Just for fun... My systems over the years

[Mac Cool]

I was cleaning out my docs folder and found this list of systems I've
owned over the years, thought someone might get a kick out of it. I also
wrote down the main games I was playing at the time, if any. My first
system was built for me by a neighbor around 1992ish. Prior to that I had
been borrowing a Compaq 386. I built all the systems except for the 486
and the Dell. I've also owned probably a dozen other computers over the
years ranging from 286's to Celeron based but none of them were my primary
machine. These days I don't game, OC or tinker, I just want stability and
reliability.

intel 486DX33 & Fahrenheit 1280 (ran Autocad, Doom, Heretic)

Cyrix P120 & 2MB PCI (didn't game)

AMD K6-2 333 (OC to 400) & Trident 4MB AGP (Quake 2)
(upgraded to Voodoo2 for Quake 2, big jump in fps)

AMD K6-3 400 & Voodoo3 2000 (upgrade for Quake 2, UT, MW3)
(my fps jumped by 10 just by switching to the K6-3)

AMD Duron 700 & Kyro II (UT, Q3)

AMD Athlon 1.4 (water cooled) & GF3 Ti200 (UT, Q3, Serious Sam, Ghost
Recon)

10/2002 - early 2007
Dell: intel P4 2.53 & GF4 Ti4200 (UT2K3, Painkiller)
(upgraded video to FX5900XT)

2007 - ~ summer 2011
Athlon X2 5400+, ECS 6100sm-m MB, 4GB RAM, onboard sound and video (no
gaming) BTW - these parts will soon be for sale if anyone is interested!

2011 - ???? In the process of gathering parts for my next system which
will be my first intel build, based around the i3. I used to be rabidly
faithful to AMD (I love underdogs) but this time around I'm going to the
dark side.

 

[Flasherly]

Had a 8088 Sanyo lunch box. Little 5" green screen, two floppies on
the outside and two slots inside. The keyboard reversed and clipped
onto and covered the front. Used a Tandy integrated keyboard and one
piece computer prior, one floppy, feeding a RF modulator into a 5" b&w
teevee. 256K RAM. Two things that pissed me off. That was two years
on XTs because of inflated Intel 386 prices. (I did break down and
buy an -expensive- I386 (20Mhz), though. The other was Tandy's
(Ratshack's inflated memory prices to populate that thing at 512 or
640). Never bought much of Intel processors because of that after
until my "recent" Celeron D, and still wouldn't touch Ratshack with
your 10-ft. pole. My first PC, though, was a Hyundai. Had an AST
Rampage card with 2M of total memory I could swap resident DOS
programs in and out of manually. Those other ones I carried around in
the back of my old Chevy van. Cyrix, AMD, and everything after,
yea. . .I also know them well. And how. The moral of the story: Yes,
I now put on some glasses for fine print.