the near future)
1st -------------
AMD 386 40 - no idea on mobo make
4 Meg of ram
100 Meg HD
512K Boca Video Card
Sound Blaster
1.44/1.2 floppy
2nd ------------------
Pentium 100, Evergreen mobo
16 Meg of ram
1 gig HD + old 100 Meg HD
2 Meg ATI video card
4X CD Rom
Sound Blaster
1.44/1.2 floppy
Current -------------------------
Pentium 133, out of a Gateway PC
128 Meg of ram
2 gig HD, 1 gig HD, old 100 Meg HD
4 Meg Matrox Millinum II video card
1.44 floppy
Ess 16 Sound card
* 4X CD ROM destroyed….
Same generic case and PS for all 3. My system has run pretty much 24*7 for the last 7+ years so I’m real happy with life of my PS, but I'll be damned if I can keep a HD, other than my trusty 100 megger, or Modem longer than a year...
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80286
40MB HD
4MB RAM
5.25" floppy
3.5" floppy
vid card = ?
80486
120MB HD
8MB RAM
512K ISA VID CARD
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
Pentium 120
16MB RAM
1.2GB HD
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
2MB Vid Card
(later upgraded with CDROM and Sound Card
Pentium II 266
64MB PC66 RAM
4.3GB HD
Intel i740 Vid Card
SoundBlaster AWE64 OEM
3.5" floppy
(later upgraded with 12x CDROM and 128MB mem,
added 10GB HD, swapped 16MB TNT and later G400 and 9.1GB
UWSCSI HD)
AMD Athlon 1000Mhz (What a jump eh?)
A7V133
256MB PC133 (doubling that tomorrow)
G400 Vid Card (carry over from old computer)
6x DVDROM SCSI
4416 CDRSW SCSI
All HDs still there..
Hmm.. still building the last one though,
Intel Components, AMD Components... all made in Taiwan!
First Home PC
Headstart III
Intel 286 8/12 Turbo
1mb RAM
40 MB HD
5.25 drive
3.5 drive
VGA card
Second Home PC, traded in and upgraded 286 for:
AMD 386 SX 25 w/ math co-processor (added later)
4 MB RAM
240 MB HD
Sound Blaster Pro Basic
1x caddy CD-ROM
256k SVGA card
Same disk drives as 286
Third Home PC
AMD 486 DX-40 (I later gave this system to my cousin)
8 MB RAM
420MB HD
4x CD-ROM Sound Blaster 16
Paradise 1mb SVGA
Same disk drives as 286
My PC after graduating high school, class of 1996
Intel Pentium 133
16 MB RAM
1.2 GB HD
6x CD-ROM
1mb Trident SVGA
3.5" 1.44 MB
My second personal PC
Intel Pentium 200MMX
24x CD-ROM
32mb RAM
3.2 GB HD
4mb Trident SVGA
Voodoo II 12mb PCI
AWE 64 Value
Third personal PC (later sold to buy Les Paul guitar)
Celeron 433 Abit BH6 BX Mobo
160 MB RAM
8.4 GB HD
Hercules TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP w/tv out
32x CD-ROM
Hauppague Win TV tuner w/fm tuner
External 56k modem
1.
TRS80 Color
No permanent storage, but I got a tape recorder to work intermittently.
2.
80286
2 x 3.25 floppies, no HD
This was in undergrad. Had to swap floppies like hell to run the CAD program we used (CADKey). It was a huge step up over the previous class that had a single 5.25 floppy.
DOS
3.
486 33MHz (later upgraded to 66 MHz)
8MB RAM
120 MB HD (begged for a smaller one cuz I was a dirt poor grad student and couldn't imagine needing that much space after surviving on 3.5" floppies. Got a 400 MB 2 yrs later :-)
POS Trident video card that caused no end of trouble.
DOS & Win3.1
3.
200 MHz PPro
32 MB (original, now 128)
2 MB video (original, now upgraded to 8)
3 GB HD
12x CD
NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Win95, Win98, various flavors & versions of Linux (currently runs a RedHat 6.2 base)
4.
Cyrix P133+ (later got a real chip, 233 MHz Pentium)
32 MB ram
Video: Trident POS from the 486
HD: 120 MB & 400 MB from 486 + 6 GB much later
Iwill MB
Win95, Win98
This was the first PC I've built. Used all the leftovers ater the 486 gave up the ghost. The powersupply died recently & took the MB with it.
5.
1.2 GHz TBird-C
Iwill KK266 MB
384 MB ram
2 x 20 GB HD on a 3ware RAID card
GeForceMX video
50x CD
8/4/32 burner
Linux Mandrake 8.0 for the moment
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Timex sinclair 1000a from magazine ad "build your own computer" It came in 3 pieces, 2 clam-shell top/bottom and a membrane keyboard/motherboard. SNAP! and your computer was built =P
Moved up to a TI 99/4A most useless piece of crap
Atari 400 and 800, doing killer player/miscle graphics
Tandy COCO 16k ram, was a little over 500 bucks new! learned basic overnight and was off and writing state of the art hack software. this line of code is originally writtten by me and is still used today. 10 for x = 1 to 1000000: print char$(peek(x));:next x
This program will dump your memory in ascii to the monitor. this was great for adventure games snagging passwords in the old days.
Comodore 64 and lots games! never did get a amiga
after comodore I got my first IBM 5150 @ 4.77Mhz and a 10 meg hard drive, 640k RAM
1. Macintosh 512K ... my college computer. I still love it.
No internal hard drive, just a floppy.
2. CompuAdd 286/12.5 MHz ... what a screamer
2 MB of RAM (the second 1 MB stick cost $100)
20 MB hard drive doubled with Stacker
3. Tandy 486SX/33 (got two castoffs from friends and ended up with a 486DX/66)
upgraded to 850 MB hard drive for only $250
4. Compaq Pentium 166 MMX ... no level 2 cache (sloooooow)
3.2 GB hard drive
24 MB of memory
5. Pentium II 300
6.4 GB hard drive
6. Athlon 600 classic (my first self-built system)
Epox mb with KX-133 chipset
30 GB Maxtor hard drive
WinFast GeForce 256 32MB DDR
7. current system ...
Athlon 1200/266
Asus A7M266 mb
256 MB PC2100 RAM
2 x 40 GB W. Digital hard drives in RAID 0
TDK 16/10/40 CD-Writer
Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro
Philips Acoustic Edge sound card
Lian-Li PC60 case
1st comp
BBC Micro model B
32K ram (16k system, 16k usable)
plugged into tv
had a very advanced sound for the time!
1 180k floppy disk drive
2nd comp
Real IBM PS2 xt 4.77Mhz
1 720k 2.5 floppy
640k ram
20 meg hdd
14" monitor
MCGA graphics (thats 320x200x256 color!) or 640x480x16
3rd comp
generic 386-25 sx
4 meg ram
81 meg hdd
1.44 mb 2.5 floppy
1.2 mb 3.25 floppy
256k graphics card... capable of 640x480x256
4th comp
intel pentium 166
32meg edo ram
4 meg diamond stealth 46 graphics
2 gig seagate drive
8 speed cd
17" monitor
5th comp
partial upgrade of no.4
pentium2-300
lx mobo
2 gig drive
16.8 gig ibm later on
ati 4mb pci rage pro
32 speed cd
17" monitor
6th comp
more upgrades of 5 (is my current computer)
p2-300 on lx mobo
256mb ram (196mb of it is PC133 standard)
40 gig ibm GXP60
16.8 gig ibm
gigabyte tnt ultra
sb live sound
and in a few weeks im gonna go up to a Athlon something...
maybe even a 1200C if the prices in oz keep getting lower,
and transfering as much stuff as i can from the old system
eg. drives, soundcard, mem, graphics etc
see? i dont replace compueters, they EVOLVE for me *grin*
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created"~Darth Vader, Star wars
TI 99/4A could play chords! and white noise too! Very useful! (hehehehe)
Actually, mine broke early on and I never did get much use out of it.
My very first was called an Aquarius. Had a dead-flesh keyboard and a mini-expander, and even a couple games with controllers. I wrote my first program in BASIC on it.
I had a TI-99/4A, my parents bought it when I was like 4 years old, and would only get me education (reading/math) software for it. They would never get Space Invaders! Those were the days when arcades were very popular as well,
I used to play Donkey Kong and Zaxxon quite a bit.
Although they did get an Intellivision, which was cool, and later the Sears Telegames (Sears label stamped on Atari 2600). I still have a D&D game for the Intellivision, to count the number of arrows you have in your inventory, you pressed a button that produced a clicking noise, and you had to count the clicks to ascertain your inventory.
