How many PC's have you had/gone through?

This thread will likely reveal how *old* you are...

Starting with: (actual purchased systems)
TI994A W/16K memory
Tandy 1000  
  added a $600 40 meg hard card
  added 512 Kb memory ~$600
skipped 286
skipped 386
80486 33Mhz (actually had several but ...been so long)
(2) 500 Mhz units (I liked to get them in pairs for serial games)
(2) 2Ghz units (still use 1 as gateway to the Inet)
(2) 3.2Ghz units for gaming

I did however get castaways from work when they upgraded and got lots of 286's and 386's which were given new lives (given away) to non-profits or I scabbed so many parts from them I threw the empty shells away.
I still keep a couple of 386's around for playing *old* games that will not run on current OS's.  (New thread on how old of a game can you run?)

If you want security just add a 5 1/4" floppy since nobody has those drives anymore. HeHe

CodeMonk wrote:

This thread will likely reveal how *old* you are...

I have two separate tracks, one for DOS/Windows PCs and another for Macs. I seem to fall somewhere in the middle of the age range here on C9. Most of these machines were purchased by my father, but they definitely got a lot of use while I was growing up.

DOS/Windows line:

Packard Bell 286 - I believe this was bought in the late 1980s or early 1990s. This was the first computer I used a lot but I don't have any solid recollection of its specs.

Packard Bell 486 - Purchased in 1993 I believe. First computer I had with a CD-ROM drive. Ran DOS and Windows 3.1. Also the first computer I used to connect to the internet, courtesy of AOL. 66 MHz, 8MB RAM, 500MB hard drive.

Vision Pentium - I believe this was purchased at Circuit City in June 1996. First computer I had with Windows 95. 166 MHz (with Turbo button), 16MB RAM (later 32MB), 1.6GB hard drive.

Gateway Pentium II - Purchased in 1998, came with Windows 95 and a voucher for Windows 98 (which hadn't been released). 333 MHz, 128MB RAM (I believe), 10GB hard drive.

Gateway Pentium III - Purchased in 2000, came with Windows 98. 800 MHz, 192MB RAM (later upgraded to 320MB), 34GB hard drive.

Gateway Pentium 4 - Purchased in October 2002, first computer with Windows XP, 2.8 GHz, 512MB RAM, 120GB and 40GB hard drives.

Home-built dual Xeon - built in February 2005, first computer that was entirely mine, dual 3.0 GHz Xeon processors, 2GB RAM, dual 160GB hard drives.

Home-built Core 2 Quad - built in August 2007, first computer with Vista, Q6600 at 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB and 160GB hard drives.

My father has been doing computer based desktop publishing since the early 1980s so we always had a Mac in the house. I have a somewhat fuzzier recolection of the exact hardware specs on these.

Macintosh IIci - ran System 7, purchased in the late 1980s or early 1990s (I believe we still have a copy of the receipt).

Power Computing Mac - one of the mid-90s authorized Mac clones. Purchased in 1995 with a 120 MHz processor. One thing I remember about it was that we had to send it back because it kept crashing. Turns out there was a cooling issue and it came back with an extra fan in it.

Power Mac G3 - Purchased in 1999 or 2000, it reeks of the late 90s Apple trend of colored plastic and translucency. 350 MHz, first Mac to struggle with OS X.

Power Mac G5 - Purchased in 2005. Dual 1.8 GHz processors, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive.

As I mentioned in the oldest computer thread, there's also a Commodore 64 lying around, but I never really used it extensively so it's not included.

• Amstrad CPC
• Some other Amstrad that was newer
• Dell Dimension XPS PPro 200
• Rebuilt above system
• Compaq Armada 1750 laptop
• Novatech Icon Pro 3500+ (current)
• Aug - sept '08: new laptop before I head to Uni

Dell Pentium III 300 Mhz
Dell Pentium IV 2.4 Ghz
Dell Dimension XPS 600

I still have these pc's and they're all still working!

Had to throw this one in for historical reference. http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2046/tandy5000microcomputerja4.jpg

W3bbo wrote:


Does it count if they're all still working?