How many computers have you had?

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chris.baldwin

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Well since I can remember;

Past:

Elonex PIII (I think)

64mb Ram

10gb Hdd

Unknown Graphics

56.6k Dial up!

Windows 95

Evesham Something or rather

AMD Athlon 64 2000+

128mb Ram

40Gb Hdd

PCI Graphics Card

AOL Broadband

Windows ME Edition

Evesham Quest Laptop

AMD Sempron 2200+

256mb Ram

40gb hdd

Wireless Internet! (PCMICA card though! :) )

XP Home

Present:

Dell Dimension 3100

Intel Celeron 3.20GHz

512mb Ram

160gb Hdd

nVidia GeForce FX5500 PCI graphics card (cheap dell motherboard)

XP Home

HP Pavillion 6600 Laptop

AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Processor

1gb Ram

120gb hdd

nVidia 128mb graphics card

Wireless Internet

HP Remote Control

HP Litescribe DVD Burner

Vista Home Premium

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I usually just update parts but I've had:

Macintosh Plus

(no idea on specs)

IBM 386

(no idea on specs)

Pentium MMX

(no idea on specs)

Toshiba Pro Satellite

(no idea on specs)

Pentium 3 900

GeForce4 MX 440

1TB total HDD space (still used for storage here at home)

2GB ram

Pentium 4 2.4Ghz

GeForce 6600 GT

about 500Gb

2Gb ram

Pentium 4 3Ghz Extreme Edition

GeForce 6600 GT

about 500GB

2Gb Ram

Core 2 Duo (T7200)

Geforce 7700

160GB

2Gb DDRII

Core 2 Duo (T7200) ? ASUS G1 - currently using this as my main

Geforce 7700

160GB

2Gb DDRII

Bought 2 ASUS G1 (dont ask why)

That's all I can remember atm

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MightyJordan

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I've had 3 myself, but if you count my dad's PCs and my brother's one, it totals to 6.

My first PC (family one): Fujitsu ??? bought from ToysRUs

  • Intel Pentium 2 processor
  • ??? I can't remember anything else about it!

My first PC (shared with my brother): Compaq Preario S7150UK bought from PC World

  • Intel Celeron 2.8GHz processor
  • 256MB DDR RAM PC2700
  • 80GB HDD
  • Upgraded from Intel intergrated graphics to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR

My third and current PC: custom-built by me!

  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz
  • 1GB DDR2 RAM
  • 200GB Maxtor HDD
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE 256MB DDR

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ramsy66

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I don't understand how you remember every little spec for all your old computers :huh:

The one I own now is the only computer I've personally owned, I used to use the family computer, which is actually what this used to be, I have just upgraded bits here and there.

It used to be:

AMD 2400+

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

256mb ram (might have been 512 actually)

Now it's

AMD 64 3700+

1024mb Ram

ATI Radeon X800 Pro

The only things that still remain from the old PC is the sound card, tower/case, mouse and hard drive. The sound card is fine, but I'm upgrading the mouse and tower soon.

The family computer before that was a 900Mhz P.O.S.. Heh, I only remember the CPU speed for some reason, same for the one before that, all I remember was it being 200Mhz, that was the first computer our family ever owned. I still remember the day I came home from school and I wasn't expecting it, I was over the moon :p

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I've had...4. Which isn't bad as I'm only 18.

Got this one after I blew my last one up (NEVER play around with the insides when it's turned on)...I now use that one as a radiator. Seriously.

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I'm using the same PC I built back in 1982, all I have changed since over the years is the mobo, processor, memory, graphics card, case, sound card, power supply etc. Not bad going for a PC I built 25yrs ago :D

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CrashG

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Commodore Amiga A500

4mb Ram

250mb HDD

28.8 External Modem

486 DX2 66mhz

Upgraded to

AMD 233mhz

64mb RAM

Diamond Stealth II S220 4mb

Diamond Monster Voodoo2 12mb

SB PCI64

6.4gb HDD

56k USR modem

some 10Mb NIC

had Win 3.11 when it was a 486, Win95 then 98

P3 500

256mb RAM

Geforce2 GTS 32mb

20gb HDD

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

3Com 905TX 10/100 NIC

Win98SE running PCLinuxOS now

AMD 1.2ghz Thunderbird

512mb RAM upgraded to 768

Geforce4 Ti4400 o/c'd to 4600 specs 128mb

IBM Deathstar 46.3 gb then added Hitachi 120gb

SB Audigy 2

D-Link 530TX+ 10/100 NIC

Win98 for a few months then XP Pro when it came out

Spare Machine

AMD 1.0ghz Thunderbird

512mb RAM

Geforce FX5500 128mb

80gb HDD

SB Live! Value

Realtek 10/100/1000 NIC

Doing a new build soon

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NienorGT

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Oct 2003: Used IBM Netfinity 3500 Dual PII 333MHz

256MB RAM PC-66 ECC

Voodoo3 2000 16MB

Mid 2004: Costom build with used parts Athlon 600MHz

256MB PC 100

Geforce2 MX 200 32MB upgraded to Geforce 4 MX 440 64MB

Dec 2004: Costom build with used parts Duron 1250MHz

512MB PC-133

Radeon 9600Pro 256MB

Jun 2005: Costom Build Athlon64 3000+ (754)

512MB PC-3200

Same Radeon 9600Pro

Oct 2005: Costom Build Athlon64 3000+ (939)

1GB PC-3200

Radeon x800GTO (@ 850PRO)

May 2006: Costom Build PentiumD 805 @ 3.7GHz

2GB PC-5300

Radeon x1900XTX (After 2 upgrades from 7900GT and 7900GTO)

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chconline Veteran

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Some old 386

Pentium something, 16MB RAM, 300MB hard drive

Pentium III Katmai, Abit BE6-II 448MB RAM, 20GB+80GB WD hard drive, TNT2 32MB -> MX440 -> Radeon 7500, Creative SB Live!

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 8200; Intel Pentium 4-M 1.6GHz Northwood, 256MB PC2100, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440Go, 40GB hard drive, 15" @ 1400x1050

Laptop: Custom built, given as a gift from someone; Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Northwood, 256MB PC2100, POS SiS integrated, 40GB, 15" @ 1024x768

AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Asus K8V-X, 1GB Corsair, ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro, WD 80GB

Current one in sigs, and then there's a Acer Aspire 5100 not listed with a Turion 64 X2 TL-50, 2GB DDR2, 120GB, Radeon X1100 IGP, etc

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metallithrax

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1st - ZX81

2nd - P3 - 450Mhz, (Packard Bell imedia 5118) can't remember full specs, but maybe 256MB, ATIRAGE128 32MB graphics

3rd - built myself:

NEC ND-4550A 16x DVDRW DL Silv

AMD Athlon64 3500 Venice Retail

Ferrari Enzo Case - Silver

XFX GEFORCE 6600 DDR2 512MB PCI-E

250GB Maxtor 6V250F0 SATA2 16MB

Asrock 939Dual SATA2

Corsair Value Select 1GB PC3200

17" GNR TS700C 8ms TFT Monitor DVI

Microsoft Windows XP Home OEM SP2

Arianet Quality 5.1 Speaker System

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ritsuke Veteran

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Beside some old Apple II's, I couldn't be bothered with computers.

Between 90'-92' I was introduced to (B)ulletin (B)oard (S)ystems. My grandfather bought my sister and I a Pentium 60, shortly thereafter.

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Acer Pentium 60

200 MB Disk

4 MB Ram

2x CDROM

2800 Baud Modem

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My really good friend's parents ran one of the most successful BBS' in southern California. They had 12 lines and eventually went to 24 lines.

I began designing ASCII interfaces for old Renegade and MajorBBS platforms. You can still see some of my work in the ACiD collections. :p

I eventually upgraded that machine to 166 Cyrix, 8 MB, 14.4... The US Robotics modem was almost $200...Woo!

Now, I can't really remember how many systems I've had. Most everything is cobbled together from hand me downs from Bosaka. At least, on the PC side of things. Everything since has been Home Brew.

I have the fondest memories of the one above, however.

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Virtunate

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Let me See.......

First PC

Pentium 100 Mhz

1 GB HDD

16 MB Video Memory

15" CRT Monitor

32 MB RAM

Second (Current PC for Parents)

Dell Dimension 4400

80 GB HDD

nvidia FX 5200

Soundblaster Sound Card

Current PC (No. 3)

AMD Athlon 3200+ 2 Ghz

MSI K9N NEO F

1 GB RAM

XFX 7600 GT

19" LCD

250 GB HDD

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tao muon

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home computers:

TS-1000

TI-99-4/A

Atari 400 XL

Atari 600 XL

TRS80 CoCo3 (Radio Shack / Tandy Color Computer 3)

homebuilt 5x86 (AMD) @ 133

homebuilt 6x86 (cyrix) @ 233

homebuilt 6x86 (cyrix) @ 266

Acer Aspire (Pentium 33) upgraded later to P-133

homebuilt 6x86 (cyrix) @ 333

homebuilt athon t-bird @ 1000

homebult athlon (barton) @ 2.5 GHz

homebuilt athlon @ 2.0 GHz (another computer)

homebuilt Pentium D 820 & 2.8 GHz

laptops=

Omnibook 800CT- Pentium 133 w/ 48 MB ram

Presario 2105us- Athlon MP 1800+ w/ 1 GB ram

Satellite A101-S105- Celeron 1.6 w/ 1.25 GB ram

pocketPC-

Casio Casiopeia e100

Jornada 568 (pocket PC 2002)

iPaq hx2605b (windows mobile 5.0)

SPOT-

Abacus WristNet

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echo

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NEC from Radio Shack (it was before they had onboard modems, so it never saw the internet)

Windows 3.1, I first learned to program on this computer... in DOS of course. Made a badass stick fighting game as my first program. Was pretty cool back then when i was 9yrs old.

HP (first computer I got on the internet with). I don't remember any of the specs. This is the computer that got me into AOL warez and some other bad stuff i'm not proud of now that i'm older.

HP N3410 Laptop (because I thought laptops where cool and I went with this instead of a desktop but I was 13 so I used it like a Desktop mostly)

Emachines 1.4ghz Desktop (trashed and grabbed HD and Ram for server) (first computer I bought with my own money when I was 15yrs old)

Dell Inspiron 1600 1.8ghz Intel Mobile Processor (sold to ex-girlfriend)

Server System Athlon 64bit 3200

Current system (see sig)

that's about it. There have been a couple crappy built computers I've thrown together with spare parts to use as a file server but I don't remember them exactly, just the main file server I have now that is actually worth being called a computer)

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  1. Atari 400
  2. Atari 800XL
  3. Atari MegaST2
  4. Packard Bell Pentium 90 (first purchase of a Microsoft system) with Windows 3.11
  5. whitebox Pentium Pro 200MHz (just a month before Intel orphaned the Pro line of CPUs)
  6. Compaq 800MHz
  7. Bought new motherboard for above, AMD Althon 1600+. Still use this as my PC.

So that is 7 PCs that I have personally owned since around 1980.

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