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Started with a 8088, then a 286 (12 mhz), a 386 (33mhz), then a 486 (80mhz AMD overclocked to 120mhz), then a K6-200, after which I got a 1gig Slot A Athlon. All between 1989 and 2001!

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Started with a 8088, then a 286 (12 mhz), a 386 (33mhz), then a 486 (80mhz AMD overclocked to 120mhz), then a K6-200, after which I got a 1gig Slot A Athlon. All between 1989 and 2001!

and now u have a dual core system :p

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I Remmeber my first Computer was a Sharp 68030 Compact-HD 'Still have it"

That was in 1993 my Dad worked for this company

and they gave him one I mostly used it to play games like Street Fighter

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MDG computer (my dads friend founded it in 1993)

1Gb hard drive

16Mb Ram

ATI Rage

33Mhz Pentium, can be "Turbo"ed to 66Mhz

Floppy drive

Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0

This was in 1994, my dad paid $2000 for it and he had to work night and day for it cause we were on welfare. Wow, how the times change, now im on a tablet and my house has 3 mediacenters

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First computer was a Packard Bell:

486DX2 @ 66MHz

4MB Ram (I added a 16MB chip to install Win95)

40GB Hard Drive

14400 modem

2x cd-rom drive

13" monitor

Came with Windows 3.11

It was horribly slow :laugh:

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It was around 2000 ..... maby 99, not sure...

Abit KA7-100

AMD Athlon 900MHz Slot A

SD RAM 256 MB Micron

Maxtor 20 GB 5400

nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 with 32MB

Teac CD-W54E

Creative Sound Blaster CT ...... i don't remember

Modem Rockwell external

Scanner Mustek BearPaw 2400TA

Monitor MAG innovision 796FD 17" Trinitron

Windows 2000

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I'm still using sometimes that computer, it's upgraded, little bit slow but it works

Abit KA7-100

AMD Athlon 900MHz Slot A

SD RAM 1024 MB Micron & PQI (it has 4 slots)

Maxtor 120 GB 7200 8MB

nVidia FX 5500 256MB

Teac CD-W54E

Plextor PX-W4012TA

HP DVD Writer 300 C

Creative SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card

Monitor MAG innovision 796FD Trinitron 17"

Windows 2000 SP4

Windows Server 2003

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Some Compaq Laptop

33MHz IBM CPU

32MB RAM or something

200MB HDD

Win 3.1

3.5" Floppy Drive

pretty fast with Win 3.1 actually...

I had quite some fun with it.

Still have it.

Glassed Silver:win

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crap... imagine what my kids will have... when i have some and theyve grown up a bit...

1TB RAM, 100TB organic drive, 1TB disc drives, 1Tbit i-net connection...

it will be the tera-generation LOL

nah actually just kidding ;)

-fm

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Some cream IBM box...

286 cpu (12mhz i believe?)

1mb ram

ms dos 3 or 4 point something :p

had a 5 1/4 floppy too :p

something like a 80mb hdd

then i moved onto a 386 with windows 3.1, 4mb ram (upgraded it to 16 myself, cost a fortune!), and a 500mb hard drive (was top of the line, and cost about ?250 for the hdd:pp

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1991 Dell Latitude (windows 3.1 w/ dos 6.0). My dad gave it to me when i was 9 or so (1997-ish). Man you should have seen me use that dos prompt. I was a BEAST (im serious haha). Its the computer that I started programming on (I found a program called QBasic at age 10 and the rest is history XD)

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Spectrum ZX

Atari ST, then jumped to:

486 SX (25mhz)

40 MB HD

1 MB RAM

NO sound card

NO Cdrom

Too much fun with Xwing :D i really loved that game...

I used my pc mostly for games too. :yes:

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Desktop - 486 25MHz with turbo to 33Mhz

8MB RAM

200MB HD

5.4" and 3.5" floppys

1x CD-ROM

Sound

512KB Video

Windows 3.1

1995ish when i was 7 i think

Laptop - 2001

Pentium 150MHz

80MB RAM

2GB HD

1MB PCI Video

12.1" SVGA

6x CD-ROM

40 min battery

Windows 98SE

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Philips

286 10 Mhz

2.5 MB RAM

40 MB HDD

14" VGA Monitor

And that was a beast of a PC when I got it in 1990

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