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Alaxan

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I see lots of OLD skool guys and a few new skool guys. My systems listed in the first post are also a limited number. Not much for the upgrades etc. Right now I have 6 machines in total and still growing in number. The oldest one current at the house is a Celeron 2.2GHz E-machines (used for the kids machines)

I have three machines based on the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 2 machines based on the Athlon 64FX-53. One of them is a monster gamer, the other I have setup for work use. Great times to be had w/ Lan parties @ this house! lol
 
Chaotic42

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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C64 (900KHz/64K): 1986-1991
Tandy SL1000 (4.77MHz/640K): 1991-1995
Packard Bell SC300 (60MHz/8MB): 1995-1996
K5 (166MHz/32MB): 1996-1997
K6 (200MHz/32MB): 1997-1998
Celeron (366MHz/64MB): 1998-2001
K7 (1000MHz/128MB): 2001-2002
K7 (1800+/256MB): 2002-2003
Dual K7 (1800+/1280MB): 2003-2004
Dual K7 (2800+/1280MB): 2004-Now
 
Kelemvor

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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First FAMILY computer was an Apple IIGS.

MY first computer was a Packard Bell 486sx 25
K6-200 or so
Celeron 300a (450 Mhz) (currently my Home Audio PC)
P3 733 (Currently under my desk not doing much of anything)
P4 1.8 (PC I'm posting from and my day to day PC)

Might have been something else in there before the Celeron or before the K6 but I don't remember.
 
ElFenix

ElFenix

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Mar 20, 2000
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mac SE with scsi hdd (probably 20 gigs or so
mac II
mac IIsi with 12 mb ram... i think i still have it somewhere
powerbook 180 (still boots, last i checked)
dell latitude something (didn't have a cdrom iirc. the drive controller failed on that one)
dell dimension pentium-mmx 200
dell dimension xps pro200n (overclocked that bitch to 233, eventually put a voodoo3 in it and it wasn't bad at playing quake 3)
dell dimension xps t700r (xps t700r has to be the coolest computer name evar, bought it the day the 1ghz p3 was 'released')
homebuilt p2 400 server
homebuilt athlon xp 1700+ (been continuously upgraded and now the only parts that are the same are the santa cruz and the dvd rom drive)
homebuilt athlon xp 2000+
homebuilt ahtlon xp 2400+ (aka project dimensia... took an old dimension case and modded it to fit an athlon, case window, neon, etc)
dell inspiron 600m

and the current revision of the 1700+ is:
xp-m @ 2150 mhz (gets to 2350 if i push the voltage up a little)
radeon 9800 pro
1 GB ddr @ 183 (motherboard won't go any faster :( )
 
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LordMorpheus

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Aug 14, 2002
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Apple Centra II
Apple PPC 75mhz
Dell PII450mhz + 128mb RAM + nVidia TNT 16mb
Homebuilt Ath XP 2100+ 512 mb PC2700 nVida GeForce4 Ti4600
Homebuilt AMD64 1gb RAM 9800XT
 
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thomsbrain

Lifer
Dec 4, 2001
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beige 286
beige P75
beige P166 MMX
beige PII 400
beige C566@952
beige P4 2.53 GHz
Sager P4 3.2 GHz HT laptop
 
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dude8604

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Oct 3, 2001
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Some old 386
upgraded it to a 486
HP Pavillion Pentium 120mhz
Dell Dimension Pentium 2 400mhz.
No brand P4 1.9ghz
Dell Inspiron laptop - Pentium M 1.7ghz
 
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jagec

Lifer
Apr 30, 2004
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Mac Classic
Mac LC
Mac Powerbook G3 233MHz, no L2 cache:p
crappy Compaq with a P-200, 160MB RAM, 45GB HDD (the first computer that I built myself, even if it was old)
Dell server with 2x1.4GHz PIII's, 1GB RAM, U160SCSI
P4 1.6@2GHz (in another case with better cooling it reached 2.6GHz), 768MB RDRAM, bunch of hard drives, Radeon 8500

Current:
AMD XP-M 2400@2GHz, 1GB PC3200@210FSB, Radeon 9800, 74GB Raptor, 360GB IDE storage
 
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bandana163

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Jul 2, 2003
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My first rig was a nice 486 DX2-80 with 4MB RAM, a 512K Trident VGA card, a genuine SB16 and a 420MB Conner HDD. IIRC, I got it in 1994 (maybe 1995?).
My current rig is in my sig.
 
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Siva

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Mar 8, 2001
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Amiga A2000
Amiga A500 (for the kiddies)
Micron 333mhz PII
Athlon 800mhz w/256mb of ram and a GeForce DDR
Athlon 1.2mhz w/512mb ram and GeForce 2 TI
IBM Thinkpad r40 w/1.6ghz Centrino and 512mb ram
 
NutBucket

NutBucket

Lifer
Aug 30, 2000
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386 DX 40
P2 300
Celeron 366 @ 550
Celeron 566 @ 850 <-- forgot about that one
Celeron 1100A @ 1466
Dell Dimension 4700 (3 Ghz P4)
 
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czech09

Diamond Member
Nov 13, 2004
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My first comp:
Bought it back in Feb of 98
P2 350mhz
Asus mobo
64mb of RDRam
Voodoo 2 8mb
Asus V3000 8mb
Soundblaster 64 sound card
56k modem (added later on)
40x cdrom
4gig 4200rpm hdd

That thing was insane for the time, I was like the king with it for a year or so back in Europe. Btw I still have it :).


My comp now: (Laptop)

A64 3400+ CH
No clue on mobo
1gig of pc2700 kingston
64mb Geforce 4 440 Go
1680x1050 15.4" WXGA Screen
60gig 4200rpm hdd
4xDvdrw

Times have changed...
 
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tfinch2

Lifer
Feb 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
mac SE with scsi hdd (probably 20 gigs or so
mac II
mac IIsi with 12 mb ram... i think i still have it somewhere
powerbook 180 (still boots, last i checked)
dell latitude something (didn't have a cdrom iirc. the drive controller failed on that one)
dell dimension pentium-mmx 200
dell dimension xps pro200n (overclocked that bitch to 233, eventually put a voodoo3 in it and it wasn't bad at playing quake 3)
dell dimension xps t700r (xps t700r has to be the coolest computer name evar, bought it the day the 1ghz p3 was 'released')
homebuilt p2 400 server
homebuilt athlon xp 1700+ (been continuously upgraded and now the only parts that are the same are the santa cruz and the dvd rom drive)
homebuilt athlon xp 2000+
homebuilt ahtlon xp 2400+ (aka project dimensia... took an old dimension case and modded it to fit an athlon, case window, neon, etc)
dell inspiron 600m

and the current revision of the 1700+ is:
xp-m @ 2150 mhz (gets to 2350 if i push the voltage up a little)
radeon 9800 pro
1 GB ddr @ 183 (motherboard won't go any faster :( )
Click to expand...


20 gigs on a Mac SE? That must have cost A LOT!
 
shilala

shilala

Lifer
Oct 5, 2004
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We used Tandy TRS-80's in high school. I can't remember what we had in Junior High, but I can remember being marched into a room to marvel at it.
I had a Texas Instruments something or other at home. TI866 or some such shyt.
I found it, here it is.
Check out them specs :)
I coded a singing Christmas card the year I got it and the parents were shocked and amazed. They marched every single person who walked in the house to the computer to see a rudimentary tree with blinking lights sing Jingle Bells.
 
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Alaxan

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Dec 14, 2004
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Originally posted by: shilala
We used Tandy TRS-80's in high school. I can't remember what we had in Junior High, but I can remember being marched into a room to marvel at it.
I had a Texas Instruments something or other at home. TI866 or some such shyt.
I found it, here it is.
Check out them specs :)
I coded a singing Christmas card the year I got it and the parents were shocked and amazed. They marched every single person who walked in the house to the computer to see a rudimentary tree with blinking lights sing Jingle Bells.
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I like that site! LOL... reminds me of the first days of my own computing. I still remember when I was 6yrs old and built a calculator on the computer (following directions of course)
 
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Finalnight

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Mar 5, 2003
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First that I actually owned:
AMD K6-2 300 Mhz
128 MB PC-133 RAM
11.5 GB HD
Voodoo 2 GFX card later upgraded to TNT2
Matrox Millenium II for 2D gfx
SoundBlaster Live! Gold
40x cd-rom drive

2nd computer:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
512 MB DDR 2100
60 GB HD
GeForce 3
Game Theater XP 7.1 soundcard
20x CD-RW drive

2nd Computer rev 2:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
512 MB PC-3200
320 GB RAID 0 array
Radeon 9500 modded to 9800
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
4x DVD-RW

2nd computer rev 3/3rd computer rev 1:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
1 GB PC-3200
160 GB HD
GeForce 6800 GT
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
16x Dual Layer DVD-RW
 
DaTT

DaTT

Garage Moderator
Moderator
Feb 13, 2003
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C64
486DX 33MHz
P1 133MHz notebook(possibly 333MHz)(not entirely sure)
P3 1GHz
P4 2.4GHz (533MHz)
P4 2.8GHz (800MHz)(Current)(see My Rig)(in sig)
 
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joecool

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Apr 2, 2001
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osborn "portable" computer. ran cpm, and a screen that was ~5" diaganol. wish i'd kept it, it'd be a collectors item now!
 
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Kenazo

Lifer
Sep 15, 2000
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hmm. see if I even remember them all:

486sx25 4 megs ram, 180meg hdd (or something like that)
686-100
Pentium 166
Pentium 166 laptop
Duron 1000
Athlon 900
Athlon 1200
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 2200
Athlon XP 2200 laptop
Athlon XP 2400
Pentium 4-2400 laptop
Athlon XP 2500@3200
Athlon XP 2500-m@3400
Athlon64 3000

I think that's it. As you can see, the majority of my computers have been in the last 3 years. :)
 
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Pciber

Senior member
Feb 17, 2004
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Originally posted by: Kenazo
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 1600

I think that's it. As you can see, the majority of my computers have been in the last 3 years. :)
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..any particular reason you've had 6 axp 1600s?


and my list includes:
286 custom-built by local shop
Gateway p200 w/ 48mb!! of ram (1996)
k6/2 475mhz laptop (first computer I owned, not my family's)
1.2ghz athlon w/ geforce2, 384mb sdr, 20gb hdd
athlon xp 1700,
xp 2100
xp 2600
dual athlon xp 1700 (yes xps, modded to MPs)
xp 2500 mobile
another xp 2500 mobile (fried the first one o/cing :( )
Athlon 64 3200+ DTR.. current system
 
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