CPU History

[erebon]

bodhi's AMD vs INTEL thread gave an Idea, but I'm not sure if it belongs in this forum...

Post your CPU or PC history... Should be interesting.

Here's mine:

1995: Pentium 100MHz, 8MB Ram, 2MB Gfx
1996: Pentium 166MHz, 8MB Ram, Trident 9750 4MB
1997: Pentium 200MHz MMX, 16 MB ram, Trident 9750 4MB
1999: PentiumII 500Mhz, after I managed to burn it out PentiumII 800MHz, 64MB Ram, ATI 8MB 3DRage
2003: Pentium4 Northwood HT 2.6 GHz, 512MB DDR400, GeforceFX 5600 128MB

Now I'm gonna buy a new one as the last one was stolen...

 

[Ian]

Stolen!?

1990: Old 8088 PC (even old at the time!)
1992: EGA monitor upgrade
1995: P120 / 15MB Ram / 2MB Video / 8x CD
1997: P200MMX, 32 MB Ram (the rest same as above)
1999 : Intel Celeron 450 @ 600, 64 MB Ram, 3dfx card
2000 : Duron 900, 128 Ram, Voodoo 2 card
2002 : Intel P4 1.8A, 512 Ram, CDRW/DVD, GeForce 2 GTS (then MX480)
2004 : Intel P4 3.0, 512 Ram, CDRW/DVD, Ati 9800

 

[Sam Hastings]

I was a latecomer into the world of home PCs, not owning one until the turn of the millennium, but still, here's my rather short history:

2000: Celeron 433, 64mb RAM, 56k modem
2003: XP 2000+, 256mb RAM, 64mb Graphics
2004: XP 2500+M, 512mb RAM, 128m Graphics

My first machine still works perfectly and after being upgraded to 256mb RAM it runs Windows XP just fine.

-Sam

 

[ChristopherP]

Now I'm gonna buy a new one as the last one was stolen...

I believe he means his computer was stolen, not he stole the computer!

 

[KGB-911]

Laptop History;

2003: P4/256mb RAM/Radeon 64mb Graphics
2004: Pm 2.0GHz/512MB RAM

Before them i had proper PC's, I like laptops!!!

KGB

 

[erebon]

I believe he means his computer was stolen, not he stole the computer!

Yep.
That's what I meant. Thanks Chris!

BTW, my name is Sam

 

[muckshifter]

I can go back further but I’ll start in1986.

Wearns PC (A Singapore manufacturer) Intel 286 2MB RAM, 512k video card 40MB (that’s mega, not giga) Very “high-tech” for its day. Ran DOS 3.21 … upgraded to DOS 5 & then Windows 3.11 & 4MB RAM
It ran PageMaker, CorelDraw quite slowly … but we thought it was fast.

Funny thing was I got it on “Trial/demonstration” because it had a 386 daughterboard on it … then the company went bust, never did pay for it.

I also had an Amstrad PCW 256, that’s 256k of memory later added another 258 & a 3.5inch floppy as the 3inch was useless. The OS was CPM but we manly used the Locoscript software. It was cable linked to the “PC” to transfer the data using Locoscrip’s own version of “laplink software” the PCW was a pretty sophisticated typewriter. It had its own dedicated dot matrix printer.

Had a succession of 386, 486s and then came Escom, anybody remember them? Dam good systems …

Escom P75 Multimedia System … 16MB RAM 1gig HD 4x CDROM drive 2MB video card … wow, the bees-knees in1995. By this time I was working in a PC shop as the ‘engineer’ ( ). I was one of the first to try out Win95; very few peripheral manufactures had drivers out for it in the early days, what a pain. Sold it for £499.00

From here on I was building my own systems … upgrading every 3-6 months with the latest “toy” was a dream … been through the lot, missed a couple, even tried Cyrix CPUs, oh they were cheap, and boy, where they crap.

Now I have my own workshop, I don’t have the “latest & greatest”, no real need now, but I keep my hand in.

 

[erebon]

… been through the lot, missed a couple, even tried Cyrix CPUs, oh they were cheap, and boy, where they crap.

I also owned some (2 or 3) 486 both Intel and CYRIX... My father used the Cyrix as a typewriter up to 2003(just before I got my last system) when it finally stopped working. It had 420KB L2 Cache, 7MB RAM and 240MB Hdd... I still can't imagine how it worked